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THE HIDDEN FEAST CODE

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Time From Passover to Pentecost
by Floyd R. Cox

Here is another riddle wrapped within an enigma.

The Israelites’ feasts were “shadows of things to come” and originally designed to celebrate certain events that happened or would happen to Israel in a chronological order from spring to fall, and the religion of the Israelites is based upon remembering their history.

Moses ordered the Israelites to celebrate the Passover each year to commemorate their deliverance from Egypt. Seven days of unleavened bread were to be observed each year after Passover as a memorial of having 30 days of unleavened bread after their exodus from Egypt. After this, manna became available from Sunday to Saturday, and there were 19 days of eating manna

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before reaching Mount Sinai on the same week day in which they had left Egypt (Ex 19:1). They were to celebrate Pentecost on Sunday, the third day (Ex 19:11) after arriving. The next three feast days were to be fulfilled after the tabernacle was set up on the first day of the second year (Ex 40:2).

These days from Passover to Pentecost were for reaping the first fruits of the spring grain harvests of barley, wheat and oats in the Promised Land until Pentecost, which were until the last day of spring (now June 22). Pentecost was not allowed to happen after the last day of spring.

This implies that the early spring harvest represents Israel’s history after the exodus until Pentecost, that is, until the law and old covenant were given at Mt. Sinai. The last three feasts were to be fulfilled after this, during the summer and fall fruit harvest. This would include first day of the seventh month of the second year, after the scouts explored the land during the grape season to bring back a good report.

Thus, the grape harvest was after Pentecost, during the summer and early fall, and this would likely be celebrated after the 12 scouts returned with a cluster of grapes after exploring the Promised Land, about 30 days before the fall equinox. Otherwise, the text does not say when the Israelites would enter the land after Pentecost. Perhaps it would have been between Trumpets and Atonement, that is, between the first day and the 10^th day of the seventh month. Perhaps this is implied by the holy days and grape harvest… and this may explain why the Jubilees were announced on the 10^th day of the seventh month.

Instead, because the scouts returned with a bad report, their entry into the land was postponed to the 10^th day of the first month under Joshua, 40 years after the exodus.

In both scenarios, they entered with the expectation that the temporary tabernacle would eventually be discarded and replaced by a permanent temple during their future golden era. This was fulfilled when Solomon dedicated his new temple and observed the feast of Tabernacles for 14 days.

From Passover to Pentecost, the feasts commemorate the period from the exodus from Egypt until they received the Ten Commandments on Pentecost during the spring grain season, with emphasis on unleavened bread and manna.

After Pentecost, for the next three months, the festivals were to be in the summer and fall. These are Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles. The feast of Tabernacles was given special significance when Solomon dedicated the temple in the fall of his 12^th year. So the festivals allegedly cover about 490 years. This view creates a problem.

The Trumpets and Atonement Problem

Here is the mystery. Yes, it is likely that the feast of Tabernacles was fulfilled during Israel’s Golden Age, when Solomon dedicated the temple and celebrated the feast for seven extra days.

If this observation is correct, then the other two festivals, Trumpets and Atonement, may represent the fulfillment of two other major events between Moses and Solomon, but what events could they possibly be?

First, the fall of Jericho was on Saturday, seven days after the Passover on Saturday, that is, the seventh day after the wave sheaf was offered on Sunday, when the manna ended on Sunday (Josh 5:11-12).

The seven trumpets in Joshua’s conquest resembles the seven trumpets and conquest covered in Revelation 8, and both seem to represent a new era (Josh 5:13). Nevertheless, even though there is evidence that the fall day of Atonement was fulfilled when Christ went behind the veil on the spring Passover, when the temple veil was torn in half, commentators never say dogmatically, “The fall feast of Trumpets was fulfilled in the spring, when Joshua crossed the Jordan to capture the Promised Land on the 10^th day of the first month.”

Second, the Ark and tabernacle were both made before the scouts went out, and they were both lost when the Philistines destroyed Shiloh, when Eli the priest died.

The ark was regained when David made a new tabernacle for it in Jerusalem, and the Golden Era of Jerusalem began.

Nobody says, “Joshua’s conquest was like another exodus from Egypt beginning in the spring, just before the Passover.” Or, “Perhaps the feast of Atonement in the fall was actually fulfilled ‘on the morrow after the Passover’, during the Sunday Wave Sheaf Offering, when the Manna ceased” (Jos 5:10-12). One major clue is that, from Joshua’s conquest to Solomon’s temple, there are nine jubilees.

Speculation on the dual fulfillment of the feasts becomes fertile grounds for breeding wild ideas about a future “latter day fulfillment” or about a future “Christian Hebrew Roots Awakening”.

It seems logical that there were other fulfillments, because the Old Covenant at Mt Sinai and the New Covenant with the first century church were both on the day of Pentecost. Jerusalem, eventually fell twice and the temple was burned twice, both times on Av 9-10, and this may be symbolic for God “treading the grapes of wrath”. (See also Rev 14:20).

TABLE 1. From the Exodus to the day of Pentecost When the “Church in the Wilderness” was Founded
SUN	MON	TUES	WED	THUR		FRI	SAT
					1 Nisan	2	3
4	5	6	7		8	9	10
11	12	13	14		15 (1^st Month)	16	17
			Passover		Exodus: Israel Leaves Egypt	Num. 33:5	Num. 33:3
					Num. 33:3	Day 2	Day 3
					Camp at Succoth	Camp at Etham	Camp at Red sea
18	19	20	21		22	23	24
Pharaoh					Ends First Week
drowns
25	26	27	28		29	30	1 (2^nd Month)
					Ends Second Week
2	3	4	5		6	7	8
					Ends Third Week
9	10	11	12		13	14	15
					Ends Fourth Week		Ex 16:1 30^th day
							of unleavened bread
16	17	18	19		20	21	22
					Ends Fifth Week
FIRST		SEVEN			DAYS	OF	MANNA
23	24	25	26		27	28	29
					Sixth Week
1 (3^rd Month)	2	3	4		3rd Month 5	6 Sivan (Pentecost?)	7
					Reach Mt. Sinai
					Seventh Week	1 day	2^nd day
					Ex. 19:1
8 (3^rd day) Ex 19:15-16	9	10	11		12	13	14
Pentecost
Ten Command- ments

Chronological Order

To conjure up a bit of logic, the festivals (which are not always Holy Days) should be viewed in their proper order:

Passover: Lambs were set apart on the 10^th day, sacrificed on the 14^th, and blood was placed on the two doorposts of each house.

