Hab 2:1 I shall stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart;
and I shall keep watch to see what He shall speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved.
Hab 2:2 Then Yahuwah answered me and said, Write the vision and inscribe it on tablets,
that the one who reads it may run.
Hab2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time (muaed); it hastens toward the goal and it shall not fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it; for it shall certainly come, it shall not delay.
Muaed: Appointed times : Mem (Blood) Uau (nail) Ayin (seen) Dalet (doorway)
Put together 'The blood from the nail seen in the doorway'
The above verses are in context of the judgment on the house of Yisharal, Habakuk was seeing the sin of Yisharal and the wicked increasing and he cries out to Yahuah. In reply to his cry Yahuah shows him what he is going to do in his day, Yahuah tells him that he will raise up the Chaldeans (Babylon) against Yisharal and hand Yisharal over to captivity under them. Habakuk then prophesies of the impending judgment of Babylon (v 12) and understands that this was the purpose of Alahym, to ordain them for judgment.
Hab 1:5 ¶ Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.
11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his el.
12 ¶ Art thou not from everlasting, O Yahuah my Alahym, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O Yahuah, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty Alahym, thou hast established them for correction.
Alahym tells Abraham of Yisharal's captivity in Egypt and tells him that the fourth generation will come into Canaan for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. We see a similar language used in the book of Habakuk as the vision unfolds to him and he understands that the Chaldeans coming against Yisharal was an 'ordaining of the Chaldeans for judgment' by Yahuah.
While Yisharal literally went into the captivity under Babylon, these passages are spiritual in nature and speak of the Mystery Babylonian captivity of the Yisharal of Alahym.
Ge 15:16 But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
Yahuah then tells him to write the vision and make it plain on the tablets so that the one who reads it would flee, for the vision is for an APPOINTED TIME. What is this appointed time? To understand these appointed times we need to look at few scriptures and compare spiritual vs spiritual.
Ps104:19 He made the moon for the appointed times (muaed); the sun knows its going down.
Lev 23:2 Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them, the appointed times (muaed) of Yahuah which you shall proclaim them as holy convocations; My appointed times (muaed), they are these:
In the Turah when Yahuah instructs Moshe on the appointed times (shabbath and the feasts) he lays out the instructions on how the feasts need to be kept and on which days would be the solemn rest. Based on these instructions Yisharal year by year observed the appointed times of Yahuah with the moon as a sign for these appointed times (lunar calendar).
Ge 1:14 ¶ And Alahym said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for appointed times (muaed), and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
16 And Alahym made two great lights; the greater light (sun) to rule the day, and the lesser light (moon) to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Alahym made the sun, moon and stars for the appointed times until the sun would turn black as a sackcloth, moon would turn into blood and the stars would fall from heaven and not give it's light.
Ac 2:20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of Yahuah come:
Now let's list the appointed times: The appointed times are in bold text. Before we see the Appointed times we shouldn't miss what Yahuah says, he says "MY APPOINTED TIMES" (verse 2 of Lev 23)
Lev 23:2 Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them, the appointed times of Yahuah which you shall proclaim them as holy convocations; My appointed times, they are these:
Lev 23:3 For six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there is a Shabbat of complete rest,
a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a Shabbat to Yahuah in all your dwellings.
Lev 23:4 These are the appointed times of Yahuah, holy convocations
which you shall proclaim them at their times appointed.
Lev 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
between the evenings is Passover of Yahuah
Lev 23:6 Then on the fifteenth day of this month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahuah for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.
Lev 23:7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Lev 23:8 But for seven days you shall present an fire offering to Yahuah.
On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.
Lev 23:9 Then Yahuah spoke to Moshe, saying,
Lev 23:10 Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them,
When you enter the land which I am giving to you and reap its harvest,
then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
Lev 23:11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahuah for your acceptance;
on the morrow after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it. (First fruits)
Lev 23:12 Now on the day when you wave the sheaf,
you shall offer a male lamb one year old without blemish for a burnt offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:13 Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil,
a fire offering to Yahuah for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine.
Lev 23:14 Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your Al,
you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth.
It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:15 You shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day
when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; they shall be seven complete Shabbats.
Lev 23:16 Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat, you shall count the fifty days;
then you shall present a new grain offering to Yahuah. (Shavuot (Pentecost))
Lev 23:17 You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering,
made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to Yahuah.
Lev 23:18 Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs without blemish,
and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Yahuah,
with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an fire offering of a soothing aroma to Yahuah.
Lev 23:19 You shall also offer one hairy goat for a sin offering
and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Lev 23:20 The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits for a wave offering
with two lambs before Yahuah; they shall be holy to Yahuah for the priest.
Lev 23:21 On this same day you shall make a proclamation.
It is a holy convocation to you. You shall do no laborious work at all.
It shall be a perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.
Lev 23:22 When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover,
you shall not completely reap the corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your harvest;
you shall leave them for the needy and for the alien. I am Yahuah your Al.
Lev 23:23 Again Yahuah spoke to Moshe, saying,
Lev 23:24 Speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying, In the seventh month on the first of the month
it shall be to you a rest with a memorial blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev 23:25 You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present a fire offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:26 Yahuah spoke to Moshe, saying
Lev 23:27 Also, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be
a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present a fire offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:28 You shall not do any work on this same day,
for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before Yahuah your Al.
