Beyond Passover: Israel, More Spring Feasts, War and More
May 1, 2024
Host: Hon. Sam Rohrer
Guest: Ted M. Vanlandeghem
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program originally aired on 5/1/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer: Welcome to this Wednesday edition of Stand In the Gap Today, and it’s also our bimonthly Israel prophecy and Middle East update. Well, if it seems that Israel, Jerusalem, the Jewish people generally and the Middle East is increasingly at the center of, well the Western US and media headlines and that the United Nations and even the World Economic Forum globalist gatherings are all connecting with something in the Middle East. If you don’t think that all of these things are just happening and actually a Prophetical component, well if you would believe that you’d be right because it’s happening. If the hatred of Israel and the Jewish people was not enough in the Middle East, hired Hamas and terrorist Muslim agitators are rising up on woke college campuses all across America, we see it happening. Literally threatening war on American streets. And if this wasn’t concerning enough, I dunno if you just caught this just happened.
Sam Rohrer: Joe Biden has just indicated his commitment to bring in 800,000 Muslim Palestinians to America under a 1980 immigrant provision under which he could grant ultimate citizenship, immediate access to social security, food stamps, social services, all with special subsidized placement across the country. That’s right. Without a doubt, we are really in bizarre and dangerous days, not just for the Jewish people and Israel, but America and Christians who oppose the global order and support God’s covenant promises to Israel. Well, on today’s program with special guest Ted M. Vanlandeghem founder and CEO of, he actually got a number of fingers and things, but he leads a group called ready bag.com, that’s Kingdom Tactical Advisors Company. He’s a main presenter for the ancient Hebrew scroll project, the only known complete collection of the Old Testament manuscripts in ancient scroll form in the world that is able to be viewed by the general public.
Sam Rohrer: And we’re going to address the key events now underway that comprise a he and I together, a 10 top watch list, events top 10 watch list of key Middle East events and Israel focused issues. We’re going to do that in the first two segments here in segments three and four. We’re going to shift gears, go to the understanding the great significance and the meaning of Passover. Just concluded yesterday, April 30, within the context of the Jewish spring and fall feast days and what this knowledge can do to help focus the minds and the prayers of all true believers in Yeshua, Jesus Christ. The title I’ve chosen for today’s program Emphasis is this, beyond Passover, more Spring feasts, there’s still more to come war and more. So we’re going to touch on a broad range of issues with that. I welcome to the program right now, Ted. Ted, thanks for being back with me.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Hey, it’s a great honor to be on the show again. Thank you for having me.
Sam Rohrer: You’re quite welcome, Ted. As a Messianic believer in Yeshua last program, you actually gave your testament, it was wonderful, but you bring a unique perspective connecting a number of things, prophecy, history, military and security. You’ve served for a long time as well in the White House communications team during the GW Bush administration as well as now for many years been involved in the lengthy involvement in both Christian and Messianic ministry. So it’s those things combined, I believe a blend of life experience that I’d like to tap on today. So if you could do this, putting on your military security or White House communication, prophetical hats, all these together, you’ve assembled what you’re calling your top 10 big watch items that you shared with me last week. And I’d like for you to, in this segment, if you could identify all 10 if you can rank ’em in order of what you think is the most important, just a brief description and then we get into the next segment. Then we’re going to start going into detail on at least the top three.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, I would say number one on that list is I ran is just possibly days away from painting their first one to three nuclear weapons. Reuters ran an article on April 18th, just a few weeks back saying that they were weeks away from enough enriched uranium for two nukes. Number two I would say is the new precedent that was set with the United States State Department verbal sanction of five Israeli defense forces units. This has huge ramifications. Then the threat number three would be the ICC war, international criminal court war crimes, possible indictments of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and other leaders in the government in Israel’s military. Number four I’d say would be the Gaza Pier Project, which is also an island. They’re building an island and a pure and the United States is putting a tremendous amount of money for this project and this is a temporary structure. The next item that I would say would be the possibility of a second Turkish sponsored Gaza Flotilla. Back in 2010 there was a flotilla that resulted in a huge clash and there’s a possibility of another one coming next down the list would be Hezbollah’s threat to make Northern Israel virtually uninhabitable in a coming conflict.