In an episode that merges historical insight with spiritual enlightenment, Rabbi Schneider discusses the remarkable survival and identity of the Jewish people throughout history. As we approach the fall feasts, he explores the anticipation of Jesus’ return, urging listeners to maintain faith and expectation. From the top of Mount Sinai to the prophecy of His second coming, this episode provides a comprehensive look at the significance and the ultimate fulfillment of God’s plan for humanity through these holy observances.
00:00:01 Introduction to the Prophetic Fulfillment
He said, I’m going to prepare a place for you and I’m coming again to receive you to myself. Jesus is coming again. Get that in your heart right now. Jesus is coming back for you. Father, we worship You today. Your Word says that all things are from You and through You and to You, that Father, even when we eat and drink, we should do it unto Your glory. So, Father, we just lift up Your Word to You today and we lift up today’s broadcast and pray that Your Word would go forth sharper than a two-edged sword, cutting even the division of the soul and the spirit and accomplishing in our life for Your purposes all that You desire it to do. And all of us that are in agreement today spoke Hebrew and said, Amen. I want to talk today about a very special sacred subject. We’re going to be looking today, once again, at the prophetic fulfillment of God’s fall holy days. I’m going to be showing you how the things that the Lord wrote about the days that we call Rosh Hashanah or the Feast of Trumpets, the Feast of Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. I’m going to show you what these feasts mean for us as believers and how they’re going to be fulfilled for you and I, both in the present sense and in the futuristic sense, as well as how they’re already being fulfilled in our lives as God’s children. very important broadcast. I really want to encourage you, tune into this entire series, take notes, maybe even have a little Bible study, invite some friends over with it. Well, let’s begin today by going to the book of Leviticus, which contains God’s whole sacred calendar. Many of you know God has a calendar. He has certain holy days from which we get the concept of holidays. We’re going to be looking now at what are the marked days of God on his calendar. Now, let me say this at the onset that God’s calendar is not in complete conjunction with or doesn’t completely correspond to the calendars that we use in America or even around the rest of the world, which are called the Greco Gregorian calendars. In other words, God’s months are not January, February, March. He has different months. He’s on a different system. And this first feast that we’re going to look at takes place on the seventh month of God’s calendar. It’s called the month of Tishrei. It’s the most holy month of the year. And we’re going to be looking at several of God’s holy days that take place on this seventh month of Tishrei. Let’s go now to begin to the book of Leviticus. I’m going to read as our foundational scripture, Leviticus 23, verse 23 through 25. Hear the word of God. Again, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a rest, a reminder, by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation, You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. I want to point out two foundational concepts in the scripture verse that we just read. Number one, I want to talk about the word reminder. The Lord said, you shall have a reminder. And this reminder shall be, he said, get it now, by the blowing of trumpets. So let’s pause for a second. First of all, what was it that the children of Israel were to be reminded of? It’s an interesting holiday in terms of looking at the scriptural context of it, because the scripture itself does not give us a direct explanation here. Only when it happens in the month of Tishrei on the first of the month that we’re to blow trumpets and that the trumpets are to be a reminder. So the first question we’re asking ourself is, what was the blowing of the trumpets reminding the children of Israel of? I want to take you back now to give you the answer to that into the Torah. We know that the most climactic event in Israel’s history was when God appeared to over a million Jews, a million Israelites at the base of Mount Sinai. Now, let me say the coming of Jesus was the climax of it all. But up to this point, in other words, when we’re reading from the book of Leviticus, the most climactic event in Israel’s history up to that time was the time, beloved children of God, when Yahweh himself, when the God of Israel himself visibly appeared to them when he was on top of Mount Sinai and they were surrounding the mountain at the base. In fact, I want you to get this. You cannot explain the existence of the Jewish people today unless this event at Mount Sinai really happened. Because think about it. The Jewish people have been out of their own land, out of Israel, for about two-thirds of their existence. They were scattered amongst all the peoples of the earth. Now, we know that Israel became a nation again in 1948, and Jewish people began to make Aliyah. They began to move to Israel from all over the world. But up to this point, most of them, beloved, were scattered all over the earth. in Spain, in Africa, in other parts of Europe, in America, and the list goes on. They were scattered to all the nations just as God told them would happen in the Torah prophetically. So here they are. They’re in the nations of the world, and they’re separated from each other, listen now, by great oceans. So in other words, the Jews in Spain have no way of talking to the Jews in other parts of the world because there’s no internet. There’s no telephone, okay? There’s no communication means. They’re surrounded by only the people that were the native people in those regions. They’re absorbed into these Gentile worlds. And yet, even living, listen now, as a remnant people separated from each other all over the earth, listen, They retained their identity. The Jews in Spain retained their identity. The Jews in Germany retained their identity. The Jews in other parts of the world retained their identity. And here they are now with nothing to bolster them up, no type of cultural boosting from the peoples they’re surrounded by. And yet they were so marked by this event at Mount Sinai that they were all saying the same thing regardless of where in the world they were. They said, we are Jews. God appeared to us at Mount Sinai. He delivered us out of Egypt by the blood of the Passover lamb. And they never forgot it. They never faltered. They never compromised. Jews for 3,500 years have been telling the same story. And there’s one explanation only for this. And that is, beloved child of God, get it now. that it really happened. Consider this when we think about this whole phenomenon and this extraordinary, remarkable preservation of the Jewish people. Not only was their identity preserved when they were scattered all over the earth, surrounded by Gentile cultures with no way of communicating with each other, not only was their identity and history preserved amongst them, but when you look at Jewish people today, They make up less than one fifth of one percent of the world’s population and yet have won about 22 percent of the Nobel Prizes ever given. I mean, the only thing that explains this phenomenon is the Word of God, that God really did choose Israel out of the peoples of the world for a special purpose. He supernaturally preserved them, even when they were scattered amongst the nations. And even today, they’re supernaturally having impact in the world that far outweighs their numbers. This is real revelation, beloved ones. This is a fact.
