(Leviticus 23)

There were seven feasts that the Jewish Nation were to observe each year. They were given by God Himself directly to Moses. To a very real degree, these feasts were the annual Calendar of appointed times for all life and social activity for the Jews. Israel was an agrarian nation. Therefore, most of these seven feasts are related to agriculture. Four fell in the spring. Three were in the fall.

1. INITIATES: Passover was the first and most important of all of the seven feasts. Commemorates the protection of Israel by the Blood of the Lamb on the doorposts.

2. SEPARATES: Feast of Unleavened Bread. This feast followed Passover. They were to remove all leaven from their houses. This represented sin.

3. SEED/ WORD: Feast of First Fruits. The priest waved a sheaf of the first heads of grain from the Spring Harvest.

4. EARLY HARVEST: Feast of Pentecost. Fifty days later, the people were to bring forth loaves of bread, baked with leaven.

5. AWAKENING: Feast of Trumpets was the first of the fall feasts. It featured the blowing of trumpets in a day of rest.

6. REDEEMS: The Day of Atonement. They were to humble themselves before the Lord on a day of complete and absolute rest and fasting.

7. GOD RESTS: Feast of Tabernacles. The waving of tree branches recalls for all generations the day when they lived in booths in the wilderness after God brought them out of Egypt. Seven days they celebrate before the Lord. Jesus fulfilled the significance of the four Spring feasts when he came the first time. (the former rains) When he comes again, He will fulfill the three Fall feasts (the latter rains).

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