No other nation in the history of the world can open an inspired book such as the Bible and see their history from beginning to end, their victories, their failures, sins and problems as can this one little nation, Israel, which today is the hotspot of the world. Israel's t history is recorded in the Word of God! Gentiles have often looked upon the Jewish race with great amazement wondering how it was possible they could have overlooked Christ's first coming seeing there were so many signs pointing to that first event, never, once taking into accountability that we Gentiles are faced with the same situation in respect to Christ's second coming. - Raymond M Jackson The Garden Tomb Sea of Galilee The Eastern Gate The place of the skull; Mount Golgotha; where Jesus was crucified. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 1
These are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. As we take a moment to pause and ponder on these 7 feast, we asked ourselves what is God trying to show us with these feasts; why has He set them in place. First of all we have to go back to the beginning of the creation of man to better understand the plan of God. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. God commissioned them to Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: We know that God placed two laws in the midst of the Garden these two laws were the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God commended them that they can eat of every tree but the tree of knowledge of good and evil they should not eat for in the day that they eat thereof they will surely die. The two laws were simply two means of reproduction: the tree of life was sex for reproduction purposes only and the tree of knowledge of good and evil was sex for pleasure. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 2
We know that Eve was beguiled by the Serpent and partook of the tree of knowledge of good and evil and that Adam hearkened unto his wife and partook of it as well and due to that they lost their inheritance. Eve the mother of all living bore two sons Cain and Abel, Cain was from that serpent and Abel was from Adam. 12. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Cain offered fruits from the field and Abel offered a lamb offering unto God. God had respect for Abel s offering, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, Abel being a true seed of Adam knew that God required a blood sacrifice. Cain was seed from the Serpent, who before God cursed was an upright creature, created to be a help mate to the Human family, and did not know that God required a blood sacrifice. As we look at the seven feast of the Lord that He commissioned the Israelites to observe each year, we see a beautiful illustration of how God is setting types for the real events to come, that each feast will only be a THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 3
shadow of the actual picture that God was looking at. God was looking at the plan of Redemption. The seven feast cover the Grace Age, the seventy week of Daniel, and the Millennial (1,000 rule of Jesus Christ). Within these feast God had a wealth of information, a priceless treasure that would unfold in their proper time. The first 4 feast are in relationship with the first coming of Jesus Christ and the last 3 are in relationship to Israel s Messiahs second coming. We know from Paul s writings Romans 11, that due to Israel rejecting Jesus, not knowing the day of their visitation, God grafted in the Gentile people into the age of grace of 2000 years, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. After the Grace Age God will return to His people, because of unbelief, the same way the Jews where cut off and the Gentiles grafted in so likewise one day the Jews will be grafted back in and the Gentiles because of their luckwarm state will be cut off. What is a type? A type is something or someone that God will use to portray certain characteristics to relay a THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 4
picture to us. It will give us and understanding of what HE is doing and looking at. What is a shadow? When you look at a shadow that is being cast by a person or an object and depending on where the light is situated from the person or object the profile of the shadow would be not clearly defined if it would be at a distance and if the light nears, the object would become clearer and clearer and eventually bringing you to the exact profile of what had cast the shadow. God uses types and shadows to relay something important to us. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Exodus 12:1-2 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Deuteronomy 16:1 The month of Abib falls in the month of March and April in the Roman Calendar that we use. The Hebrew THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 5
spiritual calendar, the calendar God uses which is illustrated in the Bible is based on the Lunar Calendar, which has 30 days a month and 360 days in a year and is governed by the cycles of the moon. As the new moon falls on the first day in the month of Abib they would then start the count to the 14th day of the month and is to be the Lord s passover then going on to the 15th day of the month where the moon shines at it s brightest In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's passover. Leviticus 23:5 As the Israelites where celebrating passover each year God was looking at the real passover lamb. For 1400 years the Israelites came together and held the passover and looked back to the day where the Lord took them out of Egypt. The moon representing Israel and the old covenant. The moon only reflects the light from the sun. In likeness the old covent is only a reflection of the new covenant of grace, Jesus Christ being the true light of the world. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 6