Lev 23:29 For every soul who is not humbled on this same day,
he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30 And every soul who does any work on this same day,
that soul I shall destroy from among his people.
Lev 23:31 You shall do no work at all.
It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:32 It is a Shabbat of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls;
on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your Shabbat.
Lev 23:33 Again Yahuah spoke to Moshe, saying,
Lev 23:34 Speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying,
On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to Yahuah.
Lev 23:35 On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind.
Lev 23:36 For seven days you shall present a fire offering to Yahuah.On the eighth day there shall be a holy convocation for you,
and you shall present a fire offering to Yahuah; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work at all.
Lev 23:37 These are the appointed times of Yahuah which you shall proclaim them as holy convocations,
to present fire offerings to Yahuah -- burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings,
each day’s matter on its own day
Summary of Appointed times which Yahuah says "My Appointed times":
1) Shabbat 2) Pesach (Passover) 3) Unleavened bread 4) Firstfruits 5) Shavout (Pentecost) 6) Trumpets 7) Day of Atonement 8) Feast of Booths
Yisharal was to keep all the appointed times of Yahuah and in the place where he chooses three times a year all males would appear before Yahuah in the below mentioned three appointed times with the offerings.
Deut 16:16 Three times in a year all your males shall appear before Yahuah your Al in the place
which He chooses it, at the Feast of Unleavened Bread and at the Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost) and at the Feast of Tabernacles, and they shall not appear before Yahuah empty-handed.
These appointed times would be for a memorial for all generations.
Col 2:16 Let no one therefore judge you in dabar food, or drink, or in respect of a festival or Rashey Chadashim (new months) or Shabbats.
Col 2:17 which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of the Mashiyach.
Paul is not saying that “Let no one therefore judge you “ for NOT eating dabar food or observing appointed times of Yahuah or Shabbat which are a shadow of things to come but Paul is saying “ Let no one therefore judge you when you eat dabar food or observe appointed times of Yahuah or Shabbats which are a shadow of things to come”. The churches take the former interpretation whereas the latter is true because Paul goes on to say ” …but the body is of the Mashiyach”
'The body of Mashiyach' shows that these appointed times are for our SANCTIFICATION.
The timing of Yahuwah's appointed times:
1) Shabbat:
Mr 2:23 And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the Shabbat; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
24 And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the Shabbat that which is not lawful?
25 And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungered, he, and they that were with him?
26 How he went into the house of Alahym in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?
27 And he said unto them, The Shabbat was made for man, and not man for the shabbat:
28 Therefore the Son of man is Master also of the shabbat.
Yahusha defines the appointed time 'Shabbat' as designed by Alahym. The pressing in of the covenant of the house (Shabbat) was made for man, man was not made to press himself to enter into the covenant of the house. It was a work of Alahym not of man. Yahusha says he himself is the Master of the Shabbat. Before this no one understood this appointed time of Yahuah in the way Mashiyach defined it showed himself as the Master of Shabbat.
Shabbat: Shin (Press) Bet (house) Tau (Covenant): The pressing of the covenant of the house.
2) Passover and 3) Unleavened bread:
Yahusha our Pesach was crucified during the time of Pesach (Passover) & Unleavened bread
Lu 22:1 ¶ Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.
2 And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.
Mt 26:2 Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.
1Co 5:7 ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Mashiyach our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the appointed time, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
By the death of Mashiyach our Pesach our faith in him has made us a new lump which is unleavened and Paul says that we need to keep the appointed time of Pesach and Unleavened bread being mindful of the spiritual reality of what has been accomplished for us. We are told to keep the appointed time as a Memorial of the spiritual reality. We cannot sacrifice lambs and bake unleavened bread literally as Mashiyach has done that himself by the offering of his body once and for all. But we cannot deny that the appointed time has to be KEPT.
4) First fruits:
1Co 15:20 ¶ But now is Mashiyach risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
Jas 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
Lev 23:10 Speak to the sons of Yisrael and say to them,
When you enter the land which I am giving to you and reap its harvest,
then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.
Lev23:11 He shall wave the sheaf before Yahuah for your acceptance;
on the morrow after the Shabbat the priest shall wave it.
The wave offering of the sheaf of the firstfruits of the harvest was a reminder of the resurrection of Mashiyach and in him we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. The firstfruits of the harvest was Mashiyach.
5) Shavuot (Pentecost):
Lev 23:15 You shall count for yourselves from the morrow after the Shabbat, from the day
when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; they shall be seven complete Shabbats.
Lev 23:16 Until the morrow after the seventh Shabbat, you shall count the fifty days;
then you shall present a new grain offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:17 You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering,
made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to Yahuah.
Lev 23:18 Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs without blemish,
and one bull of the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Yahuah,
with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an fire offering of a soothing aroma to Yahuah.
Acts 2:1 When the day of Shavuot (Pentecost) was fully come, they were all together in one place.
On this appointed time the priest was to wave two loaves of bread as a wave offering along with the burnt offerings and grain and drink offerings. This bread was to be made of fine flour, two-tenths of an ephah baked with LEAVEN as firstfruits to Yahuah. This bread signifies those chosen for salvation and the leaven in the bread signifies our sinful nature. That's why along with it the priest had to offer sacrifices along with it. These sacrifices point out to their fulfillment by the offering of Yahusha of himself for our sins (to remove the leaven).
On the day of Shavuot there were Jews of dispersion as well as Jews who lived in Yerushalam who came to Yerushalam to observe this appointed time of Shavuot and on that day three thousand turned to Yahusha ha Mashiyach.
Acts 2:5 Now there were Jews living in Yerushalam, devout men from every nation under heaven.
Acts 2:8 And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?
Acts 2:9 Parthians and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, Judea
and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia,
Acts 2:10 Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the districts of Libya around Cyrene,
and visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,
Acts 2:11 Cretans and Arabians,
we do hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of Alahim.
Gen18:14 Is dabar too difficult for Yahuah? At the appointed time (muaed) I will return to you,
at this time of life (next year), and Sarah will have a son.
Ge 21:2 For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the appointed time (muaed) of which Alahimn had spoken to him.
The son of Sarah was the promised one and of all children of Abraham only the promised ones are accounted for the seed.
Ga 4:28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
Ex 29:44 I will consecrate the tent of appointment (muaed) and the altar;
I will consecrate Aharon and his sons to minister as priests to Me.
In the renewed covenant Mashiyach is our high priest and we are a royal priesthood and we are consecrated to minister at the tent of appointment and the altar.
The above feasts are called spring feasts.
Fall feasts: Appointed times of the end times. In this seventh month all these three appointed times fall in the same month. 1st day of the seventh month Rosh Hannah (Festival of Trumpets), 10th day of the seventh month Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement-a day to humble oneself) and 15th day of the seventh month the Feast of Booths (Tabernacles).
Lev 23:24 Speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying, In the seventh month on the first of the month
it shall be to you a rest with a memorial blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
In the seventh month would fall three appointed times 6) Rosh Hannah (feasts of Trumpets) 7) Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) and 8) Sukkot (feasts of Booths).
Lev 23:27 Also, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be
a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present a fire offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:32 It is a Shabbat of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls;
on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your Shabbat.
Lev 23:34 Speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying,
On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to Yahuah
6) Rosh Hannah:
During Rosh Hashanah a series of blasts are sounded at the beginning and ending of the celebration. According to the writings of the rabbis, the blowing of the shofar has many purposes and plays a symbolic role in the Jewish feasts.
First, it is a call to sacred assembly and used to bring people together for worship or special meetings.
The shofar was also used to summon people for battle. Different sounds were made for different occasions; one sound would warn the people that they were being attacked, while another sound would call them to meet with Yahuah.
1Co 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?
9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.
The distinction of the trumpets/shofar can be seen in the prophesying of the elect of mercy and judgments of Yahuah with the final trumpet being blown by Yahusha himself as he descends to gather his elect to be with him forever.
Re 8:6 And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
1Th 4:16 For the Master Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
and with the trumpet of Alahym, and the dead in the Mashiyach shall rise first.
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Mt 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Re 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of Alahym should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Rev 11:15 And the seventh angel sounded; and there were loud voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Master and of His Mashiyach;
and He shall reign forever and ever.
7) Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement):
Lev 23:27 Also, on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement; it shall be
a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble your souls and present a fire offering to Yahuah.
Lev 23:28 You shall not do any work on this same day,
for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before Yahuah your Al.
Lev 23:29 For every soul who is not humbled on this same day,
he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30 And every soul who does any work on this same day,
that soul I shall destroy from among his people.
Lev 23:31 You shall do no work at all.
It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:32 It is a Shabbat of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls;
on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your Shabbat.
Le 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for Yahuah, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which Yahuah's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before Yahuah, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
Le 16:15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Le 16:20 ¶ And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:
21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.
Le 16:34 And this shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Israel for all their sins once a year. And he did as Yahuah commanded Moshe.
Two goats- one goat Yahuah's and one a scape goat. The goat of Yahuah was to be offered by Aaron as a sin offering and it's blood to be sprinkled on the mercy seat behind the veil and the other he would lay hands on and confess the iniquities on the scape goat and leave it in the wilderness which would carry all the sins of Yisharal away from them into the wilderness. This was to be done once a year and was an everlasting ordinance.
In the Renewed Testament which is the time of reformation
Heb 9:7 But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
8 ¶ The Ruach Ha Qodesh (Holy Spirit) this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
11 But Mashiyach being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
14 How much more shall the blood of Mashiyach, who through the eternal Ruach (Spirit) offered himself without spot to Alahym, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living Alahaym?
15 ¶ And for this cause he is the mediator of the renewed testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
The offerings of the goats one as sin offering for the entire nation and the other a scape goat to be left in the wilderness would year by year continuously remind Yisharal of their sins and hence the conscience would always be under the guilt of breaking Yahuah's Turah but with the offering of Yahusha's body once and for all and by his death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first testament would make those called receive the promise of eternal inheritance.
Heb 9:23 ¶ It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
24 For Mashiyach is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of Alahym for us:
25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
26 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Yahuah carefully places this feast of Yom Kippur towards the end (in the SEVENTH MONTH) to show us as stated in Heb 9:26 ....'but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself'
Secondly also to show that 'ALL YISHARAL WILL BE SAVED'
Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery
lest you shall be wise in your own conceits; that a blindness in part is happened to Yisrael
until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
Rom 11:26 and so all Yisrael shall be saved; just as it is written,
The deliverer shall come from Zion, He shall remove unrighteousness from Yaaqob (Jacob).
