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To understand how God's feasts affect us today let us first look at a little foundational truth. As we know mankind started out perfect, in the image of their Creator. Made in His likeness they lived a lifestyle of bliss, life was wonderful, full of joy and peace. They knew only the ways of God and His thoughts on life. All they desired to do was therefore perfectly attainable, far superior to anything we can imagine today. Creatures of love, they were given ownership and dominion over the rest of earth's creation, with the extension of God's sovereignty to oversee the planet and all on it. Satan however cleverly tricked the woman into breaking God's law, the man followed suit and what had been created so beautifully perfect became rebellious, inferior, filled with the wrong knowledge, sin with the punishment of death was birthed into humanity.

They fell from eternity into the allotted time Father granted to Satan to prove he could or could not carry out his goal or back his decree to be as god to earth. How much time he has to accomplish this goal only the Father knows. The result of them entering into this season or time caused them to pass over from immortality to frail mortals with bodies that would break down in time allowing sickness and pain to enter their lives. They had unknowingly chosen an existence and entered into the lifestyle of God's enemy who could now legally call them and all they owned his. In other words, everything they were given by God was made subject to him. The weaker he could make the people the easier to control them. The instant man touched minds with Satan, tasted of his thinking and bit into the fruit of his twisted knowledge, they were tainted, lower in status, below God's standard of excellence and incapable of producing anything of perfection. Their descendants cursed with this knowledge are to our detriment the founders of the world we live in today. As we all know, the further something gets from its original perfection the worse it grows with each generation! Hello, this is man today!

How wonderful is it that God, our loving Father had a plan for our restoration? What would have happened to humanity had He turned His back on man as Adam and Eve through their lawless choice turned their back on Him? But He didn't. Instead, a body was created for God's knowledge, His Word, the very Word Eve had rejected! That body was given a name, they called Him Jesus. All of the rest of creation had been created by Him alone but Jesus was created by the whole Godhead which dwelled in Him bodily making Him a perfect sacrifice for the sins of mankind and in fact all creation. There could be no greater offering. While the body of Christ was still in the grave His Spirit went underground to set those that had died free and He took them to Paradise. He then gave the rest of mankind a way to be born again, to start over, become a new creature that wouldn't die spiritually through His death and resurrection.

Revived at baptism, man's spirit would now return to the Father at death leaving only man's body to the enemy that soon decays and is of no use to them. Victory! But there is an even further victory!

It is God's feasts that point us to this further victory and it is the fresh manna or revelation served at each of them that will lead man back to the original perfection he once enjoyed before the fall. As humanity experiences God's feasts as new creatures they begin to grow and change with each generation and each new revelation. An interesting side note with Rosh Hashanah being our next upcoming feast: It was around the time of Rosh Hashanah 7,000 plus years ago, as handed down by the ancient sages, man was originally harvested from the earth bringing forth Adam and Eve. In other words the first of mankind were created at the Head of Days or Rosh Hashanah. Now, remembering we were discussing how the new creature keeps growing and changing as it eats from the knowledge served at God's feasts, we find as the end draws near the new creature metamorphoses miraculously into a new species of man! One completely different from the original pair and different as well from those altered to the image of the enemy! These are born again descendants of restored Abraham and Sarah. Isaac their son was born to them in their restoration and is in lineage related to the Word, the resurrected Christ. In other words Jesus was born a descendant of the restored man Abraham through Mary, and was a man death had no hold on as His Father was God! It is those born again through Him that will start the new earth. Now here is one of God's promises to man.

And, guess what ... it is the time of Rosh Hashanah again, also known as the Ingathering or harvest. It is also called Day of Sounding and the trumpet is blowing new revelation for this end time. It is known also as Head of Days and is on the judicial calendar the beginning of the new year and the earth is once more harvesting a new species!

This is not a coincidence, but a predestined plan of God. As Adam fell into Satan's realm suddenly because of choosing the wrong knowledge, so man can be changed just as suddenly to the Kingdom of Light through God's knowledge!

Again, it is this portion of mankind, the ones that have experienced Rosh Hashanah to become a new species that will rebuild, restore and renew the earth as the world of Satan is destroyed. They are Abraham's seed, matured and ripened to be harvested, ingathered at Rosh Hashanah. These will in turn blow the trumpet, sound the alarm to Satan's world of the coming destruction, encouraging mankind to come out of the world's systems to the extent they can, search themselves for the sin in their lives (symbolized by the ten days of awe after Rosh Hashanah), repent and be born again.

Let us sidetrack a little and explain the purpose of the feasts of God as many of the world's churches do not teach them and God's people are not in a position to receive the knowledge God offers to bring about their full transition. The feasts must be experienced personally to lead man to God's rest where they find truth that will bring them back to God's original plan for man. These in turn will do their part in restoring creation. As man consumes and digests the fruit of God's knowledge that was intended for Adam and Eve to eat, they will grow back into the image mankind once reflected, that of God. He has a wonderful plan for restoration and the knowledge gleaned at each feast is on a spiritual menu that will nourish man back to perfection. Remember God said He would perfect that which He started, it is another one of the promises of God!

