"Pentecost"

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As mentioned many times in previous blasts, the pure knowledge of God is offered at His Feasts to replace the world's knowledge chosen by Eve. Fresh manna is served that if ingested will guide God's people down the King's highway to restoration and eternity. Pure truth is served that many will have to develop a taste for as they have been raised on junk food processed by man's intellect from the world's knowledge. These have been conditioned to love the sugar coated version that has evolved over the years. A watered down gospel is preferred that does not require much change, little faith and not a lot of effort on their part. But, there are those that are not satisfied or content with the world's snacks, but instead hunger for the Kingdom's gourmet menu. It is very sad that the enemy has successfully replaced God's informative feasts with his holidays. Religious celebrations mixed with pagan rituals trample truth into false doctrines, and mold humanity into creatures contented to live in sickness, pain, sorrow, ending in eventual death. But there is scripture stating there will be ones that will be changed in a twinkling of an eye into incorruptible and immortal people, ones that will live to build a new earth and a Godly society. These are ones who will have experienced all seven holy convocations or all ten of God's feasts. They will have with relish eaten of the truth offered at each and have through God's knowledge grown or metamorphosed into a whole new species! They have a number, 144,000, sealed by God and trained to lead mankind as they themselves follow the Lamb. They are likened to His barley crop, firstborn of the new species, overcomers created to strengthen and support God's people through these end times. The barley is a grain that can survive in a drought, or spiritually at a time when it doesn't feel in the natural like God is doing anything, those dry times that He is silent. Barley is disease resistant as well, hardy, able to stand the attack of the enemy physically, mentally, emotionally and materially, symbolic of God's end time government. They experience everything the world does, but are equipped by God to stand through it. So the barley must therefore be ripened, matured and harvested first so they can help others before God will begin the final feasts and harvest the rest of His people. Scripture says a homer of barley seed shall be valued at fifty shekels of silver. This value of barley is very symbolic also. You see, fifty is the number of both Pentecost and Jubilee. Pentecost, because the harvest of wheat was to be experienced 50 days after Passover and the harvesting of the barley. Therefore when the wheat is chosen, matured and harvested that will signal the year when Jubilee is to be experienced. It will be the year of Pentecost or the year of fifty. You see, the wheat must also have eaten and enjoyed the knowledge served at the seven holy convocations to be made ready, ripened, perfected and chosen to help build the new earth! The barley and the wheat together are likened to God's government and His people, the oil and the wine, or the head and the body of Christ. They are Sion and New Jerusalem, God's mountain and His city. All together they are the seed of Abraham because they were born through Yeshua or Jesus who was of the tribe of Judah, one of the twelve tribes of Israel and the Seed promised to Abraham.

The things we have spoken about may be difficult to fully understand for those who have not experienced the feast that is actually opening its doors right now and inviting us in to dine, the feast of Pentecost! Why is the feast of Pentecost so important to our insight? Because the first feast in God's plan of restoration, the Feast of Sabbath can be easily understood at least on the surface by the natural man. It is the same with the Feast of Passover. This feast is experienced as we visit the Lord's table for the first time and ask Jesus into our lives. It is the beginning of our walk. The next easily understood feast is the Feast of Unleavened Bread where we repent of past sins, and finally the Feast of First Fruits where we are baptized, born again, but the rest of God's feasts cannot be properly comprehended without first experiencing at least once the Feast of Pentecost! Why? Because the deeper truth is spiritually discerned.

Let me explain. Another name for Pentecost is “The Day of First Fruits”! Why are there two feasts with first fruits mentioned? Because the newly born again creature is a kind of first fruit, different from Adam that has experienced the feasts leading up to Pentecost, but has not yet experienced Pentecost. How are the new creatures different from the Adamic race? Looking back to the garden era, Adam and Eve were originally created in God's image. Like Him they were spirit beings that had a soul, but they were given a body to enable them to live on earth. When they fell from God's grace their spirits were physically suspended, their souls became predominant, and their bodies were now much more influential in their daily lives. At rebirth a miracle happens however! Our spirits are awakened from dormancy! We become a kind of new creature, a first fruit born in this season or age, thus they understood and could experience the feast of First Fruits or baptism. Pentecost on the other hand is called the day of first fruits or a day that is for the first fruits, a day dedicated to their newly wakened spirit!

What is it that happens at this holy meeting or convocation that is so special? For one thing the newly awakened spirit's language is restored at this feast! At last it is able to speak to God again! Its nature will also be re-seeded into it to grow fruit to be just like the Holy Spirit! Another exciting event that takes place on this day is the spirit is gifted with the Holy Spirit's ability to function in the supernatural! Now the newly awakened spirit can talk to God and develop a nature in harmony with God to bring us back to His image! The new creature is gifted with the ability to begin to walk as Jesus did while on earth and equipped mentally to understand God's knowledge, comprehend His laws, and embrace His way of doing things!

So can we see why the feast of Pentecost is so necessary and essential for our spiritual growth! Can you also see why the enemy doesn't want us to experience it! There is a great falling away from the world's churches and her religions taking place today over these very things, they want truth and an end time people is being raised up and perfected that the enemy has no control or jurisdiction over because of it! They are children of God, Abraham's seed!

