Their leap year added a month. The prophet Jeremiah may also be referring to Armageddon and the Feast of Trumpets when he says, JER 4:5-6, Declare in Judah and proclaim in Jerusalem, and say, Blow the trumpet in the land; Cry aloud and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go Into the fortified cities. It is both commemorative and prophetic in its meaning. It commences with the Antichrist profaning the rebuilt Temple and concludes exactly 1260 days later. In terms of the timing of these feasts, are they split in any way? It celebrates the giving of the Torah, Gods gift to the Jewish people.. At the end of the Millennium, there is a revolt of unbelievers who have no capacity for life or freedom, Rev 20. Finally I want to mention a couple of books that have helped in this topic which I will be quoting from occasionally. Revelation 19:9 says, Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding feast of the Lamb (NLT). The Burnt Offering Here we have the highest aspect of the work of Christ where He is seen offering Himself up entirely to God to do His will even unto death. During these seven days, Israel was to eat bread without leaven (leaven symbolized sin) in remembrance of their baking unleavened bread in their haste to escape Egypt. Please select your language below. It is the day when all Israel mourns for their sins. The next feast that they would celebrate would be a one-day feast in the first week in June known as the sixth day of Sivan, the Feast of Pentecost. There will be perfect objectivity in the administration of justice. In a miracle as great as any in Bible times, the enemies of Israel paused to regroup at a point when they could easily have overrun the Jewish state. The Day of Atonement will be fulfilled in a wonderful way when the Lord returns at His second coming. When Christ was crucified, His blood covered over our sins so that when God looks at a repentant sinner, He no longer sees the sin, rather, He sees the blood of His righteous Son. You shall thus consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim a release through the land to all its inhabitants. - Noahs Ark Rested on Mount Ararat (GEN 8:4), After the flood destroyed all of humanity except for Noah and his family, the ark floated above the waters until, by Gods mercy, it finally came to rest, on the seventeenth day of Nisan, on Mount Ararat in Turkey. Moses turned to the only sure help that exists for any of us. It was a reminder that God has provided through free enterprise the only basis for sustaining a nation. Two historically important events have already occurred on the tenth day of Tishri, and one future event will possibly transpire on this date. Ok nothing to see here move on! All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, 43 that your generations may know Stand by and see the salvation of the Lord which He will accomplish for you today; for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you will never see them again forever. More than one hundred thousand Egyptian soldiers invaded Sinai against some three thousand Jewish defenders. Here is a list. Many of Jesus teachings occurred during these biblical feasts. Even with this small glimpse into these feasts, we see his intentional love for humanity has endured centuries, and he has left us clues that foreshadow the beauty that is to come. The priests sacrificed Passover lambs on the 14th day of the month of Nisan, and the first day of Passover was the 15th. 9. It represented the beginning of the fifth cycle of discipline for the Jews and their dispersion. He knows the end from the beginning, and He desires for us to seek to understand His will as He unfolds His plan in human history. God had instructed Abraham to bring a heifer, a goat, a ram, a dove and a young pigeon and cut them in half (except for the birds). Christ will return with the blowing of the seventh trumpet (Revelation 11:15). We know Jesus had a Passover meal with His disciples. If you are a student of Bible prophecy then the answer could, or should, be different. WebLuke 22:1, 7, 15 Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover. Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the Passover must be killed. The Jewish teachings also confirm that it was on the sixth day of Sivan that Moses received the Ten Commandments. WebThere are a total of seven feasts in the Levitical cycle. The Feast of the First Fruits was held during the wheat harvest. Following this I will do a separate study on each of the seven feasts. These feasts were to be celebrated from the time in the wilderness when God gave the law and would carry on into the future. WebThe figure above shows the first three biblical feast days (High Sabbaths) according to the astronomical and biblical calendar of God 2023, where each month begins with the first visible crescent moon over Jerusalem, and the mathematical Jewish calendar 2023 used in Israel. 