Welcome to Divine Sign Design

 This ancient symbol was found engraved on a clay pot in an excavation site near the upper room in Jerusalem- It combines a fish, the star of David, and a menorah or seven-branch candle holder. Most theologians believe that this symbol was used by first-century believers in Yeshua as the Messiah. The biggest majority of these believers were Jews, just like the 12 apostles. Today Jewish believers are called Messianic Jews and this ancient symbol is now known as "The Messianic Seal". When I made the sign, I lit the candles with red flames and added wording in order o give the Messianic seal a deeper meaning and to make that meaning more understandable. The fish represents the sign of Jonah. In the 12th chapter of Matthew, the apostles asked Yeshua for a sign. However, Yeshua tells them that the only sign they would receive is "The sign of Jonah". Jonah was in the belly of the whale for three days and nights, then came out. Yeshua was in the belly of the earth for three days and nights, then came out. This is what most people know about the sign of Jonah. What most people don't know is that in the first century Jews didn't believe you were fully dead until you were dead for a full three days and three nights and they called this time period "The sign of Jonah". This is why Yeshua waited so long to go to Lazarus to raise him from the dead. This is why the two witnesses in the book of Revelation are dead for 3 1/2 days before they are brought back to life. This is also why it was absolutely imperative for Yeshua to be in the tomb for a full three days and three nights before He resurrected, to fulfill "The sign of Jonah". The first-century church adopted the fish symbol to represent resurrection. Today if you see a fish on a bumper sticker just know that the fish symbol originated from the sign of Jonah and it stands for resurrection.