As we saw from the above scripture another name for Pentecost is Feast of Weeks.

The word “weeks” literally means “sevened to be complete”. Again this tells us we must experience all seven holy convocations to be complete, matured and readied to be harvested as heirs of the Kingdom of God. By the way, another name for Pentecost is Feast of Harvest.

Did you know mankind was commanded to attend the Feasts of Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles as all three are feasts of harvest symbolizing the gathering of God's people? Those circumcised, cut off or harvested from the world's society are those to be used in building God's Kingdom. Many will not be chosen however because they were not taught about the feasts or the truth concerning them by the world's church, or if they did hear of them it was so surface the deeper truth was not touched.

There is so much awesome truth to be found in this feast alone! For instance, did you notice after each feast it says to do no customary work? That is symbolically speaking of God's rest. He did all things and then He rested. We are to lay down our works and do His that are waiting there within His rest for us to do. These works have our name on them to manifest to the planet. He predestined them for us to fulfill at the beginning of creation, before He rested! To continue to do the things we intellectually figure on our own could mean those predestined works are never performed! What if Christ had done that? Where would we be? Likewise, where will creation be if the works, assigned to us by God, designed to help move God's plan of restoration forward go undone?

If you will please look back at Romans 8:20 again we will see it says, “in hope”. In hope of what?

Let us investigate this scripture a little closer, Jesus said He was the vine and we are branches of that vine. This means He is the vine that has its roots in Judah, Jacob, Isaac and back to father Abraham. Remember also scripture said Jesus was the Seed of Abraham, the one that all God's promises were made to? We also read if we were baptized into Him we too would be the seed of Abraham and heirs to those promises and the Kingdom! He says also in the above scripture, if we are His we will bear much fruit. All this becomes possible when we are prepared at Pentecost. In fact we will do even greater works than He did while on earth because He was in one body then, now He is in many bodies that are united to make the body of Christ.

Jesus went to the Father to offer Himself as the supreme sacrifice to make all things possible for us. His death bought our salvation, redemption from sin and defeated this world along with the enemy that owns it! He is our Jubilee! Without Him we can do nothing! With Him, we can do all things!

Now after reading these scriptures let us look around the world as it is today! Why is it such a mess? Defeat everywhere! What's wrong? The answer was in a previous scripture, one worth reading over and over gain and memorizing, John 15:5!

It is a fact, scripture is law! Mankind and in fact all creation is in danger for their lives and future without His intervention! This world has become one big curse mainly because of a truth found in Jeremiah 17:5.

When we turn to the world for knowledge we are no different than Eve. When we trust in our own intellect we are prideful like Satan. We have been raised to do it our way, be the best, self-made, self-reliant. This attitude is a major problem. Many of those that know God as well as those that don't are guilty of this thinking. Every time we look to man or ourselves for answers to the world's problems or even our personal ones this curse furthers our blindness to the truth in scripture. It causes so many problems and grief! For instance, when we push and work to excel in the world and our idea of success is involved in the accolades of man, as the world crumbles so will our hopes and dreams. Do not blame God, scripture says a curse without cause cannot light.

All creation was subjected to decay and death in hope that mankind would see their mistake, repent of trusting man, or really Satan through man and seek the Lord's help, seek His will for our life. True happiness and joy is found in obedience to God. Here is the blessing if that scripture is obeyed.

This safety, shelter, peace and happiness might turn out to be of eminent importance in these times! Did you ever notice the fact that every sign of the end spoken of in the Bible is happening somewhere on the earth today? Look around the world!

The world's society is falling rapidly and her systems are crumbling bit by bit daily. Why? Because like a battery run toy without its battery is useless, so our spirits and souls created to be in touch with God's Spirit at all times cannot achieve our purpose with any excellence without God. They like the toy without its source of power will eventually die. But then Scripture warned us we cannot do anything without the Lord didn't it, yet man continues to try to do things his way, fix things himself and seek advice from the world. In continuing to do so mankind is endangering themselves and putting all creation at risk!

There has been wars, nations fight against nations, there are famines, droughts, plagues, locusts, earthquakes, fire, mudslides, hail and snow out of season, tornadoes and there are all kinds of atrocities planned by evil man behind closed doors and all happening some place on the globe today. We surely cannot say God hasn't warned man can we? There are so many signs and warnings! Mankind as a whole has tried everything except repenting for living apart from their Creator. They see nothing wrong with doing things according to their intellect, not being guided by scripture, the law of God's knowledge nor have they taken direction from those He speaks through.

They both will be harvested, one to be destroyed, burned, the other to populate the new earth! This brings us back to where we started, God's feasts and His harvests.

Closing comments. In God's feasts are invaluable nuggets of truth concerning the end times. They contain knowledge concerning His end time people and how the life of Jesus correlates with them. For the sake of yourself, your loved ones, all creation, study the feasts, there is so much information in them that you can read them over and over, getting something new each time. Dive into our archives, eat all of the Lamb, He is the Word of God, the Wisdom and knowledge Eve turned her back on. A portion of knowledge from the Tree of Life, light, illumination from the Bright Morning Star is there in each of God's feasts waiting for mankind to come in and dine.

There is truly nothing we can do without Him! Have a wonderful feast of Pentecost.