Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kamphau@oktext.sbc.com (Mark Kamphaus) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Feasts and Prophecy Message-ID: Date: 23 Sep 90 06:01:27 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Southwestern Bell Lines: 55 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In Col 2:16-17 Paul implies that the Jewish feasts are shadows of things to come. Some, including myself take that to mean they are a prophetic type. There are seven feasts. 1) Passover 2) Unleavened Bread 3) First Fruits 4) Harvest 5) Trumpets 6) Atonement 7) Tabernacles The first three feasts are collectively known as Passover and are celebrated on 3 consecutive days. The fulfillment of their prophecy occured with Jesus on the actual days. Passover morning (friday morning) Jesus was crucified. He became the passover lamb slain for our sins. (See John 1:29 and I Peter 18:19) Jesus was buried on Unleavened Bread. This represents sinlessness as leaven was the symbol for sin. Jesus gave the example of leaven affecting the whole lump of dough. The Ressurection occurred on First Fruits and Jesus is referred to as such by Paul in I Cor. 15:20. THe next feast was fulfilled on the feast day with the decent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost to mark the establishment of the Church Age. We are symbolically living in the Harvest. The remaining three feasts point to end time events and are unfulfilled. Trumpets represent the Rapture and the end of the Church Age. I believe this is the last trumpet Paul refers to and also the sound that marks the transistion from the end of the church prophecy in Rev.2-3 to the scene in Heaven in Rev 4. Atonement is the Second Coming when the salvation of the faithful remnant of Isreal occurs. This is the "Day of the Lord." Zech 12:10, Rom 11:1-6,25-36. Tabernacles represents the millenium where the Messiah dwells with His people in Jerusalem. Micah 4:1-7. (I have used for a reference "The Jewish Feasts" by Dr. David R. Reagan of Lamb and Lion Ministries. It is article No.6 in the Prophecy Notebook series.) Rosh Hashanah is on 20th of September this year. Yom Kippur is the 29th and Sukkot starts on the 4th of Oct. With the first four feasts having fulfillment on the actual day, it would not be unreasonable to assume the last three will have the same method of fulfilment. I am interested in discussing the fulfillment of the remaining feasts and the scripture supporting the manner of their fulfillment. It is my understanding that it is a rabbinical tradition that tabernacles points to the messianic reign.