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Today, from sundown on Oct 2, 2020 to sundown on Oct 3, 2020, the very day
wherein Israel’s Feast of Ingathering begins, is a most significant day. From
Exodus 23:14-16 we read, “Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the
year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread,… and the feast of harvest,
the firstfruits (of wheat harvest, Exo 34:22) of thy labors, which thou hast sown
in the field (referring to the Feast of Weeks which is predicated upon the waving
of the sheaf of the first fruit of barley harvest, followed by fifty days counting to
arrive at that one day long feast): and the feast of ingathering, in the end of the
year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field.”
From Deu 16:13,16 we read, “Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven
days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine. Three times in a
year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which He
shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in
the feast of tabernacles.”
Comparing these two sets of Scripture texts, we find a contrast within! Both
speak of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and of the Feast of Weeks. The third
feast in each set of texts is associated with the gathering in of the produce of the
field, the labors of gathering corn and wine; but this is where the similarity ends.
The first set of texts calls the third feast, the Feast of Ingathering, while the
second set calls the third feast, the Feast of Tabernacles. How odd! Are these
two feasts observed back to back?
Let us find out. In Lev 23:34-38 the language used is, “The fifteenth day of this
seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.”
Following that, mention is made of a holy assembly in the first day and on the
eighth day with no work done on either day.
In Lev 23:39-43, the language used is, “ Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh
month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto
the LORD seven days.” The context states there would be a sabbath on both first
and eighth days. Note that the italicized description here uses wording very
similar to both the Exo 23:14-16 and the Deu 16:13,16 accounts above.
Additionally, the context here speaks of dwelling in booths seven days.
The following and final text that proves these two feasts occur simultaneously,
starting and ending on the exact same days, and are not back to back, is Num
29:12. We read, “And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a
holy convocation (assembly); ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a
feast (singular) unto the LORD seven days.” There are no more descriptions
given of other feasts in the remainder of this chapter either. These two different
designations or titles (Feast of Ingathering, Feast of Tabernacles) refer to the
same period of days.
Why two different feast designations for the same days of feast? They have
different significance. The first mention in Lev 23 is of the Feast of Tabernacles,
while the second mention is to dwelling in booths. A tabernacle is a kind of
booth, and a booth is a kind of tabernacle. Thus, no difference here. Yet, earlier,
God called one the Feast of Ingathering, Exo 23, and He called the other the
Feast of Tabernacles, Deu 16. Therefore, Ingathering relates to one aspect and
the Tabernacle and booths to another and different aspect. An aspect of what?
Israel’s feasts portrayed events that would occur later in God’s program, just as
Paul said they would in his words to the Hebrews in 10:1, “For the law having a
shadow of good things to come.” These two feasts are part of God’s law to Israel,
and as such they foreshadow something better. But what?
The designation of Ingathering highlights the fact that the produce of the land has
been gathered in. Natural, fleshly Israel was concerned about natural foods, that
which they could eat. Spiritual Israel is not concerned about natural foods, but
about the ingathering of people, even as Jesus said in John 4:35. “Say not ye,
There are yet four months and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift
up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.”
Jesus used the concept of natural harvest of produce and applied it to people.
Thus, while the natural celebration of the Feast of Ingathering is for natural food,
the spiritual celebration of the Feast of Ingathering is for people. Which people?
In Mat 13:1-8, Jesus gave a parable about the sowing of seeds, where they fell
and what happened unto the seeds. In his explanation of that parable in verses
18-23, he explained that the seeds represented people and how they responded
to the message or “word of the kingdom.”
Again in Mat 13, but this time in verses 24-30, Jesus spoke another parable about
his planting of seed in his field. In explanation of that parable in verses 36-42,
he clearly stated, “the good seed are the children of the kingdom.” He here is not
referring to mankind during the Millennial phase as they walk towards perfection,
but to those who during the Gospel Age respond to the invitation to become jointheirs
with him in the administration of the Kingdom of God upon earth’s populace.
Thus, the sowing is for the purpose of reaping the required amount of the full
number of the Body of Christ, which, in the seventh chapter of the Book of
Revelation, we are told will be 144,000 members.
