Luke 4
Messiah’s Forty Days of Fasting Leading Up to Yom Kippur! The Revelation of Yeshua Is Found in the Feast Days!!!
Witness write through the Bible: H3789 kathab--to write, inscribe, engrave, write in, write on
The Torah .........……
Exo 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write H3789 thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
The prophets proclaim...............…
Isa 30:8 Now go, write H3789 it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the
time to come for ever and ever:
The writings bear witness.........…
Pro 7:3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write H3789 them upon the table of thine heart.
Jer 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write H3789 it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, 19 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Most children taught by the Catholic nuns have been taught that our Messiah fasted in the wilderness during the forty days known as “Lent.” This season would commence on “Ash Wednesday,” and it would culminate on “Easter Sunday,” according to Catholic tradition.
It was not until layer that it was discovered these traditions of Ash Wednesday, Lent & Easter stemmed from ancient Babylonian religion, and were adopted into Christianity by Rome.
As you read Luke 4:19, where our Messiah declared “The Acceptable Year of The Most High.” It should be understood in that moment that our Messiah, Yeshua fasted during the forty days of repentance or “Teshuva,” leading up to Yom Kippur. Even though Luke’s gospel does not tell us what time of year this was, there are enough clues in the language of Isaiah 61 to indicate Yom Kippur typology.
Additionally, during his 40-day fast, our Messiah, Yeshua turned 30 years old on “Yom Teruah,” (Feast of Trumpets), which then qualified him (according to Numbers 4:3), to be the High Priest after the order of Melchizedek.
Messianic tradition holds to the idea that our Messiah was born on The Feast of Tabernacles or “Sukkot.” However, there are a few problems that arise with that theory. Once we understand that our Messiah was acting as the High Priest, Melchizedek when he made the declaration of “The Acceptable Year of The Most High,” it becomes obvious that in order for him to make this declaration, he had to have had his 30th birthday BEFORE Yom Kippur!
After his cousin John immersed him in the Jordan River, there was a transfer of power that was being made. The authority of the Sons of Aaron as the High Priest was being passed on to our Messiah who was from the Tribe of Judah. Hebrews 7:14 confirms this when it says that “Melchizedek sprang out of Judah!”
It was on this particular Yom Kippur in Luke 4:19, that we see our Messiah revealing to those in the Synagogue that he was the “Anointed One,” the Messiah of Israel, and the High Priest who could then declare whether or not the nation was accepted that year for Yom Kippur. This is precisely when his 3.5 year ministry began, on Yom Kippur in 26 A.D.
Once we establish that his 30th birthday took place on the Feast of Trumpets during his 40-days of fasting in the wilderness, we can then conclude that he was old enough to become the High Priest for Israel!
The clue can be found is Luke 4:19, when we learn that our Messiah “DECLARED THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE MOST HIGH!”
Only the High Priest could declare “THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE MOST HIGH” once per year on Yom Kippur!
The month of Elul is the 6th month on the Hebrew Calendar and it is called “chodesh ha’cheshbon,” which is a month of accounting.
The name of the month Elul is spelled with four Hebrew Letters, Alef-Lamed-Vav-Lamed which is said to be an acronym of “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li.” This is translated “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine,” a quote from Song of Songs 6:3, where the Beloved is The Most High, and the “I” is his covenant bride, Israel.
In Aramaic (the vernacular of the Hebrew people at the time that the month names were adopted), the word “Elul” means “search,” which is appropriate, because this is the time of the year when we search our hearts and farmers search for the harvest.
According to deductive reasoning by reading the scriptures, the month of Elul is the same time that Mosheh (Moses) went to Mount Sinai to prepare the second set of tablets after the incident of the golden calf (Exodus 32; 34:27-28). He ascended on Rosh Chodesh Elul and he descended on the 10th of Tishri, at the end of Yom Kippur, when repentance was complete. The 1st day of Elul commences a period of 40 days where Moses prayed for The Most High to forgive the people after they committed adultery with the golden calf. After this, the commandment to prepare the second set of tablets was given.
Could this be the reason why our Messiah fasted during these very same forty days? Could it be that he was also preparing to present the very same commandments that would be written upon the heart of his bride for Yom Kippur? You see, in Ancient Hebrew Wedding Custom, the bride was to have the ketubah (written marriage agreement) on her at all times, or else she could not enjoy intimacy with her husband. This explains why The Most High promised to “write his Torah” (laws) in the heart of his bride (Jeremiah 31:33; Hebrews 8:10; 10:16).
Traditionally, the Hebrews celebrate a time of fasting and repentance for “forty days.” This is the time that foreshadows the preparation for the bride to meet her bridegroom on the “Feast of Trumpets” (Yom Teruah), and on “Yom Kippur”(Day of Atonement). These two feast days, I believe represent the marriage of two different brides typified in Leah & Rachel to Jacob. In John 10:16, our Messiah spoke of having “two folds of sheep,” when he said the following words “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
These two folds of sheep are none other than what Isaiah 8:14 describes as “Both Houses of Israel.” The Two Southern Tribes of Judah & the Ten Northern Tribes of Israel are referred to in prophecy as as “The Stick of Ephraim & the Stick of Judah” (Ezekiel 37:16).
