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Leviticus 23:23-44 read aloud by congregation members as the main text for the sermon on God's family traditions and the fall feasts
23 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
24 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
25 You shall do no regular work; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.’”
26 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
27 “However on the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
28 You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before Yahweh your God.
29 For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.
30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.
31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”
33 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
34 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of tents for seven days to Yahweh.
35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation to you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a solemn assembly; you shall do no regular work.
37 “‘These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day—
38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
39 “‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
40 You shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before Yahweh your God seven days.
41 You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh seven days in the year. It is a statute forever throughout your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month.
42 You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,
43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in temporary shelters, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.’”
44 Moses declared to the children of Israel the appointed feasts of Yahweh.
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Numbers 29
mentioned alongside Leviticus 23 as an Old Testament reference to the feast of trumpets
1 “‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets to you.
2 You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
3 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,
4 and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
5 and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
6 besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
7 “‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work;
8 but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old; all without defect;
9 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the one ram,
10 one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs:
11 one male goat for a sin offering; besides the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and their drink offerings.
12 “‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work. You shall keep a feast to Yahweh seven days.
13 You shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: thirteen young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; all without defect;
14 and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for every bull of the thirteen bulls, two tenths for each ram of the two rams,
15 and one tenth for every lamb of the fourteen lambs;
16 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
17 “‘On the second day you shall offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
18 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
19 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering and their drink offerings.
20 “‘On the third day eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
21 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
22 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
23 “‘On the fourth day ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
24 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
25 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
26 “‘On the fifth day nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
27 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
28 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.
29 “‘On the sixth day eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
30 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
31 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and the drink offerings of it.
32 “‘On the seventh day seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old without defect;
33 and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
34 and one male goat for a sin offering; besides the continual burnt offering, its meal offering, and its drink offering.
35 “‘On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no regular work;
36 but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;
37 their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
38 and one male goat for a sin offering, besides the continual burnt offering, with its meal offering, and its drink offering.
39 “‘You shall offer these to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.’”
40 Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
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1 Corinthians 15:51-52
quoted to describe the rapture and transformation of believers at the last trumpet
51 Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16
quoted to describe the Lord's return with a commanding shout, the archangel's voice, and the trumpet call, and the raising of Christians who have died
16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,
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Zechariah 12
read and expounded to describe Jesus rallying Israel, retaking Jerusalem, and the national mourning when Israel recognizes the one they pierced
1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
2 “Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of reeling to all the surrounding peoples, and it will also be on Judah in the siege against Jerusalem.
3 It will happen in that day, that I will make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all the peoples. All who burden themselves with it will be severely wounded, and all the nations of the earth will be gathered together against it.
4 In that day,” says Yahweh, “I will strike every horse with terror, and his rider with madness; and I will open my eyes on the house of Judah, and will strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
5 The chieftains of Judah will say in their heart, ‘The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Yahweh of Armies their God.’
6 In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
7 Yahweh also will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of David’s house and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem not be magnified above Judah.
8 In that day Yahweh will defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He who is feeble among them at that day will be like David, and David’s house will be like God, like Yahweh’s angel before them.
9 It will happen in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
11 In that day there will be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
12 The land will mourn, every family apart; the family of David’s house apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;
13 the family of the house of Levi apart, and their wives apart; the family of the Shimeites apart, and their wives apart;
14 all the families who remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.
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Zechariah 12:10
quoted specifically on Israel looking upon the one they have pierced and mourning
10 I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.
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Zephaniah 3:17
quoted to show Jesus rejoicing over Israel with gladness and calming their fears after their recognition of him
17 Yahweh, your God, is among you, a mighty one who will save. He will rejoice over you with joy. He will calm you in his love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
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Matthew 24
referenced as Jesus's own words about returning at the last trumpet
1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.
2 But he answered them, “You see all of these things, don’t you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.”
3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?”
4 Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.
5 For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.
6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren’t troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
9 Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name’s sake.
10 Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
11 Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
12 Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
13 But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
14 This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
15 “When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
17 Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.
18 Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
19 But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
20 Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
21 for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
22 Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
23 “Then if any man tells you, ‘Behold, here is the Christ,’ or, ‘There,’ don’t believe it.
24 For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.
25 “Behold, I have told you beforehand.
26 If therefore they tell you, ‘Behold, he is in the wilderness,’ don’t go out; ‘Behold, he is in the inner rooms,’ don’t believe it.
27 For as the lightning flashes from the east, and is seen even to the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
28 For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.
29 But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken;
30 and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory.
31 He will send out his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.
32 “Now from the fig tree learn this parable. When its branch has now become tender, and produces its leaves, you know that the summer is near.
33 Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
34 Most certainly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished.
35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
36 But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 “As the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
38 For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ship,
39 and they didn’t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
40 Then two men will be in the field: one will be taken and one will be left.
41 Two women will be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and one will be left.
42 Watch therefore, for you don’t know in what hour your Lord comes.
43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
44 Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don’t expect, the Son of Man will come.
45 “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes.
47 Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has.
48 But if that evil servant should say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’
49 and begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards,
50 the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn’t know it,
51 and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. That is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.
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Daniel 9
referenced alongside Daniel 10 and 11 as prophetic basis for the seven-year tribulation timeline
1 In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the offspring of the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans,
2 in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of the years about which Yahweh’s word came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishing of the desolations of Jerusalem, even seventy years.
3 I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, “Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
5 we have sinned, and have dealt perversely, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even turning aside from your precepts and from your ordinances.
6 We haven’t listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 “Lord, righteousness belongs to you, but to us confusion of face, as it is today; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, who are near, and who are far off, through all the countries where you have driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against you.
8 Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness; for we have rebelled against him.
10 We haven’t obeyed Yahweh our God’s voice, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
11 Yes, all Israel have transgressed your law, turning aside, that they should not obey your voice. “Therefore the curse and the oath written in the law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us; for we have sinned against him.
12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges who judged us, by bringing on us a great evil; for under the whole sky, such has not been done as has been done to Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet have we not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities, and have discernment in your truth.
14 Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
15 “Now, Lord our God, who has brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and have gotten yourself renown, as it is today; we have sinned. We have done wickedly.
16 Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
17 “Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.
18 My God, turn your ear, and hear. Open your eyes, and see our desolations, and the city which is called by your name; for we do not present our petitions before you for our righteousness, but for your great mercies’ sake.
19 Lord, hear. Lord, forgive. Lord, listen and do. Don’t defer, for your own sake, my God, because your city and your people are called by your name.”
