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After God gave man ONE law to comply with, Eve added a SECOND law to what God had said.  Eve added, "and you must not touch it" to what God had said.

Genesis 3:1-3 (NIV) Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" 2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, 3 but God did say, 'You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.'"

By adding ONE WORD to what God had said, the devil completely changed the message that God had given to Adam and Eve.

God gave the Jewish people THREE major feasts, or a TRINITY of feasts.  The first and third feast each contain three feasts, or a TRINITY of feasts within themselves, making a total of SEVEN feasts contained within the THREE feasts.

1.  The Feast of Passover, is also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread, and is also known as Pesach.  The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread includes within itself a TRINITY of feasts:

A.  The Feast of Passover - proper

B.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper

C.  The Feast of the Sheaf of Firstfruits

2.  The Feast of Weeks is also known as  the Feast of Harvest, is also known as Shavuot, and is also known as Pentecost.

3.  The Feast of Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of Ingathering, and is also known as the "High Holy Days".  The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering includes within itself a TRINITY of feasts:

A.  The Feast of Trumpets which is also known as Rosh Hashanah

B.  The Day of Atonement which is also known as the "Fast", and also known as Yom Kippur

C.  The Feast of Tabernacles - proper which is also known as Sukkoth.

Leviticus 23:1-44 (NIV)  The Lord said to Moses,  "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.  " 'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord."  (The Feast of Passover)  'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:  The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.  (The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper)  On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.  On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.  For seven days present an offering made to the Lord by fire.  (The Feast of the Sheaf of Firstfruits)  And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.' "  The Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.  He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.  On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil--an offering made to the Lord by fire, a pleasing aroma--and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.  You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live."  (The Feast of Weeks)  'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.  Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.  From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord.  Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings--an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.  Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.  The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest.  On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.  " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.'  (The Feast of Trumpets)  "The Lord said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.  Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the Lord by fire.'  (The Day of Atonement)  "The Lord said to Moses, "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the Lord by fire.  Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God.  Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people.  I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day.  You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.  It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.  (The Feast of Tabernacles - proper)  "The Lord said to Moses,  "Say to the Israelites: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.  The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.  For seven days present offerings made to the Lord by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the Lord by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.  ("'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the Lord by fire--the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.  These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord's Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)  " 'So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest.  On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.  Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.  Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.' "So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the Lord.

The Jewish people have done exactly as Eve, and the devil did, when they added to the Holy Word of God.  The Jewish people have added NINE additional feasts, that GOD DID NOT DIRECT.  When the Jewish people added to what God gave them, it de-appreciated the TRINITY of Feasts that God did give.  It became very difficult to recognize the significance of the TRINITY of Feasts that God gave, because of the clutter of feasts that the Jewish people added to God's message.  The clutter is listed below:

Shemini Atzeret	Simchat Torah	Hanukkah
Tu Bishvat	Purim	Yom Ha'Shoah
Yom Ha'atzmaut	Lag Ba'omer	Tisha B'Av

The three major feasts were dictated by the Lord to Moses. 

Deuteronomy 16:16-17 (NIV)  Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles. No man should appear before the Lord empty-handed:  Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.

Exodus 23:14-17 (NIV)  "Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me.  "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.  "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.  "Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.  "Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your crops from the field.  "Three times a year all the men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord.

Exodus 34:1-22 (NIV) The Lord said to Moses, "Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke.  Be ready in the morning, and then come up on Mount Sinai. Present yourself to me there on top of the mountain.  No one is to come with you or be seen anywhere on the mountain; not even the flocks and herds may graze in front of the mountain."  So Moses chiseled out two stone tablets like the first ones and went up Mount Sinai early in the morning, as the Lord had commanded him; and he carried the two stone tablets in his hands.  Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord.  And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation."  Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped.  "O Lord, if I have found favor in your eyes," he said, "then let the Lord go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our wickedness and our sin, and take us as your inheritance."  Then the Lord said: "I am making a covenant with you. Before all your people I will do wonders never before done in any nation in all the world. The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you.  Obey what I command you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.  Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare among you.  Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.  Do not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.  "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.  And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.  "Do not make cast idols.  "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.  "The first offspring of every womb belongs to me, including all the firstborn males of your livestock, whether from herd or flock.  Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. Redeem all your firstborn sons.  "No one is to appear before me empty-handed.  "Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.  "Celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.  Three times a year all your men are to appear before the Sovereign Lord, the God of Israel.  I will drive out nations before you and enlarge your territory, and no one will covet your land when you go up three times each year to appear before the Lord your God.

The three major feasts are a TRINITY of feasts.  Wherever there is TRINITY, YOU can know that body, spirit, and soul is represented.  Those three feasts are the Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering.

The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread represents the Body of God, who is Jesus Christ (Adonai Elohim).

The Feast of Weeks represents the Spirit of God, who is the Holy Spirit. 

The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering represents the Soul of God, who is the Father (Elohim). 

1.  The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread includes within itself a TRINITY of feasts:

A.  The Feast of Passover - proper

B.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper

C.  The Feast of the Sheaf of Firstfruits

The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread was dictated by the Lord immediately prior to the Jewish Exodus from Egypt.  The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread has been the principal feast of the Jewish people for 3,400 years, since the Jewish people left Egypt.  The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread is a fore-glimpse of the redemption of mankind.  The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread was fore-glimpsed in Egypt, and fulfilled in Jerusalem.  Jesus Christ Is YOUR Passover Lamb, If YOU Will Accept Him.

Leviticus 23:1-14 (NIV)  The Lord said to Moses,  "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.  " 'There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord."  (The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread)  'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:  The Lord's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.  (The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper)  On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast.  On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.  For seven days present an offering made to the Lord by fire.  (The Feast of the Sheaf of Firstfruits)  And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.' "  The Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.  He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.  On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil--an offering made to the Lord by fire, a pleasing aroma--and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.  You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live."

Exodus 12:1-23 (NIV)  The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.  (The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread)  Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.  If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.  The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.  Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.  Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.  That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.  Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire--head, legs and inner parts.  Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.  This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord's Passover.  "On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn--both men and animals--and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt.  I am the Lord.  The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.  "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord--a lasting ordinance.  (The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper)  For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.  On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat--that is all you may do.  "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.  In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.  For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born.  Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."  (The Feast of Passover - proper)  Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.  Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.  When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

A.  The Feast of Passover - proper is one meal, held in celebration of the salvation of the first born through the Blood of the Lamb; and a celebration of the exodus of the Children of Israel from Egyptian slavery.  Passover begins with the slaughter of the Passover Lamb, the marking, "on the sides and tops of the doorframes", with the Lamb's Blood, and the subsequent eating of the Passover Lamb.  The doorframe is to be marked three times, which includes; once on each side and once on the top, or a TRINITY of times denoting coverage by the Blood of the Lamb, of body, spirit, and soul. 

B.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper, begins with the same meal as The Feast of Passover - proper.  The Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper consisted of eating unleavened bread for a period of seven days.  Unleavened bread, is bread that has no yeast.  Yeast is symbolic of sin.

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 (NIV)  Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough?  Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast--as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.  Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Matthew 16:5-12 (NIV)  When they went across the lake, the disciples forgot to take bread.  "Be careful," Jesus said to them. "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."  They discussed this among themselves and said, "It is because we didn't bring any bread."  Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked, "You of little faith, why are you talking among yourselves about having no bread?  Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?  Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?  How is it you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? But be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."  Then they understood that he was not telling them to guard against the yeast used in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Luke 12:1 (NIV)  Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."

Jesus Christ the Passover Lamb, is also the Unleavened Bread who has no yeast, or sin, who must be eaten.