First Seven days of Unleavened Bread:

In Moses’ time, this is a memorial of the 30 days of unleavened bread before manna was supplied for 40 years (Ex 16:1). Josephus said they had unleavened bread for 30 days (Antiquities 2.15.1). They had eaten manna for 40 years, until 20 days before Pentecost.

In Joshua’s time, the Israelites’ last day of manna was immediately followed by reaping the first of the firstfruits of the grain harvest (for bread) on Sunday morning, “the morrow after the Sabbath” (Joshua 5:10-12; Lev. 23:5-8, 15, 16), and immediately observing seven days of unleavened bread and immediately surrounding Jericho for seven days. (The fruit harvest for wine was in the fall.) On the last day, the walls of Jericho fell.

Pentecost: This is a memorial of receiving the law on tablets at Mt. Sinai, on the 50^th day.

Trumpets: On the 10^th day of the first new year, in the spring, the Israelites were to begin counting sabbaticals & jubilees (Josh 4:19; Lev 25:2-9). This is likely a memorial of entering the land, after “that evil generation” of 40 years in the wilderness (in the last year of Moses until Jericho fell).

This is supported by a tradition that the jubilee cycle was to begin after crossing the Jordan river, in the spring (Lev 25:2). On the 10^th day of the first new year, in the spring, after “that evil generation” of 40 years, all Israelite males were circumcised (Josh 5:5). On the following Sunday, after Passover, they reaped the first of the firstfruits of their Promised Land, and the manna stopped. They went around Jericho led by the priests with their seven trumpets, and the wall fell down.

Atonement: There is likely an event that would fulfill the holy days after the feast of Trumpets, before the feast of Tabernacles. The Philistines destroyed Shiloh and its tabernacle, stole the Ark of the Covenant, and Eli, the priest, died at the age of 98. The Ark was finally retrieved shortly after David captured Jerusalem in his seventh year, the year David was promised an unending dynasty.

Tabernacles: This pictures a future Golden Era, when Solomon would, eventually, dedicate the temple and keep a feast for seven days and seven more days called the feast of Tabernacles.

TABLE 2. From the Crucifixion until the Church was Founded on Pentecost
SUN	MON	TUES	WED	THUR	FRI	SAT
11	12	13	14	1^st Month 15	16	17
			PASSOVER
			Crucifixion	1^st day in grave	2^nd day in grave	3^rd day in grave
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
Christ’s				First Week
Resurrection				after Passover
25	26	27	28	29	30	1 (2^nd Month)
8^th day				Second Week
				after Passover
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
15^th day				Third Week
				after Passover
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
22^nd day				Fourth Week		Ex 16:1
				after Passover		30^th day after Passover
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
29^th day				Fifth Week after Passover
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
				Ends Sixth Week	41^st day
36^th day	37^th day	38^th day	39^th day	40^th day	Christ carried into Heaven	42^nd day
1 (3^rd Month)	2	3	4	5 Ex. 19:1	6 Sivan (Pentecost?)	7
43^rd day	44^th day	45^th day	46^th day	47^th day	48^th day	49^th day
8 50th day	Christ’s ascension was from Bethany, the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, not the Mount of Olives. The disciples departed afterwards, reached the Mount of Olives by sundown, which was a Sabbath’s day journey from Jerusalem: (http://home.zipworld.com.au/~hwj/P14-Bethany-Ascension.pdf).
Pentecost
Church founded	Zechariah 14 is about the Father, the LORD, coming to the Mount of Olives with vengeance… not a peaceful return of Christ.

TABLE 3. Weekdays in which the New Year, Passover and Wave Sheaf Offering were Held
	Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
		New Year Nisan 1	2	3	4	5	6
	Nisan 7	8	9	10	11	12	13
	Nisan 14 Passover	15^1	16^2	17^3	18^4	19^5	20^6
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 21^7
			New Year Nisan 1	2	3	4	5
		Nisan 14 Passover	15^1	16^2	17^3	18^4	19^1
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 20^6
				New Year Nisan 1	2	3	4
			Nisan 14 Passover	15^1	16^2	17^3	18^4
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 19^5
					New Year Nisan 1	2	3
				Nisan 14 Passover	15^1	16^2	17^3
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 18^4
(as at the exodus & 31 AD)						New Year Nisan 1	2
					Nisan 14 Passover	15^1	16^2
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 17^3
							Nisan 1
						Nisan 14 Passover	15^1
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 16^2
							Nisan 14 Passover
Easter / Wave Sheaf (as at the Jordan & 70 AD)	Nisan 15^1

TABLE 4. Days between the Wave Sheaf Offering, Pentecost, Trumpets and Atonement
	Wave Sheaf Sunday		Pentecost Sunday		Trumpets		Atonement
		New Year Nisan 1		+177 =	Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Tishri 10
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 21^7	+49 =	Sivan 11	+108 =	Wed Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Fri Tishri 10
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 20^6	+49 =	Sivan 10	+109 =	Thu Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Sat Tishri 10
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 19^5	+49 =	Sivan 9	+110 =	Fri Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Sun Tishri 10
Wave Sheaf of 31 AD	Nisan 18^4	+49 =	Sivan 8	+111 =	Sat Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Mon Tishri 10
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 17^3	+49 =	Sivan 7	+112 =	Sun Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Tue Tishri 10
Easter / Wave Sheaf	Nisan 16^2	+49 =	Sivan 6	+113 =	Mon Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Wed Tishri 10
Wave Sheaf of 70 AD	Nisan 15^1	+49 =	Sivan 5	+ 114 =	Tue Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Thu Tishri 10

TABLE 5. Days between the Wave Sheaf Offering, Temple Burned, Trumpets and Atonement
	Wave Sheaf Sun, Aug 5, 70 AD	Temple burned on Sunday		Trumpets on Sunday		Atonement
Av 10: Jer 52:12-13	Nisan 16^2(Aug 5, 70)	Av 10	+50 =	Tishri 1	+ 9 =	Tishri 10
Av 10: Jer 52:12-13	Nisan 16^2(Aug 5, 70)	Av 10	+ 59 = (Av 30, Elul 29 = 59) =			Tishri 10

19-year and 228-year Discrepancy (Reflected in 31 and 70 AD)

Dating the Crucifixion: According to NASA, a full moon in 31 AD would have been on April 25, at 19:59. Since there was a lunar eclipse on that day, it is more properly aligned than the previous full moon on March 27.
This verifies that year in 31 AD actually began on April 11. Calendars are off because they do not allow an adjustment of one day every 228 years. The 235 moons every 19 years are 1/228th of a day longer than 19 years; therefore, the 19-year cycle should have been delayed one day every 228 years. 
Moreover, there was an eclipse of the sun on the new moon of Nisan 1, in 71 AD and a full moon on Av 14, 70 AD, four days after the temple burned. According to NASA, the full moons in 70 AD were on Jul 12 at 00:59 or on Aug 10 at 13:32. 
Therefore, the Wave Sheaf offerings were on Sunday during the first full moon after the spring equinox in 31 AD (Nisan 18), and during the following full moon and 70 AD (Nisan 15).
Jewish belief after 70 AD

The Jewish belief after 70 AD begins counting Pentecost from Nisan 16 to Sivan 6 as in TABLES 1, 2, 4, 6, 9, and 10. Therefore, it finds the Hebrew Roots’ Sunday to Sunday view to be a corruption and a fraud.

