GOD S PROPHETIC CALENDAR IN TIMELINES AND FEASTS

GOD S PROPHETIC CALENDAR IN TIMELINES AND FEASTS

WAKE UP! - GOD S PROPHETIC CALENDAR IN TIMELINES AND FEASTS Table of Contents Chapter 1 14 Introduction Key Points 15 Is this Book Relevant for Postmodern Christians and Pastors? 24 Clarification of the Terms Church, Bride, and Israel 26 Hebraic Roots Movement? 29 Outside Your Comfort Zone Keep Asking Questions 29 Chapter 2 32 God s Plan Interwoven in the Old Testament Introduction 33 The Hebrew Language 33 The Plural Hebrew Interpretation 34 The Talmud and the Protestant Sola Scriptura 37 Jesus and the Oral Traditions 41 The Singular Interpretation by the Church 47 Shadows and Their Purpose 50 Why Use Shadows? 51 The Alpha and Omega was Already Present 53 Jesus and the Old Testament 59 God s Omniscience 61 Backpack 62 Chapter 3 64 God s appointed times Introduction 65 1. One Day is Like 1000 Years 67 Jews also Believe in 7000 Years. 68 Are we Already in the Year 6000? 71 2. The Image of Nebuchadnezzar and the Times 73 3. The Divisions of 490 Years 76 4. Our History in 120 Years of Jubilee 77 5. The 70 Weeks of Years in the Book ofdaniel 80 6. The Time Line to the New State of Israel in 1948 83 7. The Generation After 1948 92 Is There Still Room in Time? 95 What Does NASA Teach Us? 96 Timelines with Circles of Sevens. 100 Challenge 104 Chapter 4 106 The Church or Israel? Introduction 107 The First Four Centuries of Replacement Theology 109 Paul in a Tricky Situation 113 Replacement Theology Does It Have History on Its Side? 129 The Middle Ages 131 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS The Reformation 137 The Influence of Greek Thinking 145 Greek Thinking: The Root of Strongholds in Western Thinking 147 The Puritans A Candle in the Night 152 Satan s Great Resistance: The Anti-Semitism of the Third Reich 155 The Church after the Founding of the State of Israel. 161 Replacement Theology and Israel in Our Time 164 One Last Time: Anti-Semitism in the Future 172 Summary 176 Challenge 178 Chapter 5 180 God s Plan hidden in seven feasts Introduction 181 God Uses Another Calendar 182 The Feasts are Rehearsals 184 Validity of the Feasts 188 A Misunderstanding About the Feasts 192 Feasts are Shadows of Future Events 195 Shadows are the Test of our Individual Perception 197 Why Does our Perception Deviate from Reality? 200 The Preconceived Ideas of Humanism Have also Influenced Theological Thinking 205 One More Reason for the Shadows 209 What Lessons can we Learn from the Shadows? 210 Theologians Need other Specialists 212 The Biblical Feasts are also Cristian Feasts 213 Seven Feasts 214 Spring Festivals 217 Pesach the Festival of Deliverance 219 The Selection of the Lamb 222 The Entrance of the Lamb Nisan 10 222 The Inspection of the Lamb Nisan 10-14 225 The Binding of the Lamb on the Altar. 226 The Lamb Sacrificed for the Nation 228 Blood of the Pesach Lambs 230 Good Friday? 233 King of the Jews - YHVH 235 No Bone shall be Broken 236 His Clothes were not Torn 237 Jews Believing in the Suffering Messiah 239 New-Testament Meaning of Pesach 241 Nisan 14 on God s Calendar 245 The Feast of Unleavened Bread 246 Great Cleansing 246 Merchants and Moneychangers do not Belong in the Temple 249 Connection with Communion 250 Nisan 15 on God s Calendar 252 Feast of First Fruits Ha Bikkurim 254 The Capture and the Feast of First-fruits 256 4

WAKE UP! - GOD S PROPHETIC CALENDAR IN TIMELINES AND FEASTS Change of Ownership 259 Connection with Baptism 261 What is the Purpose of Deliverance? 265 Another Future Exodus 267 The 17 th of Nisan on God s Calendar 269 Another Timeline Stresses God s Sovereignty 270 Is the Day Insignificant? 271 The Feast of Weeks or Pentecost - Shavuot 274 Intermezzo: the Attack of the Amalekites 276 The Schedule of Pentecost 277 Freedom and Commandments 278 Does the Outpouring of the Holy Spirit Make the Law Obsolete? 283 Is the Law Really Reduced to two Commandments? 288 An Important Difference in Harvesting 293 The New Feast of Pentecost God s Glory Returns 294 Have the Spring Feasts Actually been Fulfilled? 296 How do we Celebrate the Spring Feasts? 297 What the Church can Learn from the Sequence of the Feasts 300 Cups of wine during the Seder meal 308 The Fall Feasts and Their Prophetic Meanings 312 The Month of Elul Prepare Yourself for the King! 314 Feast of Trumpets The Mystery of the Last Trumpet 318 The New Moon 319 The Feast of Trumpets is a Mystery 323 The Trumpet and the Three Themes of the Feast 324 1. The Crowning of the King Ha Melech 326 2. Wedding Ceremony of the Messiah 326 3. The Resurrection of the Dead 327 White Clothes 328 The Last Trumpet and Other Trumpets Clarified 330 Will We Recognize the Last Trumpet? 332 The Door Will Be Open for a Short While 334 Yom Hakese 335 Yom HaDin the Day of Judgment 336 The Picture of the Feast of Trumpets 339 The Time in Which We Live 341 The In-Between Days of Awe 342 Day of Atonement Yom Kippur 346 Day of Atonement The Shadow and the Ritual 347 The Essence of the Two Goats 348 The Reason for the Day of Atonement: Desecration of the Sanctuary and the People 351 Tishri 10 More Special Patterns 359 God s Relationship with the Believer on the Way 359 A Dilemma The Pesach Sacrifice as Substitute Sin Offering? 364 The Different Meaning of Pesach and the Day of Atonement in our Lives 368 The Condition to Participate in the Day of Atonement 373 We Have to Re-frame Our Thinking 374 Do We Still Need Sacrifices Today? 377 The Day of Atonement The Reality in Christ for Today 378 5