The Gospel Age has an end, just like the agricultural season of sowing seed,
growing and harvest does. They are equated as the same in the Scriptures. Note
the words, “Let both (the good seed and the tares) grow together until the
harvest, and in the time of harvest…” Mat 13:30. Therefore, when the Feast of
Ingathering begins, it not only manifests a celebration of the end of the natural
harvest of natural food, it also celebrates the end of the gathering in of the Bride
of Christ into the spiritual fold. The Church is complete. The race for the chief
prize is over.
But, you say, “This feast occurs every year. How could the first day of the Feast
of Ingathering declare that the Church is complete during any one of its annual
observances? After all, that feast has been observed for centuries. How could
anyone now say that this year, 2020, it has the significance of manifesting that
the Church is complete?”
Those are great questions. We respond: Prepare to Meet Thy God!, a
dissertation regarding the flood of Noah’s day and how that flood portrayed
events and dates in our very day, points out that Noah’s age during the events of
the flood of his day establishes the date that the last members of the Church
were sealed in their foreheads, which was on March 31, 2018. The seven year
famine over which Joseph presided is prophetic of our day and in particular of
when Jesus will reveal his identity to his brethren of Israel, even as Joseph
revealed his identity to his natural brethren. When events did not transpire after
March 31, 2008 as we expected, we were back on our knees asking God why and
where we were wrong. It was then that He manifested to us that the famine
week of Joseph entered into the equation. Thus, two years later, our Lord will
reveal himself to his people, natural Israel. Two years later is now, 2020!
From the treatise Joel 1,2 it was established that the Day of God’s Wrath began
on May 29/30, 2020. From the treatise Feast of Weeks it was established that
the Feast of Weeks, May 29/30, 2020, “is the appropriate day for the
announcement of who is Israel’s Messiah,” “a trumpet message that will declare
to Israel that Yeshua is indeed their Messiah based upon Old Testament criteria or
testimony.” (Both quotes come from Feast of Weeks). It was later discerned
that date was the beginning of the process of Israel’s recognition and subsequent
declaration of who her Messiah was and not the very day that Israel would
proclaim Yeshua as Messiah, even though she was told on that day, Jesus is your
Messiah. We believe Israel will declare her Messiah in the morning of the Day of
Atonement this year. Whether or not that occurred can be ascertained by looking
back five days, whereas we are looking forward to that occurrence in and by faith
of the prophetic Word. Further, because of Jesus’ statement in Mat 26:64, it is
the religious leaders, and not the civil leaders of Israel that will make that
declaration. That proclamation may have begun as a peep, a tremor of fervor
amongst one or two of the religious leaders, but we anticipate that it will quickly
eventuate into a public declaration, an eruption of excitement and jubilation for
the whole nation. After she does, chaos breaks out worldwide. Our expectations
are based upon our study of Scripture.
From the treatise, Joel 1,2, it was pointed out that God utilized the pestilence of
the Coronavirus as a substitute for the proclaimed locusts that would invade
Israel prior to the beginning of God’s Day of Wrath. Scriptural texts were the
basis for our conclusions. That substitution confirmed the beginning of the Day of
God’s Wrath. After all, are not the Scriptures supposed to be the basis for all of
our Spiritual understanding?
It was understood what the sign of the Son of man in heaven is, and when that
occurred, 2017. It was understood what the great sound of the Mat 24:31
trumpet is, when it sounded, and what it declared. We entered into a very
detailed study of Revelation, chapters 8-22, asking God for understanding, asking
that we might know what He was doing, when He would do it and who He would
do it with, and further, that if possible, that we might have a share in that work.
Have you been asking God these things? Have you manifested a deep interest in
prophecy? Have you been asking Him to show you things you do not yet know,
and to correct your errors of understanding, and to strengthen and fortify that
which you correctly understand? Have you? Further, have you been searching
the Scriptures, and them exclusively, as the basis for your understanding? Have
you? Well then, we are not surprised that you are not the one that knows these
things. “Ask (God), and it shall be given, seek (the Scriptures), and ye shall find,
knock (on God’s door, and not on man’s door), and it shall be opened,” is the
promise, Mat 7:7,8. Have you done all this? Perhaps, even more importantly,
are you continuing to do these things? Well?
Our conclusions are also based upon numerous other considerations of Biblical
information, Biblical concepts and Biblical studies, many studies of which were on
or about the subject of God’s Day of Wrath. When we announce to you here, that
the first day of the Feast of Ingathering this year manifests that the Church is
complete, yet not all are gone from earth on that day, we have solid basis for our
convictions and declarations of truth. Yes, it is astounding, but when was Biblical
truth not astounding?
