Feasts of God

The True Feasts of God God‘s plan for the salvation of humanity is shown by the seven feasts He gave to ancient Israel in Leviticus 23. God told the people of Israel to celebrate these feasts as "lasting ordinances." The seven feasts are patterns that describe the two comings of Yeshua. While most Jewish people still celebrate the feasts, it‘s unfortunate that many don‘t understand Yeshua‘ fulfillment of them, and thus miss the Christ that was sent for their salvation. It is also unfortunate that most don‘t study and learn about the feasts, let alone celebrate the feasts, for if they did then they would more clearly see how the feasts symbolize Yeshua‘ work both for His first coming and His second. They could then better understand and praise God and rejoice in His plan for the salvation, for they would see His plan laid out in the feasts.

As we get into more detail, you will understand why so many of these Sabbaths are called "feasts"as they are truly wonderful spiritual food essential for the last days. Each feast is different and each is very beneficial for the body of the bride. If you understand the rehearsals, then you will know what is your role is in the last drama that will involve the whole world will be. You can learn the role that God wants you to have, or you will be caught up in the greatest deception this world has ever seen. I will try to show the accuracy in which Yeshua fulfilled the spring feasts at His first appearance. It should lead you to believe the fall feasts will also have their fulfillment with His second coming.

In understanding the rehearsals of the fall feasts and the implied implications of the reality involvement dealing with His second coming, we should then be better prepared for the end times, having a better understanding of where we are to spiritually be, spiritually better prepared for what is to come upon the earth, and truly closer to the Lord that He may protect us from what is soon to come upon the earth. The Lord made a special announcement regarding three of the feasts in which there is a demand for everyone to attend and not miss.225 Three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles are we to gather.

The basic meaning of the three festivals where it is mandatory for all men to appear before the temple of God are for the blessing contained within. Pesach or Passover is known as the festival of freedom from bondage. It is freedom from the bondage of the Pharoahs of our life. Through the sacrifice and blood of our Lord Yeshua on the cross, we have freedom from sin. Sin, the leaven that we are to no longer partake of and do. 2 Chronicles 8:13

Shavuot better known as the Feasts of Weeks or Pentecost is the festival of walking in freedom towards the Promised Land. At the first Pentecost people were given the Laws of God that are to govern our day to day life, as shown to Moses on Mount Sinai. This is also the time of the first fruits of the harvest of believers that received the Holy Spirit. Sukkot or Feast of Tabernacles is the festival of fellowship and union with God, a ―God with us‖, understanding. As was illustrated in the forty years in the wilderness, with God dwelling with his people in the tabernacle and latter in the temple at Jerusalem, it is the ultimate goal of God to be with us. In the great ingathering, at the end of time, believers are the wife of the Lamb. It is forever that God wishes to have this union with man.

As we have mentioned, the Sabbath is not included in the cycle of seven festivals. The weekly Sabbath runs through the year. The weekly Sabbath stand alone as one of the commandments that is written in stone, as immutable as the other nine commandments. It is the unifying underlying significant commandment that God tells His People to Remember because of its significant role in the ultimate plan of God‘s salvation for His people. The Sabbaths are not called the Jewish Sabbaths, God calls them MY Sabbaths.

We have significant reasons for studying the festivals as they are of God and are considered Holy Convocations. Convocations are like conventions where people are called to be at a certain time and place, and assembled with the understanding that they are to learn something that is important for their future health and welfare. All festivals are a memorial of the historical events, prophetic indicating they have a future complete fulfillment, teach about the Yeshua our Redeemer‘s work, and are agricultural in content representing Yeshua‘s crop from the planting of seed to the last great harvest.

All of the festivals teach you about your personal relationship with God and how a believer should grow in the knowledge of Yeshua, growing into maturity and into His likeness. Working our way through the whole chapter of Leviticus 23, the sacred ceremonial Sabbaths along with the Weekly Sabbath of the Lord‘s are presented in order. Chapter 23 of Leviticus covers all seven feasts. Leviticus 23:1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD , which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

There are seven feasts; four in the spring and three in the fall. God gave these feasts, the set feasts or appointed seasons of the Lord to teach us about Christ‘s ministry. Christ will come twice. As faithful as the rain in the spring and the rain in the fall to ripen the wheat for the harvest so God does prepare us for His coming. The harvest that Christ is looking Spiritually Feasting on the Lord’s Feasts Page 71 forward to is us, from the seeds he planted in our hearts, to the full mature plant bearing fruit of the Spirit.

Yeshua fulfilled the four spring festivals when He came the first time. The four spring time feasts that He fulfilled are the Passover, the Feast of Unleaven Bread, the Wave Sheaf or First Fruits and the Feasts of Weeks or Pentecost. Let us take a look at these four feasts as see some of the things that the Lord did to fulfill them

Passover

The slaying of the lamb and Exodus out of Egypt are the symbolic type upon which the feast was first instituted. Historically before Christ, Passover marked the national liberation of the Hebrews from Egyptian slavery.229 Passover literally means the lamb. God instructed each family to take an unblemished year-old male lamb into their home on the tenth day of the first month. They were to examine the lamb for four days to see that it was perfect. On the evening of the fourth day, they were to kill the lamb and take some of the lamb‘s blood and place it on the two doorposts and the lintel of their house.

On this first Passover, the avenging angel of God killed every first born male throughout the land, from Pharaoh, to slave, to camel. The angel of death would pass over those homes which the homeowners believers protected themselves by placing the blood of a lamb on their doorposts and lintels. So are we today to place the blood of the lamb on the doorposts of our heart and mind to protect us from the final plagues that will be meted out in the end of earth‘s history. Yeshua is our Passover Lamb.