Episode 100: Appointments You Can’t Miss

There are certain events and appointments you should never miss: your wedding, your child’s birth, closing on your first home. God had “appointments” with His people found in Leviticus 23 that He told them never to miss. Stu and Todd talk about how these weren’t just annual gatherings for food and fellowship. They were sacred events that foretold a fulfillment found only in one Man!

- Read about the 7 annual festivals all Jews were to celebrate in Leviticus 23.
- What is Hanukkah, (also known as the Festival of Lights)? Did Jesus ever celebrate it?

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Todd  0:06  
Welcome to the Truth Wins podcast where the truth hurts sometimes, but it could save your life. Our heart on this podcast is for you to know why you believe what you believe and to be able to give a defense for it. This is Episode. Wait for it. 100 Wow, hard to believe 100 times we've gotten before the mic and talked about stuff that has changed people's hearts and minds. Hopefully that's the goal of this. Right, right. But congratulations, Stu. Thanks for being with me for 100 Yeah, so it's it's my friends do richer. Say, Hey, Stu. Hey, Stu. Also wanted to take this time to thank Ian Bennett has been here, every single one for the past 100 episodes. He's put up with our shenanigans. We've had him on a couple of times. Every episode, he always has great things to say. So thank you, Ian. Yep. Our producer extraordinaire. Cheers, brother. Joey green. Also, he's our videographer. extraordinaire, has been what, six months we've been doing on video too now. So about 40 or 40. We've had videos so I'm sorry that you have to see us first. You just had to hear us now you see us and hear us if you always

Stu  1:22  
made us look good. So yes, it's hard to do.

Todd  1:26  
We're in a better, better backdrop. Now. We've got some things behind us besides the ficus tree in a whiteboard. So I feel like it's a little home here. Better, better space.

Stu  1:35  
And what are we getting has been here for how many episodes? Yes,

Todd  1:37  
my daughter Morgan's here. She's been for a lot. She's been on several of them. She'll be on the next one. She's done a work. So welcome. Thank you for thank you for being a part of this 100th with us, Morgan. So it is a special one because you know, that's a milestone to be able to speak truth, in grace on all sorts of different topics have all the different people who come in that have have shed light on different topics with us. So it's a privilege to be able to do this. We're glad that you're joining us. And we're gonna have a fun one today, titled appointments you can't miss. And this 100th episode is one of those appointments but we're gonna be talking about more significant appointments than even this Truth Wins 100th episode. Can you believe that, Stu?

Stu  2:19  
I know. Yes. Kind of amazing. All

Todd  2:21  
right, we're gonna do that. But before we do that, which we've done for a long time, now we're gonna have time to stump stew. Alright, let's do so this is from Episode 91, that no human is illegal. Rebecca says usually those who have crossed the border without inspection have committed a misdemeanor. You know, like jaywalking, you certainly aren't considered a criminal for life for one misdemeanor, and therefore the use of the word illegal is both deliberately inflammatory and inaccurate.

Stu  2:56  
All right. So Rebecca, I would just ask you a question. You have a home? Do you have walls around your house? Or is it open to the public? I mean, do you allow people just to walk through your house and choose and pick things that they want? The definition of a country is, it's by its borders, you have to have some way of keeping your country from being invaded by those who want to destroy you. So I would say that that's not a mis nomer the use of the word illegal, it's because other people have come from other countries, and have gone through the difficult process of actually becoming US citizens. Whereas these people decide, they don't have to do that. They're just going to walk in when they feel like it and a lot of drugs, fentanyl, and things like that are being brought from through the borders. So if you've had a loved one or someone that you know, that's died from that, so or someone who's been stabbed or shot or killed by an illegal alien, let me know.

Todd  4:04  
Your experience changes your perception on a particular topic. And if that happens to you, but I mean, Stu, like somebody broke into your house tonight steal your your gold watch and hurt you and then left. That's basically a misdemeanor too, isn't it? Is that just a misdemeanor? Like jaywalking would you say yeah,

Stu  4:25  
or unless they hit me with a hammer. Then it would be Miss Pelosi, I think are no.

