The Feast Month – God’s Special Holiday (Transcript)

Today we are going to talk about the coming Feasts of God, which are the vacation days known as the Holy days that God ordains in the Bible. These are the same days, contrary to what you may believe, that the apostles followed, the disciples followed, that Jesus followed, and that the Church of God followed long into the first and second centuries. I am talking about the time before they became lost due to the pagan influence of the Catholic Church. 

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Today we are going to talk about the coming Feasts of God, which are the vacation days known as the Holy days that God ordains in the Bible. These are the same days, contrary to what you may believe, that the apostles followed, the disciples followed, that Jesus followed, and that the Church of God followed long into the first and second centuries. I am talking about the time before they became lost due to the pagan influence of the Catholic Church. 

In the Bible, which you’ll find this in the Old Testament and again in the New Testament, they are talked about constantly.

God has a series of Holy Days that start off in the spring, of course, when spring starts. This day is not considered a holy day, yet it is the first day of the new year of God’s and is always on the spring equinox. This day is roughly March 20th, but the first real holiday talked about is Passover and The Feast of Unleavened Bread, which happens on our April 2nd. Passover begins the night of the 2nd and goes through the day of the 3rd, then runs all the way over to the 7th and the 8th day.

The second holiday (Holy Day) after the Unleavened Bread festival is the Feast of Firstfruits. This is a special day which counts down 50 days to another religious holiday that God tells us to take, which is called the Feast of Fruits, Firstfruits, another type of firstfruits, not the same firstfruits that you count after the day after Passover, but we know it as Pentecost. The meaning in Greek is 50th, and that is the birthday of the church fruit and is when the New Testament church received the Holy Spirit.

Just to let you know, on Pentecost, it was also when the Old Testament church received the Ten Commandments! This was when Moses came down with the Ten Commandments on what we would call Pentecost today, so the New Testament church was formed with the Holy Spirit given to the people on the day of Pentecost, the birthday of the New Testament church and consequently it was the birthday of the Old Testament covenant with the Ten Commandments, written by the very finger of who became Jesus Christ.

Then you go all summer long without any real holidays.

Now there is a non-biblical holiday in the middle of the summer, in July, and that is the remembrance of the destruction of both Solomon’s Temple and the Second Temple built by King Herod. Seemingly both were destroyed on the same exact day of the Hebrew calendar. I’m not sure if it’s the same exact day of God’s calendar although they attribute this to be the case. I suspect it may be more tradition than truth however it is around mid-July when the temples were destroyed both times; one time by Babylon and the second time by the Romans in AD 70. This is not a biblical holiday, and neither is the winter holiday called Hanukkah. These days of remembrance are not found in the Bible. They are found in the Apocrypha, the books that are not canonized however many Bibles, as a matter of fact, the King James Bible in 1611 and all Bibles thereafter for a long time would include the books of the Apocrypha. In them is where you see the dedication of the Temple and the Feast of Hanukkah first mentioned, but it’s not in the actual canonized Bible that we all tend to carry around with us and read. In the fall, the months are just numbered for the most part, yet they do not have these Babylonian names that the Jewish people follow today.

There is no month of Tammuz, for example, because Tammuz is actually an afront to God. We talked about that when it came around Easter time, when the women were weeping for Tammuz. It was an Easter, pagan sunrise ceremony talked about in the book of Ezekiel, and God wasn’t very happy with it.

In the first month of the year which happens between March and April, then the second month, and you kick down to what is our September 16th every year because God’s perfect calendar does fall on the same dates every year. God is the ultimate mathematician as we pointed out in a program a couple weeks ago, and on September 16th is the first day of the seventh month every year, and that day is called in the Bible, in the Old Testament, the Feast of Trumpets.

Let’s talk about what the Feast of Trumpets means. In the Old Testament, and you can read this for yourself and just do it, it’s a very educational and kind of an intriguing Bible study just to look up these feasts by their names. You know, go to a search engine and put in Feast of Trumpets, and you will see some articles about the Jewish celebration of it, and if you put in New Testament, you will see the symbolism of it there as well.

Trumpets represents horns of warning. You know, when you hear a fire drill, for example, when you were in school and the bell rang, you knew that was a warning bell, or when in the ancient times, you know, in colonial America, when they were going to read the news, somebody would blow a trumpet sometimes. Then the news person would start reading aloud the news for all who could hear it. Also, in the middle of the night if there was a fire, they would blow a trumpet or a bugle and shout fire, and then people knew to get out and try to help put out the fire so the whole neighborhood or the whole town didn’t burn down. So the trumpets are a symbol of a warning therefore it’s a feast of warning and it is also a symbol of an announcement.

You know, you go to Revelations, and you see every time the trumpet blasts it is a warning, yes, but it is also an announcement coming from heaven or from an angel about what’s going to happen next.

