Did you know that the biblical marriage contract (ketubah) is an amazing eye opener for us as modern day believers?
A few weeks ago, I did an impromtu live on instagram about this topic. Every single time I share the concept of the ketubah I find myself almost overwhelmed by the vast amount of spiritual connotations it has. We can learn so so much from it! I can testify that it has made a massive difference in my faith walk and therefore I'd love to share it with as many people as possible. Who knows, it might mean something to you as well.
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Video Transcript:
Hello everybody. An impromptu life these days when my little one is napping or always when she's napping, I have to take the opportunities at hand and make the best of it. Yeah and a few of them ended up in lives. So today, while I'm waiting for a few people to join, this live will be available afterwards as well if you are unable to to watch it now. But today, I want to share, as some of you would know, I did a post on the, biblical feast yesterday and later today it's already available on the blog, but later today today, I will also post, another post on Instagram on the feast of Yom Teruah.
So Yom Teruah is the biblical feast, that will most likely if it's new moon tonight, it will start tonight or otherwise tomorrow night. So with the eye on the biblical festivals when I was writing the the blog we spot for for the feast of Yom Teruah, so if you don't know the blog that I'm talking about it's available on the website, in it I take a look at, the biblical festivals where it comes from, where they belong to the Jews or where they belong to God and if we still have to keep them or don't have to keep them and if we have to keep them, how do we keep them? So if it's a new concept or if you're used to it, you are so welcome to go over to the blog. I've really done an extensive blog post on this one. Usually, my blog posts are nice and short or to the shorter side but this one is quite long because I just told two friends of mine that I had coffee with this morning.
I told them that, usually every year I just do like a short post about the the feast and this year when I was starting to write the blog post there were just more stuff and more stuff and more stuff that comes up that I thought like, okay. I have to add this as well. I have to add this as well. And the beauty of it all is that, while we are on this journey of us our faith walk, I believe that there's always more. And every season that we celebrate the feast or, as you walk, never mind even the feast, but as you walk with Yeshua, you continue to grow, and he continues to show you more things and reveal more things to you.
So, yeah, with the with the concept of Yom Teruah, it's about the feast, where we celebrate that Yeshua is coming back to to fetch us his bride. And all throughout the scripture, we all throughout scripture, we see that, this concept of the the marriage festival of Jesus coming back for us as his bride and he's our bridegroom and we, can step into covenant with him. So even in the old testament and in the new testament, we read about this, covenant that God wants to make with his people and through Yeshua, we know in the old testament God made the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. One of my previous videos covered that but it's also in the blog post, and then now after Yeshua came, we, stand in the new covenant with him and he is our bridegroom and we are his bride. So if we want to understand the the entire idea behind the, the concept of this covenant and this husband and wife bride and bridegroom situation, we have to go back and we have to look at the things, the Hebrew perspective of it all because the bible was written in Hebrew originally because that was the language that was spoken and, if we can take a look at that a lot of a lot of things make so much sense.
So a while ago also I was at a, a ladies event praise and worship session where the girl shared about the the marriage contract and I loved listening, from someone else's perspective of how they see it because honestly, when I first heard about the marriage contract or the ketuba like they call it, the marriage arrangement, whatever you want to call it, agreement not arrangement, it it literally blew my mind and I was like if we only grasp this when we got married it will change the world for us but for each one of us not for me and my husband personally. We discuss it so many times and you will understand why I'm saying that but it's such a massive concept to grasp in our lives and I love to hear how other people see it and we can always say we all know in part and then we can all learn from one another so this is why I'm here today sharing. I don't know it all, I don't claim to know it all, and I never will know it all but, I would love just to share with you guys a little bit about the ketuba because I think especially now that we are in that in the times of the feast and especially with the feast of Yom Teruah, where we celebrate that Jesus will come to fetch his bride, it's so important for us in this season to understand the concept of the ketuba.
So like I said when I started journeying about it, it was mind blowing for me, to just discover the richness of it all and how it works and, how it's still the spiritual principle still applies to our lives or how we can understanding that we can understand so much more of Yeshua's heart for us and the way he wants us to live and everything. So, yeah. I'm I'm having my blog here as as reference because like I said it's an impromptu live but, we know that because you should hide on the cross we have this opportunity to to be as bright. We can really be as bright, so but we have to accept that. So now I want to just dive into the principle of the Ketuvah.
