Feast of Weeks

The Feast of Weeks, wherein two trumpets were blown also over the peace
offerings (Num 10:10; Lev. 23:19), is a message. What is that message?
The Scriptural method of establishing the Feast of Weeks is given in Lev. 23:10-
21. We read in part, “...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 a he lamb without blemish of the
first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD.” (Burnt offerings of bullocks, sheep
and goats are always male in gender, Lev. 1:3,10.) “And a meat (meal) offering
thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by
fire unto the Lord for a sweet savor: and the drink offering thereof shall be of
wine, the fourth part of a hin.” (vs 13).
The fact that explicit mention is made, “When ye be come into the land which I
give unto you,” provides placement of where the balance of the instruction would
occur. Israel in the land literally means just that, in their land of promise.
Because the account points forward to a specific individual, that person, as the
drama unfolds, would be in Israel’s land of promise and not elsewhere.
After Israel came into the land and reaped the harvest, they were to bring a
single sheaf of the firstfruits unto the priest. This sheaf represented Yeshua, our
Lord Jesus, who had been harvested by the Israelites by crucifixion, Acts 2:36:
“he was cut off” (Isa. 53:8) in death. He was the first of the New Creation. The
priest would “wave the sheaf (part of the waving was to lift it up) before the
LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall
wave it.” This waving (representing Yeshua’s resurrection) was a necessary part
of His sacrifice for the Church to be accepted before Jehovah. Additionally,
Yeshua died towards the end of the 14th day, his body was laid in the tomb yet
that day, and it laid there through the sabbath, the 15th, which was the next day,
and then on the third day, the 16th, which was the first day of the week, he arose
from the state of death. This is an exact fulfillment of what Lev. 23 says would
happen: “on the morrow after the sabbath, the priest shall wave it,” the sheaf.
According to Lev. 23:6,7, on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the
fifteenth day of the month, there was to be “no servile work therein.” Thus it also
was declared a sabbath. If the first day of the Feast fell on the first day of the
week, then there were two sabbath days in a row; the seventh day Sabbath
followed by the sabbath of the first day of the Feast, wherein no servile work
could be performed either day.
As the Scripture record continues, it becomes necessary to discern which sabbath
is meant. The fulfillment of Lev. 23:11 by Yeshua establishes for us the correct
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understanding of the use of sabbath in this context. Here is why. Sabbath, by
definition given us in Exo. 20:10, is not only a day wherein “thou shalt not do any
work,” but it is also established as the seventh day of the week. Even though the
fifteenth day was specified as a non-work day, a sabbath of rest, it is not “the
Sabbath,” unless the fifteenth day fell on the last day of the week, the seventh
day. Additionally, according to Lev. 23:15,16, “And ye shall count unto you from
the morrow after the sabbath (which one, the seventh day Sabbath, or the Feast
day sabbath on the fifteenth?), 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.” Let us diagram that scenario:
6 7 7 7 7 7 7 1 = 49
15th
1 - 7 1 - 7 1 - 7 1 - 7 1 - 7 1 - 7 1 – 7 1 - 7 1
S S S S S S S S
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
With a few moments of applied consideration, it should be obvious that if the 15th
day, as a feast day sabbath, is used as the basis of reckoning, when it falls other
than on the seventh day sabbath, then after seven sabbaths are complete, and
with the next day added per instruction, the result is one day short of the
required fifty days. And if the 15th day is moved further into the week, the
shortage (of 50 necessary days) is increased. Thus the sabbath referred to in
Lev. 23 is not the feast day sabbath, but the seventh day Sabbath.
As the following table will manifest, the fulfillment of Lev. 23 by Yeshua, our Lord
Jesus, proves that the 15th day of the feast fell on the seventh day Sabbath,
because of the days whereupon our Lord died and was resurrected. Thus, that
Sabbath was a double sabbath, once because it was the seventh day of the week,
and twice because it was also the first day of the feast week which was of itself a
sabbath day.
