We want to thank Him, and I’m just going to open in prayer, if we might, our Father, we just thank You. How can we say thanks for all You’ve done for us, all You’ve given us, and that You not only created us, but You sustained us day by day, moment by moment. And we just thank You for Your corrections.

We thank You for calling us to be aligned with You. I just thank you so much, Father, and I just pray that You will open my mouth, bring to my heart and memory those things that I should share and that we just have the privilege to revel together in Your awesome thoughts and ways. Oh, that we might know You.

As Moses said, ” Show me Your ways, that I might know You. Oh, Father, we just count it such a privilege to call You, our Father. And we just ask You to bless our time in Yeshua’s Name. Amen. Well, I really there were so many things. I kind of wanted to do this last lesson around, and not even sure if I hit the mark or not.

But, you know, I didn’t really line this out where we were going. It just kind of working it, as the opportunity each week came. But this lesson I have called Keys to Destiny. But before we can actually move into the lesson itself, we’ve got to pick up Sukkot. Because I spend so much time on Yom Teruah and Rosh Hashanah.

If you have your Teshuvah reference guide, it will be really good; you can have it open to pages 42-43. We’ll move over to page 50 in and out of that. And you’re familiar with that now. But I hadn’t given you this verse, and it can be a little bit confusing to people. This is in Deuteronomy 16: 16-17, but it’s also in several other places.

I think I saw it yesterday in Exodus 34:23. It says, three times a year your male shall appear before You, Yehovah your Elohim at the place that He has chosen. And at the feast of Hag Hamatzah, that’s unleavened bread, at the Feast of Shavuot. That’s the feast of weeks, which you call Pentecost, the Feast of Sukkot/ Booths. So, three times, but we talk about seven festivals.

Well, that’s because they’re grouped in three, one and three. Now that’s the annual festivals. But we are really teaching, if you remember, that every week we have a festival in Sabbath. So, we have a weekly festival. We actually have a monthly festival in Rosh Chodesh, which is the renewed moon, which starts the Hebraic month.

So we remember that the Spring Festival are our Father’s,

Thus, we’re on a journey of restoration. I hope in our first lesson we establish that, after the Fall in Genesis 3. From then on, the rest of the story of the Bible is restoration. But now watch this. We’ve been on this journey now for 5000 years. We’re almost at the 6000 year marker. So we are a people that are coming up to the pinnacle of time that our Father is about to change his program.

And so we happen to be a people that, like when Messiah came the first time, we’re the people to be ready to welcome Him on His Second Appearing. So these first three festivals that He called Hag Hamatzah are really Passover or Pesach, Unleavened Bread and First fruits Bikkorim. They all come in Nissan. So if you go to page 42, we’re going to deal with just looking at those again.

We’ve looked at them a number of times, but remember that there was only one calendar until Exodus 12, if you remember. I hope you do, because that’s a big landmark. In Exodus 12, He was getting ready to bring the Israelites out of bondage, out of slavery, and He said, I’m going to bring you out. You come this way with Me.

And so He tells them they’re to kill the little lamb. The details are in Exodus 12. But He said, I’m giving you a new calendar. And they don’t really, couldn’t understand that then. But because that’s the way He does us, He gives us something to do. Little by little. We understand it. We don’t know it right to begin.

But we walk by faith always. When you walk with the Father, you walk by faith. And so He says, the Passover lamb, the unleavened bread, and going through the Red Sea, those are the picture of Redemption. And so Israel, He uses them, a natural people to walk out those that pattern of Redemption. Then you remember, after the coming through the Red Sea, we learned later when we come into the land of the festivals, that there was the barley harvest, and they cut the first fruit sheaf.

That’s who is that? That’s Messiah. He’s the First Fruit from the resurrection of the dead. And then there were 49 other sheaves. So when you counted the 40, the 50 sheaves, when you got to the 50th day, then you were at Shavuot. And so you can see in your book, I don’t know that you can see it up on the slide, but in your book, the Three Festivals of Redemption are in Nissan.