20 While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;
21 yes, while I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening offering.
22 He instructed me, and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
23 At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you; for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter, and understand the vision.
24 “Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
25 “Know therefore and discern that from the going out of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem to the Anointed One, the prince, will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. It will be built again, with street and moat, even in troubled times.
26 After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.
27 He will make a firm covenant with many for one week. In the middle of the week he will cause the sacrifice and the offering to cease. On the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate; and even to the full end, and that determined, wrath will be poured out on the desolate.”
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Jeremiah 30
mentioned as a prophetic reference supporting the seven-year tribulation timeline
1 The word that came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, saying,
2 “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Write all the words that I have spoken to you in a book.
3 For, behold, the days come,’ says Yahweh, ‘that I will reverse the captivity of my people Israel and Judah,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
4 These are the words that Yahweh spoke concerning Israel and concerning Judah.
5 For Yahweh says: “We have heard a voice of trembling; a voice of fear, and not of peace.
6 Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it. It is even the time of Jacob’s trouble; but he will be saved out of it.
8 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will break his yoke from off your neck, and will burst your bonds. Strangers will no more make them their bondservants;
9 but they will serve Yahweh their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up to them.
10 Therefore don’t be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh. Don’t be dismayed, Israel. For, behold, I will save you from afar, and save your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob will return, and will be quiet and at ease. No one will make him afraid.
11 For I am with you, says Yahweh, to save you; for I will make a full end of all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not make a full end of you; but I will correct you in measure, and will in no way leave you unpunished.”
12 For Yahweh says, “Your hurt is incurable. Your wound is grievous.
13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
14 All your lovers have forgotten you. They don’t seek you. For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins were increased.
15 Why do you cry over your injury? Your pain is incurable. For the greatness of your iniquity, because your sins have increased, I have done these things to you.
16 Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.
17 For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”
18 Yahweh says: “Behold, I will reverse the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling places. The city will be built on its own hill, and the palace will be inhabited in its own place.
19 Thanksgiving will proceed out of them with the voice of those who make merry. I will multiply them, and they will not be few; I will also glorify them, and they will not be small.
20 Their children also will be as before, and their congregation will be established before me. I will punish all who oppress them.
21 Their prince will be one of them, and their ruler will proceed from among them. I will cause him to draw near, and he will approach to me; for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me?” says Yahweh.
22 “You shall be my people, and I will be your God.
23 Behold, Yahweh’s storm, his wrath, has gone out, a sweeping storm: it will burst on the head of the wicked.
24 The fierce anger of Yahweh will not return until he has accomplished, and until he has performed the intentions of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it.”
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Micah 4:1-3
quoted to describe the millennial reign of the Messiah, nations streaming to Jerusalem, and swords beaten into plowshares
1 But in the latter days, it will happen that the mountain of Yahweh’s temple will be established on the top of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will stream to it.
2 Many nations will go and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahweh, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths.” For the law will go out of Zion, and Yahweh’s word from Jerusalem;
3 and he will judge between many peoples, and will decide concerning strong nations afar off. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation, neither will they learn war any more.
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Recap
The message in order, in a few minutes of reading.
Brian walked the congregation through the three fall feasts from Leviticus 23, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Sukkot, arguing that these are not merely Jewish holidays but God's own family traditions that the whole church is invited into. Each feast, he said, functions as a rehearsal for something Jesus has yet to fulfill. The conversation format meant questions from the congregation shaped the direction of the teaching throughout.
What was said
Coming out of COVID, there was a worldwide rush to get back to normal without ever stopping to grieve or ask what rhythm we were getting back onto. That pressure brought the Tribe leadership team to a question: did they want to get back on the world's rhythm, or onto God's rhythm? That question led them to the Old Testament feasts, which Brian reframes throughout the message not as Jewish feasts but as God's family traditions, shared with the Jewish people first but open to everyone.
God's family traditions do three things when observed: they help people remember what God has done, recalibrate out of the pace that work and school and the seasons pull everyone into, and rehearse for future events. The word "rehearse" is grounded in the Hebrew word behind "holy convocation" in Leviticus 23, which Brian noted carries the meaning of gathering, assembly, and rehearsal. The spring feasts, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Shavuot, have already been fulfilled through the crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and the giving of the Holy Spirit. The three fall feasts have not been fulfilled yet.
The feast of trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, is a rehearsal for the return of Jesus and the rapture of the saints. Brian read from 1 Corinthians 15 and 1 Thessalonians 4, pointing to the trumpet imagery in both passages and connecting it to the seven trumpets in Revelation. He addressed the question of what happens between a believer's death and the resurrection by suggesting that outside of this realm there is no linear time, so what is twenty-five years for the living may register as nothing for the person who has died and gone to be with the Lord.
The day of atonement, Yom Kippur, is a rehearsal for the liberation of Jerusalem and the national mourning of Israel. Drawing on Zechariah 12, Brian described a scene in which Jesus returns physically, rallies the remnant of the Israeli military, and leads them to retake Jerusalem. When the battle ends and the adrenaline fades, Zechariah 12:10 unfolds: the people look on the one they have pierced and mourn. Brian said that in his reading, the moment of recognition would move through the ranks like wildfire, and the response of Jesus would not be anger but what Zephaniah 3:17 describes, delight, calm, and rejoicing over them with singing.
The feast of Sukkot, arriving this week on the Jewish calendar, is a rehearsal for the millennial reign of Jesus, when God himself dwells among his people as their shelter. The temporary outdoor structure built during Sukkot, open to the sky, decorated with palm fronds, is meant to recall Israel's time in the wilderness and to point forward to the age when Jesus rules from Jerusalem. Brian read Micah 4:1-3, with its image of nations streaming to Jerusalem and swords hammered into plowshares, as the scene this feast rehearses.
Brian closed by pressing on why any of this matters now. If a person has not let the feasts do their work of remembering, recalibrating, and rehearsing, they will have no stable footing when the world is in upheaval. He connected this directly to the congregation's posture toward Israel and toward the Jewish community in Jackson Hole, noting that the gathering on the Town Square that same evening was another small, concrete way to stand in that tradition while the cost of doing so is still low.
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- Brian described how many people, including his own leadership team, rushed back to normal after COVID without stopping to grieve or process what had happened. Have you noticed that pattern in your own life, and what does it cost us when we skip that step?
- Brian said the Jewish feasts are better thought of as God's family traditions rather than something belonging only to Jewish people, and that they help us remember, recalibrate, and rehearse. Which of those three felt most personally relevant to you, and why?
and 3 more questions in the guide
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Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our Tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
Welcome to Tribe's podcast. Hey, we just wanna say thank you for making this message a part of your week. Our prayer is that these messages will inspire you to make the name of Jesus famous in your life and to the uttermost bounds of the earth. If you're ever in Jackson Hole, we'd love for you to visit our tribe fam in person. To learn more about us, you can find us online or at Facebook by searching tribejh.com.
Great to see y'all this morning. In your seat, there's a little connect card. You know what to do with it. We'd love to have a record of your visit. If you're a young adult, would like to get connected with all the young adult happenings, you can fill that out, check the box, young adult, either leave it in your seat or there's a little wooden box by the doors as you leave our cozy little living room.
So you can put that there. And I am so glad that you are here with us this morning. Hope you're enjoying this change of seasons and if you have your Bible with you this morning, would you turn to the riveting book of Leviticus? Leviticus. Yes, let's turn to Leviticus chapter three and I should turn there as well.
That's what I meant.
I'm here. Do what that says. Hi, Nancy. Hi, Nancy. Hi, Hi.
Keeping us in line.
Did I say, what did I say? Leviticus what? Three. Three. Yeah.
Yeah. Well, every now and then, my lisdexia shows rears its head. Leviticus chapter 23 and we're going to read verses 23 through 44 and what I'd like to do is instead of just me reading it, I'd like for us to take turns reading it and so, if you would read a few verses and then hand it off to somebody else to continue reading. That way, we can get from verse 23 all the way through verse 44 And if you are brand new to tribe, that probably means that you're gonna be brand new to the verses that we are reading, and I wanna give a quick disclaimer as we get into these verses. As we read these, I know that you're thinking, okay, how does this relate to what we're going to talk about today?
Because it's going to sound very ritualistic or rote or stuffy or churchy or completely unrelated to you and to your life. And as we read these verses, if you are thinking these thoughts, give yourself permission to think those thoughts. It's okay. It's okay. We are going to connect dots so that by the end of our short time together this morning, my prayer is that you will be able to see yourself and many great things that God has for you within this within these few verses that we're gonna read.
So if somebody would begin to read and then we will hand the mic off and somebody else can continue reading. Leviticus 23 starting in verse 23. Alright.
The Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. On the first day of the appointed month in early autumn, you are to absorb a day of complete rest. It will be an official day for holy assembly, a day commemorated with loud blasts of
a trumpet. You must do no ordinary work on this on that day. Instead, you are
to present special gifts to the lord.
Then the Lord said to Moses, be careful to celebrate the day of atonement on the tenth day of that same month, nine days after the festival of trumpets. You must observe, observe it as an official day for holy assembly, a day to deny yourselves and present special gifts to the lord. Do no work during that entire day because it is the day of atonement. When offerings of purification are made for you, making you right with with the lord your god.
For any person who is not afflicted in the soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations and all your dwellings. It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls on the ninth day of the month at evening.
From evening to evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath.
Wait. Wait. Where did you we shall afflict your what?
Verse 29.
Okay. Verse 29.
For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people.
Oh. Yeah. In the NLT, it says, all who do not deny themselves that day will be cut off from god's people. Behave with humility. So we'll talk more about this, but I want to call a pause and just say the idea behind that is to either afflict yourself or be humble or deny themselves.
It is a day of fasting and reflection. As you consider your moral report card from the last year. That's the idea behind that. Okay.
And the Lord said to Moses, give the following instructions to the people of Israel. Begin celebrating the festival of shelters on the fifteenth day of the appointed month, five days after the day of atonement. This festival to the Lord will last for seven days. On the first day of the festival, you must proclaim an official day for holy assembly when you do no ordinary work. For seven days, you must prevent present special gifts to the lord.
The eighth day is another holy day on which you present your special gifts to the lord. This will be a solemn occasion and no ordinary work may be done that day. These are the Lord's appointed festivals. Celebrate them each year as official days for holy assembly by presenting special gifts to the Lord. Burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and liquid offerings, each on its proper day.
These festivals must be observed in addition to the Lord's regular Sabbath days. And the offerings are in addition to your personal gifts. The offerings you give to fulfill your vows and the voluntary offerings you present to the Lord.
Shay.
The mic was handed to her and she's like, oh, Here you go. It's for you. You go ahead or for you. We're getting we're getting close. What verse did you end on?
Oh, Shay's getting enough. Oh, no. It's going past
you. Right on back.
Verse 39. Alright. This is from the complete Jewish Bible.
Oh. Love it.
But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered the produce of the land. You are to observe the festival of Adonai seven days. The first day is to be complete rest and the eighth day is to be complete rest. On the first day, you are to take choice fruit, palm fronds, thick branches, and river willows, and celebrate in the presence of Adonai, your God, for seven days. Wow.
Did I to 44. So Shay has one more chance.
Okay. Got you.
You must observe this festival to the Lord for seven days every year. This is a permanent law for you and it must be observed in the appointed month from generation to generation. For seven days, you must live outside in little shelters. All native born Israelites must live in shelters. This will remind each new generation of Israelites that I made their ancestors live in shelters when I rescued them from the land of Egypt.
I am the lord your god. So, Moses gave the Israelites these instructions regarding the annual festivals of the lord.
The lord blessed the reading of his word this morning. So it was sometime as the world was emerging from COVID to a whole new landscape, maybe not physically or geographically, but certainly socially, economically, politically, it was a new world. And for the time that we spent essentially on pause, whether that was at least weeks, likely months, and for some of us, we spent more than a year kind of on pause, like let's put off that vacation, let's put off that next big endeavor. But as we were emerging from COVID, I don't know if you felt it but there was this huge rush around the world in The United States and certainly within the church in America to make up for lost ground or lost time. Like, okay, let's get back to normal.
Okay, that's over. Here we go. Like, go, go, go. We gotta get to the next series. We gotta get people back in the doors.
Like, go, go, go. And there was this rushing and rushing and we all kind of got caught up in that rush to get back to normal and we forgot a really key important step and that was to to grieve and to process spiritually and emotionally what we had just gone through as a global community. We just jumped right back into the mix and as a result, people kind of went and I don't know how well you can relate to this. Maybe you can relate to this better than you realize on some level, but we all got back into the the the speed of things without really ever like taking time to like, what all just happened? Am I different as a result of it?