Collation of
The Feast of Lev. 23
The Crucifixion/Resurrection of Jesus
Shavuot/Pentecost
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Sabbath Eating grain, Wave Offering Lev. 23:10-21
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Crucifixion Sabbath Luke 23:52-56
Resurrection Luke 24:1-6
49 50 Lev. 23-15,16
New Grain Offering Lev. 23:16
Two Loaves with Leaven Lev. 23:17
Wave Offering Lev. 23:30
Shavuot/Pentecost Acts 2:1
First Fruits Rom. 8:23; Jas. 1:18
2= Little Flock and Great
Multitude
Lev. 16:8
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Secondary
Applicaton
2= Jews and Gentiles Acts 11:17,18
Wave Offering Col. 1:21,22;
Heb. 3:1
Lev. 23:13 also poses a unique situation. In Num. 15:2-5, “When ye be come
into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you, and will make an offering
by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering...then shall he that offers his offering unto
the LORD bring a meal offering of a tenth deal (a tenth [omer] of an ephah, Num.
28:5; Exo. 16:36) of flour, mingled with the fourth of a hin of oil. And the fourth
of a hin of wine for a drink offering...for one lamb.” Thus is established for us
that a single tenth part of an ephah is the proper amount to offer with a lamb.
Notice that in Lev. 23:13 the requirement is two tenth parts, not one. Why the
difference? In both of the accounts, Lev. 23 and Num. 15, the prerequisite is
coming into the land; Lev. 23 specifies a particular event, the waving of the
sheaf, whereas Num. 15 does not mention it directly, specifically. The wave
offering in Lev. 23 points to Yeshua’s resurrection from his sacrifice, whereas
Num. 15 does not mention it directly. The fact that Lev. 23 requires two parts,
instead of one, can be explained as follows: Flour is the result of grinding grain.
In Lev. 23 the only two grains referenced, though indirectly, is that of barley, the
first harvest, representing Yeshua, and that of wheat, the second harvest,
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representing the Church. Two parts of an ephah of barley flour relate to Yeshua,
our Lord Jesus. We read elsewhere in Scripture, “None (no one) can by any
means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him.” Psa. 49:7. “For
there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
who gave himself a ransom for all...” 1 Tim. 2:5,6. As was pointed out in the Joel
1,2 treatise, a meal offering also denotes appreciation of the offerer in the
Millennial Kingdom wherein, when finished as regards the work, all will be
restored to the perfection that Adam once enjoyed. Therefore, a perfect man
offers one tenth of an ephah, whereas in Lev. 23, the two tenths represented the
fact that Jesus offered himself, a perfect man for another man who had been
perfect, Adam, a corresponding price, equivalent. (This also establishes/confirms
the fact that Yeshua was a man of 100 percent flesh, and not a “god” clothed in
flesh temporarily, who at the core was really a spirit being. Yeshua, “the Word,
was made flesh,” (John 1:14) not clothed with flesh as the angels were who came
to earth to perform errands. See Gen 18:1,2,16,22,33; 19:1. This fact is
essential, for without it, no ransom could have been made, for a ransom is a price
paid of equivalent value. See Mat 20:28.)
From another and different perspective, all of Adam’s sons, the Israelites in this
instance, under sin’s condemnation could not offer what a perfect man could.
The former offered one tenth part, whereas Yeshua offered two. Let none,
though, estimate that we are equating a perfect man as only twice as good as a
sinful one: we are not.
In Lev. 23:16 we read, “...even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall
ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meal offering unto the LORD. Ye
shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth parts: they shall
be of fine flour; they shall be baked with leaven; the firstfruits unto the LORD.”
Fifty days points to the Day of Shavuot/Pentecost, wherein the Christian Church
began with the begetting of the Holy Spirit, Acts: 2. A new meal offering here,
wheat, differentiates this from the former offering, barley. The two wave loaves
represent the Gospel Age Church in the two divisions that will ultimately exist
from that Church, Bride and Great Multitude. The fact that these loaves were
“out of your habitations,” tells us the Church was called out from the inhabitants
of the land, originally the Israeli people, but because of their unbelief, the balance
of the Body members came from the Gentile world. See Rom. 11:17-25. The
fact that the loaves were from ground grain (flour) and then baked manifested
the tribulation (Joh 16:33) and the heat of trial that these underwent to
transform them from simply grain into nutritious bread. These are firstfruits as
was Yeshua, our Lord, the sheaf. Firstfruits implies second or subsequent fruits.
Indeed, Jesus said, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this (firstfruits)
fold: them also I must bring (first to life by a resurrection, then to perfection of
being), and they shall hear (obey, Acts 3:23) my voice; and there shall be one
(united) fold (of restored beings, some in heaven, and the rest on earth), and one
shepherd (Christ Jesus),” John 10:16. The other sheep are the children of men
upon the earth in the Kingdom.
