This is not to be a complete study of the Feasts of Israel, just an overview. For a detailed study, search the web for FEASTS OF ISRAEL. These feasts were given to Israel for worship of God, BUT also to tell them of the coming of MESIAH. He fulfilled some at his death, burial, resurrection and ascension, and will fulfill all at His 2nd coming.
1st Exodus 34:25 PASSOVER | PESACH
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover
God’s sovereign promise to deliver and redeem His people.
2nd Exodus 12:17 UNLEAVENED BREAD
And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread;
Celebrates the ending of Slavery in Egypt and leaving for the promise land.
3rd Exodus 23:16 FIRST FRUITS
And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering,
Celebrates the harvest each year – Resurrection Sunday, or Easter.
4th Exodus 34:22 SHAVUOT | PENTECOST
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end
50 days after the feast of first fruits. Leviticus 23:21 And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
5th Leviticus 25:9 YOM TERUAH – THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS (Rosh Hashanah)
Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. A time of repentance
Trumpets were used to announce coming judgements Revelation 6-7.
6th LEVITICUS 16:29-31 YOM KIPPUR – THE DAY OF ATONEMENT –
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Mandated establishment of this holy day on the 10th day of the 7th month as the day of atonement for sins. It calls it the Sabbath of Sabbaths and a day upon which one must afflict one’s soul.
7th Leviticus 23:34 SUKKOT – THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES –
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.
It is intended as a reminiscence of the type of fragile dwellings in which the Israelites dwelt during their 40 years of travel in the desert after the Exodus from slavery in Egypt.
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