1. 7 Feasts of the Messiah Pentecost Hour Five
Almighty God, Our Heavenly Father;
We come before you this day in awe and thanksgiving;
for the opportunity to discover the extremes that You have gone to on our behalf.
We acknowledge our need to learn the real truth about You, the real truth about Your Creation, and the real truth about ourselves.
We seek and solicit Your Holy Spirit to open Your Word to us, (and to open us to Your Word), and to guide us as we explore this adventure
…between the Miracle of our origin,
…and the Mystery of our destiny;
May Your Will be accomplished in each of us as we listen to these words and seek your Eternal Truth,
As we commit ourselves into Your hands,
in the name of Yeshua, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen

2. Feasts of Israel
Name
Tell us one Sentence about Each: (The three major institutions established by God in Genesis)
Your Family
Your Faith
Your Government

3. Schedule 17-Jan-16 The Coming King Rehearsals for 1st and 2nd Advent
Daniel 9
24-Jan-16
Pesach
Passover
Nisan/Aviv 14
31-Jan-16
Hag HaMatzah
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Nisan/Aviv 15-21
7 Feb 16
Bikkurim
First Fruits of Barley
The morrow Harvest after the Sabbath
14-Feb-16
Shavuot
Feast of Weeks/Pentecost
Fifty days from the Feast of First Fruits
21-Feb-16
Buena Vista
Break
28-Feb-16
Yom Teruah
Feast of Trumpets
Tishrei 1(Rosh HaShanah)
6-Mar-16
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement
Tishrei 10
13-Mar-16
Sukkot
Feast of Tabernacles
Tishrei 15-21
20-Mar-16
Wedding
Every Hebrew Bride abducted in the Night
Parable of Ten virgins, Sermon on Mount

4. The Principal Discovery
Job
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Joshua
Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel,
1 & 2 Kings
1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah
Esther
Psalms
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes
Isaiah
Jeremiah, Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Minor Prophets
Matthew
Luke
John, 1,2, 3 John, Revelation
Mark, 1, 2 Peter
14 epistles
James
Jude ?
Moses
Samuel
Ezra
David +
Solomon +
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
The 12
Matthew
Luke
John
Peter
Paul
James
Jude
The basic premise underlying our entire ministry…
66 books
40 +
~2000 years

5. Old Testament Torah - 5 Historical - 12 Poetical Books - 5
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
Historical
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Poetical Books - 5
Job
Psalms
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs
Major Prophets - 5
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Minor Prophets
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi

6. The New Testament Historical Books 5 Interpretive Letters 21
The Gospels
Acts 1
Interpretive Letters
Paul’s Epistles *
Hebrew Christian Epistles
The Revelation (*some argue Paul’s authorship of Hebrews) 27

7. The Design of the Gospels
Matthew Mark Luke John
Presents as: Messiah Servant Son of Man Son of God
Genealogy: Abraham -- Adam Eternal
(Legal) (Blood line) (Preexistence)
What Jesus Said Did Felt Was
To the: Jew Roman Greek Church
1st Miracle: Leper cleansed Demon Demon Water to
(Jew = sin) expelled expelled Wine
Ends with Resurrection Ascension Promise of Promise of
Spirit: Return:
Acts Revelation
Camp Side: East West South North
Ensign: Judah Ephraim Reuben Dan
Face: Lion Ox Man Eagle
Style: Groupings Snapshots Narrative Mystical

8. The Panorama of History from Genesis to Revelation
Christ
Israel Restored
The Exodus
Fall of Man
Abraham
Creation
Flood
David
Exile
The Nation Israel
6,000 Years?
The Diaspora NT
Genesis
400 yrs
Rest of OT

9. Major Sections: Feast of First Fruits
Timeline – The Coming Prince
Matt 13 Parable
Salvation named in the Stars
Church Age – Between Pentecost and Tribulation
Shavuot and Ketuba

10. Feasts of Israel The Spring Feasts (1st Month: Nisan)
Passover
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Feast of First Fruits
The Feast in the middle
Pentecost - Feast of Weeks
The Fall Feasts (7th Month: Tishri)
Feast of Trumpets
Yom Kippur
Feast of Tabernacles

11. The Coming Prince

12. Sir Robert Anderson’s “The Coming Prince”
Chief Inspector for Scotland Yard.
Greatly respected for his skill as an investigator.
When Anderson wasn't writing on subjects related to crime, he wrote Christian books on prophecy.
He helped establish the fact that 69 of Daniel's 70 weeks has now transpired, and the tribulation with be the 70th week.
Sir Robert Anderson's book The Coming Prince, has become a foundational resource for all dispensationalists.

