Israel’s 7 Apocalyptic Days

What has become known as the “white throne” judgment, perportedly taking place after the 1,000 years, when “the books were opened” is actually time stamped in Daniel 7 to occur in the context of the death of the Antichrist. Conveniently the time stamp is also code worded “the books were opened”—unique to these two references:

Daniel 7:9-11 I watched until thrones were set in place, and the Ancient of Days was seated. His clothing was as white as snow, and the hair on His head was like pure wool. His throne was ablaze with flames, and its wheels were like blazing fire. 10 A river of fire flowed out from before Him. Millions served Him, and one hundred million stood before Him. The court 'convened', and the books were opened. 11 I kept watching due to the boastful voice that the horn [Antimessiah] spoke with—I watched until the wild beast was killed, and its body was destroyed and 'thrown' into the blazing fire.

Revelation 6:17 ...because The Great Day of Their anger has come, and who is able to 'survive' that?” [Isaiah 34:4,8]

Jude ‘1’ 6 He has held the angels who disregarded their prime directive, and abandoned their assigned place with chains [Gr. ‘eternal chains’] in concealed darkness, awaiting the great Judgment Day.

Now that the dead have been judged, those who survived both the Great Tribulation and the Day of the LORD Yehovah will take center stage:

Leviticus 25:13 In the Year of Jubilee everyone can return to their own property.

A Feast of Tabernacles very soon will initiate paradise on earth. During the upcoming Jubilee year the modern day descendants of Israel (all 12 tribes) will enter the land, as should have been done shortly after Moses led Israel out of Egypt! The fulfillment of the Second Exodus is the very purpose of the next Jubilee year. It will be announced on the Day of Atonements in year 49 of the Jubilee cycle, and implemented on Passover (the exact same time frame as the First Exodus: Exodus 12) as the ten horned beast is attacking the antichrist (Revelation 17:16).

Notice in another great description of this Feast that Israel is apparently fleeing danger as Yehovah is descending to earth. But the ten Psalm 83 enemies surrounding Israel will be quickly defeated. There will be an immediate cessation of fighting. The terms of surrender for the survivors of those enemy nations will include their participating in the Jewish Yehovah’s Feast of Tabernacles, beginning to be offered first within the region, like the mustard seed in Matthew 13:31-32:

The Feast of Tabernacles in this final Jubilee year of the 6th millennium marks the pivotal moment in human history when the enemies of peace and even the planet itself (Revelation 11:18) are entirely taken out of the picture, as far as Israel is concerned. No iron dome will be needed in the vastly enlarged territory of the promised land. The twelve tribes, now nation groups will literally fulfill the second illustration of Ezekiel 37. Let’s take a close look at this monumental prophecy. It looks nothing remotely like something that began in 1948! 1948 also has no real resemblance to the Dry Bones prophecy in the first part of the chapter, concerning the same event!

Ezekiel 37:15-20 The Word of Yehovah came to me again. He said: 16 “Human son, take a 'tree' and write on it: ‘Praise Judah and his Israelite companions.’ Then take another 'tree', [the 'scion wood' representing Ephraim] and write on it: ‘Joseph increases, as well as the House of Israel, his companions.’ 17 Then graft them together as if they were one 'tree', and they’ll become one in your hand. 18 When your 'fellow Israelites' ask you, ‘Are you going to tell us what you mean by this’? 19 Tell them, ‘The Sovereign Yehovah says He’ll take the 'scion wood' of Joseph that’s in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions, and 'graft' them onto the 'tree' of Judah, merging them into one 'tree', and they’ll be one in His hand!’ 20 “The 'trees' that you write on will be in your hand where they can see them (See Romans 11:19-24).

The 'Trees' and Bones Explained:

Verses:21-23 Then explain to them: “The Sovereign Yehovah says He’ll take the Israelites from among the nations where they’ve gone, and gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 He’ll make them one nation in the land on the mountains of Israel. One king will be over all of them. They’ll never be two nations or two kingdoms again. 23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols or their detestable things or with any of their rebellion, because He’ll rescue them from everywhere they’ve settled and everywhere they’ve sinned. He’ll cleanse them so they’ll be His people, and He’ll be their Elohim.

Israel Cleansed, King David Ruling

Verses:24-28 “His servant David will be their king, and all of them will have one Shepherd [John 10:11]. They’ll 'live by' His regulations and carefully obey His unchanging tenets. [2] 25 They’ll live in the land that He gave to His servant Jacob, where their ancestors lived. They and their children and their grandchildren will live there forever, and His servant David will be their prince forever. 26 He’ll make a [New] Covenant of peace with them. It will be an EVERLASTING COVENANT [3] with them, and He’ll establish them and increase their numbers, and set His 'Cherished' Place among them forever. 27 His home [New Jerusalem] will also be ABOVE them. He’ll be their Elohim, and they’ll be His people. 28 The nations will know that Yehovah made Israel 'special', when His 'Cherished' Place [Ezekiiel’s 'Temple': chapters 40-47] [4] is among them forever.”

Some people are calling the Feast of Tabernacles “a dress rehearsal for Yeshua’s return.” But that is just a cleaver way of diminishing it’s annual importance! Will it still be some kind of a “rehearsal” for something in these years after They have returned, when He plagues the water supply of whole nations? PS, Yehovah does NOT need nuclear weapons as this link contends!