We have to understand that by no means does God want us to be ignorant to what He is doing. He has laid out for us types and shadows in His Word to help us to see what He is doing and looking at - in times past to this very hour of time and even into future events. When we walk through the history of the Jewish people, from the time of Abraham, Issac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes, to the time of Moses taking them out of Egypt, to the very first passover lamb, to the going through the wilderness where God instructed them to build the outer court and its contents, the tabernacle and its contents, then walking through to the time of Solomon with the building of the first temple, then to its destruction in 586 B.C at the time of the Babylonians where the Jewish people were taken into captivity, we come to the time of the decree of Cyrus in 445 BC to Nehemiah, Zerubabel as they built the second temple which King Herod facified, then at the fulness of time when God sent His son Jesus Christ and God became flesh. We need to understand that under no circumstance could Jesus have been born and crucified THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 7
while they were in dispersion. It had to be at a time when they were back in their own land with their Temple built. While the Jewish people celebrated the feast of passover for over 1400 years from the time of their Exodus from Egypt, in the month of Abib, and as the moon from the first day of the month under the New Moon takes 14 days to reach it fullness of the 15th day under the Full Moon, so likewise it took 1400 years where the shadow was cast on earth, then at reaching 1500 there was no more and could no more shadow be cast but the perfect profile of Jesus Christ the real passover lamb was sacrificed there on Calvary. When the moon was at its brightest of the 15th day of the month after He had passover in the upper room with His disciples and they went over the garden of Gethsemane to pray. Jesus knowing what He will have to endure from the old testament prophets writings. As Paul writes in Hebrews Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 8
right hand of the throne of God. There in the garden Jesus willing submitted His own will to the will of the Father; He said not my will but thy will be done. There under the full moon Jesus was captured in the garden and on the cross the perfect lamb of God was crucified for our sins. All the others foreshadowed Jesus Christ and what He would do for us at Calvary and were only a shadow of what was to come. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 1 Corinthians 15:22 THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 9
And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Exodus 23:6-8 The first day, ye shall have a holy convocation, they were to assembly in one common place, it is a holy day and no work was to be done. After the first day they could go about their ordinary life and do some work but on the seventh day they were to come together once again for ye shall have a holy convocation, all this foreshadowed the seven church ages of Revelation 1:11 God was setting a perfect type for the Grace Age. In the year of 33A.D at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ the new covenant of Grace was given to mankind. The eating of unleavened bread for seven days represents the seven periods of the Grace Age and that each church age should only partake of unleavened bread. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 10
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The early church believers, which covers the first church age of Ephesus, they were in unity of the Faith, in one accord, they all believed in the apostles doctrine. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Acts 4:32-33 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38 By the time of the second church age of Smyrna the enemy had already sowed his false teachings. In the third century, in the third church age of Pergamos, at the Nicene council 325AD, under Constantine the fundamental essence of the early church doctrine, water baptism by emersion in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ was changed to baptism in the trinity of three Gods: the titles of Father, son and Holy Ghost. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 12
In the fourth church of Thyatira the Roman Catholic Church changed the three major ingredients of the Christian Faith: Justification, Sanctification, and Glorification the where mixed with leavened, (false teachings), which brought about the Dark Ages. Then at the fifth church age of Sarnia we come to the Reformation, where God began the process of restoring these Biblical truths that had been lost: Through Martin Luther He revealed the just shall live by faith. John Calvin restored security of the believer. John Knox restored the revelation of Predestination, and going into the sixth church age of Philadelphia John Wesley restored Sanctification. Pentecost at Azusa Street received baptism of the Holy Spirit, and in the Oneness movement, one God and one baptism in the name of Jesus Christ was restored. With all these Biblical truths restored it took a prophet of the age of Laodicean, William Marrion Branham, to unite them all as they were scattered among the different movements, when a new revelation was restored the people in the previous movement, as a whole, didn't not move along THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 13
with the spirit of God but were content with the revelation that they had received, and therefore it took the prophet of the age to take those truths and unite them in this last Church Age of Laodecia. As the early church were in unity of the faith so likewise will it be in the last church age unity of the spirit, on common ground of faith. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 14
When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord. Leviticus 23:10-12 In this third feast the Israelites where asked to do something rather peculiar, they were to cut and take a bundle of their spring crop, which consisted of barley, and bring it to the priest. The priest would wave the firstfruits of their harvest for an offering before the Lord. This feast was to take place on a certain day, on the morrow after the sabbath, it was to take place on the first day of the week, on a Sunday, during the time when they had their feast of unleavened bread. All this was pointing to the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The passover lamb having been slain on a Friday, Joseph of Arimathaea besought Pilate that he might take the body of Jesus, he took Jesus from the THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 15
