Expounding on the Feasts of the Lord

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zone said:
the spring feasts
1. passover
2. unleavened bread
3. firstfruits
4. pentecost

the fall feasts
5. trumpets
6. atonement
7. tabernacles

fulfilled.
who cares about what Jesus did though.
playing jewish church is fun.
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How do you think the Feast of Trumpets has been fulfilled? Or the feast of Atonement? I'm confused. The entire book of Revelation speaks of these two feats, and since these things have not come to pass, how can they be fulfilled? Please, enlighten me.
 
The tenth day of the first month is the day God’s children were told to take a lamb into captivity for each family recorded in Exodus 12:3, and were to kill it on the fourteenth day according to Exodus 12:6-7. Beginning on the tenth day of the seventh month were the “Days of Atonement.” Sacrifices were to be made for five days ending on the completion of the fourteenth day according to Numbers 29:7-11. Also, in Leviticus 23:25-27, these same five days were also a time of self-denial along with commemorating events to be remembered, called “convocation” as mentioned above.
The Day of Atonement is the covering of sins, and in the New Testament we read about remission which means that sins are in the process of vanishing. At the last supper, being the Passover feast, we read in Matthew 26:27-28 that Jesus said “Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” On the tenth day of the first month Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt of an ass, with people shouting for the Son of David to save them, and shortly after He cleared the temple of the corruption in Matthew 21:1-13. He ministered for four days, and finally ate the last supper with His disciples that evening as we read in Matthew 26:17-35. While reading John 13:1 thru John 19:30, we understand that the last supper was the same day that Jesus died. He was hung on the cross at nine AM, and died at three PM. The day Christ was crucified was the day before the annual Passover Sabbath and is called a high day.


I had 2 calendars to show the respective days but this new CC program will not allow them to be downloaded because it allows no more than 195.3 KB
 
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Originally Posted by zone
the spring feasts
1. passover
2. unleavened bread
3. firstfruits
4. pentecost

the fall feasts
5. trumpets
6. atonement
7. tabernacles

fulfilled.
who cares about what Jesus did though.
playing jewish church is fun.

MrsRoseTreasure said:
How do you think the Feast of Trumpets has been fulfilled? Or the feast of Atonement? I'm confused. The entire book of Revelation speaks of these two feats, and since these things have not come to pass, how can they be fulfilled? Please, enlighten me.
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There is not feasts of Passover. It is called unleavened bread. There is no feast of first fruits, it call the feast of weeks. There is no feast of Pentecost, that day is classified as the last day of the feast of weeks. There is no feast of trumpets, nor atonement, but there is a feast of tabernacles in the same month which I will explain within a week or so. May God bless you with the simplicity in Christ Jesus. There are other feasts that are celebrated that God didn't endorse. I'm not concerned with them. Let no one confuse you.

Exodus 23:14 (KJV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Deuteronomy 16:16 (KJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Hope this helps you sis.:o
 
MrsRoseTreasure said:
Excellent resources regarding the Fall and Spring feasts:

YahTube: Michael Rood - The Spring Feasts

YahTube: Michael Rood - The Fall Feasts

And, they are entertaining, too. :)
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Thanks for the links.:)
I started listening to Rood a few months ago. He is a riot! He is also a very learned Bible scholar who has put many hours into understanding the Word, has a gift for conveying the Gospel. It's not mainstream, it's a" no Takanot" and "no Babalonian Sun god worship" zone.
 
I apologize for not having better images, but at least these will show the correct days according to the times in the first month called Nisan/Abib.

Calendar likened to the first month and day in Exodus chapter 12
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The one above isn't that good of a representation because the first month has 30 days but it's right in all other aspects. sorry


During the month of Jesus' crucifixion.
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According to the Biblical Sabbath days, and the women buying spices to anoint Jesus’ dead body, (Luke 23:55-56) we can surmise that the day Christ died was on Wednesday, which would have been the fourteenth of Abib/Nisan. The day falling between the annual Passover Sabbath, and the weekly Sabbath would be the day the women prepared spices for anointing the body of Jesus.
 
