Yeshua has so far fulfilled the first four Biblical Feasts - there are three more to go!

Many Christians insist that God is no longer holding us to keep His seventh-day Sabbath and the Biblical feasts. That's because they don't realize that God set specific times for everything, including the fact that we are to celebrate Him through these various feasts. Scripture is replete with such passages as Psalm 95:6-7, which says, "Come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the Lord our Maker. For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, and the sheep of His hand." Yet, many feel that worshiping God is nothing more than running to church on Sunday...

Corporate worship is important to our Creator. This is evident throughout the Tanach ("Old Testament"), and specifically outlined in Leviticus 23 which describes the whole annual cycle of special convocations. God designed these appointed times, the mo'adim, for His people to come together to worship Him. "His people" includes anyone who has attached him/herself to Israel to worship the risen Messiah, Yeshua HaMashiach (Jesus Christ). Let's examine these special convocations:

There are seven Jewish feasts commanded by God to be celebrated each year. The first three are in the Spring (April or May):

  • Passover (Pesach)

  • Unleavened Bread (Hag HaMatzot)

  • Firstfruits (Yom HaBikkurim)

  • Fifty days after Firstfruits is the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)

There is a break until Fall (September or October) before the next three feasts:

  • Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)

  • Ten days later the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

  • Five days later the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

The first three major events for believers in Yeshua - His death, burial and resurrection - fell EXACTLY on the first three feasts, and the symbolism of the feasts appears to be beyond coincidence:

  • While Passover was being celebrated - which included the slaying of an unblemished Lamb - Yeshua was being slain on the cross (1 Cor 5:7).

  • The feast that followed, Unleavened Bread, is a picture of sanctification, as Yeshua was buried. Leaven is representative of sin, of which Yeshua had none.

  • And then the feast of Firstfruits, to be celebrated on the morning AFTER the first Sabbath following the feasts of Unleavened Bread (Sunday) (Lev 23:10-11) is symbolic of Yeshua being the first of the Firstfruits (1 Cor 15:23).

  • Even more interesting, the next big event for believers was the coming of the Holy Spirit. And it fell EXACTLY on the next feast 50 days later, on what Christians call Pentecost. The symbolism is again obvious as two loaves of bread are offered, which is a picture of the Old and New Testaments.

If the first four major events of the "New Testament Church" happened on the first four Jewish feasts, the next big event - the so-called "Rapture" - should fall on the next scheduled feast - the Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah, when God calls his people together. Again the symbolism is seemingly beyond coincidence as this is to be a day of regathering and rejoicing.

The bottom line is: Judging from the importance that GOD placed on His Biblical feasts, why would anyone think "Jesus abolished them"?

For an indepth article about Yahweh's appointed Feasts/Times, check out Baruch ben Daniel's Moedim.