2024 & the Jewish Feasts: Understanding the Prophetical Significance
Sept. 6, 2024
Host: Sam Rohrer
Guest(s): Ted Vanlandeghem
Note: This transcript is taken from a Stand in the Gap Today program aired on 9/6/24. To listen to the podcast, click HERE.
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Sam Rohrer: In Leviticus chapter 23 verses one and two, God says this, take note, God says this. 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. They are my appointed feasts. Well, from this passage and others, we know that God himself established and divinely appointed as he says, holy convocations, which by definition from the Hebrew means sacred assemblies or perhaps quite literally dress rehearsals. And since God calls them my feasts and the feasts of the Lord and links their observance to very precise instructions for his people to carefully observe them in perpetuity, shouldn’t we know as not the only God-fearing people either Jew or Gentile, what they are and why God established them? And I submit that we must if we are to properly understand God’s greater plan of redemption for mankind and God’s prophetical and chronological roadmap written within the pages of scripture.
Sam Rohrer: And with that, I welcome you to stand in the gap today in this special Friday emphasis on this important topic which I’m entitling 2024 Israel and the feasts of the Lord, understanding the prophetical significance. And joining me today to talk about this is returning guest Ted Vanlandeghem, director of synagogue and church engagement for the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America also directs the Joseph Project. He’s also a 26 year former US Air Force veteran serving for a time in the White House Communications Agency during the George W. Bush administration. With that, I welcome to the program right now, Ted Vanlandeghem. Ted, thanks for being back.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Hey, thank you so much for having me back on the program.
Sam Rohrer: As I read scripture, this area of feast that God delineates in this passage I just read Leviticus 23, which the world, and I’m going to say even christened them refers to as Jewish feasts. It never started with the Jews and in reality are not exclusively Jewish at all, but I’m going to say global for all mankind. I’m going to read again ladies and gentlemen, so you get this and I’m going to ask Ted some specific questions. But here’s again the key part. Yahweh, the Lord says this, these are the appointed feasts of the Lord. They are my appointed feasts. Okay, Ted, an overall sense, as you’ve shared in a previous program, you’ve given your testimony, you were born into the Jewish family, you came to faith in Yeshua, Jesus Christ, you’re not working with the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America. You’re in a perfect position to give perspective to this theme today. But as a Christian now a completed Jew, if we put it now perspective, how do you view the significance of the feasts of the Lord we’re talking about and their importance to whether they be Jews, Christians, or the world generally in our day? Is it still applicable?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, absolutely. I believe that these prophetic appointments have value to not only Jewish people, but to everybody who is a believer in Yeshua and Jesus worldwide. To understand God’s prophetic plan, I refer to these feasts in Leviticus 23 or these appointments as the keys to prophecy. The word here that we would many people would translate as holiday in Hebrew as Modi, it’s appointments. These are appointments of God and they’re his appointments and they’re prophetic appointments. They’re prophetic pictures of God’s plan of redemption, God’s first coming of Yeshua and his second coming of Yeshua. And really all prophecy in the Bible is linked to God’s biblical calendar and there’s value for everybody who’s a believer to understand these prophetic appointments in order to understand prophecy in its native context, in its biblical context. And that’s tied to God’s biblical calendar and his prophetic appointments or holidays as we would call them in this modern era.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, that’s excellent because you’re saying chronological, there are appointed times, God’s plan of redemption, prophecy, understanding where God is in that plan, all of those things are connected in this matter of the feast. So if you could here in about three minutes or so this segment, can you identify in a broad sense broadly categorize the feasts of the Lord, name them if you can, and how they relate just briefly to God’s plan of redemption?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Yes, certainly. So in the spring there’s four prophetic appointments given here in Leviticus 23. And the first one made people in the church already know, and that’s Passover. And we know that Jesus Christ, Yeshua, he came and died on Passover as the Passover lamb that would take away the sin of the world. The very next day is another prophetic appointment called unleavened bread Hamza in Hebrew. And this is a picture of the removal of leaven and it’s a picture of Jesus in the grave. His body is removed, he’s in the grave for three days and three nights and then he’s going to be resurrected. It’s a picture of the removal of sin. And then the very next day after that comes another prophetic appointment and that’s first fruits and it’s a picture of the first fruits of the barley harvest, which will be brought into the temple, waved before the Lord by the high priest.