So like I said, the Ketuvah is the Hebrew word for a marriage contract or a marriage agreement and, how it worked back in the times of the bible Today, the Jewish people actually still use this principle of the marriage covenant or the Ketubah, and if you watched my previous video or that read this vlog, you will understand also where the Jews come from and where the Israelites come from and the promises of God or the instructions that God gave us, is not linked to the Jews. It's linked to the believers. So if this is a a new concept to you, I really want to encourage you guys to go read this blog or watch my video. A while ago, I did one that said biblical feast are you Jewish now? You're welcome to go and watch that.
It's also available on YouTube. The marriage contract, how it worked is when a guy saw a girl that he wanted to marry, he liked a girl, he would go to his dad and he would tell his dad like dad, I like this girl. I would really like to get married to her. This and this is my reasons or do you think we can make it work? And then the dad would go to the girl's father and, they would discuss and they would figure out the logistics of how it will work if they if the kids were to get married, the son and the daughter.
If they were to get married, the dads would make the arrangements and figure out the logistics And in the meantime, while the fathers were busy with the logistical side of things, the man would then go into his inner room or spend time writing the ketuba. So like I said, it's a marriage contract but it's not the marriage contract like we know it today. That's terrible. You call in Afrikaans. A contract or marriage, whatever you wanna call it in in in English.
And the understanding that we have from a marriage contract is you write down in it, all of the pro not the pros and cons, but the the steps that would be followed if your marriage were not to work out. So we have such a skewed, idea of what what a marriage contract should be, compared to what it actually was intended to be. So when, in the biblical times, the ketubah, when a man was to write that down in that he would write in the ketubah it's not the way that we understand it today. The ketubah of the biblical times is a contract or write down his heart into it. He will tell us why, why he wants to get married to this wife.
He will he will tell her, his hopes and his dreams for their future, the way he plans to live his life, the things that are important to him, the things, how he desires or how he dreams his, household would be, how many kids they would have, how the kids would be raised, would they go to school, would they be homeschooled? Would, would he like to have 5 children or 4 children or 2 children or no children and would he like his wife to work? Would he like her to stay at home? He would even write in the ketubah. He would even write the details of his favorite dishes.
He would literally write that into the ketubah and he would literally tell her in this ketuba, he would tell her like how he desires or he pictures his life with his wife for the rest of the future and I think it's so beautiful because so many times in in today's day and age, when we are engaged, a woman goes through this entire process of okay, goodness, I'm getting married and you prep yourself until you get to that wedding day and many times men don't do the same. It's only at the time I would strongly believe that that's why so many men cry on their wedding day. It's because all throughout the the process, the woman prepared herself. She was like, okay. This is becoming a reality whereas men don't go through all of the emotional things beforehand.
And then on that day when you're actually getting married and your bride is coming walking down the aisle towards you, then the reality hits for a man that this is it. I'm getting to marry my best friend. What what what? And that's why men cry. And, I think that is that I personally believe that's why so many men cry more than women on on their wedding days because the reality only heats them there.
And it's such a contrast against the ketubah principle of the bible where the man goes before he even tells a girl like, hey girl, I want to marry you. He goes and he starts writing that ketuba and he writes down everything, all of his heart's desires, all of his dreams and visions and hopes for the future, everything he writes that down. So it takes so much time and effort and preparation from the man's side that by the time when they get married, he is so prepped. So he's not gonna be that guy crying at the at the I love it. I told I joked and I told my husband, like, if he doesn't cry when I walk down the aisle, I'm turning back, and I'm gonna wait until he starts crying.
Obviously, I didn't didn't wouldn't have really done that. And then, anyways, he and all of his groomsmen were, like, crying. Look like you emptied a bucket of water on the head. But, anyway, so, yeah, I think it's I don't have a problem with men crying. I just think, like, we miss so much because we don't understand the the katuba in the bottle.
