There is a room full of these things. On a table
there is a shofar, a ram’s horn; on another, a brass laver for washing, on
another, fruit; and on another, three large scrolls.
The theme of this room is the fall feasts.
The sacred Hebrew year has two cycles or clusters of
Holy days, the spring cycle and the autumn cycle. In each cycle, the holidays
are joined together not only in their timing but in their themes.
The Spring cycle theme is: the beginning, salvation,
freedom, rebirth, new life, Passover, and the Lamb.
The Autumn cycle is the end. It is the end of the
harvest, the return, the sounding of the trumpets (Rev 8-11) and the Bowl
Judgments (Rev 14-16) and Armageddon (16/19) on the Day of Atonement, the
regathering, the repentance, man and God face-to-face, the judgment, the
redemption, the kingdom of God, and all things returning to Him…. the closing.
The Spring cycle reminds us of His first coming and
that the Messiah is the Lamb and the autumn cycle reminds us that He is also
the Lion, the King, the Almighty, and the Lord of all.
Dan 7:13-14; Matt 24:14; Rev 11:5; 14:15; 19:16.
The End of the Scroll
As you look to the table of scrolls, you notice that
one of the scrolls is rolled out to its end. The Shemini Atzeret is the Eighth Day
and occurs at the end of Feast of Tabernacles (the Millennium) and represents
the beginning of eternity.
On this day,
the scroll that has been read on each Sabbath throughout the year comes to its
end and then is rolled back up.
When you read the prophecies concerning the end of
the ages, you find the image of the scroll and the act of rolling it up. In
Isaiah, it is written that the Heavens shall be rolled up like a scroll.
Isa_34:4 And all the host of heaven shall be
dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll (Axial
poleshift—on the Day of Atonement or thereafter): and all their host shall fall
down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from
the fig tree.
In the Book of Revelation, the same
imagery reappears, “And the sky departed as a scroll when it is rolled up (Rev
6:14). At the end of Revelation concerning the end of the present order that
before eternity, Heaven and earth fled away. Heaven and earth depart, the old
creation has past away. The scroll is finished, the story is ended, and the day
after the end, Shemini Atzeret, the Eighth Day, the day of forever, begins.
The last chapter on the Torah
scroll is Deut 34. Moses goes up the mountain to catch his first glimpse of the
Promised Land, to leave his earthly existence, and to be with God. And the
Israelites finish their journey through the wilderness. So Shemini Atzeret
speaks of the day when our journeying through the wilderness will end, the
completion of our earthly existence, and the passing away of this world (Rev
22). It tells us that we must always leave the old before entering the new. And
it reminds us that this life is not the destination, but the journey to the
destination. So live your life and every moment of your life in light of that,
in light of the end, in light of the day when the old will flee away, and of
your first glimpse of that of which you had only dreamed…as the scroll is
rolled up together.
Scriptures: Deut 34; Isa 34:4;
Rev 6:14; 20:11; 22.
Mysteries of the Bible
by Jonathan Cahn Days 280, 283
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