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Welcome once again.

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It's good to see you.

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What has been our theme the last couple weeks?

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We've been talking about baptism.

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Thank you.

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That comes from looking at the sign of the Son of man.

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Today we're going to follow that idea and see a new way that God has
prepared.

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Because when we get baptized, we bury one life and we have a new life
following a new way.

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In the sign, remember that this points to a path,
the path of Israel as they came out of Egypt.

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Remember, there was the midnight Passover that the clock symbolizes
because the comet marked the time of midnight.

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Then they left Egypt and they came to the Red Sea.

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Right?

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Now, what happened after they crossed the Red Sea?

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What was the next thing that happened?

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They went through and the water came crashing back down.

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Who was in the water?

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The Egyptians.

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For hundreds of years, Israel was in bondage to Egypt.

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They were slaves.

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Now all of a sudden, in one day, they are free.

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Their slave masters are all dead.

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Then where did they go?

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Where did God lead Israel after he brought them through the sea?

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First, they went to the wilderness.

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Now, if you had the whole earth to choose a place to live,
would you pick the wilderness?

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The wilderness is not a really nice place to live.

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You wouldn't choose to dwell in the wilderness.

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And yet, that's where God brought His people.

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Now, this represents the baptism of a believer, crossing the Red Sea.

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That's the baptism.

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It's a freedom.

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Suddenly, when we accept Christ into our lives,
we believe in His power, we're free.

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We're free from bondage.

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We're no longer slaves to our sin.

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We have freedom in Christ.

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But there's a flip side to that.

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That is now we're wandering around in no man's land,
in this wilderness where nothing is growing.

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There's very little life in the desert.

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It's just dry sands.

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It's not a place that would normally support life.

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That's kind of how it is when the believer comes to Christ,
a person comes to Christ, and they accept Him.

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Suddenly now, their whole life is turned around.

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On one hand, they have freedom.

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But on the other hand, it's like a strange new world.

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All those former things that we used to participate in Egypt for
representing our old life of sin, all those things,

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we don't do those anymore.

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Those are taken away.

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Sometimes we might feel like we're just kind of wandering around.

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Okay, what do we do?

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You lose all your friends because they don't want to follow you with
Christ.

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They want to continue partying and doing their things or whatever it
was, your former lifestyle.

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There's a loss associated with our baptism into Christ.

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When God brings us to the wilderness, we look at the world now as
believers, we see the world,

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and we see how dead and dry and lifeless the world is.

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Our perspective has changed.

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And now we look back at the things that we used to take joy in,
we used to enjoy those things,

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and now it just doesn't bring that satisfaction because we have
satisfaction in Christ.

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We have our joy in Him.

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But when God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt,
even before they left, He taught them something. Exodus chapter 12.

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Let me bring that up for you. Okay, verse 1. And the LORD spake unto
Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt.

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They were still in Egypt now.

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This is after nine plagues have fallen on Egypt.

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And Moses has just gone in to Pharaoh to warn him about the 10th
plague.

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The 10th plague was the midnight Passover,
where the death angel would go through the land of Egypt and kill all the firstborn at midnight.

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Whether firstborn of man, firstborn of beast,
they all the firstborn throughout the land died,

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except those who had the blood on their doorposts.

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Then before they go anywhere, before the plague falls,
God gives instruction while they're in the land of Egypt.

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In verse 2, He says, This month.

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Now, the word month in Hebrew simply means moon.

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It's the same word.

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This moon shall be unto you the beginning of months.

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God is teaching them about time, about the calendar.

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He's giving them something special, a different way to understand
time.

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He says, it shall be the first month of the year to you.

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God points out to the moon and He says, see that moon?

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This moon shall be the first moon or the first month of the year.

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When He was preparing them to leave Egypt –
Egypt had their own calendar, but it wasn't God's calendar.

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The first thing that God does when He is taking His people out from
slavery is He gives them a completely new calendar,

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a new understanding of time.

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Then, He does something else.

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In verse 3, He says, Speak ye – talking to Moses –
Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying,

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In the tenth day of this month they shall take them every man a lamb,

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according to the house of their fathers,

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a lamb for a house:

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He is leading them to prepare for this Passover when the angel of
death would pass over their houses.

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First, He says to get a lamb and He gives them other instructions.

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I don't need to go through all of that, but this is the beginning of
the Passover service.

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They have a lamb, they would take that lamb on the tenth day and they
would separate it from the flock.

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And then, on the fourteenth day, in verse 6,
you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month:

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and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in
the evening.