That’s the first month of the sacred calendar. But Shavuot or Pentecost is about the sixth of Sivan. Fifty days later, after they came through that Red Sea, they ended up you’ll find it in Exodus 19, on the Rosh Chodesh, the renewed moon of Sivan, the 50 day marker. And what do they get there? They get the Torah. So the first Pentecost, the first Torah, the first Shavuot,

Israel gets the Torah. So when you get to Acts chapter two, actually, what the Father is really doing in Acts chapter two, in that Pentecost, He’s now giving the Torah to the nations. He gave it to Israel. Now He’s going to send it to the nations through that people group. I made this graphic because sometimes people can get a picture.

They can they see it better in their mind. So those first three green festivals are again your festivals of redemption, Passover, unleavened bread, firstfruits, nothing to do with Easter, nothing to do with Easter. Fifty days later, you come to Shavuot. That’s the lighter green one there. That’s your, that’s when He said, three times, You’ll come up to Jerusalem.

You’ll celebrate Passover, Unleavened Bread and Firstfruit. While you’re there in Jerusalem, you’ll go home, you’ll come back 50 days later for Shavuot to the Temple. Now then, we move into what I call the Fall Festivals and the Fall Festivals, just as he fulfilled those Spring Festivals and Shavuot right to the letter, He will come and fulfill these fall Festivals which have everything to do with Messiah’s Second Coming.

And that’s Yom Teruah, what people call Trumpets. But Trumpets doesn’t tell you anything. But when you translate Yom Teruah, that translates to be the day of the awakening blast. What are they awakening? That blast will awaken the righteous dead. And that’s what Paul is talking about in First Corinthians 15:52 to about 54, and then First Thessalonians 4:13 through 18 or 16 through 18, it will catch it too.

On this slide you can see I put Rosh HaShanah on one gold square, but Rosh HaShanah is not a festival. It marks what? It marks the Hebraic New Year. But it comes on the same day as the Fifth Festival, Tishri 1. So I put them together because they actually worked together. A New Year, a new beginning.

Every year, Yom Teruah there will only be one. Yom Teruah is the day of the awakening blast. So if it doesn’t happen then, that’s a rehearsal. But there’s going to be a year when that happens on Tishri 1. And so that’s the next greatest thing to happen on our Father’s calendar. It’s what we’re waiting for is Yom Teruah, the sound of the awakening blast.

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And I believe it will be also the Rapture. We about Yom Kippur, you see. That’s right below. Yom Kippur is 10 days after Yom Teruah. And those ten days in between are called the High Holy Days. Very important because the decrees are written on Tishri 1. Every person that, Jews have taught us for years, pass before the Lord, He writes your decree for the coming year, and judgments can be changed in those ten days through repentance and acts of charity.

And I have actually really confirmed to you that He’s made this known to me. This is really true teaching. But we don’t have a lot of understanding on that. But he’s opening these things to us now. It’s so exciting. But our call now today is to address Sukkot. That’s Tabernacles. Would you see that? It’s a very last festival in that darker orange.

Sukkot really, if I was going to you know, you’ll see this. But Sukkot is called the season of our joy because you’ve been through repentance. You’ve been through 40 days of repentance. We call Teshuvah that was, has to do when Moses went up. We just had it in Torah study yesterday. Moses went up on the mountain on Elul 1, and he came down Tishri 10 with a second set of tablets.

And those 40 days become the 40 days of Teshuvah of repentance. And this is the way the Lord sets his order. And the Jewish people have understood this. We’re so grateful. But by the time they’ve come through this repentance now and they come to Sukkot, it’s the time of joy, it’s the great ingathering. And so I think I didn’t put down Leviticus 23.

Sometimes I’ll be adding some things that won’t be on your slides, but you have room. You can make notes there. But I’ve taken your festivals that I’ve taught out of Leviticus 23, so I kind of realized that I didn’t have the chapter there, but it’s 23:33 through 36. And He says, speak to the children of Israel, saying on the 15th day of the seventh month.

Now that’s Tishri we know, for seven days is a Feast of Booth to Yehovah. On the first day shall be a holy convocation. That means that’s going to be an appointed time. You can’t just do these things whenever you want to. It isn’t getting in a committee and deciding when you’re going to do it. No, He said, you shall do this.

