Declaring War Against the Enemies of God and the Reconciling of Every Aspect of Our Personality to God Are the Spiritual Fulfillments of the Feast of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement of the Old Testament.

Seven feasts of the Lord were celebrated in the Old Testament and are still observed by Jewish people to the present day.

The first three feasts typify the basics of our salvation experience.

The fourth feast is Pentecost, speaking of the Holy Spirit.

Many of us may not be acquainted as yet with the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts.

The fifth feast is the Blowing of Trumpets. We are entering this era now. The Blowing of Trumpets represents the war and judgment of which we have spoken in this essay. The Lord of Hosts, the Lord Jesus Christ, is coming to those who are close to Him and asking for entrance. If we open the door and permit Him to enter (we Christians) He will dine with us on His own body and blood, for it is the body and blood of Christ that are our life, our resurrection, our covenant with the Lord.

Then He will declare war on His enemies remaining in our personality. Also He will discipline us that we may become a part of His army.

The sixth feast is the Day of Atonement. The Day of Atonement speaks of the reconciling of every part of our personality to God.

In these days, as the Holy Spirit moves upon you, you will discover several parts of your personality are not reconciled to God. They rebel against God. They become angry with the Lord. Every trace of rebellion in you must be put down. You must be reconciled to God, not just legally through the blood of the cross but actually in your being and behavior.

Your mind, your emotions, your motivations, your imaginations, your speech, your actions—all must be reconciled to the Father. You must be sternly obedient to God in thought, in speech, and in action.

There must not remain in you the slightest trace of rebellion against the Father. As long as sin remains in you, you will be shaken severely in the last days.

Notice our frequent use of the word must. You must do this. You must do that. Today we are hearing, concerning putting away sin, we ought to do this; we ought to do that. The term ought is accompanied by the idea that even if we do not obey Christ we still will go to Heaven to live forever.

The truth is, we must obey Christ. If we do not there are terrible consequences.

The seventh and last feast is the feast of Tabernacles. After God has finished with the enemies in your personality, He and Christ will come and make Their eternal abode in you. This is the rest of God and the fullness of our salvation.

When we are at Pentecost the Holy Spirit comes upon us as rain from Heaven.

When we are at Tabernacles the Holy Spirit issues from the Throne of God within us.

As you move through the last three feasts it will seem as though God is angry with you. He will tear you, but then bind you up. You will receive double punishment for all your sins, but then your iniquity will be pardoned, your warfare accomplished. He will hide His face from you for a short season, but then He will appear again as your eternal inheritance.

To be continued.