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In addition to the above, these two loaves will be baked with leaven. This is most
odd! Leaven represents sin, and why would God require that an offering
containing sin be brought? Because the two loaves represent the Church in its
two ultimate divisions, and because these individuals came from earth, they are
of a sinful nature to begin with. In Lev. 2:11,12 we read, “No meal offering,
which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn
no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire. As for the
oblation of the firstfruits, ye shall offer them unto the LORD: but they shall not be
burnt on the altar for a sweet savor.” Thus we see the two loaves were not
burned, but what happened unto them?
In Lev. 10: 12-15 we read, “...Take the meal offering that remains of the
offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for
it is most holy. And ye shall eat it in the holy place (Exo. 26:33; 31:11 the first
compartment in the tabernacle structure proper), because it is thy due, and thy
sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the LORD made by fire...And the wave breast and
heave shoulder shall ye eat in a clean place; thou, and thy sons, and thy
daughters with thee: for thy due, and thy sons’ due, which are given out of the
sacrifices of peace offerings of the children of Israel. The heave shoulder and
the wave breast shall they bring with (in addition to) the offerings made by fire of
the fat, to wave a wave offering before the LORD; and it shall be thine, and thy
sons’ with thee, by a statute for ever….” Back in Lev. 23:18-20 we learn that the
bread loaves were offered with seven lambs, one bullock and two rams. They
(the animals) shall be a burnt offering, with their meal offerings, etc. “Then ye
shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs...for a
sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of
the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall
be holy to the LORD for the priest.” Therefore, the two loaves were eaten by the
priests and their family members.
Lev. 23:21 reads, “And ye shall proclaim (to call out) on the selfsame day that it
may be a holy convocation (Strong’s H4744- called out, public meeting,
assembly) unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein.” “Proclaim” (H7121- to
call out to) is the same as sounding trumpets. When we examine Num 10:1-3 we
find that two trumpets are blown to call the assembly to the door of the
tabernacle, which would also apply to the temple wherein the ark rested. In
verse 10 we read, “and in your solemn days,” which means the day has already
begun, whereas two trumpets sound earlier to announce the day’s beginning.
Thus, during the first feast day the trumpet sounds at least four times, twice to
announce the beginning of the first day of the feast, and then during that feast
day two trumpets are blown over the burnt offerings.
Lev 23:19 states, “Then ye shall sacrifice...two lambs of the first year for a
sacrifice of peace offerings.” From Lev 3, a peace offering could be either a lamb
or a goat, whether male or female, vss 6,7,12. (The Church comes from both
male and female.) From Lev 7:11-18, the peace offering could be “for a
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thanksgiving,” vs 12, or it could be a vow or voluntary (freewill) offering, vs 16.
Because the Church is portrayed in the Lev 23 setting of the completed weeks,
two lambs would manifest that the Church is offering both a thanksgiving offering
(one lamb) and a vow offering (the second lamb). The conditions for a
thanksgiving offering required the flesh of the lamb to be eaten on one day only
by the offerer, because each Church member lived individually only one (part of
a) day, which day represented 1000 years. The vow offering required that the
flesh be eaten on two days, but not on the third day. That represented the fact
that the Church as a whole unit would be in sacrifice for two days, maximum
2000 years, but not into the third day, which would be 2000+ (plus) years.
From Num 10:10 we read, “Also in the day of your gladness (Jubilee), and in your
solemn days (the three appointed feasts whereby the men of Israel were to
gather at Jerusalem to observe), and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall
blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your
peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I (am)
the LORD your God.” We point out that the reference to the peace offerings
specifically states, “over the sacrifices (plural) of your peace offerings.” When
Num 28 is analyzed alongside Lev 23, we find that Lev 23 mentioned the peace
offerings and Num 28 did not. Num 28 provided the requirements for the daily
offerings, the Sabbath and monthly offerings, and the offerings at the appointed
feasts, which repeated according to their cycles. The fact that Lev 23 alone
mentions the peace offerings suggests that those offerings were to be a one time
offering. In fact, what they represented were one time events! Yeshua was
raised from the dead, waved on the day after the Sabbath, one time. The
Church, symbolized by both the peace offerings and the two loaves, is a one time
event, never to be repeated, even though it has taken nearly two thousand years
for that event to come to a conclusion.
The burnt offering, is called such, “because of the burning upon the altar all night
unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it,” Lev 6:9. Verse
12 is very informative: “And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall
not be put out (not even when they moved to another location): and the priest
shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it;
and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings,” (again, plural).
