BL 0-1 THE THREE HARVEST FEASTS ; Exodus 2dle93 lev. 23 I August 27, 1959 The Passover and Wave~Sheaf Ceremony To show: 1. The “tare feasts are typical of the great soul harvest of Hatt. 135 Zech. ih; Rev. 22:17, 2, The ll,000 are the Lirst increment of the harvest. 3, These feasts should be observed today: a. PASSOVER Feast with Wave-sheaf Corenony. (The Bride, oly clip eniselens Tae OG; Wer Thee, Revs 19675 GC, 126-7 ) b, PENTECOST Feast with Wave- loaf Ceremony. ( 1h),,000 First increnent. Rev. thet aa c. Feast of TABERNACLES (second Fruit Harvest Zech, 1: 16-19) Gem "As the WAVE-SHEAF and the wave-loaves are typical, then also the Feast of Thought: Tabemacies must be typical." 31r 61:2 "@ close study of the type is the only possible way to clear the truth..." 2SR266:5 "Thus, through patriarchs and prophets, as well as through TYPES and SYMBOLS, God spoke to the world concerning the Coming of a Deliverer from sin." P.K. 697 "Christ was the foundation of the Jewish economy, THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF TYPES AND SYMBOLS WAS A COMPACTED PROPHECY OF THE GOSPEL, @ presentation in which were bound up the promises of redemption." A.A. lbs) Introduction: True children of God will have an eamest desire to put away sin, all preconceived ideas and prejudices with an wnction by the Holy Spirit to do @11 God has commanded. They will be seeking for Truth as for hidden treasure, accepting Christ's Righteousness (His Truth) in place of their own righteousness which is but filthy rags. Study Isa. li:1 ‘They will likewise hear the Lord when He says "And I vill put ny spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my juignents and do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people and I will be your Sa eee "Remenber ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, , with the statutes and judguents." Nai. lil Myhen this gospel shall be presented in its fuliness to the Jews, many will accept Christ as the Hessiah...As the O14 Testament Scriptures ére blended with the New in an explanation of Jehovah's eternal purpose, this will be to many of the Jews as the dawn of a new creation, the resurrection of the soul...their sluabering faculties will be aroused, and they will recog nize Christ as the Saviour of the world." A.A, 380-1 Inspiration declares: 1. The Lord will be our God when His Spirit causes us to walk in His statutes and keep His judgments. 2. Then His people will possess the land that He gave to their fathers. luhen we keep che commandments He gave to Moses “with the statutes and judguents", blending then with the New Testa- Hat aarp of the Weve will accept christ a0 the Mesaiah, Conciusively, Brethren, the feasts are to be ‘statutes forever throughout your generations." lev. 23:1h,21. “wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and Keep my judgments, and do then; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety." Lev. 25:16 "Your obeying tall the conmandnents, and the statutes, end the judgnents' of the moral law of Moses, you see, is your evidence that you have been born again,..." 27G 37-2h:3Ee * ten ‘The Feasts = No.T Page 2 Yes, when we present the gospel in its fullness, blending the Old Testament Scriptures with the New, many Jews will be able to "recognize Christ es the Saviour of the world. Adding the keeping of the feasts to the Thini Angel's Message according to the Old Testament , hamiony with the New Testament 1s what Gonstitates the gospe! in its fullness. This "addition" of the feast observance truth is brought by the angel (message) that joins the Third Angel's Message in 2 message to be given to the world. (T.M. 300; E,W. 277) This is,in fact, the Judgnent of the Living - the Righteousness of Christ. Therefore, "Three times thot shalt keep a feast unto me in the year." Bx, 231th 1. "Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread." (PASSOVER) Id. 23:15; P.P. 277 2, TAnd the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy isbors, which thou hast sown in the field." (PENTECOST) Id. 23:16 first part 3. ".,.and the feast of ingathering, vhich is in the end of the of the year. TABERWACLES) Id. 23:16, last part. (FEAST OF "AS a means of education, an important place was filled by the feasts of Isreel....three times @ year seasons were appointed for social intercourse and worship." Education h. Reason for the feasts PART ONE The Passover feast and Wave - Sheaf Ceremony I, The Passover Feasts "In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the Lord's Passover. And on the fifteenth day of the sane month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat mleavened bread." Lev. 23:5,6 " The Passover was to be both commemorative and typical, not only pointing back to the deliverence f2on Sqypt, Leb TOMER i He GTS deliverence which Christ wes to accomplish in freeing his people from the bondage of sin." P.P. 277 Note: "..,the lon?ts Supper was instituted as a memorial of the same event of which the Passover had been a_type." P.P, 539:3 "In observance of the Passover, the Lond commanded Israel to celebrate that occasion seven days. (See lev. 23:5-8). Surely no one would say that God commanded His people to connenorate that event seven days with no object in view. Israel after the flesh going into Egypt, then out of Egypt to Mount Sinai, the Passover in Egypt on the night when the death angel suote the first born of men end beast at the departure of Israel, are TYPES of the church at the present time == the church going out of Egypt - world- liness, the purification of the church, the separetion of the tares from the wheat -- the fulfilment of Ezekiel 9." 2SR 216:3 "I an, however, certain that God will not keep us ignorant of the things we ought to know. If it becones necessary for us to Inow shead of tine the day and hour of the purification of the church, the antitypical Passover, we will be told. 27G hi-3s3 (Send for literarure explaining the time of antitypicel Pessover) "The Lozdfs Supper vas ordained in remembrance of the Lord's sacrifice, not to cleanse the partakers of it fron their sins but to cleanse then from sinners, as is seen fron the Passover in Egypt end fron the fact that thereafter Judas no longer walked with the disciples. Plainly, then, the celebration of the omlinance brought blessing to the eleven, but damnation to the one." 11Gr i-3sh "Furthermore, no one seens to Inow when end how to observe the sacrament. Some observe it evexy Sundey or every Sabbath, soue occasionally, sone every quarter and so on. It seems logical to sey that then God commands us to observe it anew He will tell us also how and when to observe it properly." 17Gr 3-6:2 ae " The message, moreover, teaches that ve should zemain in the mother church and work strictly for her salvation. The conclusion then is that as long as we stay with her there seeus to be no need for emiaining the lonits Suppel PFEGUSTY tiene SureeTVes, erhaps not before the hour comes for the penitent to be separated from the impenitent, EAGRGRE By the THES — by Eke PSOE Te Fags ae oy he PRSCOUEN on the RIGHT Sion Judas was to go out, never again to valk with the trelve." 1TGr 36:1 SUMMARY: In the foregoing statenents we plainly see: 1. Passover is commemorative, pointing back to ancient Israel's deliverance frommee Il. ‘The Feasts- No, I Page 3 Egypt: also typical, pointing fonard to @ greater deliverance when Christ (THE BRANCH) frees HIS people from sin and sinners. 2, The Lordts Supper was instituted es entitypical Passover, to be observed once a year at Passover tine. Mote: A seven-day affair: religious, social, and educational (the same as in the type except for the sacrifice of the Lamb. Lev. 23:5-8). Observed at the going dow of the sum on the fourteenth day of the first month Abib, the first and severth days are holy with 2 total of three holy days including the weekly Sabtath which cane between the first and seventh days. 3, Passover in Egypt and the suiting of the first born is typical of the church at the resent tine: going out of Eayst - worldliness, purification, separation of the "Bie fPor the wheat, Ezek. 9 sieying. 