CHRISTIANITY IN

THE OLD
TESTAMENT
By
Bertrand L. Comparet

( Page 1 )
 About Pastor Dr. Bertrand L. Comparet,
A. B., J. D.
Upon reading these most interesting discussions one will quickly recog-
nize that the author is an ardent student of the Bible and particularly
eschatology or the study of the prophecies of the things which have
already taken place, the things that are now taking place, and the things
that are yet to take place in the future. He is an ordained minister. His
studies in this area of thought extend back over a period of thirty years.

One will quickly appreciate also the straight forward manner of factual
presentation and logical thinking. This is due to his professional training
and occupation as a well recognized Attorney at Law. He not only writes
in a clear, convincing style, but is distinguished in the pulpit, on the
lecture platform, and over the air for his clarity of thought and profound
logic.

Bertrand L. Comparet is a native Californian, born in San Diego. He was

graduated from Stanford University with the degree of Bachelor of Arts
and Juris Doctor. He was admitted to the California Supreme Court or
California Bar in 1926 and by the United States Supreme Court in 1956.
From 1926 to 1932 he was a Deputy District Attorney in San Diego
County and from 1942 to 1947 was Deputy City Attorney for the City of
San Diego.

After that time he was in private law practice.

Quite obviously, he is a tried and true Christian and a loyal and patriotic
American, a believer in a Sovereign America under Constitutional gov-
ernment.

Pastor Bertrand L. Comparet started teaching in 1933 and continued

for over 40 years. He returned to the Father in August of 1983.

( Page 2 )
 CHRISTIANITY IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT
By
Bertrand L. Comparet

When you see some new machine with its shafts turning, gears spinning,
motors humming, you can't understand what it is or what it does, until
somebody shows you a plan of it. Similarly, you can't understand history
and its climax, modern civilization, until you see a plan of it. The only
such plan of history is in the Bible and it is amazingly complete. Howev-
er, you can't understand this plan in the Bible, until you know who you
are. You must learn the Bible was lived and written by your ancestors,
written about you and written to you. The identity of the Anglo-Saxon,
Scandinavian and Teutonic people as the Israel of the Bible is the only
key to the whole book.

If somebody wrote a very exact history of the United States, but never
used the name United States therein, always calling the nation in this
history China, you couldn't make much sense out of it. As a history of
China, it would be demonstrably false, it could never make good sense
until you put the name of the right nation into it, however all the major
churches have falsified the Bible. They have taken our history, the
various prophecies about us and told us that all this was just about the
Jews, which is an easily demonstrated falsehood. That is why any intelli-
gent and well-educated atheist has always made a monkey out of any
clergyman who has ever debated him on the Bible. The traditional church
doctrines on the Bible are such easily exposed falsehoods.

The churches have taught us another falsehood. They have taught the Old
Testament is a record of a different religion, the Jewish religion, which
Yahweh tried out and found that He couldn't make it work. So, He had to
abandon it and start a brand new religion Christianity, in the New
Testament. In this, they have greatly slandered Yahweh.

( Page 3 )
In these lessons we have proven the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and
Teutonic people are the Israel of the Bible. We have proven this by
showing you that these people and no others, especially not the Jews,
fulfil the Bible prophecies about Israel. We have traced their migration
through the writings of most of the recognized historians of those centu-
ries.

You have heard me prove the New Testament is just as much an Israel
book as is the Old Testament. We have reviewed the New Testament and
showed that it was clearly speaking about and speaking to Israel. You
have often heard me say that the Old Testament is just as much a
Christian book as is the New Testament. Today, I shall begin the proof of
the Christian content and character of the Old Testament. Yahweh our
God was not mistaken when He inspired the prophets to write the Old
Testament. It was not a failure, which He had to abandon and start all
over again with a new, different religion. Yahweh was right the first time
and His religion and His plan of the ages has always been the same, from
the very beginning until this moment.

So we can recognize Christianity when we find it in the Old Testament,

we must clarify our ideas about it. What is the essence of Christianity,
expressed in a few words? Isn't it this, that man is responsible for his own
actions. If he disobeys Yahweh, this disobedience is sin and the penalty
of sin is death. Man must personally pay this penalty by his own death,
unless someone pays it for him. But no other ordinary person could do
this for you, because the other person is already under the death sentence
for his own sins, and therefore could not die in your place. Therefore,
Yahweh provided the only possible sacrifice, which could pay the penalty
of you sins, Yahshua the Son of Yahweh, being perfect, and without sin,
had no penalty of his own to pay. Therefore, when He gave His own life
for us when He died on the cross, He paid all the penalty of our sins, so
that we will not have to meet this penalty. If we accept this basis of our
relationship to our God, openly confessing that Yahshua is our only
Savior, then we have become acceptable to Yahweh, because sin no
longer stands between Him and us. Instead of bearing the responsibility
for our sins, we now have attributed to us the righteousness of Yahshua.

( Page 4 )
This is Christianity; this is what we must now look for in the Old
Testament.

The first promise of the coming of Yahshua our Redeemer, is found in

Genesis 3:15. Yahweh has called Adam, Eve and Satan before Him, to
give account of their misdeeds. Yahweh says to Satan, "I will put enmity
between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed: He shall
crush thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel." One, who is of the seed, or
descendant of Eve, shall crush the power of Satan, but in doing so, He
shall suffer from Satan's malice. However, the wound to Satan is far
greater than the wound received by the Redeemer. We have seen this
fulfilled in the crucifixion of Yahshua, a most terrible thing for Him to
endure. By this and His resurrection, Yahshua totally and permanently
broke the power of Satan to hold all men in his power through fear of
death. The prophecy in Genesis 3:15 unmistakably applies to Yahshua,
and is the first instance of Christianity in the Old Testament.

Note, this records Satan was to have as literal children as Eve. The
same Hebrew word for seed, zerah, is used in the case of both Satan and
Eve. One of Eve's descendants, which we know to be Yahshua, was to
defeat Satan although suffering terribly in the process. Carefully note
another thing, it is Yahweh who puts enmity between Satan's children
and Eve's children. You know how Satan's children love to parrot the
official Communist party line phrase and call us hate mongers". The
Bible itself tells us that Yahweh commanded and created that enmity or
hatred. As a matter of fact, it only appears as hatred among Satan's
children. We don't hate them, we just detest the evil character shown by
the wicked things they are constantly doing. Satan's children are today
known as Jews, formerly they were known as Canaanites, Hittites, etc.

The Bible only records a very limited account of this conversation

between Yahweh and Adam and Eve. However, it very clearly implies
that at this time Yahweh clearly explained to them the entire plan of
redemption, including the fact that He, Yahweh, would be the Redeemer
coming in the form of a descendant of Eve.