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I know I’m being redundant, but it is important for understanding the correlation of days that the fifteenth day began at twilight or sundown of the fourteenth day. We know that the Passover lamb was eaten, after its blood was put on the doorposts as God passed over that night. The feast of unleavened bread ended at the beginning of the twenty-second day of the first month. (Exodus 12:7-17, Leviticus 23:4-8) On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the “feast of tabernacles” starts for the sake of living what their ancestors lived in the desert of Sinai. In the days of Jesus we see that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month He was not to be found according to John 7:10, then reading on through John 7:14 we see that the Feast of Tabernacles was half over. With that said, and to bring Jesus together with the first and seventh months, we know that the first day of the feast starts on the fifteenth, we can rightly assume this scripture defines it to be midday on the fourth day, being the eighteenth day of the seventh month. The “Feast of Unleavened Bread” lasts through the twenty-first day of the first month, same as the “Feast of Tabernacles” in the seventh month. That day, being the eighteenth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus claims loudly in John 7:28 that those people who are listening to Him know very well who He really is. The eighteenth day of the first month is precisely the same day Jesus rose from the dead during the month of Nisan. That same day we read in Luke 24:13-15a “And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs. And they talked together of all these things which had happened.” In short, the Hebrew letter eighteen means “trail and journey” relating to the midpoint of the feast. During the last day of the feast, being the twenty-first, Jesus shouts out; “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.” Even though the powers that be wanted to kill Jesus, they didn’t because of differences of opinion that could have instigated a riot. (John 7:37-44)
 
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Originally Posted by zone
the spring feasts
1. passover
2. unleavened bread
3. firstfruits
4. pentecost

the fall feasts
5. trumpets
6. atonement
7. tabernacles

fulfilled.
who cares about what Jesus did though.
playing jewish church is fun.



There is not feasts of Passover. It is called unleavened bread. There is no feast of first fruits, it call the feast of weeks. There is no feast of Pentecost, that day is classified as the last day of the feast of weeks. There is no feast of trumpets, nor atonement, but there is a feast of tabernacles in the same month which I will explain within a week or so. May God bless you with the simplicity in Christ Jesus. There are other feasts that are celebrated that God didn't endorse. I'm not concerned with them. Let no one confuse you.

Exodus 23:14 (KJV)
[SUP]14 [/SUP]Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

Deuteronomy 16:16 (KJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:

Hope this helps you sis.:o
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Thanks, but not really, as I was trying to find out how the fall feasts have been fulfilled. I was using those words ^^ because I was quoting someone else. I'm sorry they/I were not semantic enough about the feast days. I have a very good understanding of them, and try hard to honor them every year. :) Information is always welcome.
 
I know for me it was important to understand a couple of things, and I think I posted something different before I learned about the difference between feast days and days that have a purpose but aren't feast days, and so I apologize for propagating nonsense as I do detest the spread of ignorance, so I wanted to share with you guys some things I learned recently about the feasts and other things related.

Firstly, I had previously thought that all of the days of important were "feast days" but feasts are holy convocations (the word convocation means to do something with attentiveness basically) that were feasts, but there were other non feast days and integral things involved. Take the "Passover" it was an event that happened in Egypt that is commemorated, but the actual day when the lamb was killed was the "day of preparation" (the day Christ was crucified) which is not a "feast" but still very important. Same with the first fruits.

God knows how delaying gratification is necessary for maturation. He made us, so the first fruits of the harvests were given to God before anybody ate of them.

I also learned recently that their harvest season was twofold. The Barley was ready to harvest the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So they would cut the first sheaves of barley and then they had to wait until the day after the Sabbath or High Holy Day of Unleavened Bread to offer it in the Temple, the priest would wave it in front of the alter and it was a gift for God. The third day, they could begin to eat the barley. So beautiful how things match up. So the wheat sprang up about the same time, however it had to mature for 50 days before being cut. The sun had to dry and harden the kernels, so inclement weather could mean they didn't have enough food. The omer was counted during this time (it's 49 days because it starts the second day of the feast so there we get kind of an extra day to make 50), plus the Lord said to count 7 weeks. Hence the common name of Shavuot. It was also called the reaping festival because it meant the beginning of the wheat harvest. Again the people took the first fruits of the wheat and baked 2 loaves of bread to bring to the Temple. Some say the people who attain the first resurrection are the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and that Shavuot is a prefiguration of the millennial reign, in a similar way as the Sabbath.
 
