#A80: ALTAR OF SACRIFICE WATER LIBATIONS

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by Luis B. Vega
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Note, the Rapture Event will be as a ‘Birth’. During the Feast of Tabernacles or Sukkot, i.e., Booths, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to observe the Feast. Tabernacles commemorated the Shelters in which the Israelites were living in and how YHVH provided them with Water. This is Key to one’s Argument of how one will show how the Feast of the New Wine, corresponding to the Acts 2 Pentecost Event is when the Fulfillment of the Holy Spirit coming down to indwell Believers in Jesus.
 

One will argue that it could not have been on the Shavuot that the Jews celebrate the First Fruits of the Wheat. One links the Wedding of Cana, being Jesus’ 1st Miracle of turning the Water into Wine. One will argue that the Water Libation that the High Priest would pour-out upon the Altar, always commemorated as Water, would be turned to Wine. How So? It is that during the Acts 2 Pentecost Event, it was at this Place and Time, being the 2nd 50 Day Count, based on one’s Calculation, etc.
 

It was at that Place and Time where the High Priest would take the First Fruits of the New Wine and pour it out, as the Libation, like it was during Tabernacles. This is why the Acts 2 ‘2nd Shavuot’ Count, that one calculates concurred with July 23 is when the ‘Water turned to Wine’. It was and is emblematic of the New Covenant being fulfilled and the Church Age having started. Thus, one’s Working Theory is that perhaps it will be a corresponding New Wine Feast, synchronized with what Acts 2 describes. 

It is also evident in that the Disciples were mocked for being ‘Drunk’ on the New Wine. This is ‘Impossible’ to be even hinted at during a Shavuot Feast in Early June. One’s Rationale for this Tabernacle to Pentecost of a July, not a June Observance is inspired by the Sermon called, Living Water: The Holy Spirit from John 7 by Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel Church. One will be paraphrasing the Points he made.
 

Here is the specific Context to set-up for the Feast of Tabernacles and why it is extremely important as a Prophetic Reference Point, in supporting one’s New Wine Theory, corresponding to a July Pentecost, that was Acts 2, etc. In the Gospel of John 7, it is of the account of how Jesus stood-up on the 7th Day of Sukkot or Tabernacles. And that is when the High Priest would walk down from the Temple Mount to the Procession leading down to the Pool of Siloam. 

Echoes of Cana
He would fill a Golden Pitcher with that Water and retrace his steps back to the Temple Mound and arrive at the Giant Altar of Sacrifice. The Multitudes of People would be there also gathered for the Spectacle, etc. It was at this Point in Time, that Jesus stood up at the Feast of Tabernacles and spoke about Living Water. The Point is that, according to the Apostle John, writing the Narrative, was referring to the Holy Spirit. 

This is, in fact, the 1st Occasion in the Gospels where the Holy Spirit chose this particular Ceremony, the Feast of Tabernacles, to introduce the Holy Spirit. It was to be the Place and Time where GOD the Holy Spirit come, to indwell, as a Seal, Unconditional upon the Believers and Followers of Jesus. And when would that occur? Based on one’s Theory, again, at the Feast of the First Fruits of the New Wine in. This corresponded to the July Pentecost Timing of the End of the Wheat Harvest, etc. 

One must realize that in verse 39, John said this, concerning the Holy Spirit that was to yet be given or descend from Heaven. It was who was yet to be received as a Deposit in the Near Future because Jesus was not yet glorified or gone up to Heaven to present His Body and Blood. What needs to be noted is that, as mentioned, this is the 1st Time in John's Gospel where it is mentioned that one can receive the Holy Spirit personally. Prior to Acts 2, the Holy Spirit was ‘Localized’. 

So, one’s Point is that the Water Libation was an Offering of Praise to YHVH for providing Water from the Rock, etc. And that Rock was Christ Jesus. The pouring-out of the Water by the High Priest is what Jesus used, as an Opportunity to declare that He was and is the Living Water. It was so important, enough to interrupt a Public Ceremony to interject at the closing of the Verse in Isaiah, that it is He that the Verse was foretelling about.
 

The Feast of Tabernacles was and is a Remembrance of YHVH’s Provision that is celebrated for 7 Day. However, there is an 8th Day, now called Shemini Atzeret. And it is coupled with an additional Day called Simchat Torah. This is the Reading of the Law where the King and High Priests, in audience with the ‘Many’ or the L’Rabbim along with the People hear the ‘Confirming of the Covenant’. Which Covenant? 

