Passover, of course, celebrated the salvation the Jews experienced when the angel of death passed over the Jewish houses that were marked with the blood of a lamb. Most of the feasts were related to past historical events. And the feast of Tabernacles was in part a time of thanksgiving for the harvest of olives, dates, and figs. ![]() The feast of Harvest was a celebration of the wheat harvest. The feast of First Fruits was a time for the presentation to God of the first fruits of the barley harvest. Some of the feasts were related primarily to the agricultural cycle. They came to be known collectively as “Tabernacles.” The Nature of the Feasts The last three feasts Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles extend over a period of twenty-one days in the fall of the year. By New Testament times this feast had come to be known by its Greek name, Pentecost, a word meaning fifty. The fourth feast, Harvest, occurs fifty days later at the beginning of the summer. They came to be referred to collectively as “Passover.” The first three feasts Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits occur in rapid succession in the spring of the year over a period of eight days. You will find the timing and sequence of these feasts illustrated on the chart below.Īs you study the chart, notice that the feasts fall into three clusters. The Jewish nation was commanded by God to celebrate seven feasts over a seven month period of time, beginning in the spring of the year and continuing through the fall. The feasts were a part of the Mosaic Law that was given to the Children of Israel by God through Moses (Exodus 12 23:14-17 Leviticus 23 Numbers 28 & 29 and Deuteronomy 16). What Paul is saying here is that the feasts were prophetic types, or symbols, that pointed to the Messiah and which would be fulfilled in Him.īefore we pursue that point to see how the feasts were fulfilled in Jesus, let’s first of all familiarize ourselves with the feasts. ![]() This statement by the Apostle Paul refers to the Jewish Feasts as a “mere shadow” of things to come, the substance of them being found in Yeshua, the Messiah. “Let no one act as your judge in regard to food or drink or in respect to a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day things which are a mere shadow of what is to come but the substance belongs to Christ.” Colossians 2:16-17 (NASB)
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