The Feast Portraying the Wedding

we discussed the timing of the Feast of Israel and we believe that we found a better way to calculate those feasts than we were previously doing um so last week we spent time examining the Feast of Israel how many in this room are Feast Keepers let me see your hands amen all right pretty much everybody keep the feast here um there's a reason we do it and tonight I want to go into a different venue you the title of tonight's lesson is the feast and the wedding the greatest love story never told never told never now last week we got to the timing of the Feast of Israel by returning to the original Creator's calendar starting next year we will be observing our Feast according to the calendar found in the Book of Enoch and jubilees we will be starting our new year on the 21st of March and then counting therea for all of our holy days but we got the timing right last week but this week we're going to go past the head knowledge I believe every one of you in this room if I ask you to explain the feast I believe you could but I wonder tonight if we got enough heart knowledge about the Feast for example how many Feast are there Seven Feast seven is God's perfect number now many people say they don't keep the feast because yua or Jesus if you prefer the Greek pronunciation um fulfilled those feasts but we have proven many times that he has not fulfilled the Feast of Israel they are still yet unfulfilled and tonight we're going to look at what the feast means and how your heart feels about the feast now you've got head knowledge brother Smith you understand that we're supposed to keep them yes sir you understand when we're supposed to keep them and you understand how we're supposed to keep them but do you understand why why we understand when we understand where we understand who and how but do you understand why we keep the feast why did yah set the up remember these words the feast and the wedding this picture is the picture of a Hebrew wedding everyone in the Hebrew culture gets married under this canopy called a hoofa the hoofa is the symbol of your marriage and everyone gets married under a hoofa in the Hebrew culture so tonight you're going to study the ways of the the Hebrews and how it relates to the Feast of Israel obedience without understanding is religion and bondage if everybody in this room just keeps the feast because you're told to MH without understanding why you're in a religion amen I'm going to say that again amen the same reason that women in certain churches wear skirts and certain people do this and they do it because they're told to but they there's no why about it tonight I'm afraid that yahweh's people are keeping the feast without knowing why and tonight we want to help you understand why there's three stages of the ancient Hebrew weddings that we're going to study tonight the first one well first of all when we understand the three stages of the Hebrew wedding only then can we discern the deeper meaning of the Feast of Israel there are three main feasts Passover Pentecost and Tabernacles in Hebrew it's called Pisa shabot and shot these are the three feasts now there are seven feasts in total but there are three main rubrics or categories that these Feast fit into for example what fits here on uh Passover unad UNL bread and uh the counting of the uh the Omar and then the next Feast So within that Feast right there you have uh three and then you have Pentecost and then in Tabernacles you have trumpets atonement Tabernacles and the last great day so but they all fall into those three categories now in the same way there are three main parts of a Jewish wedding the first one is the arrangement which in Hebrew is the Shuka the next is the betral in Hebrew it's the arisan and then there is the actual wedding I want you to look at these three Saints keep in your mind the difference between the arrangement the betral and the wedding and we're going to explore tonight how we we are doing more than just keeping the feast all right when we come together now let's talk about the word convocation what are two things you're commanded to do on a feast day two things rest and what else say again yeah a holy convocation but do you know what the word convocation means and this is where it's going to get interesting m you know we think of a church service well that's good that's a gathering but on the holy days he said you're to have a sacred convocation let's explore that word tonight let's go to Exodus 12 and uh sister Moroni if you'll take this and read praise Yahweh Exodus 12:1 15-16 I'm saving my voice tonight cuz I got to preach tomorrow amen go ahead now let's all turn there in our new Bibles that all of us got I love mine Exodus 12:1 15-16 seven days you shall eat unleavened bread indeed on the first day you cause leaven to cease from your houses for who whoever eats unleavened bread from the first day until to the seventh day that shall be cut off from Israel and on the first day is a set aart Gathering and on the seventh day you have a set apart Gathering now these are called convocations in the English Bible but actually there's setart Gatherings Now read no work at all is done on them only that which is eaten by every being