We are going to share the teaching of Edward Chumney about the feasts of the Messiah.

We do not agree with all the details of your book, but we believe it contributes
many interesting and important data for a greater understanding of the calendar
Divine where the entire redemption program of Ha-Shem is revealed.
We hope it can be a blessing.
Stefan

Extract from the book:

THE SEVEN PARTIES

OF THE MESSIAH
For

Edward Chumney

Translated into Spanish by Pedro Navarro

Prologue

The feasts of the Lord are found in chapter twenty-three of the Book of Leviticus.
(Va-Yikrá) contains fascinating and revealing study themes from the Bible, in addition
of the inspiring, although at the same time, they may probably be the least
understood. This book will guide you, step by step, through each celebration, examining the
fundamental truths that God wanted us to learn when He gave them to us
god.

Believers, who are lovers of the Bible as the Word of God, will discover that
The Festivals of the Lord are not just historical events but also prophetic. They speak, with
every detail of the first and second coming of the Messiah (Mashiach). In addition, the festivals
they give us a deep insight to develop the life that God wants us to live
as believers, and to understand our personal relationship with God.

For the Jew, this book will reveal to him the Messiah (Mashiach) in the traditions of the
ancient Jewish faith, faithfully transmitted from generation to generation. It will answer the
question "Is Jesus [the Hebrew term means 'Savior'] the longed for and expected
Messiah of Israel? Believers, non-Jews, will learn to appreciate the Jewish roots of
the Christian faith. In addition, passionate students of Biblical prophecy will discover
the keys to understanding The Seven Feasts of the Messiah, which will clarify a lot
mystery and confusion in this area.

Whatever their faith or religious background, I ask God that after there is
Having read this book, understand the revealing truths that God has placed in His feasts.
Leviticus (Va-Yikrá) 23:2,4, grow spiritually, and your walk with God flourishes in
a new dimension.

Special Note: I have written this book for biblical Christian believers, as well as for
Jewish readers. Both are passionate about the Word of God, His Ways and His
manifestation on earth. Because many Orthodox Jews will read this book, I
determined to honor his fervent commitment to never take the name of God in vain,
even pronouncing His Holy Name, in an audible voice. Therefore, when I refer to
directly to the Creator, I will omit certain letters such as: G-d or L-rd; or I will use a
designation that replaces it, such as "The Saint." I have also tried to retain the
Hebrew terminology for the festivals and the books of the Tanakh, or Old Testament, for
its precision, in order to make the content of this book equally flavorful,
both for the Jew and for the Gentile believer. May God richly bless you in your
search to learn more about His plan for humanity, and our destiny through
the Seven Festivals of the Holy Blessed Be He!

Edward Chumney

CHAPTER 1

THE DESIGNATED FESTIVITIES

Understanding Festivals

The feasts of the Lord that are found in Leviticus (Va-Yikrá) 23 were given by
God is your people so that we could understand the coinage of the Messiah (Mashiach), and
the role that the Messiah (Mashiach) would play in the redemption and restoration for God, both
of man as of the earth, after the fall of man in the Garden of Eden
Eden). Although most non-Jewish biblical believers have heard of the feasts, without
embargo, the deep meaning, as well as the importance of the festivals, have hardly been
understood still, universally.
 The Apostle Paul (Rabbi Shaul) wrote to the Gentile believers in Colossae that the
Feasts of the Lord, the days of the new moon, and the Shabbat, were a shadow of things to come.
come to teach us about the Messiah (Mashíaj) Colossians 2:16-17. Yeshúa (the
the Hebrew name of Jesus means 'Salvation') was the substance or fulfillment of the plan
superior to God had revealed, or given shadow in those seven important festivals. Everyone
readers who are familiar with the celebrations will be fascinated to discover that
the first four festivals - or celebrations - are: Passover (Pesach), Unleavened Bread
(The Festival of Matzot), First Fruits (Bikurim), and Pentecost (Shavuot), mainly
they teach the significant events in the first coming of the Messiah (Mashiach), and
the reason why these events were an important part in the redemption of the
man by G-d. He will also discover that the last three festivals are the Festival of the
Trumpets (Yom Teru'ah; also known as Rosh Hashanah), the Day of the
Atonement (Yom Kippur), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), give us a
fascinating perception regarding the important events surrounding the
second coming of the Messiah (Mashiach).

Why Study Festivals?

Many non-Jewish biblical believers wonder why they should study and observe
the parties. I think there are two good reasons. First, although everyone
Biblical believers love God with all their heart and seek to serve Him every day, the
most believers do not have a deep understanding of how to understand the
depth of the personal relationship that God wants us to have with Him. Most of
Biblical believers understand their relationship with God in the same way that I do.
I saw for many years: Attend regularly and faithfully the congregation of your choice, and be
a good person, moral, honorable, and decent in the development of your daily life. Because
it was what I knew, it was what I accepted. However, God began to teach me and to
show me deeper things regarding my relationship with Him, just like a
spiritual understanding of the festivals, which was a great key that opened this mystery. If
you are a biblical believer and wish to understand God in a way that is superior to how you
Parties will reveal the deepest things regarding your personal relationship.
with Himself.

