Berean Bible Church

God’s Great Plan for Israel

The Feast-of Trumpets

Lesson VII

March 16, 2008

 

 

I  Leviticus 23:37- These are the Feasts of the Lord

 

They are all of God, ordained by God.

They are all part of the plan of God, none the plan of men

 

They are all set-forth in a specific order, arranged to foreshadow God’s eternal purposes.

Each feast points forward to something far greater.  The planned events are the most important events of history, because all have to do with the work of Christ.

 

The first four feasts, pointed forward to events now recorded as history in the New Testament.

When we now come to the last three feasts, we cannot find in the New Testament, any passage that states they have been fulfilled and have become history.

 

We have also concluded that as the first four feasts were fulfilled by the First Coming of Christ, so the last three feasts will be fulfilled by the Second Coming of Christ

 

II  Leviticus 23:23-25  October 1st-    the memorial of blowing of trumpets

     Leviticus 23:27        October 10th   the day of atonement

     Leviticus 23:34        October 15th   the feast of tabernacles

 

Here are three feasts, three pictures, three major prophecies regarding the Nation of Israel

 

The first  -    predicts  their being gathered together as  one Complete Nation

The second -their being saved as a Nation on one day

The third -    their enjoying the promised blessings in the millennium

 

III  Acts 1:3-11  When Jesus was about to ascend to Heaven, we see by their question   that the disciples knew He had not fulfilled all the promises made to Israel in the Old Testament Scriptures

Matthew 23:37-39     what Jesus had said, was not understood.

2 Corinthians 3:13-15 The Jews’minds were blinded and the veil is on their hearts

 

IV  Numbers 10:1-3, 7   In Israel trumpets were blown, calling the people to assemble.

 

The blowing of the Trumpet feast when fulfilled, will put God’s program for Israel into action, and it will assemble the Nation.

What we have been seeing for the past sixty years is only a shadow of what is yet to come

 

Matthew 24:27-31  Certainly a Second Advent passage of Scripture.  When Jesus came the First time He came primarily, as the Son of God. The next time, He shall come primarily, as the Son of Man.

“Tribes” in the passage have to do with the “Tribes of Israel” not the “tribes of the Gentiles”

 

“Elect” ?  When Jesus made this prediction, the Church had not yet been formed.  He was addressing the Jews, and they would understand that he was talking about the elect of their Nation.  Gentiles have a problem accepting this because,( to quote Van Dickson) “we have been living so long in the tents of Shem we think we own the tents”

 

V  We list some of the many prophecies of this re- gathering in the Old Testament

 

            Jeremiah 16:14-15  there will be a second exodus

            Jeremiah 31:10   scattered – gather - keep

            Jeremiah 33:7   build them as at the first

   

           Ezekiel 11:16-17  I will assemble you…and give you the land of Israel

          Ezekiel  37: 21      gathered them and bring them into their own land

          Ezekiel 39: 27-28  gathered them and left none

 

            Amos 9:14-15  I will bring again

            Micah 7:15     like the Exodus

            Acts 15:13-15  to this agree the words of the prophets

Acts 15:16-18 

The Prophets agree.  There will be a future, final re - gathering of the Tribes of Israel.  It will be the same Nation that was brought out of Egypt. And as we read from Ezekiel there will be Jews on earth only in the Land of Israel.