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cross and laid Him in the sepulchre before the Sabbath broke. The Jewish Sabbath falls on a Friday at six o clock in the evening on through Saturday at 6 o clock in the evening. Then, on the morrow after the sabbath, on the first day of the week at the rising of the sun, Jesus having been in the heart of the earth 3 days, three women were walking to the sepulchre they talked among themselves who would remove the stone that covered the grave which was very great. When they reached the site the stone had been rolled away and there sat an angel that said to the women: Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for he is risen. Jesus rose on the first day of the week, which was on a Sunday and that is the reason why the early church and Christian choose to worship on Sunday. That bundle of wheat represented Jesus Christ the firstfruit of the harvest. Now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 1 Corinthians 15:20. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 17
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And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Lord. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the Lord. Here in this 4th feast we are still dealing with the barely harvest, they were to count from the day of the feast of first-fruits, which was the resurrection of Jesus, to fifty days and on the fiftieth day was the feast of pentecost which had cast its shadow for over 1400 years. On the day of pentecost 33 AD, the very ideal was about to take place. While on the temple grounds the priests were waving loaves with leaven, which represents the carnal nature on man, along with a meat offering unto the Lord. After the resurrection Jesus being here on earth for forty days before He ascended to the Father told His disciples: And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 19
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you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high Luke 24:49 There in the upper room where gathered together 120, waiting with anticipation at the promise of Jesus. And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. Acts 1:1-4 There on the temple ground while the fire was consuming the offerings that the people brought, there in the upper room the feast of pentecost was being fulfilled, every year as they held it only a foreshadowed this day. As the Holy Ghost entered the room and the 120 were filled with the Holy Ghost; the comforter that sheikena glory that Jesus promised He would sent came from the Father came and the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 21
In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Leviticus 23: 24-25 After the long hot summer months of labouring in their fields the Israelites, on the seventh month of Tishrei, on the first day of the month under the New Moon there was to be a memorial day a blowing of trumpets. The blowing of trumpets was a preparation for the Jewish people to regather in Jerusalem. While the first four feasts dealt with the gentile people, the spring barley crop, these last three feasts deals with the fall harvest pertaining to the Israeli people. At the destruction of the second temple in 69 AD the Jewish people were scattered throughout the world. We know how Israel had rejected the Lord of Glory and were blinded in part until the fullness of the Gentile be come in under the age of Grace. They were to blow the trumpet on the seventh month. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 22
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That seventh month holds a particular importance, for 1900 years the Jews were scattered, then at the turn of the century, at the beginning of the seventh church age of Laodicea, God started to beckon the Jewish people to regather and go back to their home land through the Zionist movement. Men like Theodor Herzl sounded the trumpet throughout the world for them to go out from their countries were they were scattered and go back to Israel. While some took heed to what these men were saying, there was a greater percentage that did not want to move, as they had comfortable lives. Since the Jewish people had not had ownership of the land of Israel for 1900 years, other groups had possession of the land over the centuries but none have the love for the land as the Jewish people have, and the land was swampy and had grown wild, so a lot of these Jews made fun of the Rabbi s call to go back to their homeland. When the time of the of Rabbi s call to go back home was over, God sent the Hunter s in. Jeremiah 16:16 Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the Lord, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 24
many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks. When God closed the window for the Fishers, the Zionist movement, He sent the Hunters in, men like Hitler, and from 1934-1945 they were sought out and killed from every hole that they were hiding in what is known as the Holocaust. Those that listened to the Fishers did not have to go through the Holocaust, and those that didn't had to go through the consequences of the horrors of the Holocaust. After the war in 1948 Israel became a nation once again. The British had the land at that time, and now after 1900 years Israel was once more recognized as a nation. Then in 1967 at the six day war they fought another war and they won Jerusalem back from the Jordanians for the first time since the destruction of the second Temple. All this started at the turn of the century. The seventh month represents the in last church age God will began working with the Jewish people. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 25
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Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath. In the 10th day of the seventh month the Jewish people were to come together once again for the feast of atonement. This feast of atonement was a feast of mourning and affliction of the soul. This feast of atonement and the last feast of tabernacles are still foreshadowing the real events, they have not happened and are still casting their shadow. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 27