Harvests in the Promised Land can be divided into three parts, the spring grain, the summer fruits and the fall olive harvests. These were generally corresponding with the three festival seasons.

The Spring Grain Harvest

The Hebrew calendar used in the Promised Land allows harvests of grain (barley, wheat and oats) in the spring, from the first Sunday after Passover (celebrated as the “first of the firstfruits” or “Wave Sheaf offering”), and the spring harvest lasted until Pentecost (celebrated as the “feast of firstfruits”). The harvest lasted seven weeks, or 49 days, giving it the name, “feast of weeks” (and celebrated on Sunday, the 50^th day called “Pentecost”). The calendar prohibited Pentecost to be after June 22 (the summer solstice), that is, after the first day of the summer season.

Revelation pictures 144,000 converted Israelites as being firstfruits of some type of harvest.

The Summer Grape Harvest

In a good year, the spring harvesting and threshing of grain slightly overlapped the summer harvest of grapes after Pentecost.

The grape harvest is related to the 10^th of Av (the 5^th month). The Scouts brought back a bad report just after they had picked some giant grapes in the Promised Land. The first and second temples were both burned on Sunday, the 10^th of Av, after the evening of the 9^th (Jer 52:12-13).

Revelation appears to use the grape harvest symbolically. “The angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God, and the winepress was trodden without the city, and the blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles…” (14:19-20). “Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of God” (Rev 19:15).

This also appears to be somewhat related to when the temple of Jerusalem was burned twice, both times on Saturday and Sunday, the 9^th and 10th of Av, at the beginning of the grape harvest season, at the end of a sabbatical year. Perhaps this suggests that Revelation was partially or primarily written about the impending wrath upon Jerusalem in 70 AD. The grapes and oil harvests may symbolize the Jews and gentiles called into the new covenant after Pentecost, after the church was founded in 31 AD. Revelation also mentions an innumerable multitude of converts coming out of all nations after going through tribulation. These are in addition to the 144,000 converted Israelites. Perhaps this harvest is related with apostle Paul’s mission to the gentiles after his conversion in the jubilee year of 34 AD, which aligns with a jubilee 1960 (490 x 4) years later, in 1994-95.

Context of Revelation

Of course, Revelation was written in the first century, but Irenaeus is given credit for setting the date. However, upon close examination, he was ambiguous in dating the apostle John’s visions. He said, “For (John or John’s book or John’s vision) was seen not very long ago, but almost in our day, towards the end of Domitian’s reign” (Saint Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 5, 30, 3). Domitian’s reign ended September 18, 96 AD.

This could mean that John’s visions were much earlier, even before the temple burned in 70 AD, and that it was John, himself, that was seen up to the time of Domitian, in about 98 AD. One cannot be too careful about what others say Irenaeus actually said. There may be an ulterior, hidden motive. Those saying Revelation was written for today will, of course, say it was written in about 98 AD.

The New Wine Harvest

The Essenes observed a new wine festival 98 days (14 weeks) to 104 days (15 weeks) after Pentecost, that is, 10 days before the feast of Trumpets. The new juice was prohibited to drink prior to the offering of the new wine.

Without the bad report, the Israelites would likely have entered the Promised Land after Pentecost, perhaps before the 10^th of Tishri, when the trumpet of the jubilee was to be sounded at the end of every 49^th year, in the fall.

The Olive Harvest

The Essenes also had a festival to offer the firstfruits of olive oil. The grape harvest was generally over before the feast of Tabernacles, as the olives and olive oil harvest began, which lasted until after the feast of Tabernacles.

Details on the Wave Sheaf and Easter

In the rabbinical view, the Passover is on the 14^th day of the first new moon after the spring equinox (after days and nights have equal hours and minutes. Equinox means “equal nights”. The wave sheaf is offered on Sunday, during the following seven days after the Passover.

In contrast, Easter is also celebrated on Sunday, during a full moon, but it is always the first full moon after the spring equinox. Easter Sunday is 49 days before Pentecost Sunday and the Wave Sheaf is 49 days before Pentecost. Therefore, the Jewish Wave Sheaf and Pentecost are sometimes a month later than the Catholic Easter and Pentecost.

TABLE 6. From Exodus to Pentecost and from the Crucifixion to Pentecost
S	M	T	W	T	F		S
				Nisan 1	2		3
4	5	6	7	8	9		10
11	12	13	14 Passover	15 Exodus Holy Day	16 at at Etham		17 at Red Sea
18 Pharaoh dies Wave Sheaf	19	20	21 Last Day Holy Day	22	23		24
25	26	27	28	29	30		Iyar 1
2	3	4	5	6	7		8
9	10	11	12	13	14		15
1^st 7 days of manna	17	18	19	20	21		22
23	24	25	26	27	28		29
Sivan 1	2	3	4	5	6 Pentecost?		7
8 Pentecost - Holy Day	9	10	11	12	13		14
15	16	17	18	19	20		21
22	23	24	25	26	27		28
29	30	Tammuz 1	2	3	4		5
6	7	8	9	10	11		12
13	14	15	16	17	18		19
20	21	22	23	24	25		26
27	28	29	Av 1	2	3		4
5	6	7	8	9	10		11
12	13	14	15	16	17		18
19	20	21	22	23	24		25
26	27	28	29	30	Elul 1		2
3	4	5	6	7	8		9
10	11	12	13	14	15		16
17	18	19	20 New Wine?	21	22		23
24	25	26	27	28	29		Tishri 1
						Trumpets Holy Day
2	3	4	5	6	7		8
9	10 Atonement Holy Day
NOTE: When the Wave Sheaf falls on Sunday, Nisan 18, as in TABLE 6, the word "Sabbath" means the weekly Sabbath, not an annual Sabbath or holy day. Pentecost was celebrated some time in the late spring or the early summer, before the solstice that today falls on June 22 (Ex. xxiii. 10-17, xxxiv. 18). In Deut. xvi. 9 (R. V.), the date is more definitely given: "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. Even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days" (Lev. xxiii. 15, 16). "This would be seven weeks from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing corn."