I think it's beautiful when a man when a guy cries when his wife's walking down the aisle because I truly feel like that's the reality setting in and he's, like, so excited for the future. But also with the Ketuva principle, where the guy is prepping so much and then, when he's done writing the Ketuva, his father and the girl's father would have arranged for a special dinner to get help at the girl's, at the girl's, parents' house and, they would all go over there and then at this special dinner that was arranged, the guy would then give the ketuba to the woman he would love to marry and the girl would then read through the ketuba and on the table, where they would be seated, there would be a glass of red wine on the table or a glass of wine, on the table and then if, she could read through the ketuba so, and then she had to accept the ketuba. And by accepting the ketuba or she when she took a sip of the wine that was on the table that was set before, it was like a sign or her way of saying like I accept this ketubah.
I accept to be your wife. And, I think just the important thing for us to realize is that with this as well is many times we think back in the biblical times, marriages were arranged because the fathers spoke to one another and they made the logistical reasons, arrangements or whatever but that's not the case. The guy went to his dad and was like I would really like to get married to this girl. Do you approve and do you think we can make it work? And this is my reasons.
This is how I plan to provide for whatever and then the dads chatted with one another. So this is basically like the the idea that we have today where the dad has to give the approval for the guy to ask his daughter to marry her. So this is basically where that still comes from. That that I haven't changed much. So the dad still had to, like, give the approval.
But at the end of the day, it was still the girl's choice to say yes that she wants to get married to him or no, she does not want to get married to him. So she was by no means forced into this. She had a choice up until the end if she was like, no, this is not for me. Remember, she had the ketubas. So I think it's so beautiful because we will never if we were to have a ketubas when we got married, you're never gonna get to a point in your life where you're gonna say okay but now you've changed or I didn't know that this is what you want for your future or whatever because the lady, the girl would know this is my husband's hopes and dreams so I need to work my way towards that and the guy would also not be able to say okay now I suddenly want this because his wife agreed to the ketuba.
So I think it's so beautiful both of them know exactly what they want from one another and both of them know exactly what they've committed to and they can keep one another accountable. Like When you go astray or when life happens or things happen in your life, it's so easy to go back to that because both of you agreed upon that and I think that's so much lacking in today's marriages. We just get into it, we get married and then we start figuring things out and that's not the biblical principle and I think that's part of the reason why so many marriages these days, break up and fall because they get tear apart because they don't they are not rooted in that thing where they're really invested in in committing to to that promise that they've made. Okay. So anyway, then the girl drinks, take a sip sip of the wine when she agrees to to the keto ba.
And then at that stage, the husband and wife is considered to be bridegroom and bride. So they are basically in their engagement phase. And then contrary to what we also believe, they are actually they are actually seen as husband and wife. Not only bride bride and bride bride and bridegroom, but they are actually seen as as this couple that are now together. And obviously, we know when we get married, we go on honeymoon and we start our lives together and everything.
But in the biblical times, when the women were to accept the ketuba, the husband after the, family dinner that they would have had, they would celebrate and, just at the family dinner, not a big ceremonial thing or anything. Then the husband would go back with his father back to his father's house and he would start preparing a house for him and his wife, at his father's house. So he would start preparing and this usually took up to a year where the guy would prepare the prepare the house for for his family and then, once he was done so in this time while the guy was preparing the house at his father's house for him and his wife, he would have, like, a best friend or best man who would run back and forth between his family and the girl's family because remember back in that time, they didn't have social media and WhatsApp and all of that things. So the guy would the best the best man would run back and forth between the bride and the bridegroom, and he would give updates like this is what's happening at your house, and he would go to the girl and he speak speak to her, and then it would revert back to the to the groom, and he would say, okay.
This she's still ready. She's still waiting. She's still preparing. Whatever. So the the bride the best man would be going back and forth between them, and the girl will also have, like, a bridesmaid or the women that we read about in scripture also the older women leading up the younger women and everything.
So, like, there are people who are guiding her into becoming this woman, who she promised to be when she accepted the ketuba. So, the the guy then goes back to his father's house. He starts prepping the house or the home for them to live in and the best man runs back and forth and in this time, the woman, she still lives with her father and the guy actually financially provides for the girl even though she's living with her father. So he takes care of her, at her father's house and in this time, the women start to prepare herself. She's starting to like go through study the ketuva to become, the woman of this covenant promise that she made.
