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In the book of Matthew, Jesus was talking to them. He talked about the signs of the time. that there probably was something that they could have known. Remember the reason that the Magi came to where Jesus was being born is because they saw something in the east. Remember that? Because they saw His star in the east. Now what did they see? There must have been something that they saw whether it was in the heavens or she got said to have the you know chakana glory that appeared and they and they let them and so whatever it was, and wherever they saw it, there were signs that they saw, and they came to Jerusalem.

And so they used the scripture to determine that he was born in Bethlehem, Africa. So these things are in the scriptures and they do mean something. We may not always understand all the meaning because all we do is just, you know, look at our calendar, what’s the day today? It’s just Monday is just Tuesday, oh, I go to church today. And we don’t worry about none of the feast days. We’re not Jewish. We’re not raised in that. That’s a different way of thinking all together.

We’re not on this year, kind of agricultural calendar. They were, we’re not. He says, but of the times and the seasons, see there’s seasons and the times within those seasons, God says they’re there for a reason. But He says, He has said, I have no need that I write unto you for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so come into the thief in the night. But there is a time and a season for the day of the Lord.

But the day of the Lord is that period of time. We believe when the specific day, the Lord comes back to the earth, which will be, we believe on the day of tabernacles, when he comes back literally to the earth, which is following the time of the tribulation period, which is, I believe, the feast of atonement. And then you have the feast of trumpets, which will sound. So all of these things are significant. They got meanings to them. And the Lord spake unto Moses, say, and speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, concerning the feast of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feast.

And like we said last Sunday, these are not made up by some high It wasn’t made up by Moses. And Lord spoke to Moses and told him, these are my feast. And so these are shadows of things that are going to come. They were memorials looking forward to the day when that specific day will literally take place. And so if the first three happened just like he said, then Pentecost came 50 days later just like he said, Is it possible that the Second Coming of Christ to the Earth is going to be just like He said?

And remember, whenever that day is that He comes to the Earth, we’re supposed to be going out seven years earlier. So the same thing that happens on this date of the same time, same month, could be seven years before that, exactly. That’s where we would like to believe. But what does that do when you hear some of these things? What happens to the eminency of Christ? That bothers me also. In other words, Leviticus 23, 4 says, these are the feast of the Lord.

Even holy convocations, these are memorial times. They are religious, they’re sacred times, and they are a picture of something that’s going to happen down the road. Now, when he did the Passover, yes, they had the Passover when he came out of Egypt. But it’s also symbolic of a day in the future like when John the Baptist saw Christ and says behold the Lamb of God which taken away the sin of the world. And Jesus kept saying, my hour is not yet come, my hour is not yet come.

Then He said, my hour is come. And so Christ knew it. And He came and He was to be crucified. You also read in the book of John in chapter seven where it talks about in the day of the feast of tabernacles. It also talks about in chapter 13, believe it is the feast of Passover. So these feasts are mentioned when Christ was here and him attending and his disciples tried to convince them not to go to the feast of tabernacles.

And so he says, okay, he’s not gonna go. And he walked away, they went, and then the Bible says, but Jesus went, but he hid himself. So that they didn’t know that he was there. He was there. And reason didn’t want them to know, because they wanted to kill him. The Jews wanted to get him. But in the midst of that week of the Feast of Tabernacle, he reveals himself, and they get in a nice big old discussion. Remember the statement, he says, in that last day of the feast, Jesus stood in Christ and if any man thirst, then coming to me and drinking, the scripture have set out of his belly shuffle of rivers of living water.

This spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive but is yet the Holy Spirit had not yet been given and so Christ has not yet been glorified but that was on the last day of that feast the feast of tabernacles. So when Christ was here he kept those feast days. Now in Leviticus 23.5 is in the 14th day of the first month, even is the Lord’s Passover. So this was done and this is why, all those years later, when Christ came and he was born right on schedule and he was crucified right on schedule.

There wasn’t an accident. God had predetermined by the determinant counsel that Jesus would be crucified by wicked men in the Book of Acts in chapter 2. Now, Passover is always on the 14th of Nissim and always on a full moon. There are Gagorian calendar, 365 days. That’s solar and God’s calendar used the moon, 360 days. I don’t understand everything about the calendars. All I know is God has one and the world has another one and they don’t always agree.

Things get changed around. They’re not even sure what year this is. Or when Jesus Christ was really born, was it oh five, six, when was he born? I don’t really care. I just know he was born. I don’t even really care what day he died on, but that he did die and that he came back from the dead He’s coming back again and I’m just looking for him to come back. And so I look for him every day and if I knew that he was going to come back exactly on September the 20th of this year, would not change when I owe to how I’m living.