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I also learned recently that their harvest season was twofold. The Barley was ready to harvest the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So they would cut the first sheaves of barley and then they had to wait until the day after the Sabbath or High Holy Day of Unleavened Bread to offer it in the Temple, the priest would wave it in front of the alter and it was a gift for God. The third day, they could begin to eat the barley. So beautiful how things match up. So the wheat sprang up about the same time, however it had to mature for 50 days before being cut. The sun had to dry and harden the kernels, so inclement weather could mean they didn't have enough food. The omer was counted during this time (it's 49 days because it starts the second day of the feast so there we get kind of an extra day to make 50), plus the Lord said to count 7 weeks. Hence the common name of Shavuot. It was also called the reaping festival because it meant the beginning of the wheat harvest. Again the people took the first fruits of the wheat and baked 2 loaves of bread to bring to the Temple. Some say the people who attain the first resurrection are the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and that Shavuot is a prefiguration of the millennial reign, in a similar way as the Sabbath.
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Excellent. :) Thanks for this.
 
There are other Holy Days that are not feasts but are awesome and it's kind of a package deal.
In the fall, after the harvest was over, on the first two days of the 7th month, is the first of what's called the High Holidays.
Yom (meaning day) Teru'ah (trumpeting, literally sounding)...this one gets played off because there isn't much to say about it from scripture, it is simply the day that begins a ten day countdown to Yom Kippur, and the only thing God says is that a horn be blown. That being said, it can be an intense time spiritually, as it was for me last year. Yom Teru'ah begins like a holiday sandwich, called the Days of Awe, culminating in the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. You might say that Christ was our atonement, but this is looking more toward the final judgement. I wanna tell you guys briefly my days of awe story from last year.

I had accepted Christ years before but I struggled constantly with smoking cigarettes. I knew it was unhealthy, poluting the temple of the Holy Spirit, and an addiction and therefor an idol, and I hated smoking so bad I tried to quit so many times that it was a running joke. A few days before, a friend of mine had offered to quit together, but we hadn't set a date. On the night that starts Yom Teru'ah I texted my friend saying I wanted to quit soon, and he said that we would be freed from that at midnight. I was working so I was like ok whatever for now. When I got out, he sat me down and God spoke through him in amazing ways, describing what I was going through in my walk with God and things that were sin and idolatry. We smoked one last cigarette at 11:58 pm just as he had said, we ripped up our leftover smokes and threw them away. That night I filled the trash with things I felt were not appropriate or that had been products of idolatry. I hadn't realized how much sin was right in front of me, but when I heard the trumpet (spiritually), the Lord came in and turned the tables of my life. I've not since had a cigarette, or gotten intoxicated, and I was healed of a few physical ailments. The Holy Spirit stepped in and cleaned house, I just let him. I agreed with God's judgement, and didn't run from it or make excuses or anything I just agreed and repented and stayed open to the Lord over the next ten days, and I saw some pretty cool things go on around me too. Everyone seemed effected by it. Meanwhile, during this time, I could hardly eat. I'm not good at fasting, but I had to force myself to eat a half of banana and a glass of milk before bed. The only other things I could stomach were raisins and lamb, and only a couple bites. I've never eaten so little for so long without being sick, and I wasn't trying to fast. I was full of energy and life. It was like I was on fire and God was preparing me to enjoy the feast of Tabernacles. I hadn't had any intention of observing the feasts, I only knew because my friend was like hey Yom Kippur is coming up, it seems God is imposing a fast on you. At the end of it, I was kind of tired from all the healing and it was really intense, so it was nice to have a few days in between to rest, and then for Succot, the feast of Tabernacles, we rejoiced like there was no tomorrow. It was just 3 of us and one of our friends 12 year old son, we had music and I cooked all sorts of good things and we were all so filled with the Spirit. I spent time alone in prayer each night, and the first night I went to put myself before the throne to pray, and it wasn't a vision but more of a sense of God coming down to Earth again, and I was so much in love, it felt like my heart literally grew (which kinda hurt but not in a bad way). To the extent that my mom was like, "are you pregnant? Oh I know," she says, "You're in love! Who is he???" and I gave glory to God, and told her it was Jesus. I felt like Simeon, "let your servant now depart in peace, now that I've held Him in my arms, my life can finally come to an end."
Then smack, party's over, the Eight Day of Assembly is solemn.
 
MrsRoseTreasure said:
Thanks, but not really, as I was trying to find out how the fall feasts have been fulfilled. I was using those words ^^ because I was quoting someone else. I'm sorry they/I were not semantic enough about the feast days. I have a very good understanding of them, and try hard to honor them every year. :) Information is always welcome.
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I don't believe the feast of tabernacles have been fulfilled, and neither have trumpets, nor atonement. The reason I think they have not been fulfilled is this verse.

