11. Class 11 – Visions of the Kingdom Age by Jim Dillingham 2014

11, Visions of the Kingdom Age by Jim Dillingham

This will be the eleventh class in the series entitled Visions of the Kingdom Age, being presented in the Cranston, Rhode Island adult Sunday School that began in the winter of 2014.

In our last class, we were considering the shadow validations for the presumption that there will be 2000 years between the 1st and 2nd resurrections to immortality in our Creator’s plan. Let us return to a reference we briefly considered in our last class in order to see some of that further depth, width and breadth to this identification of the 2000 years from the death and resurrection of Jesus, to the 1st of the 2 subsequent resurrections to immortality events associated with the beginning and the end of the millennial kingdom. Let’s go back to Hosea Ch 6 where the prophet declares, reading from v1, “Come, let us return unto the Lord: for he hath torn and he will heal us; He hath smitten, and he will bind us up. After 2 days will he revive us; In the 3rd day he will raise us up. And we shall live in his sight. Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord. His going forth is prepared as the morning: And he shall come to us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.” Obviously, this is about the resurrection, being revived and raised up in the third day, being, healed and living in God’s sight, all in the context of two more parallels repeatedly used throughout Scripture to identify the introduction of the millennial kingdom, the dawning of a new day, and the arrival of the latter rains.

We should note there is a very, very pronounced redundancy here. A doubling in Hosea’s prophecy, in fact one of the great tools in plumbing a greater depth in divine communications, is recognising the unique value hidden in the Creator’s tool of precision redundancy. When we communicate with each other, being redundant is considered unnecessary, and a sign of poor communication skills. However, this is one of the ways our Heavenly Father hides the glory in his expressions from the “wise in their own eyes,” who discount that seemingly needless redundancy. Let us examine this 2nd redundant expression a little more closely to witness that hidden communication, reserved only for the meek who will inherit the earth, for the circumcised in heart who do not underestimate God.

Let’s look at the time-line Hosea offers those with “seeing eyes” and “hearing ears.” “After 2 days, God will revive us. On the 3rd day he will raise us up.” Well, the 3rd day, is after the 2nd day, but that specific form of redundant expression is a veiled reference to the 2 raisings on that 3rd day. The 2 “healings” and “bindings” expressed in the 1st redundant example. That will be the 3rd divine day, which is the millennial kingdom. Again we should all be familiar with the definition of a divine day from Psa 90 and 2 Pet 3, that 1000 years is equivalent to 1 day for Yahweh. When the promise of the resurrection is expressed as happening after 2 days, this indicates being after 2000 years, and the fact that the same promise is repeated as not only “after 2 days,” but also being“on the 3rd day,” is a reference to both of the immortalisation events at the beginning and the end of that 3rd day, the 3rd millennium since our Messiah’s death and resurrection, the millennial kingdom, the kingdom age that is the focus of our considerations. This is a match to the timing observation we noted in the 3 accounts of the transfiguration on the mount in the gospels, where the time from the promise of seeing the kingdom to the experience, was defined as both “after 6 days,” in Matthew, Mark, and “about 8 days,” in Luke, again presenting the same interestingly redundant, but complementary, timing definition suggesting a 2-fold application for the beginning of the 7th millennium, that 7th day, which is after the 6th, and after 2 days as Hosea says, that 7th day is defined as, of course, after 6 days, but also the end of the 7th millennium by defining that timing as also about 8 days. So the expression Hosea makes for the timing of the resurrection as being after 2 days is yet another complementary defining of the approximate 2000 year wait from precedent-setting death and resurrection of our Messiah, to the realised participation of the faithful, the seed of the Messiah, his first fruits.

