YAHWEH'S
FEASTS
His Shadow From Things To Come

This world's governments are going to pass away, along with all the illegal lusts that are rampant in this world. Those who keep Yahweh's Laws will abide forever under the Shadow of Yahweh. Those who will practice what Yahweh says will be protected from the wars, sickness, disease, and death that will soon come upon this earth.

Yahweh's feasts are yahweh's Shadow from the things that are coming. It is vitally important that you keep Yahweh's Feasts exactly according to Yahweh's Ordinances. Not only does keeping Yahweh's Feasts assure you of His Protection from the horrors that will soon strike all mankind, they also assure that you will receive Eternal Life, if you practice obeying every word of every Law that proceeds from Yahweh's Mouth. Remember, it is not the hearers of Yahweh's Laws who will be justified; it is the doers of Yahweh's Laws who will be accounted worthy, as you may read for yourself.

Romans 2:13—
For not the hearers of the Laws are the Righteous in the sight of Yahweh, but the doers of the Laws are the Righteous.

Revelation 22:14—
Blessed are those who keep His Laws, that they may have right to the Tree of Life, and may enter in through the gates into the City.

If you keep Yahweh's Feasts, they are Yahweh's Shadow over you from the things that are coming. If you do not keep Yahweh's Feasts exactly according to His written Ordinances, then you are keeping your own feast. Yahweh plainly shows that unless His Ordained Feasts are kept on the exact day, according to His exact governing Ordinances, and at the place He has established to set His Name, those feasts would definitely not be His Feasts.

If the feasts are not kept exactly according to Yahweh's Ordinances, nor in the place He has chosen to establish His Name (at The House of Yahweh), then you become disobedient to Yahweh, which is what cuts you off from Yahweh. Yahweh will simply not be with you because you have cut yourself off from Him.

Isayah 59:1-2—
1 Behold, Yahweh's Hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2 But your own iniquities have separated you from your Father; and your own sins have caused Him to hide His face from you, so He will not listen.

This simple Law of Yahweh states that three times a year we are to keep a Feast to Yahweh.

Exodus 23:14—
Three times in the year shall you keep a Feast to Me:

This Law is intended for every man, woman, and child on the face of the earth. Yahweh does not exclude anyone from keeping His Perfect Laws.

Deuteronomy 16:14—
And you shall rejoice at your Feast—you and your wife (wives), your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widows in your cities—

Yahweh has listed His Feasts in Leviticus 23. Contrary to popular religious teachings, these are not feasts of Moses, nor are they the feasts of the Jews. Yahweh has said emphatically:

Leviticus 23:2—
...these are MY FEASTS.

Yahweh has also ordained Holy Convocations during His ordained year. These Holy Convocations are also listed in Leviticus 23, and are as follows:
Yahweh's Weekly Sabbath:
Leviticus 23:3—
Six days shall work be done, but the Seventh Day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a Holy Convocation. You shall not do your own work on it. It is the Sabbath of Yahweh in all your dwellings.

In addition to the weekly Seventh Day Sabbath, there are seven Holy Convocations during Yahweh's Sacred Year.
1. The First Holy Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread:
Leviticus 23:6-7—
6 And on the Fifteenth Day of the same moon is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to Yahweh; seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
7 On the first day you shall have a Holy Convocation; you shall do no regular work on it,

2. The Last Holy Day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread:
Leviticus 23:8—
But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh for seven days. The seventh day shall be a Holy Convocation; you shall do no regular work on it.

3. The Day of Pentecost:
Leviticus 23:21—
And you shall proclaim on that same day that it may be a Holy Convocation to you; Shabuot; the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Firstfruits. You shall do no regular work on it. It shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

4. The Feast of Trumpets:
Leviticus 23:24-25—
24 Speak to the children of Israyl, saying; In the seventh moon, on the first of the moon, you shall have a Sabbath, a Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets; The Feast of Trumpets, a Holy Convocation.
25 You shall do no regular work on it; but you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

5. The Day of Atonement:
Leviticus 23:27—
Also the tenth of this seventh moon is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a Holy Convocation for you. You shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

6. The First Holy Day of The Feast of Tabernacles:
Leviticus 23:34-35—
34 Speak to the children of Israyl, saying; The fifteenth day of this seventh moon is the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto Yahweh.
35 On the first day there shall be a Holy Convocation; you shall do no regular work upon it;

7. The Last Great Day:
Leviticus 23:36—
But for seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day you shall have a Holy Convocation; The Last Great Day, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is the Closing Gathering of Yahweh's Sacred Year, and you shall do no customary, regular work upon it.