Zechariah 14:16-19 (KJV)
[SUP]16 [/SUP]And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
[SUP]17 [/SUP]And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
[SUP]18 [/SUP]And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
[SUP]19 [/SUP]This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
 
KittenofMelchisedek said:
I know for me it was important to understand a couple of things, and I think I posted something different before I learned about the difference between feast days and days that have a purpose but aren't feast days, and so I apologize for propagating nonsense as I do detest the spread of ignorance, so I wanted to share with you guys some things I learned recently about the feasts and other things related.

Firstly, I had previously thought that all of the days of important were "feast days" but feasts are holy convocations (the word convocation means to do something with attentiveness basically) that were feasts, but there were other non feast days and integral things involved. Take the "Passover" it was an event that happened in Egypt that is commemorated, but the actual day when the lamb was killed was the "day of preparation" (the day Christ was crucified) which is not a "feast" but still very important. Same with the first fruits.
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Actually, the Passover is a Feast Day. It is not a Holy Day, not a Sabbath but it is a Feast...

Lev 23:4 'These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
Lev 23:5 On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.

God knows how delaying gratification is necessary for maturation. He made us, so the first fruits of the harvests were given to God before anybody ate of them.

I also learned recently that their harvest season was twofold. The Barley was ready to harvest the day before the Feast of Unleavened Bread. So they would cut the first sheaves of barley and then they had to wait until the day after the Sabbath or High Holy Day of Unleavened Bread to offer it in the Temple, the priest would wave it in front of the alter and it was a gift for God.
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And this Feast is not a Holy Day either. It is not a Sabbath. It is however a shadow (Col 2:16) of the ascension of Christ to the Father to present Himself as the perfect sacrifice for all of mankind.

The third day, they could begin to eat the barley. So beautiful how things match up. So the wheat sprang up about the same time, however it had to mature for 50 days before being cut. The sun had to dry and harden the kernels, so inclement weather could mean they didn't have enough food. The omer was counted during this time (it's 49 days because it starts the second day of the feast so there we get kind of an extra day to make 50), plus the Lord said to count 7 weeks. Hence the common name of Shavuot. It was also called the reaping festival because it meant the beginning of the wheat harvest. Again the people took the first fruits of the wheat and baked 2 loaves of bread to bring to the Temple. Some say the people who attain the first resurrection are the first fruits of the wheat harvest, and that Shavuot is a prefiguration of the millennial reign, in a similar way as the Sabbath.
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Pentecost is twofold, it is a shadow of the the Holy Spirit becoming available to the church (Acts 2) and it isalso a shadow of the early harvest, the first resurrection.

All of the Feast Days have tremendously significant importance in the plan of God.
 
john832 said:
Actually, the Passover is a Feast Day. It is not a Holy Day, not a Sabbath but it is a Feast...

Lev 23:4 'These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
Lev 23:5 On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the LORD's Passover.

And this Feast is not a Holy Day either. It is not a Sabbath. It is however a shadow (Col 2:16) of the ascension of Christ to the Father to present Himself as the perfect sacrifice for all of mankind.

Pentecost is twofold, it is a shadow of the the Holy Spirit becoming available to the church (Acts 2) and it isalso a shadow of the early harvest, the first resurrection.

All of the Feast Days have tremendously significant importance in the plan of God.
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The 1st and 7th months of Nisan/Abib and Tishi/Ethanim relate precisely to each other as the 1st, 10th, and 15th day of both months. The month that Jesus was crucified also relates precisely with these 2 months.

Trumpets to gather and spreading the message to acquire the Passover lamb were the first 9 days
Atonement and keeping the lamb were both on the 10th day, and killing the lamb in the 14th day to equal 5 days
The feast of unleavened bread and the feast of tabernacles both begin on the 15th day of both months.
The Hebrew day starts at at twilight of the 14th day, and God passed over that night.

Exodus 12:8 and 11-12 (KJV)
[SUP]8 [/SUP]And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
[SUP]11 [/SUP]And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
[SUP]12 [/SUP]For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

In Jewish time, the day begins with the onset of night (the appearance of the stars) followed by the morning (which technically begins with the appearance of the North Star). According to some Jewish teachers, night and morning begin with sunset and sunrise respectively, for that is how the Torah describes it: “And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.”
For this reason, the Sabbath begins on Friday night and ends with the appearance of the stars on Saturday night. The same is true for the major holidays such as Passover, Sukkot, Shavuot, Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, the fast day of Tisha B’Av, and Hanukkah and Purim.