13. The “70 Weeks” of Daniel The Scope 9:24 The 69 Weeks 9:25
(The Interval) 9:26
The 70th Week 9:27

14. The Scope Seventy weeks are determined
upon thy people and upon thy holy city,
to finish the transgression,
to make an end of sins,
to make reconciliation for iniquity,
to bring in everlasting righteousness,
to seal up the vision and prophecy, and
to anoint the most Holy Place.
Daniel 9:24

15. The 69 Weeks Know therefore and understand, that
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the King
shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times Daniel 9:25

16. Commandment to restore Jerusalem
The 69 Weeks
Commandment to restore Jerusalem
The Messiah
the King
69 x 7 x 360 = 173,880 days
Decree of
Artaxerxes
Longimanus
Mar 14, 445 BC
445 BC - 32 AD:
March 14 - April 6:
Leap Years:
173,740 24
116
173,880
The Triumphal
Entry
April 6, 32 AD

17. The Interval And after threescore and two weeks shall
Messiah be cut off, but not for himself:
and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary;
and the end thereof shall be with a flood,
and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Daniel 9:26

18. The Interval When did the ‘clock’ stop? Pentecost – 30 May 32AD?
Church Age
Verse 25
Verse 26
Verse 27
69 Weeks
(Interval)
70th Week 7
62 weeks
When did the ‘clock’ stop?
Pentecost – 30 May 32AD?
When does the ‘clock’ restart?

19. Matthew 13
A very Jewish step into the Feasts

20. The Seven Kingdom Parables
Matthew 13
Rev. 2 & 3
Feasts
Mazzaroth
Ephesus
Smyrna
Pergamos
Thyatira
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
Passover
First Fruit
Pentecost
Unleav Bread
Trumpets
Atonement
Tabernacles
Aries - Ram
Orion
---
Virgo
The Sower and 4 Soils
The Tares and the Wheat
The Mustard Seed
The Woman & the Leaven
The Treasure in the Field
The Pearl of Great Price
The Dragnet

21. The Mustard Seed Matt 13: 31-32
Mat 13:31 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field,
Mat 13:32 which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches."

22. Still Answering Sara’s Question…
Our Lord picks up where He left off in the parable of the Tares.
Context is of Fruit but also Tares in the Kingdom
This parable presents a different kind of seed.
The mustard tree is an unlikely symbol of the church or of individual Christians.
Ordinarily, fruit-bearing trees are used to depict believers.
Mustard is a condiment and has no food value.
It's not wheat germ, loaded with vitamins
Just good on hot dogs and hamburgers.
Mustard is not a food you can live on.
The mustard seed does not grow into a mighty oak like the little acorn does. It is a shrub which thrives best in desert lands.

23. Spreading the Mustard The mustard seed "is the least of all seeds."
This little seed, which should have become an herb, got to the fertilizer and became a tree large enough for birds to roost in.
This parable reveals…
Outward growth of Christendom as the parable of the leaven speaks of the internal condition of Christendom.
The church has not converted the world, but it has had a tremendous influence on the world.
This parable reveals the outward growth of the organized church.
Church and the world have become horribly mixed.
Real integration between man in the church and man in the world.
They live and act very much alike in our day.
The Christian should be salt in the world, not mustard!

24. Christendom today is a mustard tree filled with a lot of dirty birds!
I heard Preachers interpret the birds as being different denominations.
Baptist birds, Presbyterian birds, Methodist birds, and all other church groups as being birds.
Contradiction of our Lord's own interpretation of the birds in the first parable.
The birds in the parables of this discourse do not speak of anything good, but rather they represent evil.
The birds are the ones that took the seed which fell by the wayside.
Unclean
Our Lord said that they represent the enemy who is Satan.
Christendom today is a mustard tree filled with a lot of dirty birds!

25. Story in the Names of the Stars

26. Adam named the Animals… …God named the Stars and told a story in the names
Psa 147:4 He counts the number of the stars; He calls them all by name.

