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An Unbreakable And Everlasting Covenant Agreement
My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. (Psalm 89: 34)

The covenant is a legal document, where God made a promise to the people and they promised to obey the agreement. The commandments are the basis of this agreement.
The Commandments Are The Covenant. So He declared to you His covenant which He commanded you to perform, that is the Ten Commandments, and He wrote them on two tables of stone. (Deuteronomy 4: 13)
The covenant removes the enmity created by sin and restores our friendship with God.

• The Covenant. When the people agreed to keep the covenant, they were agreeing to what was written in Exodus 20 -23 and the people promised to obey.
  . Then Moses came and recounted to the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do!" (Exodus 24: 3)
• Promises And Prophecies In The Law. Although the commandments are based on the law of love and described as ten commandments, the rest of the Torah further describe the scope of these basic laws.
  The laws in Exodus 20-23 also prophesied about Jesus in the week of His crucifixion.
  • Ten Commandments And The Priests (Exodus 20). Commandments, idolatry, altar of sacrifice made of earth or stones not cut with human tools and priests should not be exposed naked on the altar.
  • Violence (Exodus 21). Slavery, personal injury, murder, hitting, kidnapping, cursing.
  • Robbery (Exodus 22). Stealing, restutition, breach of trust, sexual sins, lending without interest, strangers, widows and orphans, cursing leaders, firstborn.
  • Injustice (Exodus 23). Lying, bribes, perverting justice, relieving suffering, oppressing strangers, Land Sabbaths and Feasts and conquering the land.
• The Law. The law is the character and image of God which must be restored in us. It has always existed because God has always existed.
• The Grace Of God. Only God can create and recreate. Therefore, only God can guarantee salvation. The love and kindness of God made Him form a plan to forgive our assault on His character and change us into His image if we desire it.
  • Oath. God alone will do and can do what is necessary for our salvation. So the oath came after the law because it was the remedy for breaking the law. It was the plan God made to deal with sin when He decided to create other beings. An oath is the only way that God can guarantee that His agreement and promise will never be broken.
    The Oath Of God. For the law appoints men as high priests who are weak, but the word of the oath, which came after the law, appoints a Son, made perfect forever. (Hebrews 7: 28)
    Two Unchangeble Facts. For when God made the promise to Abraham, since He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself ... In the same way God, desiring even more to show to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose, interposed with an oath, 18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. (Hebrews 6: 13)
    God made an oath based on two facts: It is impossible for God to lie and there is no one greater than God. Based
    . who has become such not on the basis of a law of physical requirement, but according to the power of an indestructible life. 20 And inasmuch as it was not without an oath 21 (for they indeed became priests without an oath, but He with an oath through the One who said to Him, "The Lord has sworn and will not change His mind, 'You are a priest forever'"); 22 so much the more also Jesus has become the guarantee of a better covenant. (Hebrews 7: 16, 20-22)
  • Atonement (Jesus Christ). Jesus alone can provide forgiveness. He bought us back from slavery to sin and reconciled us with God. By joining the human race in its weakened condition, Jesus demonstrated that we can be saved if we trust in God. By God's decision alone, Jesus was promised before we were even created.
    The Promise Of A Redeemer. And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. (Revelation 13: 8)
    God Alone. I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. (Isaiah 63: 3)
    • Everlasting Atonement. Jesus joined the human race, becoming the eternal covenant in flesh in the seed of man forever when He was circumcised or "cut off" on the cross for our sins.
      In The Flesh. He that is born in thy house, and he that is bought with thy money, must needs be circumcised: and my covenant shall be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. (Genesis 17: 13)
    • Everlasting Priesthood. Besides being from the order of Melchizedek, this was also how Jesus received the perpetual priesthood although he was technically not from the tribe of Levi. Abraham received the covenant through a demonstration of faith. This priest received the everlasting covenant through his zealousness and atonement.
      The Zealous Priest. And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. (Numbers 25: 13)
    • Everlasting Peace. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. (Ezekiel 37: 26)
• Blessings And Curses. The consequences of accepting or rejecting the character of God is either life or death.
  Life Or Death. Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse; A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day: And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known. (Deuteronomy 11: 26-28)
  Choose Life. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: (Deuteronomy 30: 19)
• The Faithful People Of The Earth. Since we cannot be trusted to obtain our salvation, we have to trust that God can restore our righteousness and obtain our salvation through His own works. God made this everlasting covenant with all the earth through Adam and the seed of Eve and then Noah. Abraham and His descendants or those like him are merely the picture of those who will agree to make a covenant with God and accept the gifts He offers to save us. When Jesus died as the perfect human, the promise passed to Him and His descendants who are faithful. That faithful nation is always named Israel - or any people of earth who have faith.
  The Righteousness By Faith. For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith. Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all, (Romans 4: 13, 16)
  The Heirs Of Righteousness. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. (Galatians 3: 29)
  Everlasting. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. (Genesis 17: 7)