The lessons begin in earnest at the very first Feast of Tabernacles after yet another crossing of the Jordan River. Yehovah has not lost track of when these years occur:

Deuteronomy 31:10-13 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the specified time in the year of debt cancellation, at the Feast of Tabernacles, 11 when all the Israelites came to appear before Yehovah your Elohim in the place that He has chosen, you’ll read this Torah aloud before all of Israel. 12 Gather the people, the men, women and children, and the aliens within your ‘towns’, so that they can hear and learn and fear Yehovah your Elohim and carefully obey everything written in this Torah. 13 Their children who don’t know [the Torah], will hear and learn to fear Yehovah your Elohim as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan River to possess.

According to Easton’s Revised Bible Dictionary a Tabernacle is:

“A hut made of the branches of a tree. In such tabernacles Jacob sojourned for a season at a place named from this circumstance Succoth #Ge 33:17. Booths were erected also at the feast of Tabernacles (q.v.), #Le 23:42,43, which commemorated the abode of the Israelites in the wilderness.

This very Feast, by virtue of the name Yehovah gave it, pictures residing in a very temporary structure. English synonyms for tabernacle are: “booth”, “cottage” and “crude temporary shelter”. In other words this does not portray our real home or our destination! However, the seven day long Feast of Tabernacles does picture the seven year countdown toward that destination! This is that story.

The Feast of Tabernacles was originally only given to the nation of Israel. While only the first day is a mandatory 'special' [holy] convocation, the entire time is to be a celebration. This is not to imply that the other six days are for typical vacationing.

Leviticus 23:34 Tell the Israelites: “The fifteenth day of this seventh month begins the Feast of Tabernacles lasting for seven days to Yehovah. (Not 8 days: Nehemiah 8:18)

Deuteronomy 16:13-15 You must celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days, after you’ve gathered the produce from your threshing floors and your wine presses. 14 Enjoy yourselves at the Feast with your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, as well as the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows living in your 'towns'. 15 You must celebrate Yehovah your Elohim’s Feast for seven days in the place that Yehovah chooses, because Yehovah your Elohim will bless you, and you’ll prosper in all of the efforts that you ‘undertake’. There will be great joy for everyone.

To ancient Israel, the Feast of Tabernacles clearly commemorated only one thing—deliverance from Egypt upon entering the Promised Land. The significance of this particular Feast was explicitly spelled out when Yehovah first revealed His Feast Day plan to Israel, before they arrived in the Promised Land. Israel was to reflect back on the lessons learned during the Exodus! Note this Scriptural passage, because it tells you what the Feast of Tabernacles represents!

So to repeat: the First Exodus narrative began with the reason for celebrating the Passover:

Exodus 12:26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ 27 Tell them, ‘It’s the Passover zebak [sacrifice] to Yehovah [not some death angel], who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our houses.’” Then the people knelt down and worshiped.

And the First Exodus ended at the fall harvest when Israel crossed the Jordan River and took Jericho:

“The citizens of Jericho were well prepared for a siege. A copious spring which provided water for ancient, as well as modern, Jericho lay inside the city walls. At the time of the attack, the harvest had just been taken in (Joshua 3:15), so the citizens had an abundant supply of food. This has been borne out by many large jars full of grain found in the Canaanite homes by John Garstang in his excavation in the 1930s and also by Kenyon. With a plentiful food supply and ample water, the inhabitants of Jericho could have held out for perhaps several years.

“After the seventh trip around the city on the seventh day, Scripture tells us that the wall “fell down flat” (Joshua 6:20). The Hebrew here carries the suggestion that it “fell beneath itself.”5 Is there evidence for such an event at Jericho? It turns out that there is ample evidence that the mudbrick city wall collapsed and was deposited at the base of the stone retaining wall at the time the city met its end.”

Leviticus 23:39-44 So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you’ve gathered in the crops of the land, celebrate the Feast of Yehovah for seven days. On the first day there will be a Sabbath assembly and on the Eighth Day there will be a Sabbath assembly. 40 On the first day you will take fruit from the best trees, branches from palm trees, boughs from leafy trees and willows from the brooks; and celebrate before Yehovah your Elohim for seven days. 41 You must celebrate this Feast of Yehovah for seven days [not two] every year. It’s a permanent rule to be celebrated in the seventh month [it’s not the last month] from generation to generation. 42 You must live in booths for seven days. Every native born Israelite must live in booths 43 so that coming generations will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am Yehovah your Elohim. 44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed Festivals of Yehovah.

Note that the Feast of Booths/Tabernacles/Sukkot represented the period in history immediately after the Exodus from Egypt, in the wilderness, just before entering the Promised Land. This is very important to us because the latter day Second Exodus from the “North Country” will happen the same way—national captivity, followed by reoccupation of the New Promised Land! Fortunately, the transition to the new “normal” will only take 7 years this time, not 40! In the Festival season when Israel re-occupies their land, temporary accomodations will again be needed—booths (tents)! The land of Israel will be a horrible mess then; manna will be needed. I have many Biblical references to the coming holocaust that I compiled in the hopes of dissuading my Messianic acquaintances from moving to Israel now!