The Yisharal that shall be saved is not the nation in the middle east but those whom Yahuwah will call both of the Yahudim (Jews) and the Goyim (Gentiles).
Ps 103:12 As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
The scape goat while the first tabernacle stood was unable to carry the guilt of Yisharal from their conscience but Mashiyach has taken away our sins as far as the east is from the west.
8) Feast of Booths (Tabernacles):
Lev 23:33 Again Yahuah spoke to Moshe, saying,
Lev 23:34 Speak to the sons of Yisrael, saying,
On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to Yahuah.
Lev 23:35 On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any kind.
Lev 23:36 For seven days you shall present a fire offering to Yahuah,On the eighth day there shall be a holy convocation for you,
and you shall present a fire offering to Yahuah; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work at all.
De 16:13 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
14 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
15 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Yahuah thy Alahym in the place which Yahuah shall choose: because Yahuah thy Alahym shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
Le 23:40 And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before Yahuah thy Alahym seven days.
Le 23:42 Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahuah thy Alahym.
The dwelling of children of Yisharal in booths was a continuous reminder to them that they were pilgrims and sojourners on this earth.
Ne 8:15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, and in Yerushalam, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, as it is written.
Isa 41:17 The afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none, and their tongue is parched
with thirst; I, Yahuah shall answer them, as the Al of Yisrael I shall not forsake them.
Isa 41:18 I shall open rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys;
I shall make the wilderness for a pool of water and the dry land springs of water.
Isa 41:19 I shall put the cedar in the wilderness, the acacia and the myrtle and the olive tree;
I shall place the juniper in the desert together with the box tree and the cypress,
Isa 41:20 that they may see and recognize, and consider and understand together,
that the hand of Yahuah has done this, and the Holy One of Yisrael has created it.
The afflicted and needy seeking water in the wilderness are the elect of Yahuah whose tongue is parched and Yahuah says that he will not forsake them but will open rivers and fountains and make wilderness a pool of water and dry land springs of water.He says he will also put in the cedar, acacia, myrtle, box tree, juniper and cypress (goodly trees of whose branches Yahuah asked to make booths to celebrate the Appointed time of Booths) and they that see and recognize (v 20 of YashaYahu 41) and will understand that the hand of Yahuah has done this.
The fall feasts fall during autumn in Yisharal (late Sept-October) ending with the Feast of Tabernacles where Yisharal has stock of the harvest during the winter. Yahuah placed these fall feasts in quick sucessions in such a way that they prophetically speak of the nearness of the coming of Yahusha.
A quick recap of the fall feasts:
1)The announcement of his coming i.e. the first blast-Feast of Trumptes : Mt 25:6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
ending with the 7th blast by which the mystery of Alahym will be finished
2) Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement): All Yisharal will be saved. This was also called the 'Fast' where the nation humbles themselves before Yahuah in afflicting themselves with self denial, waiting on Yahuah to take away all the rememberance of their sins away from them.
3) Feast of Booths: (Tabernacles): The harvest is stocked and great rejoicing before Yahuah living in Booths made of goodly branches which speak of our pilgrimage on earth.
Then comes the winter. When winter arrives then comes the tempest.
Mt 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the harvest, neither on the Shabbat:
Matth 24:20. ‘a’k hith’palalu shel’ tih’yeh m’nusath’kem bachoreph w’lo’ baShabbat.
Matt24:20 “But pray that your flight shall not be in the harvest, or on the Shabbat.”
Matt24:21 “For then there shall be a great tribulation, such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall.”
Yahusha warned to pray that his peoples flight (fleeing) be not in the harvest or on the Shabbat or else there would be a great tribulation such as has not occurred since the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be. Because Alahim’s children did not guard his commands this calamity of fleeing unfortunately has happened on the Shabbat and it’s been thousands of years since his people are living in the desolation of Rome.
This Shabbat is the eighth day Shabbath (a high day) of the Feast of Booths. Winter sets in during this time i.e. from the 7th month to the 12th month which is exactly 7 months.
Rev 9:5 And they were not permitted to kill them, but to torment for five months;
and their torment as the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
These are those occupied in carnal ordinances and not alive in the Ruach and hence are tormented for these 5 months by the locusts from the 'thahum' (Whole which is mistranslated as abyss)
Rev 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from heaven which had fallen to the earth;
and the key of the whole (thahum) expounding (baar - H 874) was given to him.
The mis-translation of these two words as 'bottomless pit' is evident. It should be correctly translated as 'whole expounding'
If you notice the Feast of Booths is the last of the fall feasts (appointed time) and the Shabbat the first of the appointed time. The 7th Shabbat was a shadow of the high Shabbat which accompanied in the muaedim (feasts) of Yahuah.