Todd  4:32  
Oh Pelosi joke. Sorry. Yeah. They're in their tighty whities and a hammer. That's fine. I mean, who doesn't do that? Right. Yeah, friends over things get crazy. Somebody gets a hammer.

Stu  4:43  
And it always, you know, kind of makes you wonder, you know, we're kind of conspiracy nuts a little bit. But well, okay.

Todd  4:52  
Thank you for saying we Yeah, a lot. But I mean, you mean me most?

Stu  4:55  
Mostly. But when you think about it, you think about the A fact that this guy was living in a bus that had a Black Lives Matter thing on behind it, and, you know, gay pride flag in front of it. And they're trying to make him a right wing. You know, ultra mega ultra mega guy. It's like no wonder.

Todd  5:18  
It makes sense. Yeah. I don't know how we got from illegal aliens. Was he was from from

Stu  5:25  
Canada. Oh,

Todd  5:27  
that's a tough one. We get so many illegal aliens coming in from Canada. Nova Scotia. Those guys was a word that was Scotian. So Scotians they're just making a mess of the place. All right. We've been silly long enough. That is today's time for some time to stumps do all right. Speaking of illegal aliens, when we're talking about construction today, we can said too soon, too soon. Actually, I doubt. I doubt Joe has any illegals on his construction crews, but they do good work. It's you Okay. Ian just had a mouthful of salad and it almost went all over his computer. So sorry about that. This truth Woods episode is brought to you by construct to fight your go to solution for home improvement and energy efficient projects where they construct it for you. How do you say that in Spanish? They construct it for you. Okay, I'll let that one go. I'm sorry. It's too far. It's Kingston. Yatra. Bon suar. Okay. They'll tackle your windows, siding, roofing decks, painting projects all along the front range of Colorado called or text Joe and his team at 303-502-1096. Check them out at construct feiyr.com or email info at constructive phi.com. You go to our Facebook, Facebook page Truth Wins Facebook, and you'll be able to click on it there and mentioned Truth Wins podcast. And he may still give you a 50% discount. But after that comment, it may just be like 12% 10% I don't know. Or peso off. Okay. That's it. Enough offending people for one day, Stu, you started it. You made fun of the time to stumps to comment. All right. We want to talk about appointments today and not the not the stupid appointments. Like I've got the dentist on this. I mean, they're not stupid, but the mundane I should say. These appointments are found throughout the Bible. And it's actually a Hebrew word where we get it from called mo Ed. Right. Right. And what is Mo Ed mean, then besides just an appointment of

Stu  7:36  
pointed time, okay, like we're gonna meet somewhere, something's gonna happen.

Todd  7:42  
Yeah. So if you look back on your life, and those milestones in your life, sometimes they just happened organically, but oftentimes, it's an appointed time, you asked for someone to marry you or said yes to someone, you got married on this date, you had a child, you know, so those were appointed times that were big deals in your life. So God goes to his people and says, Hey, I'm pulling you out, taking you out of Egypt, we're going to start a new nation through you and all the world will know who I am through you. And they'll be blessed if they bless you, so on so forth. But he says, Every year I want to have these appointments, these these specific times with you, where we meet together. And it wasn't just, hey, remember what I did, because part of it remember what God did for his people getting them out of Egypt, but also a big piece of it that many people miss is, here's what I'm gonna do in the future. Here's how I'm gonna rescue not only you, but all of humankind,