Another shadow application of these 2 immortalisation events would be the 2 cleansings from the defilement of the touch of death, when the ashes of the red heifer sin offering were spattered with running water, onto the death-defiled, on the 3rd and the 7th days of their 7-day term, for being outside the wilderness camp. It will be the 3rd day from the death of the antitypical red heifer, our saviour, when the 1st set of saints will be cleansed from their defilement of death; what Paul explains to the Philippians as being when “our vile bodies” will be changed to be like the glorious body of our saviour, when he brings our heavenly citizenship to us upon his return. But the ashes of the red heifer are also spattered on the death-defiled on the 7th day, referring to the 2nd cleansing of the death-defiled in that same millennium, it is not just the 3rd from the death of the red heifer substance, but also the 7th day, the 7th millennium from when death first defiled mankind, just after creation. This surgical redundancy pattern in God’s testimony is a filter that permits the “circumcised in heart,” that do not underestimate Yahweh, to see more, while taking away from the “wise in their own eyes,” what little they can see. The exact reason Jesus gave his disciples for why he insisted on speaking in those intentionally confusing parables, without explaining them to anyone but his closest disciples, and always privately.

Another more veiled projection of this timing difference between Christ’s and the first saints’ salvation event, would be the 2-year wait Joseph experienced after interpreting the bread and wine dreams where Pharaoh’s baker of breads died after 3 days, and Pharaoh’s presenter of wines, his wine taster, was raised to the right hand of power after 3 days in prison. Joseph continued to languish in prison for 2 whole years after that shadow image of the death and resurrecting of our Messiah, with those 2-year units projecting the 2 millenniums, the Joseph-like enlightened community would continue to languish, imprisoned by he curse of sin and death, until like Joseph, we too will be raised to the right hand of power from that prison of the curse of sin and death, to enjoy glory, and political authority.

You should note that the reason that these shadows become visible to us now, is on the basis of hindsight, not foresight. Now that we have witnessed the sign identifying the final generation of the ecclesial age, the political resurrection of the national firstborn son of God, from 1947 to 1967, and those four wars of Israel, fulfilling the four reconstruction stages prophesied in Ezek 37 of skeletal reconstruction, flesh, sinew, skin, by witnessing this “sign of the prophet Jonah” for the resurrection of the national firstborn son of God, we are enabled to identify that time-frame from the 1st and 2nd immortalisations, or divine harvesting, as being about 2000 years, and look back over Scripture to see the veiled references to the fact that this was always the plan, but it wasn’t revealed openly, or plainly. I think this hindsight avenue is the real value to prophecy. We should understand prophecies were not given for the benefit of the unenlightened, but for the enlightened community. When Paul was addressing how the Corinthian ecclesia was abusing the miraculous powers of the Holy Spirit with which they had been invested, he identified the divine motivation for awarding 2 of the gift categories, prophecy and multiple language mastery, Scripturally expressed as “tongues.” This is 1 Cor 14, reading at v22, “Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not, for prophesying serves not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. Prophesying isn’t provided for the unenlightened. Our Creator reveals the future for our benefit, but concentrating on yet unfulfilled prophecy doesn’t really have a positive effect, despite the tremendous emphasis Christadelphians place on “Signs of the Times,” the endless postulations designed to excite us and put us on the edge of the seat, a seat with all those ‘mountain out of mole hill’ postulations. It is astounding to see how certain brethren have been wrong with their “Signs of the Times” projections, time after time, and yet are still, repeatedly asked to speak. Are all we are looking for is an emotional stimulus with very little substance.

It is the fulfilled prophecies that are validating, insuring, comforting, serve to strengthen our resolve, this is the value of hindsight. Fulfilled prophecy strengthens our confidence, our faith, but concentrating on the ‘signs of the times,’ the yet unfulfilled prophecies concerning the events related to the return of Jesus, can be very self-defeating. We aren’t prophets, no matter how much me may want to appear that way. It is the hindsight that offers unshakeable validation, it isn’t foresight that offers the serious value for the serious bible student, it is hindsight. This is why Yahweh hides these prophetic confirmations in the shadows of his expressions, for our exclusive benefit, for our spiritual growth, our maturing. These shadows are completely invisible and insignificant to the unenlightened but are accessible to the enlightened but only if we look and listen with seeing eyes, and hearing ears, empowered by a circumcised heart.

So just as we see the Feast of Unleavened Bread projecting the immortalisation of our Messiah, and the Feast of Weeks, of Pentecost, projecting the immortalisation of the saints at the beginning of the millennial kingdom, we can see the 40 days of our Messiah’s appearances within that 50-day wait between the two feasts as subtlety projecting the 40 sets of 50 years, between the actual 1st and the actual 2nd divine harvests, those immortalisation events in our Creator’s plan. That does not offer any pinpoint definition of the anticipated return of Christ, because we have no idea how long the judgment is going to take, or even if the dead are judged before the living are even called to judgment. We only know that both the living and dead are immortalised together. This 2000 year shadow pattern is all about the first two resurrections to immortality.

In our transition into considering the relationship between the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles, that 3rd and last annual Harvest Feast Week, we should note an interesting observation concerning the Feast of Weeks in reference to the millennial kingdom age. I have not been able to find any reference indicating the Feast of Weeks will be observed during the millennial kingdom, but we can find references requiring the observation of Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the observation of the Feast of Tabernacles. Now an absence is a difficult feature to determine. A presence is much easier to observe, but an absence doesn’t necessarily eliminate the possibility, it just sparks that “why” question. Why is this the only harvest feast observance that isn’t mentioned as being required to be observed during the Millennial kingdom. Well, let’a read about the feasts during the kingdom age in Ezek 45. We should all be aware that Ezekiel is recording his visions of kingdom age, beginning at Ch 40 to the end of his book. There is an incredible wealth of information about what the kingdom age will be like in these chapters.

The differences between the 1st kingdom age and this restored kingdom age, can serve as spotlights of extreme significance to pursue insight into the mind of our Creator, and exposure to his glory that is hidden in the darkness of the shadows of his expression. So let’s read about the instructions for the observance of these feasts in the kingdom age. This is Ezek 45 and we are in going to start reading at v21. “In the 1st month in the 14th day of the month ye shall have the Passover, a feast of 7 days, unleavened bread shall be eaten, and upon that day shall the Prince prepare for himself and all of the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering and 7 days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord 7 bullocks and 7 rams without blemish, daily, for seven days, and a kid of the goats, daily for the sin offering. And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephar for a bullock and an ephar for a ram and a hin of oil for an ephar. In the 7th month in the 15th day of the month shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days according to the sin offering, and according to the meat offering and according to the oil.”

Ezekiel in the context of the 4th Temple operation during the millennial kingdom, the Temple Jesus Christ will be tasked with constructing, only the first and the last feasts are identified. That absence of the Feast of Weeks here, initiated a long search by me, looking for any reference to observing the Feast of Weeks during the kingdom age. I haven’t found any, which I understand as a very interesting absence. We certainly have severe warnings through the prophet Zechariah for anyone disrespecting the Feast of Tabernacles in the kingdom age. Zechariah Chapters 12 to 14 are all about the violent transition into the kingdom age in the beginning of that kingdom age. We read about the battle at Jerusalem and how Christ and the immortalised saints will save the the remaining Jews from annihilation from that gogian gang of 6. We read about the incredible earthquake that rips the Mount of Olives in 2 and the geographic resculpting of the promised land. And in v9 we read that Yahweh will be king over all the earth, so let us drop down to beginning of v16 of Zechariah Ch 14. “And it shall come to pass that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of Hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King the Lord of Hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not that have no rain there shall be a plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. So there will be severe penalties in the kingdom age if any of the mortal citizens of this global kingdom refuse to respect that last Harvest Feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, which God calls the Feast of the Final Ingathering.

So I can’t find any references referring to any observation of the Feast of Weeks during the kingdom age, yet both the others feast weeks are highlighted. Why would that be, why wouldn’t the Feast of Weeks be observed during the kingdom age, just like the other two harvest feasts. I think this may be related to another distinctive issue separating the Feast of Weeks from the other two feasts. The Feast of Unleavened Bread always began and ended with a High Sabbath, no matter which day of the week that 15th day of the 1st month came, it was always appointed a High Sabbath, because it was the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. The first and lasts days of the Feast of Tabernacles also served as High Sabbaths, the 15th and 23rd days of the 7th month. The 23rd because a unique feature of the Feast of Tabernacles was that it lasted 8 days and not 7 like the two previous harvest feasts in each year, since that harvest feast projects the Creator’s 3rd divine harvest in that 8th day, the time just after the millennial kingdom. So these 1st and 3rd feasts that will be observed during the millennial kingdom, each share this feature of the book ending Sabbaths, just like the 3 days of the death of our Messiah, where the 1st and last days were Sabbaths. The High Sabbath of the first day of the Feast of Unleavened was the 1st day of our saviour’s death, on a Thursday. And the weekly Saturday Sabbath on that 3rd and last day of his death was the Saturday Sabbath with the Friday being the non-sabbath between them, but the Feast of Weeks only had a High Sabbath at the beginning, not at the end, as if it was incomplete in some way when compared to the pattern being demonstrated in the other two Harvest Feast Weeks that will be observed during the millennial kingdom.

