Divine Appointments and Obedience to God

In Leviticus 23:1-2, these are the feasts I just showed you. We'll read this scripture quickly. It says, "It is written, 'And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'The divine appointments of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals, these are My divine appointments.'"'"

So, I put in the true understanding of those. Normally, it would say, "the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations. These are My feasts." I just put in the accurate words according to the Hebrew. And look at what it says now: "The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, "The divine appointments of Adonai, which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals. These are My divine appointments."'"

So, my friends, whose divine appointments are these? Whose feast days are these? Are these the Jewish people's? No, they're not. Are these the Christians'? No, they're not. These are Yah's days only, His, that He gave to the Jewish people, the children of Israel, to give to us. So, we've got to get this right. This is His calendar and His days, for His Messiah to fulfill perfectly. Yes, they are Jewish, but we've got to look at it: they are God's first, that He gave to our Jewish friends to give to all of us, because that was the proper order that He wanted.

So, let's really understand that. It's super important to realize these things with a proper understanding of them. So, why does He call them dress rehearsals? That's the Hebrew understanding of it. "Holy convocations" is in the English. But why are they called dress rehearsals? Well, it's just like if you invited me to your wedding and you wanted me to be the best man, and I went to the wedding, but I didn't go to the dress rehearsal. Well, if I didn't go to the dress rehearsal, then I would look like a fool at your wedding because everybody would be in alignment but me. I would be the one out of alignment.

Well, it's the same thing with Him. We're all engaged to Him when we said yes to Him for salvation. We're going to marry Him on the feast days. So, don't you think it's a good idea to be at the dress rehearsals? I do. I mean, I personally do. Because you know how many people take the wedding of their best friend or their family very seriously, which they should. Well, why aren't we taking His wedding seriously? Too many Christians are not taking the wedding seriously. They're not taking the engagement seriously either, because they're thinking, "I've got the hyper-grace to do whatever I want, and then He's going to marry me." Well, how do you know He's not going to give you a Matthew 22 moment and say, "Who are you? How did you get in here with a different garment on? Bind him or her up and cast them out with weeping and gnashing of teeth and all these things." Why wouldn't He say that to any one of us?

We've got to understand these things. This is very serious. We read it in Revelation 19:11-16. The Word of God is on His thigh. That's who He is. He's the Word. So, we've got to understand that and we've got to really receive that and understand that, because there are too many Christians out there, "I love Jesus," when they have no idea what this means or how to worship Him in spirit and in truth, because they're not taught that, or they don't care.

So, again, spirit and truth. Everybody, on the Feast of Trumpets, on Judgment Day, it's only going to be me and Him. My pastor, my preacher, my priest, my rabbi, my whatever that I hold onto on earth will not be there with me holding my hand. It will be me and Him. You and Him. And He's going to ask you, "Why didn't you worship Me?" Or, "Congratulations, good and faithful servant." But if you don't, "Why didn't you worship Me on the day that I was crucified for you? Passover, not Good Friday. Why didn't you worship Me on the Day of Atonement? Why didn't you worship Me on Shavuot? Why didn't you worship Me on Tabernacles? Dwell among men."

We've got to get educated, my friends. Because I say this every video: knowledge, knowledge, knowledge. Because why? "My people perish for lack of faith." No. "My people perish for lack of wisdom." No. "My people perish for lack of knowledge." We've got to have knowledge, and we've got to obey. And if we don't obey, go read the Bible, Genesis to Revelation. When people get out of alignment in the Bible, it's the gavel, man. And that did not change after Yeshua. It did not. We've got to realize that He will bring the gavel if we do not worship Him the right way.

And I love everybody to say that right now, because one day it's just going to be us. No one with you, no one with me. And He's going to ask you, "Spirit and truth." The spirit and truth. I don't know what He's going to ask you. But wouldn't you think He would ask you that if we're not in alignment with Him? "Why didn't you worship Me, Chadwick? Spirit and truth." We've got to really understand this, because time is getting nigh. There is no excuse for this generation. Zero excuse for this generation to worship Him in the craziness that we're seeing out there. There's no excuse for that.

This is the age of knowledge. The internet is a beautiful thing if you use it the right way to research these things out. No other generation was able to do that. But our generation, we're fortunate. Or we'd all be on church on Sunday, Christmas trees, and Easter eggs, if it wasn't for the internet, because we can search this stuff out and see all the craziness that our ancestors have done. We've got to repent of that and break that off of us, because there's nothing but bad stuff that goes along with worshiping on these pagan days.

But my friends, this is really beautiful if you receive it. If you love Yeshua and if you love the Father in heaven, this is for you. These are your feast days to worship on as well. "And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel.'" Let me stop there, my friends. You are a child of Israel. How do we know that? Go to Galatians 3:26-29 and see what Paul said. What did Paul say? "If you are a seed of Christ, amen to that. You are a seed of Abraham. How amazing. And you are heirs according to the promise." What promise? The Abrahamic covenant.

So, my friends, again, if you're a seed of Abraham, you're a seed of Isaac. You're a seed of Jacob, whose name changed to Israel. So, there's no escaping following the Lord because of people trying to wiggle their way out. "Oh, I'm not a Jew. I'm not an Israelite." Yes, you are. If you believe in Yeshua, the Messiah, you are Israel. Or you better hope you're part of Israel, the kingdom of Israel, because that's what He's coming to restore. Acts 1:6-7: the one new body, the one new man.

So, we've got to really understand this. This is not just a Jew thing. This is for whoever loves Yahw and Yeshua, which everybody says they do. But again, we've got to understand to worship Him in spirit and in truth, because He says this in John 14:15: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments." That's what He says. Very simple. John 14:15. And then He just, please keep reading John 14:15, chapter 15. He talks about He and His Father are one. So, whose commandments? Theirs, all theirs, both of them. They're one. Instead of separating, "What's God's? What's Yah's commandments? What's Yeshua's commandments?" They're all together. Let me go ahead and answer that for you: they're all one. Yeshua didn't speak anything that the Father didn't tell Him. "I am about my Father's business." And then what does He say about the Blessed Holy Spirit? "He will not say anything that doesn't come from the Father and the Son." So, they are one. And all these, which commandments are Jesus's? All of them. He's the Word made flesh. All of them. Mount Sinai, you know.

So, we've got to really just understand proper theology and proper eschatology for our rebellious friends who want to rebel against the Most High and celebrate however they think they want to worship and things like that. It's just going to not be good for those people, in whatever way that may be.

So, I'll read it one more time and we'll continue. "It is written, 'And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, 'The divine appointments of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals, these are My divine appointments."'" Again, these are Yah's divine appointments and no one else's.