"The story of Abraham and Lot before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, for example, is rich with Passover/Exodus themes, including that both Abraham and Lot keep a festival-type meal (including unleavened bread) with the angels on the day before the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. The angels indicate to Abraham that the birth of the promised child will be a year from then at the “appointed time.” The word used here is “mow-ed.” Since this word is the same word used for the Feast days, just as in Genesis 1:14 where it was instituted that the sun and moon were given to designate the “mow-ed” (seasons/feasts), in essence the angel could be saying that at the time of the Feast the following year she would have the promised child. The whole story of the Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis 18, followed by the birth of the promised child exactly a year later on the "mow-ed" (Gen 21:2), appointed time of God, provides more evidence that the yearly observance of the feasts was probably already in place. "
"On the 10th day of the 2nd month he was told to go into the ark and the animals to go in with him. Then they were in the ark for 7 days. The 10th day of the first month was the beginning of the Passover season of the Exodus, when the children of Israel were to choose the lamb before leaving Egypt (Exodus 12:3). But God also indicated that someone were in a time of quarantine after touching a dead body (Numbers 9:6-13) the appointed time could be kept a month later. It is almost without question that Methuselah, Noah’s grandfather, would have died in the weeks before the Flood, for several reasons, and this would have made Noah unclean from dealing with his death. Even though they didn’t have all of the ceremonial laws then, some of the basic rules of cleanliness, sanitation, etc. are timeless and likely would have been in place or acknowledged by God in the timing of the Flood."
"Methuselah was the longest living man in history. The Bible says in Genesis 5:27 that he lived 969 years total. But when did he die? Genesis 5:25 says Methuselah was 187 years old when he had Lamech, and that Lamech was 182 years old when he had Noah. Noah was 600 years old when the Flood came, and 187 + 182 + 600 = 969, so Methuselah died the year of the Flood."
As many have pointed out, his name comes from two root words “muth” meaning death, and “shalach” meaning “to bring”- or literally “his death shall bring.” As we know from Jude 1:14 and the fact that he was translated without seeing death- Methuselah’s father Enoch was a prophet. So, he very likely foresaw the events of the Flood and when his son would die, so likewise made his son’s name a living prophecy. The fact that a man who was in essence named “when he dies it will come” was the longest-living human who has ever lived shows the mercy of God on sinners. God did not want to bring judgment until every possible chance was given for repentance.
So according to God’s appointed times, the 10th day of the 2nd month could also be considered the beginning of the Passover time under those circumstances, and the 14th day would have been the Passover. We are not told that Moses kept the Passover on the 14th day inside the ark, but neither are we told that he kept the 7th day Sabbath, yet that doesn’t mean we assume he didn’t keep it. The Biblical themes that connect with these Flood events also help us to know that it was likely Passover (seem more below).
"The following week when the rains began on the 17th day of the month and the fountains of the earth opened up would not likely have been on the Sabbath day either, the Lord’s day of rest and peace, so it makes more sense that the day of judgment and distruction could have been a Sunday. They were shut in the ark for 7 days from the 10th day of the month until the 17th. If the 10th day of the month was Sunday, Thursday would have been the 14th day, Passover. When Passover is on Thursday, the Sunday of the wave sheaf/Firstfruits occurs on the 17th day of the month. As is clarified in Leviticus 23:15,16, the firstfruits must be on Sunday after the 7th day Sabbath, as the start of a count of 7 Sabbaths until Pentecost."
"For reference, the total time of the Flood was about a year and 10 days -from Noah’s 600th year of life, the 2nd month and 17th day of the year, to his 601st year of life, the 2nd month and 27th day of the year, as it says in the following verses;
Gen 7:11 “In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
Gen 8:13-14 “And it came to pass in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, that the waters were dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and indeed the surface of the ground was dry. And in the second month, on the twenty-seventh day of the month, the earth was dried.”
"The Patriarch Joseph interestingly enough kept the Feast of Trumpets! Psalms says, “Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. “For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. “This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.” (81:3-5). The only “New Moon” which is a “solemn feast day” and is about blowing Trumpets – (see Leviticus 23:24) is the Feast of Trumpets that Joseph observed in Egypt. This was about 400 years BEFORE Sinai!"