1, Passover not designed to cleanse sinners of their sins, but sinners from anong His people, I.e. Judas no longer vaiked with the twelve. 5. God through Inspiration will reveel the time of the antitypical Passover. 6. Logical to say, when God commands us to observe Passover anew, He will tell us how and when to observe it properly. The Wave-Sheaf Ceremony (Read Lev. = 12) "The Wave-Sheaf, Wave=Loaves, and the Feast of Tebernacles. Iilustrating our salvation in completeness, the harvest rites of the cerenonial system must therefore corroborate Both the testinenies of the prophets ad the parables conce:ing the harvest, for all are inextricably bound up together. The ceremonies of the first and second fruits of grain must accordingly unfold the teuth Concerning the first and second fruits of hunant ir “Here we see commanded the observance of three harvest rite (1). .the...waveesheaf, at the beginning of the first harvest; (2)..the...weverioaves, at the Close of the first harvest; (3). the feast of tabernacles, at the close of the second harvest." Td. 76:1 "Being of cut stalks of grain, the wavensheaf siified fruits to be harvested. snd as the sheaf vas to be offered before the sickle was put to the grain end gathered inte sheaves, it obviously pointed forward to a spiritual harvest of first fruits to be gathered." 18. 76: "Barley was the earliest grain in Palestine, and at the opening of the feast it vas be~ ginning to ripen. A sheaf of this grain yas waved by the priest before the altar of Ged, as an acknowledgment that all was his. Net wntil this ceremony had been perfomed was the harvest to be gathered." P,P, 539: SUDUR ‘The clear-cut facts are: 1, The first and second fruits of grein unfold the first and second fruits of humanity. 2, Three harvest rites with weve-sheaf offered at beginning of finst fruit harvest which signified fruits to be gathered. 3. Conclusively, then, since the wave-sheaf is berley, the first ripe grain, first aorta (Ex, 23:19), and is offered at Passover which is at the beginning of the harvest of the first fruits; and since these harvest rites are a Figure of soul harvests; and also since those thet arose with Christ became @ ‘Typical Tiving wave-shea! presented as trophies before the Father in heaven Cr :2)3 we conciuce that since the nediatorlal-judictal throne of Eeckiel 1 extends to the earthly sanctuary (church) (31rl6-li7) there must be an antitypical living vaversheaf offered before God's traveling throne on earth at that tine — UFassover). Special Wo! ‘The church is juiced (names investigated in the books in heaven, 3Tr50=51; 5:1; 2G h2n31;2; BAB 30:1) in tke Uwe of the sixth seal (17Gr 5-11:1), the tine in which the 1hl,000’are sealed (2S 165:2) . Since the 1ll,000 first fruits are judged (counted) in the time of the seventh s (2SR 220: 1,2) all that the Lord could possibly hav: ,000 (Judging, inspecting the "wedding Fthe 11,000 wave~ loaves.‘The Feasts—No. I Page L ri. ‘Therefore "...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find (little:wavesheaf) faith on the garth?" Luke 18:8 PP rirecrecrcateaae eae vho is the vave-Sheaf of the Living in our dey?: ANSWER: ",,.it (D.S.D.A, Assn.) purports itself to be the first of the first fruits the liv- ing, the vanguard... With the emergence of this venguerd and its army, the first fruits, from which are elected the 12,000 out of each of the tuelve tribes of Jacob, ' the ‘Uy},000'...who stand on Mount Zion with the Lamk...the reign of antitypical David begins." Leviticus of D.S.D.A, Note Carefully: 1. The Davidian Assn. is the first of the first fruits - yavecsheef, vanguard, NOT wave-loaves - 1s,000,army. | VANGUARD: That which preceeds the amy, 2, Waveesheef -vanguard- is offered at beginning of the first fruit harvest at Passover tine. 3. Wave-loaves -army» inl,000 is offered at eng of the first fruit harvest at Pentecost. A, With the offering of the wave~sheaf and the vave-loaves antitypical David's reign begins. (David is anointed prior to his reign. Isa. 10:27) ho is to inform the Davidien Vave-sheaf of the tine of her ceremonial offering, that she nay ready herself for that event -"beginning of harvest!” Mot wmtit thie corenony (offering of barley ~ vave-sheat) had been perfomed vas the harvest. e_gathered.