  The star of David represents the prophecy that says the Messiah will come from the house of David. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied this in chapter 23, verses 5 and 6 and repeated it again in Chapter 33, verses 15 and 16. Matthew 1 : 1-18 shows that Jeremiah was right and his prophesy was fulfilled. David's name begins and ends with a D. The ancient Hebrew symbol for a D looked like a triangle. The star is made by combining a triangle pointing up and a triangle pointing down. On the Messianic sea,l you will notice that the triangle pointing down is formed by the tail of the fish while the triangle pointing up is formed by the base of the menorah. Inside the star I have written "The House Of David", and on the points of the star are the letters Y E S H U A . This is how you say Jesus in Hebrew. The menorah represents the seven "Feasts of the Lord" spoken of in the 23rd chapter of Leviticus. These seven Holy festivals were appointed by God, Himself, and celebrated 1,400 years before the birth of Christ. The seven festivals are Passover, UnleavenedBread, Firstfruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. The festivals are divided into two groups- The first four are the spring festivals, and the last three are the fall festivals. The first festival, Passover was established while in Egyptian captivity, to help the people remember how God spared them by causing the angel of death to pass over them while in the land of Goshen. The blood of a lamb was used to save the people from the plague of the firstborn which afflicted Egypt. Exodus 12:1-29 God commanded the children of Israel to keep this feast throughout their generations and some still do. The very next day begins the second festival, The Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( It is important to note that the Hebrew day was, and still is, defined as being from sundown to sundown instead of midnight to midnight as we think of it today. ) The feast of unleavened bread commemorates the time the Israelites were brought out of Egypt in such a hurry their bread didn't have time to rise. This festival is celebrated for seven days. The first and last days of this festival are considered " High Sabbaths." The Holy Bible uses the term Holy Convocations. In Exodus 13:10 God commands the children of Israel to keep this festival from year to year. Some still do. The third festival is known as Firstfruits and it lands on the "morrow after the Sabbath.  Most people observe this festival on the first Sunday after Passover. The feast of First Fruits commemorates the time when the Israelites entered the promised land. They gathered up the best of the best and gave it back to God as a Firstfruits offering. Lev. 23:11 Fifty days after Firstfruits is the fourth festival, known as Pentecost. Pentecost marks the giving of the law on Mount Sinai. This is the day that Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. This fourth festival is the last of the spring festivals. The fifth festival, and the  first fall festival, is the Feast of Trumpets and marks the Jewish new year also known as Rosh Hashana. It is the only festival that utilizes multiple trumpet blasts. Four different calls were blown on the shofar. Each call had a different sound, a different meaning, a different name, and a different time of day that it was heard. The first blast " Tekeya" was at sundown to let people know that the new year had begun. The second blast " Tekeya Teruah " was at sunrise and was a call to worship. This is when the people would go to the temple to take care of their spiritual obligations with prayer, praise, sacrifices, and offerings. The third blast " Tekeya Shavurim " was about 3:00 in the afternoon and began the New Year celebration with music, dancing, food, and drink. The final blast was an hour after sundown and was a long single note that announced the end of the festival. The name of this blast is " Tekeya Godola" or "The last trump"  Ten days later is the sixth festival. The sixth appointed time is The Day of Atonement. It is a solemn occasion and considered the Holiest day of the Hebrew year. The entire nation of Israel is required to fast and pray on this day. This was the only day of the year when the only man on the earth, the High Priest, was allowed to enter the Holy of Holies. Once inside the High Priest would make an atonement for the sins of the nation by sprinkling the blood of a bull on the Mercy Seat of the arc of the covenant. Everything the High Priest did for the entire year was to get ready for this, single, most Holy day. It was very important that the high priest be ritualistically pure. Even the slightest mistake could be disastrous. The feast of Tabernacles is the seventh, and final, major festival of the year. This festival commemorates the forty years ofwanderingg in the wilderness when the Hebrew people were forced to live in small three-sided shelters made with branches. These shelters were called Sukkas or booths and another name for this festival is the "Feast of Booths". In Hebrew it is known as the feast of Sukkoth. It is a seven-day festival and during this time the Israelites are instructed to live in one of these three-sided shelters for one week out of the year. This is the most joyous celebration of the year with music, dancing, food, and wine. It is customary to celebrate this seven-day festival for eight days and the eighth day is referred to as " The Great Day." The flames on this sign represent the fulfillments of these festivals. The first flame on the right represents the crucifixion of Jesus. We know from reading the scriptures that Jesus was crucified on Passover. Jn 18:28, Jn 18:39. This fact alone is amazing because Yeshua could have been crucified on any other day of the year but He wasn't, He was crucified on the very day of Passover. Yeshua was referred to as "Christ our Passover" by the apostle Paul in 1 Cor. 5:7 Yeshua was also referred to as " The Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world 'G, by John the Baptist at His baptism in John 1:29. The requirements for a Passover lamb were given by God and had to be strictly adhered to. It had to be a male lamb. The lamb could not be crippled or blind. The lamb could have no blemishes and no broken bones. The lamb was to be taken into the home four days prior to its execution to be observed and examined for blemish. It was customary that at the end of the four days, the head of the household would rise up and declare the lamb clean. At this point, the lamb is considered legally acceptable as a Passover lamb. Ex. 12: 1-14, 46. The lamb is sacrificed at twilight and no bones are broken. After the lamb is eaten there was to be no part of the lamb left behind to face corruption or decay. Yeshua met every one of these requirements. Yeshua is a male. Yeshua is not lame or blind. Yeshua is without blemish. Yeshua was in Jerusalem four days prior to His execution being observed and examined for blemish, or sin, by the scribes, Pharisees, Chief priests, The High Priest Caiaphas, and Pilate. John 18. At the end of this four-day examination the head of the household, which was Pilate the Roman ruler in Jerusalem at the time, stood up and declared Jesus clean, not just once but three times, making Him legally acceptable as a Passover lamb. Yeshua was sacrificed at twilight and the scriptures also tell us that none of Jesus bones were broken. The second flame represents the burial of Jesus. After the Crucifixion, Jesus body was taken down from the cross rather hurriedly. In Matthew 27:57 and also Mark 15:42,43 we can see it was eventide or evening when Joseph of Arimathea claimed the body from Pilate. By the time that Joseph and Nicodemus prepared the body ( Jn- 19:39 ) and placed it in the tomb, the next day had, technically, already began because the Hebrew day starts at sundown. This means that Jesus was buried on the first day of The Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is a Holy Convocation or High Sabbath. The Romans were well aware of these holidays and took special precautions not to cause a Jewish uprising by desecrating one of theseHighh Holy days. This is why they were in such a hurry to get Jesus off the cross before the sun went down. In the Hebrew mindse,t leaven or yeast was, and still is, viewed as representing sin ( Matt 16:6-12, ICor 5:6-8) because leaven makes bread puff up like pride makes a man puff up. Yeshua said I am the bread of life. (John 6:36) Therefore if Jesus is bread and Yeshua is without sin, then what kind of bread is He? He is the personification or living representation of unleavened bread, fitting that He should be buried at the feast of Unleavened Bread. Unleavened bread is made in a special way. Instead of being put into an oven, like the other breads, unleavened bread is made on a grill, over an open fire. In this way a close eye can be kept on the unleavened bread. If any air pockets are seen building up, they are pierced to keep the bread flat- Because the unleavened bread is made on a grill, it has stripes burnt into it, much like a hotdog or hamburger would have. Also, do to the fact that it is made over an open fire, the unleavened bread has burnt spots on it that look like bruises. The unleavened bread, just like Yeshua, was pierced and striped and bruised. Yeshua was born in a place called Bethlehem. The name Bethlehem means "house of bread." So, here we have the bread of life, being born in the house of bread and, being buried at the feast of Unleavened Bread! What are the odds of that? The third flame represents the resurrection of Jesus. After three days in the tomb, Yeshua rose again on the first day of the week. (Mark 16:1-6) This was the first Sunday after Passover and the first Sunday after Passover is the feast of Firstfruits. Yeshua rose from the grave on the feast of Firstfruits. This is why the apostle Paul referred to Yeshua as our Firstfruits in 1 Cor 15:20,23. It is also interesting to note that after the resurrection there was no part of the lamb, Yeshua, left behind to face corruption or decay. The fourth flame represents the giving of the Holy Spirit. After His resurrection, Yeshua was on the earth for40y days. In this time Yeshua appeared to many people and then He was taken up into the clouds but before His ascension, Yeshua gave a promise to His disciples that He would send the comforter, referring to the Holy Spirit. Yeshua did not say when He would send the comforter. He merely told his disciples to go to Jerusalem and wait. We can see, in the second chapter of acts, that Yeshua did send the comforter on the very day of Pentecost- Again, the timing is incredible because Yeshua could have sent the Holy Spirit at any other time but He didn't. Yeshua chose to send the Holy Spirit down to us on the anniversary of the day God chose to send the law down to Moses on Mount Sinai. Both the Holy Spirit and the law were sent to enhance our relationship with God. If you remember the story of Moses receiving the law on Mount Sinai, there were 3,000 people who died that day for worshipping the golden calf. 1,500 later, on the very day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell on the apostles in the upper room, 3,000 people were saved that day for accepting Yeshua as their savior.

