It's Supernatural

Sid: Now you explained on yesterday’s broadcast that a key scripture is Leviticus Chapter 23 verse 2 in which God is talking about His feasts. He uses the English words like Convocation in that sentence which actually means dress rehearsals. Dress rehearsals of what? His first coming and His return who wouldn’t want to be in a dress rehearsal of His first coming and His return?   You know I have an idea Mark that people that love God with all of their heart and don’t understand the dress rehearsals will miss His return just as so many Jews missed His first coming.

Mark: And what I think is so important to bring out is that it says “These are the feasts of the Lord.” He says “Even these are My feasts.” So we have to realize that these are God’s appointed times and He welcomes the One New Man, Jew and Gentile, to come to His Feast just like in the parables where He invites all of these people to come.

Sid: Now He says “These are My appointed Times.” What does that mean “Appointed Times?”

Mark: For me God has a day timer okay this is when He wants to intersect with us with mankind. Just like you got a boss and he said “He wanted to meet you at 5:00 on Friday.” And you said “No, how about 2:00 on Tuesday.” You’re not going to have a job for very long. God is the creator of the universe and He sets the time to meet with us. And these are holy dress rehearsals and as you said “For the time when He going to miraculously supernaturally intersect human history.” Why wouldn’t we want to be there? So I really believe the fall feasts will be fulfilled on the day just like when they were fulfilled to the day of the spring feast.

Sid: Okay, speaking of the feasts let’s talk about in detail on this day the spring feast his first coming and I mean it’s so specific. And by the way is there anyone listening to me that would not like to sit in on a dress rehearsal of the return of Jesus? There would be no big questions about what’s going on if you’ve seen the dress rehearsal. So explain the dress rehearsal of God’s Moed, or feast. Which means in Hebrew His appointed time, tell me about God’s appointment book for the first coming of Jesus.

Mark: Well sure, I’d love to Sid. On Passover what did we see, Jesus didn’t die any random day this was planned out from the beginning of time that he would die on Nisan 14 on Passover. Being bound to the cross at the time of the morning sacrifice at 9:00 in the morning; dying at 3:00 in the afternoon at the time of the evening sacrifice. Being put in the earth being buried on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Nisan 15; rising on the Feast of First Fruits. Then the Spirit being poured out at the time of the morning sacrifice on Shavuot, or the Feast of Pentecost, the Jews had always been celebrating. A total dress rehearsal not only to the day but to the very hour it’s just incredible God’s impeccable timing. For example, God even had David write the song that was going to be sung at his son’s funeral; it was Psalms 118. So what do we find? Even the night before when He was betrayed and rejected it says at the last supper they sang a hymn and went over to Mount of Olives. I know the words to that song, most Christians are surprised but they even have the hymn book they would sing the Hallel Psalms 113 – 118. So the final Hymn they sang before He was betrayed and rejected was Psalms 118 where it says “This is the stone which the builders have rejected.” The following morning then when He’s being bound to the cross again 2 million people Josephus records was the choir which was singing and I could hear their voices ringing all through the valleys in Jerusalem. And their singing at 9:00 in the morning “Bind the sacrifice with chords to the horns of the altar.” This is the very moment that Jesus is being bound to the cross and the Passover lamb to the horns of the altar. And then at 3:00 in the afternoon there also singing it as it goes dark from noon until 3:00 it’s pitch black and I could just see quaking with fear wondering this supernatural event and they can’t read the words but they do know when they’re singing that “The right hand of the Lord is lifted up” you know. And then He dies at 3:00 in the afternoon the time of the evening sacrifice. This is just totally incredible to me. And then on unleavened bread the very day all of the first born of the Egyptians were buried the first born of God is buried and then He rose on First Fruits. This is just too incredible to me.

Sid: Now what is first fruits?

Mark: Well first fruits if, you remember Jesus said He was the first fruits of the resurrection. And the first fruits they were to bring the first fruit of the barley harvest to the temple. Representing giving to God the first fruit the best of what they had. And here Jesus becoming the first fruits of the resurrection here He is as everyone on earth is waving the sheath of first fruits. I can see Jesus standing before the throne of heaven waving His hand saying “Here I Am the sheath of the first fruits offering.”

