Alright, in Leviticus chapter number 23 we read the lengthy chapter that goes through
the feasts of the Lord.
The Bible says in verse 2, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, concerning
the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my
feasts.
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, and holy convocation
ye shall do no work therein.
It is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.
And then he begins to get into these different feasts that occur at different times in the
year.
Now if you would turn to Hebrews chapter 9, and let me say some things by way of introduction
and then we're going to come back to Leviticus chapter 23, but go if you would to Hebrews
chapter 9 and while you're turning there let me read for you Colossians 2 16.
The Bible reads, let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of unholy
day or of the new moon or of the Sabbath days which are a shadow of things to come,
but the body is of Christ.
So there in Colossians 2 we see that these holy days, Sabbath days, new moons, meats
and drinks, these things were a shadow of things to come.
They show us things that are coming in the future.
Now you remember Jesus Christ said, think not that I am come to destroy the law or the
prophets, I am not come to destroy but to fulfill.
Look at Hebrews chapter 9 verse 8, the Bible reads, the Holy Ghost is signifying that the
way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest while as the first tabernacle was
yet standing, watch this, which was a figure for the time then present.
So what that shows us is that these Old Testament things, the meats, the drinks, the washings,
the feast days, they have a figurative meaning, the Bible says.
He says they were a figure for the time then present which were offered both gifts and
sacrifices that could not make him that did the service perfect as pertained to the conscience,
verse 10, which stood only in meats and drinks and divers, washings and carnal ordinances
imposed on them until the time of reformation.
These are not things that we observe today.
Only until the time of reformation and no we're not talking about Martin Luther and
John Calvin, he said, but Christ being come.
So the time of reformation according to the Bible was when Christ came and it says, but
Christ being come, an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle not made with hands, that is to say not of this building, neither by the blood
of goats and calves but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place having
obtained eternal redemption for us.
Go to Deuteronomy 16 and let me say this, these things upon the earth, the tabernacle,
the altar, the Ark of the Covenant, the holiest place, those things also had their equivalent
in heaven.
The Bible says that those things which were a figure of the true, Moses was shown in the
mount what the heavenly tabernacle and the heavenly implements looked like and he was
told to see and make all things according to the pattern which was shown unto him in
the mount.
And so these things are figurative of something greater, a better tabernacle and so forth.
And so when we look at these feasts, I'm going to show you how the Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled
these feast days, these seven feasts that we see in Leviticus 23.
Some of them he will fulfill in the future, some of them he has already fulfilled and
I'm going to show you that tonight.
But let me just help you to understand and you say, wow, this sermon is a little bit
deep.
Well, get some smarts and read the Bible and learn something deep for a change.
We live in a day of shallow Christianity.
We live in a day where people don't want to dig in and learn their Bible.
They don't even want to hear that there is a book that's even called Leviticus.
But these things the Bible says are written for our admonition upon whom the ends of the
world are come.
So scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine.
Not was profitable, is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16 says this, three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the
Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose.
What place is that going to eventually be hundreds of years later?
Jerusalem.
It's eventually going to be Jerusalem.
But it was different places before that so that's why it's just the place which God shall
choose.
He says they shall appear at the place which God shall choose in the Feast of Unleavened
Bread.
These are the three times, are you listening?
The Feast of Unleavened Bread, in the Feast of Weeks, and in the Feast of Tabernacles,
and they shall not appear before the Lord empty.
So go back to Leviticus chapter number 23.
So there are three times in the year that all the males are supposed to appear before
the Lord in the place that he shall choose.
Now you say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson, I thought there were seven feasts.
Yes, but they are in groups because the first three happen all about the same time.
Then there's a space and you have another one.
And then you have a space and you have the other three.
And so that's why God says you're showing up three times a year.
The first time you show up it's for three of them.
The second time it's for the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost.
And then the third time is when you're showing up for the other three.
And we're going to get into what all of those are.
Now first of all, in Leviticus chapter number 23, let me get there myself, we start out
with the first feast of the Lord.
It says in verse 4, these are the feasts of the Lord, even holy convocations which
come in their seasons.
In the 14th day of the first month that even is the Lord's Passover.
That's the first one right there, the Lord's Passover.
And then it says on the 15th day of the same month, notice they're just two days in a row
there.
On the 15th day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Lord.
Seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
And on and on it goes.
Turn if you would to 1 Corinthians chapter 5 in the New Testament.
Keep your finger in Leviticus 23 because we're going to be back there throughout the sermon.
So we're looking at the first couple of feasts, okay?
They show up in the first month, don't they?
But what you need to understand is that throughout history most people have reckoned the years
beginning with spring.
Have you ever noticed how the names of our months, they don't really correspond to what
month they are?
Like for example, October, doesn't that sound like it would have something to do with the
number 8?
Have you ever thought about that?
You know, October, like an octopus, okay.
But it's actually the 10th month, isn't it?
But the reason why is because throughout history before our current calendar, you know, the
calendar started in the springtime.
You know, it would start with like what we would consider March.
That's around the time that they would start that calendar.
That's why you have October and November, which is like Nueve, right?
And December, like diez, okay?
Now if you speak Spanish you can see that the names of these months are a little bit
off, you know, September, again, related to the number 7.
So what I'm saying is that these feasts are starting out in the springtime.
The first month for them was in the springtime and that first month had some feasts in it.
The first feast was the Passover on the 14th day of the first month.
Then the next day, the 15th, was the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Let's see how Jesus Christ fulfilled these feasts.