The high Shabbats:
1) 15th day of the first month-1st day of Unleavend bread and end of Passover (Lev 23:6-7)
2) High Shabbat at the end of Unleavened bread- Lev 23:8). The morrow of the Unleavened bread the 'First fruits' were brought and waived before Yahuah
3) Seven Shabbats were to be counted from the day when the 'firstfruits' were offered (Lev 23:15-16) and the morrow of the 49 days making it 50 they were to present a new grain offering to Yahuah. This same day was to be a high Shabbat (verse 21)
4) First day of the blowing of trumpets in the 7th month was a high Shabbat (Lev 23:24-25)
5) High Shabbat on Day of Atonement (Lev 23:27-28)
6) High Shabbat on first day of Feast of booths (Lev 23:35)
7) High Shabbat on the eighth day of Feast booths (Lev 23:36)
7 complete high Shabbats
When the fleeing would happen in the time of winter or Shabbat then there will be no rejoicing during the feast of Booths and no rest on the Shabbat. There will be lamentation and weeping.
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
The last of the fall feast shows the wheat and the tares separation in autumn i.e. around winter and we are in anticipation to be gathered into his barn and not found among the tares to be bound and cast into fire.
The first of the feast i.e. Shabbat shows the rest in Mashiyach and we are in anticipation not to be in the torment of evil angels loosed but wait for the redemption of our souls resting in him entering into the Day of Yahuah which is Passover
Rev 6:9 And when He broke the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of
those who had been slain because of the word of the Alahym,
and because of the testimony which they had maintained;
Rev 6:10 and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Master, holy and true,
shall You not judge and avenging our blood on those who dwell on the earth?
Rev 6:11 And there was given to every one of them a white robe; and it was said unto them
that they should rest yet for a little while, until the number of their fellow servants also
and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled
This is why Yahuah pours upon the house of Daud the spirit of grace and supplications and we will look on him (Yahusha) whom we have pierced and mourn for him and shall be in bitterness for him as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon (Har Megiddon i.e. Armageddon). We come to a realization that Yisharal asked for Ceasar (king of Rome) over Mashiyach (king of Yahudim (Jews)).
Joh 19:15 But they cried out, Away with him, away with him, crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
Spiritually Har Meggidon is a rebellion against Yahuah and his Son Yahusha in accepting doctrines from Rome over the teachings of the Turah.
The lamentation of Hadadrimmon was for the righteous king Josiah who did not listen to the voice of the prophet Jeremiah not to go out to war with Pharoah Neco of Egypt who was only asking passage through his land to actually war against Carchemish.
2Chr 35:20 After all this, when Josiah had prepared the Aleph Tau temple, Neco king of Egypt came up to fight against Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Josiah went out to engage him.
2Chr 35:21 But he sent messengers to him, saying, What have I to do with you, O King of Yahudah?
I'm not against you today but with the house of war and Alahym uttered to hurry, cease from me,from Alahym who is with me, so that He shall not destroy you.
2Chr 35:22 But Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and did not listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of Alahym, but came to fight on the plain of Megiddo.
2Chr 35:23 And the archers shot at King Josiah, and the king said to his servants, Take me away, for I am badly wounded.
2Chr 35:24 And his servants took him out of the chariot and carried him in the second chariot which he had, and brought him to Yerushalam where he died and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. And all Yahudah and Yerushalam mourned for Josiah.
2Chr 35:25 Then Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. And all the singers and the singstresses speak about Josiah in their lamentations to this day. And they made them as a statute in Yisrael; behold, they are written in the Lamentations.
Josiah was a righteous king walking in the ways of Yahuah and Josiah based his refusal on the verse (Lev 26:6) , “I will grant peace in the land . . . and no army will pass through your land.” If there will be peace in the land, then obviously no hostile armies will pass through it; so obviously Alahym is informing us that when we follow His commandments, even armies that are at peace with us will not pass through.
Josiah understood the verse correctly, but he was unaware of the fact that the population was not observing Alahim's commandments—despite his best efforts they were worshipping idols, and as such the nation was not worthy of the great blessing promised in the verse.
Josiah was killed in the battle and the people including Jeremiah made a great lamentation for him.
The lamentation of Jeremiah was brought to rememberance when king of Babylon came against Egypt because Egypt had killed a righteous man of Yahuah i.e. Josiah who served him with all his heart.
Jer 46:1 That which came as the word of Yahuah to YirmeYahu (Jeremiah) the prophet concerning the Gentiles.
Jer 46:2 To Egypt, concerning the army of Pharaoh Neco king of Egypt, which was by the Euphrates river at Carchemish, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Yahudah.
Jer 46:10 For this is the day of Yahuah Alahym of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for Yahuah Alahym of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou shalt not be cured.
Its no coincidence that this is all tied up to the river Euphrates where Yahukanon (John) saw Euphrates dry up to make way for the KINGS of the EAST and these kings of the east like king of Egypt are all the Gentile nations coming in with their pagan Greek-Roman culture into Yisharal to defile it.
For details you may refer to my study on the blog 'HarMegiddon (Armageddon)'
When we come to a realization that we were in rebellion against Mashiyach being captivated by the doctrines of Rome then we will lament his piercing just as Yahudah lamented for Josiah at Hadadrimmon.
Re 16:13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of Alahym Almighty.
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he (Shatan) gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
It is time that we watch and keep our garments lest we walk naked and people see our shame. Being in rebellion to the Turah of Yahuwah is being gathered against him in the valley of Har Meggidon.
Re 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of Alahym which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Alahym, and the faith of Yahusha.