that alone is prepared by you and listen to the next verse verse 17 the first line MH and you shall guard the Feast of unle bread now guard the feast do you know everyone in this room listen to me sister Ronda Rush do you know that out of Hancock County do y'all know I'm fixing to tell you something that's going to sound braggadocious I don't do you know we're the only ones in this County that I know of that guard the feast do you understand that yes thank you Father I wonder if we really realize who we are sometimes hallelujah we're the Guardians of these feasts amen nobody else is fighting for them but us and maybe a few more that we don't know about in this area but my point I'm making is we are commanded Elder Smith to guard not Christmas amen I don't understand even the seventh day Church of the early Apostolic Church none of them celebrated these Pagan demons rituals called Christmas and Easter and Halloween and none of these festivals of of Darkness that was converted into Roman Catholicism nobody used to keep those in the early church what did they keep in the early [Music] church what was they keeping the festivals of Yahweh the same thing we do sister Joanna we're Guardians of these Feast did Yahweh not say guard the feast theast we are guardians of these Feast amen what a privileged people We Are Tonight keeping to be Guardians of the feast in Exodus 12:1 15-16 it tells us to keep these Feast forever forever now are we required according to these verses to come together to a holy assembly on these sacred days yeah all right is your church doing it yes not this one is the one you came out of are they doing this commandment no then then then get out of there right amen call me whatever you want to call me get out yes yes sir the Bible said come out of her my people run out of Babylon my people why because always raising up a last day move and you are part of it amen amen now the word convocation could be better understood as a Sanctified rehearsal before you have a wedding what do you have reheal a rehearsal these holy convocations are rehearsals of the wedding process between Yahweh thank you somebody's getting it over there rest look the Holy Ghost will begin to reveal this to you in a minute like he did to me sitting in my office when he be to show me how that we have lost the meaning of these Feast it is Sanctified rehearsals yes of a wedding now what are we rehearsing when we come to Passover p and Tabernacles we are celebrating and rehearsing our selection somebody say my selection we're celebrating our betral and our wedding to the lamb now that don't excite you it's because you don't have your Woods wet when we come to the holy days when we come to Passover we are celebrating are you for real we are celebrating our selection yes because it's a Passover that we are chosen yes when we come to Pentecost you're going to find out tonight that we're celebrating our betrothal in English that's engagement diamond and then when we come to Tabernacles we're celebrating our actual wedding oh these are rehearsals children Hallelujah and these rehearsals if you don't get that in your mind you won't understand it the word holy is the Hebrew word CAD Kadesh from age 6944 and 6942 it means a Sac place or thing that's what holy means but I want to come down more specifically to convocation it's the Hebrew word mcra 8 7477 and here's what it means called out a public meeting a rehearsal assembly calling convocation or a reading I'm reading the word to you tonight we're in a holy convocation but more importantly tonight we are in a rehearsal why do you say that brother Von because on a seventh day like this seventh day there's going to be a chofar sound that's why we come and rehearse that chofar Hallelujah oh and on a day like today Hallelujah there's going to be an opening of the heavens that's why we come in our praise and our worship and open up the heavens and then a day like today the dead in Christ will rise and that's why when you walk through that back door dead you rise into the newness of the spirit you're rehearsing Resurrection morning you're rehearsing when the redeemed are gathering in you're rehearsing when new life comes to your dead situation this is a Sabbath rehearsal because the wedding of the church will take place on the 7,000th year the shth day yes sir amen every Sabbath is a rehearsal that's why you some of you walked in tonight for the first time perhaps and you think why are these crazy people dancing all over the church because unlike you we don't go to church we go to rehearsal good job and I read that in a wedding there's always dancing at a wedding yeah yeah yeah yeah I better wake up somebody wake those sleep been to a wedding where they W dancing and celebrate the problem is you're still trying to come to weekly Church rather than Sabbath rehearsal tell it tell it why we dancing everywhere because I can imagine in that wedding there's going to be a juilee like your eyes have never seen your ears have never heard oh singing oh what shouting on that happy morning when the dead in Christ shall rise me paron me if I got to rehearse a little bit me if I got to practi make sure I get it right make sure that I've got this wedding right why