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So getting back now to the Feast of Trumpets, to Rosh Hashanah, and tying this in to Leviticus 23, verse 23 through 25, which we just read, that the Feast of Trumpets takes place every year, the seventh month of the year, on the first day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is the seventh month once again. And Jewish people are to blow trumpets as a reminder, what they were reminded of, what they were remembering, and what Jewish people remember today every year when the shofar is blown in the synagogue all over the world, when Jewish people celebrate this holiday, they’re reminded of when they were gathered at the base of Mount Sinai 3,500 years ago, and the holy God of Israel, Yahweh Himself, appeared on top of the mountain in glory. A trumpet sounded from heaven. The trumpet grew louder and louder and louder. It was a supernatural divine trumpet shouting from the sky, and when the trumpet blast reached a crescendo, a climax, Yahweh himself, God himself, spoke to the Jewish people, and they trembled in such fear they had to beg Moses to tell him to stop. So we’re going to go ahead and read the account now in the book of Exodus, chapter number 19, verse 10 and 11. Hear the word of God. The Lord also said to Moses, go to the people and consecrate them today and tomorrow and let them wash their garments and let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day, the Lord will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people. Continue with the 16th verse. So it came about in the third day. When it was morning, there were thunder and lightning flashes and a thick cloud upon the mountain and a very loud trumpet sound so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp, get it now, these three words, to meet God. God. They literally met God. And they stood at the foot of the mountain. And it continues on in the 18th verse. Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke because the Lord descended upon it in fire. And its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace. And the whole mountain quaked violently when the sound of the trumpet, get it now, remember we’re in the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Truah, they’re to blow a trumpet and they’re to be reminded of something. Here’s what they are being reminded of. When the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him with thunder. The Lord came down on Mount Sinai to the top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And so every year when Jewish people go to synagogue and the trumpet, the shofar, is blown, what God is wanting to remind them of is that they met Him at Mount Sinai 3,500 years ago, and their meeting Him, beloved ones, was announced, listen now, with the blowing of the shofar. Think about this as we relate it to the fulfillment in Yeshua, in Jesus, as I take you now to the book of 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 16 and 17. Hear the word of God. I want you to see how what we just studied connects to this prophetic fulfillment. Hear God’s word. 1 Thessalonians 4, 16 and 17. for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout.” Remember, he descended upon Mount Sinai. Now we’re looking at what’s happening at Yeshua’s return. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God. and the dead in Christ will rise first, then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, so we shall always be with the Lord.” Once again, if you were paying careful attention, you notice that when the Lord returns, when Jesus, when Yeshua HaMashiach returns, His return is announced with the blowing of the trumpet, with the blowing of the shofar. We just read it in First Thessalonians 4, 16 and 17. And when he returns, being announced by the blowing of the shofar, the dead in Christ will arise. And then those of us that are alive on planet Earth that know him will also arise to meet him in the air, even as Moses went up the mountain to meet him at the top of the mountain. Isn’t that incredible, beloved ones? Let’s give the Lord a hand today. I want you to do that wherever you’re sitting now. I want to share with you today two things. I want to impress upon your heart today two things. This is reality. Number one, I want to impress upon our hearts today that Yeshua’s return is a reality. You can… Put your entire faith in it. He really is coming back. I’m going to talk about this, and I believe God’s going to strengthen your faith today through His Word. You know, sometimes we hear about the return of Jesus, and it kind of goes in one ear and out the other. I’m not saying that’s you, but I’m just saying for a lot of people, because they’ve heard about it for so long, It’s so far outside our experience. He didn’t return yesterday. He didn’t return last week, didn’t return last year. In fact, no matter how old you are, he hasn’t returned yet. He hasn’t returned in your parents’ lifetime, your grandparents’ lifetime. And after a while, human nature is that we can stop expecting. That, yeah, we hear it, we agree with it theologically and doctrinally, but are we really expecting it? Today, I want to impress upon you, my friend, you should expect this. In fact, Scripture teaches us that Father God and Jesus want every generation to expect Him to return in their lifetime. I’m going to help you today to take a hold of the fact of the soon and imminent return of Jesus Christ. Then also, I want to impress upon you, my