27. The Path

28. In imitation of the Throne of God

29. Taurus – Telling a Story in the Stars
TAURUS (E) Messiah coming to rule.
ORION. The Redeemer breaking forth as Light.
ERIDANUS. Wrath breaking forth as a flood.
AURIGA. Safety for His redeemed in the day of wrath.

30. Stars and the Story in their Names
The Hebrew word for bull or ox is “shur” which also means “to return” or “to come back”.
The brightest star is Aldebaran which means “the follower”.  
The second brightest is El Nath.
There are two distinct star groups in Taurus: the Hyades and the Pleiades.
Hyades means “congregated”
Pleiades comes from the  Hebrew for “gathering” and the Greek “Pleistos” or “Pleion” which means “The many”, “the excellent” or “the great”.
The Japanese name for the Pleiades is Subaru
Persian name is Soraya.
Ancient Greeks called Pleiades "the clusterers."
The Bible sometimes refers to the Pleiades as the "seven stars" and sometimes to "Pleiades."
Mentioned in Job 9:9, 38:31-32; Amos 5:8; Rev.1:16, 20.

31. More in the Names of Taurus
In Job it is the Pleiades
In Revelation, Christ is holding the seven stars in His hand, representing the seven churches.
Since the Hebrew word for the Pleiades comes from the root meaning "gathering," the meaning was inescapable for the early church.
Seven gatherings -- seven churches.
Christ used a star picture people knew and applied it to His Church.
Christ gave us the main part of the Bible story in this constellation.
However, remember that the word for "bull" is also the word for "return,"
Almost at the seasonal end of the Zodiac, the promise is there that Christ will return.

32. Church Age – The Time between Pentecost and Tribulation

33. The Seven Kingdom Parables
Matthew 13
Rev. 2 & 3
Ephesus
Smyrna
Pergamos
Thyatira
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
The Sower and 4 Soils
The Tares and the Wheat
The Mustard Seed
The Woman & the Leaven
The Treasure in the Field
The Pearl of Great Price
The Dragnet

34. To and Fro…
Daniel 12:4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.”

35. Industrial Revolution 4.0

36. Curve of Lethality from Gen to Rev

37. Read Gen 6: 1 - 9

38. Jesus’ Strange Warning
But as the Days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be Matthew 24:37
What does that mean?
As a Christ Follower, Historian, and Geek, I ponder,
‘What are the Pivot Points?’

39. Thinking the Problem of Matt 24:37
The Days of Noah
Presumptions of modern scholars
A 2,000 year long stone age from Adam to Noah
Barely dropped off the trees
Nomadic Existence
Dinosaurs?
Ships?
Metallurgy?
Music?
Gen 4: 21 – 22 His brother's name was Jubal. He was the father of all those who play the harp and flute. And as for Zillah, she also bore Tubal-Cain, an instructor of every craftsman in bronze and iron. And the sister of Tubal-Cain was Naamah.
I Enoch 8: 1 And Azazel taught men to make swords and knives and shields and breastplates and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them and bracelets and ornaments and the use of antimony
I Enoch 8: 2 Semjaza taught enchantments and root cuttings, Armaros the resolving of enchantments, Kokabel the constellations, Ezeqeel the knowledge of the clouds…And as men perished they cried, and their cry went up to heaven.

40. The Real Possibility
Barry Setterfield’s Chronology – Adam to Noah 2256 years
Generation – 80 years? Psalm 90
Average Age – Perhaps 912 Years
What if Einstein lived 900 years?
What if doctors, scientists and mathematicians lived 900 years?
Oxygen and Water Canopy produced longer, healthier productive lives?
1 Enoch – Michael commanded to bind fallen Angels 70 Generations
5,600 Years
Equals possible release in late 19th ~ Early 20th Century???

41. Genesis 6
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. Genesis 6:1, 2
Notice that this all ONE sentence…

42. “Sons of God” Bene HaElohim = angels (MacArthur’s Study notes)
Old Testament: Job 1:6, 2:1, 38:7
New Testament: Luke 20:36
Book of I Enoch
READ Septuagint (LXX)
I Enoch 15: 2-4 Go, say to the watchers of heaven who have sent you to intercede for them, “You should intercede for men, and not men for you. …You left the high, holy, and eternal heaven, and lain with women and defiled yourselves with the daughters of men and taken to yourselves wives, and done like the children of earth, and begotten giants as your sons.