When the Wave Sheaf was on Sunday, Nisan 15 (as in TABLES 7 & 8), the Jews counted Pentecost from Monday, Nisan 16, from the day after the annual holy Sabbath, and Pentecost fell on Monday, Sivan 6. This likely influenced some today to observe Pentecost on Monday.

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TABLE 7. From Crossing the Jordan to the Wave Sheaf Offering
SUN	MON	TUES	WED	THUR	FRI	SAT
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1^st Month
Nisan
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
		Crossing the Jordan &				PASSOVER Josh 5:11
		Circumcision (Josh 4:19)
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
First Harvest Wave Sheaf Manna ends
Josh 5:11			Seven	Days	Around	Jericho

TABLE 8. The Days of the Weeks & Months When Jerusalem was Surrounded in 70 AD
SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THUR	FRI	SAT
1 1^st yr. of 7 1^st month (new moon) 7 yrs. begin	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14 Passover at evening Romans Surround Jerusalem
15 Wave Sheaf Offering… Jerusalem Surrounded	16 First	17 Seven	18 days of	19 Surrounding	20 Jerusalem	21

TABLE 9. Jewish Revision from Exodus to Pentecost
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				Nisan 1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14 Passover	15^1 Exodus Holy Day	16^2 Wave Sheaf?	17^3 at Red Sea
18^4 Pharaoh dies Wave Sheaf	19^5	20^6	21^7 Last Day Holy Day	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	Iyar 1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	30^th day of unleavened bread
1^st 7 days of manna	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Sivan 1	2	3	4	5	6 Pentecost?	7
8 Pentecost	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	Tammuz 1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	Av 1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	Elul 1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20 New Wine?	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	Tishri 1 Trumpets
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10 Atonement

Spring and Fall Fulfillments Interrelated

Next we find evidence of spring events being applied to the fall.

As said, on the 10^th day of the first new year, in the spring, the Israelites were to begin counting sabbaticals & jubilees (Josh 4:19; Lev 25:2-9). And yet, the jubilee was not announced until the 10^th day of the seventh month, after exactly 48.5 years, in the fall of the 49^th year (7^th sabbatical), the jubilee was to be announced on the day of Atonement (Lev 25:9).

Following the feast of Tabernacles, on the Last Great Day, Christ claimed to be the fulfillment of the temple that brings forth a river of living water, which Apostle John said would actually be fulfilled almost a year later, on the day of Pentecost (John 7:1, 37-39). Perhaps Christ was implying that he would make his tabernacle by dwelling in his church on and after the day of Pentecost, in and after 31 AD.

TABLE 10. Second Jewish Revision from Exodus to Pentecost
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
				Nisan 1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14 Passover	15^1 Exodus Holy Day	16^2 at Etham	17^3 at Red Sea
18^4 Pharaoh dies Wave Sheaf	19^5	20^6	21^7 Last Day Holy Day	22 Wave Sheaf	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30	Iyar 1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
1^st 7 days of manna	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Sivan 1	2	3	4	5	6 Pentecost?	7
8 Pentecost	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	Tammuz 1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	Av 1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	Elul 1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20 New Wine?	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	Tishri 1 Trumpets
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10 Atonement
NOTE: "Sabbath" means "festival," or the seventh day of Passover (seventh day of Unleavened Bread), which is on Nisan 21, regardless of which day of the week. This is the view of is the Syriac version of Lev. xxiii. 11, 15, the Book of Jubilees (Jubilees, xvi. 1, xliv. 4 (c. 135 B.C.), and the Falashas of Abyssinia. Therefore, the Wave Sheaf or "day after the Sabbath" is on the 22d of Nisan, and Pentecost (the Feast of Weeks) thus falls on Siwan 12. This view does not indicate the Jews were trying to deny a resurrection on Sunday morning, in 31 AD.

TABLE 11. Jewish Revision of Exodus to Pentecost (matches the Roman Invasion of Jerusalem in 70 AD)
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
Nisan 1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10 Israel over Jordan River & Circumcism	11	12	13 Passover Eve	14 Passover at Jericho Holy Day
15^1	16^2	17^3	18^4	19^5	20^6	21^7 Jericho’s
Wave Sheaf Manna ends						Walls fall down
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30	Iyar 1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	28
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	Sivan 1	2	3	4
5 Pentecost Holy Day	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	Tammuz 1	2
3	4	5	6	7	8	9
10	11	12	13	14	15	16
17	18	19	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	Av 1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	Elul 1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20 New Wine?
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	Tishri 1 Trumpets Holy Day	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10 Atonement Holy Day

Note below [3] Note below [4]

The Jews only knew that the Passover was a memorial of the Israelites exodus from Egypt, and they are still looking for the coming of their Messiah. They were unable to understand how the Messiah would fulfill the day of Atonement on the Passover.

Likewise, they only knew that Pentecost was when the Law was written on stone after the exodus from Egypt. They were unable to understand how the feast of Tabernacles would be fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, when the Messiah would enter into our earthly tabernacles and dwell with mankind, in the members of his body who had the Law written on their hearts.

Hebrew Roots “Awakening”

The important point is that, after “that evil generation at the exodus” in the time of Joshua, the next generation was allowed to enter the promised land. Likewise, “that evil generation” at the Crucifixion died in a spiritual wilderness for 40 years. They were only circumcised in the flesh. They were blinded.

If the Jews are still patiently awaiting the first coming of their Messiah, how can they possibly believe the day of Atonement was fulfilled on the Passover (Mat 27:51) culminating with the Resurrection on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering? (Heb 9:12)

Nevertheless, they remain hopeful for a “new dispensation”, the arrival of their Messiah with a new, third temple, daily sacrifices (Ezekiel 43 and Zechariah 14) and the end of the present, allegedly temporary Christian era.

They were blinded, and another generation, converts of all nations circumcised in the heart, was being groomed to replace them.

Hope for a Third Temple

One can worship in a temple, observe the holy days commanded by Moses and still not accept the Messiah. Devout Jews of the first century would travel (or send thousands of books) to the ends of the earth to make one proselyte to drag back into temple worship, sacrificing animals during the new moons and holy days and continue asking for healing and other blessings without going through Christ (Mat 23:15).

Even today some view the Christian era as merely a temporary “dispensation” that will end 6,000 years after Adam and then will be replaced with temple worship and sacrificing animals for 1,000 years.

Readers need to think outside the box and consider alternative views and a whole new paradigm.

Today’s “prophecy buffs” falsely claim the “third temple” is the one in Ezekiel’s vision (Ezek 40-48) or the one described throughout Zechariah. Since the first temple was destroyed in 587 BC. Ezekiel’s version of a second temple was designed to accommodate all 12 tribes if they all actually returned. It was conditional because it depended upon all 12 tribes repenting and returning to God, as foretold by Solomon who built the temple (I Kings 8:46-50). Both Ezekiel’s and Zechariah’s second temples required sacrificial offerings, which are anti-Christian (Heb 9:12).

Nevertheless, these second temples are commonly called “the third temple” because they, allegedly, were to replace the second temple destroyed in 70 AD. This view would allow sacrificial offerings before, during and perhaps even after Christ’s future return.

The rationale is that the feet of the Messiah have not split the mount of Olives in half to allow waters flowing from the temple to reach the desert east of Jerusalem. All nations have not come to Jerusalem to keep the feast of Tabernacles.

Christ’s ascension Bethany, the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, not the Mount of Olives (http://home.zipworld.com.au/~hwj/P14-Bethany-Ascension.pdf).

The disciples departed afterwards, reached the Mount of Olives by sundown, which was a Sabbath’s day journey from Jerusalem. Zechariah 14 is about the Father, the LORD, coming to the Mount of Olives with vengeance… not a peaceful return of Christ.

Nations Returning with Jewish Exiles

It becomes obvious that Zechariah speaks of during the second temple.

Zechariah 8:21-23 says nations will come to worship at Jerusalem, and ten men will return with each Jew. Zechariah 14:16 says that all nations, which had fought against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year and observe the feast of Tabernacles. If this included all nations, Jerusalem would be too small.

It is hard to explain how every person in every nation could, otherwise, fit into Jerusalem to keep the feast of Tabernacles. By saying that only representatives of all nations will do this is just an interpretation, right? “Representatives” could also just as easily be rendered as “proselytes”, “lost sheep” or “Jews” dispersed throughout all nations, those going back to Jerusalem to keep the feast during the second temple. Zechariah 8:23 says that even others would return with them.

In Zechariah 14, the Lamb had conquered “the Babylonian Empire”, “all nations” or “Babylon the Great” and had gathered his elect from all nations to Jerusalem (Jn 4:21-26; Rom 8:14-16, 23; Col 1:25-27), but not all tribes returned at that time.

Likewise, in the first century, Jews, proselytes or lost sheep “out of every nation under heaven” came to Jerusalem, and those who welcomed Peter’s message and were baptized became the new tabernacle of God on the day of Pentecost, on Sunday. The Higher Realm, that is, the Holy Spirit, descended to earthly human temples to dwell with mankind.

Likewise, the Law had been written on stone at Mt. Sinai, on the day of Pentecost, creating the “church in the wilderness” in the time of Moses. There was an old covenant wilderness church and a new covenant church, a former rain and a latter rain (Zech 10:1).

Again, this is just an interpretation, right? But those who deny this fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles on Pentecost are much like those who deny that Christ has come during the first century to fulfill the day of Atonement once and for all by going behind the veil with his own blood after the Passover, on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering, on Sunday.

After crossing the Jordan, the Passover was observed on the 14^th day, and, on the 15^th day (Sunday morning), Joshua first reaped his captured grain, offered his first of firstfruits, and the manna ceased to be provided. From the 15^th to the 21^st day, Joshua met the Captain of the Lord’s host, marched around Jericho seven days with seven trumpets (Josh 6:4). Jericho fell after the Sabbath, after the 21^st day. This conquest is reflected in Revelation 15:6 (compare Exodus 14:27 and Rev 15:3).

The Jewish religion is a memorial of their history, which is reflected in feasts and holy days. Their exodus from Egypt was after the Passover. Their seven days of Unleavened Bread are a memory of eating unleavened bread for 30 days as they quickly fled into the wilderness and crossed the Red Sea.

Since the manna began on Sunday, the Passover exodus was 30 days earlier, on Wednesday that year, and they reached the Red Sea on the third day, on Saturday. Therefore, it is likely that they went through the Red Sea on Saturday night, and the Pharaoh drowned at sunrise, on Sunday morning (Ex 14:27).

After a Wednesday Passover, the Israelites left Egypt on the 15^th day of the first month, and reached the Red Sea on the third day (of unleavened bread). They went through the sea at about sundown, and the armies of the Pharaoh drowned at sunrise, Sunday morning (Ex 14:27), on the day, which would later become the Wave Sheaf Offering. The 15^th day of the second month was followed by the first week of manna before the first Sabbath in the wilderness (http://code251.com/myths.html).

Israel’s last enemy, death, was defeated. Very likely, the Pharaoh drowned on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering, on Sunday morning, at sunrise, during the exodus (Ex 14:27). He and his armies were cast down.

Likewise, on the Passover, Christ went behind the veil with his own blood to fulfill the day of Atonement, and the Scapegoat, perhaps representing Satan, the Pharaoh or the “prince of this world”, was led into a barren wilderness to fulfill the fall festival called Atonement.

Trumpets and Atonement are the next holy days after Pentecost.

After those first 30 days of unleavened bread, they ate manna for 20 days until Pentecost, when the Law was given at Mt. Sinai on the 50^th day, on Pentecost. Pentecost was to be a spring observance, which could never occur in the summer (after June 21 today). So there are 90 days of no feasts until Trumpets on the first day of the seventh month and Atonement on the 10^th day, and Tabernacles on the 15^th day.

Therefore, here is a mystery. The Israelites observed the Passover and Pentecost seasons. Next we find Solomon dedicating the temple centuries later and celebrated seven days plus seven extra days in the fall. If this fulfills the feast of Tabernacles, then what fulfilled the feasts of Trumpets and Atonement?

Context of the Wave Sheaf

Pharaoh likely drowned on the day that would later be known as the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering (http://code251.com/myths.html). It is also the day when Christ first appeared after his resurrection.

How are these events related to the day of Atonement? On Atonement, there were two goats set apart. One was publicly sacrificed, and the other, the scapegoat, Azazel (perhaps representing Satan, the prince of this world or perhaps the Pharaoh), privately carried the sins of Israel into a wilderness.

For 40 years, that evil generation of the exodus remained in a wilderness until that generation died.

For 40 years, that evil generation of the crucifixion died was driven out or replaced after 70 AD.

For 40 years after the crucifixion, on each day of Atonement in the fall, the high priest cast two lots, one marked “for the Lord” and one marked for Azazel. The High Priest shook the vessel containing the lots, reached in and pulled out the same lot marked for Azazel. The odds this would happen just by chance are one chance in a trillion (equal to 1x2x3x4x5x6x7, etc. to x40).

Second Temple Context of Ezekiel 43 and Zechariah 14

The first temple was burned in 587 BC, and Ezekiel was shown a vision of its replacement, what the next temple would be like if all 12 tribes of Israel repented and returned to Jerusalem (Ezek 43:3-11). There would be an altar for daily sacrificing of bulls, goats, and rams (Ezek 43:15-25).

Likewise, in Zechariah 14, the new temple had been completed, and converts, representatives, proselytes or lost sheep of all nations must be permitted to go to Jerusalem to keep the feast of Tabernacles (Zech 14:16).

The prophet Daniel adds other details to the second temple period. In the time of Antiochus IV of Syria, sacrificial offerings were abolished before Hanukkah for 1290 days (Josephus, Antiquities, allows 1296 days), actually, from Kisvev 25 to Kislev 25, for exactly three years, on the day after the second temple was founded (Hag 2:10, 18, 20). The altar was rededicated and offerings were resumed (Dan. 8:13; 12:11; I Macc 1:54,59; 4:52-54).

According to Frederick Coulter, Christ was conceived (not born) during a month when Hanukkah was on December 25. 5 BC (Kislev 25) (A Harmony of the Gospels in Modern English, p. 14), and several customs Jews observed on Hanukkah were later practiced during the Christmas season, but there were only eight days of Hanukkah.

The King of Zion would come to Jerusalem riding on a donkey and pulling a colt (Zech 9:9), would eventually be sold for 30 pieces of silver (11:12-13) and would be pierced (12:10), his sheep scattered (13:7), and he would later be resurrected.

He would stand on the Mount of Olives (14:4), and living waters would flow “from the temple” into the Mediterranean sea and into the Dead sea (Zech 14:4; Ezek 47:1), the desert was to blossom, and the dead were to be resurrected.

Christ’s ascension was from Bethany, the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, not the Mount of Olives (http://home.zipworld.com.au/~hwj/P14-Bethany-Ascension.pdf). The disciples departed afterwards and reached the Mount of Olives by sundown, which was a Sabbath’s day journey from Jerusalem.

Zechariah 14 is about the Father, the LORD, coming to the Mount of Olives with vengeance… not a peaceful return of Christ.

Because this is taken literally, many Jews of New York pay up to one million dollars to be buried at the Mount of Olives, where Zechariah and Malachi are buried.

Another interpretation is that Christ is the fulfillment of the Temple of Zechariah 14. He is the Rock that issued water in the wilderness (I Cor 10:4; Jn 7:37; Rev 22:1). He is the resurrection (Jn 11:25). Out from his temple and his followers’ temples “shall flow rivers of living waters” (Jn 7:37-38) because his Spirit resides in their tabernacles. This should not be surprising since Christ is also the fulfillment of the manna from heaven, the serpent on a stake taking away the “sting of death”, and the Tree of Life.

Christ did not likely expect the Mount of Olives to literally split in half during the second temple period. He expected water to flow from the temples of his apostles.

“Time of the End” for the Second Temple, the Old Covenant

These events of Zechariah 14 are during the second temple and the founding of the church.

In 70 AD, the temple was burned 1335 days after Hanukkah of 66 AD (Dan. 12:12). These days were likely a continuation of the 1290 days before Hanukkah of 164 BC, when sacrifices were cut off, after Antiochus set up “the abomination”. This supports Christ’s statement that the “time of the end” is when armies would surround Jerusalem in 70 AD (Lk 21:20), after the abomination was to be set up as “spoken of by Daniel the prophet (whoever reads, let him understand)” (Dan 9:27; Mat 24:15). Moreover, Titus and his Roman soldiers had entered the Holy Place of the temple in 70 AD (Josephus, Wars, 6.4.7).

A common view is that the church was founded on Pentecost, and then the next festivals skip 70 AD to when the feast of Trumpets will allegedly be fulfilled 2,000 years later. 70 AD is much more important!

The first 40 years after the church was founded are called “the formative years”, that is, a period of transition from the temple worship into the Christian era. As when Joshua crossed the Jordan, the Jews began to count the sabbaticals from after 69-70 AD.

From this perspective, Jesus would likely have understood the 1335 days if he had preexisted in the Higher Realm (Jn 1:1-2;) and was possibly the same man in white linen with a golden girdle (Dan 10:5; Rev 1:11-13) who had spoken to Daniel (Dan 12:11-12) about the “last 1260 days”, 1290 days and the 1335 days

Christ quoted Daniel saying the “time of the end”, or perhaps the end of the second temple (Mk 13:1-4), is when armies would surround Jerusalem (in 70 AD) (Mk 13:14; Dan 12:12).

Perhaps not by coincidence, the temple burned 1335 days after the Jews had celebrated Hanukkah for eight days in 66 AD, and it “just happened” that Nero assigned his General Vespasion to begin attacking the Jews 1260 days before the temple was burned on Av 9-10, in 70 AD (Dan 12:7).

The Seventh Trumpet and 3½ Years

In Revelation 10:5-6, John had a vision of “the seventh angel” telling him to eat a little book and go prophesy to the nations. Next there is an angel measuring the temple and two witnesses prophesying to Judah and her surrounding nations for 42 months or 1260 days (Rev 11:1-3).

When does this happen? When is the seventh trumpet? It doesn’t say. It merely cross-references with two witnesses in the days of Haggai and Zechariah, in 520 BC. Why would they be related?

>The two witnesses in Zechariah prophesied for 3½ years, from just after the feast of Tabernacles of 520 BC until the second temple was finished just before the Passover of 516 BC. This makes 3½ years. Likewise, the two witnesses in Revelation 11 also prophesy for 3½ years.

>Zechariah 2:2 and Revelation 11:1 speak of the same event, i.e., measuring the temple just before the two witnesses.

>Zechariah 4:11-12 and Revelation 11:4 both speak of the two witnesses being “two olive trees” next to seven candlesticks.

Therefore, this suggests that the seventh trumpet events are related to what happened after the temple was founded in 520 BC, and these events would last 3½ years. Their message to Judea and surrounding nations lasted 3½ years.