So she learns how to cook the dishes he loves. So she learns if there's any, like trades like, say for instance, sewing and she can't sew and her husband would love her to sew table cloths for them. She starts to learn to do those things because obviously she's not she doesn't have to do it. She committed to doing it. She said she wants to do it.
So I think so many times we're like no, her husband's not going to tell me this and that but she committed to the things he like pictured the life that he desires and she could say yes or she could say no. So in this time, in this year, she learns to all of those things to literally to become that wife of the covenant promise which she made, which I think is really beautiful. Also in that time, the woman has a lamp in her windowsill in a room. She would have a lamp whose light will never go out. Now obviously, when you hear that, you can think about the live talk that I did the other day on the women's day talk that I did where I spoke about Proverbs 31 verse 18 with the with the story about the women whose lamp never goes out at night and we linked it to the, 10 virgins, that we need to have sufficient oil in our lamps and everything.
So if you haven't watched that, you're welcome to go and watch that as well. Then, the lady, the the bride, had this lamp in a windowsill that continued to to burn all throughout every single day, every single night and everything and, when the so the the bride did not know when the groom would come back to fetch her because the groom he was working on the house and then when the house when he thought, like, the house was ready, he wants to go and, get his bride. He would then go to his father, and he would say, like, dad. Okay. I think I finished up everything that I needed to do.
Can I go and fetch my bride? And then when the dad approves, the guy can come back, and he can come and get his wife. And the cool thing about that is when the guy comes back, and he sees that the, so it's a time of preparation for for the wife preparing herself according to the ketubah and it's a time of preparation for the husband to build the to get the home in order and to set up everything for them. Remember, he already went through the preparation phase when he was busy writing the ketuba. And I also also think that this is such a beautiful concept to grasp, understanding that the husband is the one supposed to lead in a marriage, whereas when we look at the principle of the ketuba, he was the one who first went through the preparation, then he brought it to his wife.
And while she started preparing herself in that in that way, he was busy building a home. So it's first in the in the spiritual and then in the physical, which I think is really beautiful. But anyway, so then the guy would ask his dad, is it fine? Is the house fine? Can I go and fetch my bride?
And when his dad approved it, he would then, go and he would fetch his wife. And so when he got to his wife's the father's house of his wife, his father in law's house, and he saw that the lamp was burning in his wife's or in his bride's, in his wife's windowsill, he would know that she's still interested and that she's waiting for him. And, if the light were to go out, he would know that she had lost interest and she no longer wants to be his wife. And I think also with with connected to the feast of Yom Teruah, this is so important when we think about the the parable of the 10 virgins and we understand the concept that we have to have enough oil in our lamps for our lamps to keep on burning for when the bridegroom comes that, we don't run out of oil. Because if we don't have oil, we are saying that we have lost interest and we no longer desire to be married to our bridegroom.
This is an important concept of the of the entire thing the keto ba connected to to the feast. I just want to, I haven't even looked at this but anyway So I just want to, like, bring it bring it together, with regards to the biblical festivals. So, Yeshua are you we're saying that we can stand in covenant with Yeshua as our bridegroom and we are his bride. So when we take a look from it, from the perspective of the Ketubah, we see that Yeshua is the son who goes to his father, to Abba, and he tells him like dad, I want to get married to this girl. I want I want this bride so bad.
I love her so so much. Can I go and can I can I please marry her? And then, God said, okay. It's fine. And we give them things, for for preparation.
So you can go and you can go and collect your fetch your bride or whatever, but, there are things that need to be in place before you can go and fetch your bride. So then, the, the Yeshua, I want to run myself ahead and I'm trying not to because this makes me so excited. But anyway so then the the groom goes to write the ketubal. And in it, you know, he writes all of the things, how he wants his wife to act, how he envisions his life, his dreams for the future and hopes and everything. And then at this, at this meet up, they, so the ketuba is likened to to the word with the the bible that which we have with the instructions, with the guidelines, with everything at our heart, at our heart's desires, how we wish for us to live, how we wish for us to worship him, how he wants us to stand in relationship with him, how he wants us to live our lives.