The world celebrates the new year or their head of days January 1^st. Ours is in September at Rosh Hashanah. They celebrate with baby new year coming forth and say goodbye to Father time. They mock reality, mock our promises. We really do celebrate the new year with a much deeper meaning. We know that one day soon we really will say goodbye to time and start our new year in eternity! That is a promise and God does not lie. At the close of Rosh Hashanah there are as mentioned before ten days of awe in which we can search ourselves for where change is needed to be pleasing to God and reveal where we are out of harmony with a God of love. We repent for the sin in our past life and determine in our hearts to start anew, the devil's counterfeit of this being the world's new years resolution. “They are made to break” they say, putting this mindset in man. The number ten stands for completion so when we have thoroughly repented and asked for forgiveness the next wondrous feast we will experience is the Feast of Atonement as it is the atoning blood of Christ that pays for our sins and makes us righteous. Only through Christ our Passover Lamb could we ever be complete.

Because of Him we can repent, be born again, filled with His Spirit, enter into His blood covenant and abide in God's rest or live in God's already perfected plan. Little by little, line upon line, precept upon precept as we grasp God's knowledge change comes about until one day immortality is restored to the new species and they become as in the beginning. Now here is a little deeper truth. Along with restoration, the sacrifice of Christ also Jubilee'd mankind or repurchased them from the enemy returning the children of God to their Creator along with all God had given them lost in the fall!

This opens up another interesting perspective, in I Corinthians we see God looks upon man as His field or His land. He also sees them as His house or building. In other words mankind is His dwelling place on earth that Satan confiscated through Eve's choice.

He is a Spirit that if invited will enter man to accomplish a restoration work here on earth even as He did in Christ.

So in the mind of God He saw His land sold to Satan by Adam and Eve, and the mansions or perfect houses He dwelled in were lost to the enemy as well. This is why the sacrifice of Christ was necessary, to atone for the mistakes made by man that caused him to be out of order with God and the rest of the universe, but also it set them free of their captor and bought them back or returned them to God. With Satan and his followers occupying and influencing mankind for so long they began to look the way the enemy preferred, coaching them through his knowledge, they were transformed to creatures totally out of sync with God. We have always had a free will, and we can still choose as individuals to remain with Satan and his world, continue to satisfy the enemy's desires or take the opportunity to repent, be Jubilee'd, and personally experience the feast of Atonement.

Let us look at Jubilee and its legalities to better understand what has been offered to us.

Unfortunately man is returned to the Father like land that has been trashed, made unclean and unfit for God. Like a house abused, holes in its walls, floors walked on by an uncaring enemy, torn up, not repaired but … returned to God legally. Man has a free will, they can stay as they are, remain with the enemy and his world or choose to return to God to be refurbished, made perfect again, living stones polished into beautiful gems, for God to build a Tabernacle fit for a King.

This tabernacle has a name, the house of David. You see Christ is of the tribe of Judah, the line of David. Those He leads and guides through, His government, are called the house of David and are the head of the body of Christ.

United, God's government forms a spiritual city as well known as Sion. The rest of the Lord's body, united as one, is His Bride called Jerusalem, a city designed by God. She is not a part of the world and will one day house the newborns and help raise up the nations.

You see, Adam and Eve not only chose the wrong knowledge, but the wrong mentor. Therefore flesh and blood became the substance of Satan's tabernacle. Their spirit was dead because of sin. Man was created originally a living spirit with a soul, in the image of God, and given a body to dwell comfortably on earth. Simply put, when God dwells among man He comes to live with us in our bodies. This is experiencing the Feast of Tabernacles! Those of flesh and blood alone are not a proper dwelling for God. They are unfortunately easily occupied by the one Adam and Eve chose along with the spirits of the creatures born to women that married angels as discussed in Genesis 6:1-3. Even those born again, filled with God's Spirit, but have not experienced the knowledge released for this end time transfiguration of man are but sukkahs or temporary dwellings. These have been taught through the world's knowledge and the world's religions it is the natural way of things to die. The law be it as you believe overtakes them and although children of God pass away. But, God's enlightened ones know there are beautiful gems, living stones being polished, for eternity.

These will be a permanent home, temple or tabernacle for God.

In closing, the Word of God, a Spirit, became flesh and blood for man to redeem him from the enemy, thus making possible humanity's salvation and return to God. Now it is our turn. Men of flesh must unite as righteous spirits for Him, become the image of the Word of God, to form a body, a beautiful home or Tabernacle He can function through on earth. A Temple from which He can restore His creation. So … can we understand why we must know about the feasts? Mankind experiences Rosh Hashanah by becoming a whole new species, Atonement as they repent becoming beneficiaries of Jubilee and a dwelling place for God as the Feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled in their lives!