The Mosaic one in one’s Interpretation, etc. One’s other Working Theory is that this will be the Occasion for the coming False Jewish Messiah to proclaim as comes in ‘His own Name’. It will be also at that Place and Time where he, like Jesus will speak-up loudly in the Presence of Elders of Zion and the People. He will be next to the Altar of Sacrifice and ‘Confirm the Covenant’.
 

This is one’s Interpretation and obviously, one could be totally off. But he will be the one that is accepted and crowned King Messiah by the Modern Sanhedrin, etc. Based on this Model, the Timeline one has plotted for a Fall 2025 to Fall 2032 Tribulation is very telling. So, on the 7th Day of Sukkot, the High Priest would pour-out the Libation of water from the Golden Pitcher as he quoted Verses from the Book of Isaiah. One of the Verses was Isaiah 12:3 and the other was Isaiah 44:3 which says the following.

Surely YHVH is my Salvation [Yeshua]; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my Strength and my Song, and He also has become my Salvation [Yeshua or Jesus]. With Joy you will draw Water from the Springs of Salvation[Yeshua], and on that Day you will say: ‘Give Praise to YHVH; proclaim His Name! Make His Works known among the Peoples; declare that His Name is exalted’. -Isaiah 12:2-4

This is the Word of YHVH, your Maker, who formed you from the Womb and who will help you: “Do not be afraid, O Jacob My Servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen. For I will pour Water on the Thirsty Land, and Currents on the Dry Ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your Descendants, and My Blessing on your Offspring. They will sprout among the Grass like Willows by Flowing Streams. -Isaiah 44:2-4

Imagine this Scene as the High Priest and the Sanhedrin and the People are all gathered at the Temple Precinct. And after the High Priest finishes reciting the Verses from Isaiah, there is a somber silence. It is at this Time and Place when Jesus, then stands-out and in a Loud Voice proclaims the Following. Jesus was basically declaring that what the High Priests have been quoting, Year-after -Year from Isaiah, it was referencing Him. It is Jesus that can only offer the Living Water that was poured-out upon the Altar of Sacrifice.

And it would be through the Crucifixion that, it literally occurs as 1 of the 7 Sayings of Jesus on the Cross of Calvary was, ‘I am poured-out like Water, etc. But here is where one is attempting to cross-reference this Water being poured-out on the Altar of Sacrifice with the pouring-out of the Wine on the same Altar, but at the Acts 2 Pentecost Event. And this is what one argues coincided with the Feast of the New Wine. In fact, no New Wine could be drunk until the High Priest would pour out.
 

Thus, one’s Point is that the First Fruits of the New Wine was as a similar Libation done back on the Last and Great Day of Sukkot, being the 7th Day. Thus, one’s Main Point is that this is a fulfillment of how the Event of the Water Libation on the Last Day of Sukkot ‘transformed’ into the Wine being then poured-out in Acts 2. The Connection is that John explicitly explains that the Water that Jesus was inferring to was the coming Holy Spirit, that is attributed like being Water poured out, etc.
 

This is one’s Wedding of Cana Miracle and a fulfillment of a Prophetic Arch. And here are more Connections to how the Waters of Tabernacles is fulfilled in the New Wine of a July, end of Summer Wheat Harvest. Before Jesus ascended on Shavuot, the 1st 50 Day Count, He stated that He would not leave Disciples as Orphans. Jesus assured them that Time was coming, (In 50 more Days), when GOD the Holy Spirit would come and indwell them.
 

It served to secure the Deposit of the Full Promises to come, but to also be empowered to carry out the Great Commission for nearly 2 Prophetic Days or 2000 Years that would be the Church Age. As noted, the Holy Spirit could not Descend until Jesus would Ascend. So, in Jesus’ Parting Words, He instructed His Disciples to wait in Jerusalem. Although Jesus mentioned ‘A Few Days’, it became just like Israel got disheartened and impatient at Moses for spending, likewise 40 Day on Mount Sinai. So? 

The Coming Birth of the Church Age
So, the Disciples went back to Galilee to fish. As it turned out to be a total of 50 more Days, it had not occurred to them that the Out-Pouring of the Holy Spirit coming down with Power and Fire would coincide with that other Libation, the New Wine one. Obviously, this is one’s Interpretation. 

