From the First month to the Seventh month This sequence of the first restoration culminated in Messiah. The sequence of this age is illustrated by the sequence of the First month. On the First day of the month the sanctification of the Temple of God occurs – which Temple we are (1Cor. 3:16; 6:19). The Seventh day of the month is the sanctification of the simple and the erroneous. This activity is required for the physical creation now and in the Millennium and is one of two distinctions between Nisan and Tishri, which otherwise mirror the same plan and actions. The Tenth day of the First month sees the setting aside of the lamb which commences the process of redemption and the capacity for the first-fruits to be offered to and accepted by God. The 14th day of the First month is the Feast of the Passover. All restorations in this age commence from and involve the First month leading up to the sacrifice and the partaking of the body and blood of Christ as the second sacrament of the elect. The first sacrament of the elect is baptism, which is the first phase of the sanctification of the Temple. Ideally, this takes place after the Feast seasons and up to and between the 1st and 7th of Nisan and prior to the 14th day of the First month. The Feast of the Passover and Unleavened Bread is comprised of a single day and a seven-day period. The First Holy Day of both months is the 15th day approximating the full moon. This sequence reflects the sacrifice and the preparation of the elect with the removal of sin and then the build-up to Pentecost and the Harvest of the elect during the forty Jubilees in the wilderness. There is a Holy Day at the beginning and end of Unleavened Bread, with the first day or Passover Day of 14 Nisan being a preparation day. Unless the elect are holy they are not permitted to eat of the unleavened bread of the Passover, which we saw with the Restoration (cf. Josiahs Restoration (No. 245)) where the priests of the High Places were not allowed to go to the Temple for the Passover. Thus idolatrous worship precludes the priesthood from the Passover at the Temple. The distinction between the First and the Seventh months is that the assembly of Trumpets, again on the New Moon or First day of the month, heralds the intervention of Messiah in the activities of the world. He intervenes because of the elect and their existence and persistence as God’s people. They are identified from their activities and duties, imposed and symbolised by the Sabbaths, New Moons, Festivals and activities from the First month up to and including the receipt of the Spirit at Pentecost, and the Feasts and Laws of God generally. There is no fast on the seventh day of the Seventh month. Nothing that man can do now is relevant. The Lamb has already been sacrificed and so the fast is on the Tenth day of the Seventh month where in the First month it had merely been set aside for sacrifice on the 14th day. In the Seventh month, the Lamb that had been set aside in Heaven returns as the conquering King, symbolised by Trumpets on the First day of the Seventh month. On the Tenth Day of Atonement the world is reconciled and prepared for the millennial reign. The nations are dealt with on an ongoing basis. Just as Josiah had restored the Temple and the Law from the Passover and continued on for some thirteen-odd years after 623/2 BCE until he went to Megiddo in 609 BCE to face the nations and died, so too will the kingdom pass from the hands of the kings into the hands of Messiah, whose right it is. The Feast of Ingathering must take place with the offerings on the first evening of the Feasts. The first day of Tabernacles is a Holy Day, so there is no activity required of human beings other than the ingathering offering, which must not remain until the morning. The seven days of Tabernacles are the millennial equivalent of the seven days of Unleavened Bread. In the first instance, Messiah died to enable the Passover Feast. The actions of humans are necessary to come out of the world. In the Seventh month the Feast represents the rule of Messiah on the planet where there is no requirement to come out of the world, as the whole world is under just rule and God’s Law. Thus the seventh or last day of Tabernacles is not a holy day, as it represents the return of the world to the Adversary and war.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 12:20:00 +0000
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