because how dare you believe for one second that you're going to see your groove deck out in the light of the sun deck out in the glory of his and you walk up there like this oh no oh no they'll be singing they'll be shouting they'll be singing there'll be celebration it's time to rehearse this wedding how dare you walk into God's church with your hands folden how dare you walk into this rehearsal acting like oh thank you Holy Ghost he just told me cuz you plan on being a guest at the wedding can't be gu you better be God the guest are sitting down yes the guests are watching the celebration the bride is up there getting it old baby if you want to be a guest at the wedding practice being a guest but if you want to be in that number when the redeemed are gathering in was like snow and free from sin I will shout and I will sing when when theed when theem in oh that act like it rehearse that yes sir GL some of these Hebrew root folk I go into their meetings and I sit there and I think my God if this is how their wedding with Christ is going to be if this is a rehearsal please I'd rather be in a funeral why because there's no no joy there's no celebration the Bible said when you come to the Sabbath celebrate the Sabbath it is a time to celebrate rehearsal thank you hallelujah hallelujah rehearsals of the real thing anybody ever been in a play yeah what do you do before the real thing uh-huh rehear rehearse it oh yeah if you're having a little Christmas play like P tab of the Christian tab when you're having play you come for rehearsal and you may not have your garments on then but you're playing the par oh y'all don't even know why I'm trying to preach you're practicing that make sure that you get the real thing right you're getting ready for the production when you come to rehearsal tonight I don't know about you but I got a different picture of the Resurrection that the rest of the church has I see the day of Celebration when the Saints of are redeemed at last yes sir every rehearsal yes sir oh and you know what I love about rehearsals see this year we got the dates wrong last year we but that's all right what did rehearsals do they get you better yes sir and better and better until you get it right don't be afraid of getting it wrong be glorious and envious of getting right because in these celebrations good what do think what do you think be like yes sir yes you think it's going to be quiet really the r said I heard a noise that like the ocean I said I saw a number that could not Beed as they worshiped and danced and praised him we must practice now hallu okay I got a question for you how many ever sing that song they'll be singing and they'll be sh yeah all right yeah well why they ain't none now they don't know cuz you don't believe there going to be none now no are you be singing and Shou see amen why do I keep the Sabbath day I read the back of the book amen and I found out that in that coming Kingdom Hallelujah everybody's going to be keeping the seventh day so I thought I'd go ahead now and start practicing right won't be nobody having a holy convocation on in the New Kingdom oh no it be on the seventh day of the week thank you sir that's why I practice now hey right right these are not real plays the rehearsal this ain't the real deal tonight go ahead baby praise and dar hallah go ahead that's I feel the Holy Ghost right now hallelujah oh see we used to sing a song said I'm getting ready to leave this world but no you're not or you'd be acting like it you'd be getting ready right now you'd be acting the part doing the part we are in Divine rehearsal tonight and I look around at some of you let me ask you this come on when the trumpet s blow the trumpet sister nck give us a chaar blast now listen to I want you to listen to this now listen hallelujah hallelujah that out of the ground that means wake up that means get up that resurrect that means alive that means get ready the king is coming the king is coming the king is coming practice now Hallelujah when you hear that show far sound every Sabbath get on your feet rise up the Bible said rise the dead in Christ will rise if you believe you're going to be in the resurrection you think you going to be getting up like this [Music] nuh yall oh W go sleepers oh W go sleeper or do you believe when you you've been dead all this time and all of a sudden your DNA reconstruct like the sounding of a Shar and you come up out of the ground you see him in the air my honey child let me tell you something you ain't never been in a bar and acting that crazy as you going to act on that day Cate now practice [Music] now right I know people don't understand the Sabbath by the way you worship at the Sabbath because this is rehearsal you believe we're going to come up out of the ground yes we are they get your butt up out of the P you right hey uhoh uhoh uhoh if it's rehearsal TR to wake them up how you going to sit down that rehearsal if you ain't be sitting down at the real deal Hallelujah see Hallelujah that's why the Bible said lift your voice like a trumpet shound the Shar lift your voice lift your voice lift your voice let everything that have breath pra see the Lord that everything that Happ below the trumpet in Zion amenallah