Sid: Mark you made the statement that God always warns before judgment, and God is getting out attention with a heavenly billboard. What did you mean by the heavenly billboard?
Mark: Well that’s what’s amazing God created the sun and the moon to send signals on His feast days. That’s what it says so what a great a way for God to communicate to believers from every tribe and nation and tongue equally, but through eclipses falling on His feast days. It’s only if we are not on His calendar that we miss the signal. And so here God is warning His Body all over the world to get back on to is calendar and to understand what’s coming.
Sid: Well do you get this feedback I’m getting it on people that look at your calendar and your book and your DVD about the blood moons and the Biblical feasts and the rehearsals. And the warnings that God is giving that all of a sudden their exploring the Bible from a whole new perspective.
Mark: Yes it’s a total paradigm shift and once the light goes on I tell you what they develop such a thirst and a hunger for the word of God. They become carnivores, meat eaters. You know Paul says in the Bible that some people are still on milk and they need to be eating meat well I find that when they understand these things all of a sudden they become meat eaters they jump in they’re all in when it comes to studying the Bible.
Sid: Well I happen to believe one of the most supernatural events I have ever heard of in all of the years I’ve been researching the supernatural of God, is built into the first feast where they exact timing of the first coming of Jesus. And built into the second group of feasts where the exact timing of the second coming of Jesus. I mean it is so supernatural tell me a bit about His second coming that we have the dress rehearsals for, give us some clues.
Mark: Sure, I’ll just give a quick summary and then I’ll go back and detail them a little bit more. But how many people remember reading about trumpets in the book of Revelation. Well the next feast to be fulfilled and they have to be fulfilled in order. Just like the spring feast has to be fulfilled in order the fall feast will as well. And so the next Feast is the Feast of Trumpets so the blowing of the Shofar representing the coming King. And then you have the Feast of Yom Kippur which is Israel’s National Day of Atonement, when I believe they’ll realize that Yeshua is their Messiah. And then comes the Feast of Tabernacles; well now God can tabernacle among men for 1000 year reign inauguration on the Feast of Tabernacles.
Sid: Now on yesterday’s broadcast we ran out of time. I asked you the question, “Why do you say that these dress rehearsals will no longer be wheat and barley, but be grapes?”
Mark: Sure exactly I think it’s interesting that in Deuteronomy 16:16 God said three times everyone is to appear in Jerusalem and it was for Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles. And so I believe Passover and Pentecost fulfilled the spring feast to the day and now we’ve had this long dry summer for 2000 years. And now what happens is we come to the fall feasts and what do we see? The fall in Israel is the fruit harvest or the grape harvest. So that’s why you don’t see any reference to wheat or barley in Revelation you only see the grapes because the events will literally happen in the month of the harvest. It is talking also about a harvest of souls just like at the barley harvest and the wheat harvest. In the Gospels God says that field is the world and the angels are the reapers and they’re putting in their sickle and the harvest is going to be that of the grapes it says in Revelation.
Sid: Okay, let’s get a preview of the return of Jesus let’s start with the Feast of Trumpets.
Mark: Sure that represents the coming King. You know what I love to do, and we do this every year now with 1000’s of people all over the world. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like when at the procession of crowning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of lords what that’s going to be? Well people need to realize that every year their rehearsing this in heaven! Just like Moses Tabernacle on earth it was patterned after what was in the heavenlies. Every Feast of Trumpets I believe angelic hosts are worshipping and praising God and rehearsing for His coming just like anyone would for a wedding or anything else. And we are on earth are to be the harmonic residents echo and we’re also supposed to be practicing at the appointed time on the Feast of Trumpets. So like at a baseball game when the group stands up and waves and then the next group stands up and waves. We’ve been having a shofar wave around the world every year on the Feast of Trumpets. We have churches and individuals and home fellowships in every time zone blowing shofars announcing God as King. And then when it become Rosh Hashanah in their times zone then everyone in the world blows that and it becomes the Rosh Hashanah in Israel.
Sid: Now in Jesus’ day and today how many times at Rosh Hashanah do they blow the shofar in the synagogue?