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Next on the list would be Trump built towards Israel with his outstanding vocal support of Israel and Biden’s hard pivot away and steady pivot away from Israel. The next would be Argentina’s economic boom in tandem with their newly elected president, Javier Malay and his support for Israel. And then the next would be the possibility of a coming RAHA op to finish off the last vestiges of Hamas. And finally the startling shift against Israel on US Ivy League college campuses all across the nation, which has echoes of 1938.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, I didn’t think you’d get that was all in Ted, but you went down through them in good order. So ladies and gentlemen, now these 10, we’re not going to be able to talk in detail on all of them, but we’re going to get into several of these top 10 in the next segment. And so these top 10 are the top 10 that my guest Ted Vanden Legum has assembled as a result of his involvement over broad front for a long time. It’s not that these are the top 10, but they’re good reason to believe that these items are certainly among the top 10 and they’re his designations and I happen to share a great deal of support for them. So stay with us. We’ll come back in just a moment as going to go into a break. Our theme today is this, beyond Passover, Israel, more spring feasts war and more.
Sam Rohrer: So this is our bimonthly Israel prophecy in Middle East update. That’s the general focus. We’re picking up some highlights of some things that are worthy of note worthy being followed. Last half the program we’re going to shift to the matter of spring feast, spring feast, fall feast Passover. First spring feast just concluded yesterday. And so we’re going to tie this together because these are extraordinary days of importance that can help guide us in our thinking. We’ll be right back. Well just a few hours ago, prime Minister Netanyahu officially rebuffed the ridiculous, those are my words, ridiculous demands of US Secretary of State Blinken and Joe Biden for Israel to accept what they refer to as a peace treaty. But that peace treaty, as many articles said, were unquote demanded by Hamas. Interesting though Hamas and their Iranian and Turkish Islamic puppet masters remained totally committed to the annihilation of Israel.
Sam Rohrer: Strange, isn’t it? In a recent press conference, Netanyahu made the following statement in regard to a question posed to him in regard to why it seems that the world is citing against Israel. And that was an interview that was done and the headlines came out of it. The world is against Israel. So that’s where I’m pulling that from. But in that interview, Netanyahu said, he said this, I was once asked this question of my father, a world renowned historian about why the world is against Israel and Jews. And he’s saying, and I said, well, it must be ignorance, but ignorance alone cannot explain this rise in antisemitism referring to what’s happening now. And I’m leaving some out, but what I’m repeating is exactly what he said. He went on to say, there is a virus that has accompanied us for a millennia now, a virus of antisemitism that changes shape but abides.
Sam Rohrer: And then I went on to say our mission, meaning now our mission now Israel’s mission is to unite in the physical defense and in the moral defense against the accusers that is the mission and the fight in our generation. Well, Ted, I thought those comments were significant and because a number of the things that you mentioned in your 10 watch list you just talked about, they touch on at least a part of what we were calling a rise in antisemitism, which were witness witnessing right here in increasing ways on American college campuses. And it is spreading and it’s what speaking about in my opinion now, would you take and expand upon this broader issue because things are turning here in America as well as around the world. What can you add to this concept about this virus of antisemitism and spreading and the world increasingly aligning in opposition to Israel?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, I see two things going on. First of all, this spirit of antisemitism has been around as long as Israel’s been around. And it’s really a satanic agenda that cheeks to deny the existence of Jewish people, not just in Israel but really worldwide. If you drill down into these antisemitic groups in the Middle East and even in the West, the end game is no Israel, no Jewish people. But in tandem with this rise that we see on college campuses, I also see increasing amount of anti-Israel mindset and lack of support for Israel within the church. So there’s really two things I see going on, but the first I would say, Solomon says in the Bible that there’s nothing new under the sun. And you hear a lot of people refer to 2024 is 19 38, 19 38, you saw this increasing rise in antisemitism like never before, just 40 years before that, 50 years before we had the programs which saw a million and a half Jewish people killed.
