2015 Presents Startling Alignment of Prophetic Events

This year brings amazing signs in skies and Scriptures. Blood moons, solar eclipses, Jewish festivals and a Sabbath year align in startling ways for anyone with eyes to see and ears to hear.

Springtime Holy Days

God designed the Jewish year’s seven special festivals around His prophetic calendar. Best- known is Passover, announcing Spring, promising new life and harvest.

At Passover, a spotless lamb was slain to apply its blood on the door of the home and to be roasted for a festal meal, picturing Calvary: “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us” (1 Cor. 5:7). The Jewish people celebrate exodus from slavery, and Christians find liberation from sin and death through the cross. We are redeemed by the “precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish” (1 Peter 1:19-20).

The feast of unleavened bread follows, as the observant Jewish family removes all leaven from their household and diet for seven days. Leaven symbolizes sin, spreading secretly, puffing up with pride. “Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth” (1 Cor. 5:8).

On the cross Christ forever put away our sins: “now, once in the end of the world hath He appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself” (Hebrews 9:27). As leaven was put out of the house, our record of sin has been forever removed. “My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part, but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, It is well, praise the Lord, oh my soul!”

Removing leaven calls every believer in Christ to diligently search and remove sin from his life. Christ has removed the guilt of our sins, now let us remove their reality and practice: “let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness” (2 Cor. 7:1).

Within the week comes the feast of firstfruits, the first day after the Sabbath, which foretells the resurrection of Jesus: “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept” (1 Cor. 15:20). As the Jewish worshipper came before the Lord to wave the first stalks of planting, so Jesus was the first to rise from the dead never to die again! His first fruit offering anticipates an abundant harvest, and His resurrection is the pledge of many more on that day when He returns (1 Thess. 4:16-17).

Signs in the Heavens