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Old Covenant Israel's holidays
were prescribed by God...there were seven of them. These seven holidays
are discussed throughout the Bible, in both the Old and New Testaments.
But only in Leviticus 23 are all seven holidays listed in chronological
sequence. These seven holidays are called, the Feasts of the Lord.
The first four feasts
were a prophetic foreshadowing of the first coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ while the last three was a prophetic foreshadowing of the second
coming of Christ, but the question remains, "was all seven fulfilled or
are we still waiting on the last three?". Study to show yourself
approved...be a Berean
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Passover |
pictures the
substitutionary DEATH of Jesus as the Passover Lamb |
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Unleavened Bread |
pictures the BURIAL of
Jesus along with His sinless life |
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Firstfruits |
pictures the
RESURRECTION of the Messiah |
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Pentecost
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pictures the birth of
the church |
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Trumpets |
pictures the judgment |
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Atonement |
pictures the day of
redemption |
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Tabernacles |
pictures our full
access to fellowship with God |
Lev 23:1
The LORD spoke again to Moses, saying,
Lev 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:
Lev 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.
Lev 23:4
'These are the appointed times of the LORD, holy convocations which
you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them.
Lev 23:5
'In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is
the LORD'S Passover.
Lev 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.
Lev 23:7
'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do
any laborious work.
Lev 23:8
'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.'"
Lev 23:9
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 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.
Lev 23:11
'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD for you to be accepted; on
the day after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Lev 23:12
'Now on the day when you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a male lamb
one year old without defect for a burnt offering to the LORD.
Lev 23:13
'Its grain offering shall then be two-tenths of an ephah of
fine flour mixed with oil, an offering by fire to the LORD for
a soothing aroma, with its drink offering, a fourth of a hin of wine.
Lev 23:14
'Until this same day, until you have brought in the offering of your
God, you shall eat neither bread nor roasted grain nor new growth. It
is to be a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all your
dwelling places.
Lev 23:15
'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.
Lev 23:16
'You shall count fifty days to the day after the seventh sabbath; then
you shall present a new grain offering to the LORD.
Lev 23:17
'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.
Lev 23:18
'Along with the bread you shall present seven one year old male lambs
without defect, and a bull of the herd and two rams; they are to be a
burnt offering to the LORD, with their grain offering and their drink
offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
Lev 23:19
'You shall also offer one male goat for a sin offering and two male
lambs one year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
Lev 23:20
'The priest shall then wave them with the bread of the first fruits
for a wave offering with two lambs before the LORD; they are to be
holy to the LORD for the priest.
Lev 23:21
'On this same day you shall make a proclamation as well; you are to
have a holy convocation. You shall do no laborious work. It is to be a
perpetual statute in all your dwelling places throughout your
generations.
Lev 23:22
'When you reap the harvest of your land, moreover, you shall not reap
to the very corners of your field nor gather the gleaning of your
harvest; you are to leave them for the needy and the alien. I am the
LORD your God.'"
Lev 23:23
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:24
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month on the
first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of
trumpets, a holy
convocation.
Lev 23:25
'You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an
offering by fire to the LORD.'"
Lev 23:26
The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:27
"On exactly the tenth day of this seventh month is the day of
atonement; it shall be a holy convocation for you, and you shall
humble your souls and present an offering by fire to the LORD.
Lev 23:28
"You shall not do any work on this same day, for it is a day of
atonement, to make atonement on your behalf before the LORD your God.
Lev 23:29
"If there is any person who will not humble himself on this same day,
he shall be cut off from his people.
Lev 23:30
"As for any person who does any work on this same day, that person I
will destroy from among his people.
Lev 23:31
"You shall do no work at all. It is to be a perpetual statute
throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.
Lev 23:32
"It is to be a sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble
your souls; on the ninth of the month at evening, from evening until
evening you shall keep your sabbath."
Lev 23:33
Again the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,
Lev 23:34
"Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'On the fifteenth of this
seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the LORD.
Lev 23:35
'On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious
work of any kind.
Lev 23:36
'For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to the LORD.
On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and present an
offering by fire to the LORD; it is an assembly. You shall do no
laborious work.
Lev 23:37
'These are the appointed times of the LORD which you shall proclaim as
holy convocations, to present offerings by fire to the LORD--burnt
offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each
day's matter on its own day--
Lev 23:38
besides those of the
sabbaths of the LORD, and besides your gifts and besides all your
votive and freewill offerings, which you give to the LORD.
Lev 23:39
'On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have
gathered in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of
the LORD for seven days, with a rest on the first day and a rest on
the eighth day.
Lev 23:40
'Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of
beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows
of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven
days.
Lev 23:41
'You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven
days in the year. It shall be
a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate
it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42
'You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in
Israel shall live in booths,
Lev 23:43
so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live
in booths when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the
LORD your God.'"
Lev 23:44
So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of the
LORD.
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Appendix
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What
Happen In AD 70 — by Edward E. Stevens
5th edition © 1997
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The Olivet Discourse Cannot
Be Divided |
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SECTION A
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ALL ONE SECTION
(one time period) AD 70? |
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Matthew 24:1-34
1.
vss. 17.18 – “let him who is on the housetop not go
down…”
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vss. 26,27 – “For just as the lighting comes from
the east…”
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vs. 28 – “Wherever the corpse is, there the
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vss. 23,24 – “For just as the lighting, when it
flashes…”
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vss. 26,27 – “And just as it happened in the days
of Noah, so it shall be also in the days of the Son of
Man”
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vs. 31 – “On that day, let not the one who is on
the housetop…”
5.
vss. 35,36 – “There will be two women grinding at the same
place; onw will be taken, and the other will be left.”
3.
vs. 37 – “…Where the body is, there also will the
vultures be gathered.”
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SECTION B
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Matthew 24:35ff
4.
vss. 37-39 – “For the coming of the Son of Man will
be just like the days of Noah.”
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vss. 40,41 – “Then there shall two men in the
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EXPLANATION — Some hold the idea shown on the left above.
They think Matthew 24 speaks of two different time periods:
(SECTION A) Events Associated With AD 70, and (SECTION B)
Events Still Future To Us. They apply the events mentioned in
verses 1-34 (SECTION A) to the first time period (AD 70),
and the events in verses 35ff (SECTION B) to our future.
Luke’s statements in chapter 17 (on the right above) show that
this idea cannot be correct. Luke 17 discusses the same events as
Matthew 24, however there is not a hint that two different time
periods are under consideration. Luke clearly deals with events
that would happen in the same time period (“the day that the Son
of Man is revealed,” vs. 30). Luke’s account cannot be divided
into the same two groups of events. Notice on the chart above
how Luke records the same events as Matthew, but in a different
order. Matthew’s order is 1-2-3-4-5, but Luke’s order is
scrambled 2-4-1-5-3! Luke has an event from SECTION
A followed by one from SECTION B, then another from
SECTION A followed by SECTION B, and finally one from
SECTION A. This presents a problem: If Matthew 24 really
has two sections (or two different time periods) under
consideration, then Luke’s account is incorrect, because he mixes
the five events up as if they are all to happen in one time
period. Either Luke is Mistaken (and therefore uninspired), or it
is wrong to divide Matthew 24 into two sections. Of course, the
solution to this is that both Matthew and Luke speak of the same
events which would all happen in the same time period. And Matthew
24:34 tells us when that time period was to occur: the
“generation” alive when He spoke those words (the generation from
AD 70)!
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