Unveiling the Messiah in the Spring Feasts: Unveiling the Messiah in Adonai's Feasts, #1

Introduction

Many books have been written with much wisdom concerning the Holy One’s feasts/appointed times. There are multiple blogs and articles on the feasts as well as traditions on how to keep them, from a Jewish and Christian perspective. This book will offer more understanding on the Messiah in each feast day and how to navigate this new knowledge in your life without bondage. I also expound on the coming of the Messiah and both the light and darkness hidden in the Fall Feasts Days.

I write concerning the voice of the prophets of old and spend more time and attention on the prophetic passages concerning the seven feasts listed in the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the times we are living in. I believe we are approaching difficult times, but if we look to the heavens concerning the Holy One’s calendar, we can be prepared. Psalm 19 states that the heavens declare our Father’s glory and the heavens have a voice:

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky shows His handiwork. Day to day, they speak, night to night they reveal knowledge. There is no speech, no words, where their voice goes unheard. Their voice has gone out to all the earth and their words to the end of the world. In the heavens He pitched a tent for the sun. It is like a bridegroom coming out of his bridal chamber.

—Psalm 19:2-6, TLV

The feasts of the Holy One are listed in order in the Book of Leviticus 23. Our Father’s Holy Days are mentioned throughout the Bible, and they are all about Jesus. I like to refer to Jesus by His Hebrew name, Yeshua, which means salvation. One specific feast, The Feast of Trumpets, also called A Day of Blowing, is often described as the season of our Messiah’s return. In the Book of Isaiah, the Holy One explains how He reckons time: I declare the end from the beginning (Isaiah 46:10, BSB). Meditate on the end being hidden in not only the Fall Feasts, but the Spring Feasts as well. The Holy One created the heavens and the earth in six days and then declared the 7th day His Sabbath rest at the end of His creation.  This 7th day represents the longest day of rest, metaphorically, a 1,000-year reign with our Messiah when He returns. Hence, Adonai declared the end from the beginning. On the Feast of Trumpets, shofars are blown continually:

Adonai spoke to Moses, saying:  Speak to Bnei-Yisrael [sons of Israel], saying: In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you are to have a Shabbat rest, a memorial of blowing, a holy convocation.

—Leviticus 23:23-24, TLV

Two silver trumpets were to be used to call the congregation to the tent of meeting and for having the camps set out (Numbers 10:1-10). The silver trumpets were to be blown by the High Priest or his representative. When the Messiah returns, we will hear the Tekiah Gedolah (The Great Shofar). There are four sounds concerning this musical instrument:

·     Tekiah: One long blast, a wake-up.

·     Shevarim: Three medium blasts.

·     Teruah: Nine blasts ending with a long blast.

·     Tekiah Gedolah: One long forceful blast.

The Tekiah Gedolah meaning great is like the Tekiah but with a blast that brings power. When the walls of Jerico fell it was a great Teruah shout! In Matthew 24, this sound is called a Great Shofar. Some translations say a loud trumpet call. The shofar is a trumpet—an ancient instrument:

Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the land will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. He will send out His angels with a great shofar, and they will gather together His chosen from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 

—Matthew 24:30-31, TLV

It is currently 2024, but during the season of 2015, I heard a shofar blowing loudly. I told my husband about the incident as he was out of town, and I pondered it in my heart. At that time, we lived in the middle of the woods, far away from anyone. The sound of it was so loud it resonated in my soul. I wondered what it could mean. Later, I discovered that there were others who had heard the sound of the shofar blast. This trumpet herald made world news. The shofar or trumpet blast sounds were named "strange sounds from the sky and apocalyptic blast. These noises were heard in places such as America, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, England, Ukraine, and France. You can listen to these Strange Sounds in the sky" on YouTube. Many scientists have tried to explain the reasoning behind the noise. One suggestion was that it could have been the shifting of tectonic plates. Still, I believe all these similarities and messages were being spoken to prepare the Body of Messiah for the coming days. Today, the labor pains mentioned in Matthew 24 by Yeshua are becoming harder as wars and great darkness fill the earth. God’s people are told to not be alarmed:

You will hear of wars and rumors of wars but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains.