™ P.P, 539: hy "Lam, however, certain that God will not seep us imorent of the things we ought to imov. If it becomes necessary for us to Tow aheed of time the day and hour of the purification of the church, the antitypicel PASSOVER, we will be told." 27G hie3:3 God_declere: 1, No harvest of 1):,000 ~ waverloaves, army - without first a ‘Syave-sheef ottering. 2, God will, when necessary, make imown the time of the wave-sheaf offering, TRE GHLITGBIN, Passover, so. that the vave-sheat may prepare; for "Sarely the Lord God will do nothing, but he Fevealeth his secret mto his servants the prophets." Amos 3:7 “Here is the Bibiets own answer, which says that there is to be a people who will have the Testimony of Jesus Christ at the time the earth swallows up the flood (Passover, going cut of Egypt), the hypocrites. and since this incident Ts yet future, it shows that there is to be @ prophet in the Church... 27Gu 2le23:1 ™,,.God has given his church eyes which he requires them to anoint with wisdom, that they may see clearly; but would put out the eyes (seers, prophets 17Gr 5-18:1) of the church if they could; for they Wuld Ret HAVE oir eose cone to the Light, lest they ‘Showld be reproved.” Lt 6 '+sworshipping the dead, a form of Shintoisn.(spiritualism) worshipping the dead prophets and killing the living ones, is a brutal effort to block the progress of Truth to deceive self end others." 27Gr 26-2331 So you see, Brothers end Sisters, by "killing the prophets", by "outting out the eyes of the church", you deprive yourself of the Living Spirit of Prophecy ~ the eyes of God in our midst. Without God's "prophet-eye" to inforn His people of the Passover there would be none, for God does nothing but He reveals the event to His servants the prophets. Without the Pass over there would be no entitypical waveesheaf offered and consequently no opening of the earth's mouth (Rev. 12:16), nor harvess of the first fruits (Rev. iks1-5), nor Pentecost, nor harvest of second fruits (Rev, 7:9; Ise. 40:3), nor Feast of Tabernacles, nor even a necessity for the second coming of Jesus to receive the living saints. What nonsense! Resist those who conmit the erine of prophet-nurver: for such, there will be no deliverance fron antitypical Egypt ~ sin (Isa, 11:16) for "...by a prophet the Lord brought YSimel out of Egypt anc by a prophet was he preserved." Hosea 12:13 Therefore, Inspiration (The BRANCH) COMMANDS THE DISTITUTION OF THE LORDIS SUPPER ATThe Feasts—Mo. 1 Fage 5 PASSOVER (statute forever Lev. 23:1), after which begins the first fruit harvest, gathered tone by one? Isa, 27:12." ME SAT "Those who Keep God's solenn tfeastst and perform their vows shall have...peace. None others shall.” 276 G2-Li:2 . Since Davidians are the antitypical teve-Sheat, we must check to see if we are & Mlaodi= cean or Davidian - Which?" iTGr 8 ",..ange2 of Inodicea? - He is lukewam... The Lotd recommends that he be either cold ot hot,-unconforteble, in search of something better rather than stay lukewam... increased with goods (with Truth).-parenihesis theirs~ Not Imoving that he is spiritually poor (etc.)...If the Lord's oun warning fails to change his mind, then the only thing left for the Lori to do is to spue hin out of His mouth,,.He thus deceives hinself that he has _the whole truth to carry him right through the Pearly Gates, that he needs nothing more... theiz so-called increase Is not an incréase of Truth, but worthless, uninspired Faterretations not tried in the Fire The ange! of laodices 1s natel tor He Ras not ‘The vedfing gement on + He has Hot the righteousness of Christ." 17GP 617,18 "You, yourself, can now enswer the question as to whether you are a Davidian or still a lnolitean. Tf you are satisfied with yourself, with your spiritual attainnents, with your banenade program; if you think that the Lord is speaking to you by whatever happens to ToIleH? Is pol kinds 3¢ you thine you have all the ‘Truth, and that you have need of nothing more; if you think that everyone utc does not have your stanp of approval on his belief, is a faise prophet; and if you are in fear that someone is everlastingly trying to deceive you because he teaches Something new; if you never give it a thought that you nay be slanming your door against a Truth-tearer who may be bringing to you the Lord's teyesalvet, and the twedding gamentt - if you do all these or any part of then, then you must be as good & Inodicean as you can possibly be, not a Davidian. ",..4¢ you are all for God and not at all for self or for the world, then, of course, you either are, of are beginning to be, a Davidian...then keep advancing in the light, and for certain you shail finally stand on Me. Zion With the abet Tee Bee "Provisional in set-up as well as in name, the Davidian Seventh-day Adventist Association cxista solely to ecdapitnh a divinely appointed wor! yithin the Seventh-day Adventist Genomination, wherein it therefons strictly confinse ite activities. Ae its work there- within arene’ to a loses-and Wie ervanteol our Goa Toate oes ‘Sealed, its name will be ghanged." Leviticus of D.S.D.A, Preface "who is to bring this revival and reformation, this great change? The BRANCH." 17Gr8=2li:3 "Since, as has already been pointed out, Christ (*Inmanuel!) did not live in the time of such a confederacy, it must be that not only Israel, Syria, and Assyria are types, buv Christ Himself is aiso a type. We leamed that Immanuel (meaning, 'God with ust) could Tepresént only is Pacers lowers, the bomragain Christians." 12 S.Code 1:5,6 (For a couplete explanation of this statement read Branch 'Confederacy of $a. 7881 No.1) Gong iuston : Since Inmanue! means Christ, "God with us", and The BRANCH is Christ, and since Christ + is 2 types therefore, The Branch message is the antitype of Christ's message. Now since Carist was a Eavidian (Natt. 22:12) and The Branch believers are Davidians, they are therefore the antitypical Inmanuels (Isa. 7: 1k). Furthermore, since Christ the Davidian (P.P. 539:)) and those Davidians He took to heaven with Hin as trophies of His victory iver death, beceme the living wave-sheaf, TYPE (3Tr 79:2), it is plain to see that The Branch believers are the only 100% Davidians (Ifr6-28:1) and the antitypical first of the first fruits -barley, wave-sheat, vanguaci- (Leviticus, 3:2) who are to be offered before Godis traveling 3 oe one (Ezek. 1) on earth at Passover Tine. Says the prophet: "Saviours (Branches) shall cone ugon the mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau." Obadiah 21 "I Alt the true vine, and my Father is the husbandnen. Every breach in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that Tt may Enlng Zorth Goie PROTe ow ye ase CLinN through the WORD which I have spoken unto you, John’ 15: 1-3 Since 211 are Branches, be a real Branch by accepting the message of His new nane - and be cleansed. By obedience to the Truth we are made whole = cleansed.‘The Feasts - No. 1 Page 6 "The thought that the righteousness of Christ is imparted to us, not because of any merit on our part, but as 2 free gift fron God, is a precious thought. The enemy of God and man is not willing that this truth should be clearly presented; for he Imows that if the people receive it fully, his power will be broken." GW. 161 ",.,saith the lord, that I wili raise to David a righteous Branch, and...shall execute jwigment and justice in the earth (seat o° twoshomed beast)...and this is his nae Branch) whereby HE shall Be Called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS." Jer, 23:55 "Tf the church (wave=loaves) will put on the robe of Christ's righteousness (The Branch message), withdrawing fron a11 allegiance fron the world there is before her the dain of @ bright and glorious day." A.A. 601:1 "Those who keep God!s solemn tfeasts! and pezfom their vows shall have...peace. None others shall." 