Stated plainly:

Hosea 12:9 I am Yehovah your Elohim who rescued you from the land of Egypt. I’ll force you to live in tents again, just like in the days of the appointed Feast [moed].

In the near future, the modern nations of Israel will look back on another Exodus! The conversations during the Feast of Tabernacles will no longer center on the First Exodus from Egypt. It will look back on the Second Exodus from the North Country!

Jeremiah 23:7-8 That’s why the days are coming,” says Yehovah, “When people will no longer say, ‘As Yehovah lives, who brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.’ 8 Instead, they’ll say, ‘As surely as Yehovah lives, who brought about the 'exodus' of the descendants of the House of Israel from the North Country, and from all the countries where He had banished them.’ They’ll live in their own land!

Jeremiah 16:14-15 uses almost the exact same words in reference to Israel returning “from the land of the north”. But the next verse describes how zealous Yehovah will be in purge out the wicked:

Jeremiah 16:16-18 But now I’ll send out many fishermen,” Yehovah says, “and they’ll catch them, and after that I’ll send out many hunters, and they’ll hunt for them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of fissures in the rocks! 17 I’ll watch everything they do, they won’t hide from Me. Their wickedness won’t avoid My notice. 18 First I’ll doubly compensate their wickedness and their sins, because they’ve polluted My land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and filled My heritage with their highly detestable things.

Some teach that the Feast of Tabernacles represents the Millennial Sabbath—the seventh one thousand year period of time, but the thousand years is only mentioned in Revelation 20, and there is no mention of the Feast of Tabernacles within hundreds of pages! Little is actually stated to occur during this time except that the 'special' ones (saints) have become “priests” who “reign”. Only one other thing is specifically emphasized in the Bible in reference to the Millennial Sabbath. It is the period of time sandwiched between two Satanic rebellions! Not that it is not wonderful and a great blessing, it just doesn’t have the significance of the most importand outcome in human experience!

Revelation 20:4-8 I saw thrones, and those who were seated on them, and judicial authority was given to them, and I saw the bodies of those who were beheaded for THE TESTIMONY OF YESHUA [the ‘NT’] [3] and for THE WORD OF ALOHA [the ‘OT’]. These are the ones who hadn’t worshiped the predatory beast or his icon, nor had they accepted his mark on their forehead or on their hand. They lived and reigned with their Messiah during those thousand years. 5 This is the first resurrection. [4] 6 Blessed and 'chosen' is anyone who has part in this first [or best] [5] resurrection, over them the second death has no influence, but they’ll be priests of Yehovah and of His Messiah, and they’ll reign with Them during the thousand years.

[3] After a long search, I found a link that comes close to my views, other than for Moses, Elijah and John time traveling and the final eight years. [4] Some teach that Yehovah, ‘the LORD” will take His Year out Satan’s seven year long fling (2X 1,260 days), not understanding that the Jubilee year (2032/2033 AD?) always follows a seven year period, (the Shemitah). The Tribulation period accounts for the remaining part of the 70 weeks prophecy of Isaiah 61:1-2. [5] This is a reference to Zechariah 4, verse 11 in particular, equating the seven branched Hebrew “menorah” with the Greek “luchnia.” Both are usually translated as “candle sticks” or “lamp stands.” So while the end of the coming millennium will close out the first millennial week—the only Biblical peculiarity about the “thousand years” in Revelation has to do with Satan being out of the picture! Yet the Kingdom will last at least a thousand generations.

John 6:40 Because My Father wants everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him to have eternal life, and I’ll raise them up on the Last Day.

John 6:39,44,54 And the will of the One who sent Me is that I won’t lose any of those He has given Me, but should raise them up during the Last Day... 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws them. Then I’ll raise them from the dead on the Last Day. ... 54 but anyone who eats My body and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I’ll raise them from the dead on the Last Day.

Martha understood it:

John 11:24 Martha replied, “I know that he’ll rise in the resurrection on the Last Day.

Judgment of those who deliberately rejected Yeshua will also occur on that same “Last Day”:

John 12:45-48 Whoever sees Me sees the One who sent Me. 46 I am the Light who came into the world, so that whoever believes in Me wouldn’t stay in the dark. 47 I won’t judge anyone who hears My words, but doesn’t obey them, because I didn’t come into the world to judge it [this time] [4], but to rescue the world. 48 Those who reject Me and don’t accept My words have something to judge them—the words [5] I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day.

[4] In Acts 17:30-31, Yeshua is shown judging the world. [5] Isaiah 5:24

Perhaps some or all of those who have viciously rejected Yeshua will suffer longer than Judgment Day. As we’ll see below, the High Priest and those who pierced Yeshua are already present when Yeshua returns!

As I understand it, “On the Last Day” the announcement will go out that the “Torah giver” is coming “who can cause you to live, or can destroy you” (James 4:12).

Many teach that the “Last Day” is the “Eighth Day” that follows the Feast of Tabernacles, and they insert a 1,000 year long postponement between the 7th and 8th days. The “Great Day” of the Feast is the greatest day of a multiple day feast, as the term itself indicates, while the “very last Day” is “the Day of Yehovah (the “Lord”)”—Judgment Day.