The Terms Of The Covenant (Exodus 20-23)
The people immediately broke the covenant they swore to obey, less than 40 days earlier.

• The Oath. An oath is made by the name and character of one who has the ability to deliver on His promises. Finding none greater, God swore by Himself.
  By Himself, God became the Lamb. By Himself, God fulfilled the covenant because He had no help.
• The Character Of The God Named YHWH. God is loving, kind, righteous, faithful and truthful.
  • Loving. Loving kindness brings mercy, faithfulness, salvation and truth.
    . I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation. (Psalm 40: 10)
    . Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. (Psalm 51: 1)
    . I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name. (Psalm 138: 2)
  • Righteous. Mercy, truth and righteousness bring peace under the leadership of YHWH.
    Righteous Judge. And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. (Psalm 50: 6)
    . Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. (Psalm 85: 10)
    . And thou shalt swear, The Lord liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory. (Jeremiah 4: 2)
  • Merciful. The mercy of God required that He is longsuffering and patient.
    . The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy. (Psalm 103: 8)
    . And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. (Exodus 34: 5-7)
  • Goodness And Kindness. His lovely character will cause us to repent.
    Everlasting Kindness. For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. (Isaiah 54: 10)
    . For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord. (Psalm 117:2)
    . And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God: for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. (Joel 2: 13)
    . Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? (Romans 2: 4)
  • Mighty And Powerful. Power, might and strength give us greatness through the kindness of God.
    . Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm. (Deuteronomy 9: 29)
    . Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. (1 Chronicles 29: 12)
    The Mighty Creator. Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. (Isaiah 40: 26)
    . Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ. (Romans 15: 19)
    . Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. (John 14: 12)
    . For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel. (John 5: 20)
  • Steadfast And Truthful. God never changes forever and gives us assurance and guarantees.
    . For I, the Lord, do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed. (Malachi 3: 6)
    . My covenant I will not violate, nor will I alter the utterance of My lips. Once I have sworn by My holiness; I will not lie to David. (Psalm 89: 34-35)
    . The works of His hands are truth and justice; All His precepts are sure. They are upheld forever and ever; They are performed in truth and uprightness. He has sent redemption to His people; He has ordained His covenant forever; Holy and awesome is His name. (Psalm 111: 7-9)
    . Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings ... (Hebrews 8: 8-9)
• The Everlasting Covenant. The covenant promises to make our hearts and minds clean and willing to love and obey God and freely walk in His ways.
  . For I will take you from the nations, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances. You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God. (Ezekiel 36: 24-27)
• The Terms Of The Covenant. The people failed to keep the covenant because they did it through their own efforts not by faith in the transforming power of God.
  • Enmity. From the beginning God promised enmity with sin.
    Recoiling From Sin. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. (Genesis 3: 15)
  • Love, Honor And Respect. God promises to replace enmity against Him with love for Him.
    Honoring God. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and I will put the fear of Me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from Me. I will rejoice over them to do them good and will faithfully plant them in this land with all My heart and with all My soul. (Jeremiah 32: 40-41)