John 6:1-58 (NIV)  Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias), and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he had performed on the sick.  Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.  The Jewish Passover Feast was near.  When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"  He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.  Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"  Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up, "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"  Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and the men sat down, about five thousand of them.  Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.  When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted."  So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.  After the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus did, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world."  Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.  When evening came, his disciples went down to the lake, where they got into a boat and set off across the lake for Capernaum. By now it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them.  A strong wind was blowing and the waters grew rough.  When they had rowed three or three and a half miles, they saw Jesus approaching the boat, walking on the water; and they were terrified.  But he said to them, "It is I; don't be afraid."  Then they were willing to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached the shore where they were heading.  The next day the crowd that had stayed on the opposite shore of the lake realized that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not entered it with his disciples, but that they had gone away alone.  Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.  Once the crowd realized that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of Jesus.  When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"  Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, you are looking for me, not because you saw miraculous signs but because you ate the loaves and had your fill.  Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."  Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"  Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent."  So they asked him, "What miraculous sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?  Our forefathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written: 'He gave them bread from heaven to eat.'"  Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.  For the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." "Sir," they said, "from now on give us this bread."  Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.  But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe.  All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.  For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.  And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, but raise them up at the last day.  For my Father's will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."  At this the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."  They said, "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, 'I came down from heaven'?" " Stop grumbling among yourselves," Jesus answered.  "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.  It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.'  Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.  No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father.  I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life.  I am the bread of life.  Your forefathers ate the manna in the desert, yet they died.  But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die.  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."  Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"  Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.  For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.  Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.  Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me.  This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your forefathers ate manna and died, but he who feeds on this bread will live forever."

Egyptian slavery is symbolic of slavery to sin.  The exodus of the Children of Israel from Egypt, is a fore-glimpse of the exodus of the "Born Again" Children of God from slavery to sin, through the Blood of the Lamb.  Jesus Christ is the Passover Lamb, and through Jesus Christ's Blood, ANYONE can be freed from slavery to sin.

Hosea 11:1 (NIV) "When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son.

Matthew 2:13-15 (NIV)  When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."  So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt, where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: "Out of Egypt I called my son."

Romans 6:1-23 (NIV)  What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?  By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?  Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?  We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.  If we have been united with him like this in his death, we will certainly also be united with him in his resurrection.  For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin--because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.  Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.  For we know that since Christ was raised from the dead, he cannot die again; death no longer has mastery over him.  The death he died, he died to sin once for all; but the life he lives, he lives to God.  In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.  Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires.  Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.  For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.  What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!  Don't you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey--whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness?  But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.  You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.  I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.  When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.  What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jesus Christ the Passover Lamb's Last Supper, was The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread.

Matthew 26:1-30 (NIV)  When Jesus had finished saying all these things, he said to his disciples, "As you know, the Passover is two days away--and the Son of Man will be handed over to be crucified."  Then the chief priests and the elders of the people assembled in the palace of the high priest, whose name was Caiaphas, and they plotted to arrest Jesus in some sly way and kill him.  "But not during the Feast," they said, "or there may be a riot among the people."  While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table.  When the disciples saw this, they were indignant. "Why this waste?" they asked.  "This perfume could have been sold at a high price and the money given to the poor."  Aware of this, Jesus said to them, "Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful thing to me.  The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me.  When she poured this perfume on my body, she did it to prepare me for burial.  I tell you the truth, wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."  Then one of the Twelve--the one called Judas Iscariot--went to the chief priests and asked, "What are you willing to give me if I hand him over to you?" So they counted out for him thirty silver coins.  From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.  On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Where do you want us to make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"  He replied, "Go into the city to a certain man and tell him, 'The Teacher says: My appointed time is near. I am going to celebrate the Passover with my disciples at your house.' "  So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them and prepared the Passover.  When evening came, Jesus was reclining at the table with the Twelve.  And while they were eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me." They were very sad and began to say to him one after the other, "Surely not I, Lord?"  Jesus replied, "The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me.  The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."  Then Judas, the one who would betray him, said, "Surely not I, Rabbi?" Jesus answered, "Yes, it is you."  While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat; this is my body."  Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, saying, "Drink from it, all of you.  This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.  I tell you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom."  When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Mark 14:1-26 (NIV)  Now the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some sly way to arrest Jesus and kill him.  "But not during the Feast," they said, "or the people may riot."  While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of a man known as Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.  Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, "Why this waste of perfume?  It could have been sold for more than a year's wages and the money given to the poor." And they rebuked her harshly.  "Leave her alone," said Jesus. " Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me.  The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me.  She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial.  I tell you the truth, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her."  Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.  They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.  On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when it was customary to sacrifice the Passover lamb, Jesus' disciples asked him, "Where do you want us to go and make preparations for you to eat the Passover?"  So he sent two of his disciples, telling them, "Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.  Say to the owner of the house he enters, 'The Teacher asks: Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'  He will show you a large upper room, furnished and ready. Make preparations for us there."  The disciples left, went into the city and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.  When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve.  While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, "I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me--one who is eating with me."  They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, "Surely not I?"  "It is one of the Twelve," he replied, "one who dips bread into the bowl with me.  The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born."  While they were eating, Jesus took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take it; this is my body."  Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it. "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many," he said to them.  "I tell you the truth, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it anew in the kingdom of God."  When they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Luke 22:1-20 (NIV)  Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, called the Passover, was approaching, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were looking for some way to get rid of Jesus, for they were afraid of the people.  Then Satan entered Judas, called Iscariot, one of the Twelve.  And Judas went to the chief priests and the officers of the temple guard and discussed with them how he might betray Jesus.  They were delighted and agreed to give him money.  He consented, and watched for an opportunity to hand Jesus over to them when no crowd was present.  Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.  Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, "Go and make preparations for us to eat the Passover."  "Where do you want us to prepare for it?" they asked.  He replied, "As you enter the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him to the house that he enters, and say to the owner of the house, 'The Teacher asks: Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'  He will show you a large upper room, all furnished. Make preparations there."  They left and found things just as Jesus had told them. So they prepared the Passover.  When the hour came, Jesus and his apostles reclined at the table.  And he said to them, "I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.  For I tell you, I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in the kingdom of God."  After taking the cup, he gave thanks and said, "Take this and divide it among you.  For I tell you I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes."  And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, "This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me."  In the same way, after the supper he took the cup, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.

C.  The Feast of the Sheaf of Firstfruits is also a fore-glimpse of Jesus Christ.  After Jesus Christ's Crucifixion, Jesus Christ was the sheaf of the first grains given to the Father.  Jesus Christ was accepted as a sheaf, portentous of the full harvest of the "Born Again" Children of God.  The martyred dead, and those "Born Again" Children of God who are still alive at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, are additional sheaves of grain that will be harvested at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  The final harvest of the "Born Again" Children of God will not occur until after the One Thousand Year Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ on the earth has been completed.  On the day that the sheaf was offered, "a lamb a year old without defect" was also offered, as a post-reflection of the Passover Lamb, who is also Jesus Christ.

Leviticus 23:8b-14 (NIV)  And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.' "  The Lord said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you enter the land I am going to give you and you reap its harvest, bring to the priest a sheaf of the first grain you harvest.  He is to wave the sheaf before the Lord so it will be accepted on your behalf; the priest is to wave it on the day after the Sabbath.  On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the Lord a lamb a year old without defect, together with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil--an offering made to the Lord by fire, a pleasing aroma--and its drink offering of a quarter of a hin of wine.  You must not eat any bread, or roasted or new grain, until the very day you bring this offering to your God. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Exodus 23:16 (NIV)  "Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops you sow in your field.

Corinthians 15:20-23 (NIV)  But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.  For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.  For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.  But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

2.  The Feast of Weeks is also known as  the Feast of Harvest, is also known as Shavuot, and is also known as Pentecost.

Leviticus 23:15-22 (NIV)  (The Feast of Weeks)  'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.  Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.  From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the Lord.  Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the Lord, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings--an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.  Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.  The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the Lord for the priest.  On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.  " 'When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.' 

The Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread began with the Feast of Passover - proper meal, and the first meal of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper, being the exact same  meal.  The FIRST DAY following the slaughter of the Passover Lamb, and the eating of the Feast of Passover - proper meal, was the SECOND DAY of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper, whereby God directed Moses to start counting the days until the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost.  The counting of the Omer begins on the SECOND DAY of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper, and concludes forty nine days later in the Feast of Weeks.  The Feast of Weeks begins exactly seven weeks, of seven days, following the SECOND DAY, of the Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper.  The Feast of Weeks is fifty days from the FIRST DAY of the Feast of Passover/Unleavened Bread, which is why it is often called Pentecost (Penta means five, i.e. pentagram, pentagon.  Pentecost means fifty days). 

The Jewish people could not celebrate the Feast of Weeks until the Passover Lamb had been sacrificed, consequently God directed the counting of the Omer to begin on the day immediately following the sacrifice of the Passover Lamb.  God was so eager to give the Holy Spirit of God to man on the day of Pentecost, that God directed on the FIRST DAY following the Crucifixion of the Passover Lamb, and even while the Feast of Unleavened Bread - proper was still going on, to begin the countdown to the Feast of Weeks.

Deuteronomy 16:1-17 (NIV) Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover of the Lord your God, because in the month of Abib he brought you out of Egypt by night.  Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.  Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left Egypt in haste--so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.  Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until morning.  You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.  Roast it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents.  For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly to the Lord your God and do no work.  Count off seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain.  Then celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the Lord your God by giving a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings the Lord your God has given you.  And rejoice before the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name--you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, the Levites in your towns, and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows living among you.  Remember that you were slaves in Egypt, and follow carefully these decrees. 

It was on the first day of the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, Shavuot, that the Ten Commandments were given to Moses, referenced in Exodus 34:1-22 printed above.  On Mount Sinai, God wrote the Ten Commandments, which is the Law, with His finger on tablets of stone.

It was on the first day of the Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, Shavuot, that the Holy Spirit of God was given to man.  When the Holy Spirit of God indwells a person, then the Holy Spirit of God writes the Law on the heart of that "Born Again" Child of God.  Prior to the Holy Spirit of God's indwelling, the heart of every "Born Again" Child of God is a tablet of stone, symbolically like the stone that the Ten Commandments were written on.

Acts 2:1-47 (NIV)  When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.  Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them.  All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.  Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.  When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.  Utterly amazed, they asked: "Are not all these men who are speaking Galileans?  Then how is it that each of us hears them in his own native language?  Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs--we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!"  Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, "What does this mean?"  Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine."  Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: "Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say.  These men are not drunk, as you suppose. It's only nine in the morning!  No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:  " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.  Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.  I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.  The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'  "Men of Israel, listen to this: Jesus of Nazareth was a man accredited by God to you by miracles, wonders and signs, which God did among you through him, as you yourselves know.  This man was handed over to you by God's set purpose and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.  But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.  David said about him: " 'I saw the Lord always before me.  Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.  Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will live in hope, because you will not abandon me to the grave, nor will you let your Holy One see decay.  You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence.'  "Brothers, I can tell you confidently that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is here to this day.  But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne.  Seeing what was ahead, he spoke of the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to the grave, nor did his body see decay.  God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of the fact.  Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear.  For David did not ascend to heaven, and yet he said," 'The Lord said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet." '  "Therefore let all Israel be assured of this: God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ."  When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, "Brothers, what shall we do?"  Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."  With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."  Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.  They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.  All the believers were together and had everything in common.  Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.  Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Following the fulfillment of the Feast of Weeks, we are given insight into the superiority of the covenant given by the Holy Spirit of God, over the covenant of Moses. Moses' covenant was given physically, the Holy Spirit of God's covenant is given spiritually.  The spiritual is always superior to the physical.

2 Corinthians 3:1-18 (NIV)  Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, like some people, letters of recommendation to you or from you?  You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody.  You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.  Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God.  Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God.  He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.  Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, fading though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious?  If the ministry that condemns men is glorious, how much more glorious is the ministry that brings righteousness!  For what was glorious has no glory now in comparison with the surpassing glory.  And if what was fading away came with glory, how much greater is the glory of that which lasts!  Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold.  We are not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face to keep the Israelites from gazing at it while the radiance was fading away.  But their minds were made dull, for to this day the same veil remains when the old covenant is read. It has not been removed, because only in Christ is it taken away.  Even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.  But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.  And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

Hebrews 8:1-13 (NIV)  The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven, and who serves in the sanctuary, the true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.  Every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices, and so it was necessary for this one also to have something to offer.  If he were on earth, he would not be a priest, for there are already men who offer the gifts prescribed by the law.  They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: "See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain."  But the ministry Jesus has received is as superior to theirs as the covenant of which he is mediator is superior to the old one, and it is founded on better promises.  For if there had been nothing wrong with that first covenant, no place would have been sought for another.  But God found fault with the people and said: "The time is coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.  It will not be like the covenant I made with their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not remain faithful to my covenant, and I turned away from them, declares the Lord.  This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.  I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.  I will be their God, and they will be my people.  No longer will a man teach his neighbor, or a man his brother, saying, 'Know the Lord,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest.  For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more."  By calling this covenant "new," he has made the first one obsolete; and what is obsolete and aging will soon disappear.

The Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Harvest, Pentecost, Shavuot was celebrated following the initial sowing of the physical seed for the summer growing period; and following the early physical rains, and the early physical harvest.  The early physical rains were the rains that germinated the physical seed at the time of the sowing of the seed.  The early physical rains are symbolic of the Holy Spirit being poured out spiritually on all people, thereby effecting all people to become spiritually sown with the knowledge that Jesus Christ is God; prior to the spiritual harvest of the souls of man that will occur following the Judgment of Jesus Christ, at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.  During the early spiritual rains, three thousand people were added in one day to the number of the "Born Again" Children of God, referenced in Acts 2:38-47 printed below; followed by five thousand people referenced in Acts 4:1-4, followed by "more and more men and women" referenced in Acts 5:12-14.  The early spiritual harvest referenced in the Book of Acts, was following the early spiritual rains referenced in the Book of Acts.  The early rains and the early harvest, physically and spiritually portend the latter rains and the latter harvest, physically and spiritually.  The early physical rains began on the first day of the new Jewish sacred year.  The early spiritual rains of the Seven Year "covenant" Period will officially begin on March 16, 2010, the first day of the new Jewish sacred year.

Acts 2:38-47 (NIV)  Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.  The promise is for you and your children and for all who are far off--for all whom the Lord our God will call."  With many other words he warned them; and he pleaded with them, "Save yourselves from this corrupt generation."  Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.  They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.  Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles.  All the believers were together and had everything in common.  Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need.  Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.

Acts 4:1-4 (NIV)  The priests and the captain of the temple guard and the Sadducees came up to Peter and John while they were speaking to the people.  They were greatly disturbed because the apostles were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.  They seized Peter and John, and because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.  But many who heard the message believed, and the number of men grew to about five thousand.

Acts 5:12-14 (NIV)  The apostles performed many miraculous signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon's Colonnade.  No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people.  Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.

3.  The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering includes a TRINITY of feasts within itself:

A.  The Feast of Trumpets which is also known as Rosh Hashanah

B.  The Day of Atonement which is also known as the Fast, and is also known as Yom Kippur

C.  The Feast of Tabernacles - proper which is also known as Sukkoth.

Leviticus 23:23-44 (NIV)  (The Feast of Trumpets)  "The Lord said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.  Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the Lord by fire.'  (The Day of Atonement)  "The Lord said to Moses, "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, and present an offering made to the Lord by fire.  Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the Lord your God.  Anyone who does not deny himself on that day must be cut off from his people.  I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on that day.  You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.  It is a sabbath of rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your sabbath.  (The Feast of Tabernacles - proper)  "The Lord said to Moses,  "Say to the Israelites: 'On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days.  The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work.  For seven days present offerings made to the Lord by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the Lord by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.  ("'These are the Lord's appointed feasts, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing offerings made to the Lord by fire--the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.  These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord's Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)  " 'So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest.  On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.  Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.  Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.' "So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the Lord.

