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The second chapter of Acts records the fulfillment of the feast of Pentecost, which is known in the law as the feast of Weeks, because it came seven weeks after the wave sheaf offering (Leviticus 23:15). In other words, Pentecost came seven weeks after Jesus was raised from the dead. This feast was the culmination of the first work of Christ that fulfilled the Spring feast days.
The second set of feast days in the Autumn will be fulfilled in the second coming of Christ, when He works to set up His Kingdom. Popular eschatology, as taught today, seldom takes this into account, because few prophecy teachers understand that the second coming of Christ and the events surrounding it are all set forth in the Autumn feasts.
The feast of Trumpets prophesies of the resurrection of the dead; the Day of Atonement prophesies of the great repentance in the church for its failure to qualify for the great “change” (1 Corinthians 15:51). Five days later, the feast of Tabernacles marks the day that the living overcomers are changed into the likeness of Christ. The middle of the feast marks the time of Christ’s descent to join the Head with the Body, so that the Body is complete and qualified to be presented to the Father on the eighth day of Tabernacles. This is what many today call the rapture, the catching away. The problem is that those who teach the rapture fail to link it to the eighth day of Tabernacles, and so they also fail to see many key elements in this.
For present purposes, I will not take the time to prove the assertions above, because I have already taught these things many times in previous articles and books. Our present focus is on the first twelve chapters of the book of Acts.
Leviticus 14:1-7 describes an Old Covenant ritual to cleanse lepers. It requires two birds to cleanse a leper. The first one is killed; the second is dipped in the blood of the first bird and released alive into the open field. Leprosy is a biblical type of mortality—the disease we all received from Adam’s sin. This law tells us how to be cleansed and healed so that we may come into immortality.
The two birds prophesy of Jesus Christ in His two comings. In His first coming, He had to die; in His second coming, He is released into the open field. “The field is the world” (Matthew 13:38). So He comes with His robe dipped in blood (Revelation 19:13) to identify Him with the second dove in Leviticus 14:6.
Another prophecy in the law is in Leviticus 16, which speaks of two goats that were needed to cover sin on the Day of Atonement. The first goat was killed; the second was released alive into the wilderness. Lots were drawn to determine which goat was to be killed and which was to be sent into the wilderness.
The blood of the first goat was brought into the Most Holy Place and sprinkled on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant. Its purpose was to cover sin, and hence this took place on the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Kippur means “covering.” The purpose of the second goat was to remove sin. This describes the two-step process in our perfection. When we are justified by faith, our sin is covered, giving us a legal righteousness; when we are glorified through the feast of Tabernacles, our sin is actually removed.
The clearest illustration of the two works of Christ is set forth by the prophet Jonah. He was given two calls to preach to Nineveh. After his first call, he tried to flee but ended up in the belly of the whale (Jonah 1:17). His experience simulated death and resurrection and so he became a type of Christ in His first coming (Matthew 12:40).
After Jonah’s deliverance, he was called a second time (Jonah 3:1). This time he obeyed and preached to Nineveh. He was successful, the city repented, and it was not destroyed at that time. So also the second work of Christ in our time will see the salvation of the world through the preaching of the word under the power of the Holy Spirit.
The book of Acts provides us with a third witness, which establishes all things (Deuteronomy 19:15; 2 Corinthians 13:1). This is the focus of our present study. Acts 3-12 presents illustrations of the two works of Christ as manifested in Christ’s disciples themselves. In each case two disciples are linked together. One is killed, the other is delivered alive. Each illustration carries unique revelations about the two works of Christ in prophecy.
We will study each of these in this present study.
Dr. Stephen Jones has been writing blog posts since 2005 on a variety of topics from Bible Studies to World News, and he has been writing books since 1992. Dr. Jones' most important writings came after God brought him back into the full-time ministry in 1991. It is here that all his earlier years of searching the Scriptures began to come into clear focus. He combines a knowledge of the Old and New Testaments with a personal revelation of God that began and developed during the "wilderness" period of his life, which he often refers to as God's True Bible College... Read More
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