Hello John and Doves,
I've been thinking about this for
a while now - so thought I'd add my thoughts to the mix here
on Doves.
God has 'appointed' days for
everything He does - for everything on His prophetic
calendar. I was thinking about linking up every
'special' day to a festival/feast day...I haven't seen that
done as an actual timeline.
The word feast and festival are
often interchanged in the Bible. Yet there is
reference to feast and festivals In Ezekiel 46:11 as if they
are two separate things.
In Leviticus 23 the different
translations will use feasts, festivals or appointed times,
interchangeably.
Leviticus 23:2 "These are my
appointed festivals.." "These are the appointed
feasts..."The Lord's appointed times..."
For this letter, I'm
looking at 'feast', 'festival' as meaning the same thing -
an appointed time - a prophetic day.
Feasts/festivals
are appointed times.
Hebrew Concordance: mō·w·‘ă·ḏę -- 7 Occurrences
Hebrew Concordance: mō·w·‘ă·ḏę -- 7 Occurrences
Exodus 34:18: "...at the
appointed time in the month of Aviv.."
Hosea 9:5: "...in the
appointed day, on the day of the Lord's feast."
Esther 9:31: "...at their
appointed time..."
Leviticus 23:37: "These are
the Lord's appointed festivals..."
Also, 'moed' is
"appointed time" - Strong's
Hebrew: 4150. מוֹעֵד (moed) -- appointed time, place, or
meeting
Exodus 23:15: "...as I
commanded you, at the appointed time in the month..."
They are 'a shadow of things to
come': In
Colossians 2:16-17: "Therefore let no one judge you
...regarding a festival (feast) or a new moon or
sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come..."
So these appointed times are prophetic.
We know about the Seven
Feast/Festival/Appointed Days of the Lord in Leviticus 23
If we look at each appointed time
in order during the year, we have Passover, Unleavened
Bread, Feast of Firstfruits, Feast of Weeks, Feast of
Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles. The
seven of Leviticus and Numbers.
If I make a list of major
'occurrences' - the death of Christ, His
body in the tomb, Christ's rising from the dead, Christ's
ascension into Heaven, the sending of the Holy Spirit, the
Rapture, the start and end of the Tribulation, the opening
of The Books/Judgment, the 1,000 years of peace/worshiping
in Jerusalem - we have 'points' on a timeline. But
wait - I threw the Rapture in there. That certainly is
a major event and it certainly has an appointed time.
So is there a festival for that day?
Throughout the Bible there is
reference to 'grain (wheat, corn), new wine, and oil'.
These three things are very important to Israel. In
Luis Vega's letter linked below he refers to these as minor
feasts. There is the Feast of Grain, the Feast of Wine
and the Feast of Oil. (All of these refer to new
harvests for the year - the new grain, the new wine and the
new oil)
These three things - grain, wine,
oil are very important to God and to Israel. In Joel
2:19: "The Lord replied to them: I am sending
you grain, new wine and olive oil, enough to satisfy you
fully; never again will I make you an object of scorn to the
nations." Deuteronomy 14:23: "And you shall eat
before the Lord your God, in the place where He chooses to
make His name abide, the tithe of your grain and
your new wine and your oil.." Hosea
2:22: "And the earth shall respond to the grain, to
the new wine and to the oil." Jeremiah
31:12: "They will come and sing in the height of Zion,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the Lord, for
wheat, and for wine, and for oil...and they shall not sorrow
any more at all." Deuteronomy 11:14: "..then I
will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the
first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in
they corn, and they wine, and thine oil."
There are many references in the
Bible to grain and drink (wine) offerings to the Lord and
loaves made with olive oil mixed in - Numbers 6:15:
"...And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour
mingled with oil and wafers of unleavened bread anointed
with oil and their meat offering, and their drink (wine)
offerings." Numbers 28:7 we read that the drink
offering is "the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord as
an offering."
In the Temple Scroll there are two
more harvest festivals given": new wine and oil.
In Numbers 18:12 the Lord says, "All the best of the oil,
and all the best of the new wine, and the grain, their
firstfruits which they offer to the Lord, I have
given them to you."
The Lord says that these
firstfruits of oil, new wine and grain are offered to
Him. When these are ready to harvest, the firstfruits
of each are taken to the priest to present to the Lord in
the Temple. There would be a specific day to do
this. The firstfruits of the grain are presented to
the Lord on Feast of Firstfruits. Are there not appointed
days also for the new wine and new oil firstfruits?
These would be around the time in Israel when the grapes and
olives are harvested - The Temple Scroll tells us
about the The Wheat Festival on 15 Sivan. The New
Wine Festival on 3 Av. And the New Oil Festival on
22 Elul.
According to the chart below,
grapes are harvested in June through September. Olives
are from September to November. So the Festival of New
Wine being celebrated on 3 Av (or 9 Av per Dr. Awe) would
fit a July grape harvest and the making of the new
wine. Olives harvested in September to make olive oil
would fit with the 22 of Elul which is early September (
September 7/8)
There is an "annual feast" of the
Lord in Shiloh mentioned in Judges 21:19 - the name is not
given. Some believe this is the Festival of New
Wine. ??