A complementary observation would be that the 1st and the last Feast Weeks, the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles, would each have a very appropriate 3 Sabbaths during their 7 or 8-day terms. There would be the 1st and the last days that were appointed as the High Sabbaths and of course the usual Saturday’s Sabbath that would fall somewhere within those 7 or 8-day terms. After all a Sabbath represents a rest from sin as well as a rest from the effects of sin, a moral application and a physical application, just like the dual nature of sin, the guilty sin of contradicting our Creator’s righteousness and the guilt-free sin of being born with a sin-cursed nature that is in itself a contradiction of the Creator’s ‘right-ness,’ as our nature is mortal, while our Creator’s is immortal. But there is absolutely no guilt applied to this condition that requires any kind of repentance, just as the cleansing, purging but absolutely necessary. The sabbath is related to our immortalisation theme as the last two immortalisation events are scheduled at either end of that 7th millennium, the Sabbath millennium, like the evening and the morning of that 7th day in the divine plan projected in creation. So why would the Feast of Weeks be missing from the millennial kingdom, and why would the Feast of Weeks only have two Sabbaths throughout those 7 days and why would it be missing that final High Sabbath at its conclusion. My suggestion would be that only the Feast of Weeks will have been completely fulfilled at the beginning of the millennial kingdom and that this 2nd immortalisation event, in which we personally hope to participate, is not the complete and final answer to the plan of God, which is one reason why it offers this image of incompleteness with only the 1st day and not the last day serving as the High Sabbath, and why there would be only be 2 Sabbaths during that only 7 day term.

Our foundational understanding is that these 3 Feast Weeks project the 3 immortalisations in our Creator’s plan in very sharp detail. That first divine harvest of Jesus Christ being projected in the Feast of Unleavened Bread is not really finished. Yes, Jesus of Nazareth was immortalised, he was awarded the divine nature. He was the exclusive participant in that first divine harvesting event almost 2000 years ago, sin can never touch him again. But there is more being projected in that 1st Feast Week, that first Feast of the Unleavened Bread Week, serves as the foundation for everything. It is the beginning and the end, the foundation and the final completion of the plan of God, the alpha and omega, that first cornerstone and that last key stone for which Jesus, our Messiah, our King, our Savior is the foundation for its success. Jesus the only participant in that first divine harvest from creation, defines himself as both the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end in both the 1st chapter and the last chapter of that last book of the Bible. Jesus says in Rev 22v12, “And behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give every man according as his works shall be. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the 1st and the last.” Just as Jesus is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, the harvest feast projecting his immortalisation has a further application to the complete whole of the divine plan, which is not realised until the 8th divine day, after the conclusion of the millennial kingdom, after that last enemy death is completely eliminated. This is why the full range of both Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are required to be observed during the kingdom.

There is still substance to be revealed from that shadow. I think this is why we never read of the Feast of Weeks being observed during the kingdom age, and why there are only an incomplete 2 Sabbaths during that second feast week. In fact this 8th day issue is another issue separating the alpha and omega harvest feasts, the Unleavened Bread and Tabernacles, from the Feast of Weeks. There is no need for the shadow ritual to be observed, since the substance casting that shadow has been, will have been, fully revealed, there is a comprehensiveness in the Feast of Unleavened Bread projecting the foundational salvation of our Messiah that is the basis for the other two salvation harvestings, and the perfection of all creation after death is eliminated. However, the Feast of Weeks’ salvation substance is limited to the immortalisation of the saints at the beginning of the millennial kingdom. And of course the substance of the Feast of Tabernacles has its application at the end of the millennial kingdom. Therefore the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles will both be observed during the restored kingdom, but the absence of the observance of the Feast of Weeks is perfectly understandable in the context of the manner in which our Creator educates mankind through laws and rituals.