( Page 5 )
Naturally Adam and Eve didn't like being under the curse, which came as
a consequence of their disobedience of Yahweh, and they hoped that the
curse would soon be ended. Since Yahweh had not explained to them
how many generations it would be until He came as the promised Re-
deemer, Eve hoped that her first child Cain would be the Redeemer. This
is concealed from you by the mistranslation in the King James Bible,
which says this in Genesis 4:1. "She conceived and bore Cain and said, I
have gotten a man from the Lord". In the Hebrew it reads, "She conceived
and bore Cain and said, I have gotten a man even Yahweh." Eve thought
that this, her first child, was Yahweh, God Himself come in the flesh as
one of her descendants, to be the Redeemer of His children. This also is
Christianity in the Old Testament. You will remember that in my lesson
on "Who Is Your Savior?@ I gave the Biblical proof that Yahshua is
Yahweh, come in the flesh to be our Savior and Redeemer.

We find further confirmation of this in Genesis 4:3-7 which tells us,

"Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto Yahweh. And
Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
And Yahweh had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but unto Cain and
to his offering He had not respect. And Cain was very wroth and his
countenance fell. And Yahweh said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? And
why is thy countenance fallen? If thou doest well, shalt thou not be
accepted? And if thou doest not well, the sin offering lieth at the door.
And unto thee shall be his desire and thou shalt rule over him". Yes, I
know the King James Bible says that sin lieth at the door, but the same
Hebrew word means both the sin itself and the sin offering, the blood
sacrifice. The two ideas were closely identified, the sin and the offering,
which cleansed the sinner of his guilt.

Although Cain had herds and flocks of his own, he brought no blood
sacrifice, just fruits and vegetables. He made no confession of sin, no
prayer for pardon. He merely told Yahweh, "Landlord, here's your crop-
rent" and then he wondered why Yahweh was not pleased by this! Abel
knew sin would separate any man from Yahweh, and he could not
become acceptable to Yahweh until cleansed of his sins. This was only
by making the blood offering, to proclaim his faith in Yahweh's revela-
tion that some day the Savior would die to pay the penalty of Abel's sins

( Page 6 )
and he could become free from sin. Abel showed an understanding of the
basic principles of Christianity nearly 4,000 years before the birth of
Yahshua.

Hebrews 11:4 reminds us that Abel understood the need of the blood
sacrifice, symbolic of his faith that the Savior would give His life to pay
for Abel's sins. These incidents in the third and fourth chapters of Genesis
occurred close to 4000 B.C. Moses wrote the book of Genesis, which tells
of this, about 1446 B.C., and it is not the earliest book in the Bible.
Although the book of Job was later assigned its place as the 18th book in
the Bible, it was written about nine centuries before Moses lived. Its great
age appears from the fact that it never mentions the law, which Yahweh
gave to Moses, and nothing as important as the law would be omitted if
the Book of Job had been written later. Job complains of his undeserved
suffering and his friends assure him that suffering comes only as a just
punishment, so Job must have done something very wicked to deserve
such punishment. But, they never mention any law, which they think Job
has broken. Also Job, who wrote the book, is mentioned in Genesis 10:29
as Jobab, Father Job, a great, great grandson of Shem and a grandson of
Eber, from whom the people got the name Hebrews.

In all his suffering, Job never loses sight of the promise of the coming
Redeemer. Even while he is wishing for death to put him out of his
misery, in Job 19: 25-27, he says, "For I know that my Redeemer liveth
and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though
after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see
Yahweh: Whom I shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold, and
not another."

Abraham also knew and expressed some of the basic ideas of Christiani-
ty. In Genesis 22:1-14 we read that Yahweh put Abraham to a severe test,
He told Abraham to offer his beloved son Isaac, on the altar, as a burnt
offering. Remember how much Isaac meant to Abraham. In addition to
all the ordinary love of a father for his son, Yahweh had promised
Abraham that the many great prophecies given to him would be fulfilled
through Isaac. Then, when Isaac was still only a child, and none of the
promises had yet been fulfilled, Yahweh suddenly commanded Abraham

( Page 7 )
to sacrifice Isaac as a burnt offering! Did it mean that Yahweh had
changed His mind and would not make good on His many promises? No,
Abraham knew that Yahweh's word was always reliable. Therefore
Yahweh would find a way to fulfill His promises that through Isaac
would be born a number of nations, destined to demonstrate to the world
the goodness of Yahweh.

Abraham started out with Isaac for the place where he was to offer up the
sacrifice, going cheerfully, not in the awful grief of a father about to not
only witness, but even to cause, the death of his beloved son. He went in
the serene confidence of one who knew that his God was always faithful.
It records. "Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and said, My father and
he said, Here I am, my son. And he (Isaac) said, Behold the fire and the
wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? And Abraham said, My
son, Yahweh will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering."

Possibly his confidence might have been based in part upon the convic-
tion that, if Yahweh did permit the death of Isaac, He would resurrect
him, so that the promises would be fulfilled through Isaac. Remember
that resurrection is a basic part of Christianity. By his own statement,
Abraham also was calmly certain that Yahweh would intervene, provid-
ing a lamb for the sacrifice to be offered in place of Isaac, so that by the
death of lamb, in his place, Isaac could be spared. This again, is the very
essence of Christianity. In John 1:29 Yahshua is called the Lamb of God,
which taketh away the sin of the world. In Revelation 13:8 Yahshua is
called, "The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." Genesis 22
tells how Abraham's faith was justified. Yahweh stopped him before any
harm could come to Isaac and provided a ram, caught in a nearby thicket,
for the sacrifice.

Moses wrote this incident of Abraham and Isaac in the Book of Genesis.
Do you think Moses did not know the significance of what he had
written? Not at all, the Bible itself tells us Moses was a Christian, does
that surprise you? Hebrews 11:24-26 records, "By faith, Moses, when he
was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter:
choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ

( Page 8 )
greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the
recompense of the reward." Certainly you can't have faith in something
you have never heard of. It is clear Moses knew the significance of the
symbolism in the Old Testament rituals, which he told the people of Israel
to use.

Christianity is the central theme of the Old Testament, especially in the

writings of Moses and Isaiah. The deepest religious truths therein are
expressed symbolically in the sacrifices and rituals. Since they are not
explained in words of one syllable for the benefit of the lazy, the uninter-
ested and the shallow, they have not been perceived by churchmen whose
religion never gets beyond mere emotionalism. These are the men who
tell us Yahweh was mistaken in the Old Testament that His plan would
not work, because men in their wickedness were stronger than Yahweh.
They would not let Him carry out His plans, so He had to abandon all this
and start over again in the New Testament. Isn't that an inspiring religion!
They call themselves New Testament Christians, but they either won't
read or won't believe the New Testament either.

In this same New Testament Yahshua, to whom these Jews render lip
service, calls their attention to Christianity in the writings of Moses. In
John chapter 5 He twice called attention of the Jews to this fact saying,
"Search the scriptures: for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and it is
they which testify of Me." The earliest book of the New Testament,
Matthew, was not written until ten years after Christ spoke, so the
scriptures He told them to read were necessarily those of the Old Testa-
ment. Yahshua told them, "There is one that accuseth you, even Moses,
in whom ye trust. For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed
Me: for he wrote of Me." Can you be a New Testament Christian if you
won't believe Yahshua's own words?