Jewish Time
 
continuing on with what I have studied.

This Feast of Tabernacles is a time for reflection, a time set aside for remembering, reading and discussing for clarity, what Moses had recorded, and what was received on the stone tablets that God gave to him. (Leviticus 23:33-36) There are several things during the forty years in the wilderness that compare with Jesus, and one is the water that came from the rock in Numbers 20:8 when Moses was to speak to it. That is something that is vital to remember as we pray, relating it to the law of convocation so as to pray according to His will. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Jesus was put in the tomb according to John 19:31. Comparing the forty years in the wilderness with the Rock of our salvation in Psalm 95:1, we read in Exodus 17:6 that Moses struck the rock to cause the water to flow from it.
In summary we have feasts in the first month of the year, and the seventh month of the year that fall on the same days during the month. At the start of the first and seventh months trumpets sound when the new moon arrives. On the tenth day of both months the Lamb is secured and atonement starts. On the fifteenth day of both months is a time to start living in the tabernacles, or if you will, living our salvation as firstfruits unto the Lord of the New Testament likened to the “Feast of Weeks. It all fits, and we see only three feasts commanded by God to be kept from the beginning. They are the “Feast of Unleavened Bread” during the first part of the “Feast of Weeks” that include “firstfruits” in the first month, and remembered with the “Feast of Tabernacles,” along with all that God has done to protect His children, in the seventh month. They all center on Passover, and Atonement on the fifteenth day of both months.
All through the first fourteen days of the seventh month, special sacrifices were to be made for the nine days of trumpets, and the next five days of atonement, along with the daily sacrifices previously established and to continue through the seven days of the “Feast of Tabernacles.” I’ll leave it up to you to look up the scriptures for more detail of those days to compare the definitions and the attitude required with sacrifices made. For the moment I will concentrate on the fifteenth through the twenty-second day. The first day, being the fifteenth of the month, was a day of complete rest for the purpose of edification and remembrance. That is what a holy convocation is, and is likened unto what should be happening in our churches today. It was the day of blowing the trumpet shofar. No ordinary, or servile work was to be done, as to making a profit or working for wages.
 
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Allow me to rephrase the last sentence of the 2nd paragraph in my previous post #275

This Feast of Tabernacles, was, and is a time set aside for God’s children to focus on all these things that had happened, starting with the exodus from Egypt and the world’s values in the first month, or, if you will, the beginning of a new life starting with being born again.
 
There are differences of wording, that I would not like to be misinterpreted as differences of opinion, unless it's really what they are, because I know we all want to be in agreement with the Scriptures, and my hope is that we are helping each other get there.

Some say there are 7 "feasts", and some say there are only 3, and some say one is a Holy Day or a Convocation...lets unwrap this a little. It's hard because it really is a package deal. The Lord gave us his calendar, and what satan has imposed on us is so oppressive, that we can hardly see reason for the way of the Lord. Scary. Anyway, so there are three feasts that are called pilgrimage festivals by the Jews because you had to be at the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate them. Now we can observe them anywhere of course because we are being built the new Temple, and eventually I think we will celebrate at the New Jerusalem during the millennial reign. Each of these three have special days and observances all around them. So it's more than holidays we would think of just going on vacation for a week and that's the end of it. They were essentially seasons. Or you can take a more close up look and see the 7 different feasts, which is accurate because they are all feasts but not all pilgrimage festivals.

I think of the Lords Passover as being more than a feast, and I apologize if I appeared to minimize it in any way. It just gets wrapped up in the package of Exodus and Unleavened Bread, but it is more than a feast, because the Lord says he will pass through the land that day. This is a time of reverent fear and anticipation, leading up to Shavu'ot. This signifies the exodus from egypt and the 40 years in the desert, the death of Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit on Shavu'ot (also called Pentecost), and it signifies the first fruits offered the second day of Unleavened Bread (Jesus), and the anticipation of the firstfruits to be offered at the First Resurrection.
 
KittenofMelchisedek said:
There are differences of wording, that I would not like to be misinterpreted as differences of opinion, unless it's really what they are, because I know we all want to be in agreement with the Scriptures, and my hope is that we are helping each other get there.