43. A Fearsome, knee knocking possibility
Is it possible that the days of Noah can only be understood in the modern contexts of; - Exponential production - Exponential population - Exponential lethality?
A Fearsome, knee knocking possibility

44. Finding an Explanation in Prophetic Profiles
Group A
Promises
Post-Scripted
The Apostolic Church 30 AD - 100
Ephesus
Smyrna
The Persecuted Church 100 AD – 313 AD
Pergamos
The Married Church 313 AD – 590 AD
Thyatira
Group B
Promises are in the
body of the Letter
The Medieval Church 590 AD – 1517 AD
The Great Tribulation
Sardis
Denominational Church 1517 AD – 1790 AD
Ind Rev 1.0 Begins
Philadelphia
Ind Rev 2.0 Begins
Missionary Church 1730 AD – 1900 AD
Ind Rev 3.0 Begins
Laodicea
Apostate Church 1900 AD -
Ind Rev 4.0 Begins
Curve of Lethality goes exponential
Explicit References To His Second Coming

45. Industrial Rev 4.0 in the Seven Kingdom Parables
Matthew 13
Rev. 2 & 3
The Treasure in the Field
The Pearl of Great Price
The Dragnet
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
Denominational Church 1517 AD – 1790 AD
Missionary Church 1730 AD – 1900 AD
Apostate Church 1900 AD -

46. Industrial Rev 4.0 in the Seven Kingdom Parables
Ind Rev 1.0 Begins
Gunpowder Wpns
6 months vs a Generation
Sardis
Philadelphia
Laodicea
Denominational Church 1517 AD – 1790 AD
Ind Rev 2.0 Begins
Ben Franklin
Electrical Subsystems
Machineguns / Tanks
Plutonium Cores
Missionary Church 1730 AD – 1900 AD
Apostate Church 1900 AD -
Ind Rev 3.0 Begins
Netcentric Warfare
Pers Computers
GPS
Ind Rev 4.0 Begins
Data
3D Printing
Human Genome
Curve of Lethality goes exponential

47. What comes with the Velocity of Information?
Enlightenment
Problem solving
Expanded Horizons
Failed Expectations
Balkanization of communities
Pathologies at the speed of light
Failure to anchor to Framework of Faith…
Falling Away
Apostasy
Critical Theology
Insincere Worship
Insincere Justice

48. Walking the Word Ind Rev 4.0 Exponential Organizations
Curve of Lethality
Population Growth
Last three Churches of Asia…
Ezekiel 38 – 39 – The ultimate war leading to or perhaps starting the Tribulation…
In Context of the book of Revelation, 1/3rd of the world population dies

49. Pentecost

50. Seven Festivals of the Messiah
Tactical Dive
You shall count seven weeks for yourself; you shall begin to count seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain. Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God with a tribute of a freewill offering of your hand, which you shall give just as the Lord your God blesses you. Deuteronomy 16: 9-10.
NOTE: This laydown of Pentecost comes from Eddie Chumney’s
Seven Festivals of the Messiah

51. Process
The period called "the omer" begins the day following the Sabbath during Passover (Pesach) and continues until Shavuot (Pentecost). The Torah commanded that seven weeks be counted from the time of the offering of the omer , as it says:
You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete [temimot] sabbaths. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering.... On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations (Leviticus 23:15-17,21
Because of this ritual of counting, the period between Passover (Pesach) and Pentecost (Shavuot ) came to be known as the omer .
In fact, Shavuot does not have a fixed calendar date in the Bible, but falls on the day after the completion of the omer count
That is, the fiftieth day after the omer offering is brought.

52. A sharp controversy existed between the rabbis and a variety of Jewish sects over the interpretation of the words "the day after the sabbath" in the verse commanding the counting of the omer .
According to the rabbis, the sabbath refers not to the weekly sabbath, but rather to the first festival day of the Passover (Pesach).
[This is Nisan 15, the first day of Unleavened Bread, which (G-d designated to be a high Sabbath (shabbaton).
Because of this, the counting of the omer traditionally begins from Nisan 15.]
Various groups, beginning with the first century Sadducees and continuing with the Karaites of the early Middle Ages, interpreted the word sabbath to mean the weekly sabbath during the Passover (Pesach) season.
The implication of this interpretation is that Shavuot (Pentecost), which falls on the day after the omer count of 49 days, would always occur on a Sunday.

