How Jesus Fulfilled the Biblical Feasts

Hey, we’re Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your host of the Marriage After God podcast, where we desire to help you cultivate a marriage that chases boldly after God’s will together. And in today’s episode, we are going to examine the biblical feasts and how Jesus fulfilled the first ones and how many people think that he’s going to fulfill the ones in the fall. So we’re going to talk about that today and I’m really excited about this episode.

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Well, welcome back to another episode of the Marriage After of God podcast in this

Series on prophecy.

Yes. And Jesus, before we get started, maybe just a few things to catch up on. I’m over here struggling because we put our notes, not word for word, but we put our notes on the screen so that we can keep track of where we’re going. And for me it’s blurry was why is it blurry, Jennifer? Yeah. Well, I went out to the garden and was looking around, just admiring things the other night and Aaron goes, Hey, can you help me put up this? It’s like a temporary green fence, fencing made of plastic, and I was trying to hook it on these metal stakes and it flipped back and hit me across the eye and it hurt so bad, I want to tell you. Yeah, you

Got a little scratch on your eye.

Yeah, I went inside right away and put a warm crown press on it and by morning I was still complaining and you’re like, I’m going to take you to the doctors.

Yeah, eyes are a serious thing. What’s funny is I’m not usually quick to be like, let’s go to the doctor’s, but I looked in your eye and I was like, I see a good gouge in there. We got to go check this out.

So it is healing and I am just praying and I have all my friends praying that the scar, there’s no scar tissue or any hindrance with vision and that it will improve over time. I don’t know if its going to happen. Well,

You guys want to pray for her. She would love her eye to heal up completely. That’d be great. It’s come a long way. You were in a lot of pain the first night, so the kids have been praying nonstop.

Well, and it’s weird when you have your eyes and so you go about you day and you’re not thinking about how much you’re reading or how much you’re using your eyes until something happens to one of them and everything’s blurry and you’re like, oh, this is really going to impact me if it doesn’t fix, if it doesn’t get better,

It always reminds us to be appreciative of the health that we have.

So the other thing that was really fun this last week was we did celebrate the 4th of July.

We did our annual 4th of July

Bash. Yeah, we’ve done it like eight years in a row, minus one year

Minus one year between I think it was between houses. Yeah.

So that was super fun. And it was so funny because every year it ends up turning into this massive water fight that somehow gets everyone and everywhere. Even inside the house

Now it’s expected there’s going to be hoses involved, water balloons, guns,

Buckets. I was trying to alleviate the stress of just everyone getting it by taking the kids out to the yard and I had two different buckets full of water balloons, and I’m like, okay, we’re going to split it up into teams. And all the kids started yelling at me. They were like, we just want to throw ’em. And so I’m like, became

A free for all.

I walked away and it turned into a massive water fight.

I was almost, I told Jennifer as I’m getting older, I’m getting a little bit more scrooge because you walked up and you’re like, you’re like, should we do the balloons? Should I

Says the one who goes and gets the hose and forget the water balloons. You’re just out there spraying people

Told that. I told you I can’t say was about to be Scrooge and then I got over myself.

Yeah, you changed very quickly.

Yeah, no, but the water fights are kind of, they’re an annual event. People look forward to

The kids. Definitely do. Cody

Was even texting everyone before and he is like, remember no water fights. And everyone just started laughing because like Yeah, right. They know. Everybody knows. Yeah. So 4th of July, we love 4th of July. It’s one of our big bashes that we have and lots of friends and family gets to come and kids, thousands of them throwing water boots.

Another thing that I’m looking forward to, so that was something that I enjoyed, something I’m looking forward to this next week is we’re going camping as a family. It was funny because all of this morning she told me, mom, I’m glad we’re going to the coast, but I really wish some of our friends were going, which I had reached out to some people to see if they were interested in joining us, but nobody could and that’s okay. I told her I like it when it’s just our family. I think it’ll be a good time for us to just be together and

On. We’ve done a lot of camping with friends in the past and we love that. But it is nice to sometimes just have us just be slow. This is our first

No agenda. Is this our

First camping trip this year?

