Cont., page 10
Let us now
consider the precise count of these seven complete sabbaths leading to
Pentecost as they transpired following Yahshua’s crucifixion and
resurrection.
We have noted
that the Jews’ seventh-day sabbath during Unleavened Bread was the second
chief sabbath when Yahshua resurrected from the grave. The following day, Sunday, would have
been First Fruits where they had the wave sheaf offering. It is from that day onward that the
Jews began the count to Pentecost.
In Leviticus 23:15-16 we read:
You
shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day
when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven
complete sabbaths. You shall count
fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then you shall present a new
grain offering to Yahweh.
In the
following calendar, you will see the accounting of these seven complete
sabbaths, as well as the fulfillment of the fiftieth day of Pentecost. Also laid out here is Yahshua’s
Passover crucifixion, the Jews’ Passover, the day the spices were bought,
and Yahshua’s resurrection on the second chief sabbath.
Having said
this though about the count to Pentecost, we should note that the Pharisees
believed that the wave sheaf offering was the day after the Jews’
Passover, or always on the 16th. Whereas on the other hand, the Sadducees believed that the
wave sheaf offering was after the seventh-day chief sabbath. Therefore, what you see below are both
options. The number at the bottom
left in parenthesis in each box is the count to Pentecost for the
Sadducees. The number at the
bottom right in parenthesis in each box is the count to Pentecost for the
Pharisees. For both of these, the
mark of a complete sabbath is indicated by the parenthetical number in bold.
The end
result is that under the standard of the Sadducees, Pentecost was always on a
Sunday. This is also, of course,
the position of Christianity. On
the other hand, for the Pharisees, Pentecost was never day-specific; but since
the feasts were not tied to specific days of the week, including Passover,
neither was Pentecost.
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But even so,
obviously there could be only one day on which Pentecost actually occurred in
33 A.D., and prophetically, most likely it was the Sadducees Pentecost
Sunday. Why would this be the
case? Because of the feast’s
testimony in relation to Christianity and their Sunday Sabbath.
While
Passover was an unleavened barley-harvest feast, Pentecost was a leavened
wheat-harvest feast. At Pentecost,
the priest was to take two loaves of leavened bread and wave them before
Yahweh. These two loaves clearly
represented Christianity. Like
these two loaves, Christianity is a leavened work, the same leaven that Yahshua
said would leaven the three measures of meal – “The kingdom of
heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of flour until
it was all leavened” (Matthew 13:33).
Christianity
was supposed to have received three loaves of leavened bread, three measures of
meal, but their days have to be cut short to two, or to 2,000 years. This is revealed in many ways, but one
of the clearest testimonies is regarding Saul. Of course Saul and Christianity are like darkness-first
works. And it is not without
significance that a Saul/Paul began this work in Antioch, a city founded by the
family of Antiochus, who brought about the three-year abomination of desolation
of the temple. In like testimony,
if Yahweh did not cut this Saul/Paul Antioch work short, Christianity would
indeed be 3,000 years of the abomination of the desolation of the kingdom of
heaven. But as attested by King
Saul, this will not take place.
We read in 1
Samuel 12:17 that Saul became king at Pentecost, the wheat harvest –
“Is it not the wheat harvest today?” We also read in 1 Samuel 10:3-4 that Samuel told Saul that
one of the signs that he would become king was that a man carrying three loaves
of bread (undoubtedly leavened wheat bread) would give him two loaves,
“which you will accept from their hand.” What could be a clearer testimony of Saul/Paul Christianity,
which was supposed to receive three loaves, 3,000 years, of leavened wheat
bread, but will be given two Pentecost loaves, or 2,000 years.
Therefore,
attesting to Christianity, the priest waved two loaves of leavened Pentecost
wheat bread before Yahweh. But
could that bread ascend to Him as a burnt offering? Not at all. It
was leavened, and nothing with leaven could be offered to Yahweh as a burnt
offering (Leviticus 2:11).
Likewise, can any of the 2,000 years of leavened Christianity ascend to
Yahweh in the first resurrection?
Not at all. It is a work
that remains in the hands of the priest and never ascends. As it is written in Zechariah 13:8,
they are the “two parts” (once again, of three) that have been cut
off from the kingdom here on earth and died.
Thus, it was
entirely fitting for Pentecost to fall on Christianity’s Sunday sabbath,
for they are a leavened work. Samuel
likewise told Saul –
“Then
the Spirit of Yahweh will come upon you mightily, and you shall prophesy with
them and be changed into another man” (1 Samuel 10:6). This is precisely what took place on the
day of Pentecost, once again attesting to the premature Saul work of
Christianity that was conceived in darkness. And they would remain in darkness for 2,000 years, just as
Yahshua in His crescent-moon work forewarned – “night is coming
when no one can work.”
So when will
Christians ascend alive? Not for
another 3,000 years. Those who are
in the grave are legally obligated to being there for another 1,000 years,
fulfilling the required three days and three nights for the body of Christ to
be in the grave. And let us note
here that if Christianity had received all three loaves of their leavened
bread, all three measures of their leavened meal, then their sabbath would
indeed have been precisely what they identify to be their sabbath – the
eighth day.
So what then
happens to Christianity after the Millennial reign? Let us see what Yahweh prophesies.
First, let us
once again consider the days of Yahshua’s crucifixion:
By virtue of
the Pharisees, First Fruits, with the wave sheaf offering, was also held to be
on the day after the Jews’ Passover on the sixteenth. Again, the complexity, yet the wonder,
of prophecy! Yahshua’s
resurrection occurred the following day on the Jews’ sabbath. But let us now see what is testified
regarding Passover and First Fruits upon entering into the promised land of the
Millennial reign.