3. It is remarkable that it is exactly 1260 days from Passover until the Feast of Trumpets, three and a half years later. This was the time for the harvesting of the early crops of spring. To make atonement is to make restitution for wrongs committed. Zola Levitt discovered an amazing correlation between Jewish Holy Days and the gestation of a human baby, from conception to birth. The blood sprinkled in the Holy of Holies on the Day of Atonement was a prophecy of that ultimate sacrifice, Gods only begotten Son that had to be paid to atone for sins forever. God has given these feasts to foretell in advance the work of His Son, Jesus Christ, in specific relation to His death, resurrection and return. The Feasts of Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles were observed during the early rains and the time of sowing. There are historically important events which have happened on the Feast of Firstfruits, the seventeenth day of Nisan. The Israelites took a bundle of hyssop and dipped it into the blood in the basin at the threshold. God revealed in His Word that even though He mysteriously works outside of our timeframe, He works with it for our benefit, and wants us to be mindful of it. Going up, they put it up on the lintel, then touched the two sides of the frame (Exodus 12). Remembering the giving of the law (Torah) on Sinai, The coming of the Holy Spirit to indwell believers, Dependence: Walking in the fullness of the Holy Spirit and following the law of the spirit of life, The rapture and resurrection of believers. Since Israel was dispersed during the Church-age, our Lord first re-gathers Israel at the Second Advent. The Feast of Trumpets, LEV 23:2325. Tribulational believers alive at the Second Advent live into the Millennium to repopulate the earth. The blood that the people were told to put on their doorposts was from a sacrificial lamb. WebTheFeastof Unleavened Breadisseven (7)dayswith theFirstDayanAnnual SabbathandtheSeventhor LastDayanAnnual Sabbath. The writer of the book of Hebrews describes Christ as our great High Priest who neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. So there have been two major events on this day, the fifteenth day of Nisan. 8. The prophet Joel seems to connect the great Day of the Lord - the Battle of Armageddon - with this day, the Feast of Trumpets. In English followed by the Hebrew names in brackets: All Jewish males were required by God to go to Jerusalem three times each year to commemorate these feasts: Passover, Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles. On this day, Nisan 15, God brought the children of Israel out of the bondage of Egypt on the exact day their father Abraham had prophesied it would happen some 430 years earlier. Many spend the day on intensive prayer, asking God for forgiveness. The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent.. Wycliffe Bible Translators. So it occurred sometime during the first week in June. This could possibly be the day for the Battle of Armageddon. So the fourth of the seven feasts of Israel took place exactly fifty days after the Feast of the Firstfruits, therefore, the name Pentecost, penta meaning fifty. It also portrayed the Hypostatic Union of Christ, for Jesus Christ is called the Bread of Life. The 50 days is also the reason why it is called Pentecost, meaning fifty in Greek and Latin. When John the Baptist said, Look! As Jesus hung on the Cross in death, the Romans and the Pharisees, who called for His death, and even His followers looked at Him and saw only defeat and death. But the richness of Gods Word is that it often reveals a deeper truth if you know where to look. He represents the first of the great harvest of souls including you that will resurrect to eternal life because of the new covenant in his blood (Luke 22:20). You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of twotenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. The Apostle Paul was thinking of this same principle when he said in 1CO 5:7, Clean out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. This was a year of celebration and renewal. The Elapse of Time between Feasts for the Church Age. The Jewish people have kept many of the biblical feasts through the centuries. It is to remember the Hebrews journey through the desert. God must keep His Word, especially in an unconditional covenant. How many feasts where there? ZEC 12:10, And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the Spirit of grace and of supplication, so that they will look on Me whom they have pierced; and they will mourn for Him, as one mourns for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him, like the bitter weeping over a firstborn., REV 1:7, Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him; and all the tribes of the earth will mourn over Him. The prophet Ezekiel tells of a great day of restoration for Israel: EZE 36:26, Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh., EZE 36:33, Thus says the Lord God, On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be inhabited, and the waste places will be rebuilt., Paul prophesied of Israels greatest Day of Atonement when he declared, ROM 9:26, And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, you are not My people, There they shall be called sons of the living God.. The Old Testament has many hidden truths that, in light of the New Testament, bring a richer understanding to your life in Jesus Christ. Join the 28,126 who get encouraging articles, an exclusive insider view, and connect