![]() ![]() ![]() While the four spring feasts look back at what Christ fulfilled at His first coming, the three fall feasts point us toward the glory of the second coming. Not only did they play significant roles in Christ’s earthly ministry but they also symbolize the complete redemptive story of Christ, beginning with His death on the cross as the Passover Lamb and ending with His second coming after which He will “tabernacle” or dwell with His people forever. But, even more importantly, they foreshadowed the redemptive work of Jesus Christ. They were to remind the Israelites each year of God’s ongoing protection and provision. The Jewish feasts are closely related to Israel’s spring and fall harvests and agricultural seasons. The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. (Leviticus 23:1-2)īeginning in the spring, the seven Jewish feasts are Passover (Pesach), the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Firstfruits, the Feast of Weeks (Pentecost), the Feast of Trumpets (Rosh HaShanah), the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur), and the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). The Lord designed the 7 major Jewish feasts around a lunisolar calendar. A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures whose date indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year. Science calls it a remarkable coincidence, but as Christians, we know that the precision of the Lord is 100% design, from an omnipotent Being. The two therefore look the same size in the sky – a unique situation among our solar system’s eight planets and 166 known moons. Our Sun-Moon system is very special. The sun’s diameter is about 400 times larger than that of the moon – but the sun is also about 400 times farther from Earth. God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. (Genesis 1:14-16) Therefore encourage one another with these words. (1 Thessalonians 4:15-18)Īnd God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years, and let them be lights in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. ![]() For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. (1 Corinthians 15:50-52)Īccording to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord,will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ![]() Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.(Leviticus 23:23-25) The Feast of Trumpets symbolizes the Rapture – the last great harvest. The Rapture: the ultimate trip In this post, we explore some of the main prophetic points of this Holy Day. ![]()
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