I'm sure that many of you, if not had a family member affected, knew of somebody that was like greatly affected by this, but we just like get back to normal. And after about a year or so, at least our leadership team were like, a minute, wait a minute. Like we never really like like stop to like like process this and like, what what rhythm are we getting back onto? And then we began to seek the lord like, okay, lord, like, do we grieve, or how do we process this? What do we do with this?
The world is inviting us to just jump back onto its rhythm. Do we really want to do that? And the Lord said, hey. Why don't you get on my rhythm? Join my family rhythm.
And we're like, sounds good to us. Sign us up. How do we do that? What does he look what does it look like? And he directed us to the Old Testament.
We're like, yeah, but we're children of the new covenant. Like, why are we going back to the Old Testament? And then, he began to show us his rhythm that he has invited the world to get in sync with that we know of as the Jewish feast. Now, I mean, maybe ethnically, like, by by relation, you may be you may be Jewish. You might be a Jew.
But none of us are observant Jews. If you are you found yourself in the wrong service, welcome. Hold on to your hat because the Messiah that you've been waiting for already has one stamp on his passport, and I cannot wait to introduce you to him. But we know what we've thought of them as, like, Jewish feasts, and you can read about them in the Old Testament. And for a for all of us Christians, we have no context or history.
We're like, yeah, that was stuff that they did back then, and it was historical. Or maybe if you if the Venn diagram of your life overlaps with any observant Jews, you may hear of them talk about it or them observing those feasts, but you're like, it's irrelevant to me. Mostly because of what they what you've been told they are, that they are Jewish feasts. Here at Tribe, I want to suggest suggest that we that you think about the Jewish feast differently instead of Jewish feasts. Instead of thinking of them as Jewish feasts, I like to think of them as God's family tradition.
Every family has traditions. Maybe you came from like a terrible family and you're like, oh yeah, every year, you know, dad would I don't know what. Maybe you have bad family traditions. Maybe you hopefully you have some really at least one or two really sweet fond memories of family traditions that you would have. We're not ready for that yet.
Perfect. He's quick. He's quick. He's quick on the finger. But I remember, I don't know, maybe it was last year, we had Connor and Ella over to our house to play some board games and we like to put
The story is I've had this person over to play board games. Yep. That's our that's our ministry tour.
That's what we do. Well, I you guys got tired of me saying, well, when I was on the skin track with so and so, you're like, do all you do is ski? Now maybe you think, do all you do is have people over and play board games? Think what you
will. I
answer to none of y'all. I play a lot of board games. I do a lot of skiing. So Connor and Ella came over, and we like to play, you know, like like like cool board games, you know, like not like your American board games that you grew up on. And Ella's like, I'm bringing a board game over.
We're like, oh, is it is it going to be Caverna? Is it going to be like Ticket to Ride? Is it going to be something? And she pulls out this ancient decrepit board game called sorry. Now don't laugh.
Now don't let Ella, I got you. I got you. I'm a good storyteller. I'm I'm, like, allowing the story to develop. And we're like, Sorry.
We sit down and you know, the pieces are worn and and and then she begins to tell us the story behind this board game. She has had this board game since she was in fourth grade. And it is very special to her and it was special for her to bring that board game to share with us. And I tell you what, it was the best game of sorry that we've ever played. That's so fun.
In a similar way, God has family traditions. He himself is a complete and total complete family. In himself, within the trinity, within the unity of the Godhead, he is a perfectly content, happy, functioning family. And within that family, he brings children his created a variety of his created beings into that family, and we are one of his created orders. He invites us to join his family and adopt a family identity through family traditions that he has established.
Are you with me so far? Okay. Those family traditions are what we know of as the Jewish feast. They're only Jewish feast because god shared those traditions with the Jews first. But the invitation is for all of us to participate in his family traditions.
And this is not up on the screen, but I'll just say this, well, let's let's team effort. When we honor and celebrate, get into these seven major family traditions throughout the year, three important things happen in our hearts. And they all start with our would somebody tell me one of them? They help us to rehearse and I always say that one last. Remember me.
Because because I'll tell you about it in a moment. I know I did I did let you say there there's an order in my mind. There's an order in my mind, but rehearse is one of them. Yes. To remember in my mind that's the first one.
And then what's the to recalibrate. So these family traditions in this in a similar way that every time Ella gets to pull out her very special board game of sorry, it helps her to remember fun family, fond memories that she has growing up, and it's beautiful. In a similar way, when we celebrate or honor or recognize the seven family God's seven family yearly tradition, it helps us to remember all of these feasts, and we're going to look at at these in general, all of them and then we're going to zoom in on three of them but it helps us to remember what god has done for the nation of Israel and for the church and for our lives. Each of these feasts is designed to help us to remember what God has done. The second thing was, I think maybe you said it, recalibrate.
To recalibrate our lives. We get so caught up in the rhythm of the world and the rhythm of work or the rhythm of school or the rhythm of the seasons where sub sixty days to the lift starts spinning y'all. We get caught up. We get caught up in that And that rhythm, although it has its place, does not give eternal nourishment to us. So the family traditions are an opportunity to like, okay, hold on.
Hold on. Remember what it says? Do no work doing those feasts. Disrupt your normal life pattern to help you recalibrate, to get back onto God's rhythm. And then the final thing, which was the first thing that Joy said, which is my favorite thing, is what?
Rehearse. Rehearse. When you hear the word rehearsal, what comes to your mind? Wedding. A band or a wedding or like a play.
The reason why the band rehearses so they don't look like idiots for the show. The reason why we rehearse the wedding is so that the groomsmen who are all goofing around have some idea of what they're supposed to do on the actual wedding. And the reason why you rehearse a play is so that you get your lines right and your your movement and everything goes forward when it finally comes time. And so what are we rehearsing with these gods family tradition? Well, I'll show you if you would kindly put up that chart, sir.
You know I love a good chart. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially with emojis.
This one has colors. And some alright. There's some emoji check marks. Alright. Alright.
It's your eyes. It's your Wow. Well, for those of you in the VIP section, come join the rest of us some Sunday. So this is a chart that I created, and I call it God's family traditions. And over here, this helps to orient you with the feast.
And up top, we have feast divided into spring feasts and then fall feasts. And here's what's really cool about the idea of fulfillment. Is that the spring feasts have been fulfilled by Jesus. The fall feasts, if you keep laughing, won't keep doing it. This is like disciplining.
Stop laughing. This is discipline giving the mom eyes to every single one of you. Stop laughing. Don't encourage him. Notice, no check marks at the fall feast.
Look at the the governmental road roll. Jesus came as prophet and priest and he will come again as the king. Right now, where are we?
The church age.
The church age. We are in the age of the church. You can let that soak in just a moment more. Well, let's talk about this. Jesus in the feasts.
We have Passover that was pointing towards the crucifixion of the Messiah that he fulfilled. The feast of unleavened bread represents the was a prophetic foreshadowing of the burial of the Messiah which he fulfilled. The feast of first fruits which is a prophetic pronouncement or rehearsal of the resurrection of the Messiah which he fulfilled. And then fifty days later, the feast of Shavuot or as Christians, we know it as Pentecost was where the Holy Spirit was given to the church which he fulfilled. And now we are in the church age.
The age of the church. So several so four of these feasts have been literally fulfilled through the birth, the life, the death, the resurrection of the Messiah, and the release of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said it's better for you that I go. Because when I go, then I can send him, the advocate, the counselor, the holy spirit, and he will guide you into all truth. I have another graphic that we can look at just these three.
And many times at Tribe, we take time to recognize the Feast of Sukkot, but then the others perhaps don't get mentioned at all or just get a nod. And so today, if you're taking notes, at the top of your notes, you can write the title of the conversation that we're going to have very simply called The Fall Feasts twenty twenty five. The Fall Feasts. Normally, we focus on just Sukkot, but what I thought I would do is in symphony and in harmony with one another, we would look at all three of these feasts and Jesus' future prophetic fulfillment of each of these. Does this sound good?
And if you notice, I said the word conversation. I would like this to be a conversation. In the same way that there was an opportunity for you to share during worship, I would love to hear from you during our conversation today. So if you have questions or comments or connections, all you have to do is raise your hand. We'll get the mic to you.
Of course, we could hear your voice here in the room without the mic, but for all of our families that are traveling or have their starlink set up at their hunting camp and want to like watch the service. I mean, they're, I don't know if they're out hunting today. Lord bless them. But what we're going to do is have a conversation at at looking at each of these feasts. So the first one that we're going to start with is the feast of Rosh Hashanah or the feast of trumpet.
God's family tradition. He has a fam I don't know if you have weird family traditions in your family, but one of God's family tradition is get the whole family together and blow a bunch of horns. Sounds fun. That's weird. I'm in.
What time do we meet? So, you can see that the the feast of trumpets is celebrated with the shofar blast and it begins the new year And these verses are Old Testament references that speak of this God of this family tradition. Leviticus 23, we actually read that this morning, and it's also mentioned in Numbers chapter 29. But we can see here that there is a future literal fulfillment of this verse that has yet to unfold. Well, how do I know Yep.
Yep. We'll we'll address that in a moment. Get him the Kleenexes. So you can see here that there is not a box that is checked. The Messiah has not returned, and the saints have not been raptured.
If that has happened and all of us are still here, nanny, shame, shame. No, don't shame me. Oh. Bummer. Bummer for all of us.
I guess we just didn't count. But there is a future prophetic fulfillment of this feast that has yet to happen. I see a hand, and then we're going to read some verses together. While that yes. Yes.
Read it, and then I'll then we're gonna go to a verse.
Just a quick question. A lot of wow. I'm gonna I'm having a stroke when I say this. Theologians thank you. I did it.
Believe that Jesus was born at Rosh Hashanah.
How about that?
So, like, couldn't that be a both and, like, it was kind of fulfilled already? That's pretty cool.
That arrivalreturn. Correct
the chart.
You mean he didn't come on December 24? No. I agree with you. Okay. Turn to first Corinthians.
The feast of trumpets is a rehearsal. Now let me just address this. If you're like, Brian, you kind of made a big jump there from the verses that we read in Leviticus to using that word rehearsal. Well, if you look back in Leviticus 23, you will be able to see a holy convocation or a holy assembly. You can look for that word in the verses that we read, and that word convocation means gathering, assembly, and rehearsal.
Well, what are we supposed to be rehearsing? Rehearsing for a future event. This is it. Let's talk about when Jesus returns. First Corinthians fifteen, two verses, it's up here on the screen.
Verse fifty one and fifty two. But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. The apostle Paul is talking. We will not all die but we will all be transformed. We, he is speaking to the church.
Anyone who has made Jesus the leader of their life, who has been born again. We will not all die. But we will all be transformed. It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye. When the last, emphasis, Brian, last trumpet is blown.
How many trumpets are we blowing here? Well, you this is Paul is intending for us to create a hyperlink in our brain between the last trumpet being blown and the seven trumpets that are blown in the book of Revelation. You can you can scurry around and research that on your own. When the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever.
This is the resurrection and all who are living will also be transformed. This is this is the rapture. So, I don't know if you know this about your faith, but as Christians, we believe that our when our earth suit gives out and we die, that our spirit will live on. And when Jesus returns, we will return with him with a new suit for a new mission. What will that mission be?
I don't exactly know but it involves renewing of the earth. We will not all die. What that means is Paul was writing with a hopeful expectation that perhaps within the reader's lifetime that Jesus would return. If Jesus returns while a Christian is still alive, they get they get raptured, and they get a new earth suit for a new assignment that they'll be given. Now all of the generation that read Paul's words while the ink was still fresh, if you will, they died.
But I love that Paul was like, he had this strong hope. And for two thousand years, Christians have carried that same hope that Jesus would return in their lifetime. So, I want you to connect the return of Jesus with the rapture of the saints to be caught up. Bethany. Here comes the mic.
I just had a question. So, you said that in that the Christians would be raptured given a new earth suit and then returned to the earth?
I said a new suit.
Oh, okay. Okay. Gotcha.
For a new assignment. For a new assignment, not on New work.
Good question.
I worked that out. That was my question.
Great, great, great, great, great. So as as frail as our earth suits are, they are ideally and optimally suited for life on this planet. The way that we exchange oxygen, the way that we metabolize food, the way that our bodies respond to gravity, all of those things. Take this earth suit and put it on another planet, it would not do so good. Okay?
So, the Earth suit that we have is optimally suited for life on this planet. When Jesus returns, the rapture will happen. We will be caught up in the air to meet with him. We're gonna look at another verse. And then we will receive what the Bible describes as a resurrected or glorified body.
