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

https://a.co/d/9Oe6bUB

https://a.co/d/2nHLHr8

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

Transcript

Preparing for the Feast Days

Speaker 1 0:00

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 0:53

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 1:43

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 2:34

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 3:23

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 4:51

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 6:01

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 6:55

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 .

Preparing for the Bridal Chamber

Speaker 1 8:03

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 8:55

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 9:59

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 11:14

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 12:29

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 13:03

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 14:30

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 15:37

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 16:21

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 17:24

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 .