Continues from: Review of Some APPARENT Inconsistencies of The Cross We left off holding a conundrum. The feast sequence places Atonement after Pentecost, still ahead of us — yet the cross is saturated with Atonement fulfillments. Both true, and flatly contradictory if we read the timeline as a single line. The trouble is the single line….
The feasts land in sequence, at their appointed times. The pattern holds — Passover, Unleavened Bread, the counting of weeks, Pentecost, each fulfilled when the calendar said it would be. That sequence has always placed Atonement’s fulfillment in the future: after Pentecost, after Christ’s return, still ahead of us. Passover Unleavened Bread Wave Sheaf Feast of…
This is the second of two sermons I gave in the fall of 2000, at a United Church of God congregation in Cincinnati — about twenty-five years ago, a month after the one on Trumpets. As with the first, I’ve left it close to how it was spoken and cleaned it up only enough to…