TABLE OF CONTENTS Ongoing Repentance and Mediation 380 Does Sin Still Have Consequences? 387 The Day of Atonement New Covenant order and Future Fulfillment 389 Jesus Return and the Day of Atonement 391 The Relation Between the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Trumpets 395 The Last Week of Years of Daniel and the Day of Atonement 395 Will our Messiah Return in a Jubilee Year? The 7 Circles 396 Unrolling the Scroll of 7s 399 The Bride Loves the Bridegroom and His Feasts as His Appointed Times 402 Feast of Tabernacles - Sukkot 405 Israel Restored as a Nation of Mediators 407 End of the Harvest 408 Jesus Birth and the Feast of Tabernacles 409 Jesus and the Traditions of Sukkot 414 The Ceremony in which Water was Poured out 415 Light of the World 416 Are we Ordered to be Joyful? 417 Tabernacles and Prophecy for the End of the Sixth Day 417 The Sukkot of the Future in the New Covenant 418 Celebrating the New Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem? 418 The Jews Also Forgot the Feasts 419 Can we Choose our own Feasts? 422 The Feasts as Phases in the Life of Every Christian 423 A Delicate Matter: Living a Jewish or Non-Jewish Life 431 The Biblical Feasts and Judaism How Christians Should Discern 434 Final Question: Do We Really Have to Celebrate the Biblical Feasts and How Do We Do That? 444 Chapter 6 446 The Ancient Wedding Ceremony Introduction 447 The Matchmaker 449 The Bridegroom s First Visit 450 The Bridegroom Gives the Bride His Marriage Contract 451 The Bridegroom Acquires his Bride by Paying a Dowry 455 The Bride Becomes Exclusive to the Groom 455 Sealing of the Betrothal by the Cup of Wine 458 The Bridegroom Gives Gifts to the Bride 460 The Bridegroom Leaves to Prepare a Place 461 Veiled 463 The Bride Uses the Separation Time Well 464 The Bride Is in This World, But Not of It. 477 Once More, What Are Our Priorities? 479 The Bridegroom Doesn t Know When He May Return for the Bride 481 The Bridegroom Departs for the Bride 482 The Bridegroom Snatches the Bride Away 483 The Official Wedding Ceremony 484 Earthly Marriage 486 The Bridal Chamber 488 6

WAKE UP! - GOD S PROPHETIC CALENDAR IN TIMELINES AND FEASTS The Bride and Bridegroom Come Outside 488 The Marriage Supper and the End of the Wedding 489 The Bridegroom Takes the Bride to His House 490 The Connection Between the Marriage Ritual and the Biblical Feasts 491 The Wedding Between the Bride and Bridegroom Has Not Yet Taken Place 492 Who is the Bride? 494 The Fullness of the Bride 501 When the Church is Not Watchful 504 Similar Patterns and Shadows A Firm Anchor 506 The Challenge 510 Chapter 7 512 God Thinks in Covenants Introduction 513 A Covenant is Not a Testament 514 Why Did God Enter into a Covenant with a Nation? 515 A New or Renewed Covenant? 520 The Testament and the Price Mechanism 527 Four Types of Covenants 530 The Blood Covenant 531 The Salt Covenant 533 The Sandal Covenant 536 The Marriage Covenant 539 The Covenants in Our Earthly Lives 540 The Essence of the Covenants 541 The Four Covenants and Their Place in the Wedding Ceremony 543 Four Cups of the Marriage Ritual Symbolizes Four Covenants 545 The First Cup of Wine The Cup of Sanctification 545 The Second Cup The Cup of Dedication 546 The Third Cup The Cup of Inheritance 547 The Fourth Cup The Cup of Praise 550 Many Are Called Few Are Chosen? 551 Why Continued Cleansing? 552 The King is Coming! 554 An Urgent Call for the Church: Watch and Pray! 555 Free E-Book 557 Notes 560 7