God the Father knows the day He has planned for the marriage of His Son to the church, Part 2.

 

Hello John and Doves,

 

In this part I will discuss what is probably the most important difference between the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Pentecost. These are God-ordained sacrifices that God commanded for the days of these feasts. All the prescribed sacrifices are different, but for now I will only discuss the meal offerings, which are the most

important for us.

 

On the day of the Feast of Weeks, an unleavened offering is offered, and that is only fine flour mixed with oil.

Num 28:28: “And as a proper grain offering you shall offer fine flour mixed with oil,…” Only flour mixed with oil is offered, nothing, I emphasize nothing leavened.

 

On the day of the celebration of the feast of Pentecost, a leavened offering is offered, according to the Scriptures the priest must wave two baked leavened loaves. Lev 23:17: “You shall bring from your dwellings two loaves as a wave offering; they shall be of two tenths of an ephah of fine flour, leavened they shall be baked as firstfruits to the Lord.” At the rapture of the church, people come to God, sinners who have been cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus, and are therefore transferred to God as firstfruits from among people. The priest raises two leavened loaves, one loaf representing the dead in Christ, who will be resurrected, and the other representing the living in Christ, who will be transformed.

The feast of Pentecost is the only one of all the biblical feasts when something leavened, that is, leavened bread, is used as an offering to God.

 

Another major difference between the two feasts. The Feast of Weeks is a pilgrimage feast. Deuteronomy 16:16: “Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord your God in the place which he shall choose: in the Feast of Unleavened bread, in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles. And he shall not appear before the Lord empty-handed.” For the pilgrimage feasts, all men are commanded to appear before God three times a year, and the place they were to go was primarily the temple in Jerusalem. The Feast of Pentecost is not listed anywhere in Scripture as a pilgrimage feast, so it is not a pilgrimage feast, and this is another major difference from the Feast of Weeks.

 

The Lord Jesus was resurrected on Nisan 16, the day of the Feast of Firstfruits, when the priest waved a sheaf of barley. The church will be raptured on the day of Pentecost, when the priest waves two leavened loaves before God. One loaf represents the resurrection of the dead and the other the rapture of the living. Both groups will meet the Lord in the clouds. Lifting the leavened bread to heaven is one of the greatest proofs that God has shown us in Scripture that the rapture of the church will occur exactly on the day of Pentecost.

 

The Lord Jesus personally fulfilled four spring feasts: 1. Passover - 14th Nisan, Jesus was crucified, 2. Unleavened Bread - 15th Nisan, Jesus was in the tomb, 3. Firstfruits - 16th Nisan, Jesus rose from the dead, 4. Feast of Weeks, Jesus was taken up to heaven.

 

The Lord Jesus will personally fulfill the summer feast, descending precisely on the clouds on the day of Pentecost and calling to Himself the living and the dead in Christ.

 

The Lord Jesus will fulfill the three autumn feasts at His second coming to this Earth.

 

Jesus personally fulfilled the spring feasts as the firstfruits of the resurrection and rapture, on the summer feast he will call the church as the firstfruits to God (the image of two baked leavened loaves), and on the autumn feasts he will deal with the people of Israel and their salvation.

 

In these two passages, the Bible clearly shows that Pentecost is not the same as the Feast of Weeks and cannot be celebrated in the spring on the same day as the Feast of Weeks. The Scriptures clearly place Pentecost in the summer. This fact is demonstrated by the following scripture, among others:  Acts 2:13: “But others mocked, saying, ‘They are drunk of new wine!" The original Greek word used is “gleúkos,” which means: “new wine, young wine, sweet wine, must.” In English translations, most often uses it is “new wine” or “sweet wine.” If God did not want to show us in what season of the year the Feast of Pentecost is, it would have been enough to write: they were drunk of wine. The grapes begin to ripen in Israel sometime in the second half of July. This clearly shows that there could not be new wine in Israel in the spring, when the Feast of Weeks is celebrated. This verse clearly shows that the Feast of Pentecost must not have been until the latter part of July.

I will give further evidence from Scripture that God has planned the rapture for the day of Pentecost in the following works. I will speak of the book of Ruth, which is a complete picture of the marriage of Jesus to the church. This book reveals that the marriage of Boaz to Ruth took place in the middle of summer, during the time of Pentecost. I will write about the events at Mount Sinai when Israel came out of Egypt. The events at Mount Sinai clearly prove that Pentecost is in the middle of summer, and also how closely the events at Mount Sinai are connected to Pentecost.

 

For the one who truly loves the Word of God - Jesus, the teaching in these two parts already proves the day of the rapture sufficiently from Scripture. Most watchmen have been searching for the day of the rapture for many years in various ways. Now, when the day of the rapture is finally revealed from Scripture at the end of time, strangely enough, almost no one is interested. The day of the rapture is still being searched for from various numerical calculations, heavenly events and events in the world, but the Bible is in the last place for most watchmen. It is sad that human wisdom is placed above the wisdom of God, and this is constantly repeated in history. People look up to people who present only their own wisdom, but God's immeasurable wisdom is pushed to the sidelines.

 

At this time, many are looking up to certain days in the month of May as possible days of the rapture, which is evidenced by various number combinations. However, there can be no rapture in May of this year. When God in the Bible has set the rapture on the day of Pentecost, we can come up with the most amazing combinations and various conclusions, but the rapture will not happen. In the Scriptures, God reveals to us the day of the rapture on the day of Pentecost, so looking for another day is essentially rebellion against God Himself and His Word.

 

God's Word has absolute priority and no one, even the wisest of people, can change it. It is sad that almost no one thinks about the specific word about the day of the rapture revealed in the Scriptures, to their own detriment. Various human conclusions are repeatedly looked up to, even though we have had dozens of such dates over the years and they have never come true. Even the absurd predictions presented by one man from Africa were taken seriously by many, even though what he brought was in contradiction to God's Word.

 

God sits on the throne, and when He sets the day of the rapture, who is man to question His Word and bring his own terms and thereby disparage God and God's Word.  It is paradoxical that the bride of the Lamb has been looking for the day of the rapture for years and when at the very end of time this day is revealed from the Scriptures, the majority of the church rejects it. This shows that they do not believe God, who clearly showed us the day of the rapture out of His love for the bride of Jesus.

 

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Blessings to all, Petr