Secondly, the festivals are the festivals of God and His appointed times that
we must observe, Leviticus (Va-Yikrá) 23:1-22,4. God gave the festivals to teach us
about the death, burial, and resurrection of the Messiah (Mashíaj); Giving his power to the
believers through the Holy Spirit (Ruach Ha-Kodesh); the resurrection of the dead; the
coronation of the Messiah, the weddings of the Messiah; the tribulation (Jevlei shel Mashíaj); the
second coming of the Messiah; the Millennium (The Messianic age or Atid Lavó); and many more
more things.

The Bible provides us with several powerful reasons to study and understand the
seven feasts of the Messiah.

1. The feasts are in the Bible, and all of the Bible is inspired by God, 2nd Timothy
3:16-17

2. The festivals are a shadow of the things to come and teach us about
the Messiah, Colossians 2:16-17; Hebrews 10:1.

The feasts are prototypes and prophetic examples and are like a shadow.
anticipation of significant events in God's redemption plan, 1st
For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and all ate the same spiritual food; and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them; they were struck down in the wilderness. Now these things occurred as examples for us, so that we might not desire evil as they did... Now these things happened to them as a warning, but they were written down for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

4. God gave us the holidays so that we could learn and understand the plan of
God's redemption for the world, just like our personal relationship with Him.
same, Romans 15:4.

5. The festivals, as part of the Torah (which means 'instruction'), are like a
master, or tutor, who guides us to the Messiah, Galatians 3:24.

The festivals point to the Messiah and to God's plan for the world, through the
Messiah, Psalm (Tehilim) 40:6-8; Hebrews 10:7.

7. Yeshúa (Jesus) came to fulfill everything that was written in the

Old Testament Tanakh, which consists of three parts: The Torah, the Prophets
(The Prophets), and the Writings (Ketuvim, represented by the Psalms - Tehilim) in the
concerning Him, Luke 24:26-27, 44-45; John 5:46-47.

8. The festivals establish the model of the celestial figures on earth, Hebrews.
8:1-2,5; 9:8-9,23; Éxodo(Shemot)25:8-9,40; Números(Ba-Midbar)8:4;
Ezekiel 43:1-6, 10-12.

9. The natural comes first, then the spiritual, 1st Corinthians 15:46-47.

10. By studying the natural, we can understand the spiritual (1 Corinthians 2:9-13; 2 Corinthians
4:18.1

What Does the Word Festival Mean in the Bible?

There are two important words in Hebrew that appear in Leviticus (Va-Yikrá)
chapter 23, and both are translated as party in Spanish. In verse 2, the word
party there, it is the Hebrew word "moed", as it says: "Speak to the children of Israel and
Tell them: The solemn festivals of the Lord... 'The word' moed 'means: 'An appointment,'
a set or designated time, a cycle or year, an assembly, a designated time, an hour
the exact time.2By understanding in Spanish, the meaning of the Hebrew word,
we can see that God is telling us that He is ordering 'an exact time or
"appointed time" when He has an appointment with humanity, to fulfill certain acts
of redemption. In fact, Yeshua (Jesus) came to the earth at the appointed time and
ordered by God, Galatians 4:2,4, and God has an exact time, or set time, when
in the future, He will judge the world, Acts 17:31.

In verse 6, there is another Hebrew word translated as feast: 'On the fifteenth day'
this month solemn feast of unleavened bread..."The Hebrew word "jag"
party3and it derives from the root of the Hebrew word 'jagag' which means:
move in a circle, march in a holy procession, celebrate, dance, have a party
solemn.4With this we can see that G-d gives the festivals as cycles to be
observed every year, so that by fulfilling them we can understand the
God's plan of redemption for the world; the role that the Messiah (Mashiach) would play in
that redemption; as well as our personal relationship with God regarding how to grow from
to be a biblical baby believer, to a mature one. Although God gave us the feasts to
to keep them, God never gave the festivals so that we could obtain His salvation by
to observe them, because salvation only comes through faith (Emuná). However, God did give
the celebrations with the purpose of teaching and instructing His people regarding His plan of
redemption as well as our personal relationship with Him.

The Fixed Place

The holidays are not only the times appointed by God, but they also should...
to be observed in the place fixed by God. God said that He would choose a place and that it would be
established there where His plan of redemption would be carried out. The Passover (Pesach), the
Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost (Shavuot), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)
they were to be observed at the appointed place, Deuteronomy (D'varim) 16:2,6,9-11, 13-16.
This place was Jerusalem (Yersushaláyim) 2 Kings (Melajim) 21:4. From this, we can
to see that Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) was appointed by God to be the place where
important events related to God's redemption plan would have
place. Yeshúa (Jesus) died, was buried, and resurrected in Jerusalem. The investiture of
the power of the believers by the Holy Spirit (Ruach Ha-Kodesh) took place in Jerusalem.
The Messiah (Yeshua) will return and set His feet on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem,
Zechariah (Z'jaryá) 14:4, and Jerusalem will be the center of attention and worldwide controversy
before the coming of the Messiah, Zechariah (Z'jaryá) 12:2,3; 14:2-4.