    This is done not through forcing our minds but by demonstrating His loving nature to us. That demonstration has been given in Jesus Christ.
  • Law. God promises to make us love, respect and keep His laws.
    Internal Knowledge. "Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. "But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, "Know the Lord," for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.” (Jeremiah 31: 31-34 and Hebrews 8: 8)
  • Repentance. It is God's paitence and tolerance that leads us to repentance. He draws us to Him like a magnet.
    Waiting Patiently. Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance? (Romans 2: 4)
    Our Sorrow. For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death. (2 Corinthians 7: 10)
    The Great Magnet. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12: 32)
  • Faith. When Holy Spirit is working in us, we will have a treasure inside this vessel of clay we call our flesh.
    Spiritual Renewal. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; (2 Corinthians 4: 7)
    Israel failed because they sought their own righteousness. They did not understand trust by faith in God.
    Self-Righteousness. For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God. (Romans 10: 3)
    Justification By Faith. But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; (Romans 3: 21-24)
  • New Mind And Heart. When we are changed we will respond with love to God in the way a bride responds to her husband on the eve of their honeymoon.
    Everything New. I will rejoice greatly in the Lord, my soul will exult in my God; for He has clothed me with garments of salvation, He has wrapped me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as the earth brings forth its sprouts, and as a garden causes the things sown in it to spring up, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring up before all the nations (Isaiah 61: 10-11)
• The Renewal Of The Covenant. The renewal of the everlasting covenant promises us enmity with sin (new heart), cleansing from sin (washing) and new life (regeneration).
  • Law In Our Heart (Holy Spirit). The Holy Spirit alone can write the laws of God in our hearts. Every other effort has failed. He restores our righteousness by placing the law in our minds and changing our character to reflect the image of God.
    The Pen And Ink And Inscriber Of God. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Hebrews 8: 10 and Jeremiah 31: 33)
    The Old covenant is the same as the new because it is one eternal covenant to write the image of God, the law, in our hearts.
  • Transformation. When our affection is towards God, our internal compass will no longer be broken.
    Think On God. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. (Romans 12: 2)
  • Renewal. The knowledge of God renews and transforms our mind.
    Recreated In His Image. And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: (Colossians 3: 10)
    Daily Renewal. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. (2 Corinthians 4: 16)
    Renewed Mind. And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; (Ephesians 4: 23)
    Recreated. Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (Titus 3: 5)
    Washing And Renewing. And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes. For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. (Ezekiel 36: 23-27)
  • Internal Witness. God has set everything in motion to respond when we choose to wake up. There is a longing in our heart for God and eternity. Our mind will always know the truth and our own minds will condemn us. For, like Balaam who thought to curse Israel but could not because his mind already knew the truth and would not obey him.
    Mockers. Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
    The Internal Witness. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
    The External Witness. But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3: 3-9)
    A Longing For God. He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. (Ecclesiastes 3: 11)
    Renewed Mind. Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! (Romans 11:33)
    Renewed By Knowledge. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (Romans 1: 17-20)

