Pastor Neil Earle's two cents on the Holy Days and the Christian
After mentioning about Richard Burkard and Dr.Garr reminding me a bit of my former Pastor Neil Earle (and Rush), Anne Hanna has a comment on Neil Earle's summary on the Holy Days which was recently in his congregation's (Glendora, California)webpage.
Here's a commentary by Neil Earle on www.glendorachurch.org :
What in the world is Neil's point here? Is it okay for members to go ahead and celebrate tabernacles as an everlasting ordinance if they are kept in Christ, using these themes? Certainly not the message I have heard elsewhere in the WCG.
What's Neil trying to say here? Maximum effect? So if the Days are kept in Christ they are MORE important now for what Christ has done?
Given the rather harsh steps WCG HQ has gone to in order to ditch the WCG traditional days, commentaries like this just add to the chaos.
Anne Hanna
How the Festivals Were Fulfilled
By Neil Earle
“No matter how many promises God has made they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20). Jesus came to fulfill the Law, to bring it to its maximum effect (Matthew 5:17-18). He was Lord of the Sabbath (Mat. 12:8), greater than the Temple (v. 26). These claims got him in trouble with people who had their minds made up about how and where God was working. “Christ our Passover” fulfilled the spring feast by dying on the cross. What about the Fall Festival of Tabernacles (FOT) or Succoth (Booths)? Here is the briefest overview:
“No matter how many promises God has made they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20). Jesus came to fulfill the Law, to bring it to its maximum effect (Matthew 5:17-18). He was Lord of the Sabbath (Mat. 12:8), greater than the Temple (v. 26). These claims got him in trouble with people who had their minds made up about how and where God was working. “Christ our Passover” fulfilled the spring feast by dying on the cross. What about the Fall Festival of Tabernacles (FOT) or Succoth (Booths)? Here is the briefest overview:
Leviticus 22:42-43 – FOT instituted to depict Israel wandering in the Wilderness. “Booths” and hazardous journeying.
Isaiah 4:4-6 – Jesus our tabernacle shelters us on our Journey. We are “in Christ” (2 Cor. 5:17) and He tabernacles in us (John 14:23-24 and John 1:14).
Isaiah 4:4-6 – Jesus our tabernacle shelters us on our Journey. We are “in Christ” (2 Cor. 5:17) and He tabernacles in us (John 14:23-24 and John 1:14).
Deut. 16:13-15 – A change – FOT now an Agricultural Feast of Ingathering (Ex. 34:22).
2 Cor. 6:16-17 says we are the Temple or Tabernacle of the Living God – can there be a greater fulfillment?
Deut. 31:10-12 – Every seventh year the Law was read.
Jesus fulfills the Law inside his people by giving us His righteousness (Philippians 3:9 and Romans 3:21-23 – apart from Law).
Amos 9:11 – An interpretative key – prophecies for Israel now transferred to Christ, says Acts 15:16-19, thus…
Luke 10:2 – The Ingathering of people is Christ’s major harvest going on right now and climaxes at His return, not in the Millennium (Mat. 13:39).
…Zech. 14:8 – Living waters from Jerusalem.
John 7:37-42 – Jesus offered this at FOT in Jerusalem – many convinced, not all (see Zech. 14:2).
Zech. 14:9 – One Lord, one King.
Ephesians 4:5-6 – Who is the King the Magi were seeking?
Zech. 14:16 – Gentile remnants worship in physical Jerusalem.
Mark 7:26 and John 12:20 show Gentiles converts seeking Jesus and later coming to Jerusalem (Acts 2:11 and 8:27).
Hebrews 12:22-24 points to an even larger “ingathering” fulfillment in the heavenly Jerusalem also happening right now. Says Tony Warren: “These feasts can only be kept as everlasting ordinances if they are kept in Christ.”
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