 These first four festivals are the spring festivals and they have been fulfilled with the crucifixion, burial, resurrection, and giving of the Holy Spirit. Our God is a God of order. He will fulfill the fall festivals with the same perfect timing that He fulfilled the spring festivals. The only difference is, the spring festivals were fulfilled with events that happened in the past and the fall festivals will be fulfilled by events that will happen in the future. The very near future! The fifth flame represents the rapture. The next festival to be fulfilled is the Feast of Trumpets. In 1st Corinthians 15:52 the apostle Paul says we will be changed in the twinkling of an eye at the sound of the "last trump." Paul goes into further detail about his event in 1 Thes. 4:16-17, saying that we will be caught up to meet with the Lord in the air. By combining these two scriptures, Paul shows us a clear picture of what modern-day Christianity refers to as "the rapture." The term "last trump" is a Hebrew idiom referring to the feast of trumpets. We can therefore expect the feast of trumpets to be fulfilled with what we know as the rapture- The word rapture is not in The Holy Bible, it comes from the Hebrew word netzach, which means the snatching away of the bride. The reason this word is used to describe the rapture is not a coincidence. There are several parallels between the first-century Jewish wedding traditions and the rapture. In the first century, it was customary for the father to select a bride for his son at a very early age. Once the bride is selected a dowry is paid to her parents. At this point, the couple is considered engaged or betrothed. The young lady then meets with the groom's mother on a regular basis to learn how she can better serve her new master. She will learn everything she possibly can about her soon-to-be husband. She will learn his favorite foods and how to make them, his habits, his hobbies, his hopes, his dreams, and his plans for the future. The young man has the task of going to his father's house and preparing a wedding chamber where they will spend seven days and nights together after the wedding ceremony. The wedding chamber must be new construction built onto the father's house. The wedding ceremony and the wedding feast usually lasted for three days. The bride and groom will then spend a week locked in the room, the room has to be adequately provided with provisions enough to sustain them for that seven-day period. There has to be enough water, oil, linens, flowers, bread, wine, food, fruit, candles, ect. Because every young man and every young woman wants to get started with the honeymoon, only the father can say when the room is ready. When the father says the room is ready, it is legal for the son, any time day or night, perhaps even as a theft in the night, to go and snatch his bride away- He will then take her to His father's house where a wedding ceremony will begin. The wedding ceremony could last for three days. After the wedding ceremony and the wedding supper, the newlywed couple will enter the wedding chamber for seven days and nights to consummate the wedding. The parallels should be obvious, the bride has been chosen, the dowry has been paid (with blood) and we have accepted the payment, we as the bride are to be learning how to serve our new master, Yeshua, on the other hand,  is in His Father's house preparing a place for us. Only the Father knows when the time is right ( Matt 24:36) and when the Father gives the ok, the Groom will come to receive His bride and thereby fulfill the feast of trumpets.  Once we are taken up into the clouds to meet with Him (1 Thes. 4:17) He will take us to His father's house where we will partake of the wedding ceremony and the marriage supper of the lamb. (Rev. 19:7-9) We then enter into the wedding chamber with Yeshua for a period of seven years, which will be the seven years of tribulation here on earth. This indicates that we will be raptured before the seven years of tribulation. 

