| Feast / Lev. 23:4-44 |
Purpose |
Season |
Messianic significance |
Some Scripture |
Focus* |
Pesach
Passover
14 Nisan |
To remember Israel's redemption from slavery in Egypt. |
Spring |
Messiah's Substitutionary,
sacrificial death |
1 Cor. 5:6-7 |
Messiah Yeshua |
Hag Hamatzot
Unleavened bread
15-21 Nisan |
To remember the haste
with which the LORD
brought Israel out of Egypt. |
Spring |
Messiah's sinless life. Just as matzah is striped and pierced, so was the Messiah. His body would not see corruption.
(Jn. 6:35; Ps. 22:16;
Is. 53:5; Acts 13:35 |
1 Cor. 5:8,
Luke 22:19,
1 Peter 1:18-19,
2 Cor. 5:21,
Hebr 4:15,
1 Peter 2:22,
1 John 3:5 |
Messiah Yeshua |
Yom Habikkurim
First Fruits; First day of the barley harvest |
To thank the LORD for the first produce of the barley harvest to come. |
Spring |
Messiah's resurrection |
1 Cor. 15:20-23 |
Messiah Yeshua |
Shavuot
Weeks or Pentecost
7 weeks after First fruits (50 days) |
To thank the Lord for the
first produce of the wheat
harvest to come. |
Spring |
Birth of the Messiah's body (Beginning of this present age) |
Acts 2:1-4,
Eph. 3:6, 5:23,
Col. 1:18, 24 |
Messiah's Assembly*1 |
| Four month interval |
A time of working in the
fields. |
Summer |
"This present age"
The fields are ready
to harvest |
John 4:35-38
Matt. 28:18-20 |
Messiah's
Assembly |
Rosh Hashanah
Blowing of the Trumpets
1 Tishrei |
A sacred assembly during
which the shofar is sounded. |
Autumn |
Rapture of the Messiah's body (End of the age) |
1 Cor. 15:50-52,
1 Thess. 4:16-17
|
Messiah's Assembly |
Yom Kippur
Day of Atonement
10 Tishrei |
National cleansing of
Israel's sins. |
Autumn |
The Day of the Lord (Great Tribulation)
culminating in Israel's national regeneration |
Isaiah 13:6-9,
Zech. 12:10,
Matt. 23:37-39, Rom. 11:25-27 |
Israel |
Sukkot
Tabernacles or Booths
15-21 Tishrei |
Remember the wilderness wanderings, God living
among men, thanksgiving
for the Autumn harvest. |
Autumn |
Messiah Yeshua living among men and reigning over the world from Jerusalem. |
Zech. 14:16-19 |
King Messiah,
Yeshua
the LORD. |
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