There are seven Feasts of the Lord.
All of them are listed in Leviticus chapter 23:
1) The Feast of Passover (Lev. 23:4-5).
2) The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev. 23:6-8).
3) The Feast of First Fruits (Lev. 23:9-14).
4) The Feast of Pentecost (Lev. 23:13-22).
5) The Feast of Trumpets (Lev. 23:23-25).
6) The Feast of Atonement (Lev. 23:26-32).
7) The Feast of Tabernacles (Lev. 23:33-44).
Important points: they are called “Feasts of the Lord” not Jewish feasts or feasts of Israel.
The Lord gave these feasts:
- So Israel and the Church will remember the past and teach it to their children.
- So Israel and the Church will have a better understanding of what God has done and what God will do (have a prophetic view of the future).
Note: Diagram (above) from Frank DiMora’s Blog site.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE PROPHETIC
Understanding the Feasts of the Lord will help us understand what’s going on.
- The three spring feasts are prophecies about the First Coming of Jesus. (They have been perfectly or LITERALLY fulfilled.)
- The one summer feast is a prophecy about the Church age. (It is currently being fulfilled.)
- The three fall feasts appear to be prophecies connected with the Second Coming of Jesus. (They will probably be perfectly or LITERALLY fulfilled in the near future.)
Every time the Jews have celebrated a feast day for about 3500 years from the time of Moses until today, they have remembered a segment of their history and revealed a prophecy about the first coming of Jesus, the Church or the Second Coming of Jesus.
Note: Diagram (above) from endtimepilgrim.org site.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE FASTS, CELEBRATIONS & PROPHECIES
Christians sometimes think of a feast as a meal. But to the Jew a feast day could be just the opposite. A feast day could be a fast day instead of a meal or it could be a celebration instead of a meal. Some feast days were fast days (for morning or affliction) and some feast days were celebrations (for rejoicing) but the Feasts of the Lord were fasts, celebrations and prophecies.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE ALSO THANKSGIVING FOR THREE HARVESTS
The spring harvest or thanksgiving.
- The Feast of First Fruits thanks God for the barley harvest (the resurrection of Jesus and others).
The summer harvest or thanksgiving.
- The Feast of Weeks thanks God for the wheat harvest (the beginning of the Church).
The fall harvest or thanksgiving.
- The Feast of Tabernacles thanks God for the remainder of the harvest of the earth: fruit, dates, etc. (the Tribulation Saints, Israel, etc.).
So the Feasts of the Lord are multi-purpose: fasts, celebrations, prophecies, and thanksgiving.
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE ABOUT JESUS
1. The Feast of PASSOVER (About the sacrifice of Jesus; the redemption of Israel and the redemption of the Church)
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even CHRIST OUR PASSOVER is sacrificed for us: (I Cor. 5:7).
2. The Feast of Unleavened BREAD (About the burial of Jesus; holy living; living without sin, etc.)
And JESUS said unto them, I am the BREAD of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. (Jn. 6:35)
3. The Feast of FIRST FRUITS (About the resurrection of Jesus; then all of His)
But now is CHRIST risen from the dead, and become the FIRSTFRUITS of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming. (I Cor. 15:20-23).
4. The Feast of Weeks or PENTECOST (About the Holy Spirit sent by Jesus; harvest; the birth of the Church)
And when the day of PENTECOST was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:1-4).
5. The Feast of TRUMPETS (About gathering; appears to be the Rapture or gathering of the Church and Israel gathered to be grafted back in)
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the TRUMP of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord (I Thess. 4:13-17).
Behold, I show 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 TRUMP: for the TRUMPET shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed (I Cor. 15:51-52).
6. The Feast of ATONEMENT (About sorrow and repentance of Israel; appears to be the Second Coming of Jesus with His Church to rescue Israel at the Battle of Armageddon)
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the ATONEMENT (Rom. 5:11).
7. The Feast of TABERNACLES (About Kingdom rest and restoration; appears to be the beginning of the Millennial Reign of Jesus on the Throne of David with Satan bound and chained for a thousand years)
And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt [TABERNACLED] among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth (Jn. 1:14).
Yet have I set my king UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION (Psa. 2:6).
Thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall becalled the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him THE THRONE OF HIS FATHER DAVID: and he shall reign OVER THE HOUSE OF JACOB for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end (Luke 1:31-33).
THE FEASTS OF THE LORD ARE “SET APART”
And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be HOLY CONVOCATIONS, even these are my feasts (Lev. 23:1-2).
The feasts of the Lord are “HOLY CONVOCATIONS.”
- Holy means the Feasts of the Lord are “set apart” by God.
- Convocations means the Feasts of the Lord are “assemblies” or “rehearsals.”
- The Feasts of the Lord are set apart by God to assemble or rehearse the people for the real thing.
We can rehearse events that are past or future.
- Some people rehearse the Civil War which means they remember a past event.
- Some people rehearse a play which means they rehearse for a future event.
- The feasts of the Lord are holy convocations that do both.
They point backwards and forwards. They remind us of past events, but they also look forward to future events. (The Lord’s Supper is an example.)
For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show the Lord’s DEATH till he COME (I Cor. 11:26).
The Lord’s Supper is an assembly or a rehearsal that reminds us of the past (the DEATH of Jesus). And the Lord’s Supper is an assembly or a rehearsal that reminds us of the future (the SECOND COMING of Jesus). The Feasts of the Lord are selected past events that reveal facts about selected future events.
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Link to full article by Daymond Duck: INTRODUCTION TO THE FEASTS OF THE LORD
I pulled portions of this article, the original documents format is rough but toward the bottom there is good information on the Jewish Calendar.
Wikipedia also has some good information on the Feasts. Here is a link to their page on Feast of Trumpets
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I also have included a video I have posted before that goes through the feasts and their significance.
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