Yeshua's Feasts and Divine Appointments

We will be having a "Courts of Heaven" prayer tomorrow at 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time online. We will take bread and wine if you have it and then proceed with prayer. This is a highly anointed time for prayer and fasting. Moses interceded for Israel during this time, and on Yom Kippur, the righteous verdict was rendered. He stood in the gap for his people, not for selfish gain, but out of love for God and the promises of the everlasting covenants. This is a crucial time to intercede for nations, America, Israel, and loved ones, as many nations are out of alignment.

Yeshua fulfilled the first four spring feasts perfectly: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Shavuot. He fulfilled these divine appointments to the exact day, hour, and ceremony. His ultimate sacrifice on the cross fulfilled God's plan of salvation. For His second coming, He will fulfill the remaining feasts: Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and Feast of Tabernacles. He returns on the Feast of Trumpets, restores the kingdom to Israel on Yom Kippur (Acts 1:6-7), and sets up His millennial kingdom on the Feast of Tabernacles.

Leviticus 23:1-2 states, "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.'" God calls them "My feasts," not Israel's or the Jewish people's feasts. They are His divine appointments. The Hebrew word for feast is "moed," meaning a divine appointment or a fixed time. The Hebrew word for holy convocation is "mikra," meaning a dress rehearsal. We are to rehearse these divine appointments because one day heaven and earth will collide. As we blow the trumpets, the angels are also rehearsing for Yeshua's return on the Feast of Trumpets.

Leviticus 23:1-2, in its original Hebrew intent, reads: "Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, 'The divine appointments of Yah, which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals. These are His divine appointments.'" God commands His set-apart people to celebrate and rehearse His divine appointments because He will fulfill them at the appointed time. These are His set-apart times for His people, Jew and Christian, to worship Him in spirit and truth.

Yeshua Himself testified to the importance of the divine appointments in the Torah. In Matthew 5:17-20, He said, "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." He emphasizes that our righteousness must exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, who were breaking God's commandments for their oral traditions. Mark 7 states that worshipping God in vain results from changing His commandments for oral traditions.

To be great in the kingdom of heaven, we must do and teach the commandments, which include God's set-apart divine appointments. These feasts are His ordained statutes for all His set-apart people to experience and proclaim.