We find the essence of Christianity clearly symbolized in the origin of the

Passover. You remember Moses had repeatedly demanded of the Pharaoh
of Egypt that he let the people of Israel go, and the Pharaoh had each time
refused, despite the many miracles Moses worked bringing down plagues
upon Egypt to show his authority. So Yahweh told Moses that one more
plague would be sent upon Egypt, which would surely convince Pharaoh

( Page 9 )
that he should let the children of Israel go. "Thus saith Yahweh, About
midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt: and all the first born in the
land of Egypt shall die, from the first born of Pharaoh that sitteth upon
the throne, even unto the first born of the maidservant that is behind the
mill; and all the first born of beasts. But against any of the children of
Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may
know how Yahweh doth put a difference between the Egyptians and
Israel."

Note what this means, because of the stubborn wickedness of the Egyp-
tians, the death penalty was to come upon them. Yet the children of Israel,
who were also imperfect and sinful, were to escape this penalty. There
was only one way in which they could be spared, by the ritual of the
Passover. This Passover certainly symbolizes Christianity as the way of
salvation from death.

The instructions for this ritual were given in Exodus chapter 12. "In the
tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. And ye shall
keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole qahal
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall
take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and upon the upper
doorpost of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the
flesh in the night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter
herbs shall they eat it. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and
the plague shall not be upon you to destroy when I smite the land of
Egypt. And this day shall be unto you for a memorial: and ye shall keep
it for a feast to Yahweh throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a
feast by an ordinance for ever."

This symbolized Yahshua giving His life to save those who believe in
Him. This festival was always kept in the Hebrew month of Nisan. This
meal gave the Israelites strength for their forced march, that night and all
the next day, leaving Egypt in the exodus. The lamb's blood had to be
placed outside the door on the two doorposts and the lintel above the front
door of each house. Although they were cruelly mistreated slaves in the

( Page 10 )
land of their enemies, they could not eat the Passover supper in secret.
Salvation from death came only to those who publicly proclaimed their
faith that the blood of the lamb would save them.

This is clearly New Testament Christianity. First, the necessity for public
confession of faith in the blood of the Lamb. In Matthew 10:32-33
Yahshua says, "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him
will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosoever
shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My father which
is in heaven." Also read Luke 12:8-9. In Romans 10:9 Paul reminds us,
"That if thou shalt confess, with thy mouth, Yahshua the Christ, and shalt
believe in thine heart that Yahweh hath raised Him from the dead, thou
shalt be saved."

Eating the flesh of the lamb, to gain strength for the great effort of the
exodus from the world and evil into salvation and the kingdom of
Yahweh, is again clear Christian symbolism. In John chapter 6 Yahshua
says, "I am the bread of life: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and
he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. I am the living bread which
came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live
forever: and the bread that I will give is My flesh, which I will give for
the life of the world."

Perhaps some of you are wondering about the command in Exodus 12:24,
"And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons
forever." Are we violating Yahweh's law when we do not celebrated
Passover as such today? No, you will note that the Passover ritual was an
ordinance; all the religious rituals were stated as ordinances. There are
four grades of divine law.

(1) The commandments, which are the greatest rules governing

man's relation to his God.

(2) The statutes, which are the rules for governing the nation,
including many of the rules for man's relation to his fellow man.

( Page 11 )
 (3) The judgments, which are the rules telling the judges how to
decide cases between man and man.

(4) The ordinances, which are the rules for the religious rituals and
ceremonies. The commandments, statutes and the judgments are the
rules, which are forever necessary for a good life in this world, and
they are still in force. The ordinances governed only the religious
ceremonies and rituals, and all of these were symbolic of the
coming Savior and Redeemer, Yahshua.

Since He had not come in Old Testament times, all the symbolism of the
rituals looked to the future. But after Yahshua had actually come, we
cannot go on proclaiming our faith that our Redeemer has not yet come
but will come in the future. That would be a rejection of Yahshua who
has already come. Therefore, only the form of the ceremony, not its
eternal truth, is changed to a new form the last supper or communion,
which proclaims our faith in a Redeemer who has already come. It is
still the same eternal truth about the same Redeemer. It does not reject
any of the truth implied in the Passover, it merely proclaims this as
already accomplished.

The Passover was on the 14th day of the Hebrew month Nisan. The
Passover lambs were killed and dressed in the afternoon, ready for that
evening's Passover supper. The King James Bible wrongly translates this
as in the evening. But the Hebrew said, between the evenings, which
meant between the time when the sun first started toward sunset at noon,
and the time when it finished it=s going down. Yahshua was crucified
soon after noon and He died about 3 P.M., the Bible says, about the ninth
hour. The Hebrew divided the night into watches and the day into twelve
hours, beginning at sunrise, which came about 6 A.M. at that time of year,
so the ninth hour was 3 P.M. Yahshua died right in the middle of the
period when the Passover lambs were being killed, emphasizing the fact
that He was our Passover.

The next day, the fifteenth day of Nisan, began the seven days of the feast
of unleavened bread. We find this in Leviticus 23:6-8, "And on the
fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of the unleavened bread unto

( Page 12 )
Yahweh: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye
shall have convocation: ye shall not do any servile work therein. But ye
shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh seven days: in the
seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein."
Like all the other festivals and rituals of the Old Testament, this feast of
the unleavened bread is symbolic of Yahshua and His ministry.

Leaven was a symbol of sin, its fermentation being perhaps thought of as

similar to putrefaction, the way just a little leaven introduced into the
dough would soon spread through it all. Hence we find Yahshua warning
His disciples in Matthew 16:6, to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees
and the Sadducees. Since Yahshua was the bread of life, as He explained
in John chapter 6, the fact that,

(1) Yahshua has saved us by His death in our place on the

cross, followed by

(2) the fact that our lives are thereafter sustained by His
power, is symbolized by the Passover, followed by the
feast of the unleavened bread. Yahshua's perfection, free
from all sin, is symbolized by the use of unleavened bread.

The third of the spring festivals firstfruits came before the end of unleav-
ened bread. On the first day after the Sabbath following the Passover, was
the firstfruits festival. It is mentioned in many places, Exodus 23:16,
34:22; Leviticus 23:10-14; Numbers 18:12-13, 28:16; Deuteronomy
18:4, 26:1-11, and the entire ritual is given in Deuteronomy 26:1-11.
"And it shall be, when thou art come unto the land which Yahweh thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessed it and dwellest therein:
that thou shalt take of the first of all the fruits of the earth, which thou
shalt bring out of thy land that Yahweh thy God giveth thee, and thou
shalt put it in a basket and shall go unto the place which Yahweh thy God
shall choose to place His name there. And thou shalt go unto the priest
that shall be in those days and say unto him, I profess this day unto
Yahweh thy God, that I am come unto the country which Yahweh swore
unto our fathers for to give us. And the priest shall take the basket out of
thine hand and set it down before the altar of Yahweh thy God. And thou

( Page 13 )
shalt speak and say before Yahweh thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was
my father and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few,
and became there a nation, great, mighty and populous: and the Egyptians
evil entreated us and afflicted us and laid upon us hard bondage: and
when we cried unto Yahweh, God of our fathers, Yahweh heard our
voice, and looked on our affliction and our labour and our oppression:
and Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand and with
an outstretched arm and with great terribleness, and with signs and with
wonders: and He hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this
land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. And now behold, I
have brought the first fruits of the land which Thou, O Yahweh, hast
given me."

