Yeshua declared that the true worshippers will worship Elohim in spirit and truth and that our Father in heaven is seeking such, and that we MUST worship him in this manner (John 4:23–24). Perhaps no biblical feast epitomizes the coming together of spirit and truth more than the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) or Pentecost. On the first Pentecost at Mount Sinai, YHVH revealed his Torah-truth; on the second Pentecost in Acts two, YHVH wrote his Torah-truth on people’s hearts by his Spirit, even as Jeremiah prophesied (Jer 31:31–33). YHVH’s Torah-truth plus the indwelling presence of his Holy Spirit that empowers disciples of Yeshua to walk out spirit and truth is the only way to the Father. This is a vital Bible truth that has been missed by the mainstream church and is now, once again, being revealed to those who have eyes to see and ears to hear as this video reveals in full panoramic detail that will revolutionize your spirit walk with YHVH Elohim.
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In Genesis chapter one when Elohim created the sun and moon, he called the former “the greater light” and the latter “the lesser light” (Gen 1:14–18). The former rules the day and the lesser rules the night.
Then Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons [Heb. moedim], and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth”; and it was so. Then Elohim made two great lights: the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. He made the stars also. Elohim set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.
When these verses are viewed from the drash or third level of biblical interpretation, we soon discover a surprising prophetic and allegorical revelation about the divinely intended role of Yeshua and the saints in the world.
Let us first understand the spiritual significances of the key figures in our Genesis chapter one passage. The sun in Genesis 1:16 symbolically and prophetically represents Yeshua the Messiah, who the Bible later reveals is the Light of the world (John 1:6–9; 8:12; 9:5) or the Sun of Righteousness (Mal 4:2). That is to say, spiritually speaking, he is Greater Light of Genesis 1:16 to show man the path of spiritual light in the darkness of this world. As the sun was created in the fourth day, so Yeshua the Messiah came into this world in the fourth millennia of man’s existence on earth.
The moon or lesser light (Gen 1:16), on the other hand, represents the saints, who are like the moon or the lesser light, and whose divine mission it is to reflect the light of the sun or the Greater Light of Yeshua the Messiah into the darkness of this world. In other words, Yeshua shines his spiritual light onto his disciples who then take that light and evangelize those people who are lost in spiritual darkness of this world with the message of the gospel. This is the great commission (Matt 28:18–20; Mark 16:15–18)!
Now let us go to the next level in this discussion. In Genesis 1:14 we find an oblique reference to the YHVH’s Leviticus 23 biblical feasts in the word “season,” which is the Hebrew word moedim meaning “appointed times.” This same word is used in Leviticus 23:2 where it is translated as “feasts.” According to the Bible, together the sun and moon interact to determine the biblical calendar. The sun determines the length of the year, while the moon determines months. This is the case with our modern calendar. The solar year is 365.25 days while months are approximately 30 days. Both of these calculations are based on the solar and lunar cycles. In the Bible, the biblical feasts are calculated based on the lunations of the moon. The greater light and lesser lights of Genesis 1:16 as astral timepieces determine the length of the year and month respectively, and this in turn determines the timing of YHVH’s biblical feasts.
Moreover, YHVH’s seven Leviticus 23 biblical holidays chronologically lay out YHVH’s seven step plan of salvation to show man the way to Yeshua who is the Greater Spiritual Light as represented by the sun. The feasts are like a gospel tract or sermon which outline the step-by-step gospel message of salvation. The saints have been tasked as the lesser light to reflect the message of salvation through Yeshua the Greater Light into the darkness of this world through their adherence to the biblical feasts. This is one reason why the moon—the lesser light—is so pivotal to YHVH’s calendar and feasts.
Currently, many false Torah and Hebrew roots teachers have recently risen up who are promoting so-called alternative, non-biblical calendars (e.g., the vernal equinox calendar, the rabbinic or Hillel II calendar, the Zadok/Enoch calendar and the like) that relegate the moon to irrelevance when determining the timing of YHVH’s biblical feasts. These false teachers have jumped the rails by ignoring biblical spiritual and prophetic patterns as they lead YHVH’s people, to their shame and ultimate judgment, down aberrant spiritual path. YHVH will hold them accountable for perverting his truth and leading his people astray!
For example, the traditional calendar currently used by the non-believing, rabbinic Jews, while claiming to be lunar based, is off; it is not in accordance with the moon though the Jews erroneously purport it to be. At the same time, these same rabbinic Jews are not bringing the gospel message of Yeshua to the world; rather, they are promoting the doctrines of men and men’s traditions. Error always begets more error. Their whole message is askew and fails to reflect the Greater Light of Yeshua the Messiah.