Ok - now I'm going to link
up the 'major occurrences' I listed above with the
feasts/festivals -
Feast of Passover
- Jesus crucified/last Passover lamb
Feast of Unleavened Bread
- Jesus body in the tomb (His body is the bread, broken for
us; leaven is sin/unleavened is sinless)
Feast of Firstfruits
- Jesus was the firstfruits of those that had died - He was
resurrected.
Feast of Weeks -
Ascension Day (the people observed Jesus ascend when they
were a 'sabbath's day journey from Jerusalem' - this was not
on a sabbath day, but on an appointed day - the next
festival was Feast of Weeks.)
Feast of New Wine
- Pentecost. (Peter said the men were not drunk
because the wine was new - the new wine had to be presented
to the Lord by the priest before the people could partake
and new wine is unfermented.)
Feast of New Oil
(Chag Yitzhar) - The Rapture (I believe that Dr. Awe
says his 'counting' places this at the day before Rosh
Hashanah - here is his latest video:(191)
Keep Calm and get Snatched! the Rapture is a snatching
away! - YouTube
run time 55:13
If RH is the start of the
Tribulation - "we go up before the bombs come down" per JD
Farag.) (Luis Vega has letters about this day - using
a 50 day count - much like Dr. Awe.)
WHY PENTECOST IS THE FESTIVAL OF NEW WINE – In the 1st Month,
WHY PENTECOST IS THE FESTIVAL OF NEW WINE – In the 1st Month,
Feast of Trumpets/Rosh
Hashanah - the start/end? of the Tribulation
Period
Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur
- the day the books are opened/Judgement
Feast of Tabernacles
- during the 1,000 years we will worship the Lord in
Jerusalem every year "to celebrate the Festival of
Tabernacles." Zechariah 14:16
Zechariah 14 BSB
Zechariah 14 BSB
22 Elul is September
7/8. (I believe that Dr. Awe has counted out the
Festival of New Oil to the day before RH - September
13/14) This is on the Zadok calendar also.
Rosh Hashanah is September 15/16
(using the Torah calendar)
What does 'olive oil' mean to
Christians and the Church? Oil was used in the food,
ex to make bread - to wave the loaves before the Lord.
Oil was used in lamps - the Temple lamps contained oil
(remember the oil of Hanuka).
We have the very important parable
of the Ten Virgins in Matthew - without the oil, their lamps
will go out. Without 'oil' or the Holy Spirit, the
Lord 'knows you not.' These foolish virgins did
not have the oil they needed in their lamps to keep them lit
- and they missed being let in to the wedding. "The
five virgins who have the extra oil represent the truly born
again who are looking with eagerness to the coming of
Christ...The five virgins without the oil represent false
believers who enjoy the benefits of the Christian community
without true love for Christ...Their hope is that their
association with true believers ("give us some of your oil")
will bring them into the kingdom at the end." ...."Not
everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom
of heave, but he who does the will of My Father who is in
heaven will enter."
What is the meaning of the Parable of the Ten Virgins? | GotQuestions.org
What is the meaning of the Parable of the Ten Virgins? | GotQuestions.org
And remember that salvation
came to the Gentiles as branches grated in to the olive
tree. Romans 11
Oil was used to anoint and
consecrate Kings and High Priests. Jesus spent His last
moments before His arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane
(Gethsemane means "winepress of oils/oil press"; from Hebrew gath shĕmānīm “oil press”) And He
spent much time teaching on the Mount of Olives; and He
ascended from the Mount Olives and He will return on the
Mount of Olives. And we have the parable of the olive
tree.
What is the meaning of the Parable of the Ten Virgins? | GotQuestions.org
What is the meaning of the Parable of the Ten Virgins? | GotQuestions.org
In my studies, I came across this
link to a Doves letter sent back in November of 2010; Jim
Bramlett sent a letter to Doves "Olive tree revelation" The
Rapture? He links to what a young man wrote on the
Rapture in the Air website - the link to this Doves letter
doesn't work any more. I think Nando posted all of
this on his site? Maybe Nando still has access to this
letter? I don't know if Jim wrote more about this....?
The young man wrote: Oil
anoints kings and the High Priest. Messiah or Christ
means "Anointed One" The Spirit of the Lord
'anoints'. "...Only the "wise" virgins who had oil
(the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Christ) in their lamps
could go into the marriage feast with the bridegroom."
He goes on to write that "the olive and its oil are
repeatedly associated with Christ and His Church." The
oil or holy spirit is in the Church. He connects
the olive harvest to the Rapture of the Church.
(Jim considered this important enough to pass on to
Doves.) (end snip)
There is an order to the
resurrections:
And
in 1 Corinthians 15:23 we are told "But each
in his own turn/in his own order: Christ
the firstfruits; then they that are of Christ, who have
believed in His coming." Is this referring to
another "firstfruit" resurrection? Christ's
resurrection at Feast of Firstfruits, then continuing
along the prophetic timeline...to the Feast of Oil.
And the Rapture possibly at the Firstfruits of the Oil?
IF
the Rapture is to occur in 2023, there are 148 days left
in the year - so a 1 in 148 of picking the 'correct' date
- pretty good odds. IF this is the year.
This is just a possibility - a
prophetic timeline linking up "major occurrences" with the
Seven High Holy Days INCLUDING the very important
firstfruits of the new wine and new oil.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance