LEVITICUS. Windows into the Heart of God

LEVITICUS Windows into the Heart of God

Jewish Holy Calendar Hanukkah khanuká],ח נ כ ה] 2nd Adar 3rd, 6th, 8th, 11th, 14th, and 19th years sukkōt],ס כ ות] Tabernacles Day of Atonement Trumpets Pesakh], פ ס ח] Passover Unleavened Bread Firstfruits [ רא ש ה ש נ ה] [Rosh Hashanah] Pentecost Shavuot],ש ב וע ות]

The Feasts of Israel The central and most picturesque rite Passover, the eating of the Paschal lamb, no longer exists. With the fall of the Temple the symbol, like so much of Judaism, went dark. Herman Wouk This Is My God

The Feasts of Israel The summer festival lasts only one day, two outside of Israel. In Temple times it was rich with harvest rituals. Today, beyond the general Sabbath and the holy day of services, it has no concrete symbols. Herman Wouk This Is My God

The Feasts of Israel Sukkoth is so preeminently a joyful and rollicking time that its Talmudic name is simply The Festival. With the dispersion of the Jews to colder climates, the customs surrounding the Sukos have changed. There are pious Jews who still sleep in the hut when the weather permits, but most of them today confine their observance to eating meals and praying there. Herman Wouk This Is My God

Jewish Holy Calendar: Leviticus 23 Spring Barley Harvest Summer Wheat Harvest Fall Fruit Harvest March/April May/June Sept/Oct Unleavened Bread Nisan 15-22 Pentecost Sivan 7 Trumpets Tishri 1 Booths Tishri 15-22 Passover Nisan 14 First Fruits Nisan 17 Atonement Tishri 10 Pesakh Shavout Sukkot Death of Christ 1 Cor. 5:7 Resurrection of Christ 1 Cor. 15:20-23 Birth of Church Acts 2 Rapture of Church 1 Thes. 4:16 Removal of Sin 1 Thes. 4:16 Living with God 1 Thes. 4:16

Trumpets The main theological idea of this short passage is the LORD S call to His people to assemble in His presence for spiritual service. Study of this idea with the motif of trumpets leads to the revelation of the trumpet blast at the end of the age. Allen Ross

The Millennium (Revelation 20:1-10) A-Millennialism (No Literal Millennium) Revelation 20:1-6 is Present Chronology Tribulation Day of the Lord Reign of Christ New Heaven New Earth Church Age Eternity Distinctives Continuity of Israel & Church OT Covenant Blessings Spiritualized No Future for Ethnic Israel No Rapture for the people of God Pre-Millennialism (Christ comes before a literal Millennium) Revelation 20:1-6 is Future Chronology Tribulation Day of the Lord 1000Years New Heaven New Earth Church Age Millennium Eternity Distinctives Distinction between Israel & Church OT Covenant Blessings Literal Real Future for Ethnic Israel Timing of Rapture Debated Post-Millennialism (Christ comes after a literal Millennium) Revelation 20:1-6 is Future Chronology Tribulation 1000Years Day of the Lord Long period Progress of Gospel New Heaven New Earth Church Age Millennium Eternity Distinctives Continuity of Israel & Church OT Covenant Blessings Fulfilled in Church No Future for Ethnic Israel The Church ushers in the Millennium No Rapture for the people of God Eschatology The Doctrine of The Future The Rapture (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18) Pre-Tribulation Rapture (Dispensational Pre-Millennialism) Rapture of Church Church Age Tribulation (7 Years) Return of Christ Millennium (1000 Years) Eternity (B) (N) (G) Distinctives Consistent Literal Interpretation Church kept out of Tribulation Post-Tribulation Rapture (Historic Premillennialism) Church Age Tribulation (7 Years?) Rapture & Return Millennium (1000 Years?) Eternity Distinctives (B/N) (G) Consistent Literary Interpretation Church kept through Tribulation Mid-Tribulation Rapture (Pre-Wrath Rapture) Church Age Return of Christ Rapture Tribulation (7 Years) God s Wrath 31/2 31/2 Millennium (1000 Years) Eternity Distinctives (B) (N) (G) Church experiences Tribulation Church kept out of God s Wrath The Judgements (Hebrews 9:27) Bema Seat of Christ (B) (1 Cor. 3:10-15; 2 Cor. 5:10) Judgement of Believer s Works Judgment of Nations (N) (Matthew 25:31-46) Judgment of Gentile Nations Great White Throne (G) (Revelation 20:10-15) Final Judgment of Satan and Unbelievers These Judgments are distinct and yet may occur at the same time. The Resurrections (1 Corinthians 15:1-58) Christ (Rom. 6:9; Col. 1:18; 1 Cor. 15:23) Firstborn from The Dead Resurrection of the Saved (Dan. 12:2; 1 Th. 4:16; Rev. 20:4) OT & NT Saints before Tribulation Martyred Tribulations Saints After Resurrection of the Lost (Jn. 5:29; Rev. 20:11-14) Unredeemed Dead of All Time before the Great White Throne A Real Physical Body (Luke 24:39 & Rom 6:4-6) Abrahamic (Gen. 15,17,22) Land (P) Seed (D) Nations Blessed (N) Individual Eschatology Death All will Die (Hebrews 9:27) Sorrow is expected at Death (Acts 8:2) Believers are Immediately with Christ (Luke 23:43; Phil. 1:21-23; 2 Cor. 5:8) Hope (1 Peter 1:3-5) In a Person, not a Plan (Ps. 42:5,11; Acts 24:15; Eph. 1:12) Coming Righteousness & Glory (Gal. 5:5; Col. 1:27) Heaven The Presence of God (Matt. 6:9; Acts 7:56; 1 Pet. 3:22) A Place (John 14:2-3; Acts 1:9-11; 7:55-56) Pleasure (Luke 22:18; Rev. 19:9; 21:4) Purity Praise (Rev. 21:27) (Rev. 19:1-8) Hell (Luke 16:22-28; Rev. 14:9-11) Separation from God (Matthew 25:41) Intense Suffering (Matthew 25:30; Mark 9:43) Eternal Duration (Mt. 25:41,46; Mk. 9:43, 48; Rv. 20:10) Rewards (Matthew 6:20; Luke 19:11-27; 1 Cor. 3:10-15; 2 Cor. 5:10) The Biblical Covenants Palestinian (Lev. 26; Deut. 28-30) Obedience-Blessing Disobedience-Discipline Repentance-Restoration Davidic (2 Sam. 7; Ps. 89) Eternal House Eternal Throne Eternal Kingdom New (Jer. 31:31-34) Forgiveness Indwelling Spirit Perpetual Presence

Gathering Faithful worshippers gather as a sacred assembly of God s people. Leviticus 23:23-24

Gathering The LORD said to Moses, Say to the Israelites: On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts. Leviticus 23:23-24

Trumpets The seventh month of the year had great significance for the Israelites. It would have been the lightest month in the agricultural year and therefore gave the opportunity for some time out. But it's real significance lay in the fact that seven was the number for perfection, and several celebratory events fall during this month. The Feast of Trumpets heads the list. Derek Tidball

Trumpet Blasts (ר וע) The word simply means shout or make a loud sound. The sound can be either with the human voice or with a musical instrument. It is closely associated with a battlefield call to action as well as an announcement of either victory or defeat.

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Trumpets Since Tishri included the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, this call to assembly brought people together for all three occasions. Allen Ross

Renewal Faithful worshippers gather to remember their redemption and renew their commitment to the LORD. Leviticus 23:25

Trumpets The trumpets awakened the people to the season of repentance and pardon and restoration. Allen Ross

Renewal Do no regular work, but present a food offering to the LORD. Leviticus 23:25

Trumpets The trumpet in the Old Testament represented the voice of God calling to His people. Thus, whenever the people heard the sacred trumpets, they recognize, as it were, the voice of God. At the blast, they gathered for some sacred purpose. Allen Ross

Fulfillment in Christ Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

Fulfillment in Christ For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words. 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18

Timing Christ will fulfill the Feast of Trumpets when God s people are gathered to Him at the end of the age. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Timing The Old Testament Feast of Trumpets brought the harvest to a close and ushered in a new year for God s people.