We ask, on what basis do you proclaim your hesitancy, your resistance, your
denial(?) of these things? If you bring up Mat 24:42- “Watch therefore, for ye
know not what hour your Lord doth come,” we reply that we have not stated any
hour wherein our Lord “doth come.” We have stated when the Church is
complete, an altogether different subject. If you raise Mat 24:36 as your
objection, “But of that day and hour knoweth no (man), no, not the angels of
heaven, but my Father only,” you only hurt your stand. If none could know, then
neither could our Lord know. And how could you expect him to carry out his
Father’s plan in ignorance? If Jesus can not know, then how could he know when
to do what! Further, the declaration that was made then was for then, that time.
Consider: if the Apostles knew that two days would pass before the Church was
complete, Lev 7:11-18, then how could they have encouraged any by honestly
telling them, “Oh, by the way, we have to wait two thousand years for this to be
realized?” Well? Ignorance was bliss for them and for the Church, until now.
Ignorance now could be fatal to your everlasting well being.
Further, regarding Mat 24:36, if the angels can never know, then why did God
send Gabriel on specific missions with specific information, and at particular times
to accomplish God’s bidding? If the angels can never know when those affairs
take place, then neither could they intelligently carry out God’s bidding relative to
those days. God has never sent His angels out without providing them the
necessary tools of information for the task at hand! Look at any and every
instance in the Divine record regarding an angel being sent out, and NEVER will
you find that they did not know what they were sent for. None go out empty
headed as to what is going on! Neither are we saying that they know everything,
but what is relative to their task.
If you bring up Acts 1:7, “But it is not for you to know the times or the seasons,
which the Father hath put in His own power,” you again lose your footing. At face
value of what Jesus said, the Apostles could NEVER know anything about future
events, even after they get into heaven. Are you willing to say the Apostles will
go through eternity ignorant as to what is going on and when? We certainly are
not! “But”, you counter, “Jesus did not mean they would not know after they
ascended into heaven.” You admit then, that at some point in time the Apostles
would know about God’s features, just not “then.” So, what prevents someone
from knowing at this end of the Age before they pass over into heaven? Is it
God’s purpose to leave the last of the spirit-begotten ones in darkness as to when
and what? We do not believe so based upon our studies of the Scriptures. Did
not God say, “Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do,” which question
preceded what He did? (Gen 18:17) If God was willing to tell His “friend” (2 Chr
20:7) details of upcoming events, why should any object when someone now
knows of upcoming events, one who has the same status as do you as a fellow
prospective Body member, a son of the Most High? If God saw fit to tell a friend
such and such, would He not tell His own sons even more, especially when their
eternal welfare is at stake, and especially after one has asked, searched, and
knocked for understanding? Come, now, let us reason together.
Therefore, what Jesus meant, was, it is not time for you to know these things
now. At a later time they would know. That later time, is now!
So, why should any now know what God is doing? If no one knows what is going
on, then all are in the dark, “but ye brethren are not in darkness, that that day
should overtake you as a thief.” But if you are not aware of what the prophecies
are telling us, then you are in darkness, and you will be overcome with great
surprise and difficulty. Did not an angel tell John what was coming in the course
of history? Yes, and without that knowledge, John and the class he represents
would be in the dark. Do you really understand Revelation’s symbolism regarding
what is coming, and when? You might be surprised.
“If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
1 Cor 14:8. No faithful trumpeter sounds without direction as to when to sound.
No trumpeter is faithful without sounding. A trumpet must sound before any can
hear its message. If the trumpet is never blown, then no message is declared
and no appropriate action can occur. How then, could any fulfill their obligations
before the Lord if 1) they do not know what those obligations are, and 2) when
they are to be done? The trumpet must sound clearly for the right message to
be conveyed. Knowing pertinent information is not only helpful, it is even
necessary.
The first day of the Feast of Ingathering subtly declares, simply by its presence,
"the summer has ended, the harvest is past, now it is time to celebrate. Let us
feast!" Because that day is the day for a trumpet to sound, the significance of
"the voice of the archangel," the sixth trumpeter, 1 The 4:16, is realized as well.
Just as God declared to His servants the prophets regarding the mystery of the
Church (Isa 43:21; Ps 102:18, etc.), what would be; so the sixth angel, the
archangel, announces, declares, the grand finale of the Church, it is now over and
completed.