This makes it so you could look at the Feast of Trumpets as a news feast, a feast of the news, because when you are blowing in the ancient times when they blew the ram’s horn, that’s what the trumpet was made from, it came from the horn of a ram…and the people then would hear what was happening. There would be warnings from prophets with a trumpet blast and they would give the warnings that God gave that prophet, and the prophets were like newscasters.

 In a way, the Feast of Trumpets starts the holiest month of the year, which is the seventh month, with significance like the holiest day of the week and year, and of all time, Saturday, the Sabbath day.

Like the Sabbath day falls on the 7th day of the week with great significance, the seventh month ends the run of the 7 Holy Days. Everything starts off with the Feast of Trumpets with great significance being a feast of warnings, of newscast warnings of what’s going to happen, because everything is going to be punctuated with the Feast of God. It is quite beautiful as all of the holy days of God represents God’s plan.

There is a reason why we’re not supposed to follow Halloween, Christmas, and Easter as they’re pagan, yet if you follow God’s holidays, you will see through the course of the year God’s plan being demonstrated through his holidays of salvation for you and me.

That’s why it’s important to understand these holidays.

The springtime Holy Days really refer to the coming of Christ and His death, Passover, and the New Testament church beginning in Pentecost. By the fall, it’s the harvest, the great harvest festivals coming, and what does the harvest really represent? Well, it represents the harvest of the saints and the harvest of God’s people when God is going to come and judge his people and to pass them from mortal life to immortality, and reign with Christ for a thousand years, which we call the millennium, though the millennium word is not found in the Bible, but the thousand year reign of Christ you find in Revelation. And so the seventh month is the month of harvest, it’s the month of the church being harvested for God, and it’s also the month that represents the all of Revelation’s final conclusions, including the heaven and the earth being done away with, and a new heaven and a new earth, which is the last great day of the feast, and then that day also symbolizes when God the Father himself will come and live with his creation, and we are becoming gods. That is the whole purpose, God was reproducing themselves, let us make man in our image after our likeness. He didn’t say, let Us make man in the man image like He did with cows, let us make man in the cow after the cow kind, and they will only reproduce cows. 

So the first holiday, which will be September 16th, which is about a week from now, is called the Feast of Trumpets, and the Jewish people call it Rosh Hashanah. They have the Feast of Trumpets as two different days here, it begins their civil year, like their calendar is backwards, well their calendar is backwards all the way, even the beginning of their year is not March, you know, the first month of the year, it’s the seventh month of the year, is their New Year, you see that all the time, because that was the Babylonian New Year, and you know, the United States government follows it to this day. Why do you think school season starts in September? Why wouldn’t school start in March and end in, let’s say, December time, and well, there’s a good reason. Back in the day, there’s two good reasons actually, back in the day, most kids worked on their family farm, and the farms were mostly used or worked on during the summer months, so they didn’t want to have school during the summer months, so they followed a governmental year, you know, the United States government’s budget is usually, I believe, from November to October, or October to September, I forgot what it is exactly, but so that is what the Jews do, their civil year starts in the seventh month, they call it Rosh Hashanah, but that is not what we do.

We see the seventh month as the holiest month of the year, it’s the month of holidays, of the picking of the church and God’s people to reign with Christ, it’s a symbol of it forever and ever. Now we count off nine days, and on the evening of the ninth day, and contrary, we went over when the day begins before, it is not the beginning of the tenth day, it’s a misreading of the day of atonement, just like I explained how Christmas Eve is December 24th, but it’s part of Christmas Day, which is December 25th.No one really would call 8 p.m. on December 25th part of Christmas Day, people don’t even think of that as Christmas Day, they think of 8 p.m. December 24th as part of Christmas, which we call Christmas Eve. Well the same thing applies to the day of atonement, on the ninth day at evening, just listen to what the Bible says, on the ninth day when evening begins after the day starts the day of atonement when a person is too fast and have no drink or no food for 24 hours, and they are to follow that fast throughout the night, of course it’s always easiest at night because you’re going to sleep through most of it, we always find a nice time to when we start our fast in the evening on the day of atonement, it’s always the first half of it, it’s pretty uneasy to go through, it’s that second half that gets to you, and so on the 10th day of the month, until the evening of the 10th day, and let the Bible interpret itself, it’s not beginning of the 11th day, it’s the evening portion of the 10th day is when the fast ends, so you would begin it say at 6 p.m. on our day, September the 24th, which is the ninth day at evening, and you would fast until six o’clock on the 10th day, which is our September 25th, and then you can eat afterwards, and we have as a family always had a tradition to going out to a restaurant or not having to cook because you can’t prepare enough, and when you’re fasting and it’s a holy day, and what the day of atonement really means, it has two purposes. In the Old Testament, it was a covering of sin, not an atonement of sin, it was a covering of sin, where the blood of goats and lambs and cattle were shed for people’s sins, and even the sins of the high priest, and it covered their sins for another year, but it did not permanently remove their sins, but Christ, as we see in the New Testament, is our Passover lamb, and he is also our atonement, and on the day of atonement, it represents the Christ, Jesus, being by his blood atoning for our sins forever.