A.  The Feast of Trumpets - Rosh Hashanah, the Ten Days of Awe, the Ten Days of Repentance marked the first day of the new civil year, began the Jubilee, and culminated ten days later in Yom Kippur.  The Trumpet blasts were to tell the people to get ready to meet God in ten days, on the Day of Atonement, also known as Yom Kippur.

B.  The Day of Atonement - (at-one-ment, when God and man become one) came during the Fast of Yom Kippur, and was a day of judgment when the individuals were to consider their year, and make restitution to God, or man, where they had wronged someone, whereby they could become Atoned (at-one) with God.  A white robe, or white clothing was worn as a sign of purity.  The Day of Atonement was the most sacred day in the Jewish Year.

Leviticus 16:1-34 (NIV)  The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron who died when they approached the Lord. The Lord said to Moses: "Tell your brother Aaron not to come whenever he chooses into the Most Holy Place behind the curtain in front of the atonement cover on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud over the atonement cover.  "This is how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary area: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.  He is to put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments; so he must bathe himself with water before he puts them on.  From the Israelite community he is to take two male goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.  "Aaron is to offer the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household.  Then he is to take the two goats and present them before the Lord at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.  He is to cast lots for the two goats--one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat.  Aaron shall bring the goat whose lot falls to the Lord and sacrifice it for a sin offering.  But the goat chosen by lot as the scapegoat shall be presented alive before the Lord to be used for making atonement by sending it into the desert as a scapegoat.  "Aaron shall bring the bull for his own sin offering to make atonement for himself and his household, and he is to slaughter the bull for his own sin offering.  He is to take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the Lord and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense and take them behind the curtain.  He is to put the incense on the fire before the Lord, and the smoke of the incense will conceal the atonement cover above the Testimony, so that he will not die.  He is to take some of the bull's blood and with his finger sprinkle it on the front of the atonement cover; then he shall sprinkle some of it with his finger seven times before the atonement cover.  "He shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and take its blood behind the curtain and do with it as he did with the bull's blood: He shall sprinkle it on the atonement cover and in front of it.  In this way he will make atonement for the Most Holy Place because of the uncleanness and rebellion of the Israelites, whatever their sins have been. He is to do the same for the Tent of Meeting, which is among them in the midst of their uncleanness.  No one is to be in the Tent of Meeting from the time Aaron goes in to make atonement in the Most Holy Place until he comes out, having made atonement for himself, his household and the whole community of Israel.  "Then he shall come out to the altar that is before the Lord and make atonement for it. He shall take some of the bull's blood and some of the goat's blood and put it on all the horns of the altar.  He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times to cleanse it and to consecrate it from the uncleanness of the Israelites.  "When Aaron has finished making atonement for the Most Holy Place, the Tent of Meeting and the altar, he shall bring forward the live goat.  He is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the wickedness and rebellion of the Israelites--all their sins--and put them on the goat's head. He shall send the goat away into the desert in the care of a man appointed for the task.  The goat will carry on itself all their sins to a solitary place; and the man shall release it in the desert.  "Then Aaron is to go into the Tent of Meeting and take off the linen garments he put on before he entered the Most Holy Place, and he is to leave them there.  He shall bathe himself with water in a holy place and put on his regular garments. Then he shall come out and sacrifice the burnt offering for himself and the burnt offering for the people, to make atonement for himself and for the people.  He shall also burn the fat of the sin offering on the altar.  "The man who releases the goat as a scapegoat must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.  The bull and the goat for the sin offerings, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; their hides, flesh and offal are to be burned up.  The man who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water; afterward he may come into the camp.  "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month you must deny yourselves and not do any work--whether native-born or an alien living among you--because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.  It is a sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance.  The priest who is anointed and ordained to succeed his father as high priest is to make atonement. He is to put on the sacred linen garments and make atonement for the Most Holy Place, for the Tent of Meeting and the altar, and for the priests and all the people of the community.  "This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites."  And it was done, as the Lord commanded Moses.

a.  Both "goats" represented the sin of mankind. 

b.  The sacrifice of the "goat" whose lot fell to the Lord, portends the Lord God substituting Himself, for the "goat" who represented the sin of mankind.  Consequently, in substituting Himself for the "goat", Jesus Christ became a Blood-Substitution Sacrifice, for the sin of all mankind.  On the Day of Atonement, Jesus Christ made Atonement for all of mankind. 

c.  The "goat" that was not sacrificed, was the "live goat", or "scapegoat".  That "goat" carried the sins of man into a solitary place, signifying that those sins would never be held against man again, or ever seen again.

Psalm 103:12 (NIV) as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

d.  At the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, on the Day of Atonement, Jesus Christ will Judge and condemn all of the "goats" who have not availed themselves of Jesus Christ's Atonement.

Matthew 25:31-46 (NIV)  "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left. 34 "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' 37 "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? 38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? 39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' 40 "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' 41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' 44 "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' 45 "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' 46 "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

e.  God directed Moses, in Leviticus 16:1-34 printed above, to tell Aaron to, "put on the sacred linen tunic, with linen undergarments next to his body; he is to tie the linen sash around him and put on the linen turban. These are sacred garments;".  Aaron's "sacred garments" were symbolic of the "robe of righteousness", that the "Born Again" Children of God put on spiritually, when they are filled with the Holy Spirit of God.

Isaiah 61:10 (NIV)  I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God.  For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

f.  It is the same "robe of righteousness" that will be given to the martyred, "Born Again" Children of God, following the opening of the Fifth Seal.

Revelation 6:9-11 (NIV)  When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.  They called out in a loud voice, "How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?"  Then each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to wait a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and brothers who were to be killed as they had been was completed.

g.  It is the same "robe of righteousness", that the "Born Again" Children of God were wearing as they were praising and worshipping God in Heaven.

Revelation 7:9-17 (NIV)  After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.  And they cried out in a loud voice:  "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb."  All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying: "Amen!  Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever.  Amen!"  Then one of the elders asked me, "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?"  I answered, "Sir, you know."  And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.  Therefore, "they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.  Never again will they hunger; never again will they thirst.  The sun will not beat upon them, nor any scorching heat.  For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water.  And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

h.  The person who attempted to attend the Marriage Supper, who did not have on the "robe of righteousness", was consequently thrown, "outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

Matthew 22:1-13 (NIV)  Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.  He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.  "Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'  "But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business.  The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.  The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city. "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.  Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'  So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.  "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.  'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.  "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

C.  The Feast of Tabernacles - proper was also known as Sukkoth, and was the Feast following the completion of the harvest.  The Feast of Tabernacles - proper followed the Day of Atonement by fifteen days, whereby man was to live in temporary housing, or booths, to remember that the Jewish people had lived in booths following their deliverance from Egypt.  It also signifies that man lives in a physical body that is temporary, while man's soul is eternal.  Following the Feast of Weeks,  and the giving of the Holy Spirit of God, Sukkoth signifies that God in the form of the Holy Spirit of God, will live in man, whose physical body is a temporary housing.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NIV) Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.

It has now been revealed to the "Born Again" Children of God that the Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering is the Wedding of Jesus Christ, to the Bride of Christ.  To reiterate, The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering contains the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles - proper.  The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering begins with the Feast of Trumpets, which will announce the arrival of the Bridegroom at the Seventh Trumpet, and His coming Marriage to the Bride of Christ on the Day of Atonement, to be followed by the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, which is the Feast of Tabernacles - proper. 

The Feast of Trumpets will announce the arrival of the Bridegroom, and the beginning of a new civil year - the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ on earth.