True to prophecy, our Messiah said in John 10:16 that he would make both sheepfolds “one fold,” just as Ezekiel also foretold that both Houses of Israel would become “one stick,” in the hand of The Most High in the last days (Ezekiel 37:19). This event will culminate during the last ten days of the “Great Tribulation,” (which will only last for three and half years).
During these last ten days of tribulation, our Messiah will make these two houses only one house, and one bride. These last ten days are often referred to by the Hebrews as “The Ten Days of Awe” (Revelation 3:10).
At the end of these forty days of fasting and repentance in the final Jubilee at the “last great day” of the 6th millennium and going into the “Sabbath Millennium,” which will commence the 1st day of the 7th month called “Tishri!”
The Feast of Trumpets commemorates the “ushering in of the king,” and it is a time for us to prepare our hearts for the Fall Feasts of The Most High.
The two themes of the month of Elul have to do with accounting and preparation of the heart. In Aramaic the word Elul means “searching.”
(Psalms) 139:23 Search me, O The Most High, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
It was during this time of year that Yahuwchanon (John) the Immerser (Baptist) began preaching repentance in the wilderness:
(Matthew) 3:1 In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, 2 And saying, Repent you: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. 3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of THE MOST HIGH, make his paths straight.
The Hebrew word for “repent” is as follows:
#8668 tshuwa’ah tesh-ooaw or tshuah; from #7768 in the sense of #3467; rescue (literal or figurative, personal, national or spiritual): deliverance, help, safety, salvation, victory.
The next two words are the root words that make up this word for repent (tshuwah):
#3467 yasha yawshah to be open, wide or free; to be safe; avenging, defend, deliver, help, preserve, rescue, be safe, bring salvation, save, get victory.
#7768 shava shawvah: to be free, freedom from trouble; cry aloud, shout.
These three words above, all paint a picture of what is happening during the 40 days of fasting and repentance starting on the 1st of Elul (the 6th month) and leading right up to the 10th day of the 7th month of Tishri on Yom Kippur (day of covering). We first see that John the Immerser (Baptist) was “crying out” (shauwa) for the nation of Israel to repent by exclaiming “tshuwa!”
This was the time of year when Israel was being called to prepare for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). The Day of Atonement is a day of salvation (yasha) for those who repent, but it is a day of avenging or “vengeance” for those who are not ready and have not washed their garments in the blood of the lamb. For forty days, Israel would always prepare their hearts during this season of repenting. It was a time to “make the crooked paths straight” and to ask forgiveness from those whom you may have wronged.
Yeshua admonished us not to bother bringing a gift to the altar until we go and make peace with our brother:
(Matthew) 5:24 Leave there your gift before the altar, and go your way; first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift.
To those who repent and make the crooked paths straight (correct the wrongs that they have committed), the Day of Atonement will be a day of “acceptance” by The Most High. But to those who do not humble themselves and repent, it will be a day of “vengeance.” On the future Day of Atonement when Messiah returns in Revelation 19:2, he will “avenge” the blood of his set-apart ones (his bride). It is for this reason that he read only the first half of Isaiah 61:2 at the end of his “forty days of fasting” in the wilderness:
(Isaiah) 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of THE MOST HIGH, and the day of vengeance of our The Most High; to comfort all that mourn;
However, he did not finish the latter part of this verse, because he has yet to fulfill the other half of Isaiah 61:2, at his second coming on “The Day of Vengeance of our The Most High” (Revelation 19:2). This will be the very same event called “The Great Day of Wrath,” (Zephaniah 1:15-18; Romans 2:5; Revelation 6:17) also referred to as “The Great & Terrible Day of The Most High”(Joel 2:31).
There are three parts to Isaiah 61:2 to be fulfilled in history:
1.) To Proclaim “The Acceptable Year of The Most High.”
Yeshua already did this at the beginning of his ministry when he emerged from his 40-day fast on Yom Kippur. This statement is “Yom Kippur” language. Only the High Priest (Kohen ha’Gadowl) could declare “The Acceptable Year of The Most High” each year for Yom Kippur. You see, the atonement of the entire nation depended on the righteousness of the High Priest. The High Priest had to first make atonement for himself by killing a bullock. And then he would be a proper vessel to make atonement for the entire nation when he killed the Yom Kippur sacrificial goat. If the High Priest was not righteous, he would die behind the veil in the “Holy of Holies,” and this meant that the entire nation was not atoned for that year and they were “not accepted.”
When John the Immerser baptized Yeshua, he was transferring the role of the High Priest from the sons of Aaron back to the Melchizedek Priesthood again. And so Yeshua was now acting as the High Priest that year when he interceded in the wilderness for Israel. This is why he qualified as one who could then “Declare the Acceptable Year of The Most High!”
2.) To Proclaim “The Day of Vengeance of our The Most High.”
He will do this at his second coming when he returns to “avenge” the injustices that have been done to his bride. He will avenge their blood and “even the score.”
3.) To Comfort All that Mourn.
On that day, the House of Judah will finally see the one whom “they have pierced” (Zechariah 12:10) and “they will mourn for him as one mourns for his only son.” Not only that, but all of the tribes of the earth shall mourn for him (Matthew 24:30), because not only the House of Judah, but all have crucified him!
Shema Selah let us look and make amends to those that we have harmed.
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