Being found caught in the flight at Winter or Shabbat we are in mourning for the deliverance from the captivity who has changed Yahuah's times and laws so much as so that we are scattered in the nations in desolation where we are unable to keep the appointed times of Yahuah which he commanded us to keep.
2Ch 36:21 To fulfil the word of Yahuah by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Shabbats: for as long as she lay desolate she kept Shabbat, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
When Yisharal was in captivity in Babylon they were unable to keep the appointed times of Yahuah and were in desolation. In desolation they cried out to Yahuah for deliverance and this was accounted for their observation of Yahuah's appointed times. The rending of heart, weeping and mourning for deliverance is what Yahuah desired than the sacrifices of goats, sheep, bulls etc.
2Ch 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Being in the desolation we cry to Yahusha to come soon and end our captivity and take us to Yerushalam from above so that we may be before him and be comforted by him.
Re 21:4 And Alahym shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of Alahym, and the faith of Yahusha.
While we all go into the 'WINTER' we still have hope and that hope is given to us by the feast of Hanukkah.
Da 12:11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days.
12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
If we count 75 days from Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), that brings us to the Jewish holy days of Hanukkah (Chanuka). The word Hanukkah means, "dedication" and is mentioned in Scripture as the "feast of the dedication" in John 10:22
Hanukkah is also known as the "Feast of Lights". You may read my study on the blog 'Arriving at Daniel's 1335 days -Hanukkah-Feast of dedication'
How do we arrive at 1335 symbolic days? The testimony of Yahusha is the spirit of prophecy and hence 1260 is the witness/testimony of Messiah which comes from the Measuring line i.e. the Cross or Atonement.
Re 11:3 ¶ And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth
Re 19:10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Yahusha: worship Alahim: for the testimony of Yahusha is the spirit of prophecy.
The re-dedication of the temple on Hanukkah, explains how the 1335 days are arrived at (1260 + 75 = 1335) because this feast falls 75 days after Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). The Feast of Dedication(Hanukkah) commemorates the re-dedication of the Second Temple following the Maccabean Revolt. The nation of Israel was anticipating a Messiah who would overthrow at last the Roman rule and establish Israel again as an independent kingdom and that's why we find Messiah at the feast of dedication(Hanukkah) in Solomon's porch.
Daniel prophesied the setting in of the empire of Greece which was literally fulfilled in time resulting in Hanukkah.
Da 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
This blessedness is for all elect whose light will be Messiah forever.
Re 21:23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of Alahym did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
1260 is the testimony of Messiah held by all his elect (testimony of Yahusha is the spirit of prophecy).
1335 is the blessedness of the feast of Hanukkah observed with the Lamb as our light 1260 + 75 days from Day of Atonement (1335)
Lastly the Hanukkah Menorah the nine branch candle stick:
The festival is observed by the kindling of the lights of a unique candelabrum, the nine-branched Menorah or Hanukkah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night. This nine branch Menorah consists of seven branches with additional raised branches. The extra light is called a shamash (Hebrew: שמש, "attendant"/"Helper") and is given a distinct location, usually above or below the rest. The first candle stick needed a priest daily in the temple to ensure that there is oil in the LAMP but the new one has two golden pipes that empty the golden oil out of themselves and these are the two anointed ones before the Yahuah. The oil and the lamp is from Yahuah himself.
Zechariah saw the Hanukah Menorah in a vision. Here is the verse
Zec 4:2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:
3 And two olive branches(Hebrew word zayith which means olive) by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.
There were 2 olive branches one on the right side and one on the left so 7+2=9 branches in all. This is the new candle stick because the one which was of 7 was taken away due to apostasy. The candle sticks represent the elect.
Even in Greek the word 'trees' was added by the translators. It's absurd to have trees beside a candlestick because the vision is of the same candlestick which had the OLIVE OIL burning in it
Ex 27:20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
Ps 52:8 But I am like a green olive tree(again tree is added by translators) in the house of Alahim: I trust in the mercy of Alahim for ever and ever.
Zec 4:12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
These 2 Olives get their light and oil from the LAMB himself who is the LIGHT.
The first candle stick needed a priest daily in the temple to ensure that there is oil in the LAMP but the new one has two golden pipes that empty the golden oil out of themselves and these are the two anointed ones before the Yahuah (the comfort from understanding prophecy). The oil and the lamp is from the Yahuah himself.
Zec 4:14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Yahuwah of the whole earth.
Ex 27:20 ¶ And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
21 In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the YAHUAH: it shall be an ORDINANCE for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
The feast of Hanukkah though not mentioned in the Turah of Moshe as an appointed time in Leviticus 23 but is mentioned as an Ordinance of Yahuah in the WINTER time when all hope seems to be lost. The 7 branches of the Menorah (candle stick) get the GOLDEN OIL from the addition HELPER (the two additional Olive branches which empty out the oil itself) thus making it a 9 branch Menorah (Candle stick).
If we go by Exodus 27:20-21 when all of Yisharal were in captivity in Babylon it would be impossible to observe this ordinance literally because it was commanded that the Menorah be lit from evening to morning before Yahuah as an ordinance for all generations. While in captivity the sacrifices and ordinances ceased, the light still continues with the additional two olive brances bringing in the golden oil (comfort from prophecy) to Yisharal.