Hallelujah you may be see I'm trying to help you understand rehearsal the festivals are teaching tool to prepare us to celebrate now here's the problem if you don't really believe that none of this is going to happen no wonder you ain't rehearsing right right if you don't really believe there's going to be a resurrection then you might as well just sit on a puke mhm but if you believe that when that trumpet say oh yeah that you coming up out of the ground yes sir and every Sabbath when that trumpet SS Hallelujah up out of the ground you got to rehearse Hallelujah yes sir these festivals are teaching us how to celebrate the festival amen at some time in the future to rehearse properly we need to know the following the correct words of the script amen the correct actions and props oh brother see y'all understand when I tell everybody stand on your feet and give God praise do you think I'm doing that cuz I don't have nothing else to do I'm trying to get props right hey Hallelujah I read in Revelation where they were standing Before the Throne I read when they were kneeling before the throne I read these things that were going to happen at the real place so I'm just trying to get the props right right now amen you got to get the props right get the props right you got to get the music right music right oh you got to get the worship right yeah that's all props that's what it is we got to get everything right why because the day coming the day is coming is coming yes is coming Hallelujah you got to get the correct costumes the correct date and time a rehearsal is practice for the real thing by celebrating the festivals dictated by Yahweh on SI we will be in the right place at the right time wearing the right clothes saying the right words and doing the right things yes sir hallelujah hallelujah to begin to understand the rehearsals of Yahweh I told y'all I was going to preach tonight come on now to begin to understand the rehearsals of Yahweh it means that we have to look at the Hebrew word that means rehearse thus we see that mikra defines an assembly of people for the purpose of rehear CH do you know tonight that you are at a MRA amen hallelujah M that's why you don't come here dress any kind of way oh yeah Hallelujah yeah yeah dress holy right yeah yeah oh y'all thought I wasn't going have a deal with that huh I've been dodging that bullet you can't come in here with your stuff hanging all out Hallelujah you got to be holy cover yourself why because you got to because I promise you how you you think you going to walk up there and at the real deal with your with your behind sheeks hanging out that's right come on you think you going be fling and fling when you get up there you you be you going to be prepped all up hey you going to be covered you going to be in a Rob white Hallelujah you going to be a ro that's been bred and ired it's been Sheen it's been perfected Hallelujah brother don't tell you how to dress when I go J I'm telling you what costume to put on I'm telling you how to get ready for the wedding thank you sir thank you y'all don't miss this message tonight don't let the devil distract youen I'm telling you why we keep the yes sir we got to get ready oh I don't believe in a close Live message but I believe in Holiness I believe in looking right I believe in Walking as his bride and walk in your hoiness under the Lord why because you're rehearsing right now hallelujah hallelujah now the first step is Passover when we celebrate Passover in April of next year we'll all be in gunville Alabama what an exciting time we're going to have with all of our family across the United States we're going to celebrate Passover now the first part of a wedding is called the arrangement ment now the first Feast is called Passover follow these steps carefully and watch now here's what the arrangement is the arrangement is made uh in Eastern countries not because you fell in love no ain't the way it happens if a young man has the sufficient means to make it possible for him to provide a bride price then his parents select the girl and and the negotiations begin you know that sounds like a bad idea but how many of you would have would have turned out a lot better if You' let your mom and dad choose your husband of life you might not would have made some of the mistakes you made they could have told you that boy ain't going to keep a job right all right they could have told you that boy ain't going to never be nothing right amen so in the Eastern culture they arranged the marriage and the marriage of the two individuals is for the purpose of bringing the two families together yes sir usually for power or position in the Middle East it's not customary for men and women to select their own spouse this is normally the prerogative of the father it is he who feels the ultimate responsibility for procuring a bride for a son and sees that his daughter gets married many times this agreement happens even before birth now I want to show you the first shukan or the first arrangement for the Bride of Yahweh I'm going to show you now how Yahweh followed every one of these Hebrew steps to choose his bride I'm going to show you where Yahweh chose His Bride and arranged her marriage before she was