Technically, the first two feast weeks lasted for 7 days and the Feast of Tabernacles lasted for 8. We read of those 8 days of the Feast of Tabernacles in Lev 23 starting in v34. “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The 15th day of this 7th month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for 7 days unto the Lord. On the 1st day shall be an holy convocation, you shall do no servile work therein. 7 days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. On the 8th day shall be an holy convocation unto you and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. It is a solemn assembly and you shall do no servile therein.” Now the Feast of Unleavened bread and the Feast of Weeks were each defined by a 7-day term. It is this 8-day term of the Feast of Tabernacles, the Harvest Feast of the Final Ingathering that so perfectly aligns its prophet application as being at the end of the millennial kingdom, and not the beginning that is so often, but oddly, presented by teachers and writers in our enlightened community. Our Creator’s plan is not completely realised, not finished until that 8th day. We read about this time in 1 Cor 15 in the context of Paul’s comments concerning resurrection and how the ecclesia at Corinth was starting to be corrupted. 1 Cor 15 starting at v24, “Then comes the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God even the Father, when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power, for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet, but when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that He is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”

The last end, is the complete and finished 7th day. The ultimate and last beginning is after that 7th day, the 8th day, for which there shall be no end, only beginning. This 8th day observation perfectly parallels how we saw the timing of that 3rd transfiguration vision in Luke, when we are told that that was about 8 days after Christ promised that there some standing there who would not die before they saw the kingdom, that they actually experienced that event with Christ, God, in the vision of Moses and Elijah on the mount. We noted how two of the records defined that time frame as after 6 days and Luke describes it as about the 8th day, identifying those 3 records with how the 6 Greek letters of our Saviour’s name mathematically translate into the three 8s, 888, projecting those same three immortalisation events, those 3 salvation events in the divine plan. We’ve seen that 6,8,3 pattern in watch of the 3 salvation arks provided during through the first 3 divinely appointed ages, Noah’s typical ark of salvation in the patriarchal age, the typical golden ark of the covenant during the first kingdom age, and of course, our anti-typical salvation ark, Jesus Christ, provided in the beginning of the ecclesial age.

So since the Feast of Unleavened Bread is limited to 7 days, but the Feast of Tabernacles extended to 8 days, associating it with the final immortalisation but noting the absence of a requirement to observe the second feast week during the restored kingdom, on what basis do we have the right to suggest that the first harvest feast week, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, still has a future fulfilling application, even beyond the Feast of Weeks projecting the 2nd immortalisation. Since we see clearly that the Feast of Unleavened Bread and Passover will both definitely be required to be observed during the restored kingdom. Well, first, there is, actually, a subtle 8-day shadow in that first harvest feast week of Unleavened bread, that does initially project the exclusive immortalisation of Jesus Christ. That 8-day shadow would be the observation of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, immediately followed Passover, and was bound to Passover, making that progression between the two as somewhat of an 8-day progression, however we should also recognise the unique binding agent between the ritual Passover and that immediately following Feast Unleavened Bread is the complete absence of leaven, unique to both Passover and this one harvest feast, the first harvest feast, representing the divine harvest, the immortalisation of our Messiah. We have already seen that this combination of Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread represent both the reconciling death and the saving resurrection of our Messiah, exactly when each of those actual events took place. Jesus died on Passover day, and rose to both mortality and then to immortality during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, that immortalisation of our Messiah is the shadow of our own hope for immortalisation, which is not truly completed in all creation until that 8th day, at the conclusion of the millennial kingdom, when there will subsequently be complete harmony between creation and our Creator, with all that offends his righteousness being cut away in circumcision-like fashion. The 8th day represents that time beyond the millennial kingdom, which really isn’t a time at all, as time will then have absolutely no significance whatsoever. It will be beginning and without an ending. Therefore there will be no need to chronicle the passage of time, no decay, no maturing progression, just a perfect completeness. We see a reference to this point at which the concept of time has no place in creation in Rev 10. John is forbidden to record what he heard the 7 thunders speak, in Rev 10 beginning in v4, we read, “And when the 7 thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the 7 thunders uttered, and write them not. And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that therein are, and the earth and the things that therein are, and the sea and the things that are therein, that there should be time no longer.” It is that 8th day, just beyond the millennial kingdom age, when time itself will no longer have any purpose. Decay and maturing are features of finiteness and not eternity. Decay, rotting, rusting, ageing, finiteness are contradictions of our Creator’s right-ness of incorruptibility and infiniteness, infinite. That operating creation mode, after the millennial kingdom ends will be entirely different. This is why we are told, we don’t even have the capacity, to imagine how wonderful that life will be, 1 Cor 2v9, ”But as it is written, Eye has not seen nor ear heard neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for them who love him.” And that is quoted from Isa 64v4.