Mark: Well they blow the shofar 100 times, and that final 100th blast is known as the last trump. So when Paul talks about “At the last trump” he’s referring to the last trump on Rosh Hashanah that we’ll all be changed. And so why would anyone not want to be at the dress rehears? Can you imagine we have like 1500 people on all of them are pretty much bringing shofars worshiping and praising the King and one day I don’t know what year but some year when we’re doing that all of a sudden we’ll join the angelic host and what an easy transition that will be compared to those that aren’t looking, aren’t watching, aren’t waiting going about their earthly duties not excited about being at the dress rehearsal.
Sid: So explain 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 51 to 53 about the last trump and what occurs.
Mark: Yeah exactly in 1st Corinthians 15 you know what does it say in verse 51 and 52. It says basically “I’m going to show you a mystery were not all going to sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye.” And that’s a Hebrew term “The twinkling of an eye.” “At the last trumpet it says the trumpet will sound, the dead will raise incorruptible and we’ll all be changed.” Well I believe some year this event will happen on the Feast of Trumpets when the Lord Himself will descend it says “Will descend with a shout and with the trump of God.” So it’s exciting, why would someone not want to be at that dress rehearsal? That’s why every year we rehearse this and we blow the shofar 100 times and then at the last blast everyone blows and it’s very exciting.
Sid: Well the Bible talks “That the Lord will come like a thief in the night.” What does that mean to you?
Mark: Well I believe a thief in the night is a very important point and we need to understand it in context. Because what happened, this is even mentioned on Jewish websites “That the High Priest would come or the Captain of the guard at the temple and he would find them sleeping you know they would set their clothes on fire because their supposed to be watching.” When you read in context who He comes to as a thief in the night it’s too the foolish virgins, it’s to the evil servants, it’s to the sleeping church. But in 1st Thessalonians it says “But you brethren are not in darkness that day will overtake you with a thief.” Because he says “You know the times and seasons.” That’s referring directly to the Biblical Feasts…
Sid: But us Christians don’t know the times or seasons so what does that mean?
Mark: (Laughing) It says “But brother you know the times and seasons” it’s referring to the Biblical calendar. Which is why I felt so compelled to make this Biblical calendar so the church would be able to be on the right calendar.
Sid: Tell me briefly about your book and DVD called “Blood Moons Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs.”
Mark: Sure, in the book it’s mostly about teaching the Church how to decode these imminent signs that are coming and it’s through understanding the Biblical calendar. Getting on His Feasts days, being at the dress rehearsal; I go into replacement theology how we got off the calendar about 2000 years ago due to anti-Semitism, and why the devil was so smart. Just like if anyone could throw away your day timer or change it so you miss a divine appointment. I mean people need to realize, I believe listeners believe in divine appointments but they need to realize that there are some that are scheduled. So that’s why we need this book “The Blood Moons Decoding the Imminent and Heavenly Signs” go into why we need to be on God’s calendar. So prophetically we can understand when the supernatural events happen.
Sid: So tell me what we’ll learn from the DVD.
Mark: Oh from the DVD it is so incredible the footage the cinema photography. They have actual footage from the ‘67 war, from the ‘48 war.
Sid: It just happened to be blood moons on the feasts which is coming up. Tell me the prophetic significance of Yom Kippur.
Mark: Okay, sure. What is Yom Kippur? Yom Kippur is Israel’s National Day of Atonement. One of the things that people ask me they read my book and hear what I teach. They wonder “Why how come the Jews don’t get it?” And I tell them look at this; when the Jews went to Egypt they didn’t recognize Joseph, how come they didn’t recognize Joseph? Because he looked Egyptian. So the problem today is the church has been presenting an Egyptian Jesus a blood blue eyed person who’s thrown out the Torah who wants nothing to do with anything Jewish. Well how in the world are they going to recognize Him?
Sid: You know what I’m thinking, when the ambulance comes by warning traffic to pull the side of road they’ll be like they don’t understand what the siren means. That what… tell me just in a couple sentences no more what it’s going to be like at that last blood moon in 2015 that is coming on the feast day in Jerusalem.
Mark: It’s going to be so incredible I think every hotel is going to be sold out when people see this. You’re going to have like the Christian Embassies in Jerusalem all over the world there looking with the Jews looking at this super-blood moon over Jerusalem. I think it’s going to be a sense of awe and wonder and you got to be there!
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth
Tags: its supernatural, Sid Roth