The Covenant With The Land
God also made a covenant with the land. This agreement became part of the covenant with the people because their cooperation was needed to help God keep this covenant. This covenant also shows that if a major structure of the earth fails, then God must act to keep the covenant because it jeopardizes all life on earth.

• Sabbath. The land was also given Sabbath rest. If this was violated, God could give the stolen time back to the land in the form of a consecutive length of time. (Leviticus 26: 34-35).
• Wickedness Removed. The land can be punished if it is defiled or polluted. (Leviticus 18: 25, 27-28 and Numbers 35: 33). The land can remove the inhabitants who cause it to be defiled.
  With this agreement, the land and sea give up the dead at the second resurrection. (Revelation 20: 13)
• Seasons. The fixed order and its seasons (mo'ed or appointed times) were made on the third day of creation.
  The Fixed Order. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons [mo'ed], and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1: 14-18)
  This promised was renewed with Noah. When the fixed order or the seasons no longer exist then major changes to the world will occur.
  Time Cycles. ... While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8: 22)
  • Seed Time and Harvest (Genesis 8: 22). We need food to live or we will die within two weeks. God guarantees that there will always be seed and harvest. When humans create conditions which guarantee that there will be no more seed, then this breaks the covenant with the land throughout the world and the only response will be that the human efforts will fail.
    » Summer And Winter (Heat And Cold). These weather cycles affect seed time and harvest, acting like a clock for the seed and the plants.
  • Day And Night. When day no longer follows night, Israel will not be on the earth.
    Day and Night. If you can break my covenant with the night, so that day and night not come at their appointed time, then also my covenant with David my servant may be broken, so that he shall not have a son to reign on his throne, and my covenant with the Levitical priests my ministers. (Jeremiah 33: 20-21)
  • Sabbath Signs (Appointed Time). Sabbaths were given as a sign between God and His people.
    Recreated by Sanctification. Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. (Exodus 31: 13) also Ezekiel 20: 12, 20
    All the Sabbaths were signs, including the seasonal feasts and the weekly fourth commandment.
  • The Fixed Order (Time). From creation, God established the movements of the sun, moon and the earth to establish the measurement of time by the year, month and day (light and dark) which controls the seasons and their timing and appearance.
    The Fixed Order. Thus says the Lord Who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that the waves roar; the Lord of hosts is His name. If this fixed order departs from before Me, says the Lord, then the offspring of Israel also will cease from being a nation before me forever. (Jeremiah 31: 35-37)
  • Land Covenant Ends (Atmosphere Removed). When the covering of the earth is removed, Israel will be removed from the earth. This is the Second Coming when God tears the atmosphere like a curtain.
    Land Of Israel. So that your days and the days of your sons may be multiplied on the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them as long as the heavens remain above the earth. (Deuteronomy 11: 21)
• Rainbow. After the flood, God made another covenant with the entire earth. The world will never be destroyed by a flood of water again and we will always have the seasons.
  And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your seed after you; And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth. And I will establish my covenant with you, neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
  Everlasting. And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth. (Genesis 9: 8-13, 16)

The Sanctuary
The sanctuary is the showcase for the covenant in its structures, ceremonies, feasts and laws. God made the covenant in the first year of the exodus before the portable sanctuary was built. Yet we have a grand model of the sanctuary that was close to the future version. It existed before this model was completed the next year. Let us see where we can find the parts of the sanctuary.

• High Priest. Moses interceded for them as our real High Priest Christ interceded for us.
• Altar of Sacrifice. The first Passover prophesied about the last Passover at the crucifixion.
• Laver. They were baptized in the Red Sea (1 Corinthians 10:2). Bathed themselves before approaching the mountain (Exodus 19: 10-11).
• Table Of Shewbread. The 12 tribes are the 12 loaves and the bread is the manna they gathered daily.
• Menorah. Smoke and the pillar of fire above. (Exodus 13: 21)
• Altar of Incense. The pillar of clouds above. (Exodus 13: 21)
• Ark Of The Covenant. The throne of God where God sat on Mount Sinai on a pavement of blue.
  • Shekinah Glory. The word "shekinah" was coined by Jewish rabbis to mean "He caused to dwell", to signify that it was a divine visitation of the presence or dwelling of the Lord God on this earth.
    . And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness. And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. (Exodus 13: 20-22)
  • Ten Commandments. God wrote it with His finger on stone and gave it to Moses.
  • Stick That Budded. Later, this stick was added when God chose Aaron as the high priest using Aaron's rod as the sign of His selection. Jesus' resurrection from the dead was a sign that He was the High Priest and He was God.
  • Jar of Manna. Manna came from heaven every 6 days for 40 years (Exodus 16: 15-35).
• Cherubim. The angel of the Lord was with them in the exodus, indicating when to leave and when to stay.
• God. God was physically over them and on Mount Sinai and during the Exodus.

Signs And Consequences Of Unbelief
The consequence of unbelief is a reprobate mind (Romans 1). Gross immorality and stupidity will be the result. You will be fooled by a strong and compelling belief. The smarter you think you are, the more the stupid belief will overcome you.