If you will count for yourself, you will find that Yahweh has seven Holy Convocations, seven Sabbaths, besides His weekly Seventh Day Sabbath. Therefore, in order for this to be a Holy meeting for assembling and reading, Yahweh Himself must also be there, and if Yahweh is not there, these convocations will not be Holy.

Yahweh's Ordinances concerning His Feast Days are just as much a part of His Laws as His Ordinances concerning His weekly Sabbath Day.

In this article, we will be focusing on the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles & the Last Great Day.

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The Feast of Trumpets

We are commanded to keep the Feast of Trumpets in Leviticus 23.

Leviticus 23:23-25—
23 And Yahweh spoke to Mosheh, saying:
24 Speak to the children of Israyl, saying; In the seventh moon, on the first of the moon, you shall have a Sabbath, a Memorial of Blowing of Trumpets; The Feast of Trumpets, a Holy Convocation.
25 You shall do no regular work on it; but you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

The Feast of Trumpets is an Ordained Feast of Yahweh and a Sabbath on which none of your regular work is to be done. It is a day of worship unto Yahweh and a Holy Convocation.

We should gather together and attend the Holy Convocation services at The House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas if at all possible. However, if there is no Ordained Priest of Yahweh in your area, Yahweh has given command that the Feast of Trumpets, as an Ordained Feast of Yahweh, should remain Holy between you and Yahweh as a Sabbath Day, in the privacy of your own home.

It is a Sabbath Day in which none of your regular work is to be done, but the day is to be spent in Reverence and worship to Father Yahweh and participating in His Great Work.

The Feast of Trumpets marks or calls our attention to the anticipated ending of Yahweh's Sacred Year, just as the New Moon of Green Ears of Barley marks or calls our attention to the anticipated beginning of the Sacred Year of Yahweh. Yahweh has called out His Chosen Ones in these Last Days to return to the Faith once delivered to the Saints.

The Feast of Trumpets is not the end of Yahweh's Sacred Year; it is the memorial that the last moon (the seventh moon), of Yahweh's Sacred Year has begun. In Yahweh's seventh and last moon of His Sacred Year, the Day of Atonement falls on the tenth day, the Feast of Tabernacles falls on the fifteenth through twenty-first day and the Last Great Day falls on the twenty-second day. All of these Feasts of Yahweh are to be celebrated in Yahweh's seventh moon.

Yahweh has a Plan which He ordained from the beginning that those who would follow Him in complete submission, obeying every Word that proceeds from His Mouth, would keep the Feast of Trumpets by His Ordinances and by His Commandment, beginning at the sighting of the visible seventh moon of His Sacred Year.

Do not turn from Yahweh's Way in any manner. Yahweh has ordained His Way in the Holy Scriptures and we are to obey Him only. We are also to keep the Feast of Trumpets as a memorial, a remembrance, that the last moon of Yahweh's Sacred Year has begun, and we are to celebrate it as a Sabbath.

The Feast of Trumpets pictures the Work of Yahweh which is described in Scriptures as the blowing of a trumpet. We are now in the days of the Last, or Seventh, Trumpeter. For complete details on the last Work, you need the 11-tape sermon series on the Seventh Trumpeter entitled The Finishing Work Of The Seventh Messenger or The Book of Yisrayl, Making The Connection With Yahweh. Write or call The House of Yahweh for more information on these things.

Revelation 10:7—
But in the days of the voice of the Seventh Malak, when he will begin to sound, the Great Secret of Yahweh would be finished, as He declared to His Servants the Prophets.

Notice that this is the same Trumpet that sounds when Yahshua Messiah returns.

Mattithyah 24:30-31—
30 And then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven; and then will all those of the earth who are hostile to and have rejected Yahweh—and who have turned their hearts to gods (elohim)—will mourn, for they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with Power and Great Glory.
31 And He will send His Malakim with a great sound of a Trumpet, and they will gather together His Elect from the four winds, from one end of earth to the other.

The Day Of Atonement

The first day of the seventh moon is the Feast of Trumpets, which marks the beginning of a ten day period of spiritual self-examination and repentance, which culminates with the Day of Atonement. Intensive prayer and fasting are the central mood of this Holy Day. Acknowledgement of Yahweh as the Head of His Family, The House of Yahweh, should be the major theme of your prayers. The Ordinances of the Day of Atonement are given in Leviticus.

