Sid: We want everyone everywhere to be red hot for the Messiah. I can’t think of a better time for you to be red hot for the Messiah this is the Biblical festival today of Shavuot. Now what is Shavuot? Many of you know it by the name of Pentecost. As far as I’m concerned the best way to understand these biblical festivals, and a lot of people say “Oh well God’s through with them Sid. Why are you wasting your time?” Well let me tell you something if it wasn’t for the Biblical festivals we would not have such tremendous conclusive proof that Jesus is the Messiah. His whole first coming was prophesied in the Biblical festivals, and His entire return. Let me explain that to you from Leviticus the 23rd chapter. I’m going to tell you something else many people aren’t aware of this but I’m beginning to find out, I just spoke with a man that got insight that a lot of our understanding of heaven is in the Biblical festivals. By the way, these are Biblical festivals, these are Jewish festivals, but you know what God calls them something even stronger than Biblical festivals? Something even stronger than Jewish festival; He says “These are My festivals.” In the Hebrew where it says “My festivals” it could easily be translated “My appointments.” So God says “I promise to show up on this particular date.” Let me read this to you in Leviticus 23: “The Lord said to Moses ‘Speak to the Israelites and say to them these are My appointed festivals, or these are My appointments. The appointed festivals of the Lord which you are to proclaim as sacred” some translations say “convocations,” some translations say “assemblies,” but in the Hebrew it could easily be translated “rehearsals.” God says 3 things in Leviticus 23 verse 1:
- These are My appointed festivals. So one they are His feasts.
- They are appointments where He promises to show up.
- They are rehearsals of past and future events.
Since we know this is Shavuot, or Pentecost, and by the way the rabbis tell us that it’s really the completion of Passover. Passover started 50 days earlier.
So I’m turning to the section in Leviticus chapter 23 verse 15 where it explains Shavuot, or Pentecost. Starting at the 15th verse: “From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.” This is an amazing, amazing statement here because it’s talking about what the Spirit of God is doing today, although this was written thousands of years ago. It says that we’re to bring in the 17th verse: “Two loaves of bread baked with yeast.” Now on Passover remember the whole deal was to have bread without leave, without yeast. At Shavuot we’re to have it with leaven, with yeast. If the matzaoh which had no leaven and leaven represents sin, represented Jesus and His body which was broken for us, what do the 2 pieces of bread, loaves of bread represent that have leaven, or a type of sin? I believe that represents humanity. Now why two? I believe that God is prophesying even back here in the older covenant that there is something supernatural when 2 types of humanity a Jew and a Gentile with leaven are offered up to God. Now let’s keep reading. See that’s the whole One New Man there, God says “This is an aroma pleasing to Him.” There’s something so pleasing when the Jew and Gentile become one in the Messiah.
The 20th verse: “The priest is to wave the two lambs before the Lord as a wave offering, together with the bread of the first fruits.” So what He is saying is you can see Him taking these 2 loaves and they’re long loaves of bread with leaven representing humanity; representing the Jew and the Gentile. We wave them before the Lord and the Lord says “It’s a pleasing aroma.”
The 21st verse: “On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.” Isn’t that interesting it’s supposed to be forever, and it’s supposed to be wherever you live not just in Israel.
The 22nd verse, and by the way do you know the book that is read during Shavuot it’s called the book of Ruth. As I read this next verse 22 you can find out why Ruth was selected to be read during Shavuot. “When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and for the foreigner residing among you.” Remember when Ruth was gleaning for some of the harvest, they left some of the grain there for her. It was also the harvest of barley which that began at Passover and ended with the harvest of wheat, and that ended Shavuot. So those are the 50 days that’s how we come up with that. Now remember I told you during Shaving, during Pentecost, we read from the book of Ruth. One of the things about a One New Man congregation is we take these biblical festivals and we say “Spirit of God breathe on them and show us things in the future Spirit of God. Show us what this means for us today for our congregation.” I believe this week God is going to speak to you. I believe as you listen God knows your name, God has every hair on your head numbered, and God’s going to speak to you. So starting in the first chapter the first verse: “In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.” You know what, I believe that there… although there was a literal famine in the land in the days of Ruth. There is a famine in the land now because we are in between the move of the last Spirit of God and the next Spirit of God. They were living in Bethlehem of Judea, however, they then moved out of the land of Israel to the land of Moab. What does Bethlehem mean? House of bread. Now, how were they going to get bread in a famine? The word Judah, Bethlehem of Judea, means worship. I believe if they had worshipped God they didn’t have to leave the land of Israel because what happened? The further they got away from Israel the more problems they experienced to the point where the 2 sons married and then both sons and the husband died. So if they had just remained planted where they were I believe they would have had so much bread they wouldn’t have known what to do with it.
Now Naomi had 2 daughter in laws, one was Orpah the other was Ruth. Eleventh verse: “In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land.” You see the 2 sons had just died. The daughters would be able to find their own kind of people if they returned to their home. I mean why would they want to go to Israel, why would they want to tie in with the Jewish people? So Naomi was giving them really good humanistic advice, but humanistic advice is not going to work in the times that we’re living. One of the daughter in laws, Orpah, she kissed her mother in law goodbye, but Ruth clung to her mother in law. Why did Ruth cling to her mother in law? Because Ruth knew something she knew about Genesis 12:3. She may not have known Genesis 12:3 but she understood the principle that she would be blessed. She probably even understood the principle in the last days in Zechariah 8:23 says “Ten Gentiles will cling to the hem of him who is a Jew in the last days.” “Say I’ve heard that God is with you can you see what God is doing He’s orchestrating this One New Man even at this point.” Well we’re out of time.
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth