Mark 14: 1-9

(Mark 14: 1-9) After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head. And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made? For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her. And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me. For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.  Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world, this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of her.

 

You must have a good understanding of the feast day because Jesus' first Coming and Second Coming are deeply related to this feast day. When traveling, the Apostle Paul did not move in view of the solar calendar or calendar dates, but rather through the seasons of Israel. The 20th chapter of the book of Acts is three years older than the 18th chapter. (Matthew 26: 1-5)『And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days. 』(Matthew 26: 1-5)『For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost. 』(Matthew 26: 16)

So, what day is the feast that the apostle Paul said to the Jews in Ephesus three years ago, "I must keep the feast coming from Jerusalem"? It is not said in the Bible, but it is presumed to be a feast of tabernacles, since the feast of tabernacles was said to be the great feast.(Matthew 26: 1-5)

The main feasts of Israel are Passover, (Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of the first fruit), Pentecost, Trumpet, (Feast of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles). The Passover, Pentecost, and Trumpets are kept as important seasons. For Passover, in Leviticus 23: 4-8『These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. 』

The day of exodus is January 14th by the lunar calendar. A week later, after crossing the Red Sea, Jesus died on the cross that day. Passover is the day of the death of the Son of God. In Leviticus 23: 15-16『And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:  Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. 』

This day is Pentecost. The day Jesus was resurrected was two days after the Sabbath. Easter is called the feast first Fruit. It means harvesting the first fruit. On the day of Jesus' resurrection, an earthquake occurred, the tomb was opened, and from that night on the 49th (Seventh-day Sabbath) to the next day (the 50th day), a new offering (new bread) was offered. This is Pentecost. Pentecost is not a sacrifice with blood, but a day of offering bread. The priest offered the rice cake first, and then another offering.

On Pentecost, after the priest shook Sacrifice. In Leviticus 23:17, 『Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. The Ephesians says this is what unites the Gentiles and the Jews. Two loaves of bread means that the Holy Spirit will come on the day of Pentecost, and the Gentiles will return to the Lord. Giving the offering after shaking it means resurrection.

In Acts 2, God's power came precisely. The Old Testament is a type and shadow of the New Testament. The day of Pentecost was the day Moses received the tablets of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. On that day, God expressed that he gave a ring of weak hands. The tablet of the covenant is that it is a marriage promise. The Spirit of God (the Holy Spirit) was poured out that day.

Like this, four months after the spring season, Leviticus 23:24 speaks of the trumpet.『Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. 』 From that time on, the Jewish calendar began. January of the lunar calendar became the month of the Passover. In the lunar calendar, July was solar calendar September 1. Jews go to the synagogue in formal attire. So, from the evening of September 29 until the day of October 1 dawns, it is a trumpet. God said to blow the trumpet on this day. The Passover and Pentecost were fulfilled in the New Testament, but the Trumpet was not yet fulfilled. The Bible says to make this a new year again.

The Bible said to make the first month of the 14th lunar month the Exodus. It is said to be the first month of religious power. By the way, the Jewish people have a calendar based on the (People's calendar) Trumpet Day.

In 1 Thessalonians 1: 9-10『For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;  And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 』 It is about waiting for the Lord's return. 1 Thessalonians is the seventh epistle, which refers to the rapture. In 1 Thessalonians 4: 14-17『For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 』

The Lord descends, and those who are raptured receive the Lord. Now Jesus Christ is at the right hand of God. When the Lord descends, He descends with the trumpet of God. This will be Yom Kippur's Day of Atonement 10 days after the Trumpet Festival in July. 8 days from July 15 is the Feast of Tabernacles. All this corresponds to the trumpet season. In Matthew 24: 30-31『And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.  And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. 』 Jesus died on the Passover day, resurrected on the feast fruit, and the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost. The Lord will come between July 1st, when the trumpet begins, and July 15th (Feast of Tabernacles), the last trumpet. Passover painted the blood of the Lamb on the gate, received two stone tablets at Mount Sinai on the day of Pentecost, and Sukkot was the season the people entered and kept in Canaan. Sukkot is God's own feast.