Ted Vanlandeghem: But this really was a crescendo coming in 1938 and it wasn’t satisfied. So there would be no more Jews on the face of planet earth. And consequently 6 million Jewish people died. And the precursor to that was this uptick in antisemitism. And we see that again today. And really one of the things that I like to mention in churches that I speak in and other groups is the roots of antisemitism in the Middle East Touch World War ii, the events of World War ii. And a lot of people aren’t familiar with the fact that Adolf Hitler had a man named Haja Sini who was known as the Grand Lu of Jerusalem. And he worked with Adolf Hitler and helped create an all Muslim Nazi SS division called the 13th wain SS 24,000 members strong, all Muslim Nazi SS division, and they killed 800,000 people. And Haja mean CE wasn’t prosecuted during the war crimes trials.
Ted Vanlandeghem: He was able to flee back to the Middle East. He’s the co-founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was also the founder of fat, which later on became the PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization. And then was rebranded again under Mama Debas as fatal once again. And he, along with a lot of the people that he had recruited, melded back into the Middle East. And this was the foundation of these modern Islamic extremist terror groups that not only set on not having a nation called Israel, but ultimately they don’t want to see Jewish people in existence worldwide. And the alarming thing is in these Ivy League schools, so many of these Western students in these Ivy League schools are chanting support for Hamas, the same organization that would kill them just long as they would an Israeli or a Jewish person because they don’t understand these organizations, understand their roots and their foundation and understand the dangerous roots of this antisemitic spirit.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, that’s excellent Ted and vo, we could go further because ladies and gentlemen, there is a theological component that’s underneath of this as well. We’ve talked about it before. It’s called replacement theology. It’s within the church. It’s people who don’t think Israel has any right to exist. The church replaces them that was present in Germany. The German churches that did not stand up to support the Jews were primarily not because they were afraid, but because they theologically did not believe that they had a right to exist. We’ve talked about that in the program before. I’ve got to put that out there because that plays into I think what we’re seeing happening in this country as well. Alright, let’s go back here. Ted, you identified number one of the 10 items I ran just days away, if not and perhaps already having nukes. Okay, why is this number one, build that out just a bit.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, recently we just saw this unprecedented attack, direct attack from Iranian soil on Israel with over 300 cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and drones. Could you imagine if those had been armed? Even just a small percentage of those with nuclear warheads and the detonation of one, the consequences and the ramifications of that are huge. Also Iran through its proxies is they are controlling the shipping lanes to a great degree, the Suez Canal and with the HT rebels launching cruise missiles, land-based cruise missiles toward ships. Imagine if a nuke was detonated in there in the ramifications geopolitically economically and for Israel, but not just for Israel. Because the thing is Iran isn’t just Israel’s enemy. Iran sees United States as the great Satan, the number one enemy, and for them to have in their possession a nuclear weapon or several is just a tremendously frightening prospect.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, so that means Israel’s going to have to do something. And of course we talked about that a lot. So let’s lay that on the table. We could go deeper, but let’s go on to number two. Number two, you identified as the fact of the Biden administration actually at least verbally sanctioning battalions or components of the Israeli defense forces. What
Ted Vanlandeghem: About that? Yeah, this is truly an unprecedented action. United States has been Israel’s biggest ally and Israel’s been the United States’s biggest ally in a lot of regards. And this is a chilling effect for these units, for army commanders in the IDF for government leaders because, because the greatest ally taking this action to verbally sanction. And the next step would be to be either criminal indictments or other types of sanctions. This is basically the proverbial crack in the dam. And what could flow behind this would be brutal, frightening. And the thing is, Israel as a military, I served in the US military 26 years and served in Iraq and Israel does something that no other military does. They send texts, cell phone calls, leaflets in the air to get civilians out of harm’s way to mitigate civilian casualties. They do things that no other military on face of planet earth and in history has done to mitigate human loss in civilian casualties. And to see them sanctioned, it’s just reprehensible.