According to Lev 3:3-5: And he (the offerer) shall offer of the sacrifice of the
peace offering (singular) an offering made by fire unto the LORD; the fat, (etc)….
And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon
the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire….” We must note that
the wood was laid upon the altar only in the morning, and upon the wood was laid
the burnt offering and upon that was laid the fat, etc, of the peace offering.
We must also note that when an individual offered a peace offering, it was one
animal, singular, but when it was a required offering, a part of the weeks
arrangement, as is pointed out in Lev 23, it was two animals.
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Additionally, Lev 7 stated that the flesh of the peace offering for a thanksgiving,
“shall be eaten the same day that it is offered; he shall not leave any of it until
the morning.” If the sacrifice was for a vow or voluntary offering (note that vows
are voluntary), “it shall be eaten the same day that he offers his sacrifice; and on
the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten: but the remainder of the flesh
of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire,” and is not to be eaten on
the third day, with consequences that follow if done so. See verses 15-17.
What we have learned is that the peace offering is offered in the morning after
the burnt offering is made, and the peace offering fat, etc., were associated with
the burnt offering because they were laid upon, came in contact with, the burnt
offering, which offering became a foundation for the peace offering parts upon the
alter of sacrifice. This co-incides with the testimony of Acts 2, wherein the
account of the Church receiving her begetting of the Spirit is recorded. We read,
“For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the
day.” We see then, that the account of Acts regarding the Church aligns perfectly
with the testimony of Lev 23 and other chapters. The Church’s foundation is
Yeshua, is in close association with him and has contact with him. Thus, the
burnt offering here represents Yeshua.
From Lev 6:9,12; 9:17 we learn that the daily required burnt offerings were
offered morning and evening. From vs 12, above, we learned that wood was
placed upon the altar in the morning, and from verse 13, we read, “The fire shall
ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.” Because the respective
morning and evening burnt sacrifice animals perished by burning, God chose to
use the fire of the altar, which burns the burnt offering animals, which fire “shall
never go out,” as the symbol for the perpetual effectiveness of that which the
burnt offering represented. Yeshua’s sacrifice shall forever be efficacious,
effective, for the cancellation of sin, “it shall never go out.”
Returning to Num 10, “ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a
memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.” “That they may be to you
for a memorial.” Was it the trumpets here referred to as the memorial, or was it
the offerings, or was it both together. We believe it is both together, trumpets
blowing over offerings as a memorial. The offering of Yeshua (burnt) and the
Church (peace) are memorialized when they are sounded forth, and especially
when the proclamations are ongoing, repeated time and time again, for who
would not benefit from hearing the “old, old story,” that full salvation came
through Yeshua, with His Bride at his side?
Referring again to Lev 23, why were seven lambs offered? In Gen. 21:28-30,
Abraham set aside seven ewe lambs as a witness to Abimelech that Abraham had
dug the well. Thus the seven lambs became a witness and have a testimony to
tell. As the Lev. 23:17-20 scene unfolds, there are:
1) two loaves of bread, wheat flour, and leaven,
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2) seven lambs, one bullock and two rams for the burnt offering, with their
meal and drink offerings besides.
3) Then one kid goat for a sin offering, two lambs for a peace offering,
which lambs became part of the wave offering with the bread loaves.
4) Priest
1) two loaves= Prospective Church; wheat flour= consecration, Exo. 29:1,2;
leaven= sin
2) seven lambs= testimony; one bullock= ability, Ps 51:19; two rams=
consecration, Lev. 8:1; meal offering= appreciation; drink= comprehension
3) one goat= cleansing of sin; two lambs= peace offering=thanksgiving/vow
4) Priest= Lord Jesus; wave offering
Putting words to the symbols we read:
1) Sinful people want to consecrate to the high calling.
2) They testify of their ability to make a consecration because of their
comprehension and appreciation.
3) They are cleansed of sin, and they offer their thanksgiving and vows unto God
4) as their Priest Jesus waves them, offers them, lifts them up before Jehovah as
the Church of the Firstfruits unto Him.
What is the message of this content? The sheaf of firstfruit offering represents
our Lord Jesus and His sacrifice for sins. Fifty days from His resurrection the new
grain offering of two loaves represented the prospective Church. The animal
sacrifices associated with that new grain offering portray the steps the
prospective Church undergoes to become the Bride of Christ.