Leviticus 23:26-32—
26 And Yahweh spoke to Mosheh, saying:
27 Also the tenth of this seventh moon is the Day of Atonement. It shall be a Holy Convocation for you. You shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
28 You shall do no work at all on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you in front of Yahweh your Heavenly Father.
29 Any person who is not afflicted on that same day, he shall be cut off from his people.
30 Any person who does any work on that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
31 You shall do no manner of work at all; it shall be a Statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings, wherever you may live.
32 It is to you a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth of the moon at evening; at the setting of the sun, through the tenth of the moon at evening; at the setting of the sun, from evening until evening, you shall celebrate your Sabbath.

The Scriptural Commandment to afflict your souls is observed and obeyed by a complete and total fast; by eating and drinking nothing for the entire twenty-four hour period of the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement is from the ninth day of the seventh moon at sunset through the tenth day of the seventh moon at sunset.

We find the Commandment from Yahweh our Father to completely rest on the Day of Atonement. We are to do no manner of regular work. This day should be spent in prayer and study of the Scriptures. If it is at all possible, we should attend the Holy Convocation services at The House of Yahweh in Abilene, Texas. However, if there is no Ordained Priest of Yahweh in your local area, Yahweh has commanded that the Day of Atonement as an Ordained Feast of Yahweh, should remain Holy between you and Yahweh, as a Sabbath day of complete rest, in the privacy of your own home.

Much can be said about the benefits of fasting for health, and you will be able to find many books on this subject. Since the Day of Atonement is about Spiritual benefits, the complete fast on this day cleanses the body and mind of carnal passions; clearing your mind and strengthening the Spiritual senses.

The complete fast to Yahweh on the Day of Atonement shows us, rather quickly, just how dependent we are on the foods Yahweh created for us. We begin to see how weak we really are in only a few hours without food or water. We are quickly made aware of our need for Yahweh, Who created all things for us, and Who Alone can sustain our lives and grant us Eternal Life.

The Acceptable Fast

Yahweh teaches us to love one another, and to love Him.

I Thessalonians 4:9—
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that I write to you; for you yourselves are taught by Yahweh to love one another;

Notice in this Scripture that the Apostle Shaul said that Yahweh teaches us to love. Another fact you should note is what is known as the New Testament was not even written at the time Shaul was speaking, so the love Shaul was speaking of was found only in what is commonly known as the Old Testament, or more specifically, the Laws of Yahweh. The Apostle Yahchanan wrote more about this.

I Yahchanan 5:3—
For this is the Love of Yahweh: That we keep His Laws, and His Laws are not grievous.

The Day of Atonement actually tests our love. The acceptable fast to Yahweh would be to take what you would have eaten on that day and give that food to someone else, preferably to someone who is in need. When we love others enough to fast so someone else can eat, we have begun to overcome selfishness, and have made great steps towards becoming the kind of person Yahweh definitely wants us to be.

Does this mean we should go find a person we feel is poor and give them our food? By no means. We are to donate this food to Yahweh's House to provide for those in need. We also may give a monetary donation equal to the total cost of the food we would have consumed during this day. Again, we should give this donation to Yahweh's House to provide for those in need. In this way, we are showing love by not seeking our own glory, but allowing all Honor and Glory to go to our Father Yahweh through His House.

Giving our food to others who need it is not the ultimate love, but it is a great beginning toward that ultimate love and that is what Yahweh is teaching us on His Great and Wonderful Day of Atonement. We are told about the acceptable fast to Yahweh in Isayah.

Isayah 58:6-12—
6 Is this not the kind of fast that I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?
8 Then your light will break forth like the morning, and your health will spring forth speedily, and your righteousness will go before you; the Glory of Yahweh will be your Corrector; to cleanse and purify.
9 Then you will call, and Yahweh will answer; you will cry, and He will say: Here I am. If you take away the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger, and speaking vanity; iniquity, unrighteousness;
10 And if you extend yourself on behalf of the hungry, to satisfy the afflicted soul; then your light will rise in obscurity, and your darkness will be as the noonday.
11 Yahweh will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and make fat; strengthen, your bones. You will be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
12 And those of you will rebuild the old waste places; you will raise up the foundations of many generations; and you will be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In;

Many people today profess to have love for others, but how many people do you know of who would go without food so they could give that food to someone who is hungry? Yet that is the love that our Heavenly Father desires us to have for one another.