In essence there are two “Last Days”. There is the seventh Sabbatical year, the seventh Shemitah of the Jubilee cycle (year 49) and then there is the year after that, the actual Jubilee:

Leviticus 25:8-11 You must count off seven Sabbaths of years—seven times seven years, so that the seven Sabbaths of years amounts to a period of forty-nine years. 9 Then you will sound the shofar alarm [Literally “shofar shofar”, not Jubilee] [2] on the tenth day of the seventh moon, on the Day of Atonements you’ll sound the shofar alarm thruout your entire land. 10 You’ll dedicate the fiftieth year, and shout liberty thruout the land to all of its inhabitants. It will be a Jubilee for you, and each of you can return to your own property, and each of you will return to your own clan. 11 The fiftieth year will be your Jubilee year. During ‘that year’ you won’t plant, or preserve the “after crop”* from what grows by itself, or make wine* from any leftover* grapes.

[2] The KJV wrongly says “trumpet of the jubile[e]”, in agreement with the Jewish custom of beginning years in the seventh month—a practice begun in Babylonian captivity. But an upcoming Jubilee was originally to be announced on the Day of Atonements of the seventh Shemitah year (the 49th year).

The Feast of Tabernacles of the next Jubilee year will be a profound learning experience for the surviving Israelite people of all 12 tribes. They will learn the significance of the seventh day Sabbath—about why they lost their national sovereignty due to breaking Sabbaths, as did their ancestors (Jeremiah 17:21-25). They will also come to understand that the entire seven year journey that they just endured was mentioned in Daniel 9, and described in countless Bible prophecies. Israel will also begin to understand that there is a seventh millennial “day” left in the first millennial week. It has been a trail of tears, yet this rocky trail leads to the Promised Land!

Luke 18:29-30 Yeshua replied, “I tell you with absolute certainty that there is no one who has given up a house, or parents, or brothers, or a wife, or children for Yehovah’s Kingdom 30 who won’t receive many times more in the present time, and in the coming world, eternal life.

The Feast of Tabernacles Pictures the Birth of a New Nation:

Micah 4:10-12 Writhe and groan, maiden Zion, like a woman in labor, because you must leave the city and live in the open country. You’ll be exiled to Babylon. But you’ll be rescued from there. That is where Yehovah will redeem you from the grasp of your enemies. 11 Now many nations have banded against you. They say, “Let’s defile her, we want to see Zion destroyed.” 12 But they don’t know what Yehovah has in mind. They don’t understand His plan to gather them like sheaves to be thrashed on the threshing floor.

Isaiah 66:6-9 The sound of an uproar from the city, and noise from the 'Temple'. It’s the sound of Yehovah paying back His enemies. 7 “Before she has any labor pains, before any pain, she will give birth to a son! 8 Who has heard of such a thing? Who has ever seen such a thing? Can a country be born in one day? Can a nation be born instantly? Yet as soon as Zion has labor pains, she’ll give birth to her children! 9 Would I bring to the moment of birth and not bring about the delivery?” Asks Yehovah, “Would I, the One who brings about births shut the womb?” Asks your Elohim.

Below is a specific association between “seven years” and the Feast of Tabernacles. Furthermore, the “year of release” associates it with the seven distinct years within the Jubilee cycle. There are actually two end-time years of release—year 49 and year 50 of the Jubilee cycle. I expect that the year 2031/2032 AD will be the final year of the Great Tribulation—that will immediately precede the Day of Yehovah: Jubilee 2032/2033 AD.

Deuteronomy 31:10-11 Then Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the specified time in the year of debt cancellation, at the Feast of Tabernacles, 11 when all the Israelites came to appear before Yehovah your Elohim in the place that He’ll choose, you’ll read this Torah aloud before all of Israel.

All of Yehovah’s people live in temporary shelters—tabernacles. We await our permanent home in New Jerusalem. The Feast of Tabernacles symbolizes the ultimate showdown between good and evil prior to the Kingdom of Elohim being established—to the amazement of a bewildered and conquered world. During this Feast we should reflect strongly on the Satanic mindset that precedes the Everlasting Kingdom. This will be a far more significant event than the original exodus from Egypt. In fact, the very nations that “caused” the Second Exodus will ultimately be forced to commemorate it!

A Seven Year Plan

Look again at Deuteronomy 31:10, just quoted, and notice: “At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the Feast of Tabernacles”. Israel is commanded to read “all the words of the Torah” (Genesis thru Deuteronomy) on the “year of release” (Sabbatical Years) “at the appointed time” “at the Feast of Tabernacles” (as in 2011/2012, 2018/2019, 2025/2026, 2031/2032 etc—based on the Jubilee (being) 2032/2033 AD.). It would seem quite logical that toward the end of the notorious seven year long period, that also ends the 3½ year long Great Tribulation, that as soon as modern Israel is released from captivity, they will be quite receptive of any proposal from Yehovah concerning obedience to the Torah. Isaiah 51 perfectly illustrates the fact that the coming Exodus will have similarities to the first one. It unquestionably compares the coming Exodus to the “ancient times”, to the “days of old”! The greatest point that modern Christianity has conveniently overlooked is the value of Yehovah’s Torah (Law)—the very Torah that will go out from Zion!

Isaiah 51:3-16 Yehovah will comfort Zion. He’ll have compassion on all her ruins. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like Yehovah’s garden. Joy and happiness will be found there, thanksgiving and the sound of music.

