The Wide Path Dropout Mama
The Wide Path Dropout Mama
The Bridegroom Cometh
Today we enter into the time called Teshuva. It is a time of preparation as we anticipate the upcoming fall Feast Days ahead which foreshadow the return of our Bridegroom Yeshua! Here are the resources mentioned in this episode:
These are the books by Christie Eisner about the Feast Days
I also mentioned the previous podcast episodes 5 & 6 5 The 7 Feast Days of YHWH & A Galilean Wedding.
You can find a calendar with the Feast Days on Amazon here https://a.co/d/e7JOiF3 and my favorite is found at the Almond House Fellowship website linked here below:
https://almondhousefellowship.com/collections/almond-house-market
And lastly here is the Facebook page Ruth's Road
https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=ruth%27s%20road
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Hi, my name's Jenny. I'm a wife, a mom, an entrepreneur and, most importantly, a disciple of Yeshua Jesus. I've been a Christian for over a decade, having studied the Bible for at least that long or better. Until about three years ago, I thought I knew Jesus pretty well. Then my world was rocked. I started studying the Bible from its Middle Eastern context and culture, and what I found has completely changed my and my family's lives forever. Join me as I share all that I've learned about our Jewish Messiah and listen to my conversations with other moms on their own journey with Jesus, as we discuss the practical ways that we walk out our faith in our everyday lives. This is a conversation for the Christian mom who wants more.
Speaker 1:This is the Wide Path Dropout Mama podcast. Hey everybody, welcome back to today's podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. Today is a very exciting day and I wanted to hop on here because this is we're approaching a very precious time and if you know me, if you've been listening to this podcast for any length of time, then you know that I'm extremely passionate about the feast days of the Lord. And if you don't know anything about the feast days, if this is the first time you're hearing anything about the feast days of the Lord and if you don't know anything about the feast days, if this is the first time you're hearing anything about the feast days, I highly recommend that you go back and listen to the episode about the seven feast days of Yahweh. But I will kind of do a brief kind of catch up to introduce them to you if you haven't heard about them.
Speaker 1:But there are two sets of feast days, or they're also called Moedim, and I want to just briefly introduce you to that term Moedim, and I'll show you that you have seen it in the Bible, even if you don't realize it. But if you go back to Genesis 1, chapter 1, verse 14, I'm going to read it to you. It says God said let there be lights in the dome of the sky to divide the day from the night. Let them be for signs, seasons, days and years. And that word for seasons in Hebrew is called Moedim and it means festivals, appointed times, and that Moedim is the feast days of Yahweh.
Speaker 1:Those are the festivals that can be found in Leviticus 23. And they are not Jewish holidays, they are Yahweh's feast days. These feast days were established before Jews were even a term. They were for the Israelite people that he pulled out of Egypt and anyone, the foreigner, the sojourner that would join himself to the Lord. Those feast days are for those people, and if you believe that you are grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel, then these feast days are your inheritance and not only can you be celebrating them, they are a beautiful way to gain intimacy with the Lord, with Jesus, with the Father, with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1:There's so much richness in those feast days that teach us about the Lord. And so, briefly, I will tell you that there are two sets of feast days. There are the spring set of feast days, which consists of Passover, the Feast of Firstfruits, and then Shavuot. Shavuot is kind of it's linked to the spring feast. It's not really in the spring, it's kind of closer to the summer, but it's just before the summer, but it is linked to Passover and Firstfruits. And then you have the fall feast days and those in the spring feast days. Those have been fulfilled with Jesus's first coming, because Jesus was crucified on Passover as our Passover lamb. He rose on the feast of first fruits and then he ascended at Shavuot. So we, and then now we are waiting on the fall feast days to be fulfilled. The fall feast days are Yom Teruah, or the Feast of Trumpets, and then you have Yom Kippur, which is the Judgment Day Day of Judgment or Day of Atonement and then you have the Wedding Supper of the Lamb, which is the Feast of Tabernacles. That, that is the wedding supper. That's when we're going to celebrate with our bridegroom, jesus, and so that's what we are all waiting for.