I still do exactly the same thing I’m already doing. Unless I’m doing something really wicked and wrong. But it should not change my life because I should already be doing all that I know to do and all that I can do for the Lord. You follow that, don’t you? You can understand that. All right. Feast of the Lord, the spring feast. They say repetition is theological mucilage. What does that mean? It means the more mud you throw into all, the more is going to stick.

So you repeat, repeat, repeat. And you never know what somebody’s going to remember or help. And sometimes whenever you cover different things, somebody will latch on to one thing and that’s where they’ll stay for the next half an hour while I’m moving on to other things. And your mind can also latch on to something. And you may not hear the rest of it. But as much as possible, just try to keep moving with me. So the spring feast, the first month, the Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of First Roots, and 50 days later, which sometimes was between May and June, then you had the, the Appenticost.

The fall feast. Feast of trumpets, the atonement, and the feast of tabernacle. Those three are in the fall. Now we believe that these first ones is the coming of Christ, the first coming. When Christ came into this world, and this is what He did when He left this world. And the fall feast, we believe that Christ is coming back. And we believe that there’s two phases of the second coming of Christ. One is he comes for the church and then he comes to the earth.

He comes for us in the air and we’re gathered together onto the Lord. So the blowing of the trumpets will be gathering us together. When it blows seven years later, well there’s going to be the battle of Armageddon. There’s gonna be a great war. Christ returns. And so God is then gonna send forth His angels and He gathers His elect, those that are of Israel, and they are gonna believe on Him when they see Him and the scars in His hands and so forth, and I believe that they will be saved as in a day.

So is there a good possibility that Christ came the first time right on schedule? Fulfill those feasts? Is it possible that He’s gonna come back the next time and fulfill these feasts? What do you think? Figure that for yourself. But this is why I believe Dr. Hank Lynch some love prophecy so much because he knew this stuff and he believed it just like I believe it because it’s the Bible. Now, you have the fall feast, you have the spring feast.

You have the ones and it starts with the Passover. So the next thing to happen, this happened right on schedule. Those all happen right on schedule. Is it possible that the trumpets is the next thing to happen? We don’t have anything else in here, except the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost, start the body, and we are to reach the world with the gospel. And that’s what purposed the body of Christ, at the church age. Well, if that’s true in there or not, I can’t prove that, only that after 2,000 years, there’s nothing in God’s time to be able to accept the church.

Because it hasn’t been working with the nation of Israel. They’ve been out of the land, but now they’re back in the land. I think God’s got something else on the schedule for us. Now, tishari is the first month, September. Of the civil year, and sometimes September, sometimes October, it goes in between those two, of the Jewish calendar, but the seventh month of the religious biblical year begins in Nisan, which is March or April. Ross Hushana, Feast of Trumpets, and you’ll hear that mentioned quite a bit because it’s the new year.

This is a favorite time of festival for the nation of Israel. They love this date. It’s the first day of their civil year. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, saying seventh month, first day of the month, shall you have a Sabbath? Now here’s the other problem. We don’t know for sure whether or not is every one of these feast days a Sabbath day. Some believe so. And if they are on a Sabbath day, a special Sabbath, or they’re the other regular seven day Sabbaths, and they don’t always end up on the same day.

So whenever Christ was crucified, I myself personally believe He was crucified on a Sabbath, which was Wednesday when He was crucified, but the next day would have been a Sabbath. And then you had another Sabbath on a Saturday, which was two Sabbaths in here. And Christ came up from the grave, I believe, on Saturday, maybe around right before six o’clock, because He was put into the grave right before that on that Wednesday. Because the Passover started, and they didn’t want them on the grave on that same day.

Now, some of this, I’d try my best to get it straight, but there’s a lot of things that goes in your mind, and you don’t always hit it exactly right. So you bear with me if I don’t hit everything, just right. I tried, but what I want you to see is there is a memorial, a blowing of trumpets. When is that gonna be the blowing of the trumpets? That’s gonna be on the seventh month. So what month is the seventh month?

September. And September, or October, you’re right in there, is but it’s on the seventh month of tissery, which means that there’s gonna be the blowing of trumpets. So this is why the moon and the sun right before this event is a great sign to many people. Now whether it is or not, I don’t know. But the Bible does talk about it, but it would be a bigger sign for when Christ comes to the earth and not the rapture. So that may not have anything to do with the rapture, but it could have a lot to do with the revelation of Christ.

I would recommend this. If you’re playing games with the Lord and you’re not serious and you’ve got things in your life that are not right, I’d get right. I would get right. It’s right as you know how to get. Seventh-month of tishery and the blowing of trumpets will be on the first day. On the biblical calendar, it must be on a new moon. That’s what I’ve heard and talked and read. But whether or not is that definitely the truth.