ever born and Genesis 15 Abram and Yahweh enter into a seduka Covenant even before the birth of Isaac now Isaac would produce who jaob Jacob which would become Israel and who is the Bride of Yahweh Israel I'm fixing to show you where before Israel was ever born the father arranged the marriage oh it's going to be beautiful tonight let's go to Genesis 15 5-6 and then verse 13-4 and verse 18 everyone turn there in your Bibles Genesis 15 5 [Music] through6 thank you Holy Ghost and we're ready when you are and he brought them outside and said look now towards the heaven and count the Stars if you are able to count them and he said to him so are your seed and he believed in Yahweh and he reckoned it to him for righteousness now who with the seed be Israel all right now go to verse 13 and 14 and he said to Abram know for certain that your seed are to be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and Shall Serve them and they shall afflict them 400 years but the Nation whom they serve I am going to judge and afterward let them come out with great possessions and verse 18 please on the same day Yahweh made a covenant with Abram listen on that day Yahweh made a covenant with Abraham this is a pre-arranged marriage before the girl was ever born read okay I have given this land to your seed from the river of mream which is Egypt to the Great River the river Euphrates now I want you to notice what Yahweh told Abraham I've got the bride price I can take care of this girl called Israel and he arranged to marry her before she was ever born Israel did not exist Israel was Jacob Abraham had to have Isaac first Isaac this is an arrange do you not see this is an arranged marriage amen Yahweh claims the bride and then what is he do he tells Abraham I've got the price I've got I can take care of her because in those days you had to pay the price for a wife I promise you there wouldn't be as many divorces today if we was paying for these women right like they did back then amen now an agreement for marriage is now in place do you not see that y'all and Abraham just made an agreement Amen to marry Abraham's daughter Israel yes sir yes sir it's already in place yes sir the families are now under agreement but at this point either party can still withdraw from the promise of marriage it is not yet binding listen at this point it is an arrangement it's the seducing but it's not the binding at this Point you're spoken far but you can back out or I can back out when the bride is finally old enough to be married the next stage of the marriage is set in motion Ezekiel 16 and8 I'll read it now notice back here where sister Sheila just read the arrangement was made right amen I want to show you now when Israel's old enough to get married to Yahweh watch oh the most beautiful story you've never heard tonight he said then when you was old enough he said then I passed by you and saw you and behold you were at the time for love you're now 13 back them girls married about whenever their puberty started 13 well girls go through puberty or boys I don't know all right whatever it is when she went through whatever she went through whatever she went [Music] through how y'all doing nothing there all right but she was ready for loving how about that yeah okay when Yahweh saw she was ready for some love Yeah ready to be married he said then I spread my skirt over you and covered your naked yes he did I also swore to you thank and entered into a covenant with you thank you now he had a covenant with her before she was born but that Covenant was not binding amen she could decide not to marry he could decide not to Mar but at the point when she was old enough for loving now they're going to enter into now don't enter it with her daddy he enters into it with her yeah and at that moment she becomes right here but you want to know something they're not married yet de they're not married true y'all stay with me tonight the father always next after the arrangements made he appoints what's called a deputy or a shotgun now the deputy speaks for the father watch this the father calls in a man who acts as a deputy for him and the son this Deputy is called a shoton Matchmaker or a marriage broker and we'll find this in Genesis 21 1-4 and Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said and Yahweh did for Sarah as he had spoken so Sarah conceived and bore Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time of which Elohim had spoken to him mhm and Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him and whom Sarah bore to him yet and Abraham circumcised his son Yeek when he was 8 days old as Elohim had commanded him now right after Isaac is born there's another one called um uh there's a servant called elaser and he operates as Abraham's Deputy to speak for Abraham now go to Exodus 3 and 2-10 and then 21-22 now before the bride remember the bride was spoken for before she was born but she's now had the time to become a teenage girl she might have changed her mind she may not want to be married to you maybe things have changed so you don't want to be rejected as her Suitor so you send your Deputy to talk to her Amen to see where she's at amen okay now this is going to get good yes sir so a man didn't