The story from the Trumpet to the Feast of Tabernacles is the story of the Son of God. However, the trumpet is the sound of the trumpet of God. In Exodus 19: 16-19『And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.  And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.  And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. 』

God descended directly from Mount Sinai. Similarly, it will be the same when the Lord returns in the New Testament. When God came, the sky was all over fire. In Deuteronomy 5: 23-24『And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 』 Deuteronomy is the story of the 40th year in the wilderness.

 Jesus said many times that he would die and be resurrected in three days. None of the disciples listened to this statement. But the only thing was, when Jesus was in Simon's house, a leper of Bethany, a woman was aware of Jesus' death. Jesus said:『For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial. Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her. 』(12-13) As such, Jesus' death on the cross was important. Jesus' death on the cross is a ransom to save all mankind.

In order for Jesus' death to be my death, I have to be nailed with Jesus. In Romans 6: 3-4『Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 』

Those who do not realize this are bound under the law of Galatians 3:23. These are old man before faith came from God. Through the law, when we realize that we cannot escape without being the Christ of the cross, we can be united with his death. The reason for this is as follows:『But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 』(3:22) When you read the Bible and realize, "I am trapped under sin," you are led to Jesus Christ.

Everyone is captured by Satan Because God has imprisoned all people under sin and, like Job, has been captured by Satan. What is captured, its instrument is the law. It is like a net, so it cannot be pulled out. It's a contradiction to say I'm free, being trapped in the net. When you realize that you are trapped, you discover that the only way to release the net is the cross.『Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 』(3:24) Through faith that is associated with the death of the cross, we are justified by coming out of the law.

Faith associated with Jesus' death on the cross is the only way of salvation. This is baptism. Baptism is an expression of denying oneself and carrying his cross and following Jesus. If you say more than that, you dilute the meaning of baptism. Many church problems today focus on the results of baptism rather than the meaning of baptism. So, instead of carrying his cross every day, he believes that he is a heavenly people by sinning every day. Those who do not bear their crosses do not become the people of heaven. Even if humans believe and think for themselves, it is in God's hands. God knows everything. God knows if you really live a life of repentance and self-denial.

Many church people today turn to God for "everything that is sanctifying from repentance." Their thought is that "repentance must also be helped by God, otherwise it cannot be repented." God makes us realize through the cross that "all humans have been imprisoned under sin." However, it is a man's job to realize that he is locked in sin. Faith associated with the death of the cross is a gift from God, but it is only in the parable of the sower that we realize that we are bound in sin. The only thing humans can do is to realize that "we are dead in darkness." When the death of the cross approaches my death, I know that the hand of God's grace is coming.

We cannot go to the cross until we realize that we are "dead in transgression and sin." "The not-to-be-dead" is a sin to God. The cross is where God confirms that you are dead. God will say, "You are dead with my Son Jesus, and now you can come into my kingdom because of Jesus' name."

Those who do not come to the cross become alive to sin. Eventually, they become sinners until the judge. Only the dead can enter the kingdom of God. It is repentance that becomes the dead. It is turning to God. God gave the law to realize and turn it back. However, there are still many people who think legally and think that if they keep the law, they will be saved.

The fruit of repentance is death. Only when the old man dies will the fruit of repentance be born. People ask for the blood of Jesus to be forgiven of worldly sins without repentance, but that doesn't happen. The covenant of blood is made through the death of an old man. Confessing, "I believe in Jesus," does not mean that the blood covenant Jesus made was fulfilled. The covenant of blood is fulfilled only by those who are united with Jesus' death and those who have died of sin. In Romans 6: 2『God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein? 』 If you live in sin while saying that you were baptized, you have never repented. It should not be a formal baptismal process, but a dead person coming from the heart.

This is the heart circumcision. The attitude of a baptized person's life is to be a person who fights evil, not a person who washes sin every day. Jesus went to God as a priest, carrying all the sins of the world in the past, present, and future at once for the repentant and the dead who died together on the cross. But what do you do when you say, "Take my sins back" every day? It is a sin to not believe what Jesus said.