Relationship between the Feasts of Israel and the fetus development

Revelation 12: 1 - 2

A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.

She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

The heavenly signs mentioned in Revelation 12 actually describe the heavenly signs that appear during the Feast of Trumpets each year while verse 2 describes a pregnant woman in travail.

What is relationship between the Feast of Trumpets and the pregnant woman in travail?

The seven feasts of Israel, Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles, are for God to model his churches.

So, the seven feasts represent the path of the righteous, and even the period from a woman’s pregnancy until the birth of the baby.

Because all the specifics of the seven feasts correspond to the process of pregnancy of a woman.  

The first feast:

Passover on 14th of the first month represents the beginning of faith.

Jesus was crucified on the day of Passover, giving birth to the church.

Relatively, the fertilized egg appears on the 14th day after the mother is pregnant.

Hence, from generations to generations, in addition to lamb, Israelis would eat an egg during Passover.

Afterwards, on the second to the sixth day, this egg will be implanted in the uterus of the pregnant woman, and begin to grow.

Corresponding to the second to sixth day after Passover, it is the Feast of Unleavened Bread.  It is also the wave offering during the Feast of Firstfruits. 

Jesus’ resurrection and ascension happened on the Feast of Firstfruits, three days after Passover.

He led a group of saints in paradise to heaven, and became the first fruits in the wave offering.

And then He came back and explained the Bible to His disciples, and shared the truth of the whole gospel.  Hence, the church on earth also became the first fruits.     

Fifty days after Passover, the Holy Spirit descended.  

The church was established, with body and organization. 

Compared to a fertilized embryo, it begins to have a human-shaped body, with hands, arms, fingers, legs, toes, eyes and head, after fifty days.

Four months later, the embryo is still growing.

This corresponds to the absence of feast within the four months after Pentecost.

Until the first day of July, it is the Feast of Trumpets.  

At that time, Israelis would make sound by blowing the trumpets.  

All people in Jerusalem can hear.

But in fact, the fetus begins to have the sense of hearing on the first day of the seventh month. It can hear the words from his mother from outside.

Before that day, he cannot hear anything from outside.

From the first day to the tenth day on the seventh month, there is the chance of preterm birth, if the mother is careless.

This is the meaning of the labor pain described in the Feast of trumpets, in Revelation 12.

The tenth day of July is the Day of Atonement.  

It is also called the day in sackcloth and ashes.  It is the hardest day for Israelis.

Compared to the first to tenth day in July, when preterm birth may appear, on the tenth day the fetus would be more stable. 

Compared to the feast, the tenth of July is the Day of Atonement.  

The high priest would bring the blood of the lamb to enter the Holy of Holies, and sprinkle it seven times.

Compared to the tenth day of the seventh month, it is the day when the fetus can produce its own blood pigment.

Before that day, the fetus can only rely on the blood pigment from his mother.

The fetus can be independent with blood pigment.

The function of the blood pigment is to bring oxygen and food from the lung to other parts of the body, for energy supply.

The child has his own ability, just as his parents.  

This is like the Day of Atonement.  

The blood of lamb represents the precious blood of Christ, which saves us, makes us reborn, for us to have the life, image and glory of God.

The fifteenth day of July is the Feast of Tabernacles.

The Feast of Tabernacles represents that we will have the revived body and can live in heaven with God.

Compared to the fetus, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, it can be born anytime because on that day, the fetus’ lung has developed completely.

Before this day, the baby would breathe in difficulty if it is born.

But after this day, he can breathe by himself.  He can live outside of his mother.

In September, it is the Feast of Dedication, which is added apart from the law of Israeli.

During the Feast of Dedication, Israelis would place a lampstand which has nine lamps. The middle lamp will be ignited by the fire in the altar.

One lamp would be ignited each day, and all eight lamps will be ignited on the eighth day.

Hence, in John 1 God says Jesus Christ ignites our lamps.

Our lamps were lighted when we were born.

But when we sin and become the wicked, the lamps would be extinguished. 

Compared to the ninth month of pregnancy, all babies would be born.

On the eighth day after birth, the baby is to be circumcised.  It is the same day that the lamp is lighted.

Circumcision represents the removal of the sin of the baby, and become a lighted lamp in front of God.

The modern technology allows us to know the specific events that happen to the embryo on specific days.

But God has already fixed the feasts through Moses 3500 years ago.

We can see that the live drama of feasts is arranged supernaturally by God.

By the rehearsal of feasts, we need to leave the elementary teachings about Christ, grow up continuously to become the body of Christ, and attain to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ!

The Seven Feasts of Israel

In the Old Testament, God had asked Moses to tell the Israelites that they should celebrate seven feasts to God every year. They are: Turnover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Shavuot, Pentecost, the Feast of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the New Testament, in the books of Colossians and Hebrews, Paul mentioned that the Old Testament is the shadow of the New Testament. The festivals that the priests and the Israelites celebrated, no matter whether they are ceremonies, the works of the priests, the offerings, the time of occurrence, the harvests, the weathers, or even the signs on the heaven, they are all presenting all incidents in the New Testament.  

These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.

Hebrews 10:1
The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never, by the same sacrifices repeated endlessly year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.

Therefore, when we know more about those festivals and the things the Israelites did at that time, we can understand more what Jesus and the church need to do.

For example, in Turnover, it celebrates that a night before the Israelites left Egypt, each family of Israel killed a lamb and used its blood to smear on the doorframe and crossbeam. Therefore, the angels knew that they were Israelites and wouldn’t kill them.

This killed lamb is Jesus. Because he was crucified and his blood can cleanse us, we can get rid of the judgments from God when we believe in God.

Therefore, when John, the Baptist met Jesus, he said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

And during the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Israelites would grind the barley and the wheat into powder form and make the unleavened bread.

Exodus 12:15,
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

The procedure of these grain would be grinded into powder form represents Jesus would die and injure for us. This was a unleavened bread and represents Jesus died not because he is a sinner, he is sinless and even he was like the unleavened bread and was put into the baker. And Jesus also went to the hell that is full of fire.

During Shavuot, the Israelites would get the firstfruits of the crops and offered them to God. They are olives and grapes. Then Jesus was revived and together with God again, he was the firstfruit and it is represented by Shavuot.

1 Corinthians 15:23,
But each in his own turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong to him.

And Pentecost is the season of spring rain, also it is the first time of harvest.

Therefore, when the church of New Testament was born during Pentecost, Holy Spirit is dropped like the spring water and to soften people’s heart. It was the big harvest of souls.

Acts 2:17-18; 41

"In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.

Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

Those who accepted his message were baptized, and about three thousand were added to their number that day.

And during the Feast of trumpets, two priests would watch the moon. They would blow the trumpets immediately when there was a new moon. They did so to remind the Israelites that it is the Day of Atonement 10 days after. Because it is impossible for the priests to know the exact time of occurrence of the new moon, they only knew it would appear today or tomorrow. Therefore, in the New Testament, Jesus described the time he will come again as “No one knows about that day or hour”. That’s the proper noun of the Feast of Trumpets.

Mark 13:32
"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

And on the Day of Atonement, the priest would bring the blood of the live offerings to God in the Most Holy Place. And they would proclaim the name of Jesus that only the priests knew and to look for forgiveness.

Therefore in Acts, Peter said the following:

Acts 2:21

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.'

Therefore, when we are in the age of New Testament, when we know the name of Jesus Christ, we can look for forgiveness by this name.

When we understand more why the Israelites celebrate the festivals to God, we will know more about what Jesus had done for us.