"In Genesis 18 when the angels visited Abraham then went to Sodom to destroy it, they said to
Him, “At the time appointed [moedim] I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and
Sarah shall have a son.” (v.14). The “time of life” means, “[Hebrew, kaa`eet (H6256) chayaah
(H2416); with the reviving year] - i:e., the coming spring, when the winter shall be past and
nature revives (Gesenius). [Septuagint, kata ton kairon touton eis hooras (cf. 2Kings 4:16-17).]”
(Jamieson Faussett and Brown Commentary, emphasis added). At an appointed time “moedim”
meaning feast or season, in the spring Isaac was to be born.
The birth of Isaac was to occur exactly the next year at the same time, as the Pulpit Commentary
explains, “Literally, at the time reviving; i.e. when the year shall have been renewed, in the next
year, or rather spring;” (emphasis added). So it was in the spring that Sodom was destroyed.
Also Abraham prepared a meal for them, “And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
“Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
“And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for
therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
“And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures
of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
“And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young
man; and he hasted to dress it.
“And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he
stood by them under the tree, and they did eat. “ (Gen 18:3-8). This meal was “[Hebrew, cª'iym
(H5429)]. The seah contained six cabs, and three seahs made an ephah - i:e., about three pecks of
meal, baked into unfermented or unleavened cakes, made the supply of bread on a scale equal to
that of the animal food.” (Jamieson Faussett and Brown Commentary, emphasis added)."
"It is obvious that this was during the spring season during the Passover and the days of
unleavened bread.
After this they headed to Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18:16). Sodom and Gomorrah was
destroyed during this time.
This meal that Lot prepared was the meal eaten during the festival of unleavened bread, or else
why eats unleavened bread? How did Lot know that it was the unleavened bread season?
Abraham himself understood about the days of unleavened bread, and obviously told Lot. When
was this established? "
"When God made that Covenant with Abraham in Genesis the 15th chapter and showed him what
would come to pass to his seed in Egypt “and they shall afflict them four hundred years;” (v.13)
And that God would deliver them-this covenant was made on the Passover. Notice the scripture
says, “And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day
it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.”
God made the covenant with Abraham, “In the same day the LORD made a covenant with
Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river Euphrates:” (v.18). That same day was the day that started the 430 year count down.
This fact was important enough to be recorded in scripture. If the very day of Passover and the
Days of Unleavened were not important, it would not have been mentioned in a passage that
commands the observance of this festival from generation to generation."
"Eve at the Birth of her son, Cain said, “I have gotten a man from the LORD.” (Gen 4:1). This
should really read, “I have gotten a man—Jehovah” (Jonathon, Luther, Baumgarten, Lewis);
Many realize that Eve when she named Cain “signifies acquisition;” (Barnes Notes). Most
expositors think that Eve imagined Cain to be the promised seed that should bruise the head of
the serpent therefore being the Messiah (Gen 3:15). The idea of Passover going all the way back
to Eden is plausible knowing that Eve knew that a Messiah must appear to defeat the devil and to
pay the penalty for the sins of the world. Already Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel sacrificing
to God for their sins (Gen 4:3-5). Further back than this we see the sacrificial system instituted
after the fall of man (Gen 3:21; Rev 19:8).
God made coats of skins –“It is very likely that the skins out of which their clothing was made
were taken off animals whose blood had been poured out as a sin-offering to God; for as we find
Cain and Abel offering sacrifices to God, we may fairly presume that God had given them
instructions on this head; nor is it likely that the notion of a sacrifice could have ever occurred to
the mind of man without an express revelation from God. Hence we may safely infer 1. That as
Adam and Eve needed this clothing as soon as they fell, and death had not as yet made any
ravages in the animal world, it is most likely that the skins were taken off victims offered under
the direction of God himself, and in faith of Him who, in the fullness of time, was to make an
atonement by his death.” (Clarke’s Commentary, emphasis added)."
"Jacob anointed the rock and called it “God’s House.” Jesus is the Messiah; and Messiah means
“anointed one.”
Jesus body is called “God’s House.” The Church of God is called the “body of Christ” which is
the “house of God” (see 1 Corinth 12:27; 1 Tim 3:15; Heb 3:6).
Added to this, John wrote in his Gospel, “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”
The “Word” which is Jesus “dwelt” among us. The word “dwelt” should read “Tabernacled.”
Strong’s states, “Grk. skēnoō to tent or encamp, that is, (figuratively) to occupy (as a mansion) or
(specifically) to reside (as God did in the Tabernacle of old…” (#4637). God’s house was the
Tabernacle in the wilderness. It was his house that he dwelt, “And let them make me a sanctuary;
that I may dwell among them” (Ex 25:8).