I baptize you with Water, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose Sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and Fire. -Matthew 3:11

Now the next Segment is also very telling. As many may know from one’s Research and Interpretation of who the ‘Covenant with the Many’ will be, here is the Action or Event where, in one’s Estimation, Jesus, being the True King, Christ and Messiah actually performs and declares the Covenant. Which one? The New Covenant. How so? 

Consider that it was on the 8th Day of Assembly, right after Jesus had Declared what the Water of Life was really, Him, it was the next day that Israel also gathered to Read the Law. It was as in the Tradition of King Solomon, then Ezra in the Dedication of the Temples. And it was at that Place and Time when the Covenants were ‘Confirmed’, etc. So, if one considers the Tie-in between when Jesus ‘Confirmed’ this New Covenant to when it actually occurred or was fulfilled? The ramifications are astonishing.
 

But some People may argue, ‘Wait a Minute, where was the King then?’ One must realize that when Jesus stood-up and in a Laud Voice proclaimed that He was and is that Water Libation that Prophetically Inferred the Holy Spirit coming, He was the King. Not only that, at that Place and Times, Jesus operated in all of His 3 Office, at the same Time and in the Same Person. He was and is the following.
 

1. Prophet
 

2. Priest
 

3. King

One is assuming that when Jesus stood-up and Proclaimed the Living Water Narrative, it was in His Last Year of his Public Ministry. Meaning that if one takes the present Year, as an Approximation or Similarity, then the following. The Last and Great Day of the Feast, i.e., Sukkot or Tabernacles occurred on October 22, 2024. If Jesus was then Crucified in the following Year, ‘Gregorian’, that was then Passover of April 14, etc. 

So, Shemini Atzeret in 2024 began at Sunset on October 23 and ended at Nightfall on October 24. 

OCTOBER 23, 2024
Shemini Atzeret ending at Nightfall on October 24.

+ 9 Months (Human Gestation Period)

JULY 23, 2025

Speculated New Wine Pentecost of Acts 2

End of the Commission
As many may know, for several Years now, one has postulated that July 23 (723) was when the Holy Spirit came down. It initiated and empowered the Disciples for the Great Commission, etc. One’s Working Theory is that perhaps, the Holy Spirit will ‘Ascend’ back to Heaven in the Body of the Bride of Christ, i.e., the Rapture. One speculates that it could rightly conclude the Church Age, as it began, on its Anniversary. 

The Great Commission will have been achieved. And this is Reason for why the Church Age Dispensation cannot cross over into the Time of Jacob’s Trouble. It is because the Holy Spirit will have been set-aside as the Corporate Restrainer as the Church Body of Christ is no longer on Earth. And the 2000 Year Duration, to the Year will see the final 7 Years be enjoyed as the ‘Honeymoon’ in Heaven. It will correspond to the 7 Years that Israel or Jacob still owes YHVH for not keeping the Sabbaths of the Land, etc.
 

Shemini Atzeret is celebrated on the 22nd Day of the Hebrew Month of Tishrei, following the Festival of Sukkot. So, one asked, ‘Is 2025 the Year or should one look for another?’ It so happens that from October 22, 2024, the 7th Day of Tabernacle to one’s New Wine Pentecost of July 23 is guess how many Months? It is precisely 9 Months. And? This is the duration of the Human Gestation Period. 

Sure, it would be mere coincidence, but one found it rather astonishing in that it is in-line with the Typology of a Birthing expectant. And is not the End of the Church Age like a Birth, a Harvest, that 153 Fish caught it the Net? Did not the Apostle Paul teach in terms of this very precise Metaphor of having Christ be formed in a Disciple. And upon the collective completion, ‘Christ is born in a Person?’
 

Nevertheless, it is Good to be Zealous if it serves a Noble Purpose—at any Time, and not only when I am with you. My Children, for whom I am again in the Pains of Childbirth until Christ is formed in you, how I wish I could be with you now and change my Tone, because I am perplexed about you. -Galatians 4:18-20

1) So, in Summary, one attempted to demonstrate, from Scripture how the Water Libation on the 7th Day of Sukkot is when Jesus Decreed that the New Covenant, inapparent Israel at the Time and Place was Himself. And that according to John, it was a Direct Inference to the Holy Spirit, etc. 

2) And that it would be fulfilled, literally at a time when the Holy Spirit would descend. And at that Time and Place, corresponded to the other Libation upon the Altar of Sacrifice, but this Time, the New Wine.
 

3) And this is why it is ‘Impossible’ for the Holy Spirit Descent to be corresponding to the Jewish Feast of Sukkot, in early June.
 

