Please, please don’t turn this into a we should/we shouldn’t celebrate them, but keep it a discussion of their meaning.
The feasts are based on the agricultural season of spring, summer, and fall. This is symbolic of God’s plan for our salvation. The Lord plants for our salvation in the spring feasts, in the summer we grow in the Lord through the law, and the fall feasts represents the harvest of the Lord’s people.
For over a thousand years the feasts prophesied the birth of Christ and Pentecost. Then the event happened on the day of the feast. Christ was crucified on Passover; his sinless body was in the tomb on the week of the festival of unleavened bread. In scripture, leavening is the symbol of sin, the unleavened bread is a symbol of sinlessness. Christ rose on First Fruits. Christ was the first human to be alive with the Father, and now Christ sits on the right-hand side of the Father.
Pentecost is the summer feast, 50 days after Passover. In the old testament it is called Shavuot, the anniversary of the giving of the law. Now it celebrates the giving of the law through the Holy Spirit.
When God establishes a pattern, scripture follows this pattern. God’s pattern is to give the event the feast prophesied on the day it was celebrated. If that pattern is kept by the Lord, we can know the time of year that Christ will return, we are told that we cannot know the time.
The fall festivals start with the Feast of Trumpets. This is always in the month of Tishri that usually corresponds to our month of October.
On this feast day a ram’s horn is to be blown with a series of blasts that indicated a battle cry. Not by scripture, but by Jewish tradition it is the day God sets in judgment of the universe. Another tradition is the casting of bread (symbol of sin) on running water. In Zephaniah 1 we are told it is a day of darkness, a day of wrath. In Amos 5 “Is not the Day of the Lord darkness, and not light, Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it”.
Ten days after this is the Holiest Day of the year, the Day of Atonement. It is the day for asking forgiveness for all our sin. It is the day for forgiveness of individuals and nations. It is the day all Israel will be saved.
Five days after this is the Feast of tabernacles. It is celebrated by moving into backyard structures or booths. It prophecies a new heaven and a new earth.
The feasts are based on the agricultural season of spring, summer, and fall. This is symbolic of God’s plan for our salvation. The Lord plants for our salvation in the spring feasts, in the summer we grow in the Lord through the law, and the fall feasts represents the harvest of the Lord’s people.
For over a thousand years the feasts prophesied the birth of Christ and Pentecost. Then the event happened on the day of the feast. Christ was crucified on Passover; his sinless body was in the tomb on the week of the festival of unleavened bread. In scripture, leavening is the symbol of sin, the unleavened bread is a symbol of sinlessness. Christ rose on First Fruits. Christ was the first human to be alive with the Father, and now Christ sits on the right-hand side of the Father.
Pentecost is the summer feast, 50 days after Passover. In the old testament it is called Shavuot, the anniversary of the giving of the law. Now it celebrates the giving of the law through the Holy Spirit.
When God establishes a pattern, scripture follows this pattern. God’s pattern is to give the event the feast prophesied on the day it was celebrated. If that pattern is kept by the Lord, we can know the time of year that Christ will return, we are told that we cannot know the time.
The fall festivals start with the Feast of Trumpets. This is always in the month of Tishri that usually corresponds to our month of October.
On this feast day a ram’s horn is to be blown with a series of blasts that indicated a battle cry. Not by scripture, but by Jewish tradition it is the day God sets in judgment of the universe. Another tradition is the casting of bread (symbol of sin) on running water. In Zephaniah 1 we are told it is a day of darkness, a day of wrath. In Amos 5 “Is not the Day of the Lord darkness, and not light, Is it not very dark, with no brightness in it”.
Ten days after this is the Holiest Day of the year, the Day of Atonement. It is the day for asking forgiveness for all our sin. It is the day for forgiveness of individuals and nations. It is the day all Israel will be saved.
Five days after this is the Feast of tabernacles. It is celebrated by moving into backyard structures or booths. It prophecies a new heaven and a new earth.