4 “Pay attention to Me, My people. Hear Me, My nation, because My Torah will go out from Me, and I’ll establish My justice as a light to the nations. 5 My righteousness is near, My deliverance is coming. My arms will judge the nations, the 'distant lands beyond the oceans' will wait for Me, and wait in hope for My Arm. 6 'Look' up to the skies, and look at the earth below, because the skies will vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like clothing. Those who live there will die like a swarm of gnats [1], but My deliverance will be forever, and My righteousness will never be shattered.

7 “Listen to Me, you who understand righteousness, you people who have 'internalized' My Torah. Don’t be afraid of people’s scorn or fear their insults. 8 Moths will eat them up like clothing, and worms will eat them like they do wool, but My righteousness will last forever, and My deliverance [from sin] thru all generations.”

9 Wake up! Wake up! Clothe yourself with strength, arm of Yehovah awaken as in the days of old, as in generations of long ago. Didn’t You cut Rahab in pieces. Who pierced the dragon? 10 Didn’t You dry up the sea, the water of the great depths, making the depths of the sea a pathway for the redeemed to cross over? 11 Those ransomed by Yehovah will return and return singing into Zion. Everlasting joy will 'crown' their heads. They’ll be overwhelmed with gladness and joy as sorrow and sighing flee.

12 “I, yes I am the One who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mortals, humans made like grass. 13 You’ve forgotten Yehovah your Creator who stretched out the skies, and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in constant fear all day long because of the fury of the oppressor, as he prepares for your destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor? 14 The captive exiles will soon be set free. They won’t die in dungeons or go without food. 15 I am Yehovah your Elohim who stirs up the sea, so that its waves roar, Commander Yehovah is My name. 16 I’ve put My words in your mouth and covered you in the shadow of My hand, so that I can plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are My people.

[1] This is not an end of the world/universe reference, the time frame of this chapter clearly concerns the catastrophic Day of Yehovah and the imminent establishment of the Everlasting Kingdom. This topic is further addressed in 2 Peter 3.

Simply looking into a complete concordance and reading every prophetic Scripture that mentions “law”, “covenant” and “Sabbath”, from Isaiah thru Malachi can be an excellent Bible study. Virtually every mention of these words—dozens of them—are in the context of Israel not obeying Yehovah’s Torah, breaking the everlasting covenant with Him—especially in regard to the Sabbath. The Feast of Tabernacles pictures the seven year long birth pangs in the future when Yehovah will intervene in world affairs in favor of His captive [locked down?] people. Yehovah will re-establish a marriage like relationship with His people after this! We can be part of the Bridegroom, the one new man (Ephesians 2:15)! The Torah of Elohim—the Torah that false teachers say is “nailed to the cross”—will again be taught and enforced from Yehovah’s throne in Jerusalem. The entire reason for Bible prophecy—the Good News of the re-institution of the twelve tribes of Israel into their ancestral lands and the painful circumstances that precede this time is being entirely overlooked. The watchmen are asleep!

“On the first day there will be a Sabbath assembly” (Leviticus 23:39)

I believe that the Feast of Tabernacles parallels the final year of Daniels Seventy Weeks Prophecy. To this I would apply the commonly understood day-for-a-year principle.

Why is it that only the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles is specified as a mandatory Assembly? Daniel 9:24-27 is one of the most controversial passages in the Bible. Many people teach that it refers to a seven year Tribulation, yet the Great Tribulation only lasts for the latter half of this period. Many of these same people also assume that the Third Temple will be the Beast’s Temple, but actually the Two Witnesses appear to be involved with it:

Revelation 11:1-4 Then I, John, was given a measuring reed like a staff, and a messenger standing by and said, “Get up and measure the Temple [1] of Yehovah and the altar and those who worship there [2]. 2 But leave out the courtyard outside of the Temple, don’t measure it, because it has been given to the heathens, and they’ll trample the 'cherished' city underfoot for forty-two months. 3 I will give power to MyTwo Witnesses [3]. They’ll prophesy for 1,260 days [4], wearing sackcloth. 4 They are the two olive trees and the two menorahs [5] standing in the presence of the Aloha of the world.

[1] Here John is actually told to measure the end time third Temple just prior to the Two Witnesses commission (v.3). The terms “measure”, “measured” and “measuring” combined are found dozens of times in reference to the temple in Ezekiel 40-42. This would explain the previous verse (10:11): “John, you must prophesy AGAIN before many nations and peoples and princes and kings.” Is he one of the two witnesses or one of their companions? Same goes for Elijah (Malachi 4:5-6). Does God Travel in Time? [2] In the architectural planning, the outer court is excluded/ruled out! That space on the Temple Mount “has been given to the heathens”. And while the Temple is to be literally measured, the people are spiritually measured! [3] After a long search, I found a link that comes close to my views, other than for Moses, Elijah and John time traveling and the final eight years. [4] Some teach that Yehovah, ‘the LORD” will take His Year out Satan’s seven year long fling (2X 1,260 days), not understanding that the Jubilee year (2032/2033 AD?) always follows a seven year period, (the Shemitah). The Tribulation period accounts for the remaining part of the 70 weeks prophecy of Isaiah 61:1-2. [5] This is a reference to Zechariah 4, verse 11 in particular, equating the seven branched Hebrew “menorah” with the Greek “luchnia.” Both are usually translated as “candle sticks” or “lamp stands.”

