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Feast Of The Ingathering; Pentecost 40 days after solar eclipse 1

We talked about the enemy who is trying to decide who to attack next, to Judah or Jerusalem. He is not on the Palestinians side he is trying to decide who he can attack or pit against one another so we destroy ourselves

[Last week; King of Babylon [who represents God’s enemies ] stood the parting of 2 roads, at the head of 2 nations trying to decide which one to attack 1st, at the fork going the two different ways, he was using divination by looking at a goat liver, witch dr’s still do this]
• Nebuchadnezzar is standing at the entrance of the holy land, at the fork of two roads -- one to the right leading to Judah, and the other to the left leading to Ammon -- using divination by looking at a goat’s liver, to determine which road to take first. In Eastern spirituality, in Hinduism, the goat is associated with the deity Shiva. Shiva wears a garland of skulls, with a goat as his vehicle. It is believed that by offering a goat as a sacrifice, one can establish a connection with the divine and gain favor, blessings abundance, sacrifice, redemption, and a connection to the divine. [at CERN]
• Sacrificing a goat represents a willingness to let go of something valuable or cherished for a higher purpose

• Judah was chosen first (Ezek. 21:22-27) before Ammon or Palestine (Ezek. 21:28-32).
• on Adar 13th [April 13th is the day of destruction planned in Esther, where Haman was to kill the Jews]
• Adar 14th the days the lamb was killed to cover sins for that year, & the day Jesus was killed for our sacrifice
• This feast used to be in September but God changed the 1st month of the year to April or Adar’ formally the 7th month of the year, it is harvest time for the 1st barley tender grain harvest
• Also called Sukkoth or the Feast of Booths, both are Jewish harvest festivals.
• Feast of Booths; where you come inside for protection
• And the New Moon Festival; the full moon the extremely large one for Harvest shows up

Exodus 12:2 (KJV) This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

This month shall be unto you the beginning of months -- the first not only in order but in estimation. It had formerly been the seventh according to the reckoning of the civil year, which began in September, and continued unchanged, but it was thenceforth to stand first in the national religious year which began in March, April.

See notes at the end of the teaching for more detail’

• Divination by arrows; put into a quiver marked with the names of places to be attacked, and then shaken together; whichever came forth first is the one selected as the first to be attacked.
• The Arabs still do this, and is mentioned in the Koran.
• In the Nineveh sculptures the king is represented with a cup in his right hand, his left resting on a bow; with two arrows in the right, and the bow in the left, symbolic of practicing divination.

• Hebrew, "teraphim"; household gods, worshiped as family talismans [charm or idol]
• To obtain direction as to the future and other blessings.
• Rachel brought her fathers (Ge 31:19, 34); Micah as his household gods (Judges 17:5, 1Sa 15:23, Hebrew; Zec 10:2

• Liver -- They judged of the success, or failure, of an undertaking by the healthy, or unhealthy, state of the liver and entrails of a sacrifice.

Next scripture; Remember a day to the Lord is 1,000 years to us, it has been about 6,000 years sine He put us on earth the 7th day is a day of rest, or the millennium reign with Him in heaven

Exodus 23:12 (KJV) Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest:

Exodus 23:15,16,17,20,21 (KJV) [one of 3 feast. Feast of the Ingathering is at Passover, 2
for the church with out leaven representative of sin will be the 1st harvest]
Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; [Nisan or April, for the 1st harvest of the tender grain] for in it thou camest out from Egypt: a[the world] and none shall appear before me empty:)

[Empty; those who are worthless to the kingdom, void of works, (reyq); emptily; ineffectual or producing no results or effect, lacking power, or forcefulness, undeservedly, without cause, empty, in vain, void having no effect

16 And the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.
20 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.
21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.

God said; Meet Me on the mountain top, come alone; follow My rules & laws or you are open prey for the demonic.

Exodus 34:2 (MSG) Be ready in the morning to climb Mount Sinai and get set to meet me on top of the mountain.

Exodus 34:5-7 (MSG) GOD descended in the cloud and took up his position there beside him and called out the name, GOD. GOD passed in front of him and called out, "GOD, GOD, a God of mercy and grace, endlessly patient—so much love, so deeply true—
7 loyal in love for a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, rebellion, and sin. Still, He doesn't ignore sin. He holds sons and grandsons responsible for a father's sins to the third and even fourth generation."

• Notice it was God who called out God’s name/ then said what His nature was

• Curse carried down; inherited weakness/ possibly in DNA/ Alcohol/ Diabetes/ You have to be the curse breaker to 3rd & 4th generation

• Hell is nothing but God’s wrath at sin/ Notice above HE DOES NOT IGNORE SIN

Exodus 34:8-12 (MSG) At once, Moses fell to the ground and worshiped,
9 saying, "Please, O Master, if you see anything good in me, please Master, travel with us, hard-headed as these people are. Forgive our iniquity and sin. Own us, possess us."
10 And GOD said, "As of right now, I'm making a covenant with you: In full sight of your people I will work wonders that have never been created in all the Earth, in any nation. Then all the people with whom you're living will see how tremendous GOD's work is, the work I'll do for you.
11 Take careful note of all I command you today. I'm clearing your way by driving out Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
12 Stay vigilant. Don't let down your guard lest you make covenant with the people who live in the land that you are entering and they trip you up.