Similarly, while the mainstream church attempts to preach the gospel, without an understanding of the moon, YHVH’s feasts and his biblical calendar, the gospel message they preach is only a partial one and is also off spiritually. Therefore, they are not transmitting the full light of Yeshua into the darkness of this world.
It is time for both Jewish and Christian leaders along with their more Hebraic or Messianic and pro-Torah minded counterparts to return to the rails of biblical truth by observing why, how and when YHVH intended his feasts to be observed as outlined in Genesis chapter one, Leviticus chapter 23 and elsewhere from one end of the Bible to the other. May YHVH bless the Bible teachers who have not jumped the rails of biblical truth but are leading the saints down the right track. On the other hand, YHVH Elohim will judge those who are teaching doctrines of men by which his Word has been made of none effect!
Genesis 1:14–19 describes the creation of the sun and moon and identifies them as calendric timepieces relating to YHVH’s seven biblical feasts. But behind this is even a greater truth, which relates to Yeshua who is the Light of the world and his saints who are to reflect that light evangelistically into the dark world in which they have been placed. This video explains this amazing revelation of truth and how it relates to YOU!
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Humanity has a future and a hope (Jer 29:11) that supersedes the traditional teachings offered by the vast majority of mainstream Christian churches! This presentation by Mike Bacon, retired City Planner, Park Planner and Landscape Architect, will summarily describe God’s master plan of the three spiritual harvests of humanity. These three “harvests” are foreshadowed in the metaphors and ceremonial rituals of the Old Testament feast days–and in the teachings by Christ and Paul in the New Testament. Millions if not billions of people who have not had the opportunity or are blinded to accept Christ as Savior in this age prior to Christ’s second coming will have their opportunity prior to the Lake of Fire to accept salvation. Sound impossible? Discover and see why it is possible! It is, indeed, the good news of man’s future and hope! This message has been hidden in plain sight in the pages of your Bible all along, but the mainstream church has kept it back from its followers to keep them enslaved by fear often for the greedy, rapacious and pecuniary benefit of the few. It’s time to learn the whole truth of the Bible relating to good news of the subject of salvation!
Special Note: The inspiring song The Plans I Have for You by Marty and Misha Goetz was intended to be imbedded into the presentation, however, it was not done sir because of unknown YouTube advertisements that typically occur at the beginning of this wonderful song and over which we have no control. BUT…you can see and hear it by clicking on this link ( • The Plans I Have For You (Jeremiah 29… ) or the link in this video presentation!
Communion or the Lord’s Supper is a ritual that has been vital to all Christian churches since the beginning, yet there is a proper biblical way to observe it of which many Christians are unaware. Plus, many people take communion in an unworthy and irreverent manner and as a result are bringing the divine judgment of sickness and even premature death upon themselves as Paul the apostle warned us about. We discuss this important issues in the teaching.
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Obedient and truth-seeking disciples of Yeshua will want to love him by keeping his commandments (John 14:12), and by teaching and doing everything he commanded (Matt 28:20). They will be following Paul’s example to imitate Yeshua the Messiah (1 Cor 11:1) as well heeding John’s admonition “to walk just as [Yeshua] walked” (1 John 2:6). This applies to the important biblical ritual of communion as well. How can we celebrate communion just as Yeshua did it? How closely is your typical mainstream Christian church following Yeshua’s commandments when it conducts a communion or the Lord’s supper? We shall discover the answer below.
With regard to obeying YHVH’s commands, symbols and memorializations figure prominently in YHVH Elohim’s spiritual economy. Why is this? They are teaching aids. Physical humans need physical things to help them to comprehend spiritual truths and ideals. Using symbols, commemorations and memorializations is a method of teaching and relates to pedagogy, which is “the method and practice of teaching, especially as an academic subject or theoretical concept.” A effective teacher endeavors to build bridges of understanding between what the student knows and what the teacher wants to teach the student— between the known and the unknown, between what the student understands now and what the teacher wants his students to learn. A successful teacher learns the skill of building bridges of understanding with his students to bring them to a higher level of understanding. The same is true of YHVH Elohim as we works with humans to teach them about spiritual things.
On a spiritual level, YHVH Elohim, our Heavenly Teacher, employes similar pedagogic or teaching techniques as he endeavors to bring men to a higher level of understanding heaven’s spiritual truths and realities. The use of symbols and memorials as teaching tools is essential to this process of teaching and learning.
