Joy To The Nations?
Another reason Don K Preston says if you're a Christian you need to think like a Jew. Sukkot, or as most English translation Bibles would call it, Feast of Tabernacles.
This morning Don says that the total of 70 bulls sacrificed during the feast was sacrifices for the other nations other than Israel. He said this was according to Rabbinic and non-Rabbinic sources and various scholars.
One thing's for sure, it wasn't because of Biblical sources. Leviticus 23 that lists the Lord's Feasts it never mentions the Feast of Tabernacles or any of the feast day sacrifices being for any other nation or people other than for Israel. Numbers 28 and 29 also never mentions their sacrifices are to be made for the nations of the world or the Gentiles. This was God's covenant with Israel, not the world.
There are Jewish traditions that claim the 70 bulls in the Feast of Tabernacles listed were for the 70 nations that descended from Noah's sons. https://israelmyglory.org/.../the-feast-of.../...
Below is a link to a page that can explain all the hyper preterist's confusion over the 70 bulls sacrificed on during the Feast of Tabernacles. If you watch this morning blatherings, Preston calls "Morning Musings" you'll get the feeling he doesn't know the scriptures as well as he knows his opinion.
The Bible in Leviticus 23 and Number 28-29 is silent on exactly why the number of bulls added up to 70. It's NOT silent on who was to observe the Feast.
https://www.thetorah.com/article/sukkots-seventy-bulls...
Don K Preston has went everywhere on the net looking for sources to back up his claims that Sukkot has anything to do with the nations. It didn't. The Bible tells us what we are supposed to know about the types and shadows of Christ the Messiah. Jesus fulfilled the types and shadows and He is the True. I believe Preston got his nonsense from David Curtis, the Falt Earth Full Preterist who also wrote a book on the feast days and how they apply to us whether we know it or not.
Preston uses extra Biblical sources like Josephus and Encyclopedia Judaica he references in his book and states the 70 sacrifices were each one for each for the nations. Then he quotes from a Rabbi and says "Woe to the nations", says Rabbi Ohana(not sure how to spell it). Preston then adds "Why? Because the temple is destroyed and sacrifices had ended.
Think of it. According to the Rabbi Preston quotes it was "Woe to us, we have no temple or sacrifices", No, it was "Woe to the nations" where the gospel of the Messiah was being spread! LOL!
Really this hyper preterism is just a ridiculous doctrine that only survives on extra Biblical nonsense. These "Feast Day" videos Preston has done the past bunch of weeks are really something. We can all see Christ in the Old Testament when we study and look for Him. We are NOT to plug in our imaginations when we don't have an understanding. Preston and Curtis both are doing what Jonathan Conn, John Hagee, Jack Van Impe (deseased) and their ilk have done for years. They have dragged in "Jewish tradition" and even made their own "discoveries" that just aren't there. For example, Jonathan Conn found the Twin Towers knocked down on 9-11 in Isaiah 9:10 and wrote the book "The Harbinger".
Leviticus 23 and Numbers 28-29 were God calls these days "His Feasts", and He has them written to the children of Israel, and says NOTHING about 70 bull sacrifices for the nations of the world, Curtis or Preston have No Right to plug in the traditions of men and tell us "The Feast of Tabernacles were for the nations".
Look at verses 42 and 43 and what God said concerning the Feast of Tabernacles
"""" ‘You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, ‘that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.’ ”"""
Leviticus 23 says absolutely nothing about "the nations". But this morning with his ramblings Preston was pointing to Rabbis, Scholars, Jewish encyclopedias, his own books, he went everywhere trying to explain how the 70 sacrifices were for the nations. Not ONE Bible verse, no not one. It's not in Leviticus or Numbers where the Lord's Feasts are commanded to the Israelites. Preston kept going on about some Rabbi saying "woe is Rome" because they destroyed the temple which meant "No more sacrifice for them". The Jews weren't supposed to be sacrificing for Rome in the first place! He kept on going about how the Israelites sacrificed for the Romans which is supposed to mean the Israelites had always made the 70 bull sacrifices to the nations. Well Preston, they didn't have the authority Ever to make the Feast of Tabernacles sacrifices about the nations in the first place!
We can see types and shadows when we look most of the time. But when they are not clear, it's not up to us to invent them. Peter gives us the clear interpretation of how baptism is the anti-type to the flood. Jesus tells us Jonah in the belly of the fish was a sign of His resurrection. But why 70 bulls sacrificed for the feast of Tabernacles, we're not told and inventing reasons to sell a book and a false hyper preterist doctrine is not Biblical and certainly not Christian.
The Morning Musing series of the Lord's Feast Days is another example of Don K Preston and David Curtis and all the hyper preterists who tell us we have to think like an ancient Jew to understand the Bible, this is the kind of confusion and nonsense it leads to.