Now if we count the appointed times including Hanukkah we have 9 appointed times in all. Let's list them again to recap:
1) Shabbat 2) Pesach (Passover) 3) Unleavened bread 4) firstfruits 5) Shavout (Pentecost) 6) Trumpets 7) Day of Atonement 8) Feast of Booths & 9) Hanukkah
It makes a perfect 9 branch Menorah (Candle stick) which prophetically shows Mashiyach glorified in each of the appointed time and meets his elect in the appointed times.
Observance of the Appointed times in the Renewed Testament:
De 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Yahuah thy Alahym 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: and they shall not appear before Yahuah empty:
Many of these feasts (which are a shadow of Messiah) required one to keep Shabbat, and three of them even required one to go to Yerushalam (Jerusalem).
The appointed times that one needed to go up to Yerushalam were 1) Feast of Unleavened bread 2) Shavuot (Pentecost) and 3) Feast of Booths (Tabernacles)
Acts 18:20-21 “And when they asked him to stay a longer time with them, he declined, but took leave of them, saying, “I have to keep this coming festival in Yerushalam by all means, but I shall come back to you, Alahym desiring so. And he sailed from Ephesos.”
Scripture doesn't mention which appointed time out of the three Paul was keen to go up to Yerushalam to keep. But in either way it would absurd to think that Paul went up to the Jewish temple to offer waive offerings of loaves/sheafs (which were shadows) or to build a literal booth and dwell in it. The book of Hebrews was written by Paul and in it he speaks of shadows of the first tabernacle and the journey from shadow to light. But surely he went up with a purpose to visit his brethren and to preach Mashiyach as at other times to turn his kinsmen to Yahusha.
1 Corinthians 5:7-8 “Therefore cleanse out the old leaven, so that you are a new lump, as you are unleavened. For also Messiah our Passover was offered for us. So then let us observe the festival, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”
Acts 20:6 is a proof that Paul was not keen in keeping one of the three feasts as in Acts 18:20-21 which required a compulsion by a Jew to be in Yerushalam in the Jewish temple but to keep it with the brethren. Feast of Unleavened bread required a male Jew to compulsory be in Yerushalam but we see in Acts 20:6 Paul with his company were in Philippi and not at Yerushalam.
Acts 20:6 “And we sailed away from Philippi after the Days of Unleavened Bread, and came to them at Troas in five days, where we stayed seven days.
Acts 20:7 And on Shabbat, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight.
Ac 20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Yerushalam the day of Shavuot (Pentecost).
Again we see Paul was keen to go up to Yerushalam for the day of Shavuot. Wouldn't Paul as a Jew be keen to even go up to Yerushalam for all these three feasts which required a male Jew by compulsion to be there but not without a offering? In another instance for the same feast of Shavuot Paul tells the Corinthian assembly that he hopes to remain with them for sometime when he comes to them but until the feast of Shavout he intends to remain in Ephesus. Now Ephesus was not in Yerushalam.
1Cor16:7 For I do not wish to see you now just in passing; for I hope to remain with you for some time, if Yahuwah permits.
1Cor16:8 But I shall remain in Ephesus until the Feast of Shavuot (Pentecost)
But there is no shadow of doubt that he observed the feast spiritually as a fulfilled ordinance by our Savior Mashiyach just as Shabbat was observed Yerushalam of middle east and it's temple was no longer a compulsion for him or anyone believing in Mashiyach after the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom.
The Day of Atonement was known as the fast, as this was a day of denying oneself. (Please see Leviticus 23:32)
Acts 27:9 “And much time having passed, and the sailing now being dangerous, because the Fast was already over, Sha’ul advised them,”
The Fast (Day of Atonement) is used as a reference used for sailing being dangerous because the Day of Atonement is a fall feast falling in autumn when the weather is not suitable for sailing and anytime soon winter would set in where the weather turns tempestous. But there is no doubt Paul and his company observed the feast in it's fulfillment in Mashiyach in waiting for their redemption and denying self.
Jude1:12 These are spots in your feasts of love ( hebrew word: ahabah), when they feast with you, feeding themselves without
fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees harvested (atsey-choreph), without fruit,
twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
The Hebrew word 'Ahabah' comprises of 'Aleph Hay Bet Hay' and means 'Leader behold, house behold' and it is also closely associated with 'Ahba' which means 'Father'.
The Love of Abha is seen in the word 'Ahabah' and his appointed times are 'feasts of love' and not feasts of judgment.
1 John 2:15. ‘al t’ehabu ‘eth-ha`olam w’eth-dib’rey ha`olam ‘iysh
ki-ye’ehab ‘eth-ha`olam ‘eyn-bo ‘ahabah ha’Ahba.
1John 2:15 Do not love the world nor the things in the world.
If any one loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
We can only keep all these feasts perfectly in Mashiyach Yahusha who is the embodiment of the Ahba's ahabah (Father's love). Jude here speaks of those who are brethren (calling themselves Jews) are SPOTS IN THE FEASTS OF LOVE and have gone in the way of Cain, Balaam and Korah in rebellion feasting with you and feeding themselves without fear (no fear of Turah). These are trees harvested plucked up by the roots (divorced from Hebraic roots).
Isa 66:22 For just as the new heavens and the new earth which I make shall endure before Me,
declares Yahuwah, so your offspring and your name shall endure.
