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 There are 7 prophetic Feasts of the Lord: -

 

1. Passover/Pesach – A lamb was needed to be sacrificed and the blood of the lamb applied to the doorposts and lintel of each Israelite home so the destroying angel would pass over.

                    

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread/Matzot – No yeast was to remain among the Israelites.

 

3. First Fruits/Resheet – The first fruit of the harvest.

 

4. Pentecost/Shavuot – The start of the full harvest

    

5. Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah – A call to assemble the final harvest ingathering.

 

6. The Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur – Atonement for all sin

 

7. Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot – God dwells with His people

 

Let us look at each feast individually to determine the prophetic and spiritual nature of each one. These feasts begin in the biblical first month and end in the biblical seventh month.

 

1. Passover/Pesach

• A lamb was needed to be sacrificed and the blood of the lamb applied to the doorposts and lintel of each Israelite home in order for them to be delivered from slavery in Egypt.

• The killing of the firstborn was the final judgment of God upon the Egyptians.

•  The spiritual application is that God Himself provided a lamb, His Messiah, as a once for all sacrifice to deliver us all from slavery to sin.

                     

2. Feast of Unleavened Bread/Matzot

• No yeast was to remain among the Israelites.

• Yeast, spiritually, signifies sin and so we have this feast at the time of the Passover where sin is removed by the sacrifice of Messiah.

• He is the Bread of Heaven who lived a sinless life. Note that matzah is striped and pierced – a reminder of Isaiah 53.

 

3. First Fruits

• The first fruit of the harvest spiritually speaking occurs with the resurrection of the Suffering Messiah - the forerunner of the resurrection of His disciples/talmidim.

 

4. Pentecost/Shavuot

• The start of the full harvest, the ingathering of believers in Messiah.

 

Interval

 

• There is an interval of almost four months between the first four feasts and the final three feasts– a silence that symbolises the years between the 1st and 2nd Coming of Messiah.

• His first coming was as a suffering servant, referred to by many Jews as Moshiach Ben Yosef, Messiah the Son of Yosef.

• During the first four feasts He lays down His life as a sacrifice for sin, once and for all.

• Having been crucified, resurrected and ascended to Heaven as a First fruit of the provision of salvation He sends His Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh at ShavuoPentecost to begin the ingathering of His congregation.

    

5. Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah

• A call to a final assembly of all the believers of Messiah.

 

6. The Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur

• Atonement for all sin through one sacrifice.

• It is appointed unto all to die once and then be judged.

 

7. Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot

• God dwells with His people as all things are brought to a final conclusion.

• Messiah reigns over all the earth from Jerusalem.

• His second coming will be as the Reigning King of Kings, referred to by many Jews as Messiah Ben David, Messiah the Son of David.

• He will set up His Messianic kingdom reigning from Jerusalem with a rod of iron.