Posts Tagged ‘jerusalem’
FEAST OF TABERNACLES 2013 & ITS SIGNIFICANCE TO CHRISTIANS
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
The Glorious (and mandatory) Jewish and future Messianic Celebration of Tabernacles starts at sundown on Wednesday September 18! Glory to HaShem the Great and His Son, Yeshua! Blessings to our Jewish brothers as we celebrate the next week of the great Feast of the Tabernacles (Sukkot). Amein! (Tabernacles ends on September 25 at sundown, in the year 5774 from Creation, and the Jewish month of Tishrei).
Sukkot is the last of the big Fall Feasts, right after the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) – the Holiest Day in the Jewish Calendar. But what does this Harvest Feast have to do with the LORD Jesus Christ and the 1000 year reign, which is getting closer by the day? Well, glad you asked!
Instituted by the LORD in the Desert Exodus, Sukkot is based on the rememberance of the “Sukkah” or huts, tents etc…” which the Israelites lived in during their 40 Year Journey in the Wilderness. Later on, it became the Fall Harvest it is today. This celebration has eternal implications for every child of the Kingdom of the Soon Coming King!
It is a time to reflect on God’s blessings, God’s provision and God’s care for His people.
It is a time for the people of God to be charitable and share this goodness with others.
It is a time for renewed fellowship with the Father Abba, through the Son Adonai.
It is a time of rejoicing at the Master, coming to live among us, first in Spirit and then in Person.
This last one is the Gre
at Hope of the Millenial Kingdom!
at Hope of the Millenial Kingdom! First of all, this 1000 Kingdom Reign by Jesus from literally Jerusalem, will occur after the Rapture.
Read here: Revelation 20:1-10 about this. Then read here: Daniel 12, about the first resurrection of the Old Testament saints, who will reign with Jesus and us Christians, for these 1000 years.
Jerusalem will be a Kingdom of Priests who minister to all the Gentile nations, led by the High Priest of the Universe – Jesus! It is here we see the Feast of the Tabernacles re-introduced by Jesus Himself! Two major prophets have spoken of this coming Event! Whereas Tabernacles was once only for the Jews, ALL NATIONS will be expect to not just rejoice and celebrate with Jesus, but to come up to Jerusalem ANNUALLY, to worship the King – JESUS CHRIST, the LORD!
Here is the confirmation of Tabernacles in the 1000 year reign from Zechariah 14. Again, this will occur after all the Wrath of God is reigned down on antichrist, the United Nations and all the pagan kings of the world. We pick up at verse 16: And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain;they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
DO MOST CHRISTIANS “STINK AT EVANGELISM”?
Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
Controversial (and popular) preacher Mark Driscoll is in another, well controversy! While others (including me) have criticized him for his “potty” mouth in the past, he is one of us Reformed Theology guys and well sought after in speaking circles. So, it is created a stir when the following headline screamed forth from the Christian Post last week after Mark made a video (link here to story): Mark Driscoll: ‘Most Christians Stink at Evangelism’
So, “Is Mark Driscoll, the well known pastor/author/national conference speaker, correct? The answer is a resounding YES! The truth is Jesus gave us the Acts 1:8 challenge, just before He ascended into heaven and said: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth”.
Let’s look at what Jesus said for a second:
– “You shall have power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you”…the qualifier “when” specifically implies that ONLY when the Spirit of God confirms a person’s salvation by abiding in him/her, that the Power of God is placed inside EACH believer for the advancement of the Kingdom with “Dunamis” or dynamic power. This is the word from which we get “dynamite”!
– “You shall be My witnesses” ….the word for witness is the same word from which we get the English word Martyr! Witnesses in the original Greek is “martyres”. Jesus is not saying we are all going to be killed or imprisoned for our Faith in Christ, as our brothers and sisters are in islamic countries or China. What He is implying though, is we do have to die to ourselves and walk the Walk that He did, so others will want to follow Him.
– “…in Jerusalem, in all Judea….to the remotest part (or the ends) of the earth” This is the one Christians are having some big trouble with – so they ignore it! That’s it! The church and its pewsitters simply ignore theActs 1:8 challenge! Here the LORD, right before He goes back Home to Heaven, lays out the Evangelism Strategy for us before He returns for the Second and Last time.