The Temple is an integral part of Yehovah’s future plans. The nine chapters of Ezekiel (40-48) that deal with it are quite detailed. The restoration of temple services on the first day of this seven year long period, after having ceased to exist for nearly 2000 years is quite significant in Yehovah’s eyes. If for no other reason, we should anxiously anticipate this event because we will be able to determine without any doubt when Yehovah’s Kingdom will arrive by the dates He gave us in the book of Daniel.

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Your Makers Are Your Husbands!

Isaiah 54:1-8 Shout for joy, you barren one who never had children. Break into shouts of joy, you women who have not been in labor! Because the forsaken 'woman' will have more children than the children of a married woman,” says Yehovah. 2 “Expand your tent site, stretch your tent curtains further out! Don’t hold back; lengthen your ropes, and drive your pegs deeper. 3 “You’ll spread out to the right and to the left, and your descendants will occupy other nations and resettle the deserted cities.

4 “Don’t be afraid, because you won’t be ashamed or humiliated. You won’t be put to shame, and you’ll forget the shame of your youth. You won’t remember the stigmatism of widowhood. 5 Your MAKERS are your HUSBANDS [1], Commander Yehovah is His name, and the 'special' One of Israel is your Redeemer. He is called the Elohim of the entire earth. 6 Yehovah has called you like a deserted wife tormented by grief, like a wife rejected early in life,” says your Elohim. 7 “For a brief moment I let you alone, but with infinite compassion I’ll bring you back. 8 In a spurt of anger I hid My face from you momentarily, but with eternal love I’ll have compassion on you,” says Yehovah your Redeemer.—The Gabriel Bible

The entire Book of Hosea tells the story of the Bride and the astonishing events leading up to a surprise Wedding Day!

Hosea 2:14-20 But I’m going to allure her back. I’ll bring her into the wilderness [Ezekiel 20:35] and speak tenderly to her there. 15 I’ll give her back her vineyards beginning there and the Valley of Achor [trouble] into a door of hope. She’ll respond there as in the days of her youth, just like when she came out of the land of Egypt.” 16 Yehovah says: “When That Day Comes* you’ll call Me ‘Husband’ [Ishi] and you’ll never again call Me ‘Lord’ [Baali]. 17 I’ll remove the names of the Baals from your mouths, and you will never mention them again. 18 When That Day Comes I’ll make a covenant with all the wild animals of the plains, the birds from the air and the animals that move around on the ground. I’ll abolish bows and swords and weapons of war from the “earth”? [eretz: land or region] so that everyone can live in peace. [3] 19 I’ll be betrothed [4] to you forever. Yes, you’ll be betrothed to Me in righteousness and in justice, in faithful love and compassion. 20 I’ll be faithful to you, and you’ll finally know Yehovah.

[3] After Israel, the bride, has returned to her greatly enlarged land (Ezekiel 47:14-23), she will be totally dependent on her Husband for defence, (no Iron Dome). And just as the story of the first Passover is intricately woven into the destruction of Egypt (Exodus chapters 2 thru chapter 13 in particular), the Feast of Tabernacles is interwoven into Armageddon (Zechariah 14)—the destruction of the 10 nearby Psalm 23 nations! [4] Betroth literally means: “a fine, literally pay the price, and gain the right of possession.” Yeshua paid the price. So when does He take possession? And Who is the Messiah’s Bride?

In the First Exodus, a great many did not survive (Numbers 14:29):

Jeremiah 46:26-28 I’ll hand them over to those who want to kill them—into the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and into the hands of his officers. But later, Egypt will be inhabited as in ancient times,” says Yehovah. 27 “As for you my servant Jacob, don’t be afraid, and Israel don’t be discouraged. I’ll rescue you from the distant lands, and your descendants from the lands of their captivity. He’ll be undisturbed and secure, with no one to frighten him. 28 Don’t you be afraid, Jacob My servant,” Yehovah says, “because I’m with you. Tho I bring destruction on all the nations where I have banished you, but I won’t completely destroy you. I’ll discipline you justly, but by no means will I leave you unpunished.”

But here is what happens in the “Second Exodus”:

Israel’s Enemies Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles!

Zechariah described this time of transition between the “old earth” and the “new earth”.

Zechariah 14:16-21 Then everyone who is left behind [survivors] from all the nations that come against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship Commander Yehovah and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 When that time comes, if any of the clans of the region won’t come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Commander Yehovah, they’ll get no rain. 18 If the people of Egypt don’t show up, they’ll get no rain. This is the plague that Yehovah will strike the nations with that don’t come up and celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of any other nation that won’t come up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. 20 When That Day Comes it will say on the bells of the horses: 'Dedicated' to Yehovah. And the pots [for zebakim [sacrifices] in Yehovah’s 'Temple' will be like the bowls before the altar. 21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be 'special' to Commander Yehovah, and everyone who offers a zebak will come and take one of them and cook in them. When That Day Comes there will no longer be a Canaanite in Commander Yehovah’s 'Temple'.

Do A Water Pouring Ceremony?

