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FEASTS OF ISRAEL BASED ON THE SEVEN MONTH
JEWISH RELIGIOUS CALENDAR
 FIRST MONTH FEASTS: Spring Feasts –
Speaking of Christ’s first coming
PASSOVER: Exodus 12,13; Lev. 23 –
Represents our Primary experience with God – An Egypt Feast
before leaving the bondage of Egypt – represents God’s
deliverance from sin’s bondage.
The Lamb prepared and sacrificed – Death Angel passes
over the children of Israel in Egypt – the blood is
painted on the door-posts and lentils, and the firstborn of
the Egyptians dies, but Israel spared and delivered
 | Passover Meal celebrated from year to year until the time
of Jesus, Yeshua, and the type is fulfilled in Jesus death,
burial and resurrection. |
| Jesus becomes our Passover (Pesach) Lamb – Makes new covenant in
His blood at the Passover meal, or last supper |
| Passover speaks of the power of Jesus’ blood to save us. |
| Passover experientially speaks of salvation for all believers in
Yeshua, Jesus our Messiah. |
| Passover begins new life in Jesus, old things pass away, all things
become new. When a person receives Jesus as their savior,
they experience Passover – ransomed from death by His
blood. |
 FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: Yeast was
removed from the Jewish household, all leaven removed speaking
of sin and uncleanness. The Jews would remove every trace of
yeast from the house before this feast was celebrated.
Unleavened Bread speaks of the Purification
Work of the Holy Spirit in our lives to remove sin from our
lives.
Israel passes through the Red Sea – down through the
waters and Egypt is cut off forever. The Red Sea experience
was a "type of baptism" for Israel.
Speaks of sin being removed from the believer’s life –
Baptism for the believer, just as Jesus was buried and
resurrected, so the believer in Yeshua is buried to his old
way of life and resurrected to a new life in Him.
Leaven removed also may speak of the removal of corruption
and religious doctrines from the believer’s life.
This is the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit as He purifies
us from moral sin, hypocrisy, legalism, denying the
miraculous – Getting Egypt out of us! Israel was delivered
from Egypt, and after we have been saved the next step in
our salvation is water baptism which purifies us of a guilty
conscience and getting Egypt out of us.
 FEAST OF FIRSTFRUITS – Waving of the
sheaves before God
| God’s acceptance of us through Jesus blood – we have
been atoned for. |
| Free Grace – Jesus is our mediator before the Father. |
| Jesus became Firstfruit from the dead through His
resurrection. |
These first three feasts symbolically
correspond to the "Outer Court" of the Tabernacle of
Moses. In the Outer Court experience in the Old Covenant, there
was the Bronze Altar symbolizing the shedding of blood, the
sacrifice for our sin. Sin was judged, just as sin was judged at
the cross of Jesus with the shedding of Jesus’ blood instead
of the blood of bulls and goats. Then the priests would move to
the brass laver, which speaks of cleansing from our daily walk
in this world. It also represents the washing of the water of
the word, which would be a "type" of baptism or
cleansing before we enter the Holy place.
| Experiencing these first three feasts could be compared to
the 30 fold increase, but it is not a stopping place in our
walk.
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 THIRD MONTH FEAST: PENTECOST – Mount
Sinai – Exodus 19/ Acts Chapter 2 – This is a Wilderness
Feast
SECONDARY EXPERIENCE WITH GOD AFTER 1ST MONTH
FEASTS – GOD DOES A NEW THING
| At Sinai God spoke audibly, there was thunder, lightning,
wind, fire on the top of the mountain, thick clouds of
darkness over Sinai. |
| God told Israel to prepare because He would come down to
speak to them audibly |
| There was a very long trumpet (shofar) blast when the Lord
came down on the mountain. |
| God’s glory came down – 50 days in the wilderness |
| Feast that would commemorate Harvest – Early Rain
Harvest which would include the wheat, corn, and barley
harvest. |
| The 120 who waited in Jerusalem experienced the coming of
the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost in the Upper Room 50
days after Jesus’ death and resurrection. Jesus spent 40
days appearing after His resurrection, and they waited for
10 days before the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. |
| There was the sound of a mighty rushing wind, cloven
tongues of fire sat upon their heads, there was shaking, God
speaks through new tongues to those who are gathered in
Jerusalem from all the nations in their own native tongue as
the Spirit gave the utterance. |
| The nations were gathered for the traditional celebration
of Pentecost, and God came to them in a new way. This was a
secondary experience with the Lord after salvation. The 120
were all Baptized in the Holy Spirit. Now the Holy Spirit
can speak directly to individual believers, just as when God
came down on the mountain to speak with Israel, only now He
resides within us. |
| A Harvest of souls takes place, just as it speaks of the
Early Rain with the wheat, corn and barley harvest, now 3000
are added to the number of believers, then 5000, then
multiplications of new believers are added to their number
daily. |
| It is explained as, "This is that which was spoken by
the Prophet Joel, that in the last days, God’s spirit
would be poured out on all flesh…" This is the
beginning of the last days. |
THIS FEAST MAY BE COMPARED TO THE "HOLY
PLACE" IN THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES WHERE GIFTS WERE GIVEN
AND THE ILLUMINATION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TOOK PLACE WITH THE
LAMPSTAND AND THE TABLE OF SHEWBREAD.