First and only I think. Oh no, we have one more coming up. We didn’t plan a whole lot this summer, which I’m okay with. We wanted to be home and garden. No, we already had

A really first six months. It’s like time to rest the next six months.

So hopefully you guys are enjoying your summertime with your family. Hopefully you’re fitting in some lake days or water play days with the heat

If you need some ideas. We did an episode, how long ago is that? I dunno. A long time ago. A summer bucket list episode where we talk about all the fun things we like to do in the summer and ideas for the family. Just go check out that episode. So this topic, you love this topic. You’re kind of the one that got me onto this. I feel like you shared, you’re like Aaron the feast. Did you do a study on it one time?

Well, I did get a study that I was walking the kids through, but it’s just such a fascinating thing to me just when it comes to tradition and heritage and you think about the Old Testament and how God walked his people through different seasons and different circumstances and different things all while revealing what his plan is. And so we’re going to talk about that today. We’re still in the Jesus series, the prophecy series, and this is the second to the last episode. So next episode is our last one that we wrap in this

Series,

For this series that we’ll wrap it up. But today we thought it would be really interesting to go over the seven biblical feasts that the Lord commanded the Jews to celebrate every year, which they still do after years,

2000 plus years,

3000, 4,000 years. And we’re going to talk about how they point to Jesus even though they were done so long before he even came on the scene.

Yeah, essentially they were about Jesus. So that’s what we’re going to get into and we’re basing the context of this whole episode off of this verse from Matthew five verses 17 through 18. It says, do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot will pass from the law until all is accomplished. This is Jesus saying this, A part of his perfection while on earth was not just that he didn’t break the 10 commandments, but was that he also fulfilled all of the things that God told the Jews to do. All of the laws, all the commands, all the feasts, the festivals, the ordinances that God gave to the Jews in Jesus is completely fulfilled.

What I love about his statement is it ties the Old Testament to the New Testament and he’s not saying, okay, ditch the old. I’m here, I’m new, this is it. Yeah, start over. No, he’s going to say, I’m here to fulfill that and to show you where I was throughout all of that. And I love that. I love that He ties them together and holds. He’s like the bond. He’s the one that holds it together. So I love that he put that in there.

One thing that’s beautiful is that I think sometimes as Christians, I know we all know, but we forget that Jesus was Jewish and it was his people that he was born into and that was God’s plan from the beginning. He did and observed all of the things that Jews observed.

Scripture even talks about that. We mentioned this in other episode about Passover and how he participated in these things. So

He was there at all of these feasts and festivals and observed these and learned them from the rabbis. And he not only did them, but they’re also fulfilled in his life in who he is. So not just that he observed them like, oh, Jesus observed them all correctly. No, he’s the fulfillment of those feasts.

It is interesting to think about how while he was growing up and participating in them and observing them and celebrating the feast, how much, much he knew or understood his role in fulfilling them and what was going on in his mind. Because it’s not like he told people in his twenties, Hey, you watch for this.

And it is interesting. He

Did share a little bit in his ministry. Was

He aware even as a child?

That’s what, yeah, the Bible doesn’t really say much about that

Probably, which is even more amazing that he still fulfilled those and still walked through those knowing what they meant, knowing what they were going to lead to. So these are the things that the former laws, the laws in the Old Testament, not just the 10 Commandments, but there was these celebrations, these feasts that God gave to the Jews that they were to do every year and they happened seven times a year and they were shadows. They were pointing to something else. We’ve talked about this in previous episodes about the former things, the temple, all the prophecies in the Old Testament, all the, it all had meaning. They all had meaning and they pointed to something else or someone else, I should say. And what we’re going to talk about how they point Jesus,

Did you want to read Colossians two? Oh yeah. 62 17.

Yeah, let’s that, yeah. It says therefore let no one pass judgment on you in question of food and drink or with regard to a festