Introduction to the Fall Feasts - another presentation at the Feast of Tabernacles on the Gold Coast 2010

1. These “forever” festivals are both for celebration
and rehearsal for the climactic event of the ages.
- John D. Garr, Ph.D., Th.D
Feast of Tabernacles,
Heart of David Ministries,
Gold Coast 2010

2. 1. What chapter of what prophet speaks of observing
Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) in the Kingdom of God?
2. Jesus’ first (known) words in public ministry?
3. What was Jesus’ mission statement?
4. What was Paul’s shortest summary of God’s
instructions to man?
5. What scripture in the Hebrew Bible (OT) was he
summarizing?
6. What Hebrew Bible or OT scripture is the most
quoted and alluded to (23+ times)in all of the NT?
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3. 7. What Bible did Jesus read and preach from?
8. What Bible did Paul read and preach from?
9. Who was to blame for the Roman control of Israel in
the days of Jesus?
10. When Jesus was preaching in Israel, there were
(according to Josephus), four main sects of the proto-
Judaism of the day. They were the Sadducees,
Pharisees, Essenes and Zealots. While Jesus was
clearly unique, which of the four groups did he most
closely align himself to?
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4. There are 7 special or Holy Day/Appointed Times on
the Biblical Calendar.
1. Passover/Pessach
2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread
3. Firstfruits(celebrated during the Feast of Unleavened Bread)
4. Shavuot/Pentecost/Festival of Weeks
5. Yom Teruah/ Day of Shouting/Feast of Trumpets
6. Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement
7. Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles or Booths or
Shelters/Feast of Ingathering
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5.  Firstly for Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruits–
they were there for the crucifixion; & the inauguration
of the new Priesthood;
 secondly for Pentecost – they were there for the great
outpouring of the power of God;
 Third - for the Day of Trumpets; the Day of
Atonement and the Feast of Booths.
 For?? I will argue, the return of the Messiah; the Day
of Judgment and the Marriage Supper of the Lamb!
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6. There are also some interesting parallels in their
structure:
 The First 3:
◦ 1st day of 1st Month or Nissan (Start of year – 1st Biblical Month –
was called Aviv)
◦ 10th Day of Nissan – The Lamb enters the house for 4 days
◦ 15th Day of Nissan – Passover (7 days with ceremonial sabbaths on
1st and 7th day
◦ Firstfruits (Wave Sheaf offering) – 1st day after the Weekly
Sabbath of Passover
 50 days later comes Shavuot/Pentecost (Greek for 50)
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7.  1st day of 7th Month – ‘Shouting’/Trumpets/YomTeruah
 10th day of 7th Month – Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur
 15th Day of 7th Month – Feast of Booths/Sukkot (7 days
with ceremonial sabbaths on 1st and 8th day)
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8.  Repent
◦ Yom Teruah& the 10 Days of Awe
 Redeem
◦ Yom Kippur - The Judgment and Redemption
 Rejoice
◦ Sukkot – the Marriage Supper and the inauguration of the
Millenial Reign.
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9.  Lev 23:23-25
 And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the
people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the
first day of the month, you shall observe a day of
solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of
trumpets, a holy convocation.
 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall
present a food offering to Yahweh.
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10.  Numbers 29:1-6
 “On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy
convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.
 It is a day for you to blow the trumpets, and you shall offer a burnt
offering, for a pleasing aroma to Yahweh:
 one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without
blemish;
 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an
ephahfor the bull, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for each of the
seven lambs;
 with one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;
besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and
the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink
offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food
offering to Yahweh.
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11.  Yom Teruah actually means a day of SHOUTING
[#8643 TERUAH: clamor, acclamation of joy, the
blowing of the Shofar (ram’s horn) from #7321
RUA: to ROAR, to split the ears with sound, shout,
blow an alarm, joy, triumph].
 See Numbers 10:9-10 to see how both these
extremes of warning and triumph are relevant.
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12.  proclaim the Year of Jubilee;
 on Feast days and New Moons;
 at the dethroning of wicked leaders;
 to escort processions (bridegrooms or kings);
◦ In the traditional Hebrew wedding ceremony a shofar blast and a
shout that he is coming preceded the bridegrooms procession.
Yeshua is coming to have the wedding supper with his Bride.
 at the assembling of the tribes;
 and at the coronation of the King.
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13.  John in Revelation tells us that Adonai‟s voice
sounds like the shofar (Rev.1: 10).
 Also, we read in Numbers 10:5 the shofar is
sounded to signal the start of the journey in the
Wilderness.
 In Jeremiah 4:19; 49:2 &Zec 1:16 it is sounded as
a summons for war.
 We see another reference to the „shouting‟ of the
ram‟s horn, the shofar) in Joshua 6:
◦ It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and
when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout
with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and
the people shall go up every man straight before him.”(Joshua 6:5)
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14.  Matthew 24:29-31
But immediately after the oppression of those days, the sun
will be darkened, the moon will not give its light, the stars
will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be
shaken; and then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in
the sky. Then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they
will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky
with power and great glory. He will send out his angels with
a great sound of a trumpet (shofar), and they will gather
together his chosen ones from the four winds, from one end
of the sky to the other.
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15.  1 Cor 15:51-52
Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will 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 will be changed.
 1 Thess 4:15-16
For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are
alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way
precede those who have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will
descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise
first, then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So
we will be with the Lord forever.
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16.  Rev 10: 5-7
 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on
the land raised his right hand to heaven 6and swore by
him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven
and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the
sea and what is in it, that there would be no more
delay, but that in the days of the trumpet call to be
sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God
would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants
the prophets.
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17.  Zeph 1: 14- 16
 The great day of the LORD is near, and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the LORD is bitter; the mighty
man cries aloud there. A day of wrath is that day, a day
of distress and anguish, a day of ruin and
devastation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of
clouds and thick darkness, a day of trumpet blast and
battle cry against the fortified cities and against the
lofty battlements.
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18.  In Judaism the 10 days from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur
(The Day of Atonement), are called the ‘The 10 Days of
Awe’.
 Some Rabbi’s argue that the 10 Days of Awe match up
with the 10 Words.
 Consider, the first day, Yom Teruah will surely be the
Day when Israel will say ‘Blessed is he who comes in
the name of the Lord! ‘ - Luke 13:35, and in Ps 118: 26
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19.  Luke 13: 35
◦ Behold, your house is forsaken. And I tell you, you will not see
me until you say, Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
Lord!
 Ps 118: 22-26
◦ The stone that the builders rejected has become the
cornerstone. This is the LORD's doing; it is marvelous in our
eyes. This is the day that the LORD has made; let us rejoice
and be glad in it. Save us, we pray, O LORD! O LORD, we pray,
give us success! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the
LORD!
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20.  The Lord will restore you from captivity, and have
compassion on you, and will gather you again from all
the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered
you.
 If your outcasts are at the ends of the earth, from there
the Lord your God will gather you, and from there He
will bring you back.
 And the Lord your God will bring you into the land
which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it.
◦ Deuteronomy 30:3-5
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21.  Once the Jews are re-established in their land, "they will never be
rooted up again" (Amos 9:14-15).
 The prophecies of re-gathering appear to fall into three categories:
 1) A few relate to the return from Babylonian captivity
 (Jeremiah 25:10-12 and 29:1-10).
 Most of these prophecies appear to involve two end time re-gatherings
from all over the world,
 2) One in unbelief before the Lord Messiah returns
 (Isaiah 11:10-12 and Ezekiel 36:22-28) and,

3) the other in belief after the Lord returns??
 (Deuteronomy 30:1-10 and Ezekiel 37:19-28).
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22.  Isaiah 10-12:
 5 "Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose
hand is the club of my wrath!
 6 I send him against a godless nation,) his purpose is to
destroy, to put an end to many nations. …
 20 In that day the remnant of Israel, the survivors of the
house of Jacob, will no longer rely on him who struck them
down but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
 21 A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob will return to
the Mighty God.
 22 Though your people, O Israel, be like the sand by the
sea, only a remnant will return. Destruction has been
decreed, overwhelming and righteous.
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23.  4 but with righteousness he will judge the needy, with justice he will
give decisions for the poor of the earth. He will strike the earth with
the rod of his mouth; with the breath of his lips he will slay the wicked.
 5 Righteousness will be his belt and faithfulness the sash around his
waist.
 6 The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the
goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child
will lead them.
 …
10 In that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples;
the nations will rally to him, and his place of rest will be glorious.
 11 In that day the Lord will reach out his hand a second time to
reclaim the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, from Lower
Egypt, from Upper Egypt, from Cush, from Elam, from Babylonia, from
Hamath and from the islands of the sea.
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24.  Acts 3:
 19 Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so
that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,
 20 and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
 21 whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things,
which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world
began.
 Romans 11:25-27
 Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery,
brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
 “The Deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodliness from Jacob;
and this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
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25.  Hosea 3: 4-5
 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without
king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, without
ephod or teraphim. Afterward the children of Israel shall
return and seek the LORD their God and David their king.
They shall fear Adonai and His goodness in the latter days.
 We see a 3 step process here:
1. A return from a long time without a king (and therefore without
a land and without a temple to give sacrifices at.)
2. A seeking after God and His King or Messiah
3. A Fear of God in the last days i.e. a return to belief!
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26.  Return, O faithless children, declares the LORD; for I am
your master; I will take you, one from a city and two from a
family, and I will bring you to Zion. “‘And I will give you
shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with
knowledge and understanding. And when you have
multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares
the LORD, they shall no more say, The ark of the covenant
of the LORD. It shall not come to mind or be remembered or
missed; it shall not be made again. At that time Jerusalem
shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations
shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in
Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their
own evil heart.
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27. 
Then I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all
the countries where I have driven them, and I will bring
them back to their fold, and they shall be fruitful and
multiply. I will set shepherds over them who will care
for them, and they shall fear no more, nor be
dismayed, neither shall any be missing, declares the
LORD. “Behold, the days are coming, declares the
LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous
Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and
shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.
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28.  6 In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will
dwell securely. And this is the name by which he
will be called: The LORD is our righteousness.
 7 “Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
declares the LORD, when they shall no longer
say, As the LORD lives who brought up the
people of Israel out of the land of Egypt,
 8 but As the LORD lives who brought up and led
the offspring of the house of Israel out of the
north country and out of all the countries where
he had driven them. Then they shall dwell in their
own land.
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29. 13 And I will bring them out from the peoples and gather them from
the countries, and will bring them to their own land; I will feed them
on the mountains of Israel, in the valleys and in all the inhabited
places of the country.
14 I will feed them in good pasture, and their fold shall be on the
high mountains of Israel. There they shall lie down in a good fold and
feed in rich pasture on the mountains of Israel.
15 I will feed My flock, and I will make them lie down,” says the Lord
GOD.
16 “I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away,
bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy
the fat and the strong, and feed them in judgment.”
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30.  24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather you
out of all countries, and bring you into your own land.
 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall
be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from
all your idols.
 26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within
you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give
you a heart of flesh.
 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in
My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them.
 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your
fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God.
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31.  It may even be that step 2 involving seeking after the commandments
of God may fit the pattern Paul tells us in Gal 3 24:
 Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be
justified by faith.
 Who will one of these teachers be?
 Malachi 4:4-6
4. Remember the Law of Moses, My servant, Which I commanded him
in Horeb for all Israel, With the statutes and judgments. 5 Behold, I
will send you Elijah the prophet Before the coming of the great and
dreadful day of the LORD.
 6 And he will turn The hearts of the fathers to the children, And
the hearts of the children to their fathers, Lest I come and strike
the earth with a curse.”
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32.  This was endorsed by Yeshua in Matthew 17:11
 Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming
first and will restore all things.
 Many orthodox Jews also believe that they are living in the
last days and that 1948/67 etc are a fulfillment of prophecy
 Paul quotes Isaiah 59:20 in Romans 11.

Is 59:20 “ The Redeemer will come to Zion, And to those in
Jacob who turn from rebellion,” So says Adonai.
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33.  There is a ladder of God's blessing and punishment, which has four
major stages:
1. Full conquest and kingdom dominion
2. Economic and military defeat reducing the borders
3. Division of the nation in two
4. Exile

 In our generation God is restoring the nation of Israel. In so doing, He reverses the process of
the exile. Restoration (or national redemption) is the opposite of exile.
 Therefore the process of restoration has the same four stages in
reverse:
1. Return from exile
2. Half the nation restored
3. Expansion of military and economic influence
4. Full kingdom conquest
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34.  Here is how that restoration ladder has been partially
fulfilled in the last century:
1. The return from exile started in 1881 at the first Aliyah of
the "BILU" movement and continues unto today.
2. Half of the nation was restored in 1947 and at the UN
partition and establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.