friends, the reality of heaven. You know, we hear about heaven, we believe in heaven, but I’m going to help you, I believe, with God’s help to really take a hold of the fact that heaven is a real place, that those of us that know him are really going to go here. Let’s begin with the first of these. I want to talk about today, Jesus is really coming back. Let’s go to the book of John, chapter 14, verse 2 and 3. She has said, in my father’s house are many dwelling places. If it were not so, I would have told you. For I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, get this now, I will come again and receive you to myself. Jesus is promising. He says, if it were not so, he said, I wouldn’t be telling you this. He said, I’m going to prepare a place for you, get a church, and I’m coming again to receive you to myself. Jesus is coming again. Get that in your heart right now. Jesus is coming back for you. Put your hand over your heart right now and just say this out loud with me. Say, Jesus is. is coming back for me.” Beloved, He really is coming back. Peter warned us about the danger of losing faith in this. He warned us about losing our sense of expectancy. He talked about people that began to say in their heart, you know what? He hasn’t come back for all these years. Where is He? And they begin to stop looking. This is what the story of the ten virgins is about. All ten of them said they believed that the bridegroom was going to return. But five of the ten stopped looking. They stopped paying attention. They quit having oil in their lamps. It wasn’t that they said they didn’t believe in it, but they lost their faith to expect it to happen soon. And because of that, they fell asleep. And when the bridegroom returned, they weren’t ready and they weren’t able to enter. And I’m telling you, my beloved friend, Jesus is about to come back for you soon. In fact, his last words in scripture were these, I am coming quickly. You’re going to meet him and I’m going to meet him either by our death, which we don’t know when that’s going to happen, or by his return. And it’s going to happen just like that. Life goes by like a vapor. Those of us that are older, we look back on our life and it’s gone by so quickly. You and I are going to meet Jesus soon. And knowing this should help us focus every single day to live for him. Because what’s left? The world is passing away. It’s lustre passing away. But the scripture says, he that does the will of God abides forever. You see, Father God put this holiday in his sacred calendar because he wants to remind us every year that Jesus is coming back, he’s coming back soon, and he’s coming back for you. This holy day called Rosh Hashanah, Jewish people refer to it as Rosh Hashanah, which means the head of the year. Biblically, probably a better name is Yom Teruah, the Feast of Trumpets. The Lord put this in his calendar for the entire church so that we could every year have a time in our life where we refocus on the return of Jesus Christ. Beloved one, he’s coming back for you and he’s coming back sooner than you and I think or realize. He wants each and every one of us to expect him to return and live as if he’s going to return in our own lifetime. I want to encourage you today. Once again, the last words that Jesus spoke were, I’m coming back quickly and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to what he’s done. Why would this be his last word in Revelation? Because he wants us to live with our eyes in his return. Jesus is coming back. For you, put your hand over your heart one more time and just say this, Jesus is coming back soon for me. I’ve always liked a very simple approach to ministry in both my preaching and, beloved ones, in helping God’s people understand why it’s important to support ministry with our finances. I’m reading a very simple portion of scripture I’ve referred to before, but I love it because it’s so simple and so authentic. Listen to what John says in the book of 3 John, verse 7 and 8. Speaking of those that are sent out to preach the gospel, he says this, for they went out for the sake of the name. And then he continues in the eighth verse by saying this, therefore, we ought to support such men so that we may be fellow workers with the truth. You see, not everybody’s called to do what I do. Not everyone’s called to travel to Africa, Israel, etc. But you can have a part in the lives that are being changed through my ministry, beloved ones, by supporting this ministry. I want to ask you, if you believe in the word that I’m preaching, if you believe in me, if you believe that there is authentic fruit, and if you’re being helped, I want to ask you to support this ministry financially. You’re going to be blessed and have a reward for the lives that are being saved and changed.
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In the book of Numbers chapter 6, the Lord gave instructions to Moses and Aaron to speak this blessing over his people. And the Lord said, When you speak these words over my people, I will place my name on them and bless them. Receive the impartations of the Lord’s blessings.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.
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I’m Dustin Roberts, and this program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. Join us again tomorrow when Rabbi Schneider explains the prophetic fulfillment of God’s fall holy days. That’s coming up Tuesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