It says in 1 Corinthians 5 verse 7,
Purge out therefore the old leaven that ye may be a new lump as ye are unleavened, for
even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us.
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice
and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
So right there the Bible is teaching us that Jesus Christ is our Passover.
We don't need to sacrifice a Passover lamb today.
Jesus is our Passover.
And if you remember when Jesus Christ showed up on the scene, John the Baptist pointed
to him and said, Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
Jesus was that spotless, sinless lamb.
And you know we don't have time, but in Exodus 12 he explains the process of going through
this Passover feast.
And he said first of all, on the 10th day of the month, you choose a lamb.
You take a lamb, he said it needs to be a male lamb, it needs to be without spot and
without blemish.
Not a lamb that's got problems and got issues and he said, you know, you're finding a spotless
perfect lamb because it's to represent the spotless and sinless Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ.
And so you would choose that lamb on the 10th day of the month and then on the 14th day
of the month the whole congregation would kill that lamb in the evening.
Now think about our Lord Jesus Christ.
Remember that famous day of Palm Sunday when he had that triumphal entry into Jerusalem
on that Sunday where they laid down palm branches in the way before him and they said, Hosanna,
blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.
And you remember they said to Jesus that he should rebuke his disciples, that they should
not say these things.
And he said if these should hold their peace, even the stones would cry out.
Because that day was an important day that had to take place and if those people didn't
say it, he said the stones would cry out.
That's showing the importance of what was being said at that time.
You see, that day was the 10th day of the first month, or the 10th day of the month
Abib, when Jesus came in riding upon a cold and the fall of an ass and when he rode in
on that triumphal entry on the 10th and he was crucified in the evening on the 14th day
of the month Abib.
Because if you do a little math on this, if he was presented on Sunday, which is the 10th,
that would make, and again, obviously the days were not called Sunday, Monday, Tuesday
back then, but I'm speaking English, okay, you don't mind, do you?
But anyway, Sunday he rides in on the donkey, okay?
Monday would be what day then?
The 11th, right?
And then Tuesday would be the 12th, Wednesday would be the 13th, and Thursday would be the
14th, right?
You got that?
Thursday is the 14th.
Now, the way that God calculates time is from the evening to the morning.
The Bible says in Genesis 1 over and over again, the evening and the morning were the
first day.
So the next day begins with the evening, basically at the end of the day when the sun goes down,
it's the next calendar day, biblically speaking, that's the way they look at things, okay?
That day's over, you're onto something new, okay?
Now there are a couple different views on this, because we know that on the first day
of the week, when they go to the tomb very early, before the sun rises, they show up
and he's not there.
He had risen from the dead.
First day of the week, they show up bright and early, he's gone.
He's risen on that first day of the week.
Now, some believe that he was basically crucified on what we would consider Wednesday evening,
okay?
Because of the fact that if he's crucified on the 14th, you know, in the evening, it's
becoming the 14th, and so boom, there it is, okay?
Just say, you know, he was crucified on Thursday evening, the 14th, okay?
And then if you're Roman Catholic, you say he's crucified on Friday.
But wait a minute, there's no way in the world he's crucified on Friday.
Now if you believe he was crucified on a Wednesday, that's what I believe.
That's my personal opinion, that's what I believe.
But there are others who believe he was crucified on Thursday.
I think both of those are valid views, I think there's evidence for both.
I believe it was Wednesday, but I can see how somebody believes it's Thursday.
Friday, no way.
That's not happening, because Jesus Christ said, as Jonas was three days and three nights
in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the
heart of the earth.
Now, just, it's not that complicated.
If he died on Friday, you got Friday night, you got Saturday, and then you got Saturday
night and then he's risen.
That's one day and two nights.
That is not even close.
And people say, well, it was just like part of three days and three nights.
Okay, one day and two nights is not even part of three, that's not even part of three nights.
You can't get three nights out of that no matter what you do.
There's no way.
And so Jesus Christ was not crucified on Friday.
Good Friday, sorry, it's a hoax.
The whole holiday is just, doesn't even make sense.
Okay, so forget Good Friday.
Call it Good Wednesday, or Good Thursday, if anything.
But I say it was Wednesday, that's my personal belief, is that he was killed on Wednesday,
you know, basically in the evening as it was becoming the 14th.
But again, there are a lot of different things.
You can study up on that in the Bible and make a decision for yourself.
Because if he died on Thursday, then of course it would be more of a part of three days and
three nights.
It wouldn't be a full 72 hours dead.
I believe that he was dead for full 72 hours.
That's my opinion, okay.
But again, the other view is valid as well.
But either way, we know one thing for certain.
He died on the 14th day because he was that Passover lamb.
And he spent three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
Now what were those three days?
Well if you think about it, the first day was the 14th, right?
Thursday the 14th, the Passover, that's one day that he spent in the tomb and his soul
in the heart of the earth.
Okay, Friday would be the 15th then, which was the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Saturday would be the Sabbath day, because every Saturday is a Sabbath day, back in their
day.
The Bible doesn't use the word Saturday, I'm just putting it in our vernacular.
And then on the first day he rose.
So think about this.
If he was dead for those three days and three nights, the 14th Passover, the 15th Unleavened
Bread, and the 16th being the Sabbath day, think about it, nobody was supposed to be
doing any work while he was in the grave.
Isn't that a wonderful picture of the fact that we don't do any work to get to heaven?
We don't do any work toward our salvation.
When Jesus was paying the price for our sins, he said, I don't want anybody else to be working,
because I am doing this alone.