with what God is doing in Israel every week. That arrival was the day the Church was born Pentecost and the harvest began with 3,000 souls. The Passover connoted the beginning of Gods plan, EPH 2:89. In the Bible, who came up with the idea of having feasts? So, lets dive deeper into what they are. That will be enough questions for now. TheChurchofGodisrequired to Great stuff! When the temple was cleansed of the pigs blood from Antiochus Epiphanes and his evil dictatorship over Israel, the nation celebrated their freedom on 25 December 164 B.C. JOE 2:1-2, Blow a trumpet in Zion, And sound an alarm on My holy mountain! Leviticus 23:27 provides a day of This feast lasted seven days and represented the perfect environment of the millennial rule of Christ, LEV 23:3343; Zech 14:9,16. We are not trying to learn so that we have more knowledge for knowledge sake. Christs age of thirty-three and a half years at His death on the Feast of Passover, as evidenced by the historical information we have available would correspond precisely to this birth date of the fifteenth day of Tishri, the Feast of Tabernacles. It actually marked the summer harvest in which many crops were available. Weve put this guide together for you so that you have all you need to know about these holidays that God calls His own. , I should add a rule that you are not allowed to list your own birth. ZEC 13:6, And one will say to him, What are these wounds between your arms? Then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.. As mentioned there are four feasts in the spring and three in the autumn with a four month gap in between. Not wanting to lead the gynecologist off from the subject at hand, he didn't say anything, but continued to listen. It is called the intercalation when the Church Age is inserted into the Jewish Age. The gynecologist continued, "On the tenth day of the seventh month, the hemoglobin of the blood changes from that of the mother, to a self-sustaining baby." JOH 12:24, Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.. - The seventh day of the month was a fast for the golden calf incident. Purim is a celebration of another victory of the Jewish people over their enemies. This is what the Galatian church tried to do and note Paul's concern and disappointment with them: Combined these feasts speak of the total work of Christ to redeem mankind and this planet. The Church-age is the intensified stage of the angelic conflict. At a natural level each of the feasts celebrated some aspect of Jewish history. On the Feast of Tabernacles, leaders in Jewish synagogues throughout the world read this passage in ZEC 14:1-21 which promises in detail their final Messianic deliverance from their persecutors and the beginning of the prophesied Kingdom. God wanted a special feast during which the Israelites would acknowledge the fertility of the fine land He gave them. This is where God first taught about the 'Passover' and 'Unleavened Bread' as mentioned in Exodus 12. The first mention is when Israel as a nation was preparing to leave Egypt in the Exodus. Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34. Most ancient nations, including Israel, began their calendar year in the fall, around Sept or Oct. - The finding of the book of the Law that Moses wrote. Otherwise everyone would include the same answer, and, to be fair, you already celebrate that each and every year! That is why the holiest day of the week the Sabbath rightfully identified as Saturday, starts being celebrated on Friday evening. Beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a You shall also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings. On this day the synagogue lesson came from Isaiah, chapters 60 and 61, teaching of that long-awaited day when the Lord is revealed as King and He will be accepted as the ruler of the world. The four spring feasts are Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. The feasts of the Lord are the public calling of God for anyone to come to these holy convocations. This reminded Zola of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the seed or grain that "fell into the ground and died" in order to produce a harvest, the firstfruits of which was presented to God. Sign up to receive the free devotional. Next, the gynecologist said, "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the lungs become fully developed. And suddenly there came from heaven a noise like a violent, rushing wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Can you name all the feasts in order? The following is an overview of Levitt's findings written by J.R Church. A new dispensation, the Church Age, was inserted into history. You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. Our Lord fulfilled each feast on its appropriate day with the appropriate action. The fourteenth of Nisan, the Passover Supper-the Last Supper. After the conclusion of the ten plagues, the Egyptian Pharaoh finally let the people go. However, the week that our Lord died it was only a three day feast and it pointed to the burial of the Lord Jesus Christ and His person. ZEC 13:1, In that day a fountain will be opened [they will see that their sins have been atoned for] for the house of David and