Sam Rohrer: Yeah, it is. And so I think that’s obvious on its face. We’re going to leave it there one minute here. Next question number three, identified as this international criminal court. They’ve indicted Benjamin Netanyahu and leaders. That’s outrageous. But what are the implications there?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, again, it’s the same chilling effect, not just on the military leaders, but on political leaders within the country. And that could cause Israel to not take decisive action that it needs to do to not only protect itself, but really to protect the western civilization in the western world from the threats of a nuclear Iran and these radical extremist terror groups in the Middle East. And so not only that, but this could follow with sanctions, financial sanctions against these political leaders and military leaders, actions that we’ve seen done against other countries taken against our greatest ally. It’s just astonishing to me.
Sam Rohrer: It is astonishing. Ladies and gentlemen. As a quoted from Benjamin, there’s a virus of antisemitism at its root as a special guest.Ted Vanlandeghem said it’s Satanic. It’s been that way from the beginning since God made his covenant promise with Abraham. That’s what we’re witnessing. It’s happening. The only way you can describe it, it’s real. When we come back, we’re going to shift to Passover, just completed talk about Passover and spring feasts and fall feast. They’re really important. Well, if you’re just tuning in, we’re glad to have you aboard with us today. We’re halfway through the program. This is an hour program and we are here every day at this time on this station to which you’re listening, try to cover headline news from a biblical and constitutional perspective. And today, this is one of our bimonthly or other Wednesday at least we focus on Israel prophecy and the Middle East from all different perspectives.
Sam Rohrer: My special guest today is Ted. He is the main presenter for the ancient Hebrew scroll project. He’s been in the military, he’s been in Christian and messianic ministry for many years and was with the GW Bush White House communication team for a number of years as well. So there’s a lot of perspectives being brought to bear today. So we’re going to shift, we were looking at more geopolitical events, public policy things, things that are surrounding Israel, antisemitism and other things in the last two segments I’m going to shift. Now Passover just completed big important day, but it just completed in its observation yesterday, April 30. But all that comes from scripture in Leviticus chapter 23 verses one and two. I’m going to read this. God says there, and the Lord spoke unto Moses saying, speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them, these are the appointed feasts of the Lord that ye shall proclaim as holy convocations.
Sam Rohrer: They are my appointed feasts. So since God established and divinely appointed what he said, holy convocations, which by definition from the Hebrew actually means sacred assemblies or perhaps quite literally dress rehearsals. And since God calls them my feasts and the feasts of the Lord accompanied by very precise instructions for his people to carefully observe them in perpetuity, well shouldn’t we alive today know what they are and certainly why God established them. I would submit that we must, if we are to properly understand God’s greater plan of redemption for mankind, that’s what they’re all about. I submit that we must understand these feasts of the Lord and with this knowledge, really know better how to interpret the chronology of God’s unfolding plan of redemption and how this knowledge impacts both Jews and Israel and Gentiles, the church, the bride of Christ, both not just one. Alright, Ted, in Leviticus 23 in verse five, God identifies his first of the spring feast, which is Passover just concluded yesterday as I mentioned, would you identify and give some brief thoughts regarding the four spring feasts of the Lord, the relationship to God’s plan of redemption and how that works together?