The sons of
Israel’s crossing of the Jordan into the promised land following forty
years of wilderness wanderings, was a remarkably clear testimony and
foreshadowing of the church entering into the Millennial reign following forty
Jubilee waiting periods of wilderness wanderings. Let us then see what was testified regarding Passover and
First Fruits.
First, the
sons of Israel crossed the Jordan on the tenth of the month, the day the
Passover lamb was selected, the day Yahshua made His triumphal entry into
Jerusalem. If you stack the
seventh month on the first month, this is also the day of Atonement, as well as
Jubilee. Then they were
circumcised, which was a requirement for eating Passover (Exodus 12:48). It can therefore be concluded that they
would not have celebrated Passover in the wilderness, probably after the one
mentioned in the first year after they entered into the wilderness (Leviticus
9:1-5). Another Passover is never
mentioned until this one in the promised land, where in Joshua 5:10-12 we read
concerning it:
While
the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening
of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho. On the day after the Passover, on that
very day, they ate some of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and
parched grain. The manna ceased on the day after they
had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel no longer
had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that
year.
On the
fourteenth they observed Passover, on the fifteenth they ate the first fruits
of the promised land, and on the sixteenth the manna ceased. Therefore, laying this out in the same
format as the crucifixion during the same days of Passover, we see the following:
First, what
day is Wednesday in the Millennial Calendar? It is the sabbath, which speaks of the Millennial sabbath
rest. So first, let us add the
color for the sabbath once again so you can see this.
Now, again we
ask the question: How did Yahweh
legally get First Fruits moved up one day so that it is now directly following
the sabbath rest of Passover? What
do you recall from the first two graphs where we looked at the eight days, or
8,000 years, of time? Yahweh has
to stack the eighth day, which is actually the first day of the new week, on
the seventh day, the sabbath.
Therefore, what would this mean if the same is to be effected in the
following crucifixion pattern?
Once again,
the true first day, Thursday, the fifteenth, must be stacked on Wednesday, the
fourteenth, the true sabbath. Or
as we pointed out earlier, the contradicting accounts of Matthew, Mark,
Luke, and John must harmonize as one.
Prophecy is fulfilled! Thus we have:
Having done
so, you can see that First Fruits takes its right place as testified when they
crossed into the promised land – the Millennial reign. But, let us ask another very important
and revealing question. What does
this do to resurrection day? It
now moves it forward to a place that is in keeping with what Christians also
teach – an encompassing three-day period of Passover to resurrection,
though still not a Sunday resurrection.
The very teachings that Christianity falsely conclude regarding their
cut-short two days for Yahshua’s death and resurrection, are, quite
interestingly, the very pattern they will fulfill!
Though they are wrong, they are right! Historically, they are wrong; but prophetically, they are in
fact right. Let us now add another
chart like unto the one we began with, but now showing the complete period of
Christianity.
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You will
notice the same first two days of the church leading up to the Millennial
sabbath rest – days 5 and 6.
After these two days, there is the true sabbath where time has to be cut
short and the eighth day stacked on the seventh day. After the sabbath, once again you will notice that
days 9 and 10 are the two days of First Fruits and the resurrection. And also recall that day 10 is the day
that the manna ceased, which will be addressed.
You can see
that Christianity will finally gladly acknowledge a Saturday resurrection, for
by virtue of the pattern of Yahshua’s resurrection to the Father, this is
the legal day that the body of Christ will likewise ascend to the Father.
As noted in A Lesson
From Intercession, page 7, days 5 and 6 are the Moses period of
Christianity where they have died, and thereby equally fail to enter into the
promised Millennial reign – being cut off from it by death (Zechariah
13:8). In contrast, days 9 and 10
are the fulfilling Elijah period where, in the end, they too will ascend
alive. If you have questions regarding
this, read the referenced writing.
This will also be addressed later here as well.
So why does
the manna cease on this tenth day?
What was manna? It was the
food of the wilderness experience.
Therefore, we see that the wilderness will finally cease having its
lingering effects on Christianity in the tenth day. The manna of the great and terrible wilderness will cease as
they enter into immortal incorruptible bodies.
Let us note
here that the wave sheaf offering has nothing to do with ascending into heaven,
any more than waving the two loaves of leavened bread had anything to do with
ascending. Christians like to
teach this so as to add to their false Sunday resurrection. It is quite remarkable that it was on a
Sunday that the wave sheaf offering of barley was waved before Yahweh; then
seven complete sabbaths later, on a Sunday, the two loaves of leavened bread
were waved before Yahweh. The
count began by waving unleavened barley, and it ended by waving leavened wheat
bread.
What does
this speak to? It attests to what
would take place in the 2,000 years of the church. Even as this count began with unleavened barley that could
only be waved before Yahweh and not ascend to Him, so the church began with the
barley first Remnant who, in like manner, could only be presented before Yahweh
as an earth-bound work that could not ascend alive. And at the end of this 2,000 year period, still there is
nothing that can ascend to Him.
All that can be presented to Yahweh from Christianity are two loaves, or
2,000 years, of a now-leavened offering, leavened wheat bread. And it too, as a like earth-bound work,
can only be waved before Him.
Once again, we see the marvels and the complexity of prophecy, the wonders of Yahweh’s incredible government and sovereign order in accomplishing His will and His plan.
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