This is his call. These are his appointed times to meet with us. It’s going to be an eight-day festival. On the first day is what we call a Shabbatone. No matter what day it falls on, it’s a Sabbath. And the eighth day is going to be a Sabbath, so that He’s putting it like bookends.

Other ties in the theme of Sukkot are called, some of you hear people call it the Feast of Ingathering. It’s the great ingathering. It’s the time of year. You know, you have the barley harvest in Passover. You have the wheat harvest in Shavuot, but you have the great ingathering in Sukkot period. And so the festivals are very closely, they’re always connected to the agriculture and rain.

Without rain, you have no crop. Without the reign of the Spirit, you have no spiritual crop. You know, no matter what we do, you can, you can study, you can prepare. But if the spirit doesn’t water what you’re doing, if He doesn’t bless, what we’re doing is just waste of time.

It’s all up to Him to bless it. So it’s in the natural, so it is in the spiritual. So it’s called the in time harvest, the great rejoicing before Yehovah, the season, I said, as our joy it’s an archetype of the Kingdom Age.

This is a very, this is going to be the greatest time. You see, the Kingdom Age is what we’ve been waiting for. Do you know the Jews are so attuned to the Kingdom Age. Why? They understand the Kingdom Age like, you really get, it’s such a blessing. The Kingdom Age is a time of restoration. They don’t call it that.

They call it Tikkun, repair of the world, to make the world, a home for our Father to come back to, because they know what happened in Genesis 3. And so they understand every one of us are called to repair the world. How do you repair the world? By obeying Torah. That is the way you repair the world. And so now this is the message.

You see, it’s going out now, and He’s awakening people because we’re approaching a change of season. We’re getting ready to move into the time of Tabernacles. And, you know, James and Melisa been in Israel and anyone in Israel, you have to plan months ahead to get a housing in Israel in Tabernacle season. Already the nations are coming up to Israel.

See, that’s the time that they’re going to come. I love to go to Israel. In the time of Teshuvah, we went there in 2007, spent 40 days. My husband blessed me to let me go. And a young man went with me to help me pray. And what I’ll never forget those days, 40 days.

And everybody was talking about Tabernacles. But I was so excited to be there because we were there repenting what the ekklesia, the sins the church committed against the Jewish people, I felt it’s such an honor and I came back from that. And even while I was there, He told me to gather the believers and go to the Jewish community and repent for our sins.

And that’s another whole story. But it’s so amazing. The number seven signifies spiritual profession, perfection and completion. The Israelites having walked through the High Holy Days, now were ready for this time of joy and ingathering. And you see, if we are watching what the Spirit is doing, that’s what He’s doing right now. You see, there’s a call to repentance.

Now we’ve been in 15 years of repentance. And as you pick up on repentance, you don’t hear a lot about repentance. But you see, that’s the call. What is the Elijah call before the great and terrible day of the Lord? It’s, the call to repentance. Because what does repentance do? Repentance gets you ready. And so He needs people that will lead the way in repentance.

I’m so excited. Now I’m wanting to do repentance for the ekklesia because there’s only one body, you know. You understand this, there’s just one body. So you and I being a member of that body, we can go before the Almighty and confess that we have missed the mark. We’ve broken His heart. We have not walked in alignment with Him.

But I can, I can tell Him, Father, You’re merciful, You’re gracious, because we have pleaded on these 13 Attributes that you find in Exodus 34 and Micah 7:18 through 20. So I’m looking for people who want to be a part. You see, you are actually preparing; you open up the way when you’re in repentance. So this is we’re doing this because we’re getting ready for Sukkot.

This is the very thing that he’s leading us to now. Sukkot has certain things that go on at that time. It’s the time they built a booth, and they were to dwell in those booths as a reminder that they were in the wilderness. And He took them through the wilderness. He was with them. And so they built a booth.