Additionally, the meal and drink offerings included speak volumes regarding the
true state of affairs at hand today. After the tares were planted by Satan in the
wheat field and after they multiplied (Mat. 13), a common but incomplete
doctrine was taught by the tare class: “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and thou shalt
be saved,” whereby the believer was immediately entered into the family of God
as a New Creature in Christ and was assured a place in heaven. Yes, believing in
Jesus is the basis for salvation, but it is not the only tenant of doctrine to make a
sacrifice acceptable to God. Without the ancillary, supplementary, meal and drink
offerings, the whole sacrifice would have been incomplete and therefore
unacceptable to Jehovah. Comprehension of what God had intended the Church
to do as joint heirs with their Lord Jesus, to fulfill the promise that God gave to
Abraham, “and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed,” Gen.
22:18, was absolutely necessary for an acceptable sacrifice to be made. The
meal offering, representing appreciation, includes not only what God has done for
them, delivering them from the bondage of sin, but also what He will do for the
“other sheep” of John 10:16, the masses of humanity in the Kingdom when they
are brought forth to life from their graves first, then rehabilitated unto perfection
such as Adam once enjoyed before he sinned. Both of these points are also
necessary for an acceptable sacrifice to be offered.
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Now, contrast these two “offerings” with what the false church teaches: Believe
in Jesus now, and go to heaven. Do not believe in Jesus now, and go to helleverlasting
torture while cognizant of it.
We ask, which of the two above scenarios manifests the truth of God’s righteous
and holy character? It is no wonder that Jesus said to the “Lord! Lord!” folks in
Mat. 7:23, “I never knew you (as part of my Body): depart from me, ye that
work iniquity!”
The sounding of a trumpet is a message, and since the criteria for the first Feast
of Weeks celebration as recorded in Lev 23 is a message, and because the
upcoming Feast of Weeks in 2020 is the appropriate day for the announcement of
who is Israel’s Messiah, it seems most logical to conclude that this message of
Lev 23 is a sounding of a trumpet, because this message identifies Yeshua and
his Church as the fulfillment of the Lev 23 picture.
The message of Lev 23, then, is truly the blowing of a trumpet, but by whom?
It is the sons of Aaron, the priests, who are to blow the trumpets of Num. 10. Is
this priest from natural Israel, or is it one from spiritual Israel, who is also a
descendant from Aaron? Inasmuch as the significance of the Lev 23 account of
the Feast of Weeks has been made manifest by one from spiritual Israel, the
trumpet blower should be the same.
But which trumpet is it? It is not one of the seven trumpets in Rev 8, for they are
not blown until after the fire is cast into the earth, Rev 8:5. The fire cast into the
earth is God’s Word, Jer 23:29, and that fire is cast into Israel on the morning of
the Feast of Weeks. Note that fire was cast upon Sodom in the morning, which
destroyed them, but more importantly for this context, that fire destroyed their
beliefs, that which they believed was correct. This fire of God’s Word upon Israel
will destroy their old beliefs that Yeshua is not their Messiah.
That trumpet will be blown in the morning of the Feast of Weeks, a trumpet
message that will declare to Israel that Yeshua is indeed their Messiah based
upon Old Testament criteria or testimony. That trumpet is also the same one
that Yeshua referred to in Matt 24:31 in the words, “great sound of a trumpet.”
The trumpet in Matthew is not referred to by the words “sound of a great
trumpet,” which would then declare that the trumpet is great or big. In truth, as
Jesus said, the trumpet is not “great,” meaning big or large, because the content
is relatively small, but the sound that the trumpet makes is great, big, because
the truth that it proclaims is big news and it has big impact. In fact, the impact is
enormous!
The Feast of Weeks becomes the platform whereupon the announcement will be
made of who is the Messiah of the Hebrew people. It is indeed Yeshua, known to
the Gentiles as Jesus. It is here, the Feast of Weeks, that Israel will unitedly
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embrace Yeshua as their long awaited Messiah, and then they will extol their
thanks and gratitude. Before the feast ends, many of their fellow Hebrews who
live in foreign lands, and those who have returned because of faith in the Old
Testament Scriptures, along with those born in the land of Israel, all who have
personally embraced Yeshua as their Messiah, albeit, on that very day of the
feast, will celebrate the Feast Of Weeks as never before.