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Everyone had a little lamb for their family or a couple of families
together and they would kill it on the fourteenth day of the month.

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God was setting up a feast, a holiday.

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He gave His people – this is the first – of several holidays.

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He gave them a new calendar with new holidays that they could
celebrate, they would celebrate every year throughout their journey,

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throughout their lives.

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As Christians, it's nothing new.

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We know about the symbolism of a lamb.

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What does a lamb represent?

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Jesus.

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Jesus, right?

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The Passover lamb is pointing forward to when Jesus would come and
give His life and Israel would kill the lamb in the evening.

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Then they would take the blood of that lamb and put it on their
doorposts,

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strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorposts of the
houses wherein they shall eat it.

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They would eat the lamb and they would put its blood over the
doorposts.

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That points forward to Christ.

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His blood is over our house.

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He protects us and on the door posts of the house.

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That's where you come in and go out.

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You know, in ancient times, the entryway, the door,
the gate of a city.

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That's where the elders would gather to make decisions or to transact
business.

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There would always be somebody at the gate and that's the role of the
blood of Jesus.

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His blood stands at the door of our hearts and He guards us.

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He protects us.

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It's his blood that protects us from the angel of death that would
otherwise kill us.

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I want to look at the holidays that God gave.

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He started with Passover, but He gave a whole series of holidays
throughout the year.

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And for this, I'm going to need the board.

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In the year, there are actually seven feasts that God set out for
Israel to keep.

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Some are in the spring and some are in the autumn, right?

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It's interesting when we look at them because there are some patterns
that we can follow

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or that the feasts follow that we can recognize that show us some
interesting things.

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Let me use green for spring when things start to green up.

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First, there was the Passover, right?

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I will represent that just with a line for the day of Passover.

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But Passover was not just one day, but it began with one day and then
continued for a week.

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There were another seven days when they would eat only unleavened
bread.

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It says in verse 8 of Exodus chapter 12, And they shall eat the flesh
in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;

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and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

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Then it describes how they would eat it.

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Verse 15, Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread;

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even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses:

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for whoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

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First there was Passover.

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I'll mark that with a P.

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Then there was the week of unleavened bread.

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Now, this is the first holiday that is described,
and that's in the time of the Exodus.

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But then later when God brought the into the wilderness,
He gave them all of His laws, and He describes all of the feasts.

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I'm just going to quickly go through them,
and we will see the patterns.

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It comes from Leviticus chapter 23. He describes the Passover,
the 14th day of the first month at evening is the LORD's Passover.

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Leviticus 23, verse 5.

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For seven days is the feast of unleavened bread.

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Again, I won't go through these details.

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That's the part that we already saw.

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But then they would count week after week.

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Verse 15, You shall count unto you from tomorrow after this Sabbath.

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That's after that first day of Passover.

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That first day of the week was a special Sabbath day,
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These were special Sabbath days, the first day and the seventh day.

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Then they would count seven weeks.

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Seven weeks is 49 days, and then the 50th day.

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They would count 50 days, and then they would have a new offering.

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This was the feast of what?

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Of Pentecost.

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We call it Pentecost now, coming from that 50-day count.

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They counted from that first Sabbath of the Passover.

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Then they would count seven weeks, and out there somewhere was another
Sabbath day, a ceremonial Sabbath day, that was the feast of weeks.

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The pattern is, there's one day followed by a week, followed by a gap,
and another day.

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These are the spring feasts.We're getting our school lesson,
but trust me, it'll get better, okay?

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Just let's get through a little bit of the tedious stuff,
and then we will see some nicer aspects to it.

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Now let's look at the autumn feasts.

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Continuing down, now we come in verse 24 of the same chapter,
23 of Leviticus:

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Speak to the children of Israel, saying, in the seventh month,
in the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath,

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a memorial of blowing of trumpets,

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and holy convocation.

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Another feast day in the seventh month.

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These were in what month?

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The first month.

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We have the first month and the seventh month.

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Those are the months that are highlighted as the feast days.

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In the autumn, I'll use red, and this is another sabbath day,
a holy convocation where they would all gather together.

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This was on the first day of the month.

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Then there came the 10th day of the month.

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In verse 27, the 10th day of the seventh month there shall be a day of
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We've talked about that several times.

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It shall be in holy convocation.

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Another Sabbath day, a ceremonial Sabbath on the 10th day.

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So several days there, and we have the 10th day.

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Let me just put in the numbers.

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This was on the 14th day, and this is 50 days later from there.