Again, notice the clear distinction between the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles and the separate Eighth Day:

Leviticus 23:34-36 Tell the Israelites: “The fifteenth day of this seventh month begins the Feast of Tabernacles lasting for seven days to Yehovah. 35 On the first day there is a special public assembly, don’t do any ordinary [employment/home] work. 36 For seven days you must present offerings made by fire to Yehovah. On the Eighth Day you are to hold a special public assembly, and you must present offerings made by fire to Yehovah. It’s a solemn assembly. Don’t do any ordinary work.

Judaism wanted a reason for celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles: “What are we celebrating?” So they borrowed rain dancing from the world!

There is an abundance of water pouring ceremonies in the pagan world—just do a web search for “pagan water pouring ceremony”! Christians are not the only people to have adopted religious practices from the pagan world!

Now do a web search for “Jewish water pouring ceremony”. You can find “Simchat Beit HaShoeivah” being formally instituted circa 1726. You can even find Solomon doing it—the King of Israel who went astray satisfying his passion for appeasing his many pagan wives. But you wont find Moses doing it or even Solomon’s father David doing it.

“The high priest Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 B.C.E.) showed contempt for the rite by spilling the water at his feet, a transgression for which worshipers threw their citrons at him...The pelted priest had demonstrated his alliance with the Sadducees, who took a literal interpretation of the Torah and followed only what was specifically in Torah. (Explained as an oral instruction given to Moses at Sinai, this water rite was not mentioned in The Five Books [Torah].) The deliriously happy celebration connected with the water drawing developed when the Pharisees (who believed in the Oral Tradition and interpretation of Torah and gave us the rabbinic Judaism we know today) triumphed over them in the first century.”

So what really happened at the Pool of Siloam and at the Pool of Bethesda?

“The Last Day, that Great Day of the Feast”—The Seventh Day;

Yeshua ended the Feast of Tabernacles with a proclamation about a greatly increased presence of the special [holy] spirit. No longer was it restricted to a few prophets!

John 7:37 On the Last Day of the Feast—the Great Day—Yeshua stood and spoke out, “If anyone is thirsty they should come to Me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scriptures says, ‘Out of their heart will flow rivers of living water.’” 39 But He said this about the spirit that those who believe in Him were to receive, since the spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet become radiant.

40 Many in the crowd who heard what He said were saying, “He is certainly the Prophet!” 41 Others said, “He is the Messiah.” But others said, “How could the Messiah come from Galilee? 42 Don’t the Scriptures say that the Messiah is a descendant of David, and from Bethlehem, the town of David?” 43 There was disagreement among the people about Him. 44 Some of them wanted to arrest Him. But no one laid a hand on Him.

45 When the Temple guards returned to the high priests and Pharisees, the priests asked them, “Why didn’t you bring Him?” 46 The Temple guards said, “No one has ever spoken the way this Man speaks.”

There are actually ONLY THREE FEASTS in the Bible—Three of these things belong together. The Eighth Day is NOT one of them! (Exodus 23:14-19—One of these things is not like the others—that is, the other seven.

The other four annual Sabbaths would better be referred to as Festivals! See “Festivals and Feasts—There is a Difference!”.

Tabernacles is a seven day pilgrimage Feast. The Eighth Day is adjacent but separate:

Leviticus 23:41-42 41 You must celebrate this Feast of Yehovah for seven days [not just two] every year. It’s a permanent rule to be celebrated in the seventh month [it’s not the last month] from generation to generation. 42 You must live in tabernacles [aka sukkot or booths] for seven days. Every native born Israelite must live in a tabernacle...

Commentators are split (naturally) as to whether the “Last Day” that Yeshua referred to is the 7th day of the Feast of Tabernacles or if it is the 8th day—a separate Festival.

So first we need to clarify which day is being spoken of. A close look at the wording unmistakably indicates that the seventh day of the Feast is a single day within a multiple day Feast. A one day ceremony would not have a “last day”. Many people confuse the “Eighth Day” with the Seventh Day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)! But other than for Yeshua’s statement, this is all that we have to go on:

It is easy to establish the prophetic significance of the Seventh Day of the Feast, because John 7 has the only statements in the Bible that provides the reason for celebrating the Last Day!

Here are some references that date the “Last Day”:

Revelation 1:7 He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Yes, Aw-main'. [4]

[4] When the One who was pierced returns there will be mourning everywhere: Zechariah 12:9-14.

Matthew 26:63-64 But Yeshua was silent. Then the high priest said, “I adjure you by the living Aloha [God] to tell us if You are the Messiah, Yehovah’s Son.” 64 Yeshua replied, “You have correctly stated it. But I’m telling you that in the future you’ll see the Human Son sitting on the right hand of Power, and coming on the clouds in the sky. [Acts 1:9].

The “high priest” and “those who pierced Him” will not be present at Yeshua’s return for milk and cookies!

The words “coming on the clouds of the ‘sky’” (usually rendered “heaven”) is a reference to Daniel 7, verse 13 in particular. The context here unmistakably confirms that Judgment Day is when Yeshua returns visibly in the clouds.