Jesus dwelt in a “Tabernacle,” his body. Solomon wrote speaking of the temple or house of God,
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot
contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?” (1 Kings 8:27). When did Solomon
says this? On the Feast of Tabernacles (1 Kings 8:2). On this feast he asked when God would
dwell on the earth. Jesus Christ was born on the Feast of Tabernacles (Read our Booklet on
Christmas). Why would John use that language unless Jesus was born on that day?
Now when it comes to Jacob, him anointing the stone, and the angels ascending and descending
on it-this has all the ear marks of the feast of Tabernacles!"
"Now when it comes to Jacob, him anointing the stone, and the angels ascending and descending
on it-this has all the ear marks of the feast of Tabernacles!
Many commentators agree that the ladder was, “…probably a type of Christ, in whom both
worlds meet, and in whom the Divine and human nature are conjoined. The Ladder was set up
on the Earth, and the Top of it reached to Heaven; for God was manifested in the Flesh, and in
him dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. Nothing could be a more expressive emblem of
the incarnation and its effects; Jesus Christ is the grand connecting medium between heaven and
earth, and between God and man.” (Clarkes Commentary, emphasis added).
This dream was about the incarnation of Christ-of Christ “Tabernacling” on the earth as a man."
"After the dream Jacob did not live in Palestine his permanent home but went out of his land into the lands of the east (Gen 29:1). He dwelt in tents-temporary homes, not his permanent home in Palestine. This is the whole meaning of the feast of Tabernacles."
"Jacob left after serving 20 years under Laban (Gen 31:41). God told him to return to Israel and
God mentioned the dream at Bethel (Gen 31:13). Why mention that time unless it was near the
same time of the year that the dream in Gen 28 took place? Jacob said 20 years elapsed from the
time he came to Laban house which took place after the dream in Gen 28. So it had to be near the
same time when he returned to Bethel where the covenant was re-established in Bethel again
(Gen 35). So most likely the dream of Jacob (Gen 28) took place on the Feast of Tabernacles.
"
"After the tribes of Israel came out of Egypt they had to wander in the wilderness for 40 years
"After the tribes of Israel came out of Egypt they had to wander in the wilderness for 40 years
before going in and possessing the Promised Land. While in the wilderness they had no
permanent dwellings. They wandered from place to place, setting up their tents, staying awhile,
then pulling their tents down and moving on.
The Israelites were heirs to the land God had promised to them. But they were not yet inheritors.
They were merely heirs waiting to become inheritors of the land of Canaan.
That is why they lived in temporary dwellings. They were sojourners, pilgrims. They lived in the
world of the wilderness, but they were not of it. Their inheritance was elsewhere.
Abraham too was also a stranger and a pilgrim! God told him, “And I will give unto thee, and to
thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an
everlasting possession; and I will be their God.” (Gen 17:8). When Abraham was in the land,
God still called him a “stranger.” His full inheritance was in the future in the Kingdom of God
when he would inherit the land for ever.
When Israel was to enter the land, God still told them, “…for the land is mine; for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me.” (Lev 25:23). Although they entered the land, their permanent
inheritance was still to come at the setting up of the Kingdom of God!
The book of Hebrews states, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which
he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed... By faith he sojourned [a temporary stay] in the land of promise, as in a strange country [because he hadn’t yet received it for his
inheritance], dwelling in tabernacles [tents, temporary dwellings] with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs
[not yet inheritors] with him of the same promise: For he looked for a city which hath
foundations [permanence], whose builder and maker is God” (Heb. 11:8-10).
Yes, Abraham in faith looked for the New Jerusalem and the glorious Kingdom of God. He and
other saints “died in faith, not having received the promises [the inheritance], but having seen
them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were
strangers and pilgrims on the earth” (verse 13).
They had seen them a “far off.” They were “persuaded of them” and “embraced them.” They
“confessed” that they were “tabernacling” in this world waiting for the world to come. They had
the knowledge of the meaning of the “tabernacle.” They knew of the spiritual significance of it,
and the Kingdom of God-the knowledge of salvation. Obviously God revealed to them this feast
as God revealed to Israel and the church of God. For we Christians are “strangers and pilgrims”
(1 Peter 2:11) in this life. We are in the wilderness of this world, but we are not of it (John 17:11,
14). We are separate from the world (Rev. 18:4) — heirs, but not yet inheritors, of our permanent
dwelling place, the promised Kingdom of God."
