The Promise of the Promised Land - God's Biblical Timeline - Prepare for Shavuot 2024

So many of us, we just came out of the feast of unleavened bread and Passover, where we cleansed our houses from the leaven, a picture of removing the bad teaching and the sin and the issues that we may have faced in the previous year from our lives. And this is reminiscent of how Israel came out of Egypt and they were in haste, leaving to the point where there wasn't time for their bread to rise. I just had unleavened bread to partake in. And so, yes, we, like Israel, have to leave Egypt in haste. However, we shouldn't find ourselves stuck in a wilderness, dying there before we make it to the promised land, because there is something in the promised land that God wants to give us this shavuot. Today, I want to first start out with just giving you a quick reminder of the feast days. So we have the feast of Passover. We have the feast of unleavened bread. We have then the feast of first fruits. And there is a count of 50 days, whereby which it is called the counting of the Omer, whereby we are supposed to count day 1234 up until 50, where we reach the feast of Shavuot, also known as Pentecost. And if you're watching this teaching at the time of its release, we are depending on the calendar you keep in the counting of the Omer right now on the way to Shavuot. And I want to give you a timely word today, because I believe that the father right now sees a lot of his people who have cleanse their houses the best way they know how, but they're really not fully equipped yet for what he wants to do. See, when Yeshua came to his disciples after his resurrection, he told them, go and wait in Jerusalem for something. And that's where we are on the biblical timeline right now, where he has ascended to his father. And now there is this period of waiting until we get to the next big feast of Pentecost. And so, like the disciples, let's listen to what Yeshua says. Acts one four. And while staying with them, he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the father, which he said, you heard from me, but John baptized with water, and you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. So, as Yeshua is giving them this commandment to wait in Jerusalem, the disciples know about the biblical feast. They've been keeping these and throughout their life. And now they're with Yeshua. They kept them. And now, after he's leaving, they are very aware that they are in the counting of the Omer right now leading up to the big feast of Shavud. And not only the disciples, but get this, all of Israel are aware that they are in the counting of the Omer, that they are literally, right now, all of Israel, they're counting down the days to this feast. And Yeshua tells the disciples, wait in Jerusalem, count down the days, because there's something I have for you. And of course, that is the new promise of this baptism of the Holy Spirit. But I want you to see something about this feast of Shavuot. Because whilst we just removed the leaven from our homes at the feast of unleavened bread, you know, leaven is bad. That's how we think of it. And get rid of the leaven, get rid of the sin. Now we get to the feast of Shavuot, and something really unexpected happens because God tells you as part of the feast of Shavuot is he wants you to make an offering of leaven. Like, you know, the stuff we all just removed from our homes. Now we get to the feast of Shavud, and God is like, okay, I want you to offer leaven. What's up with that? He says in Leviticus 20 316, you shall count 50 days to the day after the 7th Sabbath. Then you shall present a grain offering of new grain to the Lord. You shall bring from your dwelling places two loaves of bread to be waved, made of two tenths of an ephod. They shall be of fine flour, and they shall be baked with leaven as firstfruits to the Lord. Okay. So to figure out what this leaven is all about, we have to first see that it's specifically talking about two loaves of bread. Now, what is the bread? John 633. Yeshua says, the bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Considering it's two loaves of bread, we can also remember that Yeshua's life being that bread from heaven was also composed of two parts. Really? He said to the women at the well, I am calling worshippers of spirit and truth, because Jesus himself was the perfect worshiper of spirit and truth. Those are the two parts of him that we ought to have and be able to offer up ourselves. And spirit and truth is something that God gave us at the very feast that we are offering spirit and truth up to him. Two. It is at the feast of Shavuot. Because, remember, God came at the feast of Shavuot, as it is believed traditionally to give the commandments on Mount Sinai. On the feast of Shavuot. And on the feast of Shavuot, of course. Acts chapter two. The Holy Spirit is poured out at Mount Zion. And so now when we come to the feast of Shavuot, what God wants is to find us not empty handed, but with an offering of this leaven. These two loaves. The spirit and the truth. That which he gave us. That we now we have to have in our lives. That we have to become a living sacrifice ourselves. Offering up spirit and truth to him as a fragrance pleasing to our father. And that's why now you could start thinking about the leaven that Yeshua often spoke about. He said, beware the leaven. The Pharisees. All right. Matthew 1612. Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and the sadducees. We see that the disciples realized, Yeshua is not speaking about, like, literal leaven of bread. And that's what they need to be aware of. No, he's speaking about something very spiritual. The leaven of the Pharisees and the sadducees. Their teachings. What the Pharisees and the sadducees considered as being true. Their truth. Not what is true, but what they thought was true. And then he also said, beware of their spirit. John 844. You are of your father the devil. And your will is to do your father's desires. Some of those certain Pharisees who came against the MESsiah, he spoke to. And he said, your father is the devil. You have the devil's desires. And what is that which fuels our desires? It is our spirit that is within us. What we have to realize is there is a spirit that is of God. And there is a spirit that is of the devil that is of this world. OnE Corinthians 212. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit who is from God. That we may understand the things freely given us by God. So we have to realize that love in of itself can mean something that is evil. But it can also mean something that is good. It can mean the teachings of this world or the spirit of this world. Or it can mean the leaven that is from heaven, the bread that comes from heaven, which is YEShua, his spirit that comes from heaven. And his truth that comes from heaven. Now you're ready to see the story that you're a part of. See, at the feast of unleavened bread, we removed the leaven from our homes. That was the old leaven of this world that makes its way into our lives, the truths of this world which are really falsehoods. And the spirit of this world that seeks to come into our life that we remove at the feast of unleavened bread. That is why Paul said that we should get rid of the old leaven during the feast of unleavened bread. Let us celebrate the feast not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. But thereafter, when we come to the feast of Shavuot, we are about to receive the new leaven that from heaven itself, the truth of God and the spirit of God. That is what comes into our lives. And we become the one that carries the kingdom of heaven wherever we go. The presence of God. And that is why in Matthew 1333, he said. He told him a parable. The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour till it was all leavened. You are supposed to become fully leavened, not for this world, but with the new leaven of God. That is why, when Peter walked, his shadow healed people. That is why, when he spoke the gospel, repentance came forth. That is why, when Paul laid his hands on certain people, they received the Holy Spirit, because they were leavened for the kingdom of God. And what happens with leaven is whatever it touches that also then becomes leavened. And that can be a good thing if it's the kingdom of God that's within us. Do you want to walk like Peter? Do you want to walk like Paul? Do you want to walk like Yeshua and see the things that he has seen? And even greater things than these, as he has said. Then you have to get this. Israel could not wait for their bread to leaven. They had to leave Egypt in haste. But the disciples, on the other hand, were instructed by the messiah to wait in Jerusalem. This is a picture of the following. When Israel left Egypt in haste, what they did was they laughed. The teachings, the truths of Egypt, for the truth that God has for them, that which was to be given to them at Mount Sinai. And they received it with gladness and joy. However, there was something missing. The spirit of Egypt was still in Israel. That is why, even though they had the words of God in their mouths, their hearts were still in Egypt. They still were thinking back at the lemons and the leeks and everything that Egypt had for them. They missed Egypt while having the truth. And Moses even said, are you jealous? For my sake? I desire that all of Israel would be filled by the Holy Spirit. But God finishes what he started in the disciples. Think about it. They had just celebrated the feast of unleavened bread, whereby they were to remove the leaven from their lives. And that was done by Yeshua, who was crucified during the feast of unleavened bread just days prior. And now Yeshua, in his resurrected body, appears to them and says, it is finished. Go and wait in Jerusalem. Wait now in the promised land where I have brought you for the promise. It's not enough to just leave Egypt in haste. Many of us have done that. We have thrown out everything of Egypt we can find out of our homes. And yet, when we look at our lives and on our hearts and in our behaviors and our desires, and we look and we shake our head and we ask God, what is wrong with us? Lord, have I not removed all of the leaven? Have I? What else is there to do, God? Because I still find myself doing the things I don't want to do. My