The Feasts of Israel “Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:”( Deut. 16:16)

The Feasts of Israel

    “Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:”( Deut. 16:16)

    “Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. [15] Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib (Nisan); for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) [16] And the feast of harvest (Pentecost), the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering (Tabernacles), which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. [17] Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord God. [18] Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning. [19] The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.” (Exodus 23:14-19 )

            Just as there are three major colors in a rainbow, and these three are manifest in the seven primary colors, so it is with the Feasts of Jehovah in Israel. There are three major Feasts, yet these Feasts may be broken up into seven Feasts.

            The Feasts are typical and prophetical of that which finds it fullest expression and completion in Christ, and the church of God, the true Israel of God. ( 1 Corinthians 10:6,11; Gal 6:16).

This is not to say Israel does not have a place still in God's prophetic word, but that the church now as Ruth did will fill the gap left through disobedience of all God intended for his people Israel (Matt 21:43, Romans 11).

            Israel, the chosen nation, was spoken of as “the church in the wilderness” (Acts 7:38). Therefore the New Testament church can find numerous things in Israel’s history and the dealings of God which find their spiritual counterpart in the New Testament times.

            Leviticus 23 sets forth the most suitable outline of the three, yet of all seven, Feasts. Other scriptures will be brought in throughout the text.

I.       { 1. The Feast of Passover- Lev 23:5-6

         { 2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread- Lev. 23:6-8

         { 3. The Feast of the Sheaf of First Fruits Lev. 23:9-14

II.      {1. The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)-Lev.- 23:15-22

III.           {1. The Feasts of Trumpets- Lev. 23: 23-25

{2. The Feast Day of Atonement- Lev. 23:26-32

{3. The Feast of Tabernacles-Lev 23: 33-44

            The Feast of Passover took place in the first month; The Feast of Pentecost  took place in the third month, and the Feast of Tabernacles found fulfillment  in the seventh month.

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