—Matthew 24:6-8, BSB

Much of Matthew 24 came to pass in 70 A.D. The Romans invaded Judea and this war lasted over three years. (See Flavius Josephus, The Wars of the Jews; 67 A.D.-70 A.D). The Romans marched all over Judea, Samaria, Perea, Galilee, and the Negev, leaving paths of destruction and death. Back then they had no CNN or Fox News Channels, but word of mouth, rumors, and reports of the invasion went forth to the surrounding areas. God’s people were enslaved, killed, sent to do slave labor.

Yeshua warned the disciples to flee Judea because the whole land would be under siege not just Jerusalem, and their beloved Temple would be set ablaze in 70 A.D.

Jewish Virtual Library states:

It is estimated that as many as one million Jews died in the Great Revolt against Rome. When people today speak of the almost two-thousand-year span of Jewish homelessness and exile, they are dating it from the failure of the revolt and the destruction of the Temple. Indeed, the Great Revolt of 66-70, followed some sixty years later by the Bar Kokhba revolt, were the greatest calamities in Jewish history prior to the Holocaust. ​[1]

Yeshua, the greatest prophet to ever walk the earth warns us of things to come and explains that when we see troubling events occurring on the earth, we will have an understanding that He is at the door. The Messiah tells us to have our bridal gowns prepared and our lamps burning. By keeping the Father’s feasts days, we learn the season of His return. The Bible explains clearly that no man knows the day or the hour of the Messiah’s return, not even the Son, but only His Father. However, we can know the seasons, and the prophets of old can help prepare us for what lies ahead. Remember, history repeats itself.

How can we keep the Holy One’s feasts today with clean hands and a pure heart? Are these ancient feasts for Christians today? These books, Unveiling The Messiah In The Spring Feasts and Unveiling The Messiah In The Fall Feasts bring unpretentious refinement and knowledge concerning the last days referred to as Jacob’s trouble. It is my heart’s desire that as you journey into the Messianic Kingdom and the Holy One’s seasons that your spirit will be revived and renewed.  

Chapter 1

The Voice of the Prophets

At times, when reading, we skip over important words. There are two verses where this happens even among scholars: Do not think that I came to abolish the Torah or the Prophets! I did not come to abolish, but to fulfill (Matthew 5:17, TLV). Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms (Luke 24:44, BSB). We are told to not touch God’s anointed and to do no harm to His prophets in Psalm 105.

Prophets, or Nabi in Hebrew, were men and women in the Bible who spoke with authority the words given to them by the Holy One. One of the areas of correction brought by the prophets concerned the feasts days. Prophets were given authority to instruct and admonish the people and, at times, warn of future events, but this is not what a prophet is. The prophet’s wisdom and anointing came from the Holy Spirit and the Words of Adonai. Unfortunately, many believe prophets to be fortune tellers who can give you a word for the day or make predictions, and yes, at times, they may. See (Acts 11:28). Yeshua states, He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward (Matthew 10:41, NKJV). This reward relates to the key to knowledge (Luke 11:52).

The boisterous voices of the prophets of old were anything but words that tickled the ear. The prophets do not mince words. Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Isaiah’s prophetic utterances were not just for the people in their day but for future generations. The prophet Amos was one of the harshest prophets in the Bible, but he declared that he was not a prophet.

My pen name Tekoa comes from a city of Judah whose hills stretch forth by Hebron and eastward towards the Dead Sea. Tekoa is where Amos, the prophet, lived. The prophet Amos was a voice to the Northern Kingdom. Amos was a herdsman until the Holy One called him to warn the people of the destruction coming upon them due to their social injustices and their arrogance involving worship:

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing Unless He reveals His secret counsel To His servants, the prophets.

—Amos 3:7, NASB

The people of Tekoa tried to drive Amos out of his hometown. They did not want to hear the long sound of the shofar—the warning cries of his prophetic pleas. Amos’s voice was louder and more direct than most of the prophets. The Book of Amos begins by warning the