The Feast of Weeks
Hag Ha Shavout on 6th of Sivan
Also one of the three compulsory feasts.
Tradition says David died on 6th Sivan
Lev. 23:15-22
15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
16 Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
17 Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.
18 And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
19 Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
20 And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
22 And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Israel was given the law on the feast of weeks in Exodus 19. Passover was the 14th of Nisan + 3 days into the wilderness = 17th Nisan, then 3rd day of third of third month: 46 days. Moses to prepare for the third day: 49 days or 6th of Sivan.
The church was born on the 6th of Sivan also. cf Acts 2., John 14:25-26, Acts 1:8; 2:1-47
Note the strange occurance of the leaven in the bread. This should make us stand up and take notice. Leaven has heretofore been used as a type of sin, why are the loaves make with leaven?
Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened. (Mat 13:33 KJV)
How does this verse stack up with all the other references with leavening being a type of evil? Also what about the 2 loaves that are not offered on the alter? Are these a type of the church in its first birth and second birth (rapture)
Note that Israel was also born on the 6th of Sivan and Pentecost is also called the "feast of Revelation. Compare Ex 19 with Acts 2
In the Pentecost feast note the 2 loaves, made with leaven. Is this the church? and the 2 lambs offered a type of both the church and Israel?
i.e. Jews and the Church, Law Vs Grace?
What really happened at Pentecost?
1. The Holy Spirit came down to inhabit the believers, and to resurrect their dead spirits.
Acts 2:4
2. They became a holy nation, of priests, and Kings
Rev. 1:6, 1Pet. 2:9
3. They were given a new language. Acts 2:4
4. They were given provision to be witnesses to the ends of the earth.
Matt. 28:20
5. They were given living water. John 7:38
6. They were given the comforter who would "bring all things to remembrance. John 14:26
7. Were given the "Seal" of our Salvation. Eph 1:13
What else is there about the 6th of Sivan?
The Enoch Tradition
Born 6th of Sivan
Raptured 6th of Sivan
Israel and the Church are distinct
Daniel 9:24-27
9:24 Scope
9:25 69 weeks
9:26 Interval or GAP
9:27 70th week.
The church is hidden in the OT. Eph. 3:3-7
Compare Luke 4:18-19 and Isa 61:1-2 and see the same gap.
Israel has been temporarily set aside: Luke 19:42 Vs Rom 11:25.
Would a rapture on the 6th of Sivan restart the clock for Israel?
Note the phrase "Trumpet of God" occurs only 2 times in the Bible
1. in Exodus 19:13, 16 at the giving of the Torah and
2. In the description of the rapture in I Thess. 4:16
3. The "Trumpet of God" in Ex. is a Yowbel or Ram's Horn.
The Fall Feasts
Tishri 1
The Feast of Trumpets - Rosh HaShannah "Head of the Year" or the Jewish New Year. (on the old civil calendar)
Lev. 23:23-26
23 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
25 Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
26 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
Originally to be one day but changed to two around 500 B.C.
The trumpets were not the silver Temple trumpets, but the Teki'at shofar or the rams horn. Isa. 58:1; 27:13, Joel etc. etc. used for alarm and victory.
The Akedah involving Abraham and Isaac on the mount. The ram, caught by its HORNS in the thicket.
Left horn called the "first trump"
Right horn called the "last trump"
3 series of 10 shofar blasts each.
A final blowing of 10 blasts called the Teki'ah Gedolah "the great blowing" Not short blasts of alarm but long blasts of Victory!
The last trump? compare 1 Cor. 15:51-52
The silver temple trumpets are Chatsotserah. The rams horns are Showphar or Yowbel. Yowbel literally means "ram" and ram's horns is yowbel yowbel in the Hebrew.
Yomin Noriam "Days of Affliction" between Tishri 2 and 10 or the 3rd through the 9th of Tishri or 7 days. 7 years of the 70th week?
The threshing floor idiom? Luke 3:16-17
The parallel in Ruth 3:8,9
The Day of Atonement:
Leviticus 16:1-19
16:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the LORD, and died;
2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.
4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.
6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.
7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD'S lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.
10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:
12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the veil:
13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.
15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.
19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.
The event mentioned in the first verse occurred in Lev. 10: 1-3
10:1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not.
2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.