Stu  8:41  
not only get you out of Egypt, but in the future, I'm gonna get you out of sin. You know, it's like there's a rescue that God's gonna perform. And one of the things that we've talked about the four previous ones, the early ones, there's three that occur within a span of basically a week, in March, April ish in our on our calendar, it's the Aviv or Nissan and the Hebrew calendar. And the first one is the Feast of Passover. And like Todd said, the, one of the key things on that was, the Angel of Death is going to pass over the houses that have the blood of the lamb applied correctly to the doorpost. And it the as you think about how they applied the blood, you remember they it goes up down to the top to the lintel that's going across, and then it goes side to side on the posts, making a pretty good picture of a cross, that you get the idea that there's going to be a lamb, and this should be assigned for you that something's going to happen. And they were to kill it between the evenings. And that was another key piece, which meant since the per day starts at 6pm at night and goes to the next 6pm. The daylight hours are divided from 6am to noon, that's the Morning ablation. And from 12 to six is the evening ovulation. So the next night starts a new day. But it when it says to kill it between the evenings, that's between 12 and six. So right between that is 3pm. So when they kill that lamb, they killed it at 3pm. They drained the blood into a soup, this little basin in front of the house. And then they applied it to the doorpost then came. And I think it's really crucial to get this to when I was a kid, I used to think, Well, Jesus had his Passover meal with the disciples on Thursday evening. And then he gets crucified the next day, which is Friday. But that's not the way the Hebrew day works. It's the same day He's crucified exactly on Passover,

Todd  10:56  
because they did the Passover after sundown on that Thursday. And let's just go because we've done the spring ones in the past, let's stay at 30,000 feet on those because we really want to narrow in on the fall ones because those those are the funds and ones that we've maybe touched on a little bit within time stuff but also narrow in on feast of lights and any others that you'd like to tackle but yet so key and we've talked about this in the past that you understand that Jesus had his first coming fulfilled symbolically, those four in the spring. And as you talked about Passover, it's easy the connection there he's our Passover lamb he died in place in his blood covered, he covers our sin, just like the blood covered all these Israelites in the the Exodus. And then after he right when he's dying, they had to hurry up and get them in the tomb. And it says in John that it was coming down, it was about ready to sunset, so they had to hurry up and get him the tomb. So he goes in which that Feast of Unleavened Bread was just a very, they had to get out of town, right? Get your bread, don't have time to put lovin in it. Just pack it up, fold it in the, in your cloth. And let's get out of Egypt there. Jesus was wrapped up quickly and put in the tomb on the Feast of Unleavened Bread, right? And then, two days later, which we all celebrate, every every Easter was the next festival which was

Stu  12:18  
Yeah, which was actually the feast of First Fruits, when the farmers would present their first fruits of their barley harvest to the Lord and say, we're going to trust you to give us the rest. And I think it's really how this ties in with what happens in Matthew 27. Because I never kind of got that piece before until you start to realize, oh, yeah, this is tying in with that feast. Because it says, When Jesus is is raised on that first fruits, it says then the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they entered the holy city, and appeared to many, it's like God's giving a firstfruits of here's gonna be a big resurrection him and after this, and you go, Oh, that's Yeah. And it makes a connection.

Todd  13:08  
There are those verses or even parts of verses throughout the Bible? Like, what is that? That's a weird, it's, but when you understand the firstfruits piece, then it makes sense, right? And and Paul talks about is at First Corinthians where he says that Jesus is the first fruit of the resurrection. So he's, he's telling the audience, many of them Gentiles, but some of them Jewish to say, Don't you get it? He is the first fruits. We celebrate this every year. And Jesus is our first fruits of the resurrection.

Stu  13:37  
Right? And it's in First Corinthians 15. We're in verse 20. He says, Ben, now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. Well, what does that mean? You know, first fruits, if you know this feasts, you go, Oh, I get exactly what that means. And then it says in verse 23, for his in Adam, but each in his own order, Christ the first fruits after that those who are Christ that is coming. So each of us is guaranteed our resurrection. Because of our Saviors resurrection, His resurrection is our downpayment guarantee.

Todd  14:15  
So then you fast forward around 50 days, it's the Feast of Weeks, it's actually seven weeks. So 49 plus one. All the Jews would go back home after the Passover celebration, go back home, come back in seven weeks to be there for the day, feast of weeks. We know it mostly is Pentecost spent to be in five or 50. So that's when the Holy Spirit came down on the people. And so that's the celebration going back to Exodus of God coming down and giving the law to Moses on Mount Sinai to give to the people where there's fire. There's all that stuff and we read about that, the symbolism of it coming to fruition at the day of Pentecost.