The reason the name of Jesus, meaning saviour, mathematically translates from 6 Greek letters into three 8s is because Jesus is the key to all 3 immortalisations, his own, ours and the 3rd and last one at the end of the kingdom age. He is intimately involved in all three, therefore the feast week projection his immortalisation still has an ultimate application. There is more to that substance casting that particular shadow. Our immortalisation, the immortalisation of the saints, and the immortalisation of the saints at the end of the kingdom age and the healing of all creation, cannot be completely separated from our Messiah’s immortalisation. Everything is achieved on the basis of his victory. I think this is why Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread are both still observed during the restored kingdom age, but the Feast of Weeks, appears not to not be required to be observed. That Feast of Weeks will have been completely fulfilled, its substance revealed, while the truths and principles being projected by Passover the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles, will still have a purpose to be fulfilled, and still offer valuable educational substance that can be drawn from their educational shadows, and applied. One might ask the same thing about what is somewhat disparagingly referred to as Law of Moses. Well this is not an inaccurate description, as Moses was the avenue through which our Creator’s laws were delivered. The suggestion is emphasised, “These are the laws of Moses that belonged to Moses and have nothing to do with Jesus Christ.” It was even stated at our last fraternal gathering that we are not under the Law of Moses, and never will be again.” Never will be again? That would only be true if we are not invited to inherit the kingdom by Jesus Christ. So as long as we perish forever, then, yes, we will never have to respected the laws that God gave through Moses ever again, but most of those laws and rituals will be restored when Christ is both the King of the Earth and the High Priest of the exclusive state-sponsored religion in the world.

That ‘why’ question surfaces again. Some Christadelphians do ask, ‘Isn’t the Law of Moses completely fulfilled, hasn’t it been totally satisfied?’ Why in the world would we have a 4th Temple as Ezekiel so clearly prophecies and feast weeks and circumcision and Sabbath observance and blood altar offerings? Why does Ezekiel actually prophecy that Jesus himself will offer a sin offering on the altar, for himself and the people. Why will there still be animal sacrifices and harvest feast-weeks? The obvious answer is that there has only been a partial fulfilment in the laws of that 1st kingdom age, that these laws and most of the rituals will be reinforced, taught, policed in the restored kingdom age because there is still an application to be fulfilled in all those shadow projections. There is still substance to be revealed from these shadow lessons. The foundational answer is that contrary to our instinctive thought process, everything is not all about us. God wasn’t surprised when Adam and Eve wrecked his “very good” creation. He was not forced to come up with some kind of new plan to prevent an impending failure. God can’t be taken by surprise, he is a lot smarter than that. The entire plan was in place before the first day of creation. There is more to our Creator’s plan than just human beings. All of creation will have to become a perfect projection of our Creator’s “right-ness,” not just mankind. From the vastness of the universe down to the tiniest atomic structure, this understanding about our significance being less than is instinctively presumed and promoted by a heart-generated thought process, is why a 600-year old Noah had to save animals on a 3-layered ark, in addition to the 8 people in 2 generations, because plans is more than the salvation of people. It is about all of creation, not just one isolated, but admittedly, significantly component, ourselves, the appointed caretakers of creation. All this isn’t about us, it is all about our Creator. Our participation in his plan is contingent on our understanding, appreciating, and valuing above everything, that completely unique “right-ness” of our Creator’s eternal truths and principles. Now that is the short answer as to why Yahweh will demand the Law of Moses to be restored, along with the restored kingdom, kingdom law, there is more, there is a lot more to this, naturally, but the short answer is, just like Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the application has not run its course. The substance casting the shadow has not been fully revealed.