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Then we have here in the seventh month, this is on the first day,
the Feast of Trumpets.

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Then the 10th day is a sabbath day, the day of atonement.

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Just a little bit more.

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He talks about the day of atonement, and then he says,
speak to the children of Israel saying,

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the fifteenth day of the seventh month – still in the seventh month,

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now the fifteenth day – is the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days
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Now we have a few days and another seven-day feast of tabernacles.

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On the first day shall be in holy convocation.

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A sabbath day on the first day of that week.

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Then he describes what they would do during the week in verse 39.

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Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land – this was in the autumn,

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they were gathering the harvest – ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord
seven days.

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On the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a
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After the week there was another sabbath, first on the first day,
then another day after another holy convocation.

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How many sabbaths do you see?

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Seven, right?

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One, two, three in the spring.

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Remember here we have the spring feasts, and then we're based on the
spring, and then we have the autumn, four sabbaths in the autumn.

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Seven ceremonial Sabbaths for the feasts.

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Now it's interesting when we look at this,
there are some patterns that we can see right off the bat.

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First of all, we have a week-long feast and a week-long feast.

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Just before that week-long feast we have the Passover day.

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Then just after that week-long feast we have a holiday or a holy
convocation day.

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We see some symmetry, the day, the week, the week, the day.

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Then we have one separated and isolated all by itself,
and we have a similar thing on the other side.

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Here's an isolated one and an isolated one.

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And this one – well, it's also interesting because in the Passover,
if you remember, I read it, they first separated the lamb.

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In Exodus chapter 12, it says, in the tenth day of this month –
that was the first month – they would take to them a lamb.

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Everyone, a lamb for his family.

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They did that on the tenth day.

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There was actually a day out here also, so we have this same pattern.

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They took the lamb, it wasn't really a holiday,
but they did something on that day.

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They separated the lamb, and we have the same thing there.

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From the fourteenth and then the fifteenth until the 21st,
here we have the fifteenth to the 21st, and then one more day, the 22nd.

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A very similar pattern.

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The tenth day was an important day in both the first and the seventh
month, and then this symmetry in all of the other days.

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The feasts of God are very symmetrical.

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That's the first thing that we can see with this.

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There's a reflection.

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One side is reflecting the other side.

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Now, what do these things mean?

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We took a fair amount of time to lay them out through the year,
the first month and the seventh month feasts, but there's a greater message.

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That's what I want to look at a little bit in this reflection.

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When we see a reflection like this, as is often the case in God's Word
and in His design, when He creates things,

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He likes to use reflection and symmetry.

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It reminds us of the picture that I used a few times before.

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You can imagine a mountain here.

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On one side of the mountain, you have the spring feasts,
and on the other side of the mountain, you have the autumn feasts.

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The two come together, and each part, just like in the mountain,
each level is related.

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You have similar aspects at each level as you go out from the mountain,
that's where the symmetry is.

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You have a day, the week, the week, the day,
both of them as though on different levels on each side of the mountain.

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Now let's understand what the feasts point to,
and we already know what the spring feasts point to, because it's all in the Bible.

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Those things happened in the Bible times.

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On what day did Jesus die?

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When was the crucifixion?

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Passover.

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It was on Passover.

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Here was the crucifixion day.

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And the Passover, of course, in Hebrew thinking,
the day began in the evening.

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The Passover day began in the evening when Jesus had the last supper
with His disciples.

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That was on Thursday night, as we would think of it,
and that was when He ate the Passover lamb with His disciples.

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That was what the Passover meal pointed to, was that last supper.

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But then about 24 hours later, He had gone through, been betrayed,
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and He gave his life by the end of Friday before the sunset.

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All of that took place on the day of Passover.

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Then the next day was that first feast day,
the first day of unleavened bread, when Jesus was in the tomb.

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We know this 50th day was after Jesus ascended,
and He poured out the Holy Spirit on the disciples.

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That's the day of Pentecost.

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All of these things happened in the year of the cross,
but not the autumn feasts.

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The autumn feasts are a reflection of the spring feasts.

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They're a reflection of those feasts that were fulfilled at Christ's
first coming.

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In the context of the Exodus of the children of Israel,
then we can see a little bit of a spiritual application.

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Let's go back to our map.

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You know, God gives His word, and oftentimes in the word,
there's the map pages.

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That's what we have in the sign of the Son of man.

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When they left Egypt, what holiday did they celebrate?

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Passover.

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Passover.