for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for impurity. The church is not under any law to outwardly keep the feasts as the nation of Israel was told to do. Unleavened bread represents fellowship with God. He put on a temporary tabernacle a human body to dwell on this earth and offer himself as a sacrifice. THE PASSOVER 2. So whether you think you know the feasts well and hardly at all, I can honestly say that this is a very important topic to study once again. There is a gap of roughly four months in between the last of the spring feasts (Pentecost) and the first of the autumn feasts (Trumpets). In short, the Gregorian calendar is solar. The third feast that God gave Israel was on the seventeenth Day of Nisan, the Feast of Firstfruits. This was a reminder of the importance of free enterprise. Lift up a standard toward Zion! The book of Genesis records this date precisely as the seventeenth day of Nisan (GEN 8:4) and you can easily imagine the descendants of Noah celebrating for generations on this day, the firstfruits of their ultimate safe landing on the hills of the earth. Join our worldwide prayer team for those awaiting and translating Scripture! (10) You observe days and months and seasons and years. Although God had chosen Israel by His grace through Abraham, He now confirmed this covenant, four hundred and thirty years later, by the presentation of His Law on the Feast of Pentecost, the sixth of Sivan, according to EXO 19:1. WebThe four spring feasts are Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost. The Feast of Tabernacles was the third of the three Annual feasts which all Jewish men were required to attend in Jerusalem each year. Thats why GEN 8:4 calls it In the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark rested upon the mountains of Ararat.. In contrast, other festivals or appointed times could be celebrated in your home or wherever you lived. The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29, NLT), he understood the Old Testament reference. The third great event which will happen and is future is that Israel will Mourn when they see their Messiah whom they Pierced. While all Israel is not Israel, the bornagain Jew is eternally saved through faith in Christ, and he will have the land and the covenants forever. So, in the sacred cycle of festivals, the Passover Supper on the evening of the fourteenth of Nisan, allows all Jews in all generations since the Exodus to participate personally in the miracle of Gods redemption from the slavery of Egypt. It is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. The observance involved the sacrifice of animals as the High Priest entered the Holy of Holies. Fall is the most festive season of the year for the Jewish people. Web7 Feasts Of The Lord The Hebrew word for feasts (moadim) literally means "appointed times." WebTrumpets (Yom Teru'ah). In fact, Passover only happened on the first day. The seven feasts in Lev 23 were to be celebrated annually: Passover, Unleavened Bread; First Fruits; Pentecost; Trumpets, Atonement, and then Tabernacles. Written with Christian and Jewish audiences in mind, The Feasts of the Lord takes the reader through all the holy days of Israel. It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening you shall keep your Sabbath. - A second great event which happened on the Feast of Firstfruits, the seventeenth day of Nisan, is Israel miraculously crossed over the Red Sea. - On the twenty-third day, the Jews celebrated the dedication of the first temple. It is a one of a kind set up with so many future events that cant be coincidence. In a special ceremony, the father removes the middle loaf from its compartment, breaks it, and then wraps it in a separate piece of white linen and hides it away or buries it. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. Beginning in the spring, the seven Jewish feasts are Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, (23:37) You shall keep it as afeast to the Lord (23:41) So Moses declared to the children of Israel thefeasts of the Lord. 1CO 15:51-52, Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. EXO 12:41, And it came about at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. The later autumn feasts all deal with the events at the end of the age including the rapture and resurrection, the second coming of Christ and the long awaited Messianic Kingdom on earth. Full Study List | Jesus in The 7 Feasts of The Lord Bible Study - Over They are absolutely specific even giving the exact days of the year in which these events will occur. It occurs exactly seven weeks after the Feast of First Fruits, so its also called Pentecost which means 50 days. Traditionally, people were expected to bring the first harvest of grain to the Lord including two leavened loaves of bread. The first is 'feast' and the second is 'assemblies' (or 'convocations' in some other versions.) EZE 37:26-27, And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant with them. But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. often used in reference to the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), and Feast of Tabernacles, as pilgrimage feasts.

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