27G l2-h1:2 Notice especially GC.399s1 +Read G.C, 16ij185 Let the command now go forth: ‘THE BRANCH INSTITUTES THE LORD'S SUPPER AT PASSOVER TIME § WAVE-SHEAF IS OFFERED ¢ "GET READY! (BDSDA) GET READY!(DSOA) GET READY! (SDA),..." EW. 11922 SUMMARY OF LESSON "The subject of the sanctuary and the investigative Judgment should be clearly understood by the people of God. All need a Imowledge for thenseives of the position ant work of their great High Priest. Otherwise it will be impossible for them to exarcise the faith which is essential at this time or to ocowy eee position which God designs then to (age GeehO Beate aaeeeeaeet DAVIDIANS, AT THIS POINT, SHOULD CLEARLY UNIERSTAND THAT: ‘The ceremonies of the harvest typify redeened humanitys.sssseeeee 31r 76 The wave-sheaf rite proceeds the harvestS..c.sseeeceseensececcreceneeeeensPPoS39zh ‘The wave-sheaf in Christ's day typifies one in oUF dayssssseeveoe 2372 19,81-3 The wave-sheaf of today are the Davidian S.UA.'S.cccsesceceseees lev. DSDA 3 ight... taeee 37G28;28:2 ‘The true Davidians aie "advancing in the The Tdvencing light" is The Branch: Rod-‘atver fain, ceased The true wave-sheaf, then, are Branch Davidians. Teeeess ‘The wave-sheaf is offered to God at Passover tine.. eiaees The time of Passover is revealed to Elijab.... {5060S 12-1353 ‘The Elijeh is "in the church" at Passover - Ezek 9, slaying...... ‘The Elijah declares, "keep the feast", “have peacel....... The wevershea? "keep THE TSESET, BFE peacefutty Meazo-iree.. Rev. Li S.Code ts Ub 21,2 2 2TGu 2he23: I, In keeping with the ebove summarized points of saving Truth, may God help each Davidian to understand the wave-sheaf truth so that he fail not ".,.to occupy the position which God designs them to fi1i." Brothers, Sisters, Youth, and Children: God wants you to “have peace", to be “tare-freet™ and thus, trouble free - Jesus? WAVE-SHEA? OFFERING before the great throne of Omipotence. Note: Enphases & Parentheses in quotations Yours to be @ LIVING Waye~Sheaf, ours unless otherwise indicated. Sen gerne” Sehjaria Roden ANINOUNCEMEWTS: Blowing of trumpets - Oct, 2,1959, at even, a Sabbath, no servile work. Lev. 23:2h,25 Atonement ~ Oct. il, 1959, at even, a Sabbath, no servile work, sanctify a fast, Lev. 23127-32 Ina recent visit to Ht. Camel and en inspection of the Revised manuscript in longhand which Se, Houtefi says Bro. Houteff finished before his death, the writing appears the sane as pub- lished in 21Gr 2lm23, zh 1956 reprint, Therefore, we should not say it is minspired. However, from weight of evidence in Bro, Houteff's writings thet show a prophet ~ the living Spirit of Prophecy at work before Ezek. 9,even referring to his work, we must concluie that the true understanding of the reference in question does not mean vhat the eneny of Truth would imply, in order to refute the existance of the living Spirit of Prophecy, now, since the death of VIR. The true understanding of the statement in the 1956 reprint shows "that the church as a whole”, are not led by the living Spirit of Prophecy, before the earth opens her mouth, "but as indi viduals" only, The rement that is left after the earth opens her mouth to swallow up the " 'flood' (private interpreters of the Scriptures and their sympathizers who are about to sweep her away)" will have the living Spirit of Prophecy in their midst. It is brought to then by a man, antitypical Elijah (7M)75) who comes just before the great and dreadful day of the Lom - before the earth mens her nonth aa