• Moses Strikes The Rock Twice. Moses was kept out of the Promised Land because of this episode. God recorded it as unbelief.
  And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them. (Numbers 20: 11-12)
  Even though the people drove Moses to do this, Moses should have been focused on the business of God.
• Israel At Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19-20). When Israel drew back on Mount Sinai and refused to hear God this was a sign of unbelief.
• Believing The 10 Fearful Spies (The Provocation). They chose to believe the testimony of 10 cowards and did not believe Caleb and Joshua and the power of God. They were rejecting God. This was stubborness and unbelief.
  While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. (Hebrews 3: 15-19)
• Israel During The Exodus. God complained that they tried him seven times during the 40 years. Their level of unbelief and disrespect is astounding.
  • Rephidim-Massah. They had no water to drink and Moses struck the rock. Three days after crossing the Red Sea and witnessing 10 plagues on their behalf, they complained about water even threatend to kill Moses and God poured water from the rock.
  • Wilderness of Sinai. Ten Commandments. Worshipped a Calf
  • Taberah. Fire from God
  • Kibroth-Hattaavah. Ate quail meat until they vomited and it was coming out of their noses.
  • Libnah. Punished for forty years.
  • Kadesh-Barnea. They rebelled. Moses sins. Strikes rock twice. Water from the rock. They were exiled.
    When they complained again for water, Moses sinned by striking the Rock twice. Their memories seemed to be as short as the rumbling in their stomach.
• Jesus and Israel. Israel during His life was no less shocking. He performed great miracles, proof of His supernatural origin. Their statement that this is of the devil was cited as unbelief.
• The 12 Disciples.
  • Judas. He committed bribery and suborned perjury in order to force Him to use His power. It did not work.
  • Peter. He boasted the he would not deny Jesus. Less than six hours, he denied Jesus with an explative.
  • The Other Ten. The ran away under fear of condemnation. They did not want to be linked with Him.
  • Thomas. He did not see the ressurected Jesus so he refused to believe it even the the other disciples said they saw Him. One week later, on Nisan 23 Jesus appeared to them and said to hem, "Blessed are those who have not seen Him and believed".
  • Mary. She was the only one who believed Him and anointed Him for burial six days before His death.
• Stephen. They stopped their ears from hearing testimony and stoned the witness to death,

Unbelief Kills
The righteous one not believed either falls silent and stops talking.

• The Mute Abomination. Normally, this refers to a dumb, lifeless idol that cannot talk. Jesus was silent while He was accused of blasphemy as an abomination.
  ... and upon soaring heights will the mute abominations be. Until exterminations as decreed will pour down on the abomination. (Daniel 9: 27)
  ... He was led as a sheep to slaughter; as a lamb before its shearer is silent; so He does not open His mouth. (Acts 8: 32; Isaiah 53: 7)
• Zacharias. He was mute because of his unbelief his until son John was born.
  And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
  And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years. And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings. And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
  And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple. And when he came out, he could not speak unto them: and they perceived that he had seen a vision in the temple: for he beckoned unto them, and remained speechless. (Luke 1: 16-22)
• Sarah Laughed. 99 year old Sara laughed when she heard the prophecy about Isaac. This was unbelief.
  Isaac was born a year later. This was a miracle from God, causing her dead womb to come to life.
• Balaam's Donkey. A beaten and mistreated dumb animal spoke and shamed a rebellious prophet.
• Babel. God confused their language and scattered them because in their they unbelief did not trust God. They tried to escape the judgment of God by building a high tower that God could not reach, so they thought.
  And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11: 5-9)

Cycles: Mo'ed or Moadim (The Appointed Times)
The feasts are not the source of God's law nor do they derive God's appointments. All religious laws and feasts and all natural laws of nature and physics derive their mathematical origin and their construction in the mind of God. The paths God constructed to accomodate the workings of His plans before these objects, seasons, times and man's appointments with God were ordained or set in motion.
Logically, a road is constructed before drivers use it. So it is with what God made. He created what humans and creatures and planets would need forever before He created the first human and the first living thing. Instead of creating new patterns, God used the same laws of motion to regulate all objects using the same roadways or paths.
There is also the assumption that the appointed times were just a construction in time beause of the feasts. The Mo'eds (appointed times) did not appear at the first Passover. The four season did not appear after the flood.
The rotation of the planets established the cyclical paths to which God attached all sorts of time, including the feast days.