I can only go by what the Bible says and I try to study a little bit about what going on and what others say, but that doesn’t mean it’s in concrete that it’s absolute truth. Now, this just simply shows you that there is a civil calendar and a religious calendar, and you notice that tissery is the first, and that’s why it starts off the new year. But whenever you talk about the month, it’s the seventh month. Now, I have studied the book of Esther.

I’ve read it many times, and it’s a wonderful story. It’s a… it’s Queen Esther and how it all happened in a hazardous and Mordecai and Haman. Haman was a wicked man, but I love watching how that everything he did backfired on him. He was an agogite, or you could say he was an amalachite, and he wanted to annihilate the Jew. So the day is coming when the world wants to annihilate the Jew, what they have been through. But you know what they said, whenever Christ was going to be crucified, he said, let his blood be upon us and our children.

They got their wish, and it’s been terrible. But I don’t see as this is a prophetic event. It is a tradition, and it’s even mentioned in the book of Esther about the celebration of this day. And so they did so. See that’s also mentioned in Esther chapter 3 verse 7 in the first month that is the month of Neeson is the 12th year of King Ahasaras, and they went through and they did all this and they were to remember this day when God delivered Israel, the Jewish people.

Hanukkah, that’s something we often think about as Christmas time. Well, they’ve got something similar to that, but it’s called the Festival of Lights. In other words, the candle, they didn’t have enough oil, but it burned for eight days. They call it America, and it might have been. And so you can read and study about that even more but I don’t see that as a prophetic event, that’s a sign that something has to keep doing, and there’s a season out there that something’s gonna be fulfilled because of it.

I don’t know that. If it is, I’m just ignorant of that. The Feast of Trumpet, we call Rosh Hashanah the first day, the first month, it’d be the seventh month as far as our calendar goes, but that day is coming. And Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, sometimes called the Feast of Week, because it was seven weeks. 7, 7, it’s 49. The day after the Sabbath would make it 50 days. So that day is been fulfilled. That’s many of what we believe that we’re in right now the time of Pentecostal, the harvest, and we’re reaping souls.

But in September, we’ll show you this, but as you look at September, the whole month, the one that you will see is totally blacked out is the 20th. that’s the new moon. This is the new moon that is mentioned about it being the first day and that’s your Feast of Trumpets. So in your Feast of Trumpets, they’re supposed to be the blowing of the trumpets and all. There’s so much of this that I am not going to spend the rest of my life trying to nitpick it apart.

I’m just interested only from a prophetic view of is it possible that Jesus Christ could come back at this particular time because of these dates. Could it mean more than we want to say it means? I do not want to put my head in the sand and say you can’t know you can’t know you can’t know and when Jesus came the first time he says you wish not who it was thou knewest not the day of thy visitation. There were the day that God visited the earth and you should have known and you didn’t know and if the princes of this world had known they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

So how much could we know if we really studied the Bible and knew all of these things? But this is where you can see this just for August the 7th through August the 29th and you got the days up there and you’ll notice 7th, 7th, 7th. Now over here you got eight days because that’s what shows you. It gets off a little bit. So do we really know what time of the year, it really is, except by when the new moon is.

All of these are interesting things, and I believe there’s a lot more to it than what we probably know. Another person figured it out this way and says, this is the way it’s supposed to be, and I’ll just give it to you real quick. Six days shall thou work, and then you rest, but that’s the new moon. And so on the new moon, then you have the first day. Then you have seven and it’s on the 8th and the 15th, the 27th, because you can read and study in the Old Testament where it says that the feast day landed upon the 8th and it landed on the 15th.

And so it was like there was a day here that it didn’t start on that day and started on the next day and accounted and got to seven and then seven and so by the time you get through you’ve got exactly 30 days in here. But whatever it is because God has a calendar of 30 days and how He does it. Now, this was on November 2005. But to show you that we just looked at a calendar for this year, and it’s on the 20th.

But you’ll notice the new moon here is on the third. They’re not the same every year because our calendars keeps changing. And we don’t start on the same day, end up on the same day. And so you got a Jewish calendar running out there and you got the sun, the moon, solar calendar, and you got a lunar calendar, and never the Tuccia meet. And so people have never been able to figure out how to get a perfect calendar because it’s 365 plus a 25 of a day.

And then whenever the Jewish calendar is 354 days, but then it’s a part of a day. And then when you just go with a straight 30 days In a month, well after a while, it gets off. It’s enough to drive you nuts. But I’m not interested in spending the rest of my lifetime to figure out all the things. And the Lord spake in the Moses, say, and make thee two trumpets of silver, and of a whole piece, shout thou make them, that thou may have used them for the calling of the assembly.

