Israel’s males, were required to appear before the LORD three times each a year. To keep three feasts to the LORD every year throughout their generations. The Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of First-Fruits and the Feast of Ingathering. (Exodus 23) (Leviticus 23) (Numbers 28-29)
The Hebrew word for ‘Feast,’ in Scripture, means firstly to move in a perpetual cycle. Secondly, it means to be betrothed to or to be joined. The Hebrew context help us to understand the LORD’s reason for commanding Israel keep his feasts in their seasons was to join; to covenant with his people. An appointed time when Jesus gives us to eat and drink, His Word with Him.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
There are two parts to this Feast: (the dividing of seeds)
The Feast of Passover was held in the evening of 14th day of the first month, Abib, in the Hebrew year. This Feast remembers the blood of the lamb, the LORD had Israel place upon the doorways of their homes. As the LORD passed over Egypt that night he put the firstborn of Egypt to death, and let the firstborn of Israel live. Just as now, the blood of Jesus Christ divides between those born of creeds, and those born of his gospel. (Exodus 12:1-14)
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was held over seven days from Sabbath to Sabbath. (a total of eight days) From the morning of the 15th, the day after the Passover, to the evening of the 21st in the first month. This feast remembers the exodus of Israel’s tribes as they departed Egypt. Today, for those of us who accept the blood of Jesus Christ’s salvation, we too must separate ourselves from the worldly things and seek the kingdom of God. We must keep his Word Holy in us. (Exodus 12:15-20)
As the leaven of the Pharisees is their traditions and laws so this leaven today is the creeds and errant beliefs of our churches. (Jesus Feasts are perpetual) In the season of “Unleavened Bread,” we are to partake of the untouched Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are to refrain from “eating” the doctrines of our errant faiths. We are not to partake of that leaven, and of that sin.
In the Book of Daniel the prophet foresaw Jesus sacrifice and offering; Jesus Gospel of Salvation, replaced in the midst of the week. (Daniel 9) Cut off and replaced by the understandings and creeds of our churches and faiths. This is the week, the time and season of the “Feast of Unleavened Bread.”
The Feast of First-Fruits
There are three parts to this Feast: (the royal line promised to Abraham)
The Sheaf Offering: As seen in the Book of Joshua, the Feast of First Fruits begins when the first green shoots of the harvest appear. Each person would take a sheaf from the first fruits of their harvest to the Priest, to wave before the LORD. The sheaf was waved the day after the Passover. A sheaf being a “tenth part” measure, which measure represents “our tithe” to the LORD. This “tithe,” is the confession, the green shoots of our faith; that Jesus alone is LORD and Christ. It is the faith of the first-fruits, the 144,000 of the Twelve Tribes, we see in the Book of Revelation. (Leviticus 23: 9-21) (Revelation 14:1-5)
The Feast of Weeks: (Feast of Sabbath’s) This Feast begins the day after the sheaf offering is waved before the LORD. From the day after the tithe is waved, a feast is held every Sabbath day, for the next seven Sabbaths. On every Sabbath day there is an offering made by fire. Its time, is forty nine days from beginning to end, and its seven Sabbaths memorialise the seasons of God’s Sabbath’s of rest, and times of release from bondage every seven years, as recorded in the Book of the Law. In the “seven” is bound the oath of God’s Covenant with Abraham.
This Feast of Weeks pertains to the purification of Jesus Faith in us. This purification is heard in the seven Church Angel Messages and seven Seals, in the Book of Revelation. The culmination of the Feast of Weeks, on the seventh Sabbath, is Pentecost. It was at Pentecost, the people understood the Messiah had been crucified, and being cut to the heart, asked the Apostle Peter what they must do. It was here, Jesus, the Spirit of Truth in Peter, declared the “Jubilee Keys” to the kingdom of God. That Jesus is both LORD and Christ. To repent and be baptised; the water. In the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin; the blood. To receive the Holy Ghost; Jesus Spirit. (Leviticus 23: 9-21) (Acts 2:38) (Revelation 2-6)
The Feast of First-Fruits: This Feast begins when the Feast of Weeks ends. On the day following Pentecost, an additional fifty days is counted. There are no offerings made during this Feast until the 50th day, when a new offering is made by fire, to the LORD. It is a time of silence if you like, from the sounding of the Jubilee trumpet on the day of Pentecost, to the restoration of the Jubilee promises. It is the Law of Christ, the Spirit of love and charity restored in those who have rested in Jesus Faith. The new offering being the new man in Christ.