That is our ketuba. The bible is our ketuba and then, the Yeshua or the bride like in the concept of the ketuba. So the groom would then come to, to the brides, to the family of the of the bride and you would present the ketubah just like God gave Moses the 10 commandments and the word. He gave that to us so that we have the instructions and we know what is expected of us and this is then we know that the bride or the girl had a glass of wine on the table and if she were to drink of that wine, it means that she accepted the, the ketubah. And so the concept of the wine on the table reflects Yeshua's blood that was flown that flew for us when he died on the cross.
So, if it wasn't for him dying on the cross, there would have, atonement would not have been made and we would not have been able to stand in this covenant. Like, without that loss of red wine or wine on the table of the, the Ketuvah celebration, the lady would be unable to accept, the marriage covenant. So Yeshua's blood enabled us to say yes to this. He enabled us to get this and I think so many times people think like when you start to observe the biblical feast, people are going back under the law, but the law and the salvation are 2 different things. You cannot save yourself through adhering to the law.
Salvation is a thing that happened first and I also shared this in my blog. When we think about this law and salvation thing we have to go back and see what happened in the bible and when we read the book of Exodus we have to look at the order of events. So firstly, Joseph was sent to now I'm interrupting myself. As Joseph was sent to Egypt, where he prepared the so Joseph is also a shadow and a type of Yeshua, what Yeshua would come to do. So Joseph went to Egypt, he went went into the place of the world where, like, Yeshua came to the world and he prepared a way and then he set, the Israelites Moses came to set the Israelites free.
So Yeshua came to set us free and to take us out of, Egypt, which you know is a, spiritual connotation of bondage and slavery. So we were set free and only when the Israelites were in the desert, then God gave them the law. So they were saved first and then they got the law or the instructions same thing applies to us today. It's not when we believe in or start to learn or adhere to the biblical festival principles thereof. It's not about going back to under the law or all that kind of nonsense that we believe when we are stuck in religion.
It's actually about we understand that we are set free by Yeshua. What he did on the cross, he died and he rose again on the cross and that is my salvation. Nothing else is my salvation. I cannot work it out for myself but what he did for me on the cross is my salvation. But now that I'm brought out of Egypt, that I'm set free from my sin, I'm now in the desert and now Abba can give his instructions to me and that teaches me how he wants me to live and how he wants me to worship him.
And that is where the concept comes in of the covenant where we stand in him. The Bible is clear that says, if you love me, keep my, commandments. Obey me. It's easy. Those who love me, obey my words.
And it's not a matter of salvation. It's a matter of love because we stand in covenant with Yeshua who is our bridegroom. So I just wanted to add that Dorel in my own thing. Then back to the marriage covenant, when the girl accepted the ketua, she would take a sip of the wine which is linked to Yeshua's blood, that flew for us and that made it that enabled us to stand in covenant with him. So then, the guy would go back to his father's house to prepare the house and that is actually linked to the feast of so the first one is, the cup, the blood or the cup of wine is linked to the feast of Pesach where it is that Yeshua came and died on the cross and also the link of first fruits where Yeshua, the feast of first fruits linked to the feast of first fruits where Yeshua rose from the grave and he is alive today.
Then also about the feast of unleavened bread, where it's linked to the Israelites that are now out of Egypt, out of slavery, in the desert and they are in the process the process after receiving the instructions, in the process of refining them self, holy making, sanctification, getting rid of the sin nature of ourselves, and that is linked to the feast of unleavened bread, where we know the leaven is symbolic of sin in our lives. And during the feast unleavened bread, we focus on checking ourselves and see if there are still any sin left in our lives and then we have to get rid of that. So then after that, all of that, after Yeshua rose from the grave, he went back to his father. So this is where it leads after the girl accepted the ketubah. The husband went back to his father's house and he went to prep a place for his bride.
We know that from scripture that that is exactly God. Yeshua himself told his disciples like I'm going back to prepare a place for you just like the groom with the ketubah principle goes back to his house to his father's house to prepare a place. It's literally what Yeshua did when he said he's going back to his father's house to prepare a place for us and, I don't know if it makes you guys excited but it makes me excited even though I've told this story a 1000000 times and read about it a 1000000 times. I am just overjoyed by the amazing richness and this amazing blessing that we have to stand in covenant with him and that he reveals these stuff to us in his word and it's available to each one of us. So then the guy, goes back to his father's house.