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And this is a picture of the first fruits of the resurrection, which Jesus and those who resurrected in concert with him, as we know from the New Testament that others resurrected in concert with Jesus. They were the first fruits of the resurrection and there’s a coming resurrection at the end of the age when Jesus comes back. But his resurrection was the first fruits of that. 50 days later we have on the beginning of summer, the end of spring we have the fourth and final spring peace, and that’s Shavuot in Hebrew or Pentecost. And this is a picture of the receiving of God’s word, the first Pentecost and Exodus 32, Moses comes down with a first set of 10 commandments and he finds the children of his worshiping the golden calf and he tells the Levites to strap on the swords and go through the camp and kill. And about 3000 die that day. Fast forward 1500 years later, the fulfillment of that, the Holy Spirit of God is poured out in the upper room and the disciples and they go out and preach. And about 3000 are saved in the Book of Acts. And so this is clearly a picture of God’s first coming, Jesus’s first coming in the spring feast, but then there’s three feast that occur in the fall and these are a picture of his second coming.
Sam Rohrer: Okay Ted. And that brings us right up to our break here at Ladies and gentlemen, stay with us because in the next segment Ted and I are going to walk through the more full meaning of the spring feast, which he just identified, tie them more specifically to fulfillment of prophecy and Christ first coming third. Second, we’ll talk about the second coming of Christ, the fall feast, identify them which he did not identify because of time. We’ll talk about those. And then the last segment, we’re going to talk about other signs. These feasts that begin will hack to begin here on October 2nd this year. Well, today our theme is this 2024 and the Jewish feast, I’m calling to understanding the prophetical significance. They’re feasts of the Lord. If you’re just joining us, I read a passage from Leviticus chapter 23, very clearly where the Lord established holy convocations.
Sam Rohrer: He said, they are my appointed feast which make them applicable and therefore of importance to all whether they be Jewish, Christian or none believing at all. Now with the establishment of holy convocations or dress rehearsals designated by God as his feast or the feast of the Lord, as I just said, God took personal possession of something divinely holy. He said, my holy convocations. And anytime God claims possession of something as in his promise to all mankind, it is significant. For example, when God says to all mankind in Genesis that my spirit shall not always strive with man, it means something dealing with the flood when he says my covenant in regard to never again sending a worldwide flood or my covenant to the Jews, the descendants of Abraham and the household of Israel, to bring through them the Messiah and his literal millennial kingdom on earth or the use of the term my people in reference to Israel of all time.
Sam Rohrer: And true believers in the church age, it means something. And when God uses these terms, he takes the full 100% responsibility for the fulfillment and the protection of the essence of these things. No man can change them, they can’t slow them down. And to ignore them is simply to be overrun by them. Now with God, all things have meaning and all meaning is truth and all truth points directly to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, Yeshua, the very son of God who is the embodiment of truth and as his people where we must keep our eyes focused and our hope fixed. Alright, now with that introduction, Ted, let’s walk now through the spring feast. You already identified them briefly walk through them again. Let’s just take number one here. Start with the Passover. You already identified it, the Passover feast. What does it illustrate, how it was observed and how it was fulfilled?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, the Passover is really a fulfillment of what I like to call God’s plan A. If you go all the way back to the beginning of the Bible in Genesis chapter three, we find in there that Adam and Easton and they make a covering for themselves out of big leaves, but God encounters them just after that in Genesis three and before they’re removed from the garden of Eden, the Gah God makes a covering for them out of animal skins. Well, if you take the skin off an animal, what’s going to happen to it’s going to die? The Jewish ages saw that as the first sacrifice for sin by the very hand of God himself to make a covering for Adam and Eve. And that’s not just in reference to a literal physical covering, but that’s also a spiritual covering for them. And it’s really right there in the garden of Eden right at the beginning of the fall that God reveals that at some point in the future, that God himself is going to provide a sacrifice, a covering that will cover over the sin of mankind and it’ll be by his hand and no other.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And we see this echoed throughout this picture of substitutionary sacrifice in the Old Testament, Genesis 22, when Abraham and Isaac go up on the mountain and God provides a ram caught in the thicket and even in the Passover story in Exodus 12 where God instructs the children of Israel to sacrifice the lamb and put the blood over the doorposts at the top and on the sides. And if you put blood at the top of the doorpost, it’s going to drip down and you’ve got blood on each side and that’s a blood cross over every door. So God is giving us a picture of his plan A, which was his substitutionary sacrifice, his provision for a covering. And so the fullness of that is when Yeshua, Jesus comes and he dies in context of Passover and hung on a cross which was really pictured in that blood cross that was put over every door in Egypt hundreds of years earlier.