He got all the glory, he does all the work for salvation.
The Bible says, for by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
And so Jesus did all the work, and so God said, now think about this.
If he would have done it on a different year, you know, the days might have fell on different
days of the week.
But it just so happened that our Lord died in a week where it went, Passover, Unleavened
Bread, Sabbath day, all three days, days where they weren't supposed to be working.
And so that was the rest, where we were resting on what he did, we're not doing our own works
to get into heaven, that's what the Sabbath represents.
So he fulfilled the Sabbath, showing that we rest while he pays our sins.
He fulfilled the Passover by being the spotless, sinless Lamb of God, slain from the foundation
of the world, and taking away the sin of the world.
He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread, why?
Because leaven is a picture of sin in the Bible, we just saw it in 1 Corinthians 5.
Jesus was sinless, he was unleavened, and not only that, he said, I am the bread of
life.
He said in John, chapter number 6, verse 35, and Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of
life, he that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
I love what Jesus said to the woman at the well, he said, if you drink of this water
you'll thirst again.
He said, whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but it
shall spring up in him a well unto everlasting life.
You see, you get saved once, and then you never thirst again.
Once you take a drink of that living water of life, it springs up in you a well of everlasting
life.
I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck
them out of my hand.
And so salvation is eternal, as pictured by the bread of life, the water of life.
He's the Passover, he was the unleavened bread, he is our rest.
We don't do any work.
The Bible says he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works
as God did from his.
And our salvation is not something we work for, it's something where we just rest completely
on what he did.
He did all the work.
We don't do any of the work for salvation.
So we've already seen how a few of the feasts have been fulfilled, haven't we?
Let's go back to Leviticus 23, let's see what comes next in the calendar here of the Hebrew
year of feasts.
See these are the holidays that they celebrate.
You know in America we have holidays that we celebrate, and some people celebrate different
holidays than others, but in the time of the children of Israel that we're reading about
in Leviticus, these are the holidays they were commanded to celebrate.
Three times in the year they were all going to come together and appear before the Lord
in the place that he would choose.
Now the next thing was the firstfruits.
So we saw the Passover, the unleavened bread, now let's see the firstfruits.
It says in verse 9, and the Lord spake unto Moses saying, Speak unto the children of Israel
and say unto them, When ye become unto the land which I give unto you, and shall reap
the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto
the priest.
And ye shall wave the sheaf before the Lord, to be accepted for you.
On the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it.
And he explains on and on what they're going to do there, where they bring in the firstfruits
at that time.
Now go if you would to 1 Corinthians 15, again keep a finger in Leviticus 23, we'll be back.
So the next thing was the firstfruits.
They were supposed to bring of the firstfruits to the Lord there, and the firstfruits are
coming in about the same time as they're doing the Passover and the unleavened bread.
Then they would bring in the firstfruits at that same time, just a few days later.
And look what the Bible says in 1 Corinthians chapter 15, and this is a great chapter on
the resurrection of Christ and on the future resurrection of believers.
I love this chapter.
But look at verse 20.
It says, But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that
slept.
And here is where it gets very explicit.
For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
But every man in his due order.
Christ the firstfruits, afterward they that are Christ's said is coming, and then cometh
the end and on and on.
So we see there's an order of the resurrection given, do you see that?
Here's the order of the resurrection.
The firstfruits is Jesus Christ, he's the first one who rose from the dead.
You say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson, there are people in the Old Testament who rose.
What about when Elisha brought a dead body back to life?
But wait a minute, those people all died again.
Yes, they were temporarily brought back to life.
Lazarus was temporarily brought back to life, but do you think Lazarus is still alive today?
His soul's alive in heaven, but let's face it, he died again.
And the only person to be resurrected to live forevermore is the Lord Jesus Christ.
To be resurrected, glorified, to die again no more.
He was the firstfruits of the resurrection.
Now the Bible says this, afterward they that are Christ's said is coming.
So the firstfruits of the resurrection was Jesus.
Then there's what the Bible calls the first resurrection.
That is those who are Christ's at his coming go up in that first resurrection.
And then the second resurrection cometh at what the Bible calls the end.
Do you see that in the next few verses where he talks about after he has reigned, after
the millennium will come the second resurrection, which is called the end.
That's for people who got saved after the rapture, after, you know, who were born after
that time or got saved after that time.
They're going to live again after the thousand years are finished.
That's a whole other sermon in and of itself.
But the main thing I want to show you here is just the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ
was the firstfruits of the resurrection.
Do you see how he's fulfilling these feasts?
He was the Passover.
He fulfilled the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
He fulfilled the firstfruits because he was the firstfruits of them that slept.
He was the firstfruits of the resurrection.
What comes next?
Go to Acts chapter number 2.
And while you're turning to Acts chapter 2, I will read for you about the next feast,
which is called the Feast of Weeks.
Now the Feast of Weeks in the New Testament is called the Day of Pentecost.
I'll read it for you from Leviticus 23.
You can flip over there if you want.
And then we're going to be in Acts chapter 2.
But the Bible reads in verse number 15 of Leviticus 23,
And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought
the sheep of the wave offering.
So that's going back to that third thing of the firstfruits.
He said, count from that day when you brought in that sheep of a wave offering of the firstfruits.
He said, count from that day after the sabbath, from the day you brought the sheep of the
wave offering, seven sabbaths shall be complete.
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days, and ye shall offer
a new meat offering unto the Lord.
Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals.
They shall be of fine flour.
They shall be bacon with leaven.
They are the firstfruits unto the Lord.