He breaks this place and we know that the, that the best man then went back and forth between the groom's house and the bride's house and he gave them updates and everything. So the best man is the holy spirit. So this fee, the guy going back to his father and the best man running back and forth is linked to the feast of Shavuot or the feast of Pentecost or the feast of weeks, and that is about the outpouring of the holy spirit. So the best man is our, is the holy the holy spirit is our best man who runs back and forth and who helps us and gives us updates, and he helps us to understand the word of God. He helps us to clarify any if the girl were to read through the ketubah and something would be she would not be certain.
The best man would come to her and explain to her and he would go back to the groom and ask him. So the the best man or the holy spirit is the one that's poured out to us at, the feast of Shavuot where we learn, where we get the outpouring of the holy spirit and he's that intercessor. He's that messenger. He's the one that helps us to understand the ketubah, to understand the word, and to break things open and to enable us to to stand in relationship and have conversations and prayer life. And there's really this connection of covenant relationship with Avar and with Yeshua, is linked to to the best man.
And then after that, when the guy, has finished prepping the house and he goes back to his father or he goes to his father and he's like, dad, okay. This place is now ready. Can I go and fetch my bride? Then the father has to approve that the guy can go and fetch his bride. I think this is so beautiful because when we read about the feast of Yom Teruah or when the time of that Yeshua will come back to fetch his bride, we know that Jesus himself, he said that not even himself knows the time when he will come back to fetch his bride but only the father in heaven and that is so beautiful because literally the groom goes to his dad and I'm getting like butterflies.
The groom goes to his dad and he's like dad I want to go and fetch my bride now Please please please can I go? And this is literally what Yeshua will do. He will ask his father, can I go and fetch my bride? He's asking him in the season that we're currently in, in the month of Elul, the month of romance, the king is in the field. Yeshua is in the field.
He's asking is dad, I want to go and fetch my bride. I'm missing her. I want her. I want her to be with me, and god has to release him and tell him it's fine. Everything is in order.
You are welcome to go. And that is linked to the to me too goosebumps. Love it. Anyway, gather myself together. That's literally when Yeshua will come back to fetch his bride with the feast of Yom Teruah.
The first three festivals of Pesach, unleavened bread, first fruits, and Shavuot has all already been fulfilled. He already died on the cross. He, already rose from the grave. He was the sinless lamb who died for our sins linking to unleavened bread and he already went back to the father and he already gave us his holy spirit. Those 4 festivals are already fulfilled and we celebrate them in thankfulness, not in a legalistic way.
We celebrate it in a thankfulness for the things that Yeshua has come and has already done for us. And the last three festivals are the ones that are still yet to be fulfilled. The first four are linked to the first coming of Yeshua when he was on earth for the first time, died, rose again, went to heaven, gave us his holy spirit, and the last three festivals are yet to be fulfilled with his second coming and that will be the feast of Yom Teruah that we are probably going into tonight if it's new moon or otherwise tomorrow night or maybe the night thereafter. Our worldly calendars might also be at full but it's the season that we are in, the season of Yom Teruel, where the trumpet will sound and our bride will return, where the father would release his son to go and fetch his bride. If we want to be that bride, we have to ensure that our enough our lands have enough oil, that my my oil needs to be enough to keep my land burning because I don't know when my bridegroom my bridegroom will return.
I know that it takes more or less a year for the guy to prepare the house before he fetches his bride and in the same way, God gives us ideas and ideas about his or not ideas. He gives us instructions about how his seasons work, his timing and all of the things and we know what to look out for. In the scripture, it tells us these are the things to look out for. When you see these things, know that the time is drawing near. It's time to repent for the end is at hand or whatever the coming of your of the Yeshua of the coming of Yeshua is at hand.
So we have the signs to look out for and we know that the season that is gonna come in and I have to ensure that there's enough oil in my lamp that I can be ready for when my bridegroom comes so that when he comes that my lamp would be would be burning and that that my oil would not have run out, and he would think that I am no longer interested. That would be I I cannot even imagine that, when he's coming back and that I am not ready for that. So it's it's it's too bad to think of even. So during this time of the feast of Yom Teruah, when we celebrate it every year, it's a time for us to ask ourselves, the king is coming. Yeshua is coming to fetch me.
