In his letter to the Covenant believers in Messiah, the Paul wrote
1 Thess 5:1 You have no need that I write to you concerning the times and the seasons.
What did he mean by this statement? In order to understand what Paul was saying here, we must understand that the Hebrew word for “times and seasons” is “mo'edim.” The word “mo'edim” is plural for the Hebrew word “mo'ad” as seen in the Hebrew Concordance:
# 4150 mow’ed mo-ade’ or moled {mo-ad’}; or (feminine) moweadah (2nd Chronicles 8:13) {mo-aw-daw’}; from 3259; properly, an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically, a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand):--
appointed (sign, time), (place of, solemn) assembly, congregation, (set, solemn) feast, (appointed, due) season, solemn(-ity), synogogue,
(set) time (appointed).
Paul claims to have "no need to write to them" about these things. It has to be because they were all keeping the “Sabbaths” and Feast Days of God.
Go to Hebrew mindset thread because the verses following
1 Thess 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you.
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2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of God so comes as a "thief in the night."
Paul and the Thessalonians had to be well aware of this metaphor concerning the High Priest and the "thief in the night". They practiced these things in the temple year after year and there was no need to explain it to them. If they continued to keep the appointed “mo'edim” of God as he had commanded them to do forever, they would not be taken by surprise.
1 Thess 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Paul knew that these followers of Messiah were not in darkness because they were keeping their “oil lamps filled” and ready for the day when it arrived. They would not be overtaken by “the day that no man knows” without oil in their lamps. Their High Priest, Yeshua would come not as a thief in the night for them, because they would not be in darkness.
1 Thess 5:4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
The Hebrew word for “day” is “yom” which means the following:
#3117 yowm: yome from an unused root meaning to be hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset), continually, everlasting, season.
The Hebrew word for “light” is seen in the Strong’s Hebrew Concordance as #216 owr which means the following: light, light of day, light of heavenly luminaries (moon, sun, stars); day-break, dawn, morning light; light of lamp; light of life; light of prosperity; light of instruction.
As you can see from this illustration of the seven-branch menorah, each “light” on the lamp represents a feast “day” or an appointed “yom.” Paul was telling us that because we are “children of the light and of the day” we will be walking in the “instructions” and the light or revelation that is given to us when we keep his feasts.
As priests in the order of Melchizedek, we must not be like those priests who would be found drinking alcohol on the job, getting drunk and falling asleep. We are given clear warning here to “watch and be sober.” The Greek word here for “sober” is “nepho” which literally means “to abstain from wine.”
1 Thess 5: 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep, sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. 9 For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Yeshua, our Jewish Messiah.
Think about the five without oil, and the five with oil... the illustrations and examples for keeping the commandments of God and having the faith in Yeshua are throughout scripture.