Speaker 1:Well, I wanted to hop on today to tell you about this special time period that we have just entered into, and it's called the time of Teshuvah, and if you've been listening to the past few episodes that I've done about the Luke 15 parables, then you will be familiar with the term Teshuva. The term Teshuva means to return. It is for short Shub, which is also can be translated to repentance. But the time of Teshuvah is a time that we can begin to be prepared for when the feast of trumpets, when the trumpet's going to sound and Jesus comes back to get his bride and you know, I just I'll say that some people think that you can hear my dog in the background. I'm sorry about that. Nothing I can do. Nothing I can do when she gets going, but Jesus himself says in Matthew 24, verse 36, that no one knows the day or the hour, not the angels, not the son, only the father.
Speaker 1:And that is true. But any good father, any good parent, wants his child to be prepared. And I want to submit to you that our father wants us to be prepared and so, while he's not going to reveal to us the exact date and the hour he is going to, let us know what season he wants us to know the season so we can prepare ourselves, so we can be ready for Jesus's return. And I want to prove this to you in scripture, if you read in 1 Thessalonians 5, verse 1, paul says this. He says but you have no need to have anything written to you, brothers, about the times and dates when this will happen, because you yourselves well know that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.
Speaker 1:And that term, thief in the night, is an idiom for a Jewish Galilean wedding. And again, I promise you I'm not trying to plug this podcast, but I did do an episode about a Galilean wedding. If you haven't heard that, go back and listen to it and you will begin to see things line up, you'll begin to see light bulbs go off and you'll know what I'm talking about. But that was a Jewish idiom, a Jewish wedding idiom, because when the bridegroom was coming for his bride in a Galilean wedding it was called it was said that he would be coming like a thief in the night. And that's how the Lord is going to return. He's going to return to us like a thief in the night. We're not going to know when it's going to return to us like a thief in the night. We're not going to know when it's going to happen, but we will know the general season that it'll be coming. And so I want to prepare you for this season. I want to help you to begin to get your hearts prepared for this upcoming season, because the Lord wants you to be prepared.
Speaker 1:And this time of Teshuvah is a time where we get to draw close to the Lord. We get to ask Him to clothe us in our wedding linen, we get to adorn ourselves, we get to bathe ourselves in the word of God and if we ask him, he is going to answer that prayer. It is his will that we are ready. It is his will that we have an intimate relationship with him, and my prayer has been over the last few years is that I don't want to be just a guest at the wedding. I don't want to be a servant at the wedding, I want to be the bride. I want to be in that bridal chamber that Jesus said that he was going to prepare for his disciples.
Speaker 1:And I want to read to you that section that Jesus tells his disciples that he's going to prepare a bridal chamber for them. This is what a Galilean wedding looked like. The groom would propose to the bride and after the proposal he would leave and go back to his father's house and build onto his father's house a bridal chamber that he would later go and bring his bride to. And that's what Jesus said to his disciples in John, chapter 14. Here let me read it to you. See, jesus says he says In my father's house are many places to live. If there weren't, I would have told you, because I am going there to prepare a place for you. Since I am going and preparing a place for you, I will return to take you with me so that where I am, you may be also, so that where I am you may be also.
Speaker 1:So that's what Jesus was doing, was he was telling them guys, I'm proposing to you here, the disciples would have understood that. That language would have been very familiar to them. They would have thought, oh my gosh, this is a proposal. And so that's what he was saying. He was saying I'm going to prepare that bridal chamber for you, and when the father tells me that it's ready, I will come back and get you. And that was the other thing. When the groom prepared the bridal chamber, the only person who could say that it was ready would be the father. He had to inspect it and make sure that it was up to his standards and that it was ready. And that's why it says that only the father knows the day or the hour, because only the father could tell the groom OK, son, you can go get your bride. And that's what Yeshua is waiting on. This is the time in heaven where they are preparing to receive the bride, and Jesus is ready, waiting, and probably not so patiently. He's probably really excited and anxious to come back and get his bride. And this is the time that we are preparing for.
Speaker 1:And so I just wanted to hop on and kind of give you a little bit of a. I wanted to get you excited for this time and introduce it to you. If you've never heard of this time, I want you to begin to prepare your heart, to pray to the Lord and tell him listen, I want to be your bride. I want to be intimate with you. I want you to be excited to come get me. I want to be ready. I want to be adorned in the linen, in the proper attire, in the proper wedding attire. I want to be ready for you when you come. And if I'm not ready, please make me ready. Look into my heart, cleanse my heart, look into me and show me what I need to do, because I want to be ready for you. And so that's what I want to prepare for you. I wanted you to prepare. Excuse me, I want to help you get prepared for this time, and a good way to do that, like I said first of all, is prayer. Just lean into the Lord and pray to him and ask him listen, I want to be prepared, I want to be your bride. Make me into that bride material.