Sam Rohrer: So that’s when it was fulfilled, when Christ was crucified, the Passover. I’m going to come back and ask you for some other questions, but let’s just go through these right now and go the second one, the second spring feast you identified as unleavened bread. It’s in Leviticus 23 in verses six to eight.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And so when we were before the exodus from Egypt, God commanded us to consume unleavened bread. And this is yeast. Leaven has always been a picture of sin, how it just permeates the dough. A little bit of yeast will infect the entire dough and that’s how sin is. And so unleavened bread is a picture of the removal of sin and we eat unleavened bread, which we call masa in the holiday in Hebrew is called hag ha masa. And this maa is like a giant cracker and if you look at this, it has to meet four requirements, one of them being uneven, but it also has to be pierced, bruised, and striped. And we know from the prophets from Isaiah that when Messiah would come that he would be pierced for our transgressions, he would be bruised for inequities and by his stripes we would be healed.
Sam Rohrer: And so the fulfillment of that then was again accomplished on the cross.
Ted Vanlandeghem: This was accomplished in the context of Passover because Jesus himself is the bread of life and he is the one who takes away the sin of the world and that’s accomplished through his death on the cross and placed in the grave burial or his body being removed.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, so that’s a bit of the fulfillment on the cross and that is fulfilled in the burial as you’re talking about. Let’s go to the third one now. You identified first fruits, that’s the third one. Third feast, spring feast, Leviticus 23 versus nine to 14. Ladies and gentlemen, if you want to go there and be follow along with us.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And so the very next day after hamza unleavened bread is the feast of first fruits. It’s the first fruits of the barley harvest. The spring barley has now ripened in Israel and it would be brought into the temple and it would be brought before the Lord, the barley itself and ways before the Lord. And so it’s a picture of that harvest is a picture of souls, of people being brought in, brought before the Lord and it’s a picture of resurrection. And so Jesus resurrects in concert with first fruits in fulfillment of that and his resurrection is the fulfillment of that. And he goes to present himself before the Lord. But we also know according to acts that other people resurrected along which Jesus himself. And there were 500 witnesses to that fact according to the Book of Acts. And so this is the first fruits of resurrection, but we know also that there’s a coming greater resurrection at the end of the age.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, excellent, excellent. Let’s go to the next one, the fourth one again, you talked about Shavuot, feast of Pentecost. Alright, build that out just a bit again.
Ted Vanlandeghem: Yeah, so Shauvuot or Pentecost culminates the end of the barley harvest in the beginning of the first fruits of the wheat harvest. So again, we have another agricultural theme and this second harvest is really kind of a picture of us going into the church age and the harvest of the nations. But in the Jewish world it’s a celebration of receiving the word of God. Moses came down from the mountain with the first set of 10 commandments on the first travel order, Pentecost at the base of Mount Sinai. And it’s something that we’ve celebrated every year since then from Mount Sinai to this present day and was celebrated even during Jesus’ time. And on the first world Pentecost, when Moses comes down with the first set of 10 commandments, he finds them worshiping the golden calf and he breaks that first set of 10 commandments. And if you read in there, he tells the Levites to go through the camp and kill and 3000 die on that day the word of God comes down on stone tablets and 3000 die. But fast forward 1500 years and God’s spirit is poured out upon his disciples, the beginning of the church age, and they go out from the upper room and they preach the gospel, the good news, and 3000 people come to faith that day. And it’s really a picture of God’s word moving from stone tablets to the tablet of our heart.