And it's because our assignment, not geographically on this earth, but our assignment for this time has come to an end. And a new age begins, and Christians will be given a new assignment. And for that new assignment, we need a different suit that is optimally tailored for the new assignment, and I'll say this, on planet Earth.
So when we die, you know, they say, to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord. Boom. Like that. Right? Yes.
That's what Paul says. So, but up here in the scripture, it's like, those who have died will be raised to live forever. You can see where that's a little confusing. Right? Who's in the
ground and who's already gone? Yes. Okay. Also
Amanda has a funeral.
Here's what guys, listen just reminded me of the time.
Looks we're heading into another six part series. We
have to we have to do this because okay. So here's what here's what may be no. No. No. Here no.
This is a really good question. Here's what could be helpful or at least may it may not answer but it could perhaps provide some solace to the mystery and the difficulty of wrapping our minds around what you just said. We in this moment are confined to live in a linear progression of time. Much of what all of what transpires outside of this realm is outside of space and time. And so what is challenging for our brains to comprehend of when and linear sequence and is of no matter issue or concern outside of this realm.
So it is quite possible for our grandma who loved and followed Jesus to die, be buried, and at the same time to be absent from the body to be present with the Lord and for her to be resurrected when Jesus returns that no time has gone by for her, but twenty five years has gone by for us. Welcome to Tribe.
A great question. We're gonna hurt your heads.
We are we are transdimensional beings. Eternity starts. Right now. Yeah. Here we are.
Welcome to eternity. I was just going to
say, isn't that where
Sheel No, Adam. Sorry. I would have expected a question like that from Bethany. When the tone of my voice changes. They are because we must, is good, this is good.
Nobody feels like this is dragging. So Sheol is an earthly attempt, a a not inaccurate, earthly attempt to try to either categorize or time period or place things that our terrestrially confined earthly mind are desperately trying to make sense out of. And Sheol is very challenging to our Protestant binary understanding that afterlife only consists of heaven and hell, but the Catholic church has more room for. That's the perfect face to make. How about another verse?
First Thessalonians four sixteen. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout. Three things that happen with the commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet, there's another trumpet call of god. First, the Christians who have died will raise from the graves. I would suggest to you that that is written from our earthbound terrestrial perspective.
We thought, you know, grandma who played the organ faithfully and loved Jesus in the church every week, you know, she'd been gone from us for fifteen years. Well, she's she's raising from the grave. But for her, it's diff yeah. For her, she's been with him to be present with the lord and she coming back now. Pinch our cheeks.
Or not. Listen, you cannot I'll just say this and then we'll continue on. You cannot separate the return of Jesus from the rapture. Those two concepts, ideas are welded tightly together in scripture. And these two verses and many others, including the words of Jesus himself in Matthew chapter 24, say that he will return at the last trumpet.
He will return at the end of the tribulation. The feast of trumpets celebrates the return of Jesus. How about the second feast? The day of atonement. Would you go back to that small chart, Hux?
Yes? I love that you have questions.
So the seven year tribulation is part of Rosh Hashanah.
Go back to the big chart, Hux. So now you just said you just said a phrase, the seven year tribulation
Great tribulation.
Or great tribulation. You just there's a lot even within that that perhaps all of our tribe fam may not be up to speed on, but you should be. Ask your question again.
The seven year tribulation is part of Rosh Hashanah? Because we've always coupled it around the great tribulation, whether you're pretrib, mid trib, post trib. Right? So that's all in that somehow?
Well, think about this. If there are seven Gregorian calendar years, seven year tribulation between the beginning of the tribulation and the end of the tribulation, there are gonna be seven Rosh Hashanahs celebrated. I don't think that answer sounded much better in my mind than what it came out of my mind. That
was good. No, I just keep going, I think. Like you started, but like how does that get?
I'd say as far
as Okay. My answer could take
Let me drink more coffee and I may have a better answer.
You can come back later. Yeah.
That's fine. Yeah. So it's not like because because look at the look at the date that these things happen. The reason why we usually only do Sukkot is because according to the Jewish calendar that was laid out in scripture, like our Jewish friends, our Jewish community, they celebrate these three things. Boom, boom, boom, boom, like within a period of a couple of weeks.
So these things play out according to God's family tradition within a couple of weeks. However, the prophetic fulfillment of these things will according to Daniel Daniel nine, ten, and 11, Jeremiah 30, Ezekiel that that they will play out over a period of about seven years. So you get seven of these during the tribulation before the final one that Jesus will check the box. Is that your question? Does that help answer it?
I think so. Did you say seven Rosh Hashanahs or seven of all three? Seven fall feasts. Seven fall feasts?
Seven falls. Good. Day of atonement. We go back to that oh, this is so good. The day of atonement.
Zechariah chapter 12. Are you okay if we like? Y'all come on? Get a fizzy water if you need to. Let's go.
Zechariah chapter 12. Yes?
Is Hanukkah also a feast? I looked it up on Google and it says, yes, Hanukkah is also known as the feast of dedication.
Okay. So that's why I'm very specific about the seven major feasts. You got Purim, Hanukkah, a bunch. There's a bunch. And Hanukkah is one
of the things happening in the past. So
so in Jesus's day, he celebrated the feast of lights, but it was not in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. So so this is intentional. I say seven because it's a great, like, Jesus number and it's biblical. And our our I like to say we, our our team, we're like, what do we? And we're like, let's do these first prescribed in the law of Moses.
So that's why we do seven, and I say seven major family traditions. Zechariah chapter 12. If the feast of trumpets is a rehearsal for the return of Jesus, the day of atonement is a rehearsal for Jesus leading the Israeli army to retake the city of Jerusalem. Let's read about it. Let's read god's word first.
Zechariah chapter 12. On that day, okay. That phrase right there should be a trigger that there could be some partial fulfillment that we look backwards towards that the author was looking forwards towards. But when you see that phrase on that day, it needs to be associated with the the day of the lord, the great day of the lord, the great and terrible day of the lord, all of that, those phrases are intended by the the authors of the Old Testament to point us towards some future day event, season, time period. On that day, says the lord.
I will cause every horse to panic and every rider to lose his nerve. I will watch over the people of Judah but I will bind all of the horses of their enemies and the clans of Judah will say to themselves, the people of Jerusalem have found strength in the lord of heaven's armies, their god. On that day, I will make the clans of Judah like a flame that sets the woodpile ablaze or like a burning torch among sheaves of grain. They will burn up all the neighboring nations left and right while the people living in Jerusalem remain secure. Never do I nor is it appropriate for me in this setting, in this seat, from this pulpit, if you will, for me to say what I think?