And this is what God did. And this is why many believe that when Christ comes back and the air for his children, for the church will be changed in a moment, the twinkling of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air and the Bible talks about it. And I heard of a sound of voice, the sound of a trumpet speaking unto me, a voice trumpet speaking, what did they hear? And it’s also, it’s the sound of the Lord doing this, which is different from any man on the earth blowing a trumpet that can be heard locally.

This is gonna be a sound that’s going to be heard around the world. But will they hear it at the rapture? I do believe they’ll hear it at the revelation of Christ. The rapture, Christ is coming for us, and only us needs to hear it. I don’t know if everybody’s gonna hear the sound. And when he talks about the blowing of the trumpet, is it gonna be light they do when they blow the trumpet at these other feasts? And if it does, it blows 100 times.

And the last sound, the last trump, is as long as a person can hold on to that so far and blow it until they’re all out of breath. But there’s all these times that they had to do in the staccato and it talks about they did it 11 times. But anyway, it’s going to be interesting. I would love to be able to hear the trumpet and got time to think. Hey, this is neat. Can you hear that? Somebody says, I don’t hear anything.

And it sounds, I don’t have to worry about my ears. My hearing aids, I believe I’m going to hear everything perfectly, but I’m going to hear what God has. In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no survival. It is a day of blowing the trumpets under you. The seventh month is tishery, and the first day for blowing the trumpets. This is why people believe that when we hear some of those scriptures about the rapture and the trumpet, that is there a connection that the very next thing to happen is for the blowing of trumpets on a particular day.

But you see, it doesn’t have to depend upon man’s calendar because God knows what he’s going to do and when he’s going to do it. And if he wants to come early, I don’t care. These things you shall do unto the Lord in your set feast. And the set feast means it’s an appointed time. It’s determined. And every one of these feasts means something. And if the other four have been fulfilled, isn’t there good possibility the last three will be fulfilled just like he said.

I believe so. So once again we close down with this is what I believe is going to take place. We have those first three right on schedule, the next three, and we’re looking for the Lord to come back. The Feast of the Lord is a great thing to know, to read, to study, and maybe there is a good possibility we are living at some very exciting times anyway look up here. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin.

We all have sin upon us. The Bible says that God loves us. He loves us, but He hates our sin. And to pay for our sin is eternal separation from God in a literal fire burning hell. But God wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. We have all sin and come short of God’s perfection. God says we cannot save ourselves. This hand represents Jesus Christ.

He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into this world and all those feast days that they did was point down to the day that this would take place. All I has to do with this, so Jesus Christ took all the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, first fruits. Took our sins, paid one of them, pass over. And he came back from the dead and he says, the only thing he wanted you not to do is believe he did it for us.

When we believe this, we’re born in the God’s family. We have eternal life. We are part of the harvest. You see, the Colonel of Corn died and springs up and look how many people have trusted Christ as their savior over the years. So we trust Christ as our savior, we’re his children and we’re going to heaven when they’re ever dying. And the only thing we’re waiting for, Now we may go by the way of the grave, but I would love to be alive in the rapture tape place.

I mean, it’s only gonna happen one time. It’s just like Christ died at one time. The Holy Spirit came one day of painting called the best, a one time event. This rapture is a one time event. I don’t wanna miss it. I just think that if anybody ought to be in it, I ought to be one of them. And if I don’t make it, I’m probably gonna be upset. I want to be in that number. Let’s pray, shall we?

With his bow nice clothes, no one looking around. Or if you’re watching by internet, understand God loves you, and he loves you so much he paid for your sins. Came back from the dead, and the only thing he wanted you to do is because it’s the only thing you can do, is will you accept what he did for you? Would you believe that when he died, he died for you? And he came back from the dead and said, if you’ll believe he did that for you, he would put that payment to your account, and you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you.

If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, we did trust Him right now. I pray that you will. And on the screen, it says, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior. Let us know. Father, we thank You again for Your blessings and Father for the things that are making a lot of people around this world, stop and think as it really had a meaning. And I pray, Lord, that those who believe that it does will explain what it means.

Explain the gospel so people can have eternal life. and that it may draw a lot of people to you. And Father, whether or not you’re coming this fall, I don’t know, but I don’t mind it if you did. But Father, one of these days I know you will. And so we just look forward to all that you have for us. Help us to be found faithful. Bless each person here and those that are watching by internet, and I pray your blessings upon the radio broadcast, rants tomorrow night.

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