Sam Rohrer: That’s a beautiful, beautiful picture. Okay, we’ve got about a minute left here. So here’s a question. Let’s talk about the fulfillment of all of these, the spring feasts pictured as you described so well aspects of elements of Christ first coming now about 2000 years ago, how precise were the fulfillment of these feasts as God laid out in Leviticus to the actual fulfillment even to the day in Christ first coming?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Absolutely. Jesus fulfilled each of these FETs on time, on the day on God’s prophetic calendar just as he foreshadowed that he would, in fact the Jewish sages before the coming of Jesus, they actually, they saw what they thought to be two messiahs. They saw a suffering messiah and a conquering messiah and they thought it was two different Messiahs, one who was suffering and one who was conquering. But when Jesus came, they were looking for the conquering Messiah, not the suffering messiah. But you see it wasn’t two different Messiahs, it was one Messiah in two different comings coming as a suffering messiah the first time. And in the second coming he would come as the conquering Messiah and fulfill those also.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, and ladies and gentlemen, I hope that as we walk through these, you are just excited beyond measure because the understanding of all that has happened, God fulfilling his promise because he is responsible for fulfilling of his promise. He did all of these things, his first coming fulfilled to the day of the observance of the spring feast. When you come back, we’re going to move now to the fall feasts of which I will say there are three and this year, the first one beginning on October 2nd, we will go through these in the next second. Well, when it comes to God’s plan of redemption, which we know we talk about often on this program, many different places. It was first referenced in Genesis three 15 after creation sin came into the world and God pronounced judgment on the serpent. And he said what would happen to Eve and her descendant?
Sam Rohrer: And he laid out and referenced there that first time what we call his plan of redemption. It’s the substance of the plan of God’s covenant with Abraham and all of Israel. It was God’s mechanism that covenant was to fulfill his plan of redemption. Mentioned first in Genesis three 15, well God’s promise that the Gentile world would be blessed, which that was part of the promise to Abraham, spoke of the coming of Jesus Christ, the Messiah, Yeshua and God’s promise that the gentile world, all of mankind would see this blessing and come under God’s new covenant. We now call it given in a New Testament whereby the Gentiles could come into relationship with God through Yeshua, a faith in him and become grafted by faith into spiritual Israel and be recognized also as my people. Now all of that was accomplished in the first coming of Christ and we talked about that and a special guest today, Ted Vanlandeghem made so clear this was fulfilled to the very day, as he said, the spring feast fulfilled to the very day in those critical elements of Christ’s crucifixion and burial and resurrection and then the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.