3. In 1967 and 1973, territory was expanded through
military conflict. From 1977 until the present there has
also been economic growth in Israel.
4. Ultimately, as the nation returns to its Messiah and the
Messiah returns to His nation, the full kingdom will be
restored.
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35.  Jeremiah 31:10
 “Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, and declare it in the
coastlands far away; say, He who scattered Israel will
gather him, and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.
 Ezekiel 36:8
 But you, O mountains of Israel, you shall shoot forth your
branches and yield your fruit to My people Israel, for they
are about to come. …I will make you inhabited as in former
times, and do better for you than at your beginnings. Then
you shall know that I am the LORD. So I scattered them
among the nations, and they were dispersed throughout
the countries, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: “I do not do this for
your sake, O house of Israel but for My holy name’s sake,
which you have profaned among the nations wherever you
went.
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36. 
24 For I will take you from among the nations, gather
you out of all countries, and bring you into your own
land. 25 Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and
you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your
filthiness and from all your idols
 34 The desolate land shall be tilled instead of lying
desolate in the sight of all who pass by. 35 So they will
say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the
garden of Eden; and the wasted, desolate, and ruined
cities are now fortified and inhabited.’
 Then they shall know that I am the LORD.”
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37.  Joel 1:
 1 “For behold, in those days and at that time, When I bring back the captives
of Judah and Jerusalem, 2 I will also gather all nations, And bring them down
to the Valley of Jehoshaphat; And I will enter into judgment with them
there On account of My people, My heritage Israel, Whom they have
scattered among the nations; They have also divided up My land.
 Zech 13: 8
 In the whole land," declares the LORD, "two-thirds will be struck down and
perish; yet one-third will be left in it….
 Zech 14:2
 2For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be
taken, The houses rifled, And the women ravished. Half of the city shall go
into captivity, But the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.
 3 Then the LORD will go forth And fight against those nations, As He fights in
the day of battle.
 4 And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives
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38.  Firstly, Jesus Himself spoke of the scattering and latter-day re-gathering of
the Jewish people:
 Luke 21:20-28
20 “But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its
desolation has come near. …
24 They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all
nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the
times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
25 “And there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth
distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the
waves,
26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the
world. For the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 And then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and
great glory.
28 Now when these things begin to take place, straighten up and raise your
heads, because your redemption is drawing near.
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39.  Ezekiel 37:19-28: but I will deliver them from all their
dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will
cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will
be their God.
 Jeremiah 30 is another possible prophecy but again it is
after God has brought them back that they give thanks,
not before.
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40.  1 “Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come
upon you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before
you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where
the LORD your God drives you,
 2 and you return to the LORD your God and obey His voice,
according to all that I command you today, you and your
children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
 3 that the LORD your God will bring you back from captivity,
and have compassion on you, and gather you again from all
the nations where the LORD your God has scattered you.
 4 If any of you are driven out to the farthest parts under
heaven, from there the LORD your God will gather you, and
from there He will bring you.
 5 Then the LORD your God will bring you to the land which
your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it. He will
prosper you and multiply you more than your fathers.
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41.  6 And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the
heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all
your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
 7 “Also the LORD your God will put all these curses on your
enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
 8 And you will again obey the voice of the LORD and do all
His commandments which I command you today.
 9 The LORD your God will make you abound in all the work of
your hand, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your
livestock, and in the produce of your land for good. For the
LORD will again rejoice over you for good as He rejoiced over
your fathers,
 10 if you obey the voice of the LORD your God, to keep His
commandments and His statutes which are written in this
Book of the Torah, and if you turn to the LORD your God with
all your heart and with all your soul.
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42.  Deuteronomy 30:2 "...if you Return to YHVH your God,
if you obey His Voice with all your heart and soul in
everything I enjoin on you today (i.e. the Laws,
Statutes, Precepts and Commandments of YHVH), then
YHVH your God will bring back your captives ('shav et
Shevoet' - restore you, set you free from bondage,
reconcile you to His Covenant relationship)".
 http://www.revelations.org.za/Captivity.htm
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43. A fearful time approaches!
We can:
 Support the root
 demonstrate our love not our judgment;
 pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Ps 122:6);
 develop relationships;
 make the Jewish people jealous in our devotion
and faithfulness to God!
◦ Rom 11: 11-15 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the
Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
 Love them even when we don‟t understand them
or their relationship with their God and ours, the
God of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob.
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