Double Portion Inheritance: The Fast of the Bridegroom & the Month of Elul (08/07/2014) Part 2

In Ancient Biblical times, traditionally, the Yahuwdiy (Jews) celebrated a time of fasting and repentance for “forty days” leading up to Yom Kippur. This is the time that foreshadows the preparation for the bride to meet her bridegroom on the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah), and on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement). These two feast days, represent the marriage of two different brides typified in Leah & Rachel to Ya’aqob (Jacob). Our Messiah has two different houses (Ephraim & Judah). From “Both Houses of Yisra’el” (Isaiah 8:14), our Messiah will make them one bride and he will marry them both during what is called “The Ten Days of Awe” (Revelation 3:10). The month of Elul is the 6th month on the Hebrew Calendar and it is called “chodesh ha’cheshbon,” which is a month of accounting. The name of the month Elul is spelled with four Hebrew Letters, Alef-Lamed-Vav-Lamed which is said to be an acronym of “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li.” This is translated “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine,” a quote from Song of Songs 6:3, where the Beloved is YaHuWaH, and the “I” is his covenant bride, Yisra’el. In Aramaic (the vernacular of the Jewish people at the time that the month names were adopted), the word “Elul” means “search,” which is appropriate, because this is the time of the year when we search our hearts and farmers search for the harvest. http://www.jewfaq.org/elul.htm Mosheh (Moses) went to Mount Sinai to prepare the second set of tablets after the incident with the golden calf (Exodus 32; 34:27-28). He ascended on Rosh Chodesh Elul and he descended on the 10th of Tishri, at the end of Yom Kippur, when repentance was complete. The 1st day of Elul commences a period of 40 days where Moses prayed for YaHuWaH to forgive the people after they committed adultery with the golden calf. After this, the commandment to prepare the second set of tablets was given. Could this be the reason why our Messiah fasted during these very same forty days? Could it be that he was also preparing to present the very same commandments that would be written upon the heart of his bride for Yom Kippur? See the blog entitled: “Messiah’s Forty Days of Fasting Leading Up to Yom Kippur!” http://doubleportioninheritance.blogspot.com/2011/09/messiahs-forty-days-of-fasting-leading_4090.html