Stu  14:58  
Yeah. And we talked about In the time when Moses gets the law of Mount Sinai, he goes back down, and they're all playing the harlot with this God that they've created out of the fire. And Moses says, who's for the Lord and the Levites? Come, and he says, they take swords. And they go through and they kill 3000 people, and it's x says that an exodus 3228. And then you think fast forward to the time when the Holy Spirit comes down. And it says, how many are saved? 3000 I mean, it's like God has an exact accounting going on here he keeps keeps good books.

Todd  15:39  
Before we go to the fall, festivals, you've also got one before Passover, do you say param or Purim

Stu  15:47  
Purim, it's it's for the lots that they cast for an ester, when when Mordecai helps prevent the annihilation of the Jews. Actually, God orchestrates that in because there have been so many people throughout history who have tried to annihilate the Jews. I mean, you think of people in our own time Louis Farrakhan and you know, that group they are so anti semitic, it's terrible. But there are, you know, Hitler, he's been anti semitic, you know, the different people, Haman, who's the bad guy in the ester story,

Todd  16:27  
so they'll eat is it a human's ear, set the cookie or whatever? They,

Stu  16:31  
yeah, they have something like,

Todd  16:33  
decked out Eva, and we're gonna eat your What? Is there any cool because I've never looked into this, and I'm kind of shooting from the hip here. But is there any symbolism of Christ found in that celebration that, you know,

Stu  16:44  
oh, yeah, you see, and when Esther goes into the king, and she says, you know, pray for me Mordecai. Because if the king doesn't take me, as I go in there, I could be put to death for that that's a crime, you know, that the king doesn't call for you, and you go to appear before him. So she's putting her life on the line for this. And you start to realize that, oh, yeah, there's times when the Jews have almost been annihilated, and God calls for someone to put their lives on the line for this. And for all of humanity, Jesus put his life on the line for all of us.

Todd  17:24  
Do they do anything when they celebrate this every spring? That would say, oh, kind of like you deal with? When you do. Seder dinner? You show all the celebrations that every Seder dinner has and how it just like the bells are going off at every turn that this is Jesus. This is Jesus is talking about symbolic of Jesus? Do they have any of that in this feast? Do you find

Stu  17:44  
I don't remember a whole lot about that feast. That's not something I'm real familiar with. But I do know that that's the only book in the Bible that's not found in the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves. Esther, because it doesn't mention the name of God, either. It's the only book that does that. Yeah.

Todd  18:02  
Okay, well, let's fast forward to the fall. We've got three feasts in the fall plus another festival, we want to talk about our feast. So the first one in the fall is usually around in September, late September, which ones that?

Stu  18:19  
Yeah, the first one is, is called the Feast of Trumpets, or Yom Hezekiah, on the feast of remembering. And it talks about, you know, the idea that, that you're going to blow a trumpet. So let's see, Leviticus 2324 God commands His people together to commemorate the his decree with trumpet blasts. So they have these trumpets and they like, sometimes, you know, in the other feasts, they'll use the shofar for the trumpet blasts. But sometimes in this one, they'll use the, what they're called hotspot cetera, they're these metal trumpets that they will use. And they do the, you know, three long blasts three short, quick ones, and then they do that. So it has like, a pattern to it. And it's something trumpets always announce something, you know, Something's coming. Something big is gonna happen.

Todd  19:24  
And so this Feast of Trumpets and all of these, these seven festivals, the, the meat and potatoes, the main ones that we're talking about today are found in Leviticus 23. Right, right. All of them in that one chapter. Yep. Trying to remember Okay, so if you're wondering what we're talking about, go to Leviticus 23. Rewind, the four that we talked about in the spring and then the Feast of Trumpets there. And so we've talked about the 10 times several times as Feast of Trumpets at the sound of the trumpet. Paul says First Corinthians, he says that First Thessalonians For First Corinthians 15 is like at the sound of the trunk. Better the shofar, those are dead and Christ will rise first. And so that's what we're talking about the first fruit was Christ. But then when he comes back so these fall ones, Jesus fulfilled the four spring ones symbolically at His first coming. These three in the fall he will fulfill we believe, at His Second Coming symbolically. And the first one is the rapture of the church. Now, we've talked about this in past episodes, you can go to early on our first I think it was like second, third and fourth, we talked about the end of the world as we know it. We've talked a couple other times about end times things so check those out, we go into more detail there. But this is the one that we believe that could happen at any moment. But because Jesus fulfilled all of those symbolically on the on the days of those festivals, that is first coming. I believe he'll do that in the fall now, does he have to obviously not doesn't have anything to do with me, but I think some Rosh HaShana, some Feast of Trumpets, Jesus is going to come back to get those who believe in him. Would you agree or disagree?