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one
young bullock, and two rams.
They shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their
drink offerings, even an offering made by fire of sweet savour unto the Lord.
So what the Bible is saying here is that the first time they appear before the Lord, because
remember God broke it into three appearances.
The first time they appear is for Passover, unleavened bread, and to bring that sheep
of the firstfruits to be waved before the Lord.
Then they go fifty days from then is the next time that they appear before the Lord, hence
the name Pentecost, because Pende, Pentecost, means fifty.
So it's called the Feast of Weeks because it's seven weeks after.
And look, I'm just showing you Leviticus 23.
These are mentioned in Exodus, these are mentioned in Deuteronomy, but for sake of time we're
just homing in on this one chapter of Leviticus 23.
These things are repeated with other details in Exodus and in Deuteronomy, and in Numbers.
So some of it.
But anyway, what I'm showing you here is that Pentecost would be the fourth feast of the
year, the second time they were supposed to appear before the Lord.
Well, at the day of Pentecost, what took place?
Look down at your Bible in Acts 2, verse 1.
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place,
and then jump down to verse 41.
Then they that gladly received his word were baptized, and the same day there were added
unto them about 3,000 souls.
So when they first brought in the sheep of the firstfruits, that was the firstfruits.
Fifty days later, they bring in a much bigger offering of the firstfruits and they have
a big celebration and feast about it.
Now think about this.
In Acts 2, we really have the first great ingathering, because the Bible also used the
word ingathering.
They had the first great ingathering and the first great harvest of souls being saved after
Jesus rose from the dead.
Jesus was the firstfruits of the resurrection, speaking of the bodily resurrection, right?
That was the bodily resurrection.
Fifty days later, we see about 3,000 souls saved.
Now you don't see a lot of soul winning going on between Jesus rising from the dead and
Pentecost.
That's the first day that you see really a mass number of people get saved.
Later on in the chapter, 5,000 people are going to get saved in one day.
But this is the first big harvest or ingathering of souls.
This is another type of firstfruits, isn't it?
This is where they're bringing in leavened bread and they're bringing in the sinners
to be saved and so forth.
That's what we see on the day of Pentecost.
So can we see that the day of Pentecost has been fulfilled?
That the day of Pentecost was a fulfillment of that feast of the firstfruits that came
fifty days after?
Now think about this if you would.
The first four feasts have been fulfilled.
And they were even fulfilled on the exact dates that they were supposed to be fulfilled.
Isn't that amazing?
Because here's the thing, Jesus was supposed to be sacrificed on the 14th, it happened.
The 15th was the unleavened bread, the 7th day was the Sabbath day.
He rose again the day after that Sabbath, which was the firstfruits of that particular
year.
You number fifty days and you have Pentecost.
You're on the exact date and those things are happening.
Those things have all been fulfilled.
Go back to Leviticus 23.
So therefore, Jesus Christ, when He came to this earth the first time, He fulfilled all
of these springtime feasts and Pentecost.
He took care of it, but wait a minute, what's left that He has not fulfilled?
Well, the three feasts that come in the time of harvest, okay?
Because remember, the year started out in springtime, that first month.
Those feasts were clustered together, the first three.
Then you have fifty days go by, you have another time that they show up to appear before the
Lord fifty days later.
Well, the next feast, look when it shows up.
It says, first of all, there's a verse in chapter 23 verse 22 about reaping the harvest.
When you reap the harvest of the land, He gives them some guidelines on reaping the
harvest.
Thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither
shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest.
Thou shalt leave them unto the poor and to the stranger.
I am the Lord your God.
So now we're getting into the harvest, aren't we?
Look at verse 23, and the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel saying in the seventh month, in the first day of the month.
Now stop and think about it.
If we're starting out in spring, now we're in the fall, because it's six months later.
We're not in the first month anymore, we're in the seventh month now.
And there are going to be three feasts that we're going to look at in the seventh month
here.
One of them takes place on the first day of the month.
It's called the blowing of the trumpets, okay?
The next feast we're going to look at is on the tenth day of the month.
It is called the day of atonement, you've probably heard of that one.
And then on the fifteenth day of the month, you've got the feast of tabernacles.
Now let me give you the key to understanding these three feasts.
It's found in Matthew 13, I'll just quote it for you.
The harvest is the end of the world.
Did you get that?
That is what Jesus said in Matthew 13.
He said the harvest is the end of the world.
Now you say, the end of the world.
You know what?
The Bible used the term the end of the world repeatedly.
Now if you have one of these modern bogus versions, you know what it's going to say?
The NIV, you know what it's going to say?
The end of the age.
So what are they?
They're new age.
It's a new age Bible version.
You know, and then instead of the time of reformation, you know what it changes it to?
The new order.
So it's a new world order Bible version.
So it's a new world order Bible version, and it's a new age Bible version.
But if you have the King James Bible, it says the end of the world.
Remember, what shall be the sign of thy coming and of the end of the world?
Jesus said the harvest is the end of the world.
You see, Jesus Christ fulfilled the first three feasts with his first coming.
Pentecost was fulfilled by his disciples, by his apostles.
And the last three feasts will be fulfilled regarding his second coming and regarding
the end of the world.
Amazing, isn't it?
Let's look at it.
It gets even more amazing.
Are you in Leviticus 23 or did I have you turn somewhere else?
Leviticus 23 verse 24 says this, speak unto the children of Israel saying in the seventh
month, in the first day of the month, ye shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of what?
Blowing of trumpets, unholy convocation.
Ye shall do no servile work therein, but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto
the Lord.
So the first feast, seventh month, first day is the blowing of trumpets.
Jump down if you would to verse 27.
Let's look at the next feast.
So on the tenth day, so this is just a short time later, it says of the seventh month there
shall be a day of atonement.
It shall be an holy convocation unto you and ye shall afflict your souls and offer an offering
made by fire unto the Lord.
Ye shall do no work in that same day for it is a day of atonement to make an atonement
for you before the Lord your God and on and on.
Then jump down if you would to verse 34.
The Bible says speak unto the children of Israel saying the fifteenth day of this seventh
month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
On the first day shall be a holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work.
And then he says in verse 40, and ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly
trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook,
and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days and ye shall keep it a feast
unto the Lord seven days in the year.
It shall be a statute forever in your generations.
Ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days.
All that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths that your generations may know that
I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land
of Egypt.
I am the Lord your God and you say, Pastor Anderson, I've already got it figured out.
That blowing of the trumpets, that's the rapture, that's the trumpet sound, wrong!
You got it wrong.
Go to Daniel chapter 9 verse 27.
Maybe we didn't even guess that, but I just wanted to tell you you're wrong, even though
you haven't even said anything that's wrong, but anyway, Daniel chapter 9 verse 27.
Because here's the thing, a lot of people do think, a lot of people believe that.
I've heard people say that over the years.
I've heard people say, you know, when that feast of trumpets, they said that's the trumpet
sounding at the rapture.
They said that's the last trumpet of the year.
And when that trumpet sounds, you know, that is a picture of the rapture.
But it's wrong, my friend, that is not a picture of the rapture, I'm going to prove it to you
tonight.
Look, if you would, at Daniel chapter 9, 27.
Now, hopefully, look, I don't have time to go into a big, long, in-depth dissertation
on end times prophecy right now.
It's not within the scope of this sermon, so I'm going to assume that you already have
knowledge about Bible prophecy.
I'm going to assume that you already know the basics, otherwise some of this might go
over your head, okay?
But hopefully you know some of the basics of Bible prophecy, and if you've been coming
to this church for any amount of time, hopefully you've learned the basics of what's going
to be coming in the future.
And you probably know that there's a seven year period that's going to be coming upon
this earth.
Many people call it Daniel's 70th week, because in Daniel chapter 9, he talks about 70 weeks
being determined.
And that is found, I believe, in verse 24.
I'm not turned there in my Bible yet, but in Daniel chapter number 9, he talks about
the 70 weeks and so forth.
Yeah, in verse 24 there, 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to
finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity
and to bring in everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy and
to anoint the most holy.
And if you know about Bible prophecy and you've read this, you know that the 69 weeks leading
up to Christ have already taken place and there's only one week left, and that's known
as Daniel's 70th week, and that week is going to take place at some point in the future,
okay?
Look what the Bible says about that week.
It says in Daniel 9, 27, and he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week.
This is often misquoted as, the Antichrist will make a peace treaty with Israel that's
a seven year peace treaty.
Can anybody tell me where that verse says anything about making a peace treaty with
Israel?
Anybody see it?
No.
It says he shall confirm the covenant with many.
Is many Israel?
No, many is four or more.
You've got to be careful when you're listening to people talk about Bible prophecy, a lot
of them are just making stuff up or repeating things that they've heard.
The Bible does not say anywhere, seven year peace treaty with Israel, and yet I've heard
it a million times, and I never exaggerate about things like that.
But anyway, so it says he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week, and in the
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading
of abominations he shall make it desolate even until the consummation and that determined
shall be poured upon the desolate.
So this is a very important, very pivotal event that Jesus talked about in Matthew 24
and Mark 13, known as the abomination of desolation.
And this week is a week not of seven days, but a week of seven years, and that week,
in the midst of that week, is going to be what the Bible calls the abomination of desolation.
You say what is that?
Well what that is, is remember the Antichrist receives a deadly wound.
His deadly wound is healed.
The Bible also mentions that he ascends out of the bottomless pit.
So I believe that he actually dies and comes back to life, because remember he's an imposter,
he's a counterfeit Messiah, he's a counterfeit of Jesus Christ, hence the name Antichrist.
And so this Antichrist, he will, at this point in the midst of the week, he will claim to
be God, okay?
After he's received his deadly wound and after he's been healed, he will enter the temple
of God.
Quickly go to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and again I don't want to go real deep on Bible
prophecy tonight, but I just want to just hit a few important points so that you'll
understand what I teach about these feasts next.
But it says in 2 Thessalonians chapter number 2, verse number 1, it says,
Now we beseech you brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and by our gathering
together unto him, and by the way our gathering together unto him is also known as the rapture,
we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord, it says will be caught up together
in the clouds.
So here he says, the coming of our Lord and by our gathering together unto him, that you
be not soon shaken in mind or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter
as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.
Let no man deceive you by any means.
That's telling us that there are people out there that are out to deceive you and make
you believe that the day of Christ is at hand.
It can happen at any moment.
That day shall not come, he said, except there come a falling away first and that man's sin
be revealed the son of perdition, and what does he do?
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God or that is worshipped so
that he as God sitteth in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.
And so when the Antichrist basically claims, I'm God, he goes into the temple of God, he
causes the daily sacrifice to cease, and he says, I'm God.
He puts himself in that position.
And the Bible teaches that when he does that, there will be an image made of him by the
false prophet.
And the false prophet will command the earth to worship that image and that image will
be set up in the temple and that is known as the abomination of desolation, when that
image is set up and they're told you must worship the image.