Sam Rohrer: Now from that time, this 2000 years approximately from that interlude from the time of Pentecost where Christ promised, he said he would build my church. That’s what Christ said. That’s what’s been going on. It continues to this day until events prophesied by God himself brings this time to a close and then initiates the events associated with Christ. Second coming illustrated by the fall feasts of the Lord as laid out in Leviticus 23. Now those yearly celebrated feasts, those fall feasts are soon to begin and bring them even greater significance I think this year because of so many fulfilled prophecies of the last generation and those that we see unfolding in an amazing way even as we speak. So alright, Ted, with that, a little bit of a repetition from thumb you’ve said, and I’ve said I want to now move to the feast, the Feast of the Lord in the spring. You’ve gone through that so clearly there are three in the fall. So as we did in the last segment, tell us about the first of the fall feast Rash Hashanah. There’s another name for Feast of Trumpets I believe, but established by God and he specified that in Leviticus 23 verses 23 to 25. Alright, what is that? When will it occur and what’s the significance of the day on which it falls this year?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Absolutely. Well one of the things as we mentioned about the last two spring feasts was harvest, barley, harvest and wheat harvest subsequently. And this is set during the time of the final harvest, the fall harvest, and even there in Pennsylvania or where we used to live in Ohio falls a big time of harvest and the final end gathering of the crop. And this is really a picture of a final in gathering or harvest of the world at the end of the age. And it begins today with a holiday we call Rosh, which means head of the year. But in the Bible it’s actually called Yom terrois, which means the day of trumpeting. But terrois is an interesting word in Hebrew because it doesn’t mean just a trumpet blast, it also means a shout, a battle cry, a victory cry, a clanger or an acclimation. And it’s interesting, if you look in the scriptures about Yeshua’s return, Jesus’s return, there’s two things tied to his return and it’s a trumpet blast and a shout.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And that word is one in the same in Hebrew, terroir, trumpet, blast, terrois shout. And in a sense that it’s really pointing to at some point in the future, Jesus’ second coming will fulfill that holiday ya terrois, which we call Rosh Hashanah today. Rosh Hashanah actually, or piece to trumpets occurs in the seventh month, but it’s celebrated as a civil New year. But biblically, the new year in the Bible was the first of Nissan, which was 14 days before Passover. But even the fact that there’s a second new year in the Jewish calendar, a religious or spiritual New year and in a civil new year is really a picture of the renewal of all things.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And so there’s this holiday and another interesting facet about this holiday is it occurs on what we call R Hodesh the head of the month, which is when the Jewish calendar, the month always starts with the new moon, when there’s the first tiny sliver of light on the side of the moon, the darkest point of the month. And this is also a picture of the darkest point in the world. And so at some future time, Jesus is going to come back with a shout in the trumpet blast, the darkest point in the world to make all things right. And the culmination of that will be the beginning of his millennial reign.
Sam Rohrer: Okay, I’ll come back and follow up on that. Let’s go to the second one, the second fall feast identified Leviticus 23 versus 26 to 32, day of atonement, some call Yom Kippur. What is that? What does that signify and when does that then actually begin here this fall?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Yeah, so Yom Kippur is the day of atonement keeper is covering and entomological. It’s where we get the word covers in English from it’s covering. And even the little hat that we wear in our head, we call it a kiba. It’s rooted in that it’s about God making a covering and it’s considered the highest holiest day on the biblical calendar. It was the one day in the year when the high priest, the coen haole could go into the Ko, the Holy of Holies to make atonement for the nation of Israel. And there was a very elaborate ceremony that they through in a big process and that in and of itself just talking about it could be an episode in and of itself. But nonetheless, this is really a picture of Jesus, the great high priest. We know that he’s a high priest in the order of melek who’s both a priest and a king, and he himself is the great high priest and it’s really a picture of the national atonement of Israel at the end of tribulation, Israel’s going to have nowhere to turn, but God himself and they’re going to say just as he did when he came the first time Barba, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord and he’s going to come back and Zacharia tells us that they’re going to see in, if you read 12 through 14, the one whom they pierced and weep and mourn for him bitterly, there’s going to be this coming national recognition that Yeshua, Jesus Christ indeed is the Messiah.
Ted Vanlandeghem: He’s the great high priest, the priest and the king.