The Timing Of The Feasts
By the time Israel entered the Promised Land, the feasts occurred over the calendar year and were spread out during that time. But the feasts were merged at two times, the exodus and crucifixion. The implications are that separating the feasts were the anomaly and merging the feasts was the norm.
This action resembles the splitting of the DNA strands in 2 antiparallel strands during replication. It is done for the purpose of reproduction (creating two), repair and manufacturing protein.

• The Ages Before The Creation In Genesis 1. Did the feasts exist before the world began?
  Christ was slain before the foundation of the world. So clearly something existed before humans because sin began before us. Since God always does the same things, the feast existed in some form. All humans were subject to sin, incurring the debt before they were born. Angels incurred the debt after they were born sinless.
  Forgiveness would be offered for everyone, but for angels God would give up and go no further. It would be pointless since they knew all the facts and still chose to rebel. Humans know nothing.
  • Passover. There was provision by death for humans. Passover was what Christ did for humans and answered the charge that God would not do anything.
  • Feast Of Weeks. The time between God's visit.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). God comes to visit.
  • Rosh Hashanah. The real start of the new year.
  • Yom Kippur (Day Of The Covering). Yom kippur was what God did because of the angels if they repented. God would also clear humans. Angels could receive pardon if they returned. He would not die for them because they were given enough chances.
  • Feast of Tabernacles. God spends a week with us.
• Feasts (Genesis 1). Christ was slain before the foundation of the world. Everything was set for us. So we have to look for clues in the earth for what God has put in place. He is teaching us what He is doing. Our sun would represent Him. Our moon would represent us. Darkness would represent sin. When sin is gone there will no longer be darkness and the sun and moon will no longer serve as our primary source of light.
  • Nisan 1 (New Moon). A Sabbath. Heaven assembled to celebrate the creation of the earth in the darkness
  • Passover. The Lamb of God prepared for death.
  • Feast Of Weeks. The "weeks" of years for the humans.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). The time God woud come to humans.
  • Rosh Hashanah. The new year. Judgment would begin on this day.
  • Yom Kippur. The heavens were clothed with four layers (Gravity {2 layers}, solar activity (11 cycles), and blue skies (10 cycles).
  • Feast of Tabernacles. Fall harvests.
• Feasts (Eden). They existed at Eden and show a merging of the two feast seasons.
  • Passover. God killed an animal to clothe them. An actual animal was killed after the fall, but a Lamb was offered "before the foundation of the world".
  • Feast Of Weeks. The time between their sin and God's visit.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). God came and they were hiding.
  • Rosh Hashanah. They were judged naked.
  • Yom Kippur. It means the "day of the covering". God clothed them with skins.
  • Feast of Tabernacles. God regularly visited before the fall.

• Feasts (Noah). The years after sin began.

  Earth	Preach	Door Closed	Wait		Tsunami	Submerged		Ararat								Wait		Exit
  1536 Years	120 Years		7 Days	Flood	150 Days (Water)			150 Days (Wind)								70 Days
  		2-10		2-17	40 Days	3-27	110 Days	7-17	10-1	10-10	40 days	21 days			12-1	12-17	1-1	2-27
  Sin	Building Ark			Rough Seas		Calmer Seas (253 Days)									Incubation (77 Days)
  Trees and Forests				Trees Destroyed and Submerged					Ground Drying						Olive Tree Grows
  1656 Years				1 Year (370 Days + 7)