You're not here to hear what Brian thinks because mostly what I have to think is like useless rap lyrics from the nineties and Star Wars movie quotes. That's that I'm a simple guy. You sit here to hear the word of the lord and when if I've built enough trust with you to hear my interpretation that I clearly say, hey, here's what I think god is saying. Right? And and I'm all always try to be very careful when I say that in clear and delineate that.
So here's what I think from scripture is that we go back to the small chart is that the feast of trumpets or how about the big the big chart please? The feast of trumpets. Jesus returns. The day of atonement, national mourning, and repentance and considering what you've been through. Jesus who returns in physical form in his resurrected body.
Will come back to planet Earth The world will be in chaos. We will be towards the end of that seven years where we see the antichrist who has made a seven year peace treaty with the nation of Israel and halfway through broken that peace treaty, and there is intense persecution on the nation of Israel and anyone who would identify and stand with and support Israel, IE Christians. By the antichrist that will make the holocaust look like a walk in the park. 6,000,000 Jews were killed during the holocaust, and they were spread out all across Europe. What happens when one man wielding power can instigate another worldwide holocaust targeted in the nation of Israel where they're just gathered and concentrated.
I'll tell you this. Yours how you stand and support Israel today is exactly how you would have stood with and supported Israel in World War two. And your stance today is the least expensive that it will be in your life. If you've read stories about how Europe responded to Israel and you in your sanctimonious, self righteous, delusion, think.
I would look what they did. I would never do that.
You're actually doing exactly what you would have done back then. Text me. We'll get coffee. Jesus returns at the feast of trumpets And in the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, you can see here the liberation of Jerusalem and the salvation of Israel. How does that relate to what I just read?
Would you put that verse back up, please, Zechariah 12? On that day, when Jesus returns, he will rally the bedraggled remaining remnant of the IDF that is hanging on by a thread. He will become the ground force commander of the Israeli army and he will say, guys, come on. Let's retake the city of Jerusalem and on that day, the men of Judah when the armies, the armies of the Antichrist are thrown into turmoil, the clans of Judah will say to themselves, the people of Jerusalem have found strength in the lord of the heaven's armies. He's going to rally them.
Come on, guys. We're outnumbered. We're outmanned. We're outgunned. Our supplies are dwindling but I'm here.
They find strength in their Messiah. Through a procession, they march back to Jerusalem. They retake the city of Jerusalem. And when the dust settles, after the shouting and the cheering have stopped, the adrenaline wears off, if you will, they will be like, what just happened? Who is this guy?
We think of the return of Jesus with like robes and a sandal and a red sash. Where do we where do we do we get that? We see a prophetic picture of him in in Revelation. But what if he has boots and a tack vest and a radio. I don't know.
But he will, the Messiah, will retake the city of Jerusalem. When the dust settles and the adrenaline wears off, then Zechariah 12 verse 10 will take place. Then, I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem. They will look upon the one whom they have pierced and mourn for him as an only son. When they will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died.
What I see, this is pastor Brian speaking, what I see in my holy, sanctified, prophetic imagination is this figure who they know, like, they don't really know who he is. Joshua, commander Joshua, has come back. They're like, Joshua, I don't, did you know John? I don't know John but look what he's doing. Let's go.
Let's follow him. The city of Jerusalem is retaken. The rebellion of the Antichrist is quelled and put down. They hold their guns up in the air and they pump their fist. We did it.
We did it. We did it. And then the question starts circulating among like, is commander Joshua? Who is commander Joshua? And then it says, they will look upon the one whom they've pierced and they'll be like, oh my god.
And word will travel like wildfire throughout the ranks of the army. It's the Messiah. It's the Messiah. He's here. Not only is it the Messiah, it's Jesus of Nazareth.
What is his identifying mark that they'll know? That it was Jesus of Nazareth. They will look upon the one whom they've whom they have pierced and they'll be like, and then it hits them. Now, Brian, this is a big stretch using your prophetic imagination. Is it though?
Think about the disciples on the road to Emmaus. Unless it's super. Okay. I know it would be good but unless it's super dovetails. And then, as they are like, it was you.
It was you and they're broken. Then they're shattered. Jesus, commander of idea forces, doesn't stand there and say, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
You should be crying. Look what he does. Zephaniah three seventeen. For the Lord your God is living among you. He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness. With his love, he will calm all of your fears and he will rejoice over you with joyful songs. In the same way that the prodigal father welcomed the son back into his arms and back into and ran to meet him. Jesus already forgave Israel and the world. Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.
He has no anger, bitterness, resentment, any feelings of recourse or retaliation or revenge in him. The issue of his betrayal and hurt and abandonment has already been dealt with. So that he can be like, come here. Come here. Come here.
And then we get to the feast of Sukkot. Back to the chart. With the millennial reign of the Messiah. That finally, Jesus among us. He is our shelter.
Ruling and reigning from the capital city of Jerusalem. Micah chapter four verse one through three and this is the last verse. In the last days, there's that phrase again. The mountains of the lord's house will be the highest of all, the most important place on earth. It will be raised above the other hills and the people from all over the world will stream there to worship.
People from many nations will come and say, come on. Let us go up to the mountain of the lord to the house of Jacob's god. There, he will teach us his ways and we will walk in his paths. For the lord's teaching will go out from Zion. His word will go out from Jerusalem and the lord will mediate between the people and he will dis and he will settle disputes among strong nations far away.
He has a solution. Remember what we were talking about? The the brokenness on the reservation that that we have seen and how do we fix it and how do we solve it and we saw the best efforts of the federal government and what that's done. But he has a solution. The lord will mediate between peoples and will settle disputes between strong nations far away And they will hammer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will no longer fight against nation nor train for war anymore. This is the feast of Sukkot, which according to the earthly Jewish calendar, it begins this week. And that feast is celebrated with a sukkah, which is a tent according to what we read in Leviticus. He says, erect for yourself a temporary structure or shelter. Step outside of your comfortable house, apartment, or car that you're living in.
Construct a shelter, decorate it with palm fronds so you can see the night sky underneath it. It's temporary. It's frail. It's to remind you of the time that you spent being led through the wilderness where I took care of you. It is a prophetic foreshadowing, a rehearsal of someday when god himself is our shelter like a sukkah.