Sam Rohrer: Alright, so Yom Kippur, day of Atonement as will be fulfilled at the end of the tribulation period when the Jewish people come to recognition and cry out to God above blessed as he who comes in the name of the Lord and Christ as you’re saying, Yeshua as both high priest and the king delivers what only he can deliver at that point. I’m just rephrasing that in that way. But let’s go to the third one, the third feast, fall feast, feast of Tabernacle, some referred to it. Leviticus 23 verses 33 to 44 references this. What is that and why is this feast?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, the Feast of Tabernacles, or as we call it in Hebrew, is to coate and it occurs five days after Yom Kippurs, a week long festival. And I forgot to mention that Yom Kippur comes 10 days after the Feast of Trumpets in that 10 day period we call ya mean Rahim or the days of awe. And the Jewish people believe that that’s the timeframe when the book of life is open in heaven and they even have a greeting that’s lash, which means may you be inscribed to the Book of life. Then we come out of this heavy period of judgment in the day of atonement and we flow into five days later the Pizza Tabernacles, which is a huge day of celebrations. And the Jewish wedding is actually patterned after the Feast of Tabernacle celebration. And during the time of Jesus, it was considered one the wonders of the ancient world, this celebration of Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem and it was a holy convocation where all the people of Israel would come present themselves before the Lord. And so really this is a picture of the fullness of God’s prophetic calendar. It’s a picture of the wedding supper of the lamb at the end of the age. It’s a time of great celebration. And the culmination of it is what we look at as the renewal of all things. Rah, which is the rejoicing in the word is this eighth and final day.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And we dance with the word, we hold up the tourist scroll in the synagogue, we dance and rejoice for the Lord and the scroll is rolled all the way from the end of the scroll all the way back to the beginning of the scroll. So it’s like rewinding the tape all the way back to the beginning, a reset of everything to the way it was meant to be in the beginning. And so the FETs of Tabernacles is really a powerful prophetic picture and it’ll be celebrated in the millennial reign. Zacharia tells us that all the nations who are on earth at that time during the millennial rain come up to Jerusalem to celebrate that holiday.
Sam Rohrer: Wow, so exciting. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope that you are being thrilled and encouraged by this information. Now when we come back in the last segment, we’re going to connect together some other things because since the fall feast point towards aspects of the Lord’s second coming to talk about that, are there other events, are there other signs along the way that will also be occurring? I’m saying there are in fact others, we’re going to talk about some of that and make application here. Well, Ted, the program’s gone very quickly. We need to move it to conclusion now, but I want to reflect back on, well a program that you and I did back in April because back in April you and I talked about the significance of what we termed then and people would recognize that the great American solar eclipse visible over America. However, in reality that eclipse was not the first one visible over America.
Sam Rohrer: There actually were two before that all of them visible over American, all of them, at least a portion of America. And all of them occurred at a time when meetings were being held with Saudi Arabia in conjunction with US government officials, an effort to bring about a peace treaty there in Israel Middle East that included a dividing of the land of Israel, which now tampers with God’s covenant promise to Israel. And God does not stand back idly at such times. He never has. But God warned in many ways, and he DIDs warning and one of those is signs in the sun and the moon. We talked about it back in April. And one of the purposes that God said in Genesis that he created the moon and the stars and all is that they would be for signs and seasons and he would speak through them.
Sam Rohrer: Now, what’s extraordinary Ted, I think is that on October 2nd coming up here, which begins Rosh Hashanah, the first of the fall feast, the Feast of Trumpets, there will be another eclipse not visible in America, but visible over the Pacific generally, figuratively, the many waters one could say, indicating that it’s for the nations of the world to see this sign will actually occur amazingly on the last day of the United Nations gathering, which begins in New York City on September the 10th, United Nations purpose for this meeting here coming up is to walk away with a covenant that they call a pact for the future at what they’re calling a summit of the future. That’s what this emphasis is here in September by the United Nations. And what they want and what they say will be accomplished is that this pact will yield world power from the nations to the United Nations at certain key times of their choosing.