He doesn’t have to be crucified over and over again like you do with sheep or cattle or goats each year. No, his once and for all sacrifice did away with all sin for whoever asked it to be, and that’s how you know you’re a Christian, and thus the day of atonement is the perfect expression of the Christmas, I’m sorry, the Christmas, the Christian, Christian, get that, fulfillment of the day of atonement. It now goes from a covering of sins to a total annihilation of your sins through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Now, after that, that’s the 10th day of the month, you go 11, 12, 13, 14, and on the 15th day of the same seventh month begins what is called the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Shelters or the Feast of Booths, it’s different translations, all meaning the same thing, and I guess in modern English you would call it the Feast of Tents. What the people were told to do was leave their homes or go on top of their homes, because a lot of people had flat roofed homes and they would take palm trees, leaves of the palm trees, and make a shelter, a temporary tent, a temporary building to sleep in at night, and that was to be a seven day, it actually becomes eight days and I’ll explain why, but it’s a seven day holiday, a vacation built in by God that all God’s people should be able to enjoy, where for seven days they do no regular work. The harvest is over, they’ve collected all their crops, they have them in the storehouses, and now it’s time to party.

Our pilgrims in 1620, when they had Thanksgiving, it was their understanding of having a Feast of Tabernacles type of a celebration. Believe it or not, the very first Thanksgiving, like the Feast of Tabernacles, went on for days. I’m not sure if it went on for seven days, but I know it went on for two or three days at least, but it may have gone on even longer. It was a time of giving thanks to God for the great crop that they were able to harvest at the end of their year, and that was in 1620. A time of thanking God for the bounty, and that is what the Feast of Tabernacles in the Old Testament firstly represents, the thanking of God for the harvest that God was allowing the people to have, the bountiful harvest at that.

Like all of the holidays of God, there is a New Testament fulfillment. There is a symbolism attached to the idea of every one of these days. The Feast of Trumpets symbolizes the newscaster of casting out warning. The Day of Atonement symbolizes Christ’s death on a cross for us. The Passover of the New Testament time in the fulfillment phase, in the harvest time, where we are made justified to the Father by the blood of Christ, by His atonement for our sins once and for all. Then five days later begins a week-long, which will be eight days…a week-long vacation built into the calendar that every member of God’s church, God’s people, would have at least one week’s vacation a year, even if their employee didn’t give them one. That was a week that they would, every day, meet in a holy assembly. They would meet like in a church gathering, an assembly, and they would, at the beginning of the day, give God thanks for the harvest, give God thanks for the vacation time they have, read out of the Bible, or read Psalms, or remember what God did for them. Then the rest of the day they really have a vacation, and they did it for seven days. Now, after the seventh day, there comes an eighth day, which is a totally separate holiday, and it has another biblical significance. Let me get back to what I was saying about Passover week and the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That’s seven days as well, but there is an eighth day into that festival, which is called the first Feast of Firstfruits, which follows after the seven days of Passover and Unleavened Bread, and that is the day when they say counting the Omer, when they start counting down 50 days to Pentecost, and Pentecost is exactly 50 days from the Day of Firstfruits, which is on the 22nd day of the first month. It’s very simple.

So that’s an eight-day vacation time in a way, and there’s another eight-day vacation time in the fall called the Feast of Shelters or the Feast of Booths, when people would build these temporary dwellings and have a vacation for seven days, and on the last day, it represents Revelation chapter 21, when there’s a new heaven and a new earth. But let me get back to the actual Feast of Shelters, the Feast of Tabernacles, and why the people were told to build temporary housing on top of their house or on their front lawn and not live in their houses for that time. It was to remind the people that they themselves, their bodies are like those tents, temporary. Your body is going to be lasting 70, 80, 90, 100 years if you’re lucky, but that’s it, and then you’re going to die and you’re going to go into the ground and you’re going to await a resurrection from the dead. No, you don’t go to heaven, as people try to tell you. You go into the ground, and you await a resurrection from the dead, and that does not occur until Christ returns at his second coming. All you have to read is the 15th chapter of the first book of Corinthians, and it will give you the exact timeline of when you are resurrected from the dead. It will tell you it doesn’t happen until after the last trump, there’s that trumpet again, of revelation when the dead in Christ rise first, and they will reign for Christ for a thousand years. That’s called the millennium. So when you live in a temporary dwelling, a dwelling made out of palm leaves, that’s even more temporary than a tent made of canvas for, to be honest about it, then you are seeing what it is like to realize that your body is a temporary structure just like these tents you’re living in, or these booths, or these shelters that you’re living in. 