Sam Rohrer: Just put your thoughts on, I’m suggesting it’s very important, most Christian people know very little, just kind of put the big overview picture on this.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Absolutely. I speak in a lot of churches and in most churches, most Christians are familiar with on a base level of what Passover is. They understand Jesus dying on the cross. But in many churches there’s not an understanding or knowledge base of the remaining six appointments or feasts that God outlines. In Leviticus 23, I refer to Leviticus 23 as kind of the keys of prophecy. And I believe that every Christian really should have at least a solid understanding of what these prophetic appointments are. We call them holidays, but really in Hebrew they’re called Modi appointments. These are prophetic appointments of God that are a picture of Jesus Christ first coming and his second coming. And these first four appointments occur in the spring and begins with Passover. And again, most Christians are familiar with Passover and Jesus dying on the cross as the fulfillment of Passover.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And really it’s a picture of God’s plan. A really goes all the way back to Genesis chapter three. When Adam and Eve sinned and fell in the garden of Eden, the they tried to make a covering for themselves out of fig leaves. It’s reported there in Genesis chapter three, verse seven. But if you go onto Genesis three, verse 21, God reports there that he made a covering for them out of animal skins likely lambskin. Now if you take the skin off of an animal, it’s going to die in the sages. The Jewish ages saw this as the first sacrifice for sin by the very hand of God. So this is a picture of God’s plan A, that substitutionary sacrifice would occur at some point in the future. And the fulfillment of that is Jesus Christ himself. But the very next day occurs another holiday, the feast of unleavened bread.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And this is the holiday that runs for seven days. And it’s the picture of the removal of sin. It’s the removal of lemon. Lemon is always a picture of sin. And so there’s this removal of lemon. There’s only the eating of unleavened bread for that seven day period. And then the very next day is hare first fruit. It was the first fruits of the barley harvest. It’s where the coen haole would go into the esba. Kma high priest would go into the holy of Holies in the temple and he would take the very first fruit of the spring barley, the Aviv barley, and wave it before the Lord. And this is the picture of the first fruits of resurrection in Jesus’s resurrection is connected with first fruits. And not only did Jesus resurrect, but others resurrected with him. And the Book of Acts records that there’s 500 witnesses to this.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Then we have a countdown called the counting of the Ooma. 50 days later we have a holiday called Sha in Hebrew in the church world. And in the Greek it’s called Pentecost. And this was fulfilled in the Book of Acts with the outpouring of the Holy Spirit when the disciples went out from the upper room. But a lot of Christians don’t understand that the first Shavuot begins all the way back in Exodus 32. Moses has been up on the mountain for 40 days. They think he’s dead. They convince Aaron to make a golden calf. Moses comes down with the first set of 10 commandments. He finds him worshiping the golden calf and he breaks the first set of 10 commandments. God’s word revealed on stone tablets and destroys the golden calf. And then he tells the Levites in Exodus 32 to put on the swords and go through the camp and kill.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And on the first Pentecost, the law of God coming down on stone, it says they’re in Exodus 32, about 3000 die. You fast forward 1500 years. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit, God’s word is written on the tablets of the hearts of men. And it’s reported in the book of Acts, about 3000 are saved. And so you see God working on this prophetic calendar to fulfill not only the Passover sacrifice, but the removal of love and sin, resurrection, the first fruits of resurrection Jesus. And there’s a greater resurrection coming and also the transference of God’s word from stone tablets to the hearts of men by the power of his Holy Spirit.
Sam Rohrer: That’s a superb overview. We have enough time, let’s put it together now because it’s all God telegraphing laying out his plan of redemption, which you said he determined in Genesis three 15 at the beginning. Everything that all of civilization has been watching since that day when Adam and Eve sinned up to this very point and into the future are all an outworking of what God illustrated in these feasts. So the spring feasts have to do with Christ first coming. Tell us what’s looking ahead. Tell us what’s down the road here yet in fall feasts and bring these two together.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, the prophetic calendar that’s outlined in Leviticus 23 goes silent to the summer. And we equate this to the church age after the fulfillment of Pentecost or OT begin this era called the church Age. But the close of that period is the fall, and fall is always a picture of harvest, of in gathering. And that’s where the prophetic calendar picks up. And it’s interesting to note that the Jewish sages before the coming of Jesus, they actually saw two Messiahs, a Messiah, Ben Joseph, a suffering Messiah and a Messiah, Ben David, a conquering Messiah. They actually thought that there were two Messiahs, but it wasn’t actually two Messiahs. It was one Messiah and two comings. And you see Jesus Christ is coming back. And in the fall, the prophetic calendar picks up again with this holiday called Yam Tarawa, the Feast of Trumpets. Today we call it Rosh Hashanah, which means head of the Year, but that’s the seventh month.