The Bible is full of symbols and memorials that represent or point to something else and act as teaching aids to assist humans in learning about Elohim and what he requires of us. For example, the very name of the Creator, YHVH (Yehovah), is a memorial, symbol or remembrance (Heb. zeker from zakar) of who Elohim really is (Exod 3:15). His name is a way for humans to connect with him. The same is true of each of our names. Our name is a label, a pointer, a symbol of who we are, but it’s not really us. Similarly, eating unleavened bread during the Feast of Unleavened Bread is a memorial (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of coming out of Egypt and putting sin out of one’s life (Exod 13:9). The twelve stones on the high priest’s breastplate were memorials (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of the twelve tribes of Israel (Exod 28:12). The grain offering that was made on the altar of sacrifice in the Tabernacle of Moses was a memorial (Heb. azkarah from zakar) or remembrance that prophetically pointed to Yeshua the Messiah’s death on the cross and the fact that he is the bread of life (Lev 2:2). Blowing shofars on the Day of Trumpets is a memorial (Heb. zikrown from zakar) of many things past, present and prophetically including the second coming of Yeshua and the firstfruits resurrection (Lev 23:24). In fact, the whole Tabernacle of Moses, the Levitical priesthood, the sacrificial system, the Sabbath and biblical feasts is a complex system of memorials, remembrances and symbols to point humanity to the higher, upward spiritual path, which eventually brings him to Yeshua the Messiah. This is so abundantly clear in the Bible. Why don’t more people see this? Why do so many Christians and their leaders have such an apathy, even antipathy for these things? It’s mind boggling, especially in view of the fact that these teaching aid memorial and symbols were ordained of Elohim himself!
The overarching purpose and meaning of the Hebrew word zakar and its derivatives is something that “gets men to think about something, to meditate upon something, to pay attention to something, to remember something, to mention something, to declare or proclaim something or to commemorate something” (see The TWOT on the meaning of zakar).
Why do people need to remember something or to stop and think about something? Simply this. In the busyness of life, people forget a lot of things that they should remember, meditate on, ponder, be thankful for and learn from. The fact that people tend to forget important things is the whole reason we have national holidays, statues, gravestones, war medals, a national flag and anthem, birthdays and anniversaries, photo albums and other manmade traditions. These are culturally important to humans and add meaning and depth to life. They help us to stay connected to past, significant events. They aid us in remembering where we have come from and who we are. None of us just spontaneously combusted, or appeared out of nowhere as if some cosmic hand just dropped each of us down onto this planet non-contextually and without a past history. Biblically, the same can be said of a Torah scroll, the Bible itself, the Sabbath, the biblical feasts, the cross as a symbol of something, the ritual of baptism and Passover, which had embedded in its observance the Lord’s supper (1 Cor 11:20), communion (1 Cor 10:16) or the Lord’s table (1 Cor 10:21). All of these remembrances or memorials are designed to cause us to pause and stop and to reflect on something that is beyond us (in the past or future) or above us. The memorialization of past events should cause us to better appreciate those who have gone before us—our past history—and be thankful for our present blessings. Such reflections can help us not to repeat the mistakes of past generations and at the same time learn from their wisdom. Simultaneously, things that memorialize future events (like the Sabbath and the biblical feasts) should encourage us onward and upward in our spiritual journey. They strengthen our faith and give us hope for tomorrow. Symbolic rituals like baptism and communion can help us to connect to present realities that relate to our upward spiritual walk and our relationship to Yeshua the Messiah—our Master and Savior.
What Does Communion Memorialize?
So what does the Christian ritual or sacrament of communion called “the Lord’s supper” memorialize? To its credit, the mainstream Christian church understands the basic meaning of communion quite well. But let’s review this basic understanding, while, at the same time, adding some Hebraic or whole Bible background information. This will hopefully help us to appreciate more fully this glorious sacrament, which, sadly, due to its frequent occurrence in many churches, can become banal ritual that is easily taken for granted.
Many of us are busily preparing our hearts and homes to celebrate the Passover which is immediately followed by the Feast of Unleavened Bread the next day. For those of us on the visible new moon/abib barley calendar, this year Passover occurs on Tuesday, April 23 and the first high holy day Sabbath of the Feast of Unleavened falls on Wednesday, April 24 with the seventh day of this feast, another Sabbath, occurring on Tuesday, April 30.
Over the years, I have prepared many teaching resources to help people to understand the importance or YHVH’s biblical feasts and along with their historical significance, their relevance to his people today as it relates to the gospel message and our walk with Yeshua along with any of their prophetic implications.
To help you to celebrate these current feasts with meaning and purpose, here is a list of links to some of these free resources.