53. A Little History
In the third month after the Jews left Egypt (Mitzrayim), they arrived in the desert and camped opposite Mount Sinai.
Moses (Moshe) told by G-d to gather the Israelites together
To receive the Torah (Exodus [Shemot ] 19:1-8 NAS).
The Israelites answered, "All that the Lord has spoken we will do!" In Hebrew, it is Na'aseh V'Nishmah, which means, "We agree to do even before we have listened."
Moses (Moshe) then gave the Jews two days to cleanse themselves.
Wash their clothes, and prepare to receive the Torah on the third day.
At the same time, Moses (Moshe) told them not to come too near Mount Sinai.
From early morning, dense clouds covered the peak of the mountain.
Thunder and lightning were frequently seen and heard.
The sound of the shofar (ram's horn) came very strong, and the top of
the mountain was enveloped in fire and smoke.
The Israelites at the foot of Mount Sinai stood in great awe (Exodus [Shemot ] 19:9-19).
Moses (Moshe) then went up alone on the mountain, and as he neared the top, a mighty voice announced the Ten Commandments (Exodus [Shemot ] 19:20-25; 20:1-21).

54. Historical Analysis
Pentecost (Shavuot ) traditionally has been seen in different ways.
One is to see it as the concluding piece of the Passover (Pesach) season.
The other is to see it as an independent festival.
Pentecost (Shavuot ) celebrates the revelation of God at Mount Sinai
Pentecost (Shavout ) would seem to be of a clearly independent nature.
It is counted as one of the three pilgrimage festivals (Deuteronomy 16:16).
Beginning with the Targum
The Aramaic translation of the Scriptures from the second century of the Christian Era or Common Era (C.E.), known more commonly as A.D.
Pentecost (Shavuot ) is referred to in the rabbinic tradition as Atzeret .
The word atzeret in Hebrew means "conclusion."
The word atzeret is used in the Bible with the festival Shemini Atzeret (Numbers
[Bamidbar ] 29:35)
Seems to mean "remain with Me [God] another day."
There is a sense, therefore, that atzeret is the final part or completion of a festival.

55. Bringing together Passover and Pentecost
Therefore, Shavuot (Pentecost) is seen as the conclusion to the Passover (Pesach) season.
One strong connection between Passover (Pesach) and Shavuot (Pentecost) is the counting of the omer serving as a chain that links the two festivals.

56. Application
Shavuot (Pentecost ) culminates with the counting of the omer for 50 days
Shavuot (Pentecost) is called the Atzeret or conclusion to Passover (Pesach).
Spiritually speaking believers in the Messiah Yeshua are…
On a journey out of Egypt
A type of the world's system and its evil ways) in the wilderness (of life)
Awaiting our time to meet God face to face
At Mount Sinai (spiritually), God will forever reveal Himself to us in a new and greater way.
For all believers in the Messiah Yeshua, the Torah that was given at Mount Sinai represents the Word of God
The entire Bible.
The believer in Yeshua spiritually experiences Shavuot (Pentecost) when the Holy Spirit of God (Ruach HaKodesh) reveals the Word of God to him in a deeper and more powerful way, and his understanding and desire for the Bible increases accordingly.

57. New Revelation
One theme of Shavuot (Pentecost) is a new revelation of God's will
(Leviticus [Vayikra] 23:15-16,21).
Two notable historical events happened on this day.
The giving of the Ten Commandments or the Torah.
The Hebrew word Torah, commonly translated as "law" in English, does not mean "law," but "instruction or teaching"
By understanding the meaning of the Hebrew word Torah, we can see that the Torah was never intended, nor should it ever be understood by non-Jewish people, to mean a code of do's and don'ts.
Rather, it should be seen as God's instruction and teaching to us so we can understand Him better.
Israel came to Mount Sinai on the third day of the third month (Exodus [Shemot ] 19:1).
The Lord visited the people three days later (Exodus [Shemot ] 19:10-17).
Therefore, the Torah was given by God in the third month of the biblical religious calendar
The month of Sivan, on the sixth day of this month.
This day is exactly 50 days from the crossing of the Red Sea.
Shavuot (Pentecost) is called the season of the giving of the Torah (Z'man Matan Toraseinu) in Hebrew