And they're told at that time you must receive a mark in your right hand or in your forehead,
the mark of the beast, and you won't be able to buy or sell unless you have this mark in
your right hand or in your forehead.
Now with that being said, go to Daniel 12, Daniel chapter 12.
Daniel chapter number 12.
So everybody got it so far?
Coming week of Daniel, 70th week.
Then that week there will be a time of great tribulation.
After the tribulation, the sun and moon are darkened, right?
And of course, first, before the sun and moon are darkened, the abomination of desolation
takes place.
Then God begins to pour out his wrath on this earth after the sun and moon are darkened
and so forth.
Now, look at Daniel chapter number 12 verse 11.
This is an interesting verse.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and again, that goes
with Daniel 9.27, abomination of desolation.
He says, and the abomination that make a desolate set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
Now stop and think about this.
That abomination of desolation is set up in the midst of the week.
Everybody got that?
He said from that time, there shall be 1,290 days.
That means from the abomination to the end of the week is 1,290 days.
Now let me help you with the math.
1,290 days is not equivalent to what we would think of as three and a half years, is it?
Because three and a half years on our solar calendar that we're on today would be 1,277
or 1,278 days.
Now in the Bible, and the Bible's very consistent on this, the Bible teaches that a month is
30 days.
Whether you're in Genesis looking at the flood, or whether you're in Revelation looking at
end times prophecy, or whether you're in the book of Daniel, a month in the Bible is
30 days.
None of this 30 days, half September, April, June, and November, all the rest have 31 save
February with 28.
None of that.
They all have 30 according to the Bible.
That is his reckoning.
Now we may think we have the perfect system with our perfect solar year, but it completely
ignores phases of the moon and other things, and I'm not going to go into a long dissertation
on that.
But I'll say this, the Bible's very clear, 30 day months.
That's why in the Bible, 1,260 days, which is exactly 30 times 42, 1,260 days equals
42 months equals three and a half years.
Many places in the Bible I can prove that.
1,260 days equals 42 months equals three and a half years.
So you say, Pastor Anderson, why is it 1,290 days?
Well that's simple.
Because of the fact that if you have a 360 day year, you're five days short of the earth
going around the sun.
Pretty soon it's going to be July and it's going to be snowing outside because you're
losing five days every time around.
Therefore when you have a 360 day year, every six years you need an extra month.
By the way, you say, I don't know about this, there are people around the world that use
this calendar today.
The Iranians have used this calendar for thousands of years.
The Babylonians use this calendar.
This is a very common calendar, a 360 day calendar.
It's the calendar the Bible uses.
And every six years you have an extra month because, let's face it, if you're losing five
days a year, what's six times five?
30.
So you throw in an extra month every six years and you're good to go.
So therefore, Daniel's 70th week, it's not going to be 42 plus 42 months.
It's not going to be 84 months.
It's going to be 85 months because you've got to have that extra month or you didn't
have a full seven years.
Because the only way to have a full seven years is to have that, you know, you call
it elite month if you want, is to have that extra month.
So if you divide the Daniel 70th week in half, the first half is 1260 days.
The Bible tells us that in many places.
The second half is 1290 days.
Everybody got that?
Because you've got an extra month tagged on toward the end.
So you say, why are you teaching us this?
What does this have to do with the Feast of the Lord?
Did you mix up your outline?
You're on a different sermon now?
No, no, no.
It's all going to come together, my friend.
This blew my mind when I started, and I just, and by the way, I studied this on my own.
This isn't a regurgitation tonight.
And so I've been studying this stuff, and think about this, 1290 days from the end is
when the Antichrist sets up this image.
Well that's 1260 days into it, right?
Midst of the week.
Look at the next verse.
This is an amazing verse.
It says in chapter 12 verse 12, blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand
three hundred and five and thirty days.
Now that right there is an enigma, isn't it, to a lot of people.
Thousand three hundred and thirty five days.
What length of time is that?
Well isn't that somewhat more than three and a half years?
If 1260 or 1290 are roughly three and a half years, what's 1335?
More than three and a half years, isn't it?
Substantially more.
What does that mean?
Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.
Well there are a few things we can gather from that verse.
First of all, it's something that we are waiting for.
Now if we study the New Testament, you'll find a ton of verses that say we are waiting
for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A lot of verses that say, and to wait for his son from heaven whom he raised from the
dead, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come.
Waiting for the Lord Jesus Christ's coming.
I'm not going to go through all the scriptures, but there are about, I found about four, five,
six scriptures like that as I went through the New Testament.
They used the word waiting about the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The other thing I see about this is that not everybody's going to get there.
Blessed is he that cometh to the thousand three hundred and thirty five days.
Doesn't that sound like some people aren't going to make it?
You're blessed if you come to that number.
Now think about this.
Let's say we start at the beginning of the week, okay?
And I'm going to prove this all in just a moment.
If we start at the beginning of the week and we go a thousand three hundred and five and
thirty days into it, okay?
And let's say that's the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds.
Let's say Jesus Christ comes in the clouds and if we made it, if we are blessed enough
to come to that point without, you know, being beheaded by the Antichrist or persecuted or
he says, or starving or whatever, all the things that are going to be going on in tribulation,
he says if you can make it to that point and Jesus Christ comes in the cloud at thousand
three hundred and five and thirty days.
Now think about that.
Now that would mean that if the Antichrist sets up his abomination at twelve sixty days
and that's when it says there shall be great tribulation, that's where he says head for
the hills, there's going to be people beheaded for the cause of Christ, there's going to
be extreme persecution.
