Sukkot... the Feasts, and The Heavenly Scroll! (by Rav Sha'ul)
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May Yahuah bless all who properly rehearsed The Wedding on Yom Kippur... and now are invited to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. We see below, the Marriage Supper (Sukkot) begins just after the "bride has made herself ready" on Yom Kippur and has now become the Queen. She is not wearing a potato sack(loth) and no shoes and all smelly having not bathed and starving from fasting from food (all Jewish Traditions on Yom Kippur)... she is a beautiful bride arrayed as a Queen in fine linen BRIGHT and CLEAN. These are the WISE Bridesmaids who properly rehearsed the Wedding Day... not those foolish ones who followed the traditions of man (Rabbinical Judaism who denied the Groom).
----- Revelation 19 -----
6 Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: “Hallelujah! For Yahuah Almighty reigns. 7 Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come, and HIS BRIDE HAS MADE HERSELF READY! 8 Fine linen, bright and CLEAN, was given her to wear.” 9 Then the angel said to me, “Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!”
How are we to keep the "intent" behind this rehearsal? Why stay in temporary dwellings and is that expected of us in The Yahushaic Covenant? We know "why" in the Mosaic Covenant but what was that REALLY pointing to and how then should we understand it in The Yahushaic Covenant?
Today, I am going to show that in the Mosaic Covenant, Israel were as "little children" Spiritually and the Plan of Salvation written in The Heavenly Scroll which defines the Feast Cycle had not yet been revealed to them. So in that covenant, the Feasts were kept as an annual reminder LOOKING BACK on the physical shadows cast by The Heavenly Scroll. The rituals were just REMINDERS or training aids in our understanding Spiritual Intent...
----- Hebrews 10 -----
2If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the worshipers would have been cleansed once for all and would no longer feel the guilt of their sins. 3Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins, 4because it is impossible for the blood of bulls and of goats to take away sins.…
They were kept ritualistically by the letter until such time as Yahuah would reveal the true meaning through His prophets.
-----Deuteronomy 29:4 -----
Yet Yahuah has not given you a heart to perceive (hidden Spiritual things), and eyes to see (hidden Spiritual things), and ears to hear (hidden Spiritual things), unto this day.
The “secret things” were kept hidden by Yahuah and only “those physical things” were given to Israel in the Mosaic Covenant i.e. the “letter of The Law”. The Spiritual Intent was not given at that time:
---- Deuteronomy 29 -----
29 The secret things belong unto Yahuah our God: but those (physical) things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words (letters) of this law.
The intent behind the law and the Feasts is hidden and revealed to only those who have a heart to perceive it (those with eyes to see and ears to hear). So what does “secret things” above in Deuteronomy 29 mean? Below is the word “secret” or “hidden” means in Hebrew:
Hebrew Lexicon word H5641 – Secret is the word Cathar (saw-thar') which means:
I. to hide, conceal
...A. (Niphal)
........i. to hide oneself
........ii. to be hidden, be concealed
...B. (Piel) to hide carefully
...C. (Pual) to be hidden carefully, be concealed
...D. (Hiphil) to conceal, hide
...E. (Hithpael) to hide oneself carefully
Yahuah has literally hidden Himself in plain sight... in the stars!
----- Galatians 3 -----
1O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your eyes Yahusha the Messiah was clearly portrayed as crucified (at the end of the age of Aries the Lamb). 2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit (INTENT) by works of the Law (no that is milk), or by hearing with faith (what the stars proclaim Psalm 19)?…
The stars conspired together as a "Divine Counsel" to preserve a mystery not revealed until The Yahushaic Covenant... mankind has been "striving to learn" this hidden mystery throughout all ages. This mystery was twisted into Sun Worship by the fallen angels resulting in The False Religion...
----- Enoch 9:6 -----
6. Thou seest what Azâzêl hath done, who hath taught all unrighteousness on earth and revealed the eternal secrets which were (preserved) in (the) heaven(ly Scroll), which men were striving to learn.
In The Yahushaic Covenant, the hidden things have been revealed through Yahusha who came to fulfill The Plan of Salvation as the Groom laid out in The Heavenly Scroll so we REHEARSE these Moedim looking FORWARD to their ultimate fulfillment.
----- Colossians 2 -----
…16 Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a festival, a New Month Celebration (Tekufah), or a Sabbath. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that cast that shadow it is found in The Yahushaic Covenant. 18 Do not let anyone (Pharisee) who delights in false humility (such as fasting from food) and the worship of angels disqualify you with speculation about what he has seen (human traditions). Such a man is puffed up without basis by his UNSPIRITUAL mind (they do not understand the Spiritual Intent and Hidden Mysteries preserved in The Heavenly Scroll which they denied),…
I am going to prove Scripturally that The Feasts are defined by their INTENT and that understanding is found in "The Heavenly Tablets" not the "letter of the Law of Moses"... yet very few, only His Prophets, understood this and that was the role of His Prophets... to lay out and defined The Plan of Salvation written in The Heavenly Tablets (Scroll)...
----- Jubilees 3 -----
And for this reason the commandment is written on the heavenly tablets
----- Jubilees 3 -----
31 On this account, it is prescribed on the heavenly tablets
----- Jubilees 4 -----
For this reason it was ordained on the heavenly tablets (another way of saying Heavenly Scroll)
----- Jubilees 5 -----
13 … And the judgment of all is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets in righteousness -even (the judgment of) all who depart from the path which is ordained for them to walk in; and if they walk not therein, judgment is written down for every creature and 14 for every kind. And there is nothing in heaven or on earth, or in light or in darkness, or in Sheol or in the depth, or in the place of darkness (which is not judged); and all their judgments are 15 ordained and written and engraved (in The Heavenly Scroll).
We see for example Shav'uot is defined and celebrated in HEAVEN (laid out in The Heavenly Scroll) first... not The Law of Moses! In the Mosaic Covenant “children” were given a training aid to help them understand The Heavenly Scroll.
----- Jubilee 6 -----
17 should not again be a flood on the earth to destroy it all the days of the earth. For this reason it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets, that they should celebrate the feast of weeks in this 18 month once a year, to renew the covenant every year. And this whole festival was celebrated in heaven from the day of creation till the days of Noah.
It is in The Heavenly Scroll where the true meaning behind His Word is preserved.
----- Psalm 119 -----
89 Your word, Yahuah, is eternal; it stands firm (written) in the heaven(ly Scroll).
As I demonstrated in my teaching on Yom Kippur, Yahusha defined "The Day of Atonement" in context of The Heavenly Scroll as The Wedding Day and did not "fast from food" on that day as the "little children" did...
----- Mark 2 -----
18 Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were often fasting. So people came to Yahusha and asked, “Why don’t Your disciples fast like John’s disciples and those of the Pharisees?” 19 Yahusha answered, “Can the guests of the bridegroom fast while He is with them? As long as He is with them, they cannot fast. 20 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then they will fast.…
I am going to teach on every aspect of Sukkot from a mature Spiritual perspective. First and most importantly we are going back to The Heavenly Tablet itself, called The Heavenly Scroll by His prophets and reveal what Yahusha came to fulfill.
----- Hebrews 10:7 -----
Then I said, 'Here I am--it is written about me in the heavenly scroll-- I have come to do your will, my God! (Matthew 6:10)
----- Matthew 6:10 -----
Your kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is (written) in (the) heaven(ly scroll).
What does that "scroll/tablet" in Heaven (the stars) say about Sukkot? I will cover that next.
Blessings,
Rav Sha'ul (the Nazarene)