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Historians say that it was, or Jewish history,
they say that it was at the time of the seventh day.

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They traveled for seven days.

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They would have ended up at the Red Sea, ready to cross the Red Sea at
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We see this journey, represents that first week of feasts.

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So, it's a process.

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It's a week-long feast.

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That's a process, a process of deliverance.

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First, they came out of Egypt.

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They were fleeing.

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Then, they came and crossed the Red Sea, and they had their final
deliverance, and it says they saw the Egyptians no more.

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Now, what does that point to?

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In spiritual terms, not referring just to literal Israel anymore,
but to God's people, this points to their deliverance:

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first from sin, from Egypt, where Egypt represents the land of bondage
to sin.

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Then it's a process until a final great deliverance,
where a way is made through the sea where they couldn't have gone before.

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But miraculously, they were able to cross the sea,

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and that corresponds to God's miraculous opening of the heavens to
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In the spring feasts, we see this process of deliverance.

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That process is fulfilled in our lives as we're delivered from sin and
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What do the autumn feasts represent?

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What clues do we have?

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If we look again at our map, we've talked about before how all of the
feasts are represented here at each of these key points.

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Passover, first day, and seventh day, and then the next one is
Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks.

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The comments point to Pentecost because it was on that day in 2023
when they made that crossing.

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That's the next feast in the list.

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Then we come to the Day of Trumpets.

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Now, we've talked about this being Yom Kippur at the tip,
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First, there was a Day of Trumpets.

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Now, looking at our mountain, what would the Day of Trumpets be
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Which feast?

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It's comparable to Pentecost, right?

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That's the reflection across the mountain right there at the top.

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Pentecost and trumpets are related, and you'll notice at this crossing,
there are two comets.

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They're representing two feasts.

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Both the Feast of Trumpets and the Feast of Pentecost are represented
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That makes sense also because in the history of Israel.

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Tt was at the Feast of Weeks, that first year when Moses went up the
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booming voice.

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At that point, there was also the sound of a trumpet,
of the blowing of a trumpet that was heard.

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This represents not only Pentecost, but also the Feast of Trumpets.

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Then next, we have the Feast of Yom Kippur, Day of Judgment.

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That's the Feast of Tabernacles.

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The Feast of Tabernacles, that's when they would dwell in booths,
representing their time of wandering through the wilderness.

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That's represented at this part here, where the throne in Orion
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Or if you will, the people making their journey in the presence of God,
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God was dwelling with them.

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That's representing the Feast of Tabernacles.

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Then finally, at the end, there was one more day after that,
and that represents Shemini Atzeret.

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Is that last holiday after the Week of Tabernacles,
which points to the final deliverance through the latter rain.

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That holiday was known as a time when they would pray for the latter
rain that would ripen the harvest.

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That they could bring in the final harvest of the year.

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All seven feasts are represented in their perfect sequence in this
sign.

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Which itself is quite a confirmation that this sign is not something
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And it is interesting because the end of the world is said to be the
harvest time and the reapers are the angels Yes, amen.

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The end of the world, Jesus said the harvest is the end of the world,
and the angels, like the comets, are the harvesters.

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They gather the harvest in the end.

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We go to Orion, to God's throne in His heavenly kingdom.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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We still haven't completely identified what the Feast of Tabernacles
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Because we see that this is the Christian's journey:

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coming out of sin through baptism, receiving God's law,
sounding warnings, incorporating His law as part of our own character,

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reforming our lives,

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walking with him,

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and finally being delivered at His return.

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This is about our journey through the wilderness, traveling with Jesus,
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He goes with us.

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He's in our hearts.

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Now, this is where there's an interesting reflection, also, again,
in the meaning and significance of these feasts.

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Because in the spring feasts, when Christ came and gave His life on
the cross, God came and dwelt in the flesh of man.

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God was with man.

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On the other side, we, man, mankind, or Israel, is dwelling with God.

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It's the reflection.

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Christ came to earth, He became a human, and He lived an exemplary
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we can give the sound of the trumpets,

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the warnings,

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and we can dwell with God in the Spirit.

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We can live in the Spirit, like Paul says, and that's the reflection.

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Jesus lived in our flesh, and we live in His Spirit,
and that's in our journey, made possible because He first came to earth.

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You can think of it, even if you were to turn this around,
then the mountain would be in the opposite direction, coming down and going up.

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Jesus came down, and we go up. [43.37min] Amen. That's the plan of
salvation.

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When Jesus brought His people out of Egypt,
He gave them a completely new way of life.

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They were no longer slaves, but He didn't leave them just without
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He gave them a whole culture.

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He gave them feasts.

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Feasts to remember things that happened in the past, their exodus,
their great deliverance.

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And feasts to look forward to, and all of these things were connected
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They lived directly off of the land.

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They had the harvests, and they would gather in the harvests,
the early harvests of the barley and the wheat,

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and the late harvests for the summer crops,

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and the other things that they would harvest from the land.

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That represents our reflection of Christ's work.

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In all of these things, when we do our part in the Spirit,
we're reflecting what Christ did in the flesh.

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Just as there was a cross for Jesus, Jesus said,
take up your cross and follow me.

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We see the same thing as we have looked at before,
where our baptism is a baptism into His character, His cross, if you will.

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We take up our cross, we learn from Him, and we follow Him in the end.

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It's all made possible because He came to the earth first and gave His
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When we study the cross,

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it's actually from a study of the time of the cross that we learn how
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It comes from a study of the cross.

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You can find it on our website at Full Moon at Gethsemane,
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historians tell us that Jesus came at His birth.

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His birth was in the autumn, around the time of the week-long feast in
the autumn, when all of Israel would come.

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They had the holy convocations, so they would all come to Jerusalem
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Mary and Joseph also came along with them,
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As they were heading back shortly after the feasts is when Jesus was
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We can understand now with an understanding of the calendar,

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we can know when Jesus was born based on the timing of the feasts and
some other aspects that are connected with that.

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We have an article also on our lastcountdown.org website called
Christmas 2.0. It explains how we can know the true date of Christ's birth.

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It's not December 25th, like the world celebrates today,
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But we see that it is actually at the time of the feast of the seventh
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that is the birthday of Jesus.

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We will be celebrating His birthday, having our Christmas,
the true Christmas, if you will.

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One thing also, when Comet K2 crossed through the Horologium
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indirectly it pointed to the crucifixion because we have the time of
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It was at three o'clock, just like this.

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This is the six o'clock, and this is three o'clock.

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It was in the afternoon when Jesus died, about the time of the evening
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At each quadrant of the clock, at nine, at twelve, at three,
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the Bible specifies different things that happened at His crucifixion.

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First, He was put on the cross at nine o'clock.

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In Jewish thinking, that was the third hour of the day.

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Then at noon, the sixth hour, there was darkness over the land.

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Then at the ninth hour, which would be three o'clock,
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Pointing very much to the cross of Christ from the Horologium,
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When He died on the cross, when we understand the calendar,
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Then two days later was May 27th, AD 31. In this year, 2023,
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We see even there His crucifixion at the Horologium, His burial,
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as we see it in this year.

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If we look also at comet E3, when it comes back around to the
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This is representing Jesus' Second Coming when He comes not as a baby
anymore, but He comes as the king, like in Revelation 19.

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Where He is described as having a sword coming out of His mouth,
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Comet E3 comes to that pendulum on the day after May 27th,
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That points to the sequence of events as they happen at Jesus' coming.

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First, there's the great resurrection, May 27th,
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In the Bible, it talks about how first the dead are raised,
and then we who are alive and remain are caught up together with them.

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First the resurrection on the 27th, and then on the 28th,
when the comet crosses that line, there is the rapture, if you will,

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being caught up together with those who are just resurrected.

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Again, it points to that anniversary of Christ's resurrection.

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Amen.

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With that, let's stand, take a breath, and let's have a word of
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Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you once again for the amazing works
that you have made.

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You have done all things well, the Bible says.

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We see that when we look in the heavens, and we see the striking
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We just praise you for revealing these things at this time.

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It is the sign of the Son of man, and we see the things happening all
in their order, just as you prophesied.

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The tribes of the earth have been mourning, and in the end,
you will come and deliver your people.

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We will see the Son of man, not just the sign of the Son of man.

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Thank you for the beauty, the symmetry that you build into your word.

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We ask that you will be with us and guide us in this time ahead,
that we may sound the trumpet, the warning,

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and that many people will hear here and reform their lives.

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That we may walk with you and reflect the life of Christ as He walked
with us, until you come to receive us to yourself, that where you are,

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we may be also,

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as you have promised.

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We thank you for that, for your promises, for your love,
your faithfulness that is new every morning.

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We love you also, and we long to be with you very soon.

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We pray this in the name of Jesus Christ, and in His new name, Alnitak,
the wounded one of Orion.

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Amen.

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Thank you, and hope to see you next week.