Some say there are 7 "feasts", and some say there are only 3, and some say one is a Holy Day or a Convocation...lets unwrap this a little. It's hard because it really is a package deal. The Lord gave us his calendar, and what satan has imposed on us is so oppressive, that we can hardly see reason for the way of the Lord. Scary. Anyway, so there are three feasts that are called pilgrimage festivals by the Jews because you had to be at the Temple in Jerusalem to celebrate them. Now we can observe them anywhere of course because we are being built the new Temple, and eventually I think we will celebrate at the New Jerusalem during the millennial reign. Each of these three have special days and observances all around them. So it's more than holidays we would think of just going on vacation for a week and that's the end of it. They were essentially seasons. Or you can take a more close up look and see the 7 different feasts, which is accurate because they are all feasts but not all pilgrimage festivals.

I think of the Lords Passover as being more than a feast, and I apologize if I appeared to minimize it in any way. It just gets wrapped up in the package of Exodus and Unleavened Bread, but it is more than a feast, because the Lord says he will pass through the land that day. This is a time of reverent fear and anticipation, leading up to Shavu'ot. This signifies the exodus from egypt and the 40 years in the desert, the death of Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit on Shavu'ot (also called Pentecost), and it signifies the first fruits offered the second day of Unleavened Bread (Jesus), and the anticipation of the firstfruits to be offered at the First Resurrection.
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Three feast seasons, Seven Holy Days.
 
As we read about the trumpets, atonement, and feast of tabernacles, and the sacrifices that were offered from the beginning of the seventh month, we observe four kinds of animals continuously offered through the next twenty-one days. These offerings were attributed with the trumpets lasting for nine days, atonement lasting for five days, and the Feast of tabernacles lasting for seven days. These four animals listed in Numbers 29:2, and Numbers 29:5, were Bullocks, (young male cattle, not steers) Rams, (an older sheep buck) lambs, (young male sheep) and a young female goat for a sin offering. (Strong’s 5795 for the goat) When looking into the spiritual attributes of the female goat we can liken it today to the church, or bride of Christ. That’s why it is of the female gender. It also relates to the destruction of the carnal mind of self-will destroyed by antagonism, relating to consuming worldly values having a sword of defense. This mind-set controls its opposition by self-will, and is carnally strong. With that said, we need not say anymore about this animal being a good representation of a sacrifice to be destroyed by fire. (Romans 12:1, and Matthew 3:11) Unlike the goat, the bullock, rams, and lambs are offerings representing a pure heart that is acceptable unto God as a “sweet savor.”

The bullock is an offering representing Jesus, (Son of man Matthew 8:20) who is truly a pleasant aroma unto God, His Father. (Matthew 3:17) The Hebrew name “bullock” incorporates the beginning and the revelation of enlightenment. (John 1:1-10) He speaks divine understanding of all things that have their cycles but never change. One bullock was offered from the first day through the fourteenth day.(John 12:50, and John 13:13)

The one ram offered from the first day, through the fourteenth day is the same as the bullock. The one ram is an offering representing Abraham, the one who was promised a nation through his seed, and was justified because of His faith. (Hebrews 11:8-10, and Genesis 18:18) The Hebrew name for “ram” has the prowess to be a politically dominant leader, with attributes of physical strength. The motivational intentions are to multiply by sowing the seed after its own kind. (Genesis 16:10)

Seven lambs were offered from the first day through the fourteenth day, same as the bullock and the ram. The Hebrew name for “lamb” defines a young male sheep that is just old enough to butt. It represents young members of the family adhering to, and accepting the instructions, and motivations of their patriarchs. According to what the elders did during this month, we see that a large portion of time was given to reading, understanding the history of Israel, and the written law. Knowing that the seventh month is for remembrance, and a time to contemplate the promises of God, past, present, and future, we attribute this number of lambs to several probable scenarios concerning faith and hope in God’s commitments toward His Children.

We read that Noah was instructed to take seven pairs of each clean animal into the ark. We read in Genesis 7:2 that the grace of God instructed Noah how to prepare for the year-long journey his family was to endure. I don’t think Noah had any idea how long they would be confined to the ark. These clean animals were for sacrifices that could be eaten, and I find it uncanny that Noah knew what was good to eat and what wasn’t. Obviously Noah, and the patriarchs of his day, from before the flood, had been given at least some of the same instructions as were given in the Mosaic Law.

