The Seven Days of Awe

“23- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 24- “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25- You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD.” -Leviticus 23:23–25 (ESV)

TheSeven Feasts of the Lord described in Lev 23 are God’s appointed times with mankind. The Jews practiced them in the OT and some still do today. In fact, even some Christians practice them today. And that is OK as long as they know that they are just dress rehearsals of what’s going to occur in Heaven at some later time. God has defined significant dates or appointed times that are extremely important to Him in relaying to mankind what has been designed in His plan for men. The seven Feasts of the Lord represent key times that all Christians should look towards for key events to play out in the last days.

“16- Therefore let no one pass judgment on you in questions of food and drink, or with regard to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath. 17- These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.” -Col 2:16-17 (ESV)

Concerning the last days, Jesus said in Luke 21, that they would be like the days of Noah and Lot. Regular days, but very corrupt and evil days, but much else happening – kind of like today. No huge catastrophic events taking place, just the days of our time playing out in the world of humanity.  Noah heard from God and did what He said. He was a preacher of righteousness (2 Pet 2:5) and preached to the people of his time to get right with God or else. Read Gen 6 and 7 to find out about Noah and what God told him to do. Notice very closely Gen 7:4.

The Lord told Noah that in seven more days He would send rain upon the earth. Let’s zero in on that 7-day window. The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanna, the start of the Jewish year), the first of the fall feasts, started all the fall feasts. It was a 2-day event. The next days (day 3 through day 9) were the Days of Awe (Days of Repentance) or a time of deep introspect and repentance. Day 10 started the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur – the holiest day of the Jewish year) followed by the final feast of the year – the Feast of Tabernacles.

Now let’s focus on days 3 through 9. We are on day 3 right now today – Sept 20, 2020. So then in seven days, the time of the sealing of judgment was to arrive.

Notice the similarity of the seven days … Before the Lord God bought the Great Flood, He allowed seven more days of [Noah] teaching the people, of that time, what they needed to do to avoid the fate of what was to arrive – the Great Flood.

They needed to make a change in the direction of their lives and repent of their sins. Obviously, none of an estimated 20 million people on earth at that time (or perhaps even more) repented. Only Noah’s family and son in laws survived.

So we could look at the significance of those seven critical days of introspect as the more recent Days of Awe in between the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement. Surely, if nothing else they are symbolic of what we need to consider right now today.

During these Days of Awe the people were to seek sincere personal repentance – a change of attitude and direction back to God in one’s life. In one sense and referring to ancient Israel, the Day of Atonement paved the way for God to forgive the Israelites of any sins committed in the previous year.

What will happen once the Day of Atonement comes, I don’t know. It could be possible that the time (in some year as I make NO predictions of this year or any other year, date or time) of Jacob’s Trouble will start – the beginning of the 7-year Tribulation. Or a time of trouble on the earth or maybe nothing. But one thing stands out … and that is that we must remember these Feasts and their significance on and in our lives right now in 2020 and beyond. For Christians, for Jews, for all. The Lord’s word is sure and steadfast. He puts nothing in it that’s not serious and as such, demands our attention and deserves our utmost respect.

Where are you in the consideration of these things? Are you saved today? If not, I urge you without delay and with immediate haste to seek His face in prayer, call upon His name, confess and repent of your sins and proclaim Him risen from the dead and now Lord of your life – Rom 10:9-13.

Amen!

“26- And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 27- “Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the LORD. 28- And you shall not do any work on that very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. 29- For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. 30- And whoever does any work on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. 31- You shall not do any work. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32- It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”” -Leviticus 23:26–32 (ESV)

-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

GLORY TO GOD!

“…Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” -Acts 16:30 (KJV)

Paul and Silas where ministering at Philippi and because of their preaching and healing of a demon-possessed girl they were beaten by order of the magistrates and threw them into prison. They also had their feet locked down in the stocks. But at midnight they prayed and sang hymns to God. Then suddenly there was an earthquake and the foundations of the prison were shaken and all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains fell off. This in itself is a miracle worth  further study bit for today we will focus in on what the jailer of the prison said next.

Thinking that all the prisoners escaped the jailer was ready to kill himself but Paul said hold on don’t do anything we are all still here. The jailer went immediately to Paul and Silas trembling before them and asked one question – “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?“. Now we don’t know if the jailer heard them praying and singing but I suspect he did and was moved in his spirit to ask them this question as the earth shook beneath his feet.

Paul answered, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved, you and your household“. Paul and Silas then ministered the word of the Lord to him and he became saved.  You see the jailer wanted to know what he had to do to escape the future judgment as he was now aware of the power of God. One must have faith and believe that the Lord was/is who He claimed to be and believe in the things He did – 1 Cor 15:3-4.

“but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.” -John 20:31 (ESV)

Friends to be saved you must profess the Lord Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, and believe in your heart (soul) that God raised Jesus from the dead. You must then confess your sin and repent and start living in holiness (Heb 12:14). For without repentance no man shall see the Kingdom of God – Luke 13:3. These are our instructions for obtaining eternal life. We must be born again (saved) in order to live with the Lord in His kingdom forever. There is nothing else on the face of the earth that will get you saved.

But you may ask “saved from what?“. I say, saved from the terrible consequences of our sin. And saved from His wrath which is surely coming. And then, saved from hell – which is certainly a reality and certainly a place of endless torment.

Once Saved, Always Saved False Teaching (an absolute lie)

Salvation is not about a one-time canned prayer that you have said at one time in your life. Salvation is about living and believing in Christ, His word, His teachings, His Bible … daily! Some big named preachers and evangelists teach that you are saved by grace and once you are saved you cannot lose your salvation. They would argue that if a person claims to be a Christian and then falls back into the world, then they were never a Christian to begin with. Hogwash! And this is false teaching. Consider Paul’s words in 2 Th 2:3, where he describes that before the Day of the Lord arrives there will be a great falling away from the faith. Friends, if you fall away, you had to be part of the faith to begin with.

Scripture speaks plainly about the false doctrine of Once Saved, Always Saved. Consider carefully – 1 Tim 4:1; Matt 24:10; Heb 6:4-6; 1 Tim 6:10, 21; 1 Tim 1:19; Act 20:29-30,  for starters. Here’s a decisive one –  2 Peter 2:20–21. And what about Rev 22:19 … if your name can be blotted out of the Book, it must have been in the Book to begin with. Also in: Ex 32:32-33; Rev 3:5. There many verses about being removed or blotted out of the Book of Life but not one having your name in this Book and never being removed. Again, to fall away from the faith strongly makes a case that you had to be of the faith to begin with. Now, a true Christian will live a life of holiness and repentance. But what if after living like this this true Christian falls back into the world and forgets God? Nations do this, why can’t people. My friends, DO NOT adhere to this Once Saved Always Saved foolishness as it a lie that will lead many astray and cause them to believe in a hyper-grace Gospel. One where grace has you covered in everything you do, which many take as a Get-Out-of-Hell free Card.

“Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10- For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.:” -Rom 10:9-10 (ESV)

So there it is and now the big question is what will you do about it if you are not really saved today? Do you claim to be a Christian but live like the world? Do you never find time to: pray, read His word, tell others about the Gospel, or live a life of faith? Are you living for the things of this world? This being said will you answer His call and follow Him or keep rejecting Him and procrastinating until some future time which may never come? Today’s the day of salvation, not tomorrow or next week. Today! Seek Him beloved for we never know when we will take our last breath and by then your fate and mine are sealed – for heaven or for … hell!

Stay the Course, Steadfast in Your Faith, Be Strong in the Lord and the Power of His Might!
-BPWatcher, Internet Preacher and Bible Prophecy Watchman

“Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?” -2 Peter 3:11-12

HE IS LORD!