Revelation 11:15 (NIV) The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever."

Matthew 24:31 (NIV) "And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other."

1 Thessalonians 4:16 (NIV) For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

1 Corinthians 15:50-57 (NIV) I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed-- 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." 55 "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

The Judgment will occur on the Day of Atonement, to separate the Bride of Christ, from the bride of the devil.

Matthew 25:31-46(NIV)  "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his throne in heavenly glory.  All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.  He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.  "Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world.  For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.' "Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?' "The King will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.' "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.  For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.' "They also will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?' "He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' "Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life."

Those in the bride of the devil, will go to be with the devil for eternity.  Since the time that the devil was cast down from Heaven, God has completely, totally restricted and controlled what the devil was permitted to do.  In eternity, the only restriction that God will place on the devil, is that God will contain the devil in the fiery lake of burning sulfur.  God will not allow anything in creation to separate Jesus Christ from the "Born Again" Children of God who will make up the Bride of Christ (Romans 8:38-39).  In God's system of perfect order, mathematically and reciprocally, God will not separate, or interfere in the relationship between the devil, and the devil's bride.  God will no longer restrict the devil from treating the devil's bride, in any way that the devil desires.  Consider the Fifth Trumpet to understand how the devil treats his own followers, and how the devil will treat the devil's bride.  The devil will be married to the devil's bride, for eternity.

Revelation 9:1-11 (NIV)  The fifth angel sounded his trumpet, and I saw a star that had fallen from the sky to the earth. The star was given the key to the shaft of the Abyss.  When he opened the Abyss, smoke rose from it like the smoke from a gigantic furnace. The sun and sky were darkened by the smoke from the Abyss.  And out of the smoke locusts came down upon the earth and were given power like that of scorpions of the earth.  They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those people who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.  They were not given power to kill them, but only to torture them for five months. And the agony they suffered was like that of the sting of a scorpion when it strikes a man.  During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.  The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.  Their hair was like women's hair, and their teeth were like lions' teeth.  They had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the thundering of many horses and chariots rushing into battle.  They had tails and stings like scorpions, and in their tails they had power to torment people for five months.  They had as king over them the angel of the Abyss, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek, Apollyon.

Jesus Christ will proclaim a Jubilee on the Day of Atonement.

Leviticus 25:8-55 (NIV) "'Count off seven sabbaths of years--seven times seven years--so that the seven sabbaths of years amount to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land. 10 Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you; each one of you is to return to his family property and each to his own clan. 11 The fiftieth year shall be a jubilee for you; do not sow and do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the untended vines. 12 For it is a jubilee and is to be holy for you; eat only what is taken directly from the fields. 13 "'In this Year of Jubilee everyone is to return to his own property."

The Marriage of Jesus Christ to the Bride of Christ will then occur on the Day of Atonement, when God and man become one (At-One-Ment). 

Following the Marriage of Jesus Christ to Jesus Christ's Bride on the Day of Atonement, there will be the Wedding Supper of the Lamb at the Feast of Tabernacles - proper.

Psalm 45: 1-17  (NIV) For the director of music. To the tune of "Lilies." Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil.  A wedding song.  My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.  You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace, since God has blessed you forever.  Gird your sword upon your side, O mighty one; clothe yourself with splendor and majesty.  In your majesty ride forth victoriously in behalf of truth, humility and righteousness; let your right hand display awesome deeds.  Let your sharp arrows pierce the hearts of the king's enemies; let the nations fall beneath your feet.  Your throne, O God, will last for ever and ever; a scepter of justice will be the scepter of your kingdom.  You love righteousness and hate wickedness; therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions by anointing you with the oil of joy.  All your robes are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces adorned with ivory the music of the strings makes you glad.  Daughters of kings are among your honored women; at your right hand is the royal bride in gold of Ophir.  Listen, O daughter, consider and give ear: Forget your people and your father's house.  The king is enthralled by your beauty; honor him, for he is your lord.  The Daughter of Tyre will come with a gift, men of wealth will seek your favor.  All glorious is the princess within her chamber; her gown is interwoven with gold.  In embroidered garments she is led to the king; her virgin companions follow her and are brought to you.  They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.  Your sons will take the place of your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.  I will perpetuate your memory through all generations; therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.

Song of Solomon 3:1-11 (NIV)  All night long on my bed I looked for the one my heart loves; I looked for him but did not find him.  I will get up now and go about the city, through its streets and squares; I will search for the one my heart loves. So I looked for him but did not find him.  The watchmen found me as they made their rounds in the city.  "Have you seen the one my heart loves?"  Scarcely had I passed them when I found the one my heart loves.  I held him and would not let him go till I had brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me.  Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.  Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense made from all the spices of the merchant?  Look! It is Solomon's carriage, escorted by sixty warriors, the noblest of Israel, all of them wearing the sword, all experienced in battle, each with his sword at his side, prepared for the terrors of the night.  King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he made it of wood from Lebanon.  Its posts he made of silver, its base of gold. Its seat was upholstered with purple, its interior lovingly inlaid by the daughters of Jerusalem.  Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced.

Revelation 19:11-16 (NIV)  I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and makes war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but he himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and his name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. "He will rule them with an iron scepter."  He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On his robe and on his thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords.

2 Corinthians 11:2 (NIV) I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

Ephesians 5:23-32 (NIV) For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church.

The Feast of Tabernacles - proper is the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.

Revelation 19:6-9 (NIV)  Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: "Hallelujah!  For our Lord God Almighty reigns.  Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory!  For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and his bride has made herself ready.  Fine linen, bright and clean, was given her to wear."  (Fine linen stands for the righteous acts of the saints.)  Then the angel said to me, "Write: 'Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!' "  And he added, "These are the true words of God."

Isaiah 25:6-9 (NIV) On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine-- the best of meats and the finest of wines. 7 On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; 8 he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken. 9 In that day they will say, "Surely this is our God; we trusted in him, and he saved us. This is the LORD, we trusted in him; let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation."

Matthew 22:1-14 (NIV) Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.  He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.  "Then he sent some more servants and said, 'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'  "But they paid no attention and went off--one to his field, another to his business.  The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.  The king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.  "Then he said to his servants, 'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.  Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'  So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad, and the wedding hall was filled with guests.  "But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.  'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?' The man was speechless.  "Then the king told the attendants, 'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'  "For many are invited, but few are chosen."

Matthew 25:1-13 (NIV)  "At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.  Five of them were foolish and five were wise.  The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them.  The wise, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.  The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.  "At midnight the cry rang out: 'Here's the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!'  "Then all the virgins woke up and trimmed their lamps.  The foolish ones said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.'  " 'No,' they replied, 'there may not be enough for both us and you. Instead, go to those who sell oil and buy some for yourselves.'  "But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet. And the door was shut.  "Later the others also came. 'Sir! Sir!' they said. 'Open the door for us!'  "But he replied, 'I tell you the truth, I don't know you.'  "Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour."

Luke 12:35-40 (NIV)  "Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like men waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.  It will be good for those servants whose master finds them watching when he comes. I tell you the truth, he will dress himself to serve, will have them recline at the table and will come and wait on them.  It will be good for those servants whose master finds them ready, even if he comes in the second or third watch of the night.  But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.  You also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him."

Luke 13:29 (NIV)  "People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God."

The Feast of Tabernacles/Ingathering followed the latter physical rains, and followed the final physical harvest.  The latter physical rains were twice as heavy as the early physical rains, and the latter physical harvest was twice as bountiful as the early physical harvest.  The latter physical rains ripened the wheat and the tares simultaneously.  The Seven Year "covenant" Period actually contains the Seven Year early and latter spiritual rains as a whole. 