They were to gather three times a year

Although there are a total of seven festivals (seven is the divine number for perfection or
totality in the Bible), God divided the seven feasts into three main periods, or
stations. The Easter celebrations (Pesach), Unleavened Bread (Jag Ha-Matsot), and the
First Fruits (Bikurim) take place in the Hebrew month of Nisan, which is the first month.
of God's religious calendar, in the spring of the year. (We will examine this
a little later). The Festival of Weeks (Shavuot), or Pentecost, is
observe in the third month, which is the Hebrew month of Sivan. The Feast of Trumpets
(Yom Teruah), the Atonement (Yom Kipur), and the Tabernacles (Sukot) are observed in the
seventh month of Tishri, which falls in the autumn of the year, Exodus (Shemot) 23:14-17; 34:22-
23; Deuteronomy (D'varim) 16:16-17. The number three is the number of testimony and witness,
complete and perfect. Deuteronomy (D'varim) 17:6; 19:15; Matthew (Matityáhu) 18:19-
20; Luke 24:44-45; 2nd Corinthians 13:1; 1st Timothy 5:19; 1st John (Yohanan) 5:8. So
the festivals are a testimony of God's divine plan, and the role of the Messiah (Yeshua) in
the fulfillment of that plan. This is the message that is communicated to the believers
biblical regarding the three main periods of the year's celebrations.

Traditionally, non-Jewish biblical believers understand that the festivals are

exclusively Jewish festivals. However, Leviticus (Va-Yikrá) 23:1-2,4 tells us very
clearly these are the festivals of the Lord. In reality, God in His divine wisdom gives us
It was instructed that these festivals are for both Jews and non-Jews and should be celebrated.
together, one with the other, Deuteronomy (D'varim) 16:10-11, 14-16. In this
Deuteronomy (D'varim) 16:11, 14, the word translated into Spanish as
"Foreigner" is the Hebrew word "ger," which means the non-Jew (biblical believer).
gentile) who has joined the Jewish people himself. Therefore, the Lord is the Host of
the festivities, and all biblical believers are His guests.

The Biblical Calendar

In order to fully understand and appreciate that holidays are significant times
By God, it is important to understand the biblical calendar given by God for us.
There are two main calendars in the Bible. The first is called the civil calendar, and
it is used from Genesis (Be-Reshit) 1:1 to Exodus (Shemot) 12. The first month of
civil calendar is, Tishrei. Rosh Ha-Shaná (The Jewish New Year), the first day in the
civil calendar is the beginning of the new year. The second calendar in the Bible is the
religious calendar. The religious calendar is used from Exodus (Shemot) 12 until
Revelation 22. God established the religious calendar in Exodus (Shemot) 12:2, as a
testimony, as it is written: "This month shall be the beginning of months for you
this will be the first of the months of the year." The month that God was referring to was the month of
Aviv, Exodus 13:4, which is now called the month of Nisan. Before God established the
Nisan, as the first month of the religious calendar, was the seventh month in the
civil calendar. God gave the religious calendar for us to understand.
that these festivals, those He gave and those that are His appointed times, cast a shadow on
important events of redemption that would happen in the days He ordered
in the religious calendar. These important days of the religious calendar are the
the same days that He Himself appointed as feasts in Leviticus (Va-Yikrá) 23.
 Another reason why God gave a civil calendar and a religious calendar is to
that everyone who receives the Messiah (Yeshua) in their heart by faith (Emunah) experiences
two births. Just as Tishri 1 is the first day of the civil calendar, Nisan 1 is the
first day of the religious calendar, everyone who accepts the Messiah (Yeshua) in their life
it has a physical (civil) birth when it comes into the world, and another birth
spiritual (religious), the day he accepts the Messiah in his life. The following diagram illustrates
the two types of calendars showing the names of the months in the calendar
biblical.

The Biblical Calendar

Civil Calendar Religious Calendar

Tishri 1. Nisan (Aviv)
2. November 2. Iyar
3. Kislev 3. Sivan
4. Tevet 4. Tamuz
5th of Shvat 5. Of
6. Adar 6. Elul
7. Nisan (Spring)
8. Iyar Jeshván
9. Sivan 9. Kislev
10. Tamuz 10. Tevet
11. Av 11. Sh'vat
12. Elul 12. Adar

NOTES
Chapter 1 The Notable Festivals

1. Adapted from Kevin J. Conner’s The Feasts of Israel, (Portland, Oregon: Bible Temple
Publishing, 1980), p. 1.

2. James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, (Peabody, Massachusetts:

Hendrickson Pub. n.d.), definition#4150.

3. Strong’s #2282

Strong’s #2287