Archangel (G743) means “chief angel.” Why is the sixth angel chief or above the
others? To that messenger is given the privilege of announcing the Church’s end
of her sojourning here, and to the same is given the privilege of releasing the four
angels bound in the Euphrates.
When those of the spirit-begotten class hear that message, and when they realize
that they are not of the Body of Christ because they are not among the seven
trumpeters, who are the last of the Body here, and that thus they are then
relegated to the "little sister" class, they woefully exclaim, "the harvest is past,
the summer is ended, and we are not saved," Jer 8:20. The truth sinks in, and
as it does, so does the realization that they have a period of great tribulation to
look forward to, and to experience if they are to have life before the throne.
Thus, the fulfillment of the release of the "live goat" by the hand of a fit man into
the wilderness for the destruction of its flesh on the Day of Atonement is also
realized. Because the live goat was released on the tenth day by the "fit man"
who is the fifth trumpeter; so was the Little Sister class released that same day,
but their understanding of that fact does not come until the fifteenth day, the first
day of the Feast of Ingathering, when the sixth trumpeter points out those facts.
Following is why only seven Body members are on hand when God’s Day of Wrath
begins.
As Abraham interceded for the righteous in Sodom, he came down to the number
ten. “Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he (GOD) said, I will not
destroy it for ten’s sake,” Gen. 18:32. What this means is, God will not destroy
this present order if so much as ten of his righteous children, the last of the Body
members, can be found here on earth. Will God destroy this order as He
promised? Yes, but not until less than ten of His children are here. Furthermore,
this present evil order is about to collapse: look around you!
So, how many are here at present, seeing it must be less than ten? As previously
pointed out (in Prepare To Meet Thy God!), the mathematical number “pi” is a
God ordained number that specifically points to the Church. Again, it never
repeats, it is always constant, and it never ends. Thus, we have a logical number
to use to find out. Simply, 10-3=7. Why seven? Seven is a perfect number; it
relates to the whole, as in the number of the Creative days and the days of the
week; it also co-ordinates with the work of the Holy Spirit as represented in the
dove that Noah sent forth. He waited seven days, twice, and each wait was
based upon the ability of those for whom the spirit was sent. Seven individuals
have the perfect ability to accomplish God’s will here during the Days of God’s
Vengeance, but only under the direction of the Holy Spirit. God waited until only
seven members were left to accomplish His perfect and Holy will here, as
represented in His Day of Vengeance.
Although it could be said, the sixth message is one of “woe” to the Little Sister
class, we must be certain to point out that the three woe declaration was to the
leaders of the false church and not to the Little Sister class who now exists. The
sixth trumpet message is the second woe to those who are inhabiters of earth,
the leaders of nominal Christianity, Rev 9:12;11:14. The woe to the false church
leaders is that they learn through this very pointed message that they and their
followers, the congregation, are not a part of the Bride, and neither are they a
part of the Little Sister class. This means they have no prospect whatsoever of
going to heaven,...unless they catch a flight. Even then, that airplane ride will
bring them back to earth!
The Day of Atonement preceded this feast day by five days, and was observed on
the tenth day of the seventh month, Hebrew calendar reckoning. That
Atonement Day was when the bullock, the goat of the sin offering and the live
goat were dealt with. Both the bullock and the goat of the sin offering represent
those who were acceptably offered as a sacrifice for sin, and who will attain to the
chief heavenly reward. The bullock represents our Lord Jesus, and the goat of
the sin offering represents the Little Flock, the Bride of Christ. It is after these
two animals are offered, and their blood sprinkled on the mercy seat, that sins
are confessed upon the head of the live goat and it is released into the
wilderness. Even though the last Body member(s) are still not gone from earth
and will not leave for a few more days after the first day of the Feast of
Ingathering, the release of the live goat on the Day of Atonement and the
testimony of the first day of the Feast of Ingathering jointly testify that 1) the
Church is complete, 2) the remainder of the spirit-begotten class who are still
alive here, now form the Little Sister class of Song 8, and 3) the demons of Rev 9
have been released from the abyss. With the release of the demons, their
judgment begins, and so does their torment upon those “men which have not the
seal of God in their foreheads,” Rev 9:4,5.
Copyright, © G. Kuehmichel, Sep 8,9,11,12,14,15,17,20,21,24, 2020. All rights reserved.
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