The Seven Year "covenant" Period began with a "covenant"/contract/peace agreement on July 9, 2009, which was the 17th of Tammuz on the Jewish calendar.  The "peace agreement" will allow the Jewish people to rebuild their Temple in Jerusalem, in order for the Jewish people to re-establish the ritual of, "sacrifice and offering" - Daniel 9:27, in their attempt to atone for the Jewish people's sin. Information concerning the existence of that "peace agreement" has not been made available to the general public, as it is necessary for the Islamic governments to prepare the Islamic public for the fact that the Islamic people are going to share the Temple Mount in Jerusalem with the Jewish people; and the government of Israel must prepare the Jewish people to accept the concessions that the Israeli government made in order to facilitate the "peace agreement".  There is also a delay while various politicians posture themselves prior to the public announcement of the "peace agreement" in order for the various politicians to claim a percentage of the credit for the "peace agreement".  One of the politicians who is posturing himself in order to claim credit for the "peace agreement" is Barack Hussein Obama.  We are in a very short time period before information concerning the "peace agreement" must be made available to the general public, as the Jewish Temple will be rebuilt and completed, and, "sacrifice and offering", will begin following sundown on March 15, 2010.  The Jewish day begins at sundown, consequently, sundown on March 15, 2010 is the beginning of the Jewish day of March 16, 2010.  March 16, 2010 is the 1st of Nisan, the first day of the new Jewish sacred calendar year of 5770.  The Jewish people will re-establish, "sacrifice and offering", in the new Jewish Temple on the first day of their new sacred calendar year of 5770.  March 16, 2010, the 1st of Nisan, is also exactly 250 days after July 9, 2009, which was the 17th of Tammuz; the day on which the "peace agreement" was agreed to.  The 250 day time period between July 9, 2009 and March 16, 2010 is the 250 day difference between the 2550 days of the Seven Year "covenant" Period referenced as the "seven" in Daniel 9:27; and the 2300 "evenings and mornings" referenced in Daniel 8:9-14 for; "the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, the rebellion that causes desolation, and the surrender of the sanctuary and of the host that will be trampled underfoot".  The 17th of Tammuz has been a historic day of calamity for the Jewish people.  July 9, 2009 was still another day of great calamity for the Jewish people, but the Jewish people will not recognize it as a day of great calamity until exactly 1,260 days later on December 21, 2012.

The early spiritual rains, and latter spiritual rains, contained within the Seven Year "covenant" Period are symbolic of the Holy Spirit being poured out spiritually on the Gentiles, and the Jewish people, thereby effecting all people to be brought to the point of  spiritual decision, prior to the spiritual harvest of the souls of man that will occur following the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, at the Judgment by Jesus Christ.

Acts 2:17-21 (NIV) " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.  I will show wonders in the heaven above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and glorious day of the Lord.  And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Joel 2:28-31 (NIV) "And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people.  Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days.  I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and billows of smoke. The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

The Seven Year "covenant" Period contains the final period that Gentiles, and the final period that the Jewish people will have for the opportunity to become "Born Again" Children of God.  The latter rains contained within the Seven Year "covenant" Period actually contain both early rain, and latter rain portions.  The early rain portion of the Seven Year "covenant" Period is the final opportunity for the Gentiles to become "Born Again" Children of God, and will officially begin on March 16, 2010.  The announcement that the Jewish people have re-established "sacrifice and offering" - Daniel 9:27, on March 16, 2010, is the information that will effect Gentile people recognizing that the return of Jesus Christ is imminent.  That information will effect the early rain portion of the latter rains in the form of a great revival among the Gentiles, when the Gentiles recognize that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. 

When the "peace agreement" was made that will allow the Jewish people to re-establish, "sacrifice and offering" - Daniel 9:27, in their Temple in Jerusalem, the creation of that "peace agreement" preceded the Second Coming of Jesus Christ by seven years.  The "peace agreement" that will allow the re-establishment of "sacrifice and offering", portends the Feast of Trumpets, in that it was a Trumpet Blast to the "Born Again" Children of God, to signal to them that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent.  Like the Feast of Trumpets, that "peace agreement" was a signal to the "Born Again" Children of God, to prepare to meet God on the Day of Atonement - Judgment, that will be coming within seven years.  The "peace agreement" will thereby effect the early portion of the "latter rain" - a great revival where many Gentiles will consecrate themselves to God through faith in  Jesus Christ, and the "Born Again" Children of God will get their wedding garments ready in anticipation for the arrival of Jesus Christ.

The early rain portion of the latter rains will conclude for the Gentiles on December 25, 2012,"And the door was shut." - Matthew 25:10d, when the Antichrist sets himself up in the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, "proclaiming himself to be God." - 2 Thessalonians 2:4.  The latter, or Jewish portion of the latter rains will begin on that same day of December 25, 2012, after "the full number of the Gentiles has come in" - Romans 11:25, when a great number of the Jewish people will accept the Blood-Substitution Sacrifice of Jesus Christ and become "Born Again" Children of God during the three and one-half year "great tribulation" Period (Matthew 24:21-22 [KJV], Revelation 7:14).  The latter portion of the latter rains will conclude for the Jewish people at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, which will occur in the window of time between September 29, 2015, and April 8, 2016.

Malachi 4:5-6 (NIV)  "See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.  He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse."

After the Holy Spirit of God has been poured out on all people, and all people are spiritually ripened, God will harvest the earth on the Day of Atonement, Judgment Day.

Revelation 14:14-20 (NIV) I looked, and there before me was a white cloud, and seated on the cloud was one "like a son of man" with a crown of gold on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.  Then another angel came out of the temple and called in a loud voice to him who was sitting on the cloud, "Take your sickle and reap, because the time to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is ripe."  So he who was seated on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth, and the earth was harvested.  Another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.  Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, "Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth's vine, because its grapes are ripe."  The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath.  They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia.

The Day of Atonement, Judgment Day, will be great for the "Born Again" Children of God, but it will be dreadful for the sinful bride of the devil.  It is the prayer of "Elijah", that will effect the clarity of the message of "Elijah".  It is through the message of "Elijah", that the "Born Again" Children of God will understand where they are in time, and that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ is imminent.  The prayer of Elijah brought the rain.

1 Kings 18:41-45 (NIV)  And Elijah said to Ahab, "Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain."  So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.  "Go and look toward the sea," he told his servant. And he went up and looked.  "There is nothing there," he said.  Seven times Elijah said, "Go back."  The seventh time the servant reported, "A cloud as small as a man's hand is rising from the sea."  So Elijah said, "Go and tell Ahab, 'Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.' "  Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain came on and Ahab rode off to Jezreel.

It is the prayer of "Elijah" that will effect the coming of the early portion, and the latter portion, of the latter rains within the Seven Year "covenant" Period.  The latter rains will be twice as plentiful as the early rains.  The latter rains will effect a harvest that is twice as bountiful as the early harvest.  The early portion of the latter rains will effect the final time that the Gentile souls will be ripened for harvest.  The latter portion of the latter rains will effect the final time that the Jewish souls will be ripened for harvest.

God's holy angels have a free-will.  Holy angels voluntarily choose to function within God's perfect-will.  At any time, a holy angel may choose to deviate from God's perfect-will, and commit sin.  Once a holy angel chooses to deviate from God's perfect-will and commit sin; that angel instantly becomes a sinful angel, also known as a devil or demon, with the desire, "to steal and kill and destroy".

John 10:10 (NIV) "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full."

After the devil was created as a holy angel; the devil chose to deviate from God's perfect-will, and commit sin.  Consequently the devil became a sinful angel/demon with the desire, "to steal and kill and destroy" - John 10:10; and the devil also began, "looking for someone to devour". 