And then there were four species that they would, the Lord told them to bring. And this festival is really about the nations also. And we’ll get a little bit. But these four species, I believe, have to do also with the nations. And He uses naturals, as we have said. They were required to gather branches from three different trees, the date palm, the willow, the myrtle and bind them together in a lulav, it’s called.

And then they had the citron. It formed what they called the lulav. And the lulav was used to pray for the nations. You shook it to the north and to the south, and to the west, and to the east, and then down and up. So it was blessing the nations, and there’s a lot of detail, and different people add different things.

It’s like the lulav really represents a people group. And so anyway, this is, you would see them in Jerusalem or at the, Kotel with their lulavs and praying. And I’ve got, I don’t know,  I think I’ve got a picture of that but, so this was, this is one of the main things that characterize Sukkot.

We take sometimes the Lulav and go down, go in our city, different places in our city, and we pray. And so we can use that tabernacle season to pray over our city. From Israel came the Messiah whose finished work released the Spirit to bring forth ingathering of souls from every tribe, tongue and nation. During Sukkot, the Lulav and the Etrog were waved in all the directions, just as I’ve said so, marking the ingathering of the nations.

It’s going to be the greatest harvest, but it’s the greatest harvest. Also, you know you have in the fall. You have the apples, you have the nut trees, you have corn, you have soybeans, you have all this great ingathering. See that all has to do with this season. So it’s the harvest time. And we all know what it’s like.

You know, the pumpkins. And it just goes on and on and on. It’s just the most gorgeous time of year. The sacrifices for the Sukkot. The Israelites actually offered sacrifices for the nations. This was something that was said, you know. When Rome destroyed, it really wasn’t Rome. It was really a seven particular group of people under Roman authority that destroyed the temple.

But they actually the Gentiles did themselves such a disfavor because Israel always offered sacrifices for the nations. They offered, the first day of Sukkot they offered 13 bulls, bullocks, and then every day after that it was one less. But when they finished, they had offered 70 bullocks, because they believe originally there are 70 nations in the world. And then there was one other one.

They offered a 71st, and that was for the Chief Priest of the Sanhedrin. During the Second Temple period, each day of the Feast of Water libation ceremony, a priest walked down to the Pool of Siloam. And just south of the Temple Mount, he ceremoniously filled a large gold pitcher from the pool water and retracing his steps back about a mile to the temple, and there he offered.

He went through the Holy Gates, and at the blast of these silver trumpets, the priests, the Levites, on the steps, and with singing the Halle Psalms 113 to 118. It was the most beautiful thing, just a marvelous experience. You remember that Yeshua went up to the Temple on the last day of the feast, the water pouring.

And that’s recorded, I think, in John 7. So you have this text out of Isaiah 12, “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation”. This was one of the main themes of Sukkot. Now remember this. Yeshua, what does it mean? It means salvation. See, that’s why I like Yeshua. This verse is really saying, with joy you will draw water from the wells of Yeshua.

 That word is Yeshua. He is your source of joy. He is your provision for redemption. And he is how we come into being able to celebrate even these feasts. He is the festival. He brought all of this. He is restoring so the Father’s Presence can come back. When the priest reached the Brazen Altar, he received a container of wine and ascended to the ramp with the Siloam water in one hand and the wine in the other, and standing over the altar, he poured them together, the elements separate from the vessels, and they were poured there on the altar.

One picture there down they have a gold picture, and that, the whole priesthood or some of the priests are coming down together to get the water. Then, up above, I put there’s a graphic of the wine and the water. It’s not where they’re offering it, but it’s just showing you that these two were brought together.

You see the Temple all lit up, and that Temple was lit up because there were young boys, that’s in one of the graphics. Young boys climbed these ladders 30ft high, carrying this oil to the top, pouring it into these big vats. And then actually, the wicks were the undergarments of the priesthood, the used undergarments. They made the wicks and it lit up all of Jerusalem.

You could see it for miles. And this was a time again, it’s called the Festival of Lights, of Water and Light. Then this lower picture, you see the prayer shawls on the men, and they’ve got their lulavs, and probably they’re at the Temple Mount, at the Kotel and the silver trumpets. So that just gives you a little bit of an idea.