A BELIEVER WHO EXPERIENCES PENTECOST MAY BE
COMPARED TO RECEIVING THE 60 FOLD INCREASE, BUT ONCE AGAIN, WE
ARE NOT TO CAMP AT PENTECOST. ISRAEL WAS TOLD TO LEAVE THE
MOUNTAIN AND JOURNEY ON TOWARD CANAAN. WE MUST ALSO CONTINUE ON
IN OUR WALK PRESSING INTO THE FULL LIGHT OF DAY…AND THE FULL
REVELATION OF THE GLORY OF GOD…,.TABERNACLES.
During the Fourth through the Sixth months
there was NO Rain, and no other prescribed Feasts.
Symbolically – speaks of the Dark Ages,
when the Light of the Gospel nearly went out in the Earth. Many
plagues broke out during this time, and there was very little
knowledge of the Word of God,…until Martin Luther came along
in the 1600’s with the truth of ‘Salvaton by Grace." In
the next few centuries to come, little by little truths were
being restored to the Body of Christ, and many of the historic
revivals broke out with Finney, Wesley, and many others.
Not until the early 1900’s did we see an
escalation of truth, and power and visitation of the Holy Spirit
once again upon the church.
It was almost as though the prophetic clock
stopped during the Dark Ages, and resumed as we approached the
20th century.
 SEVENTH MONTH FEASTS – FEAST OF
TRUMPETS (ROSH HASHANAH), YOM KIPPUR (DAY OF ATONEMENT) AND THE
FEAST OF TABERNACLES (OR BOOTHS).
| Autumn Feasts speaking of Jesus second coming at the end
of the age. |
FEAST DAY OF TRUMPETS – ROSH HASHANAH
| Blowing of the shofar (trumpets) to announce the great day
of Atonement (10 day period of time) Num. 10 |
| Known as the Days of Awe; time of reflection, repentance,
reflection on the last year. |
| Known as the "Head of the Year" of New Year on
Jewish calendar – set by new moon |
| Two day feast – No one knows the day or the hour |
| Speaks of trial, testing, affliction, sifting to get the
sin out of us |
| Ten days until Yom Kippur |
| Wood, hay, and stubble being burned out of our lives
through affliction |
| Reputation gets burned up, pride burned out of us, all to
produce repentance and purifying and perfecting our lives
through the work of the Holy Spirit. |
| Trumpets speak of prophetic voices on the Earth –
healing, restoration, new worship released, Songs of the
Lord |
| Trumpets calling the assembly – produces a spiritual
unity and breaks down walls of separation in the Body. Good
example of this is what is happening with conferences in the
last 20 years. The Body is assembling across denominational
lines in large gatherings together all over the world. |
| At the same time, Israel is hearing the trumpet call to
return to their homeland, and many are coming into the
knowledge of salvation through Yeshua, Jesus as their
Messiah. |
| Trumpets are being sounded throughout the earth which are
resulting in endtime events being fulfilled as prophesied
they would – Israel becomes a nation in 1948, Jerusalem
recaptured in 1967. |
Feast of Trumpets represents a calling and
preparing of Israel and the Church in the Last Days for Jesus
return and the climax of the ages.
 DAY OF ATONEMENT – YOM KIPPUR –
Leviticus 23 and 16
It has been ‘legally" accomplished in
Jesus’ blood but has not taken place experientially yet.
FEAST OF TABERNACLES: CANAAN LAND FEAST –
THE PROMISE LAND FOR ISRAEL & BELIEVERS
| The Feast of Tabernacles was a Canaan Land Feast –
celebrated after Israel inherited the Promise Land after 40
years of wilderness wanderings. |
| The Feast commemorated in booths to represent their
journey in the wilderness – also known as the "Feast
of Ingathering." |
| Ingathering – a feast of Glory, the latter rains harvest
– the fruit harvest – the wheat, oil, and wine – A
Feast of Light: Jesus the Light of the World – John 7
Jesus celebrates the Feast of Tabernacles. |
| This feast speaks of a Victorious Bride – new covenant
believers have repeated what Israel did. Israel wandered for
40 years in the wilderness – the Church wandered for 40
Jubilees, 2000 years since Jesus Birth. |
| Speaks of the revealing of God’s glory – the revealing
of "the Father." |
| Speaks of "drawing back the veil to fullness of
revelation of God |
| Unveiled glory of God revealed. |
| Speaks of signs, wonders, worldwide harvest – Hebrews
12:22: We have not come to a mountain that burns with fire
but to the Heavenly Jerusalem, to Zion. |
| Fulfillment of the ages – completion – the reaper will
overtake the sower with massive harvest of souls |
| Early and latter rain come together – more saved in all
of history. Mike Bickle says, 1 Billion souls will be saved,
a tithe of the earth for all time. |
| The pouring of the pitchers of water representing God’s
spirit poured out in fullness. |
| Feast of Illumination – the Jews would come with
torches, and the temple would be greatly illuminated,
speaking of Jesus, the Light of the World. |
SPEAKS OF A COMPLETION OF THE AGES, OUR
BRIDEGROOM REVEALED – SPEAKS OF ENTERING INTO THE HOLY OF
HOLIES AS COMPARED WITH THE TABERNACLE OF MOSES – THE 100 FOLD
BELIEVER WHO HAS GONE ON TO PERFECTION, BY ALLOWING THE FULL
WORKING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THEIR LIVES. SPEAKS OF INTIMATE
COMMUNION AND REVEALING OF OUR LORD IN FULLNESS AND GLORY
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