(As I explain under the heading: “No Man Knows the Day or Hour” in Part 3, the phrase is actually a reference to the Day of Trumpets. Expect for Yehovah to take out the army surrounding Jerusalem on the last day of the Feast in a year that’s exactly on schedule! Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit just days after his last despicable act—killing the Two Witnesses [like someone trying to ignite WW3 just before Trump takes office] as a judgment is mentioned in Revelation 20:3, in the context of Judgment Day, verse 4.)

So I see what Yeshua said about that Great Day being a strong reference to the last Jubilee year of the sixth millennium—Armageddon! This the time that Yeshua spoke of about salvation being offered in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Yehovah’s presence and coercion will be so powerful that the survivors of whole nations will rapidly undergo massive changes for the better. No one will believe that war is a solution any longer. There will be no more warmongers. This is the true Israel of the near future. It looks nothing like the middle east of peaceful 1948 or 2024:

Toward the very last literal day of this seven day period that should be commemorated as “that GREAT DAY of the Feast” the reign of wicked men will cease. While the Seventh Day is not a Feast Day, it is still a high point of the commemoration—the grueling trip back to Israel is now complete!

“Born Again”—Two Resurrections

Another facet of the next Jubilee Year is that it also marks the year of the “first (or best) resurrection”, when the 'cherished' ones (saints) are resurrected—as in: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh. That which is born of the Spirit IS spirit”—John 3:6. This impending resurrection (Daniel 12:1-4; John 5:24-30) precedes the “White Throne” Judgment by a thousand years. (Revelation 20:11).

Matthew 24:29-31 Immediately after the time of Tribulation, the sun will be darkened and the moon won’t shed her light and stars will fall from the sky [See footnote on Isaiah 34:4], and the miraculous power of the skies will be shaken. 30 Then the miraculous sign of the Human Son will be seen in the sky, and then all the nations on earth will mourn when they see the Human Son coming on the clouds in the sky with great power and splendor.[6] 31 Then He’ll send out His spirit messengers with a loud shofar blast [7] and they’ll gather together His selected people from the four winds [north, south, east and west], from one farthermost bound of the horizon [heaven] to the other.

[6] Yeshua was alluding to Daniel 7:13 where “Daniel saw Someone like a Human Son coming with the clouds in the sky. So what is the sign—it will look like a human (son of man) descending from the sky! Immediately after Satan’s nearly unhindered seven year long rampage, everything begins to change in a day. Another entire set of prophecies will play out during the Year of Payback (Isaiah 34) [7] This link is a remarkable timetable that Ernest Martin calculated in 1989. He made many of the same asumptions as I had. Still a lot of good info. The passage of time necessitated the start of my countdown 2,000 years from Yeshua’s crucifixion rather than start from the beginning of His ministry. (otherwise the Great Tribulation would be well underway by now.)

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17: Our Sovereign will 'personally' come down from Heaven with a mandate, and with a voice like the chief Messenger and with Yehovah’s shofar, and the dead who 'belong to' the Messiah will rise first! 17 Then, we who are still alive, having survived, will be carried away together with them into the clouds to meet our Sovereign in the expanse. And we will be with our Sovereign forever.

Finally, here is something wonderful being announced to those of us who were and are not going to have to learn the hard way about THEM, like the bride will. Surely you know their names: (Proverbs 30:4)

1 Corinthians 15:52 In the smallest possible fraction of a second [Gr. atomos], while the last [seventh] shofar [8] is sounding, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be transformed!

John 6:40 Because My Father wants everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him to have eternal life, and I’ll raise them up on the Last Day.

John 6:39,44,54 And the will of the One who sent Me is that I won’t lose any of those He has given Me, but should raise them up during the Last Day. ... 44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws them. Then I’ll raise them from the dead on the Last Day. ... 54 but anyone who eats My body and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I’ll raise them from the dead on the Last Day.

Martha understood it:

John 11:24 Martha replied, “I know that he’ll rise in the resurrection on the Last Day.

Judgment of those who deliberately rejected Yeshua will also occur on that same “Last Day”:

John 12:46-48 I am the Light who came into the world, so that whoever believes in Me wouldn’t stay in the dark. 47 I won’t judge anyone who hears My words, but doesn’t obey them, because I didn’t come into the world to judge it [this time] [4], but to rescue the world. 48 Those who reject Me and don’t accept My words have something to judge them—the words [5] I have spoken will judge them on the Last Day.

[4] In Acts 17:30-31, Yeshua is shown judging the world. [5] Isaiah 5:24

Perhaps some or all of those who have viciously rejected Yeshua will suffer longer than Judgment Day. As we’ll see below, the High Priest and those who pierced Yeshua are already present when Yeshua returns!

As I understand it, “On the Last Day” the announcement will go out that the “Torah giver” is coming “who can cause you to live, or can destroy you” (James 4:12).

Many teach that the “Last Day” is the “Eighth Day” that follows the Feast of Tabernacles, but they insert a 1,000 year long postponement between the 7th and 8th days. The “Great Day” of the Feast is the greatest day of a multiple day feast, as the term itself indicates, while the “very last Day” is “the Day of Yehovah (the “Lord”)”—Judgment Day.

In essence there are two “Last Days”. There is the seventh Sabbatical year, the seventh/last Shemitah of the Jubilee cycle (year 49) and then there is the year of the cycle, the actual Jubilee:

Next, Part 6—THE EIGHTH DAY

Part 4, Part 6 

The End

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