The people in general have never shown any ability to understand the
deeper truths of religion. Only a very few upon whom rests the spirit of
Yahweh, have ever understood. Therefore, to keep the rituals in the mind
of the people, Moses had to give a simplified explanation, within the
range of comprehension of the average man. Consequently, he tied in the
festival of the first fruits with the idea of expressing gratitude to Yahweh
for his gift of the Promised Land. But the promised land of Canaan was
only for this world, a temporary value. What was the true Promised Land,
the one that was eternal? It must necessarily be resurrection and contin-
ued life after the death of this fallen body. Therefore, that is the true
symbolism of the festival of the first fruits and that is the fulfilment,
which Yahshua gave it. On the morning after the Sabbaths, Yahshua was
resurrected to demonstrate the reality of the redemption He had given us
and this was on the exact day of the festival of the first fruits. He always
fulfilled the great reality on the exact day of the festival, which symbol-
ized that realty.

Yahshua carried out the symbolism of the first fruits to the exact letter.
Leviticus 23:10-11 commands, "The first fruits offering shall be a sheaf
of grain, a number of stalks, each with its head containing many individ-
ual grains; and the priest shall take the sheaf and wave it. They were to
publicly display it before Yahweh. When Yahshua was resurrected, He
did not rise alone. Matthew 27:52-53 tells us, " The graves were opened;
and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the

( Page 14 )
graves after His resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared
unto many." Thus He fulfilled the symbolism of the wave sheaf, contain-
ing many individual grains, by resurrecting many persons when He arose
as the first fruits from the dead and making public display of His victory
over death.

This is the correct interpretation of the symbolism that is shown by Paul's

words in I Corinthians 15:20-23, "But now is Christ risen from the dead
and become the first fruits of them that slept. For since by man came
death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own
order: Christ the first fruits; afterwards they that are Christ's at His
coming."

The first fruits festival came at the time of the barley harvest, for the
barley harvest ripened several weeks before the wheat. The offering of
the first fruits at the temple was of only a small amount, a mere token as
a pledge that when the major harvest, that of the wheat was brought in,
the full tithe of the grain harvest would be brought to the temple. This was
to be done at what the Bible calls, the feast of weeks, and which the
churchmen, with the usual specialists' delight in developing a jargon of
their own, have chosen to call Pentecost. Yahshua knew and respected the
symbolism involved here. At first fruits, He did not bring all the magnif-
icent gifts He would give to His followers, He brought just a token
resurrection of a few persons, to show how great would be His eventual
gift to men. However, men must live out their lives under all the usual
circumstances of this world, before they reach the stage of death and
resurrection so, they need another gift before that time. What they need
to bring them triumphantly through life is the indwelling presence of the
Holy Spirit.

Yahshua had promised them this gift in John 14:16-18. "And I will pray
the Father and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide
with you forever: even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth Him not, neither knoweth Him: but ye know him; for He
dwelleth with you and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I
will come to you." So, at the time of first fruits, Yahshua demonstrated

( Page 15 )
the reality of His gift of resurrection by bringing several of the dead to
life. It was not yet time for actual resurrection to come to everyone, so
this was just a token given in pledge of the final harvest. With this proof,
everyone could wait in serene confidence for what was yet to come. The
rest of the harvest for man was to be demonstrated in its own good time,
at the feast of weeks.

The feast of weeks was celebrated on the fiftieth day after first fruits, as
specified in Leviticus 23:15-21. "And ye shall count unto you from the
morrow after the Sabbath, from the day that ye brought the wave offering,
seven Sabbaths shall be complete: and even unto the morrow after the
seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty days: and ye shall offer a new meal
offering unto Yahweh. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave
loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baked
with leaven; they are the first fruits unto Yahweh. And ye shall offer with
the bread seven lambs, without blemish, of the first year, and one young
bullock and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto Yahweh,
with their meal offering and their drink offerings, even an offering made
by fire, of savour unto Yahweh. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the
goats for a sin offering and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of
peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the first
fruits, for a wave offering before Yahweh, with the two lambs: they shall
be holy to Yahweh for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame
day that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile
work therein: it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout
your generations."

Note here some contrasts, which are intended to make clear the different
things symbolized. In the feast of the first fruits, the symbolism was that
of Yahshua resurrected as the first fruits from the dead. Since leaven
symbolizes sin, there could not be any leaven in the offerings made on the
day of first fruits. Along with the sheaf of barley, the Israelite was to offer
a he lamb of the first year without blemish, as a burnt offering, which
symbolized Yahshua offering to pay the penalty of our sins. There was
also to be an offering of fine flour mingled with oil, but not baked into a
leavened loaf, nor could any leaven be included in the offering, as first
fruits must symbolize Yahshua who is without sin. But the feast of weeks,

( Page 16 )
also called Pentecost, does not directly represent Yahshua; it symbolizes
the true church and Yahshua's gift of the Holy Spirit to the church.

Even the very best of men have some sins, even when called by Yahshua
to be part of His church. Therefore, the wave loaves, which symbolize the
church, were made with leaven. Note also that at the feast of the first
fruits, there was the offering of a sheaf of stalks of barley, each stalk
having its head containing many individual grains. This symbolizing the
many individuals to whom Yahshua brings the gift of life and resurrec-
tion. With the call to form His church, all the believers become part of
one body, the church. As Paul points out in I Corinthians 10:16-17
saying, "The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of
the blood of Christ? For we, being many, are one bread and one body: for
we are all partakers of that one bread." Therefore, the offering at the feast
of weeks is no longer a sheaf containing a multitude of individual grains,
but of the wave loaves symbolizing the many believers having now
become one church.

In fulfilment of this, at the feast of weeks or Pentecost, next following the

crucifixion, the disciples were waiting in Jerusalem in obedience to
Yahshua's promise and command in Luke 24:49. "And behold, I send the
promise of My Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until
ye be endued with power from on high". Acts 1:8 promises, "But ye shall
receive power, after that the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall
be witnesses upon Me, both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria
and unto the uttermost parts of the earth." At the feast of weeks, the Holy
Spirit came upon them, as set forth in detail in Acts chapter 2 which
began the work of the church, men united in their fellowship as parts of
the mystic body of Christ. Remember, this was but the fulfilment of the
promise symbolized in the feast of weeks in the Old Testament.

Have we now completed our review of Christianity in the Old Testament?

Far from it, let us now turn to Isaiah 53:3-7, which even our various
churches all admit refers definitely to Yahshua. I will correct a few errors
in translation in it. "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of pains
and acquainted with sickness: and we hid as it were our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we esteemed Him not. Surely He hath borne our

( Page 17 )
sickness and carried our pain: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of
Yahweh and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our transgressions, He
was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon
Him, and with His stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep, have gone
astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Yahweh hath laid
on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet
He opened not His mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter."
Indeed, what can the New Testament add which is not found here?
Remember, Isaiah wrote this almost 7 2 centuries before it was fulfilled!
How can clergymen be so blind? Most of them quote this passage from
Isaiah at one time or another; they even preach that it is referring to
Yahshua. Then they preach that the Old Testament set forth a different
and false religion, which had to be abandoned, to make way for the New
Testament and Christianity.