58. New Rev Continued
This is the literal day that God revealed Himself to the people of Israel as they stood at the base of Mount Sinai.
Second Notable point
The giving of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) by G-d.
Yeshua was resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits (Bikkurim)
Fifty days after the resurrection of Yeshua, the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) came to dwell in the hearts and lives of all the believers in Yeshua
Acts 1:8; 2:1-18; Luke 24:49; Joel 2:28-29; Exodus [Shemot ] 19:16; Isaiah [Yeshayahu] 44:3;
Deuteronomy [Devarim] 16:5-6,16; 2 Kings 21:4).

59. Into the Word Shavuot for the Jew Pentecost for the Christian
Fiftieth Day
Commandments of God written on Stone (Ex 24: 12)
Commandments of God Written on our Hearts (Jer 31: 33, Ps 40: 8, 2 Cor 3: 3, Heb 8: 10)
Written by the Finger of God (Ex 31: 18
Written by the Spirit of God (2 Cor 3: 3, Heb 8: 10)
3,000 Slain (Ex 32: 1-8; 26-28
3,000 Live (Acts 2: )
The letter of the Torah
Spirit of the Torah (Rom 2: 29 & 7: 6, 2 Cor 3: 6)
Mount Sinai
Mount Zion (Rom 11: 26, Heb 12: 22, 1 Peter 2: 6)

60. Katubah – Wedding Contract
One of the most beautiful images of Shavuot (Pentecost) is that of the marriage between God (the groom) and Israel (the bride).
In the biblical wedding service that G-d gave (Romans 9:4; Hebrews 9:1; 1 Chronicles 28:11-12), marriage consisted of two stages.
The first stage is betrothal, called erusin in Hebrew.
You enter this first stage of marriage as soon as a betrothal contract (a shitre erusin) is
made between the two parties.
The written contract is called a ketubah.
During betrothal, you are legally married, but do not physically dwell with your mate.
Betrothal is so legally binding that you cannot get out of it without a divorce, called a get in Hebrew.
In fact, by understanding the Hebrew language, we can see how betrothal is legally binding.
To God, Hebrew is the pure language (Zephaniah 3:9), and Hebrew will allow us to understand deeper spiritual truths in the Bible that would be more difficult to understand

61. Betrothal
The word for betrothal in Hebrew, erusin, comes from the Hebrew verb aras .
Aras is related to the Hebrew word asar
Means "to bind."
By this, we can see that the Hebrew language communicates to us that betrothal is legally binding.
Messianic Fulfillment .
In the New Testament (Brit Hadashah), we can see that Joseph (Yosef ) was betrothed to Mary (Miryam)
When the angel Gabriel announced to Mary (Miryam) that she would have a
Son named Yeshua (Jesus), by the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh) of God
who would be the Messiah (Luke 1:26-35).
When Joseph (Yosef ) discovered that his betrothed (espoused) wife Mary (Miryam) was
pregnant,
Decided to get a divorce (get ) until the angel of the Lord changed his mind by appearing to him in a dream (Matthew [Mattityahu] 1:18-20).

62. Mt Sinai
Betrothal is mentioned in the Torah in Exodus (Shemot ) 21:8; Leviticus (Vayikra) 19:20; Deuteronomy (Devarim) 20:7; 22:23.
The second stage of marriage is the fullness or consummation of the marriage.
This stage of marriage is called nesu'in.
In Exodus 19, God by the leading of Moses (Moshe) brought the children of Israel to Mount Sinai.
God betrothed Himself to Israel.
On Mount Sinai, God gave the Torah to Israel (Exodus 20:1-21).
God was making a betrothal contract, a ketubah, with Israel.
The ketubah (or written betrothal contract, which is understood to be the Torah) represents "The book of the covenant" (marriage is a covenant)
Moses (Moshe) wrote prior to the revelation at Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:4,7).
The Book of the Covenant spelled out mutual obligations of God and Israel
Just as the ketubah spelled out the obligations between husband and wife.
So, God made a marriage contract with Israel in Exodus (Shemot ) 19:3-7.
LGBT community proponents often attempt to justify their relationships Biblically… But they are messing with God’s Metaphor