Covenant; a legal term, a signed written agreement between 2 parties or nations to perform some action,
(barah) in the sense of cutting, as blood covenant, a compact made by passing between pieces of flesh, confederacy, to union with a political organization, a group of conspirators or criminals, league; an association, of states or organizations or individuals working for a common action

• The Governments attempts to legalize sin or change the meaning of sin with the stroke of a pen. 3

• Verse 12 Says they will set a snare for you/ you cant do what they ask you must follow God

Snare or Trap; (yaqosh); a noose, like catching animals, a hook (for the nose), entrap in a plan, ensnared, gin meaning to separate from a seed such as a cotton gin, or an evil spirit to do Satan’s will. To attempt to separate from the seed of God.

Possibly a spiritual Jinn; also meaning to be snared, trap by a creature of extraordinary abilities who was created by Allah. [ Some say jinn are simply magical creatures, do not associate them.] The Jinn were a mighty race of people who were created from smokeless fire. The mighty jinn lived on the earth for over 1,000 years, but pride would be their downfall.

Sounds like demon possession.

Exodus 34:13-16 (MSG) "Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don't worship any other god. GOD—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don't make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.

Ashtoreth ('ashar) Asherah or Astarte, a Phoenician goddess; they met at groves. [when you see something long enough you will be curious and may be even participate in it.

They were used to seeing poles and used to watching the Egyptians worship at those poles;
it caused them to become; Wanton, seriously desire them, and go a whoring after them, God called it to commit adultery against Him [God] as the spouse of Jehovah

Exodus 24:4 (NLT) Then Moses carefully wrote down all the LORD’s instructions. Early the next morning Moses got up and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 34:18 (KJV) The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.

Abib; or Nissan; Early Spring, 1st month of the year on God’s calendar, April to us

Unleavened bread; Bread without yeast, yeast symbolic of sin.

Jewish mothers do a spiritual ritual every spring, they scattering the yeast all over the house, then they search in every crook and cranny to find the yeast, sweep it up and get it out of the house.

Old Testament is a type and shadow of the New Testament, we find spiritual principles still done in traditions the Jews still do

It is called ; [starting on the 14th of Nissan or April]
• Moses established the1st church on this day to celebrate the harvest
• The church of Jesus Christ or the body of Christ started on this day
• King David died on this feast, King over the Jews in the Old Testament 4
• When Jesus came, When New Testament started He was born on this feast day
• He became the king of Kings for the Jews & the Gentiles
• On this feast the Jews were taken away from the Egypt’s bondage to go to the promised land
• I think we are taken on this feast because New Testament follows as a type & shadow of the Old
Testament & it is prophetic
• THE FEAST OF WEEKS......SHAVUOT, Where the Jews present the wave offering to God
• THE FEAST OF THE INGATHERING;
while the feast of Unleavened Bread was a memorial of the haste in which the Israelites left Egypt.

These are the feasts of Yahweh [God & started by Moses], for a holy convocations [or gathering time]

Which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. [ a perpetual feast forever to be kept]
The appointed time when the Jews left the bondage, & the Christians are to leave the bondage of this world.
• THE 1ST HARVEST
• THE FEAST OF REVELATION
• FEAST OF PENTECOST.....Lev23:15 this begins Pentecost to celebrate the Beginning of the grain harvest
The Passover commemorated the deliverance of the Israelites from Egyptian bondage and slavery (Exodus 12:13)
• THE BIRTH OF THE CHURCH AGE...on this day the Holy Spirit arrived & the church age began, the church of Jesus Christ began on this feast, We are the wheat offering, the 1st of the wheat harvest
• FEAST OF 1ST FRUITS [To be taken from the earth]
• FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD;
Which symbolizes His death, burial, resurrection. The jews keep this feast by wrapping the bread in a napkin
Feast of unleavened Bread: an ancient 7-day agricultural feast marked by the offering of new grain to the Lord which began on the 15th day of the 1st month, the day after the 1st day of the Passover, and finally became one continuous festival with the Passover

Exodus 34:22-23 (KJV) And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.

First Fruits; 1st crop to be harvested, this belongs to the Lord. 1st part of your income, tithe, and 1st paycheck or harvest of what you bring in.

1st gathering of the Wheat Harvest or called Barley harvest in places; to follow the Sun’s course at the end of the year, the solar calender

Leviticus 23:1-14 The LORD said to Moses;“Give the following instructions to the people.
These are the LORD’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as official days for holy assembly.