  • Passover. The burnt offering was known and practiced for 1656 years. God's final warning of pleading was Passover. When Methuselah died it was a warning that, "when he dies it shall come".
  • Feast Of Weeks. The years God waited for for the rebellious people who knew that he existed to repent.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). The halfway pont to the end of the 150 days.
  • Rosh Hashanah. The month the ark landed.
  • Yom Kippur. Seven days before the ark landed.
  • Feast of Tabernacles. After five months in water (150 days) they waited one more month before they landed on Ararat (180 days).
• Feasts (Sinai). They existed before Sinai and show a merging of the two feast seasons.
  • Passover. Israel celebrated the first Passover on the night before the exodus.
  • Feast Of Weeks. The journey to Sinai.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). Arrived at Sinai in the third month with God on Mount Sinai in fire (Exodus 19: 1).
  • Rosh Hashanah. Judged while Moses was on Sinai.
  • Yom Kippur. It means the "day of the covering". From the day of the exodus God had judged against Egypt in favor of Israel on was their covering by cloud and fire for 40 years.
  • Feast of Tabernacles. Israel lived in booths for 40 years from the first day of the exodus when they camped at Succos.
• Feasts (Crucifixion). They existed at the crucifixion and show a merging of the two feast seasons. Feast of Tabernacles began on Nisan 10, the day He rode into Jerusalem on a Donkey.
  • Sacrifices. All sacrifices were made between Gethsemane and Calvary.
  • Passover. Jesus was the Lamb slain. He was sacrificed one time for all.
  • Feast Of Weeks. The countdown to Pentecost.
  • Pentecost (Shavu'ot). The Holy Spirit left the body of Christ as He died and came in tongues of fire on the disciples, 52 days after the crucifixion, 50 days after Shavu'ot.
  • Rosh Hashanah. Satan was judged at the cross.
  • Yom Kippur. It means the "day of the covering". Jesus was the scapegoat.
  • Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus was born on Tabernacles and the Holy Spirit came to tabernacle with us on Pentecost. The Father will come to take us to tabernacle with Him at the Second Coming.
• Feasts (Second Coming). It is hard to show a calendar as one month when they will occur over several centuries. The feast of weeks kept to this weekly calendar and they all occurred on the same days.
  The pattern of events cannot occur in one year, because the month varied from 28 to 31 days.
  We were cast outside the camp as lepers so our time period is always 40 years until the Second Coming. In different years when these dates lined up to one master calendar, Jesus completed some important event.
  • Solar (Times of The Gentiles). When they modeled the wicked, they occurred in 42 months and 7 or 3.5 years. This is 7 x 360 years (2520) or 3.5 years x 360 (1260) years or 42 months x 360 days.
  • Lunar-Solar (Messiah). When Jesus modeled the time, it occurred according to a lunar (40x30) and jubilee (7x7 + 1) calendar, finishing the time within 3 to 4 years.
    It starting in the spring feasts, adjusting the wavesheaf the times to fit 49 weeks, starting on Sunday that always ended on Sunday, 50 days later. On the week of the crucifixion He showed that the true length of time for the righteous was exactly 40 weeks, not 42. In years when Nisan 15 was not a Friday God added an adjustment to the time to show that time occurred on "the morning after Sabbath after the crucifixion". Sunday was the beginning.

  Merged	-													1+	7 Days							+1	New Creation
  Spring		2	3	4	5	6	7	8		10	11	12	13		15		17	18	19	20	21			24	25	26	27	28
  Fall	1	2	3	4	5	6	7		9	10	11	12	13	14		16	17	18	19	20			23	24	25	26	27	28
  Sabbaths	♥	Su	M	T	W	Th	F	♥	♥	♥	T	W	Th	F	♥♥	Su	M	T	W	Th	♥	♥	Su	M	T	W	Th	F
  4 Weeks	Sa	Su	M	T	W	Th	F	Sa	Su	M	T	W	Th	F	Sa	Su	M	T	W	Th	F	Sa	Su	M	T	W	Th	F