63. Standing under the Mountain
In Exodus (Shemot ) 19:8, Israel accepts God's marriage proposal.
Israel answered in Exodus (Shemot ) 19:8, "All that the Lord hath spoken we will do" (Na'aseh V'Nishmah -- we agree to do even before we have listened).
In Exodus (Shemot ) 19:2, Israel camped before the Lord.
The word camp in Hebrew is chanah and in this case is singular, while Israel is plural.
We can see that at that time all Israel had become one.
This is also a necessary requirement for marriage (Genesis 2:24; Ephesians 5:31).
The biblical wedding ceremony that G-d gave requires that the marriage be consummated under a wedding canopy known as a chupah. In Exodus (Shemot ) 19:17, Moses (Moshe) brought forth the people out of the camp to meet G-d and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
The word nether in Hebrew actually implies that the people stood underneath the mountain.
This imagery gives the understanding that the mountain had become a chupah
Israel was standing underneath the mountain or under the chupah, the place where the wedding takes place.
Every wedding will have two witnesses.
They are called the friends of the bridegroom.
One is assigned to the groom and one is assigned to the bride.
In Exodus (Shemot ) 19:17, Moses (Moshe) is seen as one of the two witnesses whose job is to escort the bride to meet the groom under the chupah (Mount Sinai).
In order for the ketubah, the written contract between the husband and the wife, to be legal in consummating the marriage, it must be signed by the two witnesses

64. Ketubah We can see that Moses (Moshe) was one of the two witnesses
He had to sign the Ketubah (Torah) in order for the full marriage between G-d and Israel to be consummated.
However, when Moses (Moshe) returned from being with G-d on Mount Sinai, he did not sign the Ketubah (Torah).
Instead he broke the two tablets (ketubah), which were in his right hand (Exodus 32:19), thus not signing the ketubah which G-d had made with Israel.
Therefore, he did not allow Israel to enter into the full marriage.
Moses (Moshe) broke the two tablets (ketubah) when he saw that Israel was worshiping the golden calf and thus were being unfaithful in their marriage.

65. Reflection
What does the wedding mean in terms of the Messiah Yeshua, and what is the personal application (halacha) to us?
Messiah Yeshua is the groom and the believers in the Messiah are betrothed to Him.
When Yeshua came to the earth almost 2,000 years ago, He came so that whosoever would put their trust and confidence (emunah) in Him would be wedded to Him forever.
This would include both Jews and non-Jews (John 3:16).
Because Yeshua came as the suffering Messiah, Messiah ben Joseph, during His first coming
He ascended to Heaven to be with God the Father until He returns during His second coming to be the King Messiah, Messiah ben David.
Today, Yeshua does not physically dwell with those who trust in Him.
Therefore, believers in the Messiah Yeshua are currently spiritually betrothed to Him.
We will enter the full marriage and physically dwell with Him during the Messianic age known as the Millennium.
However, before we can physically dwell with the Messiah during the Messianic age on earth, the wedding ceremony when the believers in the Messiah Yeshua will be wedded to Him must take place.

66. That brings us to the Fall Feasts… And Messiah Returning for His Bride
Looking Ahead
In the biblical wedding service that God gave, after you are married, you have a honeymoon.
The honeymoon lasts a week and is known as the seven days of the chupah.
Seven days equals a week. In Hebrew, a week means a seven.
It can mean seven days or seven years (Daniel 9:24-27;Genesis 29:27).
In Joel 2:16, we see the marriage of the bride (the believers in Yeshua) and the bridegroom (Yeshua) where the bridegroom is going forth from the chamber and the bride out of her closet.
The word closet is the Hebrew word chupah, and the chupah here refers to Heaven.
After the honeymoon in heaven, Yeshua will be returning with His bride to attend the marriage supper (Revelation 19:7-14).
Then we will rule and reign with Him physically during the Messianic age known as the Millennium (Revelation 20:4).
That brings us to the Fall Feasts… And Messiah Returning for His Bride

67. Supplemental Close: Hardware vs. Software
Hardware does not determine behavior: software does.
Software has no mass.
The real YOU is software, not “hardware.” (Your hardware has mass; your software doesn’t)
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What has no mass, has no time: it is eternal…