It was a very, they used to say this, no one has experienced joy if you have not participated in the Feast of Tabernacles. It’s the greatest time of joy. Throughout the ceremony, Levites sang hymns standing on these 15 steps leading up to the great Nicanor Doors of the Court of the Women. During the pouring of the wine and the water, they prayed for the entire congregation.

Yehovah, save us; Yehovah, grant us success. And so this is always Sukkot. They prayed for the rains to come. And really the rain is a picture of the Spirit, that the Spirit will be poured out. The daily water libation symbolized a memorial to Elohim for the provision in the desert, a prayer that God would again give water for the next harvest, and a forecast of the days of Messiah to come.

The Seventh day of creation foreshadows Earth’s Seventh-day restoration. See, our Father is. These things are sort of hidden, but once you see them, the days of creation really mark His Timeline. And we’re at the end of the Sixth day. We’re getting ready for the Seventh. That’s going to be restoration. And we hear it in Romans 8.

I just quote this took this, out of Romans 8. “The creation waits with eager longing for the sons of Elohim, for the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain freedom of the glory the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now, and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for the adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” That is really the great hope that we have. We’re, you know, we’re just housed in this.

 I’m sort of locked in this, this little clay pot. This is what this is. This is like a clay pot. But when He comes and sets his free, Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. He says it’s better to be present with the Lord. But it’s needful that we be in this body until we complete our destiny, which brings me now.

 This is our lesson that we’re really looking at today. So that completes our festivals, the Seven Festivals. But today, really, I’ve entitled this keys to Destiny. And I had a hard time because there’s so many things I feel like maybe I won’t be with you again. There’s so many passages that we really ought to look at because they’ve been skewed in the New Testament or in the brit chadesha the renewed covenant.

And once you straighten them out, they would really help you to see that we’ve made big mistakes. And, you know, our Father is always willing to forgive mistakes. He just needs us to recognize or be teachable, the things that He would bring to us, because we’re living in a very special time, that He’s bringing that which has been hidden to light.

There’s actually is a prophecy that came forth on 9-11, 1999. It said that very thing that the things that have been hidden I am going to expose now, and I think you’re seeing this across the board. This is a worldwide thing that He’s exposing that. And he said it would start very slowly. But, you know, as of last year we’re 20 years into it.

So that’s a big marker. And now you’re beginning to really see things happen. I think they will be much more visible all the rest of the way. Defining Destiny. It is a predetermined course for events. I just ask you, I know all of you, and some of you, this is New Teaching to you, is new concepts, new thoughts.

And there’s a struggle you go through. It’s probably similar. Someone brought up at torah study yesterday, the caterpillar before the butterfly comes out. You know, there’s a certain struggle that that process takes place. But it’s that struggle that the butterfly goes through, and he has to go through it to be able to have the strength to fly.

If you try to help them, they won’t have enough strength to fly. So I could come along and try to help you, but nobody can. It’s between you and the Lord. We can’t. We don’t. Not here to make you do something. I’m here to share with you what the Lord has shown me. And, but there is a great struggle.

The thing I want to caution you in, and that is that, it’s our fault that we’re where we are. It’s not someone else’s fault, because we’ve had the Word and we could know the Word. And so the Father never blesses pointing our fingers. I’m going to bring, I bring out a lot if I go into the next series on the Early Church Fathers.

But really, the early church fathers didn’t have text. If you didn’t have text, you won’t do well either. We don’t even do too well with text, so we have to be careful. We just need to say to the Father, Father, I have sinned. See, this is what Daniel did in Daniel 9. This is what Nehemiah did, and Nehemiah 1 I’ve sinned.

It’s me, Father, I’ve missed the mark, and he’s going to really bless that. And once, if you really begin to see it. So I asked you the question, are you struggling with the call of alignment? It would be natural. I’ve had, I’ve had people sit in my classes and literally weep because of things that they are coming to see, and it’s shocking.

Are you aware that before you were born, your destiny was written in your book?

Who wrote your destiny? Can you miss your destiny?