1 Peter 5:8 Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.

Once a holy angel with a free-will chooses to commit sin; that angel instantly becomes a sinful angel/demon, and loses their free-will.  That sinful angel/demon is then completely restricted by God, to act only as God permits that sinful angel/demon to act within God's permissive-will. Once the devil and the devil's angels/demons sinned; the devil, and the devil's angels/demons, lost their free-will.  The devil, and the devil's angels/demons may only act, precisely and exactly as God permits them to act within God's permissive-will.   Satan cannot commit any act without explicit permission from God.  The devil, and the devil's angels/demons are only permitted by God to act in six very specific ways:

1.  The devil, and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to masquerade as a holy angel, or "an angel of light".

2 Corinthians 11:14 (NIV) And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

2.  The devil, and/or the devil's angels/demons, are permitted to tell any lie whatsoever.

John 8:44 (NIV) "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

The devil, and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to masquerade, "as an angel of light", and to tell any lie whatsoever; because God has given mankind the Holy Word of God as a defense against the devil's masquerades, and as a defense against the devil's lies.  The Holy Word of God exposes every masquerade, and refutes every single lie that the devil is permitted to tell!

3.  The devil, and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to possess any person who is not filled with the Holy Spirit of God.

Luke 11:24-26 (NIV)  "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left.'  When it arrives, it finds the house swept clean and put in order.  Then it goes and takes seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first."

While the devil, and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to possess any person who is not filled with the Holy Spirit of God, YOU will be greatly increasing YOUR chances for demon possession through the sinful wickedness of a worship of the devil, and/or experimenting with the occult through "astral projection", transcendental meditation, playing "Dungeons and Dragons", Ouija boards, tarot cards, crystals, or other cult paraphernalia, depraved sexual activity, drug abuse, or a combination of those acts of sin.  YOUR ONLY defense against demon possession is found through becoming a "Born Again" Child of God by being filled with the Holy Spirit of God, and by KNOWING the Holy Word of God.

Ephesians 6:10-18 (NIV)  Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.  For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.  Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.  Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace.  In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.  Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.  And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints.

4.  The devil accuses the brothers, who are the "Born Again" Children of God.

Zechariah 3:1 (NIV) Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him.

Revelation 12:9-10 (NIV) The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.  Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ.  For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.

The devil accuses "our brothers", in order to attempt to get God to judge one of "our brothers".

Job 1:1-21 (NIV) In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.  He had seven sons and three daughters, and he owned seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen and five hundred donkeys, and had a large number of servants. He was the greatest man among all the people of the East.  His sons used to take turns holding feasts in their homes, and they would invite their three sisters to eat and drink with them.  When a period of feasting had run its course, Job would send and have them purified. Early in the morning he would sacrifice a burnt offering for each of them, thinking, "Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts." This was Job's regular custom.  One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.  The Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"  Satan answered the Lord, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."  Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil." "Does Job fear God for nothing?" Satan replied.  "Have you not put a hedge around him and his household and everything he has? You have blessed the work of his hands, so that his flocks and herds are spread throughout the land.  But stretch out your hand and strike everything he has, and he will surely curse you to your face."  The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, then, everything he has is in your hands, but on the man himself do not lay a finger."  Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.  One day when Job's sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, a messenger came to Job and said, " The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby, and the Sabeans attacked and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"  While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The fire of God fell from the sky and burned up the sheep and the servants, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"  While he was still speaking, another messenger came and said, "The Chaldeans formed three raiding parties and swept down on your camels and carried them off. They put the servants to the sword, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"  While he was still speaking, yet another messenger came and said, "Your sons and daughters were feasting and drinking wine at the oldest brother's house, when suddenly a mighty wind swept in from the desert and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them and they are dead, and I am the only one who has escaped to tell you!"  At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship and said:  "Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I will depart.  The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised." In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing.

Job 2:1-13 (NIV) On another day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them to present himself before him.  And the Lord said to Satan, "Where have you come from?"  Satan answered the Lord, "From roaming through the earth and going back and forth in it."  Then the Lord said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil. And he still maintains his integrity, though you incited me against him to ruin him without any reason."  "Skin for skin!" Satan replied. "A man will give all he has for his own life.  But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face."  The Lord said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life."  So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.  Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.  His wife said to him, "Are you still holding on to your integrity? Curse God and die!"  He replied, "You are talking like a foolish woman. Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?"  In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.  When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite, heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him.  When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to weep aloud, and they tore their robes and sprinkled dust on their heads.  Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was.

5.  Because of man's freewill, the devil and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to tempt any person to commit any sinful act, with the single exception that the devil and/or the devil's angels/demons are not permitted to tempt any person beyond what that person is able to bear.

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)  No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.

The devil and/or the devil's angels/demons tempt people to commit sin, so that the the devil and/or the devil's angels/demons can execute God's judgment on those people for committing sin.  In 1 Chronicles 21:1-30 printed below, Satan tempted David to take a census, in order to enrage God against David, and thereby enable Satan to execute God's judgment.

1 Chronicles 21:1-30  Satan rose up against Israel and incited David to take a census of Israel.  So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, "Go and count the Israelites from Beersheba to Dan. Then report back to me so that I may know how many there are."  But Joab replied, "May the Lord multiply his troops a hundred times over. My lord the king, are they not all my lord's subjects? Why does my lord want to do this? Why should he bring guilt on Israel?"  The king's word, however, overruled Joab; so Joab left and went throughout Israel and then came back to Jerusalem.  Joab reported the number of the fighting men to David: In all Israel there were one million one hundred thousand men who could handle a sword, including four hundred and seventy thousand in Judah.  But Joab did not include Levi and Benjamin in the numbering, because the king's command was repulsive to him.  This command was also evil in the sight of God; so he punished Israel.  Then David said to God, "I have sinned greatly by doing this. Now, I beg you, take away the guilt of your servant. I have done a very foolish thing."  The Lord said to Gad, David's seer, "Go and tell David, 'This is what the Lord says: I am giving you three options. Choose one of them for me to carry out against you.' "  So Gad went to David and said to him, "This is what the Lord says: 'Take your choice: three years of famine, three months of being swept away before your enemies, with their swords overtaking you, or three days of the sword of the Lord--days of plague in the land, with the angel of the Lord ravaging every part of Israel.' Now then, decide how I should answer the one who sent me."  David said to Gad, "I am in deep distress. Let me fall into the hands of the Lord, for his mercy is very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men."  So the Lord sent a plague on Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell dead.  And God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem. But as the angel was doing so, the Lord saw it and was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.  David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand extended over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.  David said to God, "Was it not I who ordered the fighting men to be counted? I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? O Lord my God, let your hand fall upon me and my family, but do not let this plague remain on your people."  Then the angel of the Lord ordered Gad to tell David to go up and build an altar to the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.  So David went up in obedience to the word that Gad had spoken in the name of the Lord.  While Araunah was threshing wheat, he turned and saw the angel; his four sons who were with him hid themselves.  Then David approached, and when Araunah looked and saw him, he left the threshing floor and bowed down before David with his face to the ground.  David said to him, "Let me have the site of your threshing floor so I can build an altar to the Lord, that the plague on the people may be stopped. Sell it to me at the full price."  Araunah said to David, "Take it! Let my lord the king do whatever pleases him. Look, I will give the oxen for the burnt offerings, the threshing sledges for the wood, and the wheat for the grain offering. I will give all this."  But King David replied to Araunah, "No, I insist on paying the full price. I will not take for the Lord what is yours, or sacrifice a burnt offering that costs me nothing."  So David paid Araunah six hundred shekels of gold for the site.  David built an altar to the Lord there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. He called on the Lord, and the Lord answered him with fire from heaven on the altar of burnt offering.  Then the Lord spoke to the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.  At that time, when David saw that the Lord had answered him on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, he offered sacrifices there.  The tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the desert, and the altar of burnt offering were at that time on the high place at Gibeon.  But David could not go before it to inquire of God, because he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

6.  After God judges for sin, condemns, and releases individual people, or specific groups of people/nations for specific executions; the devil and/or the devil's angels/demons are permitted to execute God's specific judgment on those individual people, or specific groups of people/nations. The devil and the devil's angels/demons cannot commit any executions, except as specifically permitted by God.  God only permits an execution, following God's judgment for sin, and condemnation.  When the devil executes a judgment of God, that execution is not an act of sin, it is the act of an execution of God's judgment.