Isa66:23 And it shall be from One renewed moon (Chodesh) to another renewed moon (Chodesh) and from Shabbat to Shabbat,
All mankind shall come to bow down before Me, says Yahuwah.
We have all kinds of interpretations by those who call themselves Yahudim, some try to take us to a literal ceremonial Appointed times observation and some abolish the Turah instructions all togther. The former do not see the spiritual fulfillment and the requirements for a feast observance which requires every male Jew to be at Yerushalam for the three feasts but not without an offering and other appointed times required blood sacrifices, the latter do not see a need at all to observe because they see it as abolished and have taken up pagan feasts of Rome as Lent, Easter, Christmas, New Year etc. A true Yahudim (Jew) is the one who would observe every appointed time of Yahuah spiritually fulfilled in Yahusha rending his/heart before him for all the abominations of Rome he carried all along his life. A true Jew would see himself in the desolations of Rome who has changed times and laws in captivating people of Alahym to work even on Shabbat and high days being scattered all across the globe.
Lastly speaking of Sun, moon and stars:
In Genesis 1:14-19 the sun, moon and stars were placed in the heavens, in part, to keep Ahba's Feasts. They are there to show us how to account for days, months and years. This is the foundation of our Heavenly Father's calendar. An analysis of the text in English and Hebrew reveals how the moon is directly related to Ahba's "appointed times."
But then we read in Joel 2:31 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood
before the great and awesome day of Yahuwah comes
Joel 2:32 And it shall be, that all who shall call on the name of Yahuwah shall be delivered;
for on Mount Zion and in Yerushalam there shall be those who escape, as Yahuwah has said,
even among the survivors whom Yahuwah calls.
The great and awesome day of Yahuwah is coming soon which will be an eternal Shabbat to us but a day of wrath and judgment to the Lawless.
Yahuchanaan reveals the voice of the Shopar which he heard being in the Ruach on Yahuwah's day asking him to write in a scroll what he would see and send it to the seven assemblies.
Re 1:10 I was in the Ruach (Spirit) on Yahuwah's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a shopar (translated as trumpet),
Rev1:11 saying, “Write in a scroll what you see, and send it to the seven assemblies which are in Asia:
to Ephesus and to Smyrna and to Pergamum and to Thyatira
and to Sardis and to Philadelphia and to Laodicea.”
The day of Yahuwah is the appointed time-the Shabbat to his assembly forever in New Yerushalam and a day of Vengeance for the Turahless. Before this great day which will arrive shortly as the signs of the times are already showing it's coming the sun remains darkened, the moon has turned into blood and the stars have fallen from heaven. The sun, moon and stars are symbolic of those who call themselves Yahudim but are a synagogue of Shatan.
Whereas the true bride of Mashiyach is clothed with the sun (symbolic of righteousness of Mashiyach), the moon under her feet (his word a lamp to her feet) and on her head the crown of twelve stars (symbolic of 12 tribes)
Rev 12:1 And there appeared a great sign in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun,
and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars;
And she is ready to give birth to the man child i.e. the likeness of Mashiyach through her, travailing in birth pangs (weeping and rending her heart, longing for the one who was pierced).
Rev12:2 and she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
As watchman we need to be on our guard post for the vision is for an Appointed time (muaed) and it hastens toward the goal and it shall not fail.
Recap of the word Muaed: Appointed times : Mem (Blood) Uau (nail) Ayin (seen) Dalet (doorway)
Put together 'The blood from the nail seen in the doorway'
This is exactly what we read in Zechariah 12
Zec 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
By Muaed (Appointed times) of Yahuwah we see the one whom we have pierced. The blood from the nail seen in the doorway. Amazing isn't it?
Hab 2:1 I shall stand on my guard post and station myself on the rampart; and I shall keep watch to see what He shall speak to me, and how I may reply when I am reproved.
Hab 2:2 Then Yahuwah answered me and said, Write the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.
Hab2:3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time (muaed); it hastens toward the goal and it shall not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it shall certainly come, it shall not delay.
The vision written on tablets (Turah) is for the appointed time hastening towards the goal which is the eternal Shabbat and all the appointed times in Mahsiyach in New Yerushalam. Though it tarries, wait for it for it shall certainly come and shall not delay.
Da 12:12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
Conclusion:
We have already spiritually entered into the feast of Chanukkah as the elect of Yahusha are seeing the fulfillment of the appointed times (feasts) when they meet Yahusha in his Appointed times (Muaed : Blood from the nail seen in the doorway) while the so called Yahuians and the jesus followers are looking for a real full red blood moon in the sky without realizing that by not understanding these Appointed times the moon has become BLOOD to them as a plague just as Egypt waters were turned into blood where the fish in the river died and the rivers stank. The lunar calendar was changed by pagan Rome but Alahym still has his Appointed times intact as defined by the sacrifice of his Son Yahusha.
Psalms 104:19 'He made moon for the appointed times (muaed)... is spiriually fulfilled as indeed the moon has turned into blood for those not understanding his Appointed times. The Turah is spiritual but man is carnal sold to slavery of sin. Wake up Yisharal. See the fulfillment of the appointed times. The coming of Yahusha is imminent.
The addition of the feast of Chanukkah to the 8 feasts outlined in Lev 23 makes it 9 which is the 9 branch Menorah (Candle stick) which Zechariah saw and wrote down in Zec Chapter 4