Timing The New Testament Feast of Trumpets will bring the current age to a close and usher in a new age in the plan of God.

Principle Christ will come with the sound of trumpets to gather His people to Him and celebrate the fullness of God s blessing. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

Principle Trumpet blasts signal a time of judgment and bring the harvest of believers to an end. Revelation 8 11

Trumpet Blasts for Judgment Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness. Like dawn spreading across the mountains a large and mighty army comes, such as never was in ancient times nor ever will be in ages to come. Before them fire devours, behind them a flame blazes. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, behind them, a desert waste nothing escapes them. Joel 2:1-3

Trumpet Blasts for Judgment That day will be a day of wrath a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness a day of trumpet and battle cry against the fortified cities and against the corner towers. Zephaniah 1:15-16

John 1. Both John and his brother, James, were Galilean fishermen. They worked for their father, Zebedee, who was prosperous enough to have hired hands (Mk 1:19-20). 2. John has been banished to the island of Patmos because of his witness (Rev.1:9) and he is writing what he saw and heard in a vision (Rev. 1:10). 3. John seems to have had some pastoral responsibility for the seven churches in Asia to whom he writes. These churches are relatively close to each other and form a circuit. 4. John is writing in apocalyptic form which uses powerful and vivid images to present spiritual truth. 5. The numbers four, seven, twelve and their multiples appear frequently adding to the intrigue of the book. Interpreting Revelation PRETERIST VIEW Revelation portrays events in the first century in an apocalyptic form. HISTORICIST VIEW Revelation is a picture of the unfolding history of the current church age. IDEALIST VIEW Revelation is a picture of the ongoing spiritual battle between good and evil. FUTURIST VIEW Revelation is an unveiling of future/apocalyptic events bringing history to a climax. ECLECTIC VIEW Revelation is written to a specific historical audience with ideal and future elements. The Revelation of Jesus Christ Things You Have Seen Prologue: Introduction to the Vision - 1:1-8 The Vision of the Exalted Christ - 1:9-20 1:1 1:20 Christ Jesus Exalted Jesus Is the Coming King - Be Encouraged and Endure Patiently The Gospel of John Things Which Are Message to the Seven Churches - 2:1-3:22 2:1 3:22 Jesus Speaking The Throne of God - 4:1-11 The Worthy Lamb - 5:1-14 The Seven Seal Judgements Johannine Things Which Shall Be Hereafter The Seven Trumpet Judgements - 8:1-9:22 PARENTHESIS: The Seventh Trumpet - 11:15-19 The Beast: Political Leader - 13:1-10 The Epistles of John Literature The Revelation of John John, writing by divine command, recorded the revelation of Jesus Christ past, present and future (1:19) in vivid imagery for the Asian Churches demonstrating the ongoing and future ultimate victory of Christ over Satan, who was responsible for the persecution they were enduring, in order to encourage them to remain faithful because Christ will be the victor in history and that they are a part of God s victorious plan. The False Prophet - Religious Leader - 13:11-18 INTERLUDE: Witnesses and Angels - 14:1-20 Seven Angels with Seven Plagues - 15:1-8 The City: Political Babylon - 18:1-24 PARENTHESIS: Hallelujah in Heaven - 19:1-10 ARMAGEDDON: The Second Advent of Christ - 19:11-21 4:1 19:21 Jesus Judging and Worshipped The Millennial Reign of Christ - 20:1-10 The Final Judgement at the Great White Throne - 20:11-15 The River of Life - 22:1-5 20:1 20:15 21:1 22:21 Church Tribulation Millenium Eternity Jesus Ruling Ken Wilson 2014

Principle Trumpet blasts signal a time of reunion and refreshment as believers are gathered into the presence of God. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15:51-52

Trumpets We now listen for the trumpet call, which may be figurative for the resounding clarion call from the voice of God throughout the heavens announcing the beginning of the final stages of God s program of redemption. Allen Ross

Leviticus: Windows into the Heart of God God calls His people away from their earthly focus to join the saints in His presence where they worship Him wholeheartedly.

LEVITICUS Windows into the Heart of God