That is what the whole purpose is to show you, you are a mortal creature. 

You’re not immortal.

Those who preach the immortality of the soul is preaching the devil’s jargon. 

The devil is the first one who told Eve, you shall not surely die. When she said, if they ate of the fruit, which they were not supposed to, they would die. He said, oh, God didn’t tell you that, did he? He’s lying to you. You can’t die. You have an immortal soul. Well, what did God say after they ate of that fruit? For dust you are, and dust you shall return. You’re going to be dead. And that is the end of you until the resurrection of the dead, when you will be judged by the law of God. So that is the whole idea of this holy schedule, of the holy day schedule of God’s law, in God’s law and in God’s Bible, is to show you that his entire plan through these festivals, that you can see the plan of God and the salvation that he has worked out for all of mankind who wants to accept it. And so then after the feast of shelters, what happens after you’re resurrected from the dead? Well, when you read the 15th chapter of Corinthians, 1 Corinthians that is, you will see Paul says, this mortal body must be put on or made into an immortal body where there is no more pain, there is no more death, there is no more suffering. There is now eternal life with an immortal body that happens after Christ returns to those who are part of God’s church. That’s all it gets that. Then we get to the eighth day of the feast, which for us is November the 7th, October 30th is the first day by the way, October 30th is the first day of the feast, November 1st is the second day, November 6th is the last day of the feast and November 7th is the last great day, which all you have to do is go to Revelation 21 and read it and you will see what it symbolizes. It’s when your mortal body becomes immortal, and you become part of God.

This is what it says, just so you can understand this. Verse 21, chapter 21, Revelation verse one, now I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no more sea than I, John, saw the holy city, a new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a bride adorned for her husband and I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is now with men and he will dwell with them, meaning God the father and they shall be His people and God himself will be with them and be their God and God will wipe away every tear from every eye and there shall be no more death, no sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain for the former things have all passed away than he who sat on the throne said, behold, I make all things new.

This is Christ by the way, not the father and He said to me, write for these words that are true and faithful and He said to me, it is done. I am the alpha and the omega. That’s how you know it’s Christ. He says He’s the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. He who overcomes shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son but cowardly, unbelievable, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, sounds like all the people breaking the 10 commandments and liars shall have their part in the lake of fire.

So, Christ becomes our God along with the Father at the Last Great Day. Then verse nine, one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me saying, come and I will show you the bride and the lamb’s wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain and show me the great city called Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, meaning the father.Her light was like a precious stone, like Jasper or clear as crystal. Also, she had a great and high wall with 12 gates and 12 angels at the gates and the names written on them which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. Three gates on the East, three gates on the North, three gates on the South and three gates on the West. Now the wall of the city had 12 foundations and on them were the names of the 12 apostles of the lamb. Jesus Christ is the lamb. And he who talked with me had a gold reed to measure the city, its gates and its walls. And it goes into the measuring of how many cubits, but it comes out to be like 1400 square miles. This is going to be a humongous city. It has no need for sunlight because God themselves, Christ and the father will be all of the light that it needs.

We’re going on to verse 22. But I saw no temple in it for the Lord God almighty, that’s the father and the lamb, that’s Christ are its temple. The city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine for the glory of God and that’s both of them illuminate the whole city. The lamb is its light. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light. And the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. Its gate shall not be shut at all by day. Then there shall never be night. So, the gates are never shut and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there outside will be all those who are defiled and are not found in the lamb’s book of life. 

And then finally in the revelation 22, that sums the whole thing up. It gives you the rest of the story as Paul Harvey would call it.

Christ says, I am coming quickly. He who testifies these things say, surely I am coming quickly, amen. That’s John saying this. Even so come Lord Jesus. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all of you. 

I will say that at the end of this show right now, as we are coming to the end of the show, we’re about 29 minutes into it, that may the glory and the love of Christ be in everyone who listens to this program.

May His grace be shed upon everyone who listens to it and may your eyes and ears be open to listen to it. This is the news of the day…the great news…the good news called the gospel. That Christ is coming again and He’s bringing His government with him and it’s not going to be a one of an election. He’s not going to have to debate Kamala Harris. He’s not going to have to do anything. He’s going to lead with a rod of iron with His fist and no one’s going to oppose Him, or they shall end up destroyed. Those who follow Him and worship Him will never feel pain. They will never see death again. They will never have anything but joy. 

That is what we’re saying.

Come quickly Jesus, because we want this to happen to put an end to the misery we have. 

So that’s the show for today. The holy day month is upon us starting soon and we’ll have some more commentary about each holy day on each of those days. So again, this is Bob Barney with The Plain Truth today saying thank you for listening. God bless you all and bye-bye.