The Psalms make many references to Yahshua and His work of salvation.
Psalm chapter 2 contains clear reference to Him. "I will declare the
decree: Yahweh hath said unto Me, Thou art My son: this day have I
begotten thee. Ask of Me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine
inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou
shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel. Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye
judges of the earth. Serve Yahweh with fear rejoice with trembling. Kiss
the son, lest He be angry, and ye perish from the way, when His wrath is
kindled but a little." Psalm chapter 22 is generally admitted to be a
prophetic picture of the crucifixion of Yahshua. It is too long for me to
quote here, read it for yourself and you will see that it describes the
crucifixion.

Psalm 40:6-10 again prophesies Yahshua, as is recognized in Hebrews

10:5-14. Don't these New Testament Christians ever read the New Testa-
ment? Yahshua certainly did fulfil these words of Psalm 40. "Sacrifice
and offering Thou didst not desire; mine ears hast Thou opened: burnt
offering and sin offering hast Thou not required. Then said I, Lo, I come:
in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do Thy will, O
my God; yea, Thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness

( Page 18 )
in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Yahweh,
Thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have
declared Thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed Thy
loving kindness and Thy truth from the great congregation." Psalm 41:9
is prophetic saying, "Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted,
which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me." In John
13:18 Yahshua quotes this verse, telling the disciples that the betrayal by
Judas Iscariot is the fulfilment of this Psalm.

Psalm 45:6-7 refers to Yahshua, "Thy throne, O Yahweh, is forever and

ever: the sceptre of Thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteous-
ness and hatest wickedness: therefore Yahweh, Thy God, that anointed
Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows." This is quoted, word
for word in Hebrews 1:8-9, as applying to Yahshua.

Psalm 68:18 refers to Yahshua's deliverance of the dead from their

previous captivity by the powers of evil saying, "Thou hast ascended on
high, Thou hast led captivity captive: Thou hast received gifts for men:
Yea, for the rebellious also, that Yahweh might dwell among them." This
Psalm is quoted by Paul in Ephesians 4:7-10 explaining its reference to
Yahshua.

Psalm 69:9, refers to Yahshua's single minded devotion to doing His

Father's will, regardless of the consequences says, "For the zeal of thine
house hath eaten Me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee
are fallen upon Me." John 2:17 and Romans 15:3 explain that this verse
applied to Yahshua. Why don't these New Testament Christians read
their New Testament? Then they can see that it so frequently refers to
the Old Testament for confirmation of its truth?

Psalm 110:1,4 in referring to Yahshua says, "Yahweh said unto His Son,
Sit thou at My right hand, until I make Thine enemies Thy footstool and
Yahweh hath sworn and will not repent, Thou art a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek." In Matthew 22:41-45 Yahshua quoted this Psalm
in proof of His divine nature and Peter also cited it as such proof. In Acts
2:29-36, and in Hebrews 5:6, 6:20 & chapter 7, Paul quotes it as authority

( Page 19 )
three times. There are also several other identifiable references to Yahsh-
ua in other Psalms, but we have covered that field enough.

Before we leave this point, let us note how thoroughly it is explained in

the book of Hebrews 9:1-12. "Then verily the first covenant had also
ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary. For there was a
tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick and the table and
the shewbread, which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil,
the tabernacle which is called the holiest of all; which had the golden
censer and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold,
wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded
and the tablets of the covenant; and over it the cherubim of glory,
shadowing the mercy seat; Now these things were thus ordained, and the
priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of
Yahweh. But into the second went the high priest alone, once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the
people: Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were
offered both gifts and sacrifices that could not make him that did the
service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience. But Christ being come,
an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect
tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His own blood He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us."
The religious ordinances of the Old Testament were all symbolic of the
true redemption, which would be accomplished by Yahshua at His first
coming. Now do you see why Paul said in Galatians 3:24, "The law was
our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ". The first three major parts of
the law are the commandments, the statutes and the judgments, estab-
lished rules of conduct, which one must follow if his conduct is to be
righteous. We all fall short of such good conduct and do not gain right-
eousness by our own actions, and the law condemns us for this. The
fourth division of the law, the ordinances which set up all the religious
rituals and ceremonies, points out that righteousness can be gained only
through the death of another in our place, paying the penalty for our sins.
As we have seen, this clearly symbolized that the real sacrifice, not the
mere symbol of it, was that which would be made by Yahshua at His first
coming, in His crucifixion and resurrection.

( Page 20 )
We cannot go on forever with our discussion of Christianity in the Old
Testament, however there remains one part of it, which is as important,
as all that we have studied this far. These are the three fall festivals, the
Hebrew new year (Rosh Hashanah), the day of atonement (Yom Kipper)
and the feast of the tabernacles, all symbolize the second coming of
Yahshua. Let us now examine these in detail.

The Hebrew day began at sunset; each month was a lunar month, always
beginning with the new moon. Today, we calculate the time when the
moon is exactly opposite from its position at the full moon and this is the
astronomical new moon. However, the moon is not visible at all on that
day, it is too close to the sun to be seen even at sunset. The Hebrews
counted as new moon the first day that a thin crescent could be seen just
after sunset and this comes on a day later than the day marked new moon
on your calendar. Sunset of the day of the new moon, of the first month
of the year, was their new year's day. They posted watchers on nearby
hilltops or on towers in the cities, to watch for the first glimpse of the thin
crescent new moon. When the watchers saw it, they notified the people
of the town by loud shouts and the people joined in the shouting and
blowing horns. In fact, we still do something much like this, but we delay
our new year's shouting and horn blowing until midnight.

We find the ordinance governing it in Numbers 29:1, "And in the seventh

month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation;
ye shall do no servile work: it is day of blowing the trumpets unto you."
If you are wondering about this reference to it as the seventh month, the
answer is that the Hebrews had two separate calendar years. One was the
civil year, commencing with the month Nisan in the spring. The other
was the sacred year, commencing with the month Tishri, which was the
seventh month in the civil year.

On a small scale, the New Year ritual was watchers scanning the heavens,
looking there for the sign of the end of one period of time, a year, and the
beginning of another. What is symbolized on the great scale is that we are
to watch for the sign in the heavens marking the return of Yahshua,
ending this age and beginning the next. Yahshua explained this for us in
Matthew 24:30-31, "And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in

( Page 21 )
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."

As they watched anxiously for the sign of the end of a year, so we watch
hopefully for the sign in the heavens which will show us that Yahshua is
on His way and nearly here, leading the vast armies of heaven, come to
overthrow all wickedness and set us free from its power. This will end the
sinful age in which we have been living and beginning the next age of
true and complete righteousness when Yahshua shall rule all the earth as
King of Kings.

Today, we who really believe His words remain alert to perceive the signs
of His second coming, in accordance with His warnings in Matthew
24:42. "Watch therefore: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of
man cometh." The importance of this sign cannot be overrated, so strong-
ly and repeatedly does the Bible state it. In Matthew 25:1-13 Yahshua
tells the parable of the ten virgins and their lamps, five of them being wise
and keeping their lamps not only trimmed but also filled with oil, in
readiness for their master's return from His wedding supper. The other
five were foolish and had no oil for their lamps. He concludes this parable
by saying, "Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour
wherein the Son of man cometh."