  » Counted, Counted, Weighed And Divided. We must do a count to establish the week from the beginning of creation. Otherwise we will be misled by lunar sabbath with "leftover days". God reinforced the count every month by having us look to the beginning of the new moon to adjust.
  He did it annually so the we learn adjust the year by the barley havest in monthly by the new moon.
  We have been counting for 6000 years. Now we are being judged, to be separated at the end.
  Merged Calendar. When the Second Coming occurs the master calendar would take over, and the month would always occur in 28 days forever. The coverning of the sanctuary showed the righteous had 40 x 30 times while sin existed and (40 x 28 times) when they were righteousness in linen and the wicked had 42 x 30 times, permanently cast out. The removal of the covering on earth shows that the time of the wicked had ceased and the time of the righteous would go from 40 x 30 days to 40 x 28. They were no longer cast out.
  Except for Yom Kippur all the feasts were Jubilee Sabbaths (two Sabbaths in a row).
  Yom Kippur could not occur on a Jubilee because it was "in the midst of the week" that the "sacrifice and oblation would cease". But it occurred on a triple Sabbath between Friday sunset and Monday sunset.
  On this calendar of 28 days with every day having the same meaning, starting on the first Sunday (day 2), Shavu'ot occurred on day 23, 50 days later.
  Counting on the Sunday after the Sabbath of the crucifixion, ended Nisah 9, the day before the lamb was selected.
  The description of the sacred time is always true. The "morrow after the Sabbath" and the date (Leviticus 23).
  • Nisan 1. The New Moon. The beginning of the year. The day the tabernacle was erected.
  • Nisan 10 (Palm Monday). This was the day Jesus was selected. He would die on the 14.
  • Passover (Friday, Nisan 14). Jesus died. Neither the 10th nor the 14th were days to celebrate because God was being murdered, and it was planned.
    ♥ (Nisan 15). First Day of Feast of Unleavened Bread. Both Nisan 15 and Tishri 15 are Sabbaths. They left Egypt on the Sabbath, the day after Passover.
    And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. (Numbers 33: 3)
    Nisan 16. First day of counting the omer (Wavesheaf). The last day is day 50, a Sunday.
    ♥ (Nisan 21). Last Day of Feast of Unleavened Bread.
    For the 8 days since His resurrection until the next Sunday Jesus was being inaugurated as King of Kings and High Priest. He returned to earth on Nisan 23.
  • Feast Of Weeks. 7 x 7 Weeks
  • ♥ Pentecost (Shavu'ot). Day 50
  • Tishri 1. Beginning of the seventh month.
  • ♥ Rosh Hashanah (Judgment Begins).
  • ♥ Yom Kippur (Judgment Sealed). The last day we chose sides. There are no more conversions.
    It was the most solemn day. It was the day we were vindicated and the real murder is caught.
    The seven last plagues may begin the year of the 28 month forever, if not it begins at the end of the year.
  • ♥ Feast of Tabernacles. Tishri 15 like Nisan 15 is a day of rest. It is the day God rested from His works.
    It begins with the millienium, a 7 day ordeal which ends when we reach heaven. In the millennium, we live with God and confirm the judgment.
  • Hosanah Rabah (Friday, Tishri 21) (Judgment Delivered). It is a solemn Sabbath day, the day the wicked are killed and we have rest. The end of the millinium is the last week of tebernacles, Unlike Passover on Nisan 21 this is not commemmorated as a Sabbath or a day of Rest. It is more like Friday, the day the guilty part is killed. This is the day all the wicked perish.
  • ♥ Shemini Atzeret (Tishri 23). The next day is a Sabbath, the new beginning. The day we have rest.
• New Heavens And New Earth. Why will we celebrate the new moon in the new earth? It seems that the events commemmorated memories on earth. It is because all of heaven was responsible for what happened to earth.

  The Ideal Monthly Cycle and The Ideal Week
  1	2	3	4	5	6	Sabbath			Sabbath Festival
  -	-	-	-	-	-		1		New Moon	Trumpets
  2	3	4	5	6	7		8	Shavu'ot
  		11	12	13	14		15	Sukkot		Passover
  	17	18	19	20	21		22	Shemini Atzeret
  	24	25	26	27	28		1	Rosh Chodesh

• Sabbath. The feast Sabbaths occur on a weekly Sabbath day when God comes to visit. Since there should be no mourning on Sabbath, the middle of the week was reserved for mourning (Yom Kippur).
  • New Moon.
    • Passover.
    • Feast Of Weeks.
    • Pentecost (Shavu'ot).
    • Rosh Hashanah.
    • Yom Kippur And Lamb Selected.
  • Feast of Tabernacles.
  There are officially two rainy seasons in the 28 day cycle, every 2 weeks forever. The former and the latter rain.
  ... from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, All mankind will come to bow down before Me ... (Isaiah 66: 22-23)