Sam Rohrer: Very significant. It’s believed that this agreement pact will include something about Israel and most likely some effort to pressure Israel to accept a dividing of the land, possibly even the framework for a peace treaty, all of which sounds extraordinarily biblical because it’s going to happen at some time. Now, Ted here is what I’d like to ask you. First, I’d like to know your thoughts about the significance of other events like I just mentioned that fall on the feast today here of Rosh Hashanah, which is on Fisher One, the first of this month, and this eclipse and so forth. Put it together with what happened six months ago on Nissan one, the Great American eclipse, the two before that, and all of this, in other words, is it wrong or is it every bit right to think and look at the linking of events that God has said he has placed in there and he’s put there for signs and seasons like that together. What are your thoughts?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Well, absolutely in Genesis, it tells us that the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, and stars were given for sign season, days and years. And that word seasons there in Hebrew is moine. It’s literally the word for these prophetic appointments that are given in Leviticus 23. And so we see patterns historically where there’s signs in the heavenly that are in conjunction with these prophetic appointments. Oftentimes they mean significant events in the life of Israel. And there have been times where there’ve been solo or lunar eclipses on biblical holidays that were tied to Israel’s rebirth as a nation to the six day war and the recapture of Jerusalem and even Yom Kippur war.
Ted Vanlandeghem: And so there’s a pattern there. We had this amazing solar eclipse that traversed the United States this year and on April 8th, which was the first of Nissan or the biblical New Year. And interestingly, that eclipse came seven years after one that occurred in 2017 and it made kind of an X over the United States. But interestingly enough, it traversed, I think eight cities named Nineveh. And if you go out 40 days from that, the first holiday that comes from after that 40 day period is lag by ER or the 33rd day of the counting of Omer, the Jewish holiday of counting the oer. And interestingly enough, on that day, the pier that the United States beer built in Gaza to bring humanitarian aid into Gaza came apart. This nearly half billion dollar appear that Joe Biden and the US military built came apart on that day. Is it a coincidence?
Ted Vanlandeghem: Some might say so, but we see that on these biblical holidays that significant events occur in the life of the Jewish people, but also for the nations. And even October 7th last year was on that final day of Feast of Tabernacles, and it was that day of Kato rejoicing in the word. That was the day that Hamas made its horrendous attack on Israel a day that’s really a prophetic foreshadowing of the wedding supper of the lamb, the renewal of all things. That was the day that that horrible attack was levied. These things aren’t coincidental. They’re attention getters from God telling us that he is there. He is speaking, he’s speaking through his calendar, his prophetic appointments that he gave in his word because he’s a promise keeping God.
Sam Rohrer: Ted. It’s my understanding of scripture goes, and I’d like to comment on this, that as the events critical to Christ first coming, which we have talked about, were fulfilled on the observance of the spring feast day to the very literal day that they were fulfilled. Is there not reason to believe that these events we talked about that pertain to Christ second coming will also occur on the exact day? And should people not be thinking, observing of whether or not these events relative to Christ’s second coming could occur this fall?
Ted Vanlandeghem: It’s definitely a possibility. I mean, each day that goes by with one day closer to Jesus’s promised return. And if you look at the state of the world, the alignment of the nations against Israel, the recent threat by Turkey to invade Israel, many things are coming together. And I do believe that Now, I don’t know, and none of us know when Jesus will return, when you shall will come back. But we know that when he comes back, he will indeed fulfill these small feasts to a tee just like he fulfilled these spring feast and that is coming and it’s a prophetic foreshadowing of all that he’s going to do when he returns. And so Israel in a sense is God’s timepiece. He’s brought her back to the land just as he promised he would. And I believe that we’re moving ever closer to the time of his return. And if that is the case, then we have a mandate to share the good news of the gospel with everyone we can.
Sam Rohrer: Ladies and gentlemen, just so it’s clear, I did not say, I am not saying nor is my guest Ted Vanlandeghem is saying that this fall in the fall feast that this will kick off the tribulation period or the rapture or anything else. That’s not what we’re saying because like many prophecies we talk about a lot, you don’t actually know that they have been fulfilled until you’re able to see them fulfilled and then you say, wow, isn’t it amazing? What we do know is that the fall feasts, like the spring feast indicate the time that these events will happen. And with everything that is occurring, those parts of Christ’s second coming are more near now than they ever let us all live in the light of his soon coming Holy living, communicating the gospel. Ted, thank you so much for being with me today. What a program, ladies and gentlemen, go to our website, stand in the gap radio.com, listen to it again and get a transcript.
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