In Luke 21:34-36 Yahshua also said, "And take heed to yourselves, lest
at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness
and cares of this life and so that day come upon you unawares. For as a
snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to
escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son
of man." Paul tells us in Thessalonians 5:4-6, " But ye brethren, are not
in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the
children of light and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor
of the darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch

( Page 22 )
and be sober." Remember, the Hebrew New Year ritual in the Old
Testament symbolized all of this.

The return of Yahshua, which is the dearest hope of the Christian, will not
be a source of joy to those who hate Yahshua. Both Old and New
Testaments alike tell us of His enemies' terror as they see their judgment
and punishment coming. Zechariah 12:10-11 says, "And they shall look
upon Me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for Him as one
mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him as one is in
bitterness for his first born. In that day there shall be a great mourning
in Jerusalem." Revelation 6:15-16 adds, "And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty
men, and every bondsman, and every freeman hid themselves in the dens
and in the rocks of the mountains; and said to the mountains and rocks,
Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne
and from the wrath of the Lamb." As the Book of Revelation is entirely
symbolic, the mountains and the rocks of which he speaks, are nations
and the communities into which the enemies of Yahshua have infiltrated.
In calling upon these nations and cities to fall on them and hide them, they
will be seeking protection by trying to pass as just ordinary members of
these nations and communities, denying any double allegiance to another
nation, race, or religion. Some of these Canaanite Jews have deceived us
by this means and they will try also to deceive Yahweh, but without
success.

The next fall festival was the Day of Atonement, on the tenth day of the
Hebrew month Tishri. It was the most solemn of all the festivals and it
carries the deepest symbolism in the entire Bible. Before we can consider
it in detail, we must learn the identity of a fallen angel named Azazel
(Aw-zaw-zale).

You will not find Azazel=s name mentioned in the King James Bible,
although it is there in the original Hebrew. The entire story is not given
in the books of the accepted canon of the Bible. So, we must turn to the
book of Enoch for many of the details. We start with Genesis 6:1-4 as it
reads in the Hebrew. "And it comes to pass that mankind (Adamites) have
begun to multiply upon the face of the earth, and daughters have been

( Page 23 )
born to them; and sons of God see the daughter of men, that they are fair,
and they take to themselves women of all whom they have chosen. The
fallen ones (Nephilim) were in the earth in those days, and even after-
wards when sons of God (sons of God is mistranslated from the word
nephilim meaning fallen angels) came in unto the daughters of men and
they have children born to them, they are the heroes who, from of old, are
the men of renown." The fallen angels who followed Satan into rebellion
were the ones who left their first estate (or condition), as we are told in
Jude chapter 6. The King James Bible says, "There were giants in the
earth in those days," but this is pure mistranslation, as the Hebrew says
"The nephilim were in the earth in those days." The meaning of nephilim
is, the fallen ones, obviously the fallen angels who had gone into rebel-
lion under the leadership of Satan.

Who is Satan? The word Satan is not the name of any person, but a mere
title, meaning the opponent. He is sometimes called Lucifer, but this also
is only a title, meaning the shining one, or perhaps the light bearer. To
teach whom the person is carrying these titles; we must turn to the book
of Enoch, as I have said. Enoch chapter 6 says, "And it came to pass,
when the children of men had multiplied, that in those days were born
unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children
of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another, Come,
let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us
children" It goes on to list the names of the chief ringleaders among the
rebel angels, among whom is one named Azazel.

Enoch chapter 8 records, "And Azazel taught men to make swords and
knives and shields and breastplates, and made known to them the metals
of war and the art of working them. And there arose much godlessness
and they committed fornication and they were led astray and became
corrupt in all their ways. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry
went up to heaven." It tells how Yahweh sent a committee of four
archangels, Michael, Uried, Raphael and Gabriel to investigate and report
back to Him just how bad conditions really were. In Enoch chapter 9 they
report, "Thou seest what Azazel hath done, who hath taught all un-
righteousness on earth, * * And the women have borne giants and the
whole earth has thereby been filled with blood and unrighteousness." In

( Page 24 )
Enoch chapter 10 Yahweh orders Raphael to, "Bind Azazel hand and foot
and cast him into darkness: and make an opening in the desert which is
in Dudael and cast him therein." Then God pronounces sentence upon
Azazel, "The whole earth has been corrupted through the works that were
taught by Azazel: To him ascribe all sin". Yahweh commands that
Azazel be kept imprisoned in darkness in the pit in the desert, awaiting
his final judgment and condemnation.

With this background, knowing who and what Azazel is, we are ready to
commence our study of the Day of Atonement. The instructions for the
Day of Atonement are found in Leviticus chapters 16 & 23. Usually I
read to you the scriptures on the point and then explain it. However, if I
read it in detail here, just the Leviticus chapter 16 alone would take all of
my time. So, I suggest that you first read Leviticus 23:26-30 and all of
Leviticus 16 and we will now study its meaning.

Ordinarily, the high priest performed his duties dressed in a magnificent

embroidered robe, decorated with golden ornaments as well as colored
embroidery and with the golden breastplate set with twelve jewels, each
with the name of one of the tribes of Israel engraved on the jewel. Read
Exodus chapter 28. It was the best man could do to indicate the majesty
of one who, when so clad, represented the Godhood. The high priest
when clad in his regular robes of office represented Yahshua in all the
glory and majesty of Yahweh, before He came in the form of a man.

On the Day of Atonement however, the high priest laid aside his magnif-
icent robes, bathed and dressed entirely in white linen, symbols of sinless
purity. This was representing Yahshua coming in human form, having for
a time laid aside the full majesty of the Godhood and being without sin,
Leviticus 16:4. The high priest was himself a man, with the faults and
sins, which all men have. He must cleanse himself of his own sins before
he can act out the part of Yahshua in the ritual of the Day of Atonement.
Therefore, he next sacrifices a sin offering on behalf of himself and his
household. By this he is cleansed of his sins and so can play the part of
the sinless Christ, Leviticus 16:6,11 &14.

( Page 25 )
The symbolism of the animal sacrifices offered by individual sinners was
clearly this. Realizing that he had sinned, the sinner went to the temple
and offered his sin offering, the death of the animal symbolizing his faith
that the death of the real Savior would pay the penalty of his sins. By this,
he was cleansed of his sin; he left the sin and its penalty at the temple.
While the sinner was freed from the penalty, the sin must still be account-
ed for. So, the sins of the people accumulated at the temple all through
the year. On the Day of Atonement, the temple contained all the sins of
the people for the entire year. The temple must be cleansed of these
accumulated sins before the rest of the ceremony could be performed.
After the high priest had offered the sin offering on behalf of himself and
his family, he was ready to make the great atonement for the people. The
real meaning of this has been concealed by mistranslation in the King
James Bible. In many of the modern translations, it has also been mis-
translated.

The Hebrew reads, "And Aaron shall take from the assembly of the
children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and he shall take
the two goats and cause them to stand before Yahweh at the door of the
tabernacle. And Aaron shall cast lots over the two goats, one lot for
Yahweh and one lot for Azazel; and Aaron shall bring near the goat on
which the lot for Yahweh has fallen, and shall make it a sin offering. And
the goat on which the lot for Azazel fell, he shall cause to stand living
before Yahweh, to make atonement by it, to send it away for a goat of
departure into the desert. And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin
offering which is the people's and shall take its blood into the inside of
the veil, and shall sprinkle it on the mercy seat and at the front of the
mercy seat, and he shall make atonement for the sanctuary because of the
uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions
in all their sins. And he shall make atonement for himself and for his
household and for all the assembly of Israel."

Before we finish this, let's understand this part of it. The high priest has
received from the nation of Israel two goats and he has cast lots over them
to select one goat for a sin offering to Yahweh on behalf of all the people
and the other goat is then selected for Azazel. The goat of the sin offering,
on behalf of the people, is then slaughtered in sacrifice. The high priest

( Page 26 )
then takes its blood into the holy of holies, where he sprinkles a little of
the blood on and before the mercy seat where Yahweh sits. Thus he
reminds Yahweh that blood has been shed to pay for all the sins of all the
people. This symbolizes Yahshua offering His own innocent blood, shed
to pay for all the sins of all the people who will accept Him as their
Savior.

Hebrews chapter 9 explains, "Now when these things were thus ordained,
the priest went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service
of God. But into the second went the high priest alone, once every year,
not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the errors of the
people. But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by
a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say,
not of this creation. Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by His
own blood he entered into the holy place, having obtained eternal re-
demption for us. For it the blood of bulls and of goats and the ashes of an
heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh; how
much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal spirit
offered Himself without spot to Yahweh, purge your conscience from
dead works to serve the living God. Almost all things are by the law
purged with blood; and without the shedding of blood is no remission of
sins. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heav-
ens should be purified with these but the heavenly things themselves with
better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself,
now to appear in the presence of Yahweh for us: nor yet that he should
offer Himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every
year with the blood of others; for then must He often have suffered since
the foundation of the world. But now once in the end of the age hath He
appeared to put away sin by the sacrifices of Himself." So Yahshua was
offered, to bear the sins of many.

Surely, the sacrifice of the goat as a sin offering on behalf of the people,
symbolizes Yahshua offering His own life as the sacrifice for entering
heaven and us to stand before Yahweh to offer the shedding of His own
blood, as the proof that no blame now remains upon those whom He has
thus saved. Christianity, of course it is! Remember, all this is found in the

( Page 27 )
early part of the Old Testament. Yahweh didn't give us a different religion
there, nor make any mistakes, which needed correction later. He was right
the first time and all the time. He gave us Christianity, in all its complete-
ness, in the Old Testament.

Next, the high priest comes out of the holy of holies and he lays aside the
plain white linen and resumes his gorgeous robes. This symbolizes
Yahshua coming again, not as a mere man who could be treated with
contempt and murdered, but returning with all the power and glory of
Yahweh. The high priest now took the other goat; the one selected for
Azazel, this goat was not sacrificed. The high priest laid his hands on
the head of this goat and confessed over him all the sins of all the people.
Leviticus 16:21-22 instructs, "And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon
the head of the live goat and confess over him all the iniquities of the
children of Israel and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting
them on the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a
fit man into the desert: and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities
unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the desert."

Remember how the book of Enoch reported Yahweh's judgment upon

Azazel? Unto Azazel ascribe all sin. Since he had taught men to sin and
had created and ruled the evil conditions which kept them sinning, Azazel
must himself bear the full responsibility for all their sins. For him there
was no sacrifice to pay his penalty for him. To him the message was,
"Here Azazel, all these sins are yours, you must answer for every one of
them".

Notice the perfect consistency of Bible symbolism. The goat bears the
people's sins and takes them away into an uninhabited desert. The Bible's
doctrine of forgiveness of sin is not merely that Yahweh withholds the
punishment we have earned; it is that Yahweh has removed the sin and
all its unclean stain from us. He has separated us from our sins. Psalm
103:12 promises, "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He
removed our transgressions from us." The sin and all its consequences
are gone from us and delivered to Azazel for him to bear the consequenc-
es of his own misdeeds.

( Page 28 )
The Day of Atonement is not just something out of an old religion,
superseded now by the new. It is the mystery of Christianity in its purest
essence. Leviticus 16:34 commands, "And this shall be an everlasting
statute unto you, to make atonement for the children of Israel for all their
sins, once a year." While we no longer sacrifice one goat and drive
another out into the desert, we are supposed to understand the truth,
which the ceremony symbolized, and never forget it.

The Hebrew New Year came on the first day of the Hebrew month Tishri
and the Day of Atonement came on the tenth. Then on the fifteenth of
Tishri began the weeklong feast of tabernacles, Leviticus 23:34-43 gives
the rule. "Speak unto the children of Israel saying, The fifteenth day of
the seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto
Yahweh. On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein. Seven days shall ye offer an offering made by fire
unto Yahweh: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you;
and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh: it is a solemn
assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. In the fifteenth day of
the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall
keep a feast unto Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath
and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath. And ye shall take you on the
first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees and the
boughs of thick trees and willows of the brook: and ye shall rejoice
before Yahweh your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto
Yahweh seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your
generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in
booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: that
your generation may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in
booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am Yahweh your
God."

Now let us consider what this means, remember the Israelites were then
farmers and stock raisers, theirs was an entirely agricultural civilization.
Very few made a living as merchants, even as it is today! The agricultural
year began with the ploughing and sowing of seed and it ended with the
completion of the harvests. The last harvest was the grape vintage and by
the time of the feast of tabernacles, even this was complete. The farmers

( Page 29 )
had worked hard all year and now their labours were finished, they had
their crops gathered and stored in their barns. Now they could rest and
enjoy the fruits of their labour We have lived under the curse of a fallen
world and have spent all the age in hard labour However, when Yahshua
comes the second time, to free the world of its curse and set up the
kingdom of Yahweh in all its glory, it will start a new age, Yahweh has
not forgotten our labors. The reward of our good deeds awaits us, just like
the farmer's crops stored in his barn, then we can rest and rejoice.

Of all the festivals, only the Day of Atonement was a sombre one, the
others were happy. The feast of tabernacles was the most joyous of all.
Emphasis was laid upon the people dwelling for seven days in brush
shelters, sometimes called booths, and there was mention made that this
was in commemoration of the exodus from Egypt where the people were
nomads without any houses. It does not seem that this was the entire
significance of it, because it is associated with the idea of the end of this
age. We know that this age will end in terrible war and devastation. It
may be prophetic of a time to come, when destruction of cities will again
force the survivors to dwell in such temporary shelters as they can find.
There are some further things about the feast of tabernacles we should
study, first the word itself. In the Hebrew there are three words which
have all been indiscriminately translated tabernacle, meaning a tent or
temporary, moveable dwelling, but these three words have different
meanings. The first is ohel, meaning a tent; the second is sukkah, mean-
ing a hut of brush and twigs, or a booth. Both of these words mean a
temporary dwelling place. The third word is mishkan, meaning a per-
manent dwelling place. On the exodus from Egypt, the people were
constantly wandering about and had to dwell in tents, if they were lucky
enough to have them, or in booths made of brush. In Hosea 12:19
Yahweh warns us, "I, Yahweh, thy God from the land of Egypt, will yet
make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feasts."
This reinforces the idea that the command to live in such brush booths for
the seven days of the feast of tabernacles was prophetic of a coming time
when we would again be in flight from disaster and would have to take
what shelter we could get. We will come back to the meaning of these
words a little later.