When we celebrate the Day of Atonement, as Yahweh instructed and ordained, we show that we love our brothers as much as we love ourselves. When we celebrate the Day of Atonement as Yahweh instructed and ordained, we are also showing our Faith through our works.

Yaaqob 2:14-20—
14 What does it profit, my brothers, if a man says he has Faith, but does not keep the Laws of Yahweh? The Faith is not able to save him.
15 If a brother or sister is naked, and destitute of daily food,
16 And one of you says to them: Depart in peace, be warmed and filled; but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body; what does it profit?
17 In the same way, the Faith, if it does not keep the Laws of Yahweh, is dead, being alone.
18 Yes, a man may say: You have Faith, and I keep the Laws of Yahweh. Show me your Faith without your keeping the Laws of Yahweh, and I will show you my Faith by my keeping the Laws of Yahweh!
19 You believe that there is one Father? You do well; the demons (elo-him) also believe, and tremble.
20 But are you willing to know, O vain man, that the Faith without keeping the Laws of Yahweh is dead?

When we can advance to the point of keeping the Day of Atonement by showing our Faith by our works, we will then come to AT-ONE-MENT with our Father Yahweh through His Son Yahshua Messiah. We will also be accepted by Yahweh into His Kingdom and will enter the Marriage Supper as brides because we love Yahweh enough to obey Him by living by every Word that proceeds from His Mouth.

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The Feast of Tabernacles

It is revealed in many Scriptures that the number six often refers to mankind's number. Six days of each week are given to man, but the Seventh Day was made Holy to Yahweh.

Exodus 20:9-10—
9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 But the Seventh Day is the Sabbath of Yahweh your Heavenly Father. In it you shall not do your work—neither your wife; neither your son; neither your daughter; neither your manservant; neither your maidservant; neither your cattle; neither the stranger who dwells within your gates.

Six years were given for mankind to harvest the fields he had planted, but the Seventh Year was a Sabbath Year of rest.

Exodus 23:10-11—
10 Six years shall you sow your land, and gather in its produce,
11 But the Seventh Year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may get food from it, and the wild animals may eat what is left. Do the same with your vineyard and your olive grove.

Yahweh then ordained His Jubilee Year, when men are to loose their hold on their fellow brother; seven times seven Sabbath Years are numbered, then the Jubilee Year is the fiftieth year.

Leviticus 25:8-13—
8 And you shall count seven Sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years; and the time of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be to you forty-nine years.
9 Then you have the Trumpet of the Jubilee sounded everywhere on the tenth day of the seventh moon; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your land.
10 Consecrate the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; and each of you shall return to his possession, and each of you shall return to his family.
11 That fiftieth year shall be a Jubilee to you. In it you shall neither sow nor reap what grows voluntarily, nor gather the grapes from your untended vines.
12 For it is the Jubilee; it shall be holy to you; you shall eat its produce from the field.
13 In this Year of Jubilee each of you shall return to his possession.

The Feast of Tabernacles is made up of seven days, but at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles Yahweh added another Sabbath, the Last Great Day. The Apostle Shaul tells us that the Feasts of Yahweh are a Shadow from things to come. For complete information about this fact, write for our free booklet, What Yahweh's Feasts Mean To You. The Apostle Shaul also tells us that Yahweh's Feasts are a pattern.

Hebrews 8:5—
They serve at a Sanctuary that is the Pattern and Shadow of the Heavenly Things, as Mosheh was admonished by Yahweh when he was about to make the Tabernacle. For He said: See that you make all things according to the Pattern shown you on the mountain.

The word translated pattern is tupos, word #5179 in Strong's Greek Dictionary and means style or resemblance, pattern.

The Apostle Shaul knew the Plan of Yahweh was revealed in the Holy Days Yahweh gave to man. When we understand what Yahweh's Holy Convocations picture during His Feasts, we come to understand the future events that are soon to take place. Keep that fact in mind as you read Shaul's inspired statements.

Romans 1:17-20—
17 For in this Message is the Righteousness of Yahweh revealed, originating from the Faith and leading to the Faith; as it is written: The Just will live by the Faith.
18 For the Justice of Yahweh is revealed from Heaven concerning all unholiness and unrighteousness of men or women, who suppress the Truth in unrighteousness.
19 For that which is known about Yahweh is manifest to them, because Yahweh has shown it to them.
20 For since the creation of the world, the invisible things of Him are clearly seen—His Eternal Power and Holiness—being understood by the things that are written; so that they are without excuse.

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