There will be persecution for the first twelve hundred and sixty days.
But then it's intense persecution.
That means from the twelve sixty mark to the thirteen thirty five mark, which is seventy
five days, there will be intense persecution, a war with the saints.
The Bible says the Antichrist will make war with the saints and overcome them.
Everybody following the logic so far?
That means that there will be twelve hundred and sixty days of worldwide famine, pestilence,
warfare, all the things that the Bible describes in Matthew twenty four.
Then from twelve sixty to thirteen thirty five days, there's intense persecution and
intense beheadings and all these horrible things, war with the saints.
And if you can make it through that seventy five days, you come to the thirteen thirty
five days, he that endureth to the end, the same shall be saved.
Because it talks about your flesh being saved.
You'll survive physically to that day.
And if you're martyred, glory to God.
You know, your reward is great in heaven.
You say, wait a minute Pastor Anderson, I'm not buying that.
Okay, well read the next verse.
Look at the next verse.
And keep in mind, these are significant verses because these are the last two verses of the
book of Daniel.
He said, Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and
thirty days, but go thou thy way till the end be, speaking to Daniel, for thou shalt
rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.
So he's going to rest until when?
Until the end of the days.
Daniel will die physically, will he not?
He died and he was buried and he's asleep in the dust of the earth.
His body's asleep, of course his soul's in heaven, we know that.
But his body is resting in the dust of the earth, asleep in the earth, until the end
of the days.
Until the end of what days?
Until the end of the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days that were just mentioned.
Because he didn't just say the end of days, he said the end of the days.
The days that he just mentioned.
Okay.
Now, everybody got that?
Now, here comes the amazing thing.
Now we tie it in with the feasts.
Well, what happened on the first day of the seventh month in the feast of the Lord?
Do you remember?
The feast of the what?
Blowing of the trumpets.
Now, stop and think about this.
Isn't the first day of the seventh month the exact middle of the year?
Think about it.
You got six months before and then you got six months after.
So if we go to the middle of the year, we have what?
The first day of the seventh month, the blowing of the trumpets.
What did we have in the middle, what did we have in the dead center of Daniel's 70th week?
Abomination of desolation.
And what is the anti-Christ doing?
He's making war with the saints.
Go to Numbers chapter 29.
Numbers 29.
Numbers chapter 29.
Stay with me, the payoff will be good if you can keep your mind wrapped around all this.
Go to Numbers chapter 29 verse 1.
The Bible reads, in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have
an holy convocation, ye shall do no servile work, it is a day of blowing the trumpets
unto you.
Now is that a trumpet singular or a trumpet plural?
Okay, let's see what the trumpets plural are used for and represent in the Bible.
Go to Numbers 10, Numbers chapter 10 verse 9.
Numbers chapter 10 verse 9 says this, and if ye go to war in your land against the enemy
that oppresseth you, are you getting this?
Going to war against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the
trumpets and ye shall be remembered before the Lord your God and ye shall be saved from
your enemies.
So what is the purpose of blowing the trumpets?
It's an alarm, the Bible says, when an enemy is warring against you and oppressing you,
you blow with the trumpets and the Lord will help you.
That's what the trumpets are.
For the sake of time I'm not going to turn there, but Numbers 31, 6, same thing.
The trumpets are there to signify warfare and all throughout the Bible the trumpets
are used in that way.
You know, the watchman who's watching for the sword to come and the trumpets are blown
in order to warn of an enemy combatant that's coming.
So that matches up perfectly with the abomination of desolation being the Antichrist making
war with the saints.
So we say, okay, that's going to be fulfilled.
We saw the first four fulfilled when Jesus came the first time, so let's see how these
last three feasts are going to be fulfilled when Jesus Christ comes the second time.
Well first of all, in the dead center of the year there's a blowing of trumpets.
Just like in the dead center of the midst of the week, there's an alarm there of the
Antichrist is making war with the saints to overcome them and to kill them and to defeat
them.
So we should expect to find the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ thereafter at 1335 days
if our theory about Daniel 12 is correct, right?
So which day would that be on?
Well we've got the tenth day of the seventh month, which is what?
Day of what?
The day of atonement, tenth day of the seventh month.
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month we have the Feast of Tabernacles.
And you say, Pastor Anderson, where's the trumpet?
Go to Leviticus 25.
I'm going to show you the trumpet.
Leviticus 25, let's see, the trumpet of Christ coming.
The second coming of Christ in the clouds to bring us home to be with the Lord and so
shall we ever be with the Lord.
Look at Leviticus 25, 8, and thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times
seven years, and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine
years.
Leviticus 25 verse 9, then shalt thou cause the trumpet, singular, of the Jubilee to sound
on the tenth day of the seventh month.
Now let me ask you this, was that blowing of trumpets the last trumpet of the year?
No.
Now forty-nine years out of fifty, yes.
But on the year of Jubilee, the fiftieth year, there's another trumpet that sounds on the
tenth day of the seventh month.
And notice what it says about the year of Jubilee.
Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, verse 10, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof.
It shall be a Jubilee unto you and ye shall return every man unto his possession and ye
shall return every man unto his family.
Now look, that is talking about the second coming of Christ because the Bible says that
we earnestly groan, waiting for the glorious liberty of the children of God to wit the
redemption of our body.
You see the day that we are bodily changed in a moment, a twinkling of an eye, is known
as the glorious liberty of the children of God.
And when they sounded the trumpet of Jubilee, it was a trumpet of liberty.
And you say you're going to be with family.
You're going home to your possession.
You're going to the place that Christ has prepared for you, your home in heaven.
It's waiting for you in that year of Jubilee when that trumpet sounds.
You say, Pastor Anderson, that sounds great, but let me say this.
If we're dealing with one year, because remember, how long is Daniel's 70th week?
Seven years, right?
But we're not dealing with seven years, are we?
On this calendar in Leviticus 23, how many years are we dealing with?
One year.
And in the middle of that year is when the trumpets are sounding of alarm.
That's what it symbolizes anyway.
Of course, when they blew it back then, they didn't know it symbolized that.
They just blew a bunch of trumpets and had a party, but what it really symbolized was
the attack beginning.
But wait a minute, since we're dealing with seven years, we've got to divide everything
by seven.
1335 days divided by seven, and what do you come up with?
Well, I'll do the math for you, if you don't have a smartphone.
1335 divided by seven is 190.71.
Did you get that?
190.71.
Now, wait a minute.
What's the 190th day of the year?
Well, think about it.
How many days are there in the first half of the year?
180.
Right?
Six 30-day months.
So if there's 180 days in the first half of the year, what's the first day of the seventh
month?
The 181st.
And what's the 190th day?
The tenth day of the seventh month.
And when did the Bible say the trumpet's going to sound?
Tenth day of the seventh month.
When did Daniel say he's going to rise again?
When did he say bless is he the way to the coming to the thousand three hundred and five
and thirty days?
He said it's going to be 1335 days, which if you divide by seven, lands you exactly
on the tenth day of the seventh month.
Oh, that's just a coincidence.
There's no way that could be a coincidence.
There's no way impossible for it to just work out exactly.
I mean, you just type it into the calculator.
When I typed that into the calculator, I almost fell out of my chair.
I'm not kidding.
I typed that in.
I typed in 1335 divided by seven and I saw that 190.
I almost fell out of my chair when I saw that.
But look, you haven't even seen all of it.
Go to Revelation chapter two.
Revelation chapter, yes there's more.
Revelation chapter two.
So you see how these feasts are fulfilled.
The Feast of Trumpets is fulfilled at the abomination of desolation.
And the Day of Atonement slash Year of Jubilee, that glorious liberty of the children of God
is fulfilled on the tenth day of the seventh month.
That's going to be 1335 days into the week according to Daniel 12.
But not only that, here's a verse that I've never understood my whole life.
Makes perfect sense now.
Revelation 2.10, fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer.
Behold the devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tried and ye shall have
tribulation ten days.
Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life.
Now stop and think about it.
What are the ten days?
The first day of the seventh month, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth day of the month, and .71 way through the day, the trumpet sounds.
That's amazing.
The Bible's an amazing book my friend, it's uncanny.
That is the ten days.
Not ten of our days, not ten literal days because it's going to be 75 of our days, but
what's 75 divided by 7?
Ten.
.71.
Ten.
.71.
It's going to happen on that tenth day of the month, the trumpet sounds, spiritually
speaking.
And I'll have you know that's 28 furlongs into the Sea of Galilee which is between 25
and 30 furlongs.
But that's another sermon.
John chapter 6.
Let's bow your heads and have a word of prayer.
Actually, no, no, no.
Let's not bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
I missed one feast, sorry.
One more feast.
Go to Revelation 7.
One last feast.
You almost let me get away without showing you the final feast.
Because after the blowing of the trumpets and after the Day of Atonement slash trumpet
of Jubilee, what do we have on the fifteenth day of the seventh month?
The Feast of Tabernacles.
And if you remember, that was where they took the boughs of palm trees and they took the
boughs of other trees, but it specifically mentions palm trees, and they build these
booths and they dwell in booths and they rejoice before the Lord and they offer a bunch of
burnt sacrifice.
Well, I'm not going to go into great depth on this one.
This is something for you to look at.
But in Revelation 7.9, notice at the rapture when the great multitude appears in heaven,
after the sun and moon are darkened, after the 1335 days, it says, after this I beheld
and lo, a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people
and tongues stood before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes and what
they have in their hands?
Tabernacles in their hands, ready to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles with the Lord in
heaven with their palm branches in their hands.
So it all fits, my friend.
The Bible's an amazing book.
God has laid out for us in the first half of the year, in the springtime, He showed
us His first coming.
He showed us His death and burial and resurrection.
And then in the fall feasts, the harvest feasts, He shows us the end of the world.
He shows us the anti-Christ war with the saints at the midpoint.
He shows us the rapture a few months thereafter, two and a half months thereafter, and then
He shows us our eternal dwelling with Him, with the palm branches, celebrating the Feast
of Tabernacles before we return to this earth to rule and reign for a thousand years.
And so, you know, don't tell me Leviticus is a boring book.
There's a lot there.
It's just, when you don't understand, it could be a little boring at first, but the more
you read the Bible, the more you're going to understand it and you're going to enjoy
it more and more.
You know, the first time I read Leviticus, it was tough, but the second time it got a
little easier, the third time it got a little easier, and the more you learn and the more
you understand, the more you love it.
Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for your Word and we thank you for these amazing prophecies
that you've shown us, and God, thank you for allowing us to have the perfect Bible that
we could even find these things, because if we had a book that was written by man,
these things would not add up, they wouldn't line up, but we have the perfect Word of God
in our language even, the King James Bible preserved unto us.
Help it to be the authority of our lives.
Help us to love it and read it and understand it, and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.