Speaker 1:And then, another way that you can do that is to be reading the word every single day, be washing yourself over with that word. The Lord says that the word will not return to him, void. And so if you're in the word every single day, there's no way that you won't be ready to hear his voice when he calls. And another thing you can do is be studying up on these fall feast days. Look up scripture, see how it coincides with these feast days. Look at see if you can match up the Leviticus 23 feast days with the idiomatic expressions found in the New Testament.
Speaker 1:Let me just show you one in 1 Thessalonians 4, 16, where Paul is talking about the return of Jesus, and he's referring to the day of trumpets, or Yom Teruah, and he says will come down from heaven with a rousing cry, with a call from one of the ruling angels and with God's shofar. Those who died united with the Messiah will be the first to rise. Then we who are left still alive will be caught up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and thus we will be always with the Lord. So encourage each other with these words. So Paul's talking about the Feast of Trumpets, and when you go down further to verse one, that's when he says look, brothers, you guys don't need to be written about the days and times, because you already know. You already know the season and that's what I want to prepare you to know. I want you to know that there is a season that we are looking forward to Jesus coming back and he does give us the opportunity to be prepared. And that's what I want to allow you the opportunity and I want to give you some resources that you can get to help you draw close to the Lord, to help kindle that fire of intimacy with Jesus.
Speaker 1:And you've heard, if you've heard this podcast, you've heard me say this a thousand times there are these two books and they are about the two sets of feast days the spring feast and the fall feast. They're by Christy Eisner and I will link these in the show notes. The first one is called Finding the Afikomen, the preparing for the spring feast, or finding Jesus in the spring feast, and then the second book is called Watching and Waiting and it's encountering Jesus in the fall feast. Those two are amazing resources to get you prepared and to, like I said, kindle that fire of intimacy with Jesus. And then, like I said before, you can also listen to my previous episodes about the feast days and about the Galilean wedding, and that will get you prepared too and at least get you interested and kind of give you a jumping start to do your own research and to be reading scriptures regarding this, and I also want to tell you about there's a group on Facebook and it's Christy Eisner's group.
Speaker 1:She's the author of those two books. She has a page on Facebook called Ruth's Road. It's Ruth, as in Ruth and Boazrophe s road, ruth's road. If you go on Ruth's road on Facebook, she made a post today. Today is September the 3rd and it is a beautiful introduction into this time of Teshuvah and she goes into more detail and I really encourage you to go read that and then again go get her books, because they are just so beautiful and it really will. It'll just, it will give you a desire to be intimate with him and to get to know him on an even more intimate level. But that's going to do it for today's episode.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to give you the short little episode to introduce you to this time of teshuva and I just want to pray over you. I want to pray that the lord would give you a desire to lean into him, a desire to know him in these feast days and a desire to search him out, to be cleansed by his word, to be adorned in bridal bridal garb. I just encourage you to pray to him that you want to be his bride. You want to be the bride in that wedding chamber. You don't want to be a guest at the wedding, you want to be his bride and I just pray that over you right now, in the name of Yeshua, and I thank you so much for listening. If you have any questions, please reach out to me. You can find me on my email, you can find me on Instagram. I'm going to link all of those in the show notes and, again, I pray that he keeps you in his perfect peace as you enter into this time of Teshuvah, while we await Yeshua's return.
Speaker 1:And I forgot to mention. If you want to know the dates of each of these feast days, you can always google them. Just search up on google the fall feast days of 2024, the day of trumpets, or yom teruah, the day of atonement, or yom kippur, and then the feast of tabernacles, and you can find it on google. And you can also get a calendar. You can purchase a calendar that gives you all of the feast days. It shows you when the Sabbath begins, when it ends, when the feast days begin, when they end, and all kinds of fun facts and interesting things about the feast days, and I will link you a couple of those in the show notes as well. So I really pray that this has blessed you and I hope that you're really excited about these feast days, and thank you so much again for listening. Bless you, goodbye for now, thank you.