The proper context is that Darius of Persia, in his second year, decreed that he would allow the temple to be measured and to be rebuilt (Rev 11:1; Ezra 4:24). The rebuilding of the temple around the altar had been stopped prior to the decree (Ezra 4:24). This implies that some of Revelation is about this second temple down to 70 AD, when it was destroyed, and Daniel 12 says there would be periods of 3½ years (12:7), 1290 days (12:11) and 1335 days (12:12) during this time.

Revelation Prior to 70 AD?

Googling for "144,000 in Revelation" produces 56,200 hits. Why so much variety? One version would be just fine! Perhaps 99% of these are reading the subject out of context. What is the proper context?

Of course, it was written in the first century, but Irenaeus is given credit for setting the date. However, upon close examination, he was ambiguous in dating the apostle John’s visions. He said, “For (John or John’s book or John’s vision) was seen not very long ago, but almost in our day, towards the end of Domitian’s reign” (Saint Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses 5, 30, 3). Domitian’s reign ended September 18, 96.

This could mean that John’s visions were much earlier, even before the temple burned in 70 AD, and that it was John, himself, that was seen up to the time of Domitian, in about 98 AD. One cannot be too careful about what others say Irenaeus actually said. There may be an ulterior, hidden motive. Those saying Revelation was written for today will, of course, say it was written in about 98 AD.

Context of Crowning Joshua and Rebuilding the Temple

Obviously, Zechariah was speaking of the context of the second temple when he spoke of Joshua being the priest needing new white linen garments for duties in the new temple (3:1-3) or when he said “all nations” would come to Jerusalem to keep the feast of tabernacles (14:16). (Perhaps these should have returned with “the redeemed of all nations”.) What is usually overlooked in Ezekiel 43 and Zechariah 14 is the context of the second temple, when sacrifices and fleshpots were still being made (14:20-21).

In Zechariah 8:3 the Lord said, “I am returned to Zion (Jerusalem)”. This was in the fourth year of Darius (518 BC), 70 years after Jerusalem fell in 587 BC (Zech 7:1-5). He would, thereafter, strike all nations that come against Jerusalem (12:9) (14:12). This precipitated the vision of sending the four horsemen from the Higher Realm towards the nations surrounding Judah to calm them down and to warn them to let those returning from Babylon (Zech 6:8) live in peace while rebuilding the temple and while crowning Joshua as high priest (Zech 6:11). Judah’s perpetual enemies forming a confederacy are listed in Psalms 83:4-8 (Jeremiah 27:3 & II Kings 24:2)… Edomites, Ishmaelites, Hagarites, Moabites, Ammonites, Amalekites, Philistines, Phoenicians of Tyre, children of Lot with the Assyrians. Their governors at times belonged to Egypt, at other times to the king of the north. Cambyses, son of Cyrus, had caused the rebuilding to cease until the second year of Darius.

Zechariah 14 is an Old Covenant scenario where Israel’s enemies would bow in fear of their Lord and honor his new temple. Ezekiel’s New Jerusalem had the same context, when sacrifices and fleshpots were still being made. This vision was fulfilled partially after 520 BC since all 12 tribes had not returned.

Context of Another Joshua

Obviously, the “four horsemen” of Revelation 6:1-8 are referring to the “four horses” of Zechariah 6:1-6. These are seen immediately after unlocking the First Seal of the book introduced in Revelation 5:1, after a “Lamb” (or “Son of God”, Dan 3:25) has redeemed his people from every nation throughout the Babylonian Empire, thanks to Cyrus, and begins to reign on the earth (Rev 5:6-10). He had returned to Jerusalem in 518 BC (Zech 8:3). The horsemen had calmed the hostile nations surrounding Judea, such as, Edomites, Ishmaelites, Hagarites, Moabites, Ammonites, Amalekites, Philistines, Phoenicians of Tyre, and children of Lot with the Assyrians.

Some assert that Joshua is the Hebrew name of Jesus. This would explain why Zechariah’s message for the second temple also included future events of the first century, such as, the King of Zion coming to Jerusalem riding on a donkey and pulling a colt (9:9) and being sold for 30 pieces of silver (11:12) and, “in that day”, standing on the Mount of Olives (14:4), and living waters flowed from Christ and his followers, from their tabernacles. “…out of his belly shall flow rivers of living waters” (Jn 7:37-38). The context is the second temple and the founding of the church.

Again, Christ’s ascension was from Bethany, the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, not the Mount of Olives. The disciples departed afterwards, reached the Mount of Olives by sundown, which was a Sabbath’s day journey from Jerusalem:

(http://home.zipworld.com.au/~hwj/P14-Bethany-Ascension.pdf).

Zechariah 14 is about the Father, the LORD, coming to the Mount of Olives with vengeance… not a peaceful return of Christ.

Other evidence of the second temple context is the fact that letters in the name of “Nero Caesar” counted to 666, as found in Revelation 13:18. Nero Caesar = NRON KSR (in Greek).

N=50, R=200, O=6, N=50, K=100, S=60, R=200. These total 666 (Rev. 13:18). Herod, the “dragon”, tried to kill the Christ-child in Bethlehem (Rev. 12:3-5) and received his power from the Caesars, the “beast” (Rev 13:2). The beast came into Judah from the sea, from Rome (13:1), from 28 to 31 AD, for 3½ years and from 66 to 70 AD, during “the last 3½ years”. Jerusalem was responsible for the blood of the saints (Rev 17:6; Mat 23:35). Herod’s Jerusalem and Rome were allies. The dragon and the beast were allies. The Emperor, Nero, burned Rome. His army burned Jerusalem (Rev 17:14-16). Josephus said that, while the Romans were seizing Jerusalem in 70 AD, the east gate, which had taken 20 men to close, opened by itself (Wars of the Jews, 6.5.293). Only the Messiah was to use the east gate (Ezek 44:1-3).

The Messiah According to Haggai and Zechariah

Haggai said the Messiah would visit the second temple (Hag 2:6-9) (Lk 2:27-32).

Haggai said the Messiah would be a descendant of Zerubbabel (Hag 2:23) (Lk 3:23-27).

Zechariah said the Messiah would be a priest and king (Zech 6:12-13) (Heb 8:1).

Zechariah said the Messiah would be greeted in Jerusalem (Zech 9:9) (Mat 21:8-10).

Zechariah said the Messiah would bring salvation (Zech 9:9) (Lk 19:10).

Zechariah said the Messiah would be come to Jerusalem riding a donkey (Zech 9:9) (Mat 21:6-9).