Am I ready? Am I ready? I need to ask that to myself. And, so then after that, after the feast of Yom Teruah, we have the festival of Yom Kippur. So Yom Kippur, I will also the blog post will release.
I know it's a lot of information chose to release the first blog post just about the biblical festivals that went out yesterday. And today, on the same link, I've added the information for the feast of Yom Teruah. And then, next week, I will also add the information of the feast of Yom Kippur, which which is the 6th festival of 7th. And then the week thereafter, I will also add the information of the feast of Secot, which is the 7th one of the 7th festivals. So yeah.
Then after Yom Teruah, there's a a 10 day period from the from the feast of Yom Teruah to the feast of Yom Kippur. And in that time, it's also known as the the days of awe. And in that process so with with Yom Teruah, we ask ourselves, the king is coming. Is she us returning? Are we ready?
In that time, the 10 days is like the 10 days of awe. It's also another time of intense preparation, a time of repentance, and time of making sure that our lives are in order because with the feast of Yom Kippur, it's the last the last trumpet now I'm just speaking under correction but the last trumpet is with Yom Teruah. The great trumpet. Okay, so the last trumpet is with Yom Teruah. So Teruah is literally the meaning of a trumpet or the chauffeur or the loud blast or the shouting or whatever.
So it's this announcement that Yeshua is coming and, then with the feast of, Yom Kippur, it's also known as the day of atonement. In Afrikaans, we call it Werribil stuff. So that's the day when the judgment will be called out. So in this time leading up between Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur, we have this, option or this pressing on us to ensure that so on the day of judgment day, it's about whether my my name is in the book of life or not because after that, there is no more chance. If my life my name is not written in the book of life, I don't have a chance to to be saved.
So in this time from Yom Teruel where we say, like, the king is coming. Am I ready? Leading up to Yom Kippur. It's that final final last time of grace, that we sorry. I'm just reading.
So it's hard before I really realized we are entering the time of Iluuly. Clearly spoke to me in church saying it's a consecration time. Set yourself out of her. That's so beautiful. So, yeah, in that time between Yom Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur, it's all about this preparation phase where we have to ensure that our names are written in the book of life.
So every year when we celebrate these festivals, it's a time where we have to, like, reflect on our lives and see and ensure that is my life in line with Abba's instructions with that ketuah that he gave me because I want my name to be in that in that book of life and, so then after that after the feast of, Yom Kippur so that is the first one is, Yom Teruah. That's on the 1st of the month then on 10th of the month is the feast of Yom Kippur and then on 15th of the month is the feast of Zikot. So Zikot is also known as the feast of tabernacles or the feast of booths and that is connected to the marriage festival. So when the guy went to fetch his bride, he collected her, they were announced husband and wife and then, so like the verdict or the judgment went out with Yom Teruah. They are now officially married, husband and wife.
And then after that comes the comes the marriage festival or the feast of succot, which is linked into the likened to the linked to the marriage festival of the lamb that we also read about especially in revelations. We read a lot about that and that is where, Yeshua will be on earth with with his bride, in the millennial kingdom where he will, be bethroth or married, get in covenant, step into covenant with his bride, and it's a celebration. So every year with Sukkot, it's a week long celebration of celebrating the life that we will have when Yeshua comes back to fetch us. So the like I said, the first four festivals, there are 7 biblical festivals. The first four are already fulfilled and the last three still will be fulfilled when your share comes back to to fetch us and, it's a beautiful thing when we when we understand the concept of the ketuba and we see the marriage covenant or the marriage contract and how it evolves around this idea of the covenant and how whatever's hard is for us with this covenant.
So, yeah, I just wanted to share that with you guys. I think to me, it made a big difference when, when I stood understood the principle of the ketubah to also understand what the heart behind the biblical festivals are and that it's not a Jewish Jewish Jewish thing. It did not even exist. The Jews did not even exist when the biblical festivals were, were created or instructed. The Jews even only came on later later along.