 The sixth flame represents the return of Jesus better known as the second coming. Once our marriage has been consummated and our seven years are over, we return with Yeshua in a cloud of witnesses (Zech 14) to stand with him in judgment over the inhabitants of the earth that were left behind. In Revelations 22:12 Yeshua is quoted as saying ( And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with me, to give to everyone according to his work.). This time of judgment at His second coming is the fulfillment of the day of atonement.

  The seventh flame represents the millennial kingdom. After each man and woman receives their just reward we will enter into what is known as the millennial kingdom. This will be a thousand years of peace on earth with Yeshua at the head of a one-world Government. Rev. 20:3 And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, " Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God". This passage is in reference to Yeshua as the tabernacle of God dwelling with us in the millennial kingdom. Zech. 14 says that anyone who doesn't celebrate the feast of Tabernacles during this 1,000 years will not receive rain. The feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled with the establishment of the millennial kingdom, completing the seven-feast cycle. These feasts of the lord are based on a cycle of seven known as the Sabbath. The feasts of the Lord are more than just a bunch of festivals that God appointed man to celebrate. A closer examination will reveal that they are, in actuality, the timetable God has established for this world, concerning not only the events of the past but also the events of the future. The very near future! 

 This should bring all of us to the realization that these feasts and festivals were established by God for a very specific purpose. By fulfilling these festivals in His perfect timing, God has given the world further proof that Yeshua is the prophesied Messiah of the Old Testament, the suffering servant who died and rose again in the New Testament, and the conquering king who will return for us in the future. If Yeshua and His apostles celebrated these festivals in the past and we will celebrate these festivals in the kingdom to come, then it would be to our advantage to learn all we can about them here in the present. Now you know the deeper meaning of the Messianic seal. As you can see, this sign contains a ton of information.  

 These signs are handmade by my own hands, right here in the U.S.A. They are 40" High, 12" wide and 1" thick. People keep telling me that I should charge more for them but the good Lord has told me to only charge $100, so that everyone can afford one. If you would like one of these highly interesting, Biblical signs, I suggest you put your order in today. 314-255-7439