Category Archives: Feasts

The Feast of Tabernacles Begins Today — Chag Samaech!

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Sukkot

Have a joyous Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles and Shemini Atzeret/the Eighth Day 2014. My family and I will be celebrating these two biblical festivals for eight days in southern Oregon at our regional Sukkot NW 2014 gathering (see SukkotNW.org). Maybe next year you can join us!

In the mean time, here’s a link to my teaching article on Sukkot and Shemeni Atzeret to provide you with some spiritual edification to help you to both appreciate and celebrate these prophetic feasts. Enjoy and may Elohim bless you as you and your family love him by keeping his commandments not out of legalism, but with a true heart of love, faith and obedience desiring to draw closer to him in intimate relationship by walking out his paths of righteousness!

I invite you to go to http://hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/sukkot.pdf

Shalom aleichem!

 

 

Part 2 — Revelation, the Fall Feasts and the Second Coming

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This video correlates Matthew 24, the Book of Revelation and the fall biblical feasts as they relate to the seocnd coming of Yeshua the Messiah, the resurrection of the saints, the tribulation, great tribulation and wrath of Elohim in the end times.

 

Reflections on Yom Kippur 2014

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Some things to think about on Yom Kippur (with love from Natan) …

Jewish man engaged in morning prayers.

Yom haKippurim (literally, the Day of Atonements, plural) is not a one-time thing. The redeemed believer is covered by the blood of Yeshua at the time of their initial salvation, but needs additional covering every time they sin. We need this covering of blood on an individual and collective basis. This pattern was set in Leviticus 16 when on the Day of Atonement, the high priest made atonement for his sins, those of his family, of the nation and even the Tabernacle of Moses itself due to defilement cause by men’s sins. We’re all in this thing together. My sin affects you and vice versa. My sins are passed on down to successive generations, and unless I break the sin cycle through the means that YHVH has provided, this sin cycle will continue as it has from Adam to this day bringing corruption, ruination, division, strife and death to all men.

Atonement and At-One-Ment — Healing Broken Relationships

The English word atone means “to make amends or reparation of wrong or injury.” Atonement biblically means “to cover, purge, make an atonement (Heb. kaphar), make reconciliation, cover over with pitch.” As with many Hebrew words, kaphar means not only to cover over sin (by the blood of the Lamb), but it means “to reconcile and purge.” When we sin, we need the forgiveness of Yeshua and his blood to pay for or to cover over our sin debt. We also need to get purged of the inclination to sin in the first place. We also need to make amends with those we’ve injured in the process of sinning — to reconcile with them, to repair the damage, and to mend the breach in the relationship. When we sin, a breach occurs both on the vertical level (with Elohim) and  on the horizontal level (with our neighbor). Each of us is a broken, damaged and hurt person, and we have a hard time mending the damage we’ve caused to others, which is a painful process, but one which yields rich results in healing wounded relationships including the wounds and brokenness of our own heart. We must humble ourselves to do this. Pride and self protection prevents most us from repenting and asking forgiveness of Elohim and of others. To come into the presence of YHVH, we must take the step. Yom Kippur pictures our taking this step.

Some Bible teachers have taken the word atonement and have made a word Continue reading →

 

Happy Yom Kippur 2014!

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Tonight, Sunday Oct 5 begins the biblical holy day of Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) according to the ancient biblical visible new moon calendar. (For information on the biblical calendar as opposed to the traditional, non-biblical rabbinic Jewish calendar, see my articles on the subject at http://hoshanarabbah.org/teaching.html#feast.)

To learn more about this most important and solemn high holy day Sabbath, please see my teaching article on the subject at http://hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/yom_kippur.pdf.

I invite you to also watch my video teachings on the subject.

Yom Kippur from Genesis to Revelation

Yom Kippur and the Spiritual Benefits of Fasting

 

New Video: The Book of Revelation, the Fall Feasts and the Second Coming (pt 1)

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This video correlates Matthew 24, the Book of Revelation and the fall biblical feasts as they relate to the seocnd coming of Yeshua the Messiah, the resurrection of the saints, the tribulation, great tribulation and wrath of Elohim in the end times.

 

Time to get ready for Yom Kippur!

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Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) will be on Monday, Oct. 6) this year starting on the evening of Oct. 5 at sundown.

Start preparing yourself by reading my article on the meaning of Yom Kippur past, present and future at http://hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/yom_kippur.pdf.

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When Is the Rapture or the First Resurrection and Who Will Be In It?

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The Resurrection of the Dead — A Fundamental Doctrine of the Gospel
The concept of the resurrection of the dead is a fundamental biblical concept and one of the main doctrines underlying the gospel message as the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews states:

Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Messiah, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward Elohim, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. (Heb 6:1–2)

What Is the Rapture?

The concept of the rapture has bandied about in the church quite a lot in recent years. Many doctrines of men have risen up around this concept and captured the attention and hopes of many modern believers. Let’s explore the what the Bible has to say about the rapture.

The word rapture comes from the Latin word raptura, which is a translation of the biblical Greek word harpazo meaning “to seize, carry off by force, claim for one’s self eagerly.” The idea of the rapture is based on 1 Thessalonians 4:17 where the phrase caught up refers to the glorification of the saints at Yeshua’s second coming.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up [Gr. harpazo] clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

The rapture, catching away or resurrection refers to saints receiving their glorified bodies — being changed from mortal to immortal. Those saints who are alive when Yeshua returns will be caught up to meet him in the air, while the righteous dead saints will be resurrected from their graves also meet the Messiah in the air at the same time. According to the Bible, the rapture or catching away will occur. The question is when does it occur?

The two primary passages in the Testimony of Yeshua (or New Testament) that speak about the resurrection are 1 Corinthians 15:51–54 1 and Thessalonians 4:13–17.

Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. (1 Cor 15:51–54)
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yeshua will Elohim bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the YHVH, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Elohim: and the dead in Messiah shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (1 Thess 4:13–17)

The First Resurrection

The rapture is simply a euphemism for the resurrection of the dead. How many resurrections of the dead are there? Continue reading →