The first-fruits waived; the two loaves of leavened bread, the oil, seven lambs, two rams, a bullock, the sin and peace offerings. These are all things symbolic of Jesus testimony and the everlasting covenant of peace between himself and his Priesthood. As with the Levites in former times, the Priesthood are the first-fruits, redeemed by God, and sealed with the fathers name on their foreheads; the name of the Everlasting Father, the LORD Jesus Christ. (Leviticus 23: 9-21) (Isaiah 9:6) (Revelation 14: 1-5)
The Feast of Ingathering
There are three parts to this Feast: (the multitudes promised to Abraham)
The Memorial Blowing of Trumpets, is held on the first day of the 7th month. Two silver trumpets were blown to gather the congregation to the Tabernacle. to hear the reading of the law, and the blessings and curses written in the Song of Moses. Trumpets that sounded seven times, every seven years in the lead up to the Jubilee. (7×7) They are heard in the seven Church Angel Messages, the seven Seals and the seven Trumpets. These trumpets declare the testimonies of the Law and the Lamb. Testimonies that declare Jesus Christ alone is LORD and that there is no God beside him. These trumpets sound to those who first trusted in creeds, but who at the end of time, are gathered into winepress of the wrath of God. Why? So that they might repent of their idolatry and turn to Jesus Christ; who was, and who is, and who is to come, the LORD God Almighty. These Trumpets are heard in the songs of Moses and the Lamb in the Book of Revelation. (Leviticus 23: 22-25) (Number 29:1-6) (Revelation 15: 1-4)
The Feast of Affliction: (The Waters of Affliction) is held on the evening of the 9th day following the trumpets. It was a time when having heard the songs of Moses and the Lamb, and hearing their testimonies, that we are cut to the heart. That our souls are afflicted for the idolatry of having blasphemed Jesus name and testimony in creeds like the trinity, and in other Protestant, Jehovah Witness, Mormon, Islamic, and Jewish doctrines. It is a time when the tribes of the earth shall mourn. (Matthew 24:30) It is a time of repentance first heard in the Apostles Pentecost declaration; Repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ. It is the Spirit of Jesus calling us to the waters of repentance. (Leviticus 23: 26-32) (Number 29:7-11) (Acts 2:36-38)
The Feast of Atonement: (The Blood of Atonement) is held on the evening of the 9th day to the evening of the 10th day following the trumpets. It is a time when the “Jubilee Trumpet” was commanded to be blown, as an ordinance forever throughout Israel’s generations. (Leviticus 25:9) It is a time when the great trumpet declares to God’s Israel; the LORD thy God is the LORD Jesus Christ. (Matthew 24:31) And when the blood of Jesus atonement is placed back upon the altar of our heart, where previously church creeds sat, and where our works replaced the Messiah’s sacrifice. Atonement first promised in the remission of our sin at Pentecost; Repent and be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sin. Our sin, being the rejection of Jesus Salvation, and the blood of remission, being the forgiveness of that trespass repented. (Leviticus 23: 26-32) (Number 29:7-11) (Acts 2:36-38)
The Feast of Tabernacles begins on the 15th day. Five days after the Jubilee trumpet sounds, and lasts for seven days from Sabbath to Sabbath. It is a period when Israel were to consider their journeys in the wilderness in Moses time. When they understood the depravity of their rebellion, idolatry, and wickedness, and when they fell in the wilderness. It is a time when they took the branches of trees and made shelters, tabernacles to dwell in on their journey to the promised land. In Revelation we see these multitudes with palm branches in their hands. (Leviticus 23: 33-34) (Number 29:12-40) (Revelation 7:9-17)
These have come out of great tribulation and washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb. These are those who have come through the winepress of the wrath of God. In the sacrifices detailed in the Book of Numbers, we see the number of lambs offered up every day for seven days remain the same. Conversely, we see the numbers of bulls offered, diminish each day until the offering is in balance with the Passover and First-Fruit offerings. Things that reveal Christ’s truth sanctified in us, and mens creeds put to death in our heart and mind. (Number 29:12-40) (Matthew 24:29) (Revelation 7:9-17)
This Feast of Tabernacles and all the pattern of it, are seen in the Book of Revelation, chapters 15 and 16. These reveal the testimony of the tabernacle in heaven cleansed. The LORD is cleaning his testimony in us. Heard in the songs of Moses and the Lamb, two trumpets that begin the Feast of Tabernacles. In the midst, the Jubilee trumpet. At the end, the seven plagues of Revelation, which purge the idolatry and strong delusion from God’s Word in our heart and mind. The cleansing of the Tabernacle of Christ’s Testimony in us.
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? (2 Corinthians 13:5)
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. (Jeremiah 31:33-34)
