Rosh Hashana

Yom Kippur (Day Of Atonement) SEPTEMBER 24-25

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REJOICE IN THE FESTIVALS OF THE LORD

(Psalms 118:24-29)  

 This is the day which the Lord has made;
Let’s rejoice and be glad in it.
 Please, O Lord, do save us;
Please, O Lord, do send prosperity!
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord;
We have blessed you from the house of the Lord.
The Lord is God, and He has given us light;
Bind the festival sacrifice [a]to the horns of the altar with cords.
 You are my God, and I give thanks to You;
You are my God, I exalt You.
 Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good;
For His mercy is everlasting.

THE MOEDIM OF THE ETERNAL GOD OF ISRAEL

Exodus 23:14 “Three times a year you shall celebrate a feast to Me.

The Passover feast.

(Leviticus 23:4-5) 4 ‘These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. 5 In the [a]first month, on the fourteenth day of the month [b]at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread.

(Leviticus 23:6-8) 6 Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. 8 But for seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work.’”

The Feast of the Firstfruits.

(Leviticus 23:9-14) 9 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and you gather its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. 11 He shall wave the sheaf before the Lord for you to be accepted; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. 12 Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb one year old without defect as a burnt offering to the Lord. 13 Its grain offering shall then be [a]two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the Lord for a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a [b]fourth of a hin of wine. 14 Until this very day, until you have brought in the offering of your God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new produce. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

The Feast of Pentecost

(Leviticus 23:15-21) (also called the Feast of Weeks). 15 ‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven complete Sabbaths. 16 You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall present a new grain offering to the Lord. 17 You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread as a wave offering, made of [a]two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the Lord. 18 Along with the bread you shall present seven one-year-old male lambs without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a burnt offering to the Lord, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the Lord. 19 You shall also offer one male goat as a [b]sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits as a wave offering with two lambs before the Lord; they are to be holy to the Lord for the priest. 21 On this very day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a permanent statute in all your dwelling places throughout your generations.

The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah).

(Leviticus 23:23-25) 23 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 24 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the [a]seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a [b]rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. 25 You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord.’”

The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).

(Leviticus 23:26-32) 26 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 27 “On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall humble [a]yourselves and present an offering by fire to the Lord. 28 You shall not do any work on this very day, for it is a Day of Atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the Lord your God. 29 If there is any [b]person who does not humble himself on this very day, he shall be cut off from his people. 30 As for any person who does any work on this very day, that person I will eliminate from among his people. 31 You shall not do any work. It is to be a permanent statute throughout your generations in all your dwelling places. 32 It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble [c]yourselves; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot).

(Leviticus 23:33-44) 33 Again the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, 34 “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth of this [a]seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the Lord. 35 On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work. 36 For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the Lord; it is an assembly. You shall not do any laborious work. 37 ‘These are the appointed times of the Lord which you shall proclaim as holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the Lord—burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each day’s matter on its own day— 38 besides those of the Sabbaths of the Lord, and besides your gifts and besides all your [b]vowed and [c]voluntary offerings, which you give to the Lord. 39 ‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord for seven days, with a [d]rest on the first day and a [e]rest on the eighth day. 40 Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the [f]foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and branches of trees with thick branches and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41 So you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a permanent statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live in booths, 43 so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’” 44 So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of the Lord.

The prophetic significance of the festivities of Leviticus 23.

The set of the first four festivals is related to the work of YESHUA in His first coming, of His earthly ministry.

The Passover feast clearly presents YESHUA as our Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7), the Lamb of God who was slain, and whose blood was received and applied, so that the wrath of God might pass from us.

 The Feast of Unleavened Bread relates to the burial of YESHUA after His sinless and perfect sacrifice on the cross, during which He was received by God the Father as holy and complete (the Holy One who would see no corruption, Acts 2: 27), perfectly completing our salvation.

The Messiah died for our sins, according to the Scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day, according to the Scriptures. (1 Corinthians 15:3-4)

 The Feast of the First Fruits is related to the resurrection of YESHUA, who was the first human being to receive the resurrection; the firstborn from the dead (Colossians 1:18) and the firstfruits of those who fell asleep is made… MESSIAH, the firstfruits; then those who are of the MESSIAH, at his coming. (1 Corinthians 15:30,23)

 The feast of Pentecost is related to the beginning of the Restoration of THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL and the resulting “harvest” (Acts 2); Significantly, in the ceremony of the Feast of Pentecost, two unleavened loaves are waved as a holy offering to God,

 Between the first arrangement of four feasts and the second arrangement of three feasts, there is a significant time – almost four months, which was significantly a harvest time in Israel; until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. (Romans 11:25)

 The second group of the last three festivals is related to the events related to the second coming of YESHUA.

to. The Feast of Trumpets speaks of the final assembly of God’s people at the sound of the trumpet – THE MEETING OF OUR MESSIAH (1 Thessalonians 4:16:17), the gathering of ALL Israel for God’s special purpose

 The Day of Atonement not only speaks of the final and perfect atonement that YESHUA offered on our behalf, but also of the affliction and salvation that Israel IN THE NATIONS WILL SEE IN THESE TIMES.

The Feast of Tabernacles speaks of the millennium rest of God’s comfort for Israel the people of God: it is about peace and rest, from beginning to end.

tabernacles are celebrated during the millennium (Zechariah 16:16-19).

 Significantly, there is good evidence that each of the four feasts is related to the first coming of YESHUA since the prophetic fulfillment of it was seen on the exact day of the feast.

 YESHUA was crucified during Passover (John 19:14). His body would be entombed, and his holy and pure sacrifice would be recognized by God the Father during the following Feast of Unleavened Bread, and he would have risen from among us in the First Fruits. Furthermore, the Restoration of Israel began in the Revival of Pentecost with The 120.