{"id":2292,"date":"2013-02-03T18:51:31","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T02:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2013-02-03T18:51:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T02:51:31","slug":"why-study-and-celebrate-the-biblical-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/03\/why-study-and-celebrate-the-biblical-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Study and Celebrate the Biblical Feasts?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you had to sum up the entire message of the Bible in one word what would it be?<\/strong> Probably words such as\u00a0love, hope, salvation, eternal life or heaven are coming to your mind. But I challenge you to find a better\u00a0word than the following: r-e-c-o-n-c-i-l-i-a-t-i-o-n. The dictionary defines reconciliation<\/i> as \u201cto restore to friendship or harmony, to settle or resolve a quarrel, to make consistent or congruous.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

When the first humans chose to listen to the lies of the serpent and to rebel against YHVH and to give in to sin at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil at the very beginning, our first parents chose the path of separation from their Heavenly Father. Sin causes man to be separated from our totally holy, righteous, sinless and loving Creator.<\/p>\n

Since that time YHVH has been endeavoring to reconcile man to himself. He has laid out the criteria for this to occur\u2014for man to once again have a loving and intimate relationship with his Heavenly Father as did Adam and Eve before they sinned.<\/p>\n

\"Sukkah<\/a><\/p>\n

The seven biblical feasts of YHVH prophetically represent the steps man must take to be reconciled to his Heavenly Father.<\/strong> They are the complete plan of salvation or redemption rolled up into an easy-to-understand seven step plan. Though a child can understand these steps, the truths contained therein<\/p>\n

can, at the same time, be expanded and unfolded until one literally has rolled out before oneself the entire message of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation\u2014a message which to the human comprehension is staggering, deep and rich beyond understanding. The\u00a0 biblical feasts are literally the skeletal structure upon which the truths of the entire Bible hang. The message of redemption, sanctification, salvation, the atonement, glorification, end-times eschatology, the history of Israel, the entire gospel message, the covenants, the marriage of the Lamb of Elohim, the truth about the bride of Messiah, and Yeshua the Messiah are all prefigured within the glorious spiritual container of YHVH\u2019s feasts contained in seven steps. Seven is the biblical number of divine perfection and completion, thus revealing to us that his plan of salvation is complete in that it will bring man back into a eternal and spiritual relationship with Elohim.<\/p>\n

Quite assuredly, without a deep, walking-it-out comprehension of the YHVH\u2019s feasts, no matter how learned one may be in biblical knowledge, one will miss key elemental truths pertaining to YHVH\u2019s plan of salvation. For example, there is no way to correctly or fully understand end-time events such as the second coming of Yeshua, the great tribulation, the wrath of Elohim, and the resurrection of the righteous, the marriage of the Lamb, the Millennium, or the New Jerusalem unless one understands the feasts from a deep Hebraic perspective. Spiritual pride may not allow one to handle this fact, but it is the truth none the less! It\u2019s illogical to think that one can throw out the foundation of a building and expect it to stand, or to eliminate the skeleton from a human body and expect a person to stand upright. Similarly, the feasts are both the foundation and the skeletal framework upon which is built or hangs the whole corpus of biblical truth.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, at Mount Sinai, YHVH gave to his people Israel the Ten Commandments. These words from the mouth of Creator himself literally formed the foundation and cornerstone to the rest of the Torah\u2019s (the books of Moses) 613 commandments, which YHVH gave to man through Moses. The Jewish sages have understood this for thousands of years. From the Ten Commandments, all the rest of the commandments can be extrapolated. For example, the prohibition against adultery includes not only marital infidelity, but all manner of sexual sin, for the cornerstone of sexual holiness is a righteous and undefiled marital union. The same can be said of all the other commands. Similarly, from the Sabbath command spring forth all the biblical feasts, for they too are Sabbaths. From the fourth commandment also comes the land Sabbath, sabbatical and jubilee years. These Sabbaths were so vital in YHVH\u2019s eyes and so fundamental to his relationship with his people that he said that they would be a token of his wedding agreement with Israel, even as a ring is a symbol of a modern marriage covenant. About the Sabbath, we read the following in Exodus 31:13,\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my Sabbaths<\/b> ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am YHVH that doth sanctify you.\u00a0<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please note that the word Sabbaths<\/i> is in the plural. It refers not only to the weekly, seventh day Sabbath, but to all the Sabbaths of YHVH, including the biblical feasts. These days are so important that they would actually form the basis for his reconciliatory relationship with his people throughout their generations, which means FOREVER!<\/p>\n

Now with these preliminary statements made, we encourage you to read on to further explore the rich and deep truths pertaining to your spiritual destiny that are revealed through the biblical feasts. Please receive the blessing that YHVH offer man through them.<\/p>\n

Why Study and Celebrate the Biblical Feasts?<\/strong><\/p>\n