So it's not a Jewish thing. It's a biblical thing. It's Abba's feast and he instructed that. And if we call ourselves believers of Yeshua and followers of Christ, then we too should be, paying attention to to the biblical festivals. Because the other thing is also like all of the biblical festivals are kept as, as a Shabbat, as a holy day, a day of rest, and a day of spending time with the Lord.
And, if we want to understand that and the Bible is very clear that it says that Shabbat will be the sign between God and his people forever until he until Yeshua returns. And also in revelations, we read that, Shabbat will be continued to be celebrated in the millennial kingdom when Yeshua has already come to fetch his bride. So if it was import if it will be important in eternity for us when we spend eternity with him, then it means it should important to us now as well. So I just want to finish this off by reminding you guys that I'm not saying that we have to go back to, the religious way of doing things like for example with Pesach, they slaughtered a lamb. We don't have to do that because we have Yeshua.
That feast was fulfilled. We know he already died on the cross, he rose for our sins, his blood flowed on the cross and therefore, we no longer have to bring animal sacrifices. So it's not about going back and doing traditional things and becoming legalistic about it and adhering to a certain set of standards of doing things in a certain way but it's about going back and reading about these, festivals and understanding Abba's heart behind it, what the message is that he's portraying to us and what the spiritual principles are that's behind that, the things that he wants to teach us and learn us through these festivals. And that is really important and I always say that if there's 2 things I ever have to pinpoint that made the biggest difference in my life, in my faith walk, I would say that it was understanding the biblical feast was number 1 and number 2 is understanding the tabernacle. And I will still I've done a short video before on the tabernacle as well.
It's also available here on my feed, and on YouTube as well. So if you haven't watched that, you're welcome to do that as well and so hopefully, somewhere soon in the future, I'll be doing either a workshop or a series of sessions about the tabernacle in-depth on on all of the items and especially once again, not not with regards to the literal things but more with regard to the spiritual principles that are connected to it and the spiritual principles which are still important for us in today's life and how it applies to our lives. So I hope that this message about the ketuba has meant something to someone, to me and make such a big, such a big difference. And, yeah. If you guys would like to be stay in the loop for, for future things or, any topics or discussions or talks or whatever that you would love me to do, I see that there are a few of you guys who say that you would like to, join such a work workshop.
Please reach out to me so that I can somewhere start to get the, like a list of details where I can so that I can tell you guys when I'm about to share it or whatever. But, yeah, I hope it meant something to you. If you feel that it's valuable information, I truly believe that we live in a time, like one of the ladies also said, we live in a time where we are in the season of illul. We are in this month where, it's this preparation time where we know that Yeshua is coming, that we know that we have to ensure that our names are written in the book of life and that we if we I always say, like, why would I want to be a guest at the wedding when I can be the bride? I don't want to sit there and watch how someone else dances with Yeshua, with the bridegroom Yeshua.
I'm getting goosebumps again. Why would I want to sit at a wedding and be a witness of someone else's wedding when I can be the bride, when I can be the one and you can be the one who dances with Yeshua as our bridegroom? So there is so much more for us in store and I want to pursue that. I want to get the best that I can possibly get and walk in the most intimate relationship that I can possibly walk with him and if we want to do that, we need to learn to walk according to his ways and we need to learn and understand the covenant that he wants us to walk within. So, yeah.
I hope it means something to someone and, you are so welcome to share it with anyone else. Like I said at the start as well, we all know in part and, every year I continue to learn more and more and more parts are dots are connected and everything and I think it's so important for us to to share this stuff with, with one another. That's also why I decided to come here and to to do this live because there are information that you have that I don't have and the information that I have is maybe adding to your picture and together we can all learn more and, we will always continue to learn until the day that, Yeshua comes back to fetch us. So in this time that we are in, I hope you guys have a blessed festival time with this upcoming full feast that we celebrate. The first four we celebrate in thankfulness for what Yeshua has already done for us and the last three we celebrate in anticipation of what he will still come to do for us.
So I would just hope that you guys have, a blessed time, festival time, not being traditional and legalistic about it, but celebrating it in anticipation of what he will come to do for us and what he already has done for us because we are in this position of of being his bride and him being our bridegroom. And, yeah, it's the it's the biggest privilege and the best love relationship that they could ever be in this entire world. And, yeah, I hope that it blessed you guys. Have a lovely day. Bye.
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