Exodus 12:21-30 (NIV)  Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.  Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning. When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down. "Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.  When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.  And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?' then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.' " Then the people bowed down and worshiped.  The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.  At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.  Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.

2 Samuel 24:15-17 (NIV) So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died. When the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the Lord was grieved because of the calamity and said to the angel who was afflicting the people, "Enough! Withdraw your hand." The angel of the Lord was then at the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.  When David saw the angel who was striking down the people, he said to the Lord, "I am the one who has sinned and done wrong. These are but sheep. What have they done? Let your hand fall upon me and my family."

1 Kings 22:19-23 (NIV) Micaiah continued, "Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the host of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left. And the Lord said, 'Who will entice Ahab into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' "One suggested this, and another that. Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, 'I will entice him.'" 'By what means?' the Lord asked.  " 'I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said." 'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the Lord. 'Go and do it.' "So now the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of all these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you."

2 Chronicles 18:18-22 (NIV) Micaiah continued, "Therefore hear the word of the Lord: I saw the Lord sitting on his throne with all the host of heaven standing on his right and on his left.  And the Lord said, 'Who will entice Ahab king of Israel into attacking Ramoth Gilead and going to his death there?' "One suggested this, and another that.  Finally, a spirit came forward, stood before the Lord and said, 'I will entice him.'" 'By what means?' the Lord asked." 'I will go and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his prophets,' he said." 'You will succeed in enticing him,' said the Lord. 'Go and do it.' "So now the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouths of these prophets of yours. The Lord has decreed disaster for you."

2 Kings 19:32-36 (NIV) "Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:  "He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here.  He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.  By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the Lord.  I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant."  That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies!  So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.

Psalm 78:41-51 (NIV) Again and again they put God to the test; they vexed the Holy One of Israel.  They did not remember his power--the day he redeemed them from the oppressor, the day he displayed his miraculous signs in Egypt, his wonders in the region of Zoan.  He turned their rivers to blood; they could not drink from their streams. He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them. He gave their crops to the grasshopper, their produce to the locust. He destroyed their vines with hail and their sycamore-figs with sleet.  He gave over their cattle to the hail, their livestock to bolts of lightning.  He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility--a band of destroying angels.  He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.  He struck down all the firstborn of Egypt, the firstfruits of manhood in the tents of Ham.

Acts 12:21-23 (NIV) On the appointed day Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people.  They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man."  Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.

1 Corinthians 10:10 (NIV)  And do not grumble, as some of them did--and were killed by the destroying angel.

Revelation 9:13-15 (NIV) The sixth angel sounded his trumpet, and I heard a voice coming from the horns of the golden altar that is before God.  It said to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."  And the four angels who had been kept ready for this very hour and day and month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.

Following the devil's fall from Heaven, the devil is completely controlled by God.  Other than the devil's lies, all of the sinful acts that are committed now, are committed by a sinful human, with the human's free-will.  In order to accomplish the devil's sinful desires, the devil must manipulate a human, who has a human's free-will, who is also a sinful spiritual child of the devil, to commit any sinful acts that the devil wants committed.  A person who has not been filled with the Holy Spirit of God will act in a similar manner to a person who is possessed by the devil and/or fallen angels/demons, because a person who is not filled with the Holy Spirit of God has the same sinful spirit in them, as the sinful spirit that the devil has in him.

2 Timothy 2:25-26 (NIV) Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

Ephesians 2:1-2 (NIV) As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient.

In a spiritually reciprocal algebraic equation contained within the perfect order of God, in order to accomplish God's perfect will, God chooses to use the "Born Again" Children of God to commit holy acts.  God's holy angels cannot do any evangelical work among humans, as angels are not redeemed, and angels are not redeemable.  The Holy Spirit of God draws every human to God.  The Holy Spirit of God directs redeemed, "Born Again" Children of God to do evangelical work among humans.  God has chosen to use redeemed, "Born Again" Children of God, to perform any evangelical work done among humans.  Only "Born Again" Children of God can evangelize through cultivation, planting, watering, and caring for the souls of God's young children.  If evangelical work is to be done among humans, it must be done by redeemed, "Born Again" Children of God.

1 Corinthians 3:6-9 (NIV) I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.

The harvest of souls during the latter rains, is directly contingent upon the cultivation, sowing, and watering of the fields; by the "Born Again" Children of God, prior to, and during the latter rains.

John 4:35 (NIV) "Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest."

During the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ, the Feast of Tabernacles will be observed.

Zechariah 14:16-21 (NIV)  Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.  If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, they will have no rain.  If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. The Lord will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.  This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.  On that day Holy to the lord will be inscribed on the bells of the horses, and the cooking pots in the Lord's house will be like the sacred bowls in front of the altar.  Every pot in Jerusalem and Judah will be holy to the Lord Almighty, and all who come to sacrifice will take some of the pots and cook in them. And on that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord Almighty.

Jesus Christ, and His Bride, will rule the earth for One Thousand Years, but will still anticipate the New Heaven and the New Earth when God (Elohim) will Tabernacle with Jesus Christ, and His Bride. 

When a person becomes filled with the Holy Spirit of God, they become a "Born Again" Child of God, and spiritually Holy; so that they can live completely without sin.  After being filled with the Holy Spirit of God; "Born Again" Children of God have a pure heart, and they grow in Righteousness through their knowledge and understanding of God's Law.  However, the "Born Again" Children of God's growth in Righteousness continues to be retarded because of their intellectual ignorance.  "Born Again" Children of God have a perfect heart, but an imperfect head.  Today, due to their retarded intellect, the "Born Again" Children of God cannot know or understand the level of Righteousness that Jesus Christ will teach during the Millennial Reign.  It will require One Thousand Years for Jesus Christ to lead the "Born Again" Children of God into complete Righteousness.  During the One Thousand Year Millennial Reign, Jesus Christ will teach the "Born Again" Children of God a level of Righteousness, that surpasses the Righteousness referenced in Matthew 22:37-40.

Matthew 22:37-40 (NIV) Jesus replied: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

When Moses' led the Children of Israel in the desert for a period of forty years, Moses instructed the Children of Israel concerning God's Law.  Moses changed the Children of Israel's mores and folkways prior to entering the Land of Canaan.  Moses' leading of the Children of Israel was a fore-glimpse of Jesus Christ's leading of the "Born Again" Children of God during the Millennial Reign.  Jesus Christ will instruct the "Born Again" Children of God concerning a greater level of Righteousness, and change the "Born Again" Children of God's mores and folkways prior to the "Born Again" Children of God entering the new Heaven and the new earth. 

When Jesus Christ leads the "Born Again" Children of God into living a level of complete Righteousness, then God the Father (Elohiym) will no longer need the Lord God (Adonai Elohiym) to act as a Mercy buffer between God and man, because the "Born Again" Children of God will live in complete Righteousness, and not need a Mercy buffer.  God the Father (Elohiym) will physically reunite Himself with the Lord God (Adonai Elohiym - Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit of God. 

God will then provide a new Heaven, and a new earth that has never had sin committed in them, for Himself and for the completely Righteous, "Born Again" Children of God to dwell in, for eternity.  Following the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ, God (Elohim) will Tabernacle with man.

Revelation 21:1-4 (NIV)  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

The Bridegroom is calling now for YOU to prepare for the Wedding Supper of the Lamb.

Revelation 3:20 (NIV) "Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."

Revelation 22:17 (NIV)  The Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say, "Come!" Whoever is thirsty, let him come; and whoever wishes, let him take the free gift of the water of life.

Isaiah 55:1-3 (NIV) "Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat!  Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.  Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?  Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.  Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live.  I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David.