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The day of atonement is still casting its shadow for the seventeenth week of Daniel to begin. Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: Hosea 6:1-2 When the week of Daniel begins the Jewish people will have a revival, the 2 days or the Grace Age will be completed. Jesus will no more be on the mercy seat atoning for the sin of mankind. Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: Daniel 9:25-26 There is one more week left, which are seven years, for the Jewish people and are part of the seventy week of Daniel. When Nehemiah went back to restore and built Jerusalem in 445 BC that started the count of the seventy years. At the crucifixion, at the 69th week that THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 29
count stopped, leaving seven years still to come, that will continue after the grace age is over. When those seven years begin God will have the spirit of Moses and Elijah on the scene in Jerusalem at the beginning of the week of Daniel. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. Revelation 11:3. They will reveal Jesus Christ to the Jewish people and it will be a day of mourning as they will recognize Him whom they have crucified: And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, Zechariah 12:10. These two prophets will warn the Jews of the 3.5 years of tribulation coming up and how to escape it. The anti-christ will break the peace agreement halfway through the week that will be signed at the beginning of the week of Daniel. The week of Daniel cannot begin until the Jews have their borders that God promised them along with THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 30
their Temple and the altar of sacrifies. Before that can happen there will be 2 wars that will occur. According to Numbers 24 when Balak wanted to Balaam to curse the Jewish people the Lord showed what Israel will do to the Moabites and other nations in the latter days: I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth. And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel shall do valiantly. Out of Jacob shall come he that shall have dominion, and shall destroy him that remaineth of the city. Once Israel has their borders they will begin building their Temple and the altar of sacrifices as written in Ezekiel 45. Then the war of Ezekiel 38 and 39 which will be Russia, Persia (Iran), Ethiopia, and Libya, Gomer (land between Moscow and Turkey), the house THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 31
of Togarmah (Turkey) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with you and other country that will come up against Israel. Most of these countries are Muslim counties, they go up against Israel and God is going to destroy them with natural disasters Israel will not have to shoot one bullet. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Ezekiel 38:22 After these two wars it will bring you up to the week of Daniel where the political Jew will sign a covenant with the anti-christ (pope). While the old Orthodox Jew will preform their feast of atonement in the fall of the year the actual feast of anointment will take place. God will have His two witness (the spirit of Moses and Elijah) there to reveal Jesus Christ to the Jewish people and to let them know how to escape the tribulation that is to come. For those that will believe the 2 witnesses they will escape the tribulation period of 3.5 years. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 32
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: When we come to the last feast, the feast of tabernacle, the age of grace will have been over, God will have both His crop, the spring harvest of Gentile people and fall harvest of the Jewish people. The 7th week of Daniel will be finished, and the seventy-five days that it speaks of in Daniel will also be completed. The seventy-five days is the day of the Lord where He will pour out His wrath on this earth. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 33
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Then after seventy-five days is when Jesus returns. The Bible tells us that there will be few men left after the day of the Lord, now when we consider the ratio of the world population we know that there are not just going to be a handful of people left but in comparison there will be few men left. Jesus will return on the Mount Olives and the mount will split in two and He will judge the nations and enter in at the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem that as the Prophet Ezekiel prophesied years ago after Jesus rode through the Eastern Gate on a donkey that that gate will be shut, and has remained shut unto this day. When Jesus returns He will then set up His Millennial reign of 1000 years. He will rule with a rod of iron, For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. Habakkuk 2:14. During the Millennium each year the representatives of each nation will go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. Zechariah 14:16 THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 35
This is the only feast that will be kept throughout the Millennium as a reminder of what Jesus did for us at Calvary. Jesus made it all possible. The sacrificial altar will also be there and the ceremonies will be performed as a reminder to people born in the Millennium what Jesus did for us at Calvary. How He sacrificed His life, purchased our salvation and redeemed us and all of creation back to God. After the Millennium is 2 Corinthians 13: Jesus having redeemed and restored the earth from its chaotic state the last enemy being defeated which is death, He gives back the kingdom back to God and God will be our all in all. Jesus will always be our elder brother for what He did at Calvary willingly He sacrificed His life to redeem us back to God. There can never be said enough for what Jesus Christ did for us and all of creation because of Him we have life, we live and can inherit Eternal Life. After the Millennium God takes up tabernacles with His creation agin. That Heavenly presence of God that Adam and Eve had in the garden of Eden will come down that once again and God will THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 36
tabernacle once again with man. The tree of life bearing 12 manner of fruit, the fruits of the spirit, and added to those will be wisdom, knowledge, and virtue. All things will be in Harmony with God. God will have His family that He always longed for tried, tested and proven to be true and faithful. Redemption will be completed all due to Jesus and what He did at Calvary, victory is won. 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4.And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away: Revelations 21. THE SEVEN FEAST OF THE LORD 37