desires are contrary to you, God. Oh, God, save me. See, you can leave Egypt in as much haste as you want, but you need to go and wait in the promised land for the promise. Some of us have not even made it to the promised land yet because we're still hu and high in the wilderness. While God has said, I have opened the promised land to you, Yeshua is the promised land. Jesus is the land of promise. When you find him, you find the promise. Why is it called the promised land? Why? Come on. Come on. Why is it called the promised land? Because it is the land where the promise of God comes to indwell. The people of God. The Holy Spirit is the promise of the promised land. And the Holy Spirit was. It was given to us. Why? Why? At the time, it was. Why? Not long before. I mean, Israel was in the promised land long before. Why did the promise come at the time? It did because it needed the sacrifice of the Messiah. And that's why we keep unleavened bread every year. But we never see our desires change. We receive the truth and we get rid of untruths from our lives, but we struggle to get rid of the spirit of the world that's still in our lives. To receive the spirit of God. Finally, you see now that the wilderness, Egypt, everything that Israel went through, it was all to bring them to a moment, a promised land, so that they can, one day at the feast of Shavuot, receive the Holy Spirit so that they can finally be empowered, so that they can finally be the people God always called him to be. In fact, I want to share with you that it is actually extremely spiritually dangerous to keep the feast of unleavened bread, but not receive an indwelling. See, when you think about what Yeshua said about demons, he said in Matthew 1243, when the unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but it finds none. Then it says, I return to the house from which I came. And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits, more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there. And the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation. Why was that generation evil? Because whilst Yeshua died, for them to be made unleavened, many of them would reject the Holy Spirit yet again, just like their ancestors did in the wilderness. And so, when you reject the spirit, you are someone who may want to get rid of all of the demons in their lives, get rid of all of the old leaven of this world from their lives. But if we are not filled with the spirit, if this house just remains empty like your home, you've just removed the leaven from your house. But if that house just remains empty, the enemy is going to move right back in. But to truly keep the feast of unleavened bread is to fully keep it unto Shavuot, where the house is filled again with the Holy Spirit. But why am I even speaking about all of this? I mean, isn't it that the moment that you believe in Jesus, you receive the Holy Spirit? Yes, that is true. But there's something more that you need to understand. Jesus came to them and said, peace be to you. As the father has sent me, so I send you. And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, receive the Holy Spirit. All right, so Yeshua ascends. He's died for them. He says, I'm breathing the Holy Spirit now upon you. And everyone agrees with that, that when we believe in him and what he has done in the resurrection, he breathes his Holy spirit upon us. However, thereafter, he told him to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit. I mean, haven't they just received the Holy Spirit? He said, there's something more to wait for in the promised land. The fullness of that promise had not been received yet. Despite the fact that they believed in him, despite the fact that they put their trust in him, despite the fact that they walked with him, despite the fact that they breathed on them. There was still something more to wait for, for us to figure out what that is. I want to just caution you. In the scriptures, Paul and Luke uses baptism of the Holy Spirit and filled with the Holy Spirit interchangeably. We can't make doctrinal determinations based off simple terminology used, because these words really mean the same thing. However, there is an initial infilling of the Holy Spirit and clearly something more that they waited for in Jerusalem. And I think it is quite clear what they were waiting for in Jerusalem. There is an initial infilling of the Holy Spirit upon our conversion, upon our faith in Christ, that Holy Spirit who comforts us and who is with us all the days of our life. However, when we look at what happened after Shavuot, we see what that fullness of the Holy Spirit was. We first see that there was a supernatural power that came upon them to empower them specifically to be a witness. Acts one eight. But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. We see that this power described by our messiah, was giving them a supernatural boldness to go into the world and proclaim the gospel. And it also gave them spiritual gifts, powerful gifts that allow them to demonstrate that they were sent of Yeshua. They prophesied, they spoke in tongues. They had gifts of healing, they had gifts of miracles. They