Holy Gathering; to gather or attend a church, synagogue, to go into the presence of the Lord. Church service.

3 “You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath day of complete rest, [Millennial rest of a thousand years, where we will learn about heaven & Him after leaving the earth]

an official day for holy assembly. It is the LORD’s Sabbath day, and it must be observed wherever you live. “In addition to the Sabbath, these are the LORD’s appointed festivals, the official days for holy assembly that are to be celebrated at their proper times each year. “The LORD’s Passover begins at 5
sundown on the fourteenth day of the first month.

Passover; 8 days of celebrating, just like as in the Exodus, removing your [spot & wrinkle or cleansing of the temple, His temple is you, you are to remove yourself from the world [spiritually removing the corruption like God’s people had to learn a new way of thinking when they had to remove Egypt’s corrupt thinking ]

6 On the next day, the fifteenth day of the month, you must begin celebrating the Festival of Unleavened Bread. This festival to the LORD continues for seven days, and during that time the bread you eat must be made without yeast.
[Jesus is the bread from heaven, with no sin [or yeast], so we partake of Him in communion]

7 On the first day of the festival, all the people must stop their ordinary work and observe an official day for holy assembly. For seven days you must present special gifts to the LORD. On the seventh day the people must again stop all their ordinary work to observe an official day for holy assembly.” Then the LORD said to Moses, “Give the following instructions to the people of Israel. When you enter the land I am giving you and you harvest its first crops, bring the Priest a bundle of grain

[You are that grain to be brought to the high priest Jesus, the tares & the wheat will grow together, and the angels will separate the chaff from the wheat to be burned]

[Jesus is our high priest afer the order of Melchizedck who represents the Levitical Priest, but is superior to the earthly Levites priest ]

• We are to gather at the door [Jesus is the door] come for a solemn assembly, as part of the 1st grain harvested from the earth.
• To meet at the heavenly temple for worship and a meal at the first cutting of your grain harvest. It says the REAPER will come to take the harvest of the 1st grain or 1st harvest of the earth


11 On the day after the Sabbath, the priest will lift it up before the LORD so it may be accepted on your behalf. On that same day you must sacrifice a one-year-old male lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the LORD. With it you must present a grain offering consisting of four quarts of choice flour moistened with olive oil. It will be a special gift, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. You must also offer one quart of wine as a liquid offering.
14 Do not eat any bread or roasted grain or fresh kernels on that day until you bring this offering to your God. This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live.


The Jewish Calendar ; The month Abib (Ex. 13:4), later called Nisan, corresponded somewhat with April (Neh. 2:1; Esther 3:7). Israel's year previously began with Tishri, which is now the seventh month (corresponding with September). Jews still consider Abib or Nisan as the beginning of their sacred year and Tishri as the beginning of the civil year. The fifteenth day of Abib became the ruling date of all events of the year.

The Jewish Calendar Compared to Ours:

1. Abib (Nisan) ................................ March-April
2. Iyyar (Zif) ................................. April-May
3. Sivan ....................................... May-June
4. Tammuz ...................................... June-July
5. Ab .......................................... July-August
6. Elul ........................................ August-September 6
7. Tishri (Tisri) .............................. September-October
8. Marchesvan (Bul) ............................ October-November
9. Chisleu ..................................... November-December
10. Tebeth ..................................... December-January
11. Sebat ...................................... January-February
12. Adar ........................................ February-March

To maintain the relation of lunar months to the solar year, it was periodically necessary to add a thirteenth month, called Second Adar. In
God’s Sword of Judgment..............................................The Fiery Sword of Divine Judgment

Though Ezekiel 21 paints a grim picture of divine judgment, it offers a reminder of God's ultimate sovereignty over the nations. Even in the darkest of times, God's purpose prevails. The seeming chaos is, in fact, part of a divine order, with God orchestrating events towards a determined end. This is a potent reminder to trust in God's plan, even when we do not understand it.

I. The Sword of Judgment (Verses 1-7)

God commands Ezekiel to prophesy against Jerusalem and Israel, foretelling their doom by a sword. The impending disaster, likened to a polished sword in God's hand, is set to cause great lamentation among the people.

II. The Sword is Sharpened (Verses 8-17)

God instructs Ezekiel to mourn as though his heart is breaking because of the impending calamity. The sharpened sword, ready for the slaughter, is symbolic of the intense destruction that is to come.

III. Judgment upon the Ammonites (Verses 18-24)

Ezekiel foretells of God's judgment upon the Ammonites, a neighboring nation of Israel. God likens the King of Babylon to a diviner who will use his sword to determine which city to destroy first, with Jerusalem being his ultimate target.

IV. Prophecy Against Zedekiah (Verses 25-27)

The chapter then shifts focus onto Zedekiah, the last King of Judah. He will be dethroned, symbolizing the end of the Judean monarchy until the coming of the 'one to whom it rightfully belongs