Ted Vanlandeghem: It’s a second New Year’s in the seventh month, which is really a picture of the beginning renewal of all things. But in the Bible it was called Terrois and Terrois, it is a trumpet blast. But in Hebrew it’s also a shout, a battle fly, a clanger. And we see in the New Testament that when Jesus Christ comes back, it’s going to be a accompanied by a trumpet blast and a shout as reported in the New Testament. And in Hebrew that would be a terrois and a ROIs, a blast and a shout. And that holiday, that first holiday that picks up in the fall is terrois. It’s at the darkest point of the month just as the new Moon is coming in. And then we begin a period from Terrois, the Feast of Trumpets called a 10 day period called Ya. No, the days of all the Jewish people believe that the book of Life in Heavens opened during this period and they actually have a greeting Lash Toba, which means may you be inscribed in the book of life.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And it culminates 10 days later with Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And this is really a picture of God’s judgment of the nations in the future when Jesus Christ comes back. And it’s also a picture of the national atonement of the Israel that remains through this great tribulation period, will see the one whom may pierce as the prophet Zacharia hotels and they’ll recognize Messiah. And then five days later comes the Feast of Tabernacles, which is really a picture of the wedding supper of the land. And really the Jewish wedding is tied to Passover and the seventh piece of Tabernacles. And if we had more time, that’d be a great thing to go into, but that’s really a synopsis of all seven appointments from Leviticus 23 and Jesus’s first and second coming.
Sam Rohrer: Well ladies and gentlemen, I hope you enjoyed that quick overview Ted. That was really very, very good. Ladies and gentlemen, if we don’t understand Christ’s first coming in the feast and his second coming, which those feast days, we miss so much of how God is carefully, meticulously working out his promises of his promise, of the plan of redemption. It makes a big difference when you come back. We’re going to conclude with some thoughts beyond Passover. Well, like all aspects of scripture, every word is God. Breathe. If you listen to us regularly, you know that we talk about the authority of scripture. Every part of scripture establishes its authority, the supreme authority of God, the Creator. And that all authority has been given my God, the Father to Jesus Christ as judge of the world. Before we know scripture says one day all will bow and confess, admit, recognize that Jesus is Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Sam Rohrer: That’s going to happen because God has declared it so yet in this life, all of God’s people, both Israel and the true church are to reflect this authority. Think about that. Israel was designated to be a light to the world, to demonstrate to the world the power of God. And so is the church today. Now it’s interesting, now we are to bring glory to God the Father. We speaking Now to you all listening here part of the church, if you know Jesus Christ, your savior, it’s to point people to Jesus Christ as the only way to heaven and the way by our lives we are to live strikingly different than the world around us who without Christ will experience separation from God forever. We deliver that with confidence because that’s what God says. Now, if we truly believe these things and we understand how and what God has built within his personally owned and established feast days, what we’re just talking about spring and fall feast all speaking about the very essence of the message of redemption, it should cause us to live differently.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, Ted, in the balance of the program right here, I’m going to ask you two questions and it’s basically the same but it’s a different application and that is this in light of the feast of which Passover just completed three more yet to come in the next weeks here and then the fall coming up, obviously would you make some application of these events, these feast days, their purposes for being observed and all that and how they should instruct the Jewish people generally, and I’m going to say the Israeli political and religious leadership specifically, there’s something for them. How should it impact their thinking and their lives?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Absolutely. Well number one, the first thing I would say is God is speaking as Israel was taken out of the land by the Romans after the destruction of the temple. Even throughout history we could see God moving on the prophetic calendar as it related to the Jewish people. But when Israel was born again as a nation in 1948, it was like the prophetic time clock kicked on again and you began to really see the Lord fulfilling events related to Israel, the birth of the nation in conjunction with God’s prophetic calendar, the recapture of Jerusalem in conjunction with God’s prophetic calendar, the attempt to destroy Israel in conjunction the Yo Kippur war with God’s prophetic calendar, even October 7th was tied in to God’s prophetic calendar. And so the overarching thing here is that God is speaking and the main message here is that Jesus Yeshua, the Jewish Messiah, he is coming back and he is both messiah bin Joseph the suffering Messiah and he’s Messiah bin David the conquering Messiah. He’s coming back and every day that goes forward in all these events that we see trying to eliminate Israel and destroy her existence and that these events unfold in conjunction with God’s calendar, God is speaking to Israel and the Jewish people. And so my recommendation to Israeli leaders is to pay attention to his calendar and to know that Yeshua the Messiah, he has come and he is coming again.