See, this is so important. Most of we spend our life on minutia, frivolous things that’s not going to matter. We don’t know what a week can bring. We don’t know what’s out there. But we need to be teachable. Father, is there anything you’d want to tell me? There’s one of our leaders in our city says this. Shock me now,

don’t shock me then. I think it’s very wise. The problem is, if you say that, you need to be open to be teachable, because most of us need some alignment, readjustment in alignment. I don’t go much to chiropractors. I’m not against them, but I don’t tend to. But I know that most of them will tell us, well, you’re out of alignment.

If they do, they usually tell you you’re out of alignment. You need some alignment adjustment. Well, spiritually, most of us need adjustment. We’re not there yet. We’re all needing help. The psalmist recorded our Father’s words. “I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Your eyes saw my unformed substance in your book were written in every one of them. The days were formed for me, yet as there was none of them.

How precious to me are your thoughts, O Elohim. How vast is the sum of them? If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you,” The psalmist says. There is a book written for me before I was ever put together in my mother’s womb, and it wrote my destiny. Question: Who missed their destiny?

Can you look in Scripture and know people, who you look at, figures who missed their destiny? And I tell you, these are going to look at you and me, and we should learn from them. How did they miss it? Why did they miss it? Lucifer missed his destiny. Do you know he was the most beautiful of all the angels. So beautiful, so gifted.

And this is what is recorded of him in Isaiah 14. “How are you fallen from heaven? Oh! Day Star”. He was called the Day Star. Son of the dawn. “How are you cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low. You said in your heart I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of Elohim, I will set my throne on high.

I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, and I will make myself like the Most High.” This is the most serious of sins, because you have, and you know, you set yourself above what the Father gives you. Now I warn you this because when He is actually bringing us into a place of revelation understanding.

But Lucifer chose his own way. He chose his own will. And what gets in our way is our mind, our will, and our emotion. I call that the soul realm. The Spirit isn’t leading. If the Spirit isn’t leading me, I’m in the soul realm and most people try to reason things out. You can’t reason out the ways of the Almighty.

He gives you things, you’ll always walk them by faith. Why did Judas Iscariot miss his destiny? He was called in the inner circle. He was one of the 12. He accepted the call, but he was double minded. You know, you have this, you have to really watch this in ourselves because we’re, when we, when we think this way, and then we think in this way, and then this way, and then this way.

You know why that is? Because you haven’t fixed on the Word and said, This is my Authority. You say, to mind, will an emotion, you will not make decisions, you will hear the Word and you will align with the Word. If the soul realm runs you, then you will be running around in circles. You know you get offended about something, and you spend all night thinking about it, running around, just around and around.

That’s the Spirit is not leading us. That’s when the soul realm is leading us. He was double minded. He gave, he was given to self-will, causing him to abandon his call. He chose self interest and gratification. And you know, at the end, what he said. He wanted to give it all back. He made a mistake, but it wasn’t in a form, evidently, of repentance, or he crossed a line.

You can cross a line. The greatest and highest calling you could ever get is to the Father, to open the word of truth to you, and to show you His ways. And you say, Father, I want to be aligned with You. I don’t care what tradition says. I don’t care what my denomination says.

I don’t care what the highest leader I respect. I want to know, is it in Your Word? It has to be in the Word. It has to come from the mouth of the Father or it’s not Truth. It can sound good. But that isn’t the issue, because our Father doesn’t think like we think. Judas failed to meditate and live.

Psalm 40:8-9 Psalm 40. This is a word of Messiah. This is what he said of his life. I delight to do your will. O Elohim, Your torah is within my heart. Your torah. What is Your Torah? Your teachings, Your instruction are in my heart. I love it. It will change your life. It will bring new life to you.

I told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation. That’s what I’m doing today. I am telling you, there is no substitute for knowing the Word of the Father to walking in it. No matter if you lose all your friends, you’ll be better off because you’ll be with Him and He’ll bring friends to you. Don’t let friends make your decisions for you.

You have a mind. You have a will. You have emotions. And if you say what you. If you say to Him what Moses said, Father, show me Your ways. I want to know You. And you mean that He’s going to show you, believe me.