Jewish Feasts Spring. Leviticus 23

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1 Jewish Feasts Spring Leviticus 23

2 Jewish Feasts Spring 1 Peter 1: knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

3 Jewish Feasts Spring All seven of the Jewish feasts found in Leviticus 23 point to Jesus.

4 Jewish Feasts Spring Leviticus 23:1-4 1 The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying, 2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The LORD S appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations My appointed times are these:

5 Jewish Feasts Spring 3 For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings. 4 These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.

6 Jewish Feasts Spring Leviticus 23:2 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The LORD S appointed times which you shall proclaim as holy convocations My appointed times are these:

7 Jewish Feasts Spring Leviticus 23:3 For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation. You shall not do any work; it is a sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.

8 Jewish Feasts Spring Leviticus 23:4 These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. These are very special, significant, and holy days. Their order and timing have a purpose that might not be noticed with just a casual observation.

9 Jewish Feasts Spring The first four feasts are celebrated every spring. The last three feasts are celebrated in the fall. When these feasts were established by God, Israel was largely an agricultural nation.

10 Jewish Feasts Spring The seven feasts are based on the Jewish lunar calendar that contains approximately 354 days each year. A 12-month lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, and a 13- month lunar calendar is about 19 days longer than a solar year.

11 Jewish Feasts Spring The seven feasts are based on the Jewish lunar calendar that contains approximately 354 days each year. A 12-month lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than a solar year, and a 13- month lunar calendar is about 19 days longer than a solar year.

12 Jewish Feasts Spring These seven Old Testament feasts were both symbolic and prophetic. Jesus is the fulfillment of each one of the feasts. The first four feasts occur in the spring. The last three feasts occur in the fall.

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14 Jewish Feasts Spring Since there s a period of weeks between the end of the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Weeks, there are actually three seasons when Jews would have to travel to Jerusalem to celebrate the feasts. These three feast seasons were known as Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.

15 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) Leviticus 23:5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the LORD'S Passover. We should view Passover as the foundation of the other six feasts that are spelled out in Leviticus 23.

16 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) Although Jewish people have celebrated Passover annually since the time of Moses, there has really been only one Passover.

17 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) Exodus 12: For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments I am the LORD.

18 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) 13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

19 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) 14 Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.

20 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) All subsequent observances of Passover, over the next thousands of years, have been memorials of that one and only Passover. The Old Testament Passover clearly pointed to the sacrifice of Jesus.

21 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! (John 1:29) Exodus 15:13 In Your lovingkindness You have led the people whom You have redeemed

22 I. Passover (Lev. 23:5) 1 Peter 1: knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.

23 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) Leviticus 23:6 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. The Feast of Unleavened Bread starts the day after Passover and lasts for seven days.

24 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) Leviticus 23:7-8 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.

25 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) The first and last days of The Feast of Unleavened Bread are considered Sabbath days. They are days of rest, consecrated by God for the His people.

26 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a reminder that the Israelites had to leave Egypt quickly and, therefore, there was no time to allow for bread to rise before they cooked it and left their homes. In the Bible, leaven symbolizes error, evil, or sin.

27 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) In Matthew 16:6, Jesus said, Watch out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees. In Luke 12:1, He said, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

28 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed.

29 II. Unleavened Bread (23:6-8) 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Jesus was the Unleavened Bread of God. And, He calls us to clean the leaven out of our lives.

30 III. Firstfruits (Lev. 23:10-14) Leviticus 23:10 Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, 'When you enter the land which I am going to give to you and reap its harvest, then you shall bring in the sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest.

31 III. Firstfruits (Lev. 23:10-14) Passover occurs on the 14 th of Nisan; the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread occurs on the 15 th ; Firstfruits occurs on the 16 th.

32 III. Firstfruits (Lev. 23:10-14) The first fruits of the harvest were cut and presented to the Lord. The Lord s acceptance of the Firstfruits is an earnest, or a pledge, on His part of a full harvest.

33 III. Firstfruits (Lev. 23:10-14) 1 Corinthians 15: But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep. 21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive. 23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ s at His coming,

34 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) Leviticus 23: 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.

35 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) 17 You shall bring in from your dwelling places two loaves of bread for a wave offering, made of two-tenths of an ephah; they shall be of a fine flour, baked with leaven as first fruits to the LORD. The main activity on the Feast of Pentecost was the presentation of a wave offering of two loaves of bread baked with leaven.

36 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) The Feast of Weeks was also a celebration of the giving of the Law to God s people. So, the very first Pentecost took place on Mount Sinai. It was there that God spoke to His people in a very special and dramatic way.

37 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) At the first Pentecost celebration after the resurrection of Jesus, God again spoke to His people in a very special and dramatic way.

38 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) Jeremiah 31: Behold, days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,

39 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD.

40 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) 33 But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

41 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) This prophecy was fulfilled when the Holy Spirit descended to the followers of Jesus and the church was born at Pentecost, as recorded for us in Acts chapter 2.

42 IV. Weeks/Pentecost (Lev. 23:15-22) Luke 22:20 And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood. Hebrews 12:24 tells us that Jesus is the mediator of a new covenant.