That feast is predicated upon the sheaf of firstfruits, which began the counting for
the “new meal offering,” (Lev. 23:16) the firstfruits of wheat harvest (Exo.
34:22). It is these two offerings, separated by forty-nine days, that represented
Yeshua (the Lord Jesus) and His Church, His Body.
It will be most appropriate for the Hebrew people on that feast occasion to lift up
their voices in praise and thanksgiving, even as Paul the Apostle wrote unto the
Hebrews, “By Him (Yeshua) therefore, let us offer the sacrifice of praise (G134-
specifically a thank offering) to God (Theos) continually, that is, the fruit of our
lips giving thanks to His name,” Heb. 13:15. For indeed, as Paul wrote to the
Ephesians, “And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself
for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor,” He was an
offering made by fire. Eph. 5:2; Lev. 23:12.
The peace offerings of Lev 23 were a one time event, 33 A.D. with the descent of
the Holy Spirit upon the waiting disciples of Acts 2. Because there is no temple
today, and because no occasion exists to offer a literal peace offering in
memorial, there is also no occasion to blow any trumpets over said literal peace
offerings.
Yet, the sound of a great trumpet must be carried forth by “his angels,”
messengers, Mat 24:31, which has been pointed out elsewhere to be from both
the Hebrew people and from spiritual Israel. If there are no peace offerings
offered this Feast of Weeks, for reasons cited above, then upon what basis is
there, if any, for a trumpet to sound, which means a message is delivered? The
gathering of the elect from spiritual Israel is predicated upon the great sound of a
trumpet, Mat 24:31, which requires a trumpet to sound. The Feast of Weeks is
the appropriate time as discerned from the Scriptures for that trumpet’s
sounding, but where is the authority in Scripture for it to sound?
We find it in Joel 2:1- “Blow ye the trumpet in Zion.” This text is nestled between
1:14 which points to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and the text in 2:15 which
points to the Seventh month, first day blowing; and the fast of the seventh month
tenth day, which is the Day of Atonement; and the assembly which is the Feast of
Ingathering/Tabernacles. In between is the Feast of Weeks. Not only is the
trumpet to be blown which declares Yeshua as the Messiah, but also two trumpets
are to sound later to sound an alarm. The first is by a priest of spiritual Israel,
while the second blowing of two trumpets (the alarm) are accomplished by the
priests of natural Israel.
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Because trumpets would sound in the morning over burnt and peace offerings, we
deem it appropriate that the trumpet should also sound in the morning of the
feast day about 9:00 AM. local time in Israel.
The news of the trumpet having come to Israel in the mid hour of the morning of
the feast day, wherein Yeshua is revealed unto his brethren, natural Israel, is in
exact accord with Gen 44. Joseph, who represented Yeshua, revealed his identity
to his natural brothers in the morning hours. In fact, it was this context of
Scripture which assisted our understanding that the Feast of Weeks was the date
for the announcement. See vss 3-13 in particular for the time of day.
There is more. From our study of Joel 1,2, we realized the singular trumpet
blown in 2:1 was for the purpose of gathering the elders of the nation of Israel to
the Law (Moses) that they might learn therefrom their proper response to the
incursion/uprising from the Arabs. That incursion results from the announcement
within Israel on the Feast of Weeks day that Jesus is their Messiah. Joel 2:1
spoke indirectly of that feast. That singular trumpet, which declares Yeshua as
Israel’s Messiah also gathers the heads of Israel together, because they have to
respond to the Arab incursion, but their response must be according to God’s
way. See Num 10:4, “And if they blow with one (trumpet), then the princes,
which are the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto
thee,” Moses, who represented the Law. Because the testimony of God’s
prophets was not yet at that time, we believe their testimony is ultimately
included in “thee.”
Therefore, the trumpet message must also be given to the civil leaders of Israel
during the feast. (If you personally have contact with them, or know how to get
it to them, please do your part.)
The one trumpet message then, has two parts: a message symbolically blown
over (about) the burnt and peace offerings, and a message blown to sound the
heads of Israel to gather around the Law and the Prophets, because of the burnt
and peace offerings message.
Therefore, in accordance with the requirement of Num. 10 that two trumpets are
blown by priests on their solemn (feast) days over their burnt and peace
offerings, one trumpet part sounds, and the other trumpet part sounds
simultaneously, which amounts to two messages or two trumpets sounding, when
in actuality, only one trumpet sounds in accordance with Joel 2:1 and Mat 24:31.
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