Sam Rohrer: That’s fantastic. Alright, let’s go here now because they’re Christian believers, most listening to this program are either Messianic news or Christian believers, Gentiles that have trusted in Christ, but the feast have not been something that most Christian believers have really observed kind of known about. We talked about that a little bit, but because of its so clear tie in to Christ first coming in his second coming, the rapture just ahead, the tribulation period, the millennial kingdom coming, these things should be really, as we observe these days, should be also sending a message and instructing believers today, remnant believers, I’m going to say remnant believers, true believers in how we should be thinking and living as well. How should that knowledge impact our thinking and living?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well indeed, we are closing in on the times of the prophets foretold and the raptures around the corner and the return of Jesus. And in Israel’s back as a nation, all of these things are shouting. Jesus Christ is coming back, the Messiah coming back. But for us as believers within the church, if we really want to understand the times that we’re in and the events that we see unfold with Israel, we need to at least have an understanding of a really solid understanding of Leviticus 23 and these prophetic appointments and how God has worked through history regarding Israel on those appointment days with his first coming and how he’s going to be working with these days as we near his second coming. And if we believe that Jesus Christ is coming and indeed we do, then we need to have a greater resolve than ever before about the great commission about sharing the gospel every day that we live.
Ted Vanlandeghem: We need to live with intentionality. When I served in Iraq every day that I lived, I knew could be my last day and I lived every day with a tremendous amount of intentionality and so did all my fellow airmen that I served with. When you’re on the battlefield, you live with this incredible sense of intentionality. And if as God’s prophetic calendar shows us that Jesus Christ coming is nearing, shouldn’t, we ought to live with that same measure of intentionality about our call, about our commission, that the reason we’re here, the very reason we’re here in large part is to proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ is believers. And so that, that’s my passion point as it relates to this, understand these prophetic days and how they apply to the days ahead and as you grow in understanding, grow in your desire to fill the great call that God has placed upon your life just like after you’ve been born with such a time exists.
Sam Rohrer: Well, Ted Vanlandeghem, that is an excellent challenge to all who are listening. And we only have about a minute left here, but are you finding as you travel around, you’re speaking in churches, in your discussing with Jewish people as well, are you finding an awakening among the Jewish people? Are you finding an awakening among remnant Christians?
Ted Vanlandeghem: I would say we’re finding both. There’s remnant, believers are growing in this understanding of God’s prophetic time and it’s a move of God preparing them for what God’s placed them here for. But also right now we have more Jewish believers in Jesus than at any other point in history. Even the early church. Some estimates right now say that there’s a million Jewish people worldwide that believe that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. And there was a Barna research group, did a research poll a few years ago and it made the Jerusalem post. It said, one in five Jewish millennials and Gen Z now are open to the fact that Jesus Christ is the Messiah. We’re seeing that lessening of the blindness and the deafness to the gospel and that to me, that’s a prophetic indicator among many others that we’re nearing those.
Sam Rohrer: Indeed, indeed and I look at it the same way. Ted, thank you so much. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being with us today. Go back and listen to the program again. I hope that it was of great encouragement seeing these things. Being aware of these things we’ve talked about is enthus is exciting, it is motivating. Let us be zealous about the communication of the good news. The days are just amazing, aren’t they? Alright, well thanks for being with us. Go back, listen to the program again. Stand in the gap radio.com.
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