4) But in fact, that a Day Count from the Last and Great Day of the Feast, being Sukkot, to one’s July 23, supposed True Pentecost Timing of Acts 2 is exactly 9 Months. Surely if nothing, something is going to be ‘Birthed’ on July 23, 2025? Perhaps.
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The following Segment will explain the Chart that accompanies this Study.
 

3 ALTAR LIBATIONS TO NEW WINE

Mathematical Relationship from Sukkot to the Crucifixion to New Wine
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f14ztKQXwM8oOefUhusOmApM05UZiNBh/view?usp=drive_link 

The purpose of this Chart is to depict the Timeline, which is 9 Months from the Last and Great Day of the Feast, being Sukkot to one’s calculated New Wine Pentecost of Acts 2, being on a July 23. One will use the 2024 to 2025 Calendar Year Time-Span as an Approximation with the Phi Ratio Spiral superimposed to denote that the Crucifixion was the Confirming Ratio. One’s Theory is that in all 3 Time Markers of Sukkot, the Crucifixion and New Wine, had an Altar Libation Association. 

In the case of Sukkot, it was Water. In the case of the New Wine, it was Wine. But in the case of Jesus’ Crucifixion, it was both Water and Blood as Wine, etc. One conjectures that from Sukkot to New Wine, the Transformation of the Water into Wine as it was demonstrated, Miraculously at the Wedding of Cana occurs Prophetically. What this Timeline and Theory proposes, is that the New Wine, in July is when the Holy Spirit descended, as that New Wine for the New Wine Skins, i.e., the New Covenant, etc. And that perhaps, the Rapture Event is when that will also correspond to the Feast of New Wine. 

Phi Ratio
The Phi Ratio, Phi (Φ), also known as the Golden Ratio, is an Irrational Number approximately equal to 1.618. It is defined Mathematically as the Ratio where a Line is divided into 2 Parts such that the Ratio of the Whole Line to the Longer Part is equal to the Ratio of the Longer Part to the Shorter Part. 

Foreshadowing of the Holy Spirit
Once the High Priest finished the Water Libation on the 7th Day of Sukkot to conclude it, Jesus stood-up and stated in a Loud Voice…

‘If anyone is Thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: Streams of Living Water will flow from within him’. -John 7:37-38

SUKKOT
It is an Altar Libation of Water. Jesus ‘Confirms the Covenant’ to come, the New Covenant whose Emblems will be Bread and Wine. Priest takes a Golden Pitcher and draws Water from the Pool of Siloam. He then pours-out the Water as a Libation on the Altar of Sacrifice as he recites from the Book of Isaiah. 

CRUCIFIXION
It is an Altar Libation of Water and Blood (Wine). This Act of Love is what is able to transform the Water into Wine in a Human Soul. Jesus’ Free Gift of Salvation encompasses the Spirit, the Soul and the Body. It is at the Rapture and New Wine Timing that the Glorification of the Body will finally be achieved.

Jesus at the Cross (Altar)
I am poured out like Water, and all my Bones are disjointed. My Heart is like wax; it melts away within me. -Palm 22:14

And that was the Place and Time of how the Cross also became an Altar. And that is how the Water is changed to Wine. Jesus is that Transforming Agent. And thus, why one is more convinced that the Feast of New Wine is when what Jesus declared in Sukkot, was accomplished in the Acts 2 Pentecost, coinciding with the New Wine. It was as the Waters of the Wedding at Cana was turned to Wine.

NEW WINE
It is an Altar Libation of Wine. It coincides with the Pouring-out of the Holy Spirit. The Acts 2 Account records how GOD the Holy Spirit came down, as Promised and was poured-out as Wine. The Disciples were mocked for being Drunk on the New Wine. This could not have been said at the Jewish Shavuot of Sivan 6. One argues that the 2nd 50-Day Count is when the Church was ‘Birthed’ and empowered for the Great Commission. And that perhaps, on its Anniversary, in some Year, the Rapture Event will conclude it.

Then Peter stood-up with the 11, lifted-up his Voice, and addressed the Crowd: ‘Men of Judea and all who dwell in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and listen carefully to my Words. These Men are not Drunk, as you suppose. It is only the 3rd Hour (9AM) of the Day! No, this is what was spoken by the Prophet Joel’. -Acts 2:14-16

Does this corroborate the Timing of the Rapture to conclude the Church Age?
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