Zechariah said the Messiah would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver (Zech 11:12-13) (Mat 26:14).

Zechariah said the 30 pieces would be thrown into the temple (Zech 11:12-13) (Mat 27:3-5).

Zechariah said the Messiah would be pierced (Zech 12:10; 13:7) (John 19:34-37).

Zechariah said the Messiah would die for mankind (Zech 13:7) (Jn 18:11

Zechariah said the Jews would be scattered after rejecting the Messiah (Zech 13:7) (Mat 26:31-56).

Note that these cover what would happen during the second temple. Therefore, it is likely that sacrificing and observing the feast of Tabernacles in Zechariah 14 were during the second temple. “In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you” (Zech 8:23). This is the true beginning of the Christian era (Acts 2:5; Zech 14:16).

The Passover, the Sunday Wave Sheaf Offering and Sunday Pentecost

Exodus was after the Passover, after the 14^th day of the first month, and the Israelites crossed the Red Sea after the third day in the wilderness, the night after what would become the weekly Sabbath, and the Pharaoh drowned early Sunday morning, on the day which would later become known as the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering when they reached the promised land.

They ate unleavened bread 30 days, until the 15^th day of the second month, and began receiving the first week of manna after the Sabbath, early Sunday morning.

Three days before Pentecost, they reached Mt. Sinai where the Law was written on stone, and created the Old Covenant to become the church in the wilderness.

They ate manna forty years, until the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering, on Sunday, the 15^th day of the first month, in the Promised Land. This was the day after a Sabbath and also the day after the Passover. Joshua and his armies immediately laid siege against Jericho during the next seven days of Unleavened Bread. Jericho fell on the last day of Unleavened Bread.

The day of Atonement was partially fulfilled when the Messiah came in the flesh and died on the Passover. On the Passover, he fulfilled the office of the High Priest going behind the temple veil with a blood offering, which was usually done on the day of Atonement. Sacrificing is no longer required. The Scapegoat, the Pharaoh and death were taken out of the way when Christ was resurrected on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering. Atonement was fulfilled on the Passover and on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering.

The feast of Tabernacles was initially fulfilled when the Messiah returned to the Higher Realm and descended on the day of Pentecost (as the Holy Spirit) to become the Head of the New Covenant Church, to dwell in human tabernacles, to dwell with mankind. Thus, Tabernacles in the Christian era was initially fulfilled on Pentecost, when the Church was founded.

Jews since the first century were unable to understand how the feast of Tabernacles would be fulfilled when the Messiah would enter into our earthly tabernacles and dwell with mankind on the day of Pentecost, after 31 AD because, allegedly, their Messiah has not arrived yet. However, they seem to have accepted Revelation 20, in a Christian book, about the 1,000-year reign of the Messiah, which will allegedly begin in 2240 AD (6,000 years after 3761 BC). Perhaps they need the 1,000-years as a fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles.

Avoiding Mere Speculation

The main focus here has been on what has actually happened down through the second temple and does not address any issues regarding latter day fulfillment.

The significance of having these initial fulfillments on Sunday deserves further research. Christ first appeared after his resurrection, on the day of the Wave Sheaf Offering, on Sunday. The New Covenant was on Pentecost, when the Spirit descended to human tabernacles, on Sunday.

Does this have any significance at all? More research is needed.

Some will mention the “man of sin” sitting in the temple claiming to be God when Christ returns, which, by interpretation, is the “third temple” existing during the 1,000 years (II Thes 2:3-4).

Others will ask about the fulfillment of the Feast of Trumpets and the Last Great Day after Tabernacles.

Others will say the Mount of Olives has not split in half, and water has not flowed from the temple to make the deserts blossom and to heal the Dead Sea.

Again, Christ’s ascension was from Bethany, the home of Mary, Martha and Lazarus, not the Mount of Olives. The disciples departed afterwards, reached the Mount of Olives by sundown, which was a Sabbath’s day journey from Jerusalem:

(http://home.zipworld.com.au/~hwj/P14-Bethany-Ascension.pdf).

Zechariah 14 is about the Father, the LORD, coming to the Mount of Olives with vengeance… not a peaceful return of Christ.

Others will say that the Lamb, the son of Man, the Messiah has not conquered Babylon the Great and drawn his elect from “every nation under heaven” and does not yet rule the lower realm from his higher throne causing kingdoms to rise and fall.

The exodus, first covenant, fall of Jericho, crucifixion and new covenant are almost tangible evidence of how the Holy Days have been fulfilled historically; whereas, alleged future fulfillments are much more illusive.

Joshua 5:10-12	Passover	Saturday the 14^th of Nisan
Joshua 5:10-12	Wave Sheaf	Sunday the 15^th of Nisan “The morrow after the Passover”
Lev. 23:5-8 Lev. 23:15-16	Wave Sheaf Wave Sheaf Pentecost	Sunday “The morrow after the Sabbath” Sunday during the first full moon of the year Sunday after the 7^th Sabbath after the Wave Sheaf

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[1] The Israelites reached the wilderness of Sin on Friday, the 15^th of the second month where instructions were given for collecting manna during the following week.[1] They had reached Mt. Sinai in the third month, on the same week day in which they had left Egypt (Ex. 19:1), and they were to be ready on the third day, on Sunday, on the day of Pentecost, for God to appear on Mt. Sinai (Ex. 19:11, 15, 16).

[2] By comparing the above tables, there is an obvious parallel between the exodus of Moses’ time and the second exodus of the first century. One is for founding the old covenant church in the wilderness on the day of Pentecost, and one is for founding the new covenant church on the day of Pentecost. In the former, the Pharaoh drowns, and, in the latter, our final enemy, death, is defeated. In the former, the law is written on stone tablets; in the latter, the law is written on our hearts.

[3] There is an obvious parallel between the exodus in the time of Moses and the second exodus of the first century (after the Crucifixion). One is for founding the old covenant church in the wilderness on the day of Pentecost , and one is for founding the new covenant church on the day of Pentecost. In the former, the Pharaoh drowns, and, in the latter, our final enemy, death, is defeated. In the former, the law is written on stone tablets; in the latter, the law is written on our hearts.

[4] The Israelites reached the wilderness of Sin on Friday, the 15^th of the second month where instructions were given for collecting manna during the following week.[4] They had reached Mt. Sinai in the third month, on the same week day in which they had left Egypt (Ex. 19:1), and they were to be ready on the third day, on Sunday, on the day of Pentecost, for God to appear on Mt. Sinai (Ex. 19:11, 15, 16).