The seven lambs could represent the reason that Jacob’s family had to come to Egypt because of the seven years of famine. The Egyptian Pharaoh had a dream, and Joseph interpreted the dream, allowing Egypt to store food during the seven good years of harvest, and in turn sustaining the lives of those in Jacob’s family for the seven years of famine throughout the region as we can read in Genesis 41:1-48.
The seven lambs could also represent God’s grace when food fell from heaven, and Israel was instructed to take twice the amount for each person on the sixth day so that they could rest on the seventh day without gathering any food. (Exodus 16:4-5)

 Concerning the first Passover, and the feast of unleavened bread in Exodus 34:18, and Exodus 12:15-16, and so many other times, we see again and again the number seven keeps coming up throughout scripture. It is clear also that the seventh day was a day for remembering the grace of God, and sharing experiences of the previous six days. After all, from the beginning, God rested on the seventh day after His creation, and saw all that was done as good, being of a sweet aroma, and making Him happy. Why then should we not recognize these times of wonder and beauty, remembering all that God has done for us through the previous days and years in our lives, and just take time to thank Him for His wonderful works? As lambs it is reasonable for us to present ourselves as living sacrifices, and should we not be equated with these lambs offered in remembering God’s grace? “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the Sabbath. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.”
(Exodus 20:8, and Mark 2:27-28)
 
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just-me said:
continuing on with what I have studied.

This Feast of Tabernacles is a time for reflection, a time set aside for remembering, reading and discussing for clarity, what Moses had recorded, and what was received on the stone tablets that God gave to him. (Leviticus 23:33-36) There are several things during the forty years in the wilderness that compare with Jesus, and one is the water that came from the rock in Numbers 20:8 when Moses was to speak to it. That is something that is vital to remember as we pray, relating it to the law of convocation so as to pray according to His will. On the fifteenth day of the first month, Jesus was put in the tomb according to John 19:31. Comparing the forty years in the wilderness with the Rock of our salvation in Psalm 95:1, we read in Exodus 17:6 that Moses struck the rock to cause the water to flow from it.
In summary we have feasts in the first month of the year, and the seventh month of the year that fall on the same days during the month. At the start of the first and seventh months trumpets sound when the new moon arrives. On the tenth day of both months the Lamb is secured and atonement starts. On the fifteenth day of both months is a time to start living in the tabernacles, or if you will, living our salvation as firstfruits unto the Lord of the New Testament likened to the “Feast of Weeks. It all fits, and we see only three feasts commanded by God to be kept from the beginning. They are the “Feast of Unleavened Bread” during the first part of the “Feast of Weeks” that include “firstfruits” in the first month, and remembered with the “Feast of Tabernacles,” along with all that God has done to protect His children, in the seventh month. They all center on Passover, and Atonement on the fifteenth day of both months.
All through the first fourteen days of the seventh month, special sacrifices were to be made for the nine days of trumpets, and the next five days of atonement, along with the daily sacrifices previously established and to continue through the seven days of the “Feast of Tabernacles.” I’ll leave it up to you to look up the scriptures for more detail of those days to compare the definitions and the attitude required with sacrifices made. For the moment I will concentrate on the fifteenth through the twenty-second day. The first day, being the fifteenth of the month, was a day of complete rest for the purpose of edification and remembrance. That is what a holy convocation is, and is likened unto what should be happening in our churches today. It was the day of blowing the trumpet shofar. No ordinary, or servile work was to be done, as to making a profit or working for wages.
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My grandma said Jesus was weaved throughout scripture as a red cord offered to us, as if drowning in a sea, and to always remember He is our life line.

For the longest time I was perplexed why Moses was denied entry into the promised land and was to die in the desert for striking the rock the second time. I knew it was not as he was told to do, but didn't understand why it was such a huge deal. For prophecy?, he was to strike the rock, and then declare the rock. It was proclaiming Messiah, as He was struck for our sins, and forevermore we proclaim Him. Also, no matter what our failures are in doing the will of our Father, He will still use it for His glory! I am sure there are many other ways to see the lesson, and every time I see a clearer understanding I am humbled all the more. What a Great and Wondrous Creator, who Is 100% Perfect in All His ways! Who are we that He is mindful of us? What great mercy He has!

Thank you Just-me for all your thoughtful posts.
 
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