Stu  20:57  
I would agree. And you remember it says in First Thessalonians. So what we say doesn't really matter compared to what the Bible says. So in verse First Thessalonians 415, it says, For this, we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede those who have fallen asleep. In other words, those who are already dead, For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout. And we talked about the wedding analogy. And then here comes the groom, they had to let out a shout. So the bride knew to be ready, because he's coming for you right now. And with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. And we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Now, this is not the second coming of Christ. Because obviously, we're going up to meet Him in the air. It's not Jesus descending to Earth, and it's splitting on the Mount of Olives. It doesn't that's not happening in this thing. This is obviously something different. And the key thing in verse 18, it says, Therefore comfort one another with these words. We live in a world that's unraveling as we speak. I mean, it's in trouble, because it has too many people in it, who are sinners, and we're some of them. But the key is, there is a hope. We do know that Jesus is going to come back for his bride, the Church, he's not going to leave us here. And he's not a wife beater. You know, he's not going to just let us get slept.

Todd  22:39  
And it ties into the purpose of this festival, it was like is a new year, new beginning firstfruits. All those things that apply to there's hope, there. And so Jesus comes back. And that's why Paul, I think even says, In Standefer sissala means repeating Second Thessalonians. Like you, you have hope you don't have to live in despair, like those who don't know the truth to because you know, this is the end game, that Jesus is coming back to get those who love Him and who are prepared to meet him.

Stu  23:09  
Yeah, there is. That's that's the beauty of this. We do have hope. Most people I've noticed, you know, I don't know if it's because of COVID or what, but a lot of people that I run into are very down and depressed about things. And it's like, you shouldn't be if you realize that your Messiah is coming back for you. He's coming for us. And it's we should be you know, wow. All right. What should we be doing until he gets here? Yeah, you know, that's kind of the key. Let's do our job while we're here. Yeah.

Todd  23:42  
And we talked about that. And one of those probably all the n times ones is the parable of the 10 Virgins is like those five who already had the oil ready they were ready for him when when they heard the noise and him coming. They were joyful and ready for it but those who weren't were left behind and that's again the imagery we get of the rapture. What's a the sixth and second one in the fall that that happens? So the Count

Stu  24:07  
10 days after because Rosh Hashana or Feast of Trumpets occurs on Tishri one start of that month, and then the 10th of Tishri is Yom Kippur or the Day of Atonement. So Kapoor Kipper is a covering. So that's the day they believe that your name is either going to be inscribed into the book of life, or the book of death, your your one or the other. You're in, you know, the wicked or you're in God's family. And so, the every day of that 10 days, they do Psalm 27. That's the first thing they recite in the morning and it's the Lord is, you know, it's the One Lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the Lord is the stronghold of my life forms they'd be afraid. So it's an encouragement. We don't need to be afraid. God's got us.

Todd  25:06  
But there's also that somber realization that he's the one who decides he's the one who judges and if you're in the book of life, you're good. It's it's the most somber of all the Feast of the Seven Feasts because it is that day of judgment. Yes. And and it goes back tact.

Stu  25:23  
The Israelites on that day Egypt, remember who attacked on Yom Kippur? the Yom Kippur War?

Todd  25:28  
Yeah. Seven days? Yeah, yeah. But, um, it goes back in the Old Testament times, because again, all of these had their symbolism or fulfillment back in the Exodus, and then the future fulfillment through Christ. The exodus was like, that was a day where they all realize we've been bad little sinners all year long. And that, that creates death, that creates a sacrifice. And so what would Aaron do on Yom Kippur war, just so everybody gathered together, whether it's 2 million, 3 million, however many Israelites out in the desert, this event, they get to see what their sin leads to?

