FEAST OF TRUMPETS AND Yahuwah spake...saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial [not a shadow] of blowing of trumpets, a Kadosh CONVOCATION. Ye shall do no servile work therein (Lev. 23:23-25). Here is pictured to us that fourth blessed event in Yahuwah’s redemptive plan, that will begin the announcement of the return of Mashyach, in clouds with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Yahuwah (I Thes. 4:14-17). It shall be at the last trump for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead (first fruits) shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall [all] be changed (I Cor. 15:52). Unless Mashyach returns to resurrect the dead, we would never gain eternal life- if there is no resurrection then also those which are fallen asleep in Mashyach have perished (I Cor. 15:18). Amanuwal directly intervenes in world affairs at the seventh or the last trump (Rev. 11:15-19). A trumpet is a symbol of war. He comes in a time of worldwide war when the nations are angry! As soon as the work of gathering in the First fruits (pictured by Pentecost) is completed at the end of this present age, then Amanuwal will begin to set up again the tabernacle of David (Acts 15:16) -- to set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people (Isa. 11:11) -- to search out and to find His lost sheep that the ministers of the assemblies have failed to search out and save during this period (Ezek. 34:1-14). Notice exactly when this takes place! And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they [Israel] shall come which were ready to perish...and shall worship Yahuwah in the kadosh mount at Jerusalem (Isa. 27:13). When will Spiritual Israel be regathered? At the sound of the trump - at the Second Coming of Mashyach. Because the assemblies have forgotten the Festival of Trumpets, many think that the return of a part of the Jews to the Kadosh Land and the setting up of a nation called Israel now is the fulfillment of this prophecy! Mashyach’s direct intervention in world affairs will be the next event in the plan of redemption. And the glorious Second Coming shall occur, in whatever year it may be.. Had not those 120 disciples been observing the annual Sabbath of Pentecost - had they not been assembled there in kadosh convocation - could they have received that blessing of the indwelling presence of the Ruwach Ha’Kadosh? Repeatedly Amanuwal warned us to watch, regarding His Second Coming! Could it be possible that, unless we are observing the Feast of Trumpets, as the first-century Assembly of Yahuwah was observing Pentecost, that we shall not be ready, or caught up to meet Him? We do not- we cannot, of course say; but we do ask the question. Is it not possible? Let us humbly and willingly yield to walk obediently in all the light. The Festival of Trumpets is a day of rejoicing and as the weekly Sabbath, kadosh unto Yahuwah (Neh. 8:2, 9-12). SPECIAL DISCUSSION Colossians 2:16 Colossians 2:16 was written as a warning to the Gentile Believers at Colosse to protect them from false teachers - teachers who were subtly perverting the message Sha’ul taught. Notice what Sha’ul wrote: Let no MAN therefore judge you in meat or in drink [margin - for eating or drinking], or in respect [any part or portion connected with the observance] of a Kadosh day or of the new moon or of the sabbath days (Col. 2:16). The original Greek in verse 16 for meat or in drink- en broosei and en posei- means in eating and drinking. There is no mention of the abolition of Yahuwah’s Law or His kadosh days. Nothing is done away in these verses. In fact, it is just the opposite. The very criticism the Colossians were receiving about their observance of these days proves they WERE keeping them. How could they be criticized with regard to days they were not keeping? The once-pagan Colossians never kept these kadosh days of Yahuwah before! They were heathen prior to conversion. Now that they had learned the Good News, they were keeping kadosh the days Yahuwah made kadosh. And Sha’ul is warning them not to return to or be influenced by their old pagan ways - the ways of those who hated Yahuwah’s Law and His festivals. Let no man therefore judge you... (verse 16) in these matters, said Sha’ul, but [rather] the body of Mashyach (Col. 2:17, last part). This verse has troubled many. Yet it should not. Notice that the word is in the King James Version is in italics. It does not appear in the original. The original Greek says only, ...but, the body of Mashyach. What is the body of Mashyach? How does Sha’ul use this expression in Colossians? Turn to chapter one. In verse 18 we find that Mashyach is the head of the body, THE Assembly. See also Colossians 2:19. The true Assembly of Yahuwah is the body of Mashyach. Just as the Ruwach of Yahuwah once dwelled in the earthly body of Amanuwal Mashyach so now Ruwach Ha’Kadosh dwells in each member of the Assembly and together the members constitute one body, doing the very work Mashyach did. The Assembly is therefore Mashyach’s body today! And Mashyach is the Head as the husband is the head of the wife (Eph. 5:23). Sha’ul is declaring in Colossians that no unauthorized person is to sit in judgment of a true believer’s conduct. Man does not determine how we should live. But it is the responsibility of the Assembly - the body of Mashyach - to determine these matters! The Assembly is to teach how to observe the festivals (according to scripture) - to explain the meaning of self-control in eating and drinking, etc. So these little-understood verses ought to be translated clearly: Let no man therefore judge you...but [rather let] the body of Mashyach [determine it]. Let Mashyach’s Body judge these assembly matters. Greek scholars recognize the last clause but [rather] the body of Mashyach demands that a verb be added, but have often not seen that the missing verb should be supplied from the most logical and grammatically parallel clause so as to read properly Let the body of Mashyach judge [these matters]! Shaluwm
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:00:26 +0000
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