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Since 1967, the Jews have added three new festivals to their calendar of holidays. That brings the total to 22 Jewish festivals - each corresponding to the meanings of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet respectively. The three new festivals are observed during the 50-day period between Passover week and Pentecost. Their prophetic significance reveals the nearness of Christ's return.
Having been initiated in the days of Moses with seven major feasts, the number of observances in the Jewish festival calendar has now grown in number to twenty-two, counting the major feasts and fasts. Their present order now perfectly corresponds with the symbolic outline of the Hebrew alphabet. When one goes through the complete calendar, it can be observed that it has indeed reached a final form ... i.e. the final 5 forms of the Hebrew alphabet. This remarkable actuality has been true only since 1967, a year in which a biblical significant and prophetic event occurred when Israel regained Jerusalem in the six day war, thus fulfilling biblical prophecy. This war indicates the nearness of the final seven years of judgment upon earth known as the Tribulation period. This discovery fairly shouts that we are the generation spoken of by Jesus, as he spoke to his disciples concerning the last days when the Kingdom of Christ would be established on earth:
"And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled" (Luke 21:29-32).
Only now, in our generation, has the festival cycle been completed. The final festival, "Yom Yerushalem," or Jerusalem Day - is the last of three modern festivals, which were added in the years following Israeli statehood in 1948. From that day to this, we are at fifty-four years and counting. Israel, the fig tree, has grown green again. It is the present historical period, and Israeli statehood, that most Bible expositors believe to have brought a major fulfillment of prophecy. And it has been during this time that that the three latest festivals have elevated the Jewish cycle of observances to it's conclusion.
As if this simple fact weren't remarkable enough, their position within the calendar is even more startling. Their pattern and location tells a clear and exciting prophetic story. To begin with, it must be remembered that the Spring festivals - Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits (the Omer) - recall the first coming of Christ. The fall festivals - Rosh Hashana, Yom kippur and Tabernacles - foretell his Second Coming and establishment of the Kingdom on Earth. Between them, in the early summer, we find the Omer with it's count of days that lead to Shavuot (Pentecost). By inference, it symbolizes the current period of history. Shavuot is referred to as the "festival without a date," since in it's original reckoning, it's date would vary from year to year. It is the mysterious feast that symbolizes the time when one dispensation changes to another. For example, following the Flood, the Lord made a covenant with Noah on Shavuot. On Shavuot, the twelve tribes received the Law. And of course, under it's Greek name - Pentecost - the Church Age was founded. It is quite significant, then, to discover that the final three festivals are clustered together in the period known as the "counting of the Omer," just prior to Shavuot. Taken in order, these festivals commenorate the Holocaust (Yom Ha Shoah), the day of Israel's independence (Yom HaAtzmaut) and the winning of Jerusalem in 1967 (Yom Yerushalem).
Since 1967, the Jews have added three new festivals to their calendar of holidays. That brings the total to 22 Jewish festivals - each corresponding to the meanings of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet respectively. The three new festivals are observed during the 50-day period between Passover week and Pentecost. Their prophetic significance reveals the nearness of Christ's return.
Having been initiated in the days of Moses with seven major feasts, the number of observances in the Jewish festival calendar has now grown in number to twenty-two, counting the major feasts and fasts. Their present order now perfectly corresponds with the symbolic outline of the Hebrew alphabet. When one goes through the complete calendar, it can be observed that it has indeed reached a final form ... i.e. the final 5 forms of the Hebrew alphabet. This remarkable actuality has been true only since 1967, a year in which a biblical significant and prophetic event occurred when Israel regained Jerusalem in the six day war, thus fulfilling biblical prophecy. This war indicates the nearness of the final seven years of judgment upon earth known as the Tribulation period. This discovery fairly shouts that we are the generation spoken of by Jesus, as he spoke to his disciples concerning the last days when the Kingdom of Christ would be established on earth:
"And he spake to them a parable; Behold the fig tree, and all the trees; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all be fulfilled" (Luke 21:29-32).
Only now, in our generation, has the festival cycle been completed. The final festival, "Yom Yerushalem," or Jerusalem Day - is the last of three modern festivals, which were added in the years following Israeli statehood in 1948. From that day to this, we are at fifty-four years and counting. Israel, the fig tree, has grown green again. It is the present historical period, and Israeli statehood, that most Bible expositors believe to have brought a major fulfillment of prophecy. And it has been during this time that that the three latest festivals have elevated the Jewish cycle of observances to it's conclusion.
As if this simple fact weren't remarkable enough, their position within the calendar is even more startling. Their pattern and location tells a clear and exciting prophetic story. To begin with, it must be remembered that the Spring festivals - Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits (the Omer) - recall the first coming of Christ. The fall festivals - Rosh Hashana, Yom kippur and Tabernacles - foretell his Second Coming and establishment of the Kingdom on Earth. Between them, in the early summer, we find the Omer with it's count of days that lead to Shavuot (Pentecost). By inference, it symbolizes the current period of history. Shavuot is referred to as the "festival without a date," since in it's original reckoning, it's date would vary from year to year. It is the mysterious feast that symbolizes the time when one dispensation changes to another. For example, following the Flood, the Lord made a covenant with Noah on Shavuot. On Shavuot, the twelve tribes received the Law. And of course, under it's Greek name - Pentecost - the Church Age was founded. It is quite significant, then, to discover that the final three festivals are clustered together in the period known as the "counting of the Omer," just prior to Shavuot. Taken in order, these festivals commenorate the Holocaust (Yom Ha Shoah), the day of Israel's independence (Yom HaAtzmaut) and the winning of Jerusalem in 1967 (Yom Yerushalem).
