Biblical Feasts That Predict the Future

i can't believe it was there the whole time and i missed it for so many years i was raised in church and i studied theology and bible college but i never heard of anyone talking about these hidden prophecies about the times and seasons concerning the messiah so when i learned about these things it blew me away hi my name is lex and welcome to unlearn i believe if the church would teach about these hidden prophecies it would change the whole way we do church it would change our worship it would change our practice and our perspective i know this because it changed mine today i'm going to attempt something that i've never done before i'm going to travel back in time this is my time traveling chair and i want to take you back in time 11 years to show you what i discovered alright here i am 11 years ago i was studying the first century church when i stumbled across the hidden prophecies in the biblical feasts growing up in church i was never taught about the biblical feasts but as i was studying the new testament i realized the feast played a significant role in the early church the holy spirit began opening my eyes to things i had read dozens of times but i never noticed before for example i read in first corinthians 5 that jesus is our passover lamb therefore purge out the eleven that you may be a new lump since you truly are unleavened or indeed christ our passover was sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast not with the old leaven nor with the living of malice and wickedness but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth so jesus is our passover lamb and he died on passover i'd read this verse dozens of times but for some reason it finally made sense to me jesus died on passover as the passover lamb of god there was prophetic significance in this feast day so i kept reading and when i got to chapter 15 i saw another prophecy connected to a feast day when it spoke about christ being the first fruits of the resurrection but now christ is risen from the dead and has become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep for since by man came death by man also came the resurrection of the dead president adam all die even so in christ all shall be made alive but each one in his own order christ the first fruits and afterwards those who are christ at his coming that's interesting the resurrection is also linked with a feast day i wonder if there are more connections like this in the bible we see here that the resurrection of our lord is prophetically connected to the feast of firstfruits and there's also a mention of his second coming when his people will be resurrected first fruits is the sunday following passover when the high priest would wave a single sheaf offering to the lord and is prophetically connected to the resurrection of jesus it was also the beginning of the 50-day count to pentecost which i realized also had prophetic significance wait a minute acts 2 talks about the giving of the holy spirit on pentecost when the day of pentecost had fully come they were all with one accord in one place then suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and it filled the whole house where they were sitting then there appeared to them divided tongues as a fire and one sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit gave them utterance the greek word pentecost means 50 and in hebrew it's called shavuot meaning the feast of weeks because it was 50 days or seven weeks following first fruits and we find on the very day of pentecost is when the holy spirit was poured out on the disciples at this point i realized there's something amazing going on in the feast days so jesus died on passover as the passover lamb of god he resurrected on first fruits as the first fruits of the resurrection and he poured out the holy spirit on his disciples on the day of pentecost oh i never seen this before i realized that all of the spring feasts are prophetically connected to our messiah so i started looking for more prophetic connections to the feast days and i found this in colossians so let no one judge you in food or in drink or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths which are a shadow of the things to come but the substance is of christ so paul saying that the feast days and sabbaths are all prophetic shadows of the messiah exactly the biblical appointed times of god the feasts the new moons and the sabbaths are all prophetic shadows of things to come they're all prophetically connected to the mission and timing of our messiah i'd read this verse dozens of times in my life and never made this connection before it's amazing when the holy spirit opens our eyes to new things in the bible and things just start to make sense so i was really excited at this point and i began looking at the feasts in the old testament and i realized there are three times per year when people were required to come to worship three times a year all your males shall appear before the lord your god in the place which he chooses at the feast of unleavened bread at the feast of weeks and at the feast of tabernacles and they shall not appear before the lord empty-handed every man shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the lord your god which he has given you we have the spring feasts a passover the summer feast of pentecost and the fall feast of tabernacles which is also called the feast of the inn gathering at the end of the year this is amazing so if the spring feasts are about his first coming does that mean the fall feasts are about his return this jumped out at me because i already realized that the spring feasts were about the first coming and the summer feast was about the giving of the holy spirit and this confirmed my suspicion that the fall feasts were about the second coming the in-gathering of god's people at the end of the age the next thing i realized was that the fall feasts began with the day of trumpets which really got me excited because i remember the verses in the new testament that talk about jesus coming back at the sound of the trumpet he will send his angels with the great sound of a trumpet and they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other wait that reminds me of what first corinthians says behold i tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptable must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptable has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality then she'll be brought to pass the saying that is written death is swallowed up in victory oh death where is your sting oh hades where's your victory i think there's something similar to that in first thessalonians 2 for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of god and the dead in christ will rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the lord wow that's amazing probably never heard this before when i saw this connection i got really excited because i realized the season of his return is prophetically connected to the fall feasts after trumpets is the day of atonement and it seems to be linked with the final judgment and the reading of the book of life in fact it's a jewish tradition to greet people with the words may your name be inscribed in the book of life and we see in revelation 20 that after the thousand year reign of messiah that he will sit on judgment seat and read from the book of life to judge everyone both living and the dead the last feasts on the list is the feast of tabernacles also known as the feast of the inn gathering and it's also referred to as the wedding feast it's the celebration of the harvest at the end of the age and zechariah prophesied about it concerning the reign of our messiah this feast also seems to have major significance in relation to the worldwide reign of christ when he returns and it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against jerusalem shall 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 whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to jerusalem to worship the king the lord of hosts on them there will be no rain if the family of egypt will not come up and enter in they shall have no rain they shall receive the plague with which the lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles this shall be the punishment of egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the feast of tabernacles so if we're going to be celebrating the feasts in the kingdom when jesus returns why aren't we celebrating the feast now that's a good point the discovery of these hidden prophecies in the feast days radically changed my life i realized that the feasts still have significance today and they aren't jewish traditions their prophetic appointments with god they glorify jesus and they celebrate what he has done for us they also point to what he's going to do when he returns okay let's get back to the present this is what paul was talking about in colossians 2 when he said so let no one judge you in food or in drink or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths which are a shadow of things to come but the substance is of christ when i realize that christ is the substance of the feasts it stirred a desire in my heart to celebrate the feasts so in the summer of 2011 we celebrated our first feast day the day of pentecost and since then we've been celebrating all of the biblical feasts each year and we've found so much beauty and significance in these celebrations the feasts are an important part of our life and we look forward to them every year because they celebrate our messiah what he's already done and what he's going to do in the future god has invited us to meet with him at these appointed times and i don't want to miss an appointment with god i also realize that keeping the feasts helps us to be more aware of god's prophetic calendar so we aren't caught by surprise when he returns if you want to learn more about the biblical feast days then watch this playlist and if you want to learn more about end times prophecy i have a playlist for that too thanks for watching this video and remember the truth will set you free we'll see you next time