had many amazing things follow their life. And then we also saw there was an overflow of joy coming from everyone who received this fullness of the Holy Spirit. There was freedom from besetting sins. We see that people like in acts chapter two, they were pierced in their hearts by the words spoken through Peter by the Holy Spirit. And they were set free of their sins in their baptisms. And then, last but not least, the scriptures tell us of prophetic signs. And in the last days, it will be, God declares, I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh, and your sons and daughters will prophesy. Young men see visions, and old men dream dreams. These are some of the signs of the fullness of the Holy Spirit that God can give us. And my question to you is, have you truly waited in Jerusalem for this holy spirit? Because as I speak on the timeline right now, we are in a time where you can be in this place of seeking and waiting on the Lord for his holy spirit. You can say, lord, I want you to fill me. I want you to fill my family. I want the fullness of your spirit in my life. I want to see dreams and visions and prophecies and miracles go forth from my life so that I can be a witness of you and so that I can be bold for you. So if this is you, if the father is speaking to your heart and pricking and piercing your heart right now, to be filled with the fullness of his spirit, the same spirit that raised Yeshua from the dead. The same spirit that filled those disciples and everyone present in acts chapter two on Shavuot. Then I would like you to lift up your arms to heaven and ask the father to come and do in your life what he has done and those who have come before you. For he is still in the business. And he still, oh, so desires to pour out the fullness of his spirit upon your home, your family, your temple. And father, I thank you, Lord, that you have allowed us to receive this not by our own works, not by what we have done, not by our law keeping, as Paul said. Have you received the spirit by works of the law? No, father. I thank you that we receive your spirit. Because despite our inadequacies, but because of your sacrifice. Yeshua. Yeshua, your blood was spilled for us. And you made us worthy to receive your spirit. I thank you that you cleanse us truly. And that which you declare clean is clean indeed. White as snow. Yeshua, I thank you that all shame and guilt and condemnation is put away far from us as we near your Holy Spirit. Because we can do so in confidence of the cross. Yeshua. We repent of our sins. We repent of the old leaven that we have partaken in. And we thank you for the new leaven of heaven, the bread of heaven, the bread of life that is you. Thank you that we can partake in you and receive the two loves. Your spirit and your truth. And so, holy spirit, come upon your people. I pray that you would fill them fully. I pray that you would baptize them. Lord, I pray that the prophecies of old and new would spring forth from their mouths. Father, I pray that they would speak in tongues. Father, I pray that they would become a people. Where. Where their hands go, there is freedom and healing and deliverance. That the demons would flee, Father. That the demons would flee not only our vessels, but they would flee the vessels of everyone we get near. That when we come into a place that every demon would know us, like they said. Paul, I know they would know us not because of who we are, but because of who you are. Who lives in us. Yeshua, I thank you, Holy Spirit, that you now, in this time, raise up warriors for you. That you are no longer just calling a people that leave Egypt in haste, but you call the people that wait in Jerusalem patiently until they receive it. Father, I thank you that you have never left us, never forsaken us. And that from the beginning, from Genesis, your goal was to give us your spirit. And I thank you that you have accomplished it in us this day. Yeshua. I pray, Father, that you and your children would come and put your mouthpiece and then that they would become proclaimers of you to the ends of the earth, becoming your witness. Father, I thank you. I praise you. I glorify you. I worship you. You are holy, holy, holy as the Lord God almighty, who was, who is and who is to come. There is no one. There is no one beside you. And Lord, help us to. Oh, I just feel the Lord is saying, love one another as I have loved you. Lord, help us to be in unity. Yeshua. Help us us to be like the acts to people in the room who, as it's written, they were in one mind. And then you poured out your spirit. Help us to be in one mind. Help us, lord. I pray, Lord, right now, that this would be a day that would literally change the trajectory of your body. They would be filled. And that the world would now start seeing something greater. Like was seen in the early church where our people, they just left everything. For the sake of the resurrected king, Yeshua. That is only possible if your spirit makes us the witnesses of power that your spirit causes wherever it goes. We praise you and we glorify you name, Yeshua. Amen. Thank you for joining me. 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