That we would dwell with him. So if you drive past rabbi Zelman's house this week, you'll see something like this. If you were to go to Israel or any part of the world where they're observing Jews in their backyard, you'll see something like this. It's a rehearsal for when Jesus comes, returns to Earth, and he himself is our shelter. Take heart and take courage as we celebrate the feast of the lord considering to remember all that he's done to recalibrate our lives at of our rhythms, our attitudes, and our mindsets, and as a rehearsal for days ahead.
If we actually grab a hold of this, we position ourselves as leaders, a tribe in Jackson Hole surrounding region into the uttermost bounds of the earth. When the world is raging against Jews. When the church has abandoned Israel and turned their back on them. Well, man, hey, they shouldn't have started all this. What an what an disproportionate.
I'm not going to go easy. What a disproportional response Israel has had. Oh. If you have not remembered, if you've not been re calibrated, then how will you be in a position to rehearse? If you allow the Lord to develop your worldview, you then position yourself to be in a place of leadership and influence, calmness.
Hey, here's what's going on. You will be a foundation and anchor in a world that is being turned upside down. And that's my prayer for each and every one of you. I'm going to be still for just a moment, take care of some business with the lord, get my phone number from Lisa, and prepare your text messages to me Okay. Let's worship the lord one other way.
Have and have two announcements. Every week at Tribe, we provide opportunities for us to worship the lord in song in honoring the word that was preached by considering it and flipping through the pages and taking notes and wrestling with it, making appointments to talk with me. And we worship the lord through our tithes and offerings and you can give check or cash in that little wooden box right there or outside the building through our website, tribegh.com but most people are generous with their smartphones by text to give with their tithes, or their offering. We'll leave this up for just a moment. Let me pray for us.
And then we'll skidaddle out of here very shortly. Lord Jesus, There's so much to giving of our finances. One of the things it does is it stretches our faith and trust muscle. That muscle needs to be strong and robust for the days that we are living in and for the days ahead. So, lord, we surrender a portion of our finances to exercise that trust muscle and as a practical demonstration to tell you that we trust you and we love you.
Thank you for your family traditions even if some of them are a little quirky like blowing trumpets. Thank you for inviting us into your family. God, I ask that you would receive these finances. You would use them to make your name famous here at Tribe, in Jackson Hole, the surrounding region, into the uttermost bounds of the earth. We pray these things in Jesus name.
Amen. The lord bless your giving today. Many of you give throughout the year and or occasionally from time to time towards a designated fund called the Wind River Outreach and just these last few days we've returned from bringing a team to Riverton, Wyoming where we took a team this this time it happened to be all young adults besides mom and dad and Laura to the to Riverton where we partnered with some friends of ours that have planted a church called Foundations for Nations. They are a missional church whose sole purpose is to love and share the love of Jesus with the Wind River Indian Reservation. There are two major tribes there.
15 to 20,000 Native Americans live on that reservation. And for how many of you you've been before and or this was your first trip? So so many of our our tribe fam have been before. There's going to be another opportunity. But one of the things that we did was we took your tithes and offerings.
And we went to the Walmart there in Riverton and we filled their pantry and so this is our team with shopping cart after shopping cart after shopping cart to go through the aisles of being able to fill up their food pantry. They have a food bank so people come in that have needs and they just get to not like willy nilly shopping but like they get like they get bags of groceries for their family and that's one of the things that they do. And then so we buy it and then we go and we stock the food pantry. This is the she runs the food pantry. She's a marine.
Her name is Sonia and this marine breaks down in tears at the arrival of granola bars. Because she said for weeks, the children specifically that we feed have not had any snacks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. She's hopping up and down and crying as the granola bars keep rolling in to the food bank. So thank you. Thank you tribe for for giving and for sending this team to Wind River.
You can see the stocks in the food supply there. And I think there maybe one other picture. Friday evening, we all gathered for our team and then there was another church that was partnering with us, their team, and some of the staff from the Church of Foundations for Nations and a puppy dog were were at a bonfire and then, I don't have a picture of this but the next day, they did a big fall festival outreach, candy, and games for children to bring in their families, to love on their families and so, thank you to the team that served and thank you tribe for sending that team. If you stand up, I'll pray for you and we can get out of here. We have, thank you, Gretchen.
We have another, unfortunately, another opportunity to stand with and to support Israel with every month Jews from this community have gathered the first Sunday at the town square as they stand in solidarity with the families that have lost loved ones and families that were ripped from their homes and ripped from their families from the horrific attack by Hamas on October 7, two years ago now. We're almost at the two year anniversary if you can believe it. And for two years, the first Sunday of every month, Jews gather on the town square. The Christian community is invited to stand with them and support them. And Lissa and I have been with them almost without fail for two months, for two years now, and you have yet another opportunity to stand with them in this very well could be hopefully the very last gathering, which would mean we will do one more to celebrate the return of the hostages.
Your coming to support does not mean that you condone each and every single action conducted by the military. Your standing to support does not mean that you carte blanche, blankly support and condone all of the actions of the Israeli government. Did you know that you can stand with your, the Jews here in this community, and your heart can still break and grieve for those Palestinians that are innocent? You can. So if you're curious or if you never have been, I would really strongly invite you and encourage you.
Please come. Talk to some of the Jews that are gathered on the town square. You can ask them. Hey. I'm a Christian.
PB invited me. I'm here. Why should I be here? You can talk to them. Cornerstone is also kind of co leading this month's gathering.
So, we'll have some folks from Cornerstone there and I really would love, you know, how competitive I am. I would really love a strong showing of our tribe fam to be there and to get to meet and to get to know Eric and Cornerstone Church. Okay? So now I'll pray for you. Alright.
Thank you. It's on the Town Square at 5PM. On the Town Square today, 5PM rain or shine. And again, you can have my number and we'll we'll get coffee. Lord Jesus, thank you so much.
Thank you so much for inviting us into your family. If we come from a great family, we're invited into a better family. If we had a terrible family like I did, we get invited into a better family, your family. If we had no family, what to speak of? The invitation is for us to join your family.
Thank you. Thank you for inviting us into your family. Jesus, we eagerly anticipate the day of your fulfillment when that little green check emoji gets to go ping, ping, ping on these last few feasts. Maranatha, come lord Jesus. Come lord Jesus.
I command a blessing over each and every person here today. Thank you for their great patient endurance for today. Give them a great week and lord, it's hunting season. So, help us to get the brown down. We pray these things in Jesus' name, and everybody said, amen.
I love you. Have a great week. Quick it out. Quick it out. Because the next service is starting.
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