want to expose himself to refusal if he's not certain that his proposal would be received so he sends the deputy to the girl's home to make a preliminary inquiry the deputy is fully informed as to the bride price the young man is willing to pay for his bride read Exodus 3:2 10 and the messenger of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame a fire from the midst of a bush and he looked and saw the bush burning with fire but the Bush was not consumed and Moshe said let me turn aside now and see this great sight why the bush does not burn and Yahweh saw that he turned aside to see and Elohim called to him from the midst of the Bush and said Moshe Moshe and he said here I am and he saido not come near here take your sandals off your feet for the place on which you standing is set apart ground now we can keep reading but I want to pause there Yahweh has already chosen Israel before she's born right now he's doing what mhm appointing a deputy yes sir Moses Moshe he's appointing a deputy now to go down to Egypt land yes sir and see now that the girl is ready for some love y'all don't understand how good this is he's sending Moses down there to see if she's ready oh yeah to do what they agreed before she was born read now come on now and he said I am the Elohim of your father the Elohim of Abraham the Elohim of Isaac the Elohim of Jacob and Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look at Elohim M and Yahweh said I have indeed seen the oppression of my people who are in how do he how does he call them my people my people because before they was born he made a covenant with their daddy this is going to be my wife well my people are in mitam or Egypt and I have heard their cry because of their slave drivers and I know their sorrow now go to verse 10 mhm and now come I am sending you to Pharaoh yeah to bring my people the children of Israel out of Egypt you know Yahweh could have went down there but they got to have a deputy yes sir and now Moses is the Deputy yes sir he's being sent down to the father's house who's her father now Abraham is dead who's her father now Pharaoh yes sir yeah she's moved into her stepdaddy's house man yeah now read verse 21 yeah yeah and I shall give this people favor in the eyes of the mitz and it shall be that when you go you shall not go empty-handed yeah but every woman shall ask from her neighbor and from The Stranger in her house objects of silver objects of gold and garments and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters and shall plunder the Egyptians I've never understood how church can preach against wearing jewelry when Yahweh just said to his bride I want you to have every bit of Jewelry in the land of Egypt and I want you to wear it how you going to preach against jewelry when Yahweh wants his bride de down in it right brother V don't the Bible say not to be adorned go read that's not what it said it said don't let that be your adornment don't let it be that that identifies you don't let it be that be what you are but oh baby he wants you from head to toe looking like the queen that you are hey now sh like the deputy if the Bri I'll be afraid I'd be ashamed some folks calling me my their wife my wife goes out looking hot Trot good why some some folk I wouldn't CLA as my wife way they God's people go out looking like any way if the Bri's family answers that he's welcome to come then he's sure that they want the marriage to take place yeah then together with the young man's father that's right he goes to the home of the young woman that's right the father announces that the shoton Moses Moses is going to speak for him yes sir and then the bride's father will appoint a deputy to represent him we're not going to read that now the stage is set for negotiations and would be the mouthpiece the spokesperson and Moses would be the one that performed the things of Yahweh together they're going to face the bride's illegitimate father pharaoh to proposition him to release her from his headship and the headship of Yahweh her groom why did they leave Egypt why did they want to leave oh listen closely they wanted to keep the feast of their God not the holidays of Egypt not the holidays of pharaoh they wanted to go out they weren't asking to leave Egypt they was asking just to keep a different holiday Hallelujah yes that's good stuff they didn't you know Moses didn't go to Pharaoh even the first time talking about leing he said let my people go and celebrate the Feast of their God in the wilderness you better hear me hear me well whenever you start telling the old Pharaoh that you decided to put down your Christmas tree and to put up a manora get ready because he will send every Army he can find to bring you back you hear me today God sent Moses to deliver them from the traditions of Egypt from the customs of Egypt from the bondage of Egypt and sent Moses to deliver you yes sir amen it's coming Hallelujah Exodus 5 and 1 through3 let's read it oh I feel the Holy Ghost you got to come out of your daddy's house and you got to cleave to Yahweh come on now read and afterwards Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh thus said Yahweh Elohim of Israel let my people go so that they keep a to me in the wilderness