There is more to be fulfilled in these shadow expressions of our Creator, because this plan isn’t all just about us. We have to look beyond the mirror. This is why Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread will have to again be observed during the millennial kingdom age, but apparently the Feast of Weeks will not. This is why Jesus will actually be offering sin offerings for himself and the people, his week is not completely done in reference to sin. He has to defeat sin in all of its applications as well, he has to defeat death in more than simply himself, in fact, in all of creation. There is a greater application to be fulfilled when the kingdom is delivered up to his Father, that death and therefore also sin, as death is the result of sin, that death will be eliminated completely. Let’s just review that same expression about the time of this transition into the 8th period in 1 Cor 15. Again reading those verses, 24-28, “Then cometh the end,” this is the final end, “when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign until he has put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death, for he hath put all things under his feet, but when he saith All things are put under him it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall the son also himself be subject to unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.” We read about this elimination of death and therefore sin, as there could be no sin, no contractions of our Heavenly Father’s righteousness if there is no death, as death is the consequence, the wages of sin. Sin is the sting of death, the venom, this is how we know that immortal angels cannot sin, because they can’t die. Since they can’t die, as Jesus testifies in Luke 20, then they cannot have he capacity to sin, or they would have to die. John testifies to the elimination of death at the conclusion of the millennial kingdom age in Rev 20 starting at v11. “I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God and the books were opened and then another book was opened, which is the book of Life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead that were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, this is the second death. And whosoever was not found in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” This is the 8th day, the day after the Sabbath millennium when time will stop. Everything will change, the entire operating model of creation will convert to short-term progression ending decay to completion. The foolish musings of men that have arrogantly spouted that, ‘It isn’t about the destination of our lives that is significant but the journey itself,’ will be proven false. The enlightened community has a destination in mind, perfect harmony with our Creator and all of is creation project, this is the final result.

This is why Passover and the Feat of Unleavened Bread will still have to be observed during the kingdom age, when all that creation will experience during those 1000 years will be a rest from sin, necessarily enjoying a rest from the effects of sin as well. But only a rest on that Sabbath day of 1000 years. On that 8th day, following the conclusion of the kingdom, all flesh will be cut off, just like the circumcision ritual required on the 8th day of a boy’s life. This is why the last feast, the Feast of Tabernacles projecting that 3rd and last immortalisation in the divine plan, had to be observed over a unique 8 days. But that 8-day completion cycle was also somewhat subtlety projected in the Passover, immediately followed by the 7 days of the Feast of the Unleavened Bread. So this, I think, is why the Feast of Weeks will apparently not be observed during the millennial kingdom age; it’s amplification will have been completely fulfilled. But Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread, most certainly will be observed during that Sabbath kingdom age, as the complete fulfilment of that 1st harvest feast is not just the primary application of the immortalisation of our saviour but how he extends his victory to 2 saints’ salvation stages and to all creation at the conclusion of the kingdom age. So we have determined the 3 harvest feast weeks are shadow projections, created when the light of our Creator’s expressions shines onto the hidden substance of the 3 divine harvests in our Creator’s plan. The 2 forms of divine expression blend perfectly in this testimony, these are the 2 witnesses in our life and death trial before Jesus Christ. These two witnesses are the written word of God, the Bible, and the spoken word of God, the terms of creation. Our Heavenly Father defines these shadows for the exclusive understanding of those within the enlightened community with circumcised hearts and therefore, seeing eyes, and hearing ears.

In our next class we will look at a very significant warning from Yahweh, concerning the conditional participation of the enlightened community in those harvest feast week shadows, which therefore has a direct application to ourselves, as we meet every week, to remember the substance of that 1st divine harvest, and our goal is to participate in our Creator’s 2nd divine harvest at the beginning of the millennial kingdom.

Transcript by Fay Berry 2017