HIStory, Our Future: Pearls for the Bride
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Episode 4: The Moedim: Appointed Times
The sowing, the harvest, and the parousia
Synopsis
Since Christ’s first coming was fulfilled, the growing church in the Gentile world moved further away from the Hebrew origins of the faith to the extent that the Christianity I grew up in had little to say about the details of Old Testament statutes given to Israel. The remembrance of the crucifixion was Good Friday and the resurrection was Easter, where bunnies laying eggs kept the kids excited about all the games and candy. For a long time I failed to see the relevance in studying these moedim, or appointed times, because they didn’t seem to be for Gentiles, it was a Jewish statute and tradition. Doesn’t Colossians 2:16-17 say not to judge on following holy days or Sabbaths?
While it is true that these were statutes for the seed of Jacob, or Israel, something amazing happens when you begin to examine scripture in the context in which it was born out of, a distinctly Hebrew narrative. What began as a search to understand the origins of Good Friday and Easter from a Hebrew perspective suddenly began to connect to the first and second comings of Yeshua both in fulfillment of the foreshadows of what was to come, but also integral in the distinct space-time return of Yeshua and the fulfillment of His promised second parousia, salvation, and judgements. Understanding the religious calendar God gave to His people was suddenly connected to ideas like the exact-day prophecies of Daniel and John, explaining where the 3½ years, 42 months, and 1,260 days come from. Given the central nature of Israel in Bible prophecy and the statutes God gave them to the coming times, this seems to be the relevant starting point of the journey to examine HIStory, Our Future: Pearls for the Bride.
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