Stu  26:08  
I don't know what you're going for there.

Todd  26:10  
But on Yom Kippur? Is that where they sacrifice and they do the scape scapegoat is on your report? Yes, yes. Okay. That's where I'm going forced to buckle down and get on the train here. But

Stu  26:21  
the other piece to it is, this is a Sabbath to them, no matter when it occurs. It's a Sabbath. Because it means you don't do any work. You do nothing at all that whole day. So that's why they attack on that day to try and catch so

Todd  26:37  
if Yom Kippur is on a Sunday, they have to SAVVIS in a row. Yeah, Saturday and Sunday or Monday doesn't matter. So if you're hungry fear they're visiting from the United States. And you better stock up on Friday, because you're not getting it because we we experienced that we went to Israel, there's like one gas station and all of Galilee open that we got our moon pies and some slim jeans to get a suit the Sabbath, right? No, it was slim. Zacharias. Yeah. Yes. Whatever. The kosher version of sticks of meat where? But yeah, so Aaron would put his hands on the scapegoat. Yes. And Simpsons of all of Israel. Yeah. And that's where you get the term who's the scapegoat, right, like, Who's going to pay the price for the company for the whole family, that kind of thing. That's where you get it from is that he would put his hands which symbolizes the sin of all Israel, every Israelite for that whole year on this goat, and they'd send it out in to the wilderness to be away from them

Stu  27:33  
and one goat would be sacrificed. The other goat would have his hands put on that. And they would tie a red thread to his horn of this goat and send it out. And this to me is a really, you know, amazing thing. You go, you know, like, Twilight Zone. We're kind of thing. But that's not Twilight Zone. Do you want me to do Twilight Zone? Yeah, do it. Nana work on that for now. Okay. I'm here for it. But this is the one where even in the Hebrew writings in the Mishnah, they talk about this. They say, up until 40 years before the temple fell, you know, basically, this rams, the thread would miraculously turn white from red to white. And then after this time, that didn't happen anymore. It's almost like what happened there that caused that not to happen anymore.

Todd  28:30  
So let's do the math. The Israel Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70 ad 70. So we back up for two years to add 30 What could have possibly happened in Jerusalem Ron at at 30? I

Stu  28:42  
don't know that's got to be somebody.

Todd  28:45  
Somebody died on me. Right? So that's it, because that's in the missioner. Yeah. And these are own writings, primarily people who don't believe Jesus is the Messiah saying, hey, something weird happened, but they don't put it together. Right? Well, some

Stu  28:58  
of them do. You know, they become Messianic Jews.

Todd  29:02  
But the interesting thing too, is that Jesus talks about sheep and goats. And when he's talking about judgment, the sheep are the ones who are God's children. They follow him, the sheep hear my voice, all this imagery of the shepherd. But the goats are those who are separated. They're the ones who eternally separated. So the symbolism of the scapegoat, this goat took the sin and was removed away from the people because, again, it's symbolic of sinful man not being able to be in the presence of God. And that's what that that final judgment which comes after the seven year tribulation, Jesus second coming like you mentioned earlier, the rapture isn't the Second Coming. The Rapture has taken the church away, and then you enter the seven year Tribulation. And then the second coming is when that Yom Kippur. Now, some people will say, well, the math doesn't line up because you said they're 10 days apart, yet the Tribulation is only seven years. If we were talking symbolically days for years, that should be 10 years. But if you don't understand that the feast of Trumpets was actually spread out over three days. And that's kind of where we don't know the day or the hour because that New Moon is so hard to know. Because it's such a sliver. It's like the new moon could be today, but it could be tomorrow or it could be the third day. So it's all that that Feast of Trumpets is kind of counted, even though it's three days is one event. And that's where you get this. We don't know the day or the hour because Rosh Hashana could be September 26. It could be 27th or 28th. This year, we don't we didn't know we don't