( Page 30 )
One further significant thing about the feast of tabernacles, it came right
after the last harvest of the grape vintage was completed. In Matthew
13:38-41 Yahshua explains the parable of the tares sown among the
wheat saying, "The field is the world; the good seed are the children of
the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one; the enemy
that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the age; and the
reapers are the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in
the fire; so shall it be in the end of this age. The Son of man shall send
forth His angels and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that
offend and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of
fire." We know that the coming end of this age is with the final world war,
including the battle of Armageddon. This is the process of gathering out
all the wicked for destruction, other prophets have written of it as the
harvest of the vine of the earth.

For example Joel 3:13 states, "Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe:
come, get you down, for the winepress is full, the vats overflow; for their
wickedness is great." The idea is completed in Revelation 14:14-19, "And
I looked and behold, a white cloud and upon the cloud One sat like unto
the Son of man, having on His head a golden crown and in His hand a
sharp sickle. And another eagle came out of the temple, crying with a
loud voice to Him that sat upon the cloud, Thrust in Thy sickle and reap:
for the time is come for Thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
And He that sat upon the cloud thrust in His sickle on the earth; and the
earth was reaped. And another angel came out of the temple, which is in
heaven, he also having a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from
the altar, which had power over fire; and he cried with a loud voice to him
that had the sharp sickle saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the
clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. And the
angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth
and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God."

Certainly no rest for us, as enjoyment of our reward, is not possible until
the harvest removes from us the wicked who have ruined our every effort
to build the kingdom of Yahweh during this age. So the symbolism of the
feast of tabernacles, coming right after the harvest and marking the first
time in the year when we have had time and opportunity to enjoy the

( Page 31 )
fruits of our own labors, is fully consistent with the other portions of the
Bible which develop other parts of the same basic idea.

Now, to get back to the meaning of tabernacle. There was a fulfilment in

the birth of Yahshua, which occurred on October 4, 4 B.C. on the first day
of the feast of tabernacles. No, He was not born on December 25th, for
this is only an old pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice, which
can be traced back to at least 2000 B.C. in Egypt. In John 1:1,14 we read,
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with Yahweh and the
Word was Yahweh; And the Word became flesh and did tabernacle
among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten of the
Father, full of grace and truth." He came to live among us in the form of
a mortal man only temporarily, so it is said that He tabernacled among
us. The great fulfillment is yet to come, when He comes to remain
forever among us, in fulfillment of the rest of the prophecy in both Old
and New Testaments. First in Leviticus 26:3, 11-12 where Yahweh says,
"I will set My tabernacle among you; (Here the word is Mishkan, My
permanent dwelling place) and My soul shall not abhor you. And I shall
walk among you and will be your God and ye shall be My people." The
fulfillment of this is again prophesied in Revelation 21:3 saying, "And I
heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God
is with men and He will dwell with them and they shall be His people and
Yahweh Himself shall be with them and be their God." Here the word-
translated tabernacle is the Greek word skene, which like the Hebrew
mishkan means a permanent dwelling place.

We have reviewed the Old Testament and found it to be as fully a

Christian book as is the New Testament. We have shown this on other
occasions that the Old Testament is just as fully a Christian book, just as
the New Testament is as fully an Israel book as the Old Testament.

While we are about it, let's correct that false use of the word testament,
meaning the written will by which a dying man leaves his property to
others. The words used correctly mean a covenant; it is a solemn contract
to agreement between two or more persons. This correct usage makes
sense and is consistent with all the Bible has to say about it. Yahweh
made His covenant with Abraham and Yahweh never breaks His word.

( Page 32 )
The Bible tells us in Jeremiah 31:31-33, "Behold the days come, saith
Yahweh, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and
with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with
their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; which My covenant they broke, although I was an
husband unto them, saith Yahweh: but this shall be the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel: after these days, saith Yahweh, I will
put My law into their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and
will be their God and they shall be My people".

The only change is from a rigid code of laws, which are followed, just to
the letter and no more, to a code which Yahweh has written in the hearts
of His people so they now obey Him willingly, out of love, not out of
compulsion and fear. It is the same covenant, dealing with the same laws.
In Hebrews 8:8-10, this passage from Jeremiah is quoted exactly, show-
ing that the new covenant is merely the old covenant written in the
people's hearts. There is no way the preachers can twist this into a
repudiation of the Old Testament, or more correctly Old Covenant.
Indeed, it is the clearest kind of affirmation of it as being right and good
from the very beginning. Yahweh was always faithful to His word, the
only change to a new covenant is one, which will make us also faithful to
our promise to obey Him and be His people.

There is as much Christianity in the Old Testament as in the New. There

is as much Israel in the New Testament as in the Old. Both Testaments
are but the two halves of one consistent book, written by Yahweh, who is
always truthful and consistent. He knew the end from the beginning; He
made no mistakes and no failures. Yahweh had no need to abandon
anything and make a new start. In the beginning only His chosen prophets
fully understood His message, indeed that has always been true. But, with
the passing of time, the message was more clearly unfolded for the people
in general, but it was always the same message throughout the entire
book. The Israelites are Yahweh's people, and He provided Christian
salvation and redemption for them despite their sins, so that He could
make good all of His wonderful promises to His people.

( Page 33 )
 Other Sermons given by
Dr. Comparet are available
A Faith For These Days

Adam Was Not The First Man.

Learn about the trees in the Garden of Eden.

America is a Bible Land

Babylon’s Money.
How the Jewish International Bankers enslave us.

Daniel’s Fifth Kingdom

Destroying Many By Peace

False Prophets

Gathering The Nations

The UN is Satan’s instrument for gathering the nations together for the
final battle.

God’s Immigration Laws

Ecclesiastics 11:34 warns us that, if we "Receive a stranger into thy
house, he will disturb thee, and turn thee out of thine own."

Israel’s Fingerprints – How Israel has left clues to their wanderings

Lost Foundations – The Churches now preach a Marxist Gospel

( Page 34 )
 Contact us for details of
audio tapes and articles
by:-
Dr. Wesley A. Swift

Rev. Dr. Bertrand Comparet, A. B., J. D.

Rev. William Gale

Captain K. R. McKilliam

Pastor Don Campbell

New Crusade Christian Church

Calling The People of Britain
&
Celtic-Anglo-Saxon-Nordic-Germanic Kindred in Europe
and overseas realms

Tel. No. 01424 730163 E-mail [email protected]

( Page 35 )
THE NEW CHRISTIAN CRUSADE
CHURCH

CALLING THE PEOPLE OF BRITAIN

At last the bible makes sense!

At last we know its meaning.

Its the book of the RACE

( Page 36 )