Sid: What about the last of the last of the spring feast what was Shavuot or in Greek Pentecost?

Mark: Yeah, what happens after the first fruits offering in what is called the counting of the Omer. Just when people get all exciting waiting for either grandma or grandpa to come or some big event they begin to count the days. Well God has them count the days from the feast of first fruits the barley harvest to the feast of the first fruits of the wheat harvest which is known as Shavuot or the Feast of Wheat. So here they are their all counting and what we find on the 40^th day of the counting of the Omer is when the Lord ascended and told them to wait just 10 more days for the feast of Shavuot. And what do we see at 9:00 in the morning the time of the morning sacrifice the Spirit is poured out. It’s just amazing their all gathered together in the temple at this time. And they’re reading the book of Ruth about Jews and Gentiles coming together. And their reading Exodus 19 about the Spirit of God being poured out on Mount Sinai, and here they are in the Temple gathered when the Spirit is poured out. Absolutely fascinating when you see God’s impeccable timing.

Sid: You know when you read the New Testament if you have zero knowledge of what the Jewish customs were; zero knowledge of what was going on that day, you’re going to miss a whole lot of what was happening.

Mark: Oh my goodness it’s incredible you’re going to miss a whole lot even for example I love to bring out the Ameedah prayer the standing prayer. Which is a perfect example of if you don’t know the context. Here when Peter and John say “Silver and gold we have none but what we do have ‘Rise up and walk.’” That man that had been lame from birth and he was over 40 years old which means that Jesus had walked by him every single time he had walked into the temple and never healed him. And yet it was at the standing prayer that he was able to stand. Here every single day for 40 years he prayed that he could stand for the standing prayer. And when it says in Acts that it was in prayer that’s a wrong translation from the Greek. It’s at the hour of the prayer and the prayer that he was praying was the Ameedah which is the standing prayer. So you need to know the culture and the context of these things.

Sid: Now just as there is such understanding of the first coming of Jesus from the Biblical Feasts. Is the same thing true of the last Biblical Feast covering His return?

Mark: I believe absolutely so and that’s based on the fact that God said “He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.” And if He fulfilled the spring feast to the day of His first coming I believe He’ll fill the fall feast to the day of His Second Coming. Now we have no idea what year so I’m not setting dates, but I believe that the Body of Messiah needs to understand that God’s Devine appointment and get on His day timer so that they’ll know what to be expecting by doing the dress rehearsals.

Sid: Why does a believer need your new book and DVD titled “Blood Moons Decoding the Eminent Heavenly Signs”?

Mark: Because I believe in these last days one of greatest revelation that God is giving to His Body is to be on the right calendar. We’ve been on the wrong calendar and if you remember the anti-Christ he wants to change times and seasons. It’s referring to the Biblical calendar. We’ve been following the wrong calendar and I think it’s urgent.

Sid: Oh, that’s pretty interesting. Why would the anti-Christ want to get rid of the Biblical calendar in the last days? That makes sense because it decodes all of the mysteries in the Bible.   It decodes everything about His return. No wonder the anti-Christ wants to get rid of it. But I don’t even think we need an anti-Christ most Christians have thrown the Old Testament out.

Mark: Completely, do you know Sid I can show everyone in their Bible where the Apostle John was kicked out of the church, the Jews were kicked out of the church, and any non-Jew allowed Jews in were kicked out of the church. It’s in every Bible and everybody misses it. But that’s how quickly anti-Semitism set in.

Sid: Now the fall feast which you’ll talk about on tomorrow’s broadcast they originally were about things like barley and wheat. But you say in the last days there going to be about grapes?

Mark: Exactly, that’s what it says in the Book of Revelation. Because the season has changed He’s now at the fall feast. These events of the return of the Lord will happen in the fall. And it’s so exciting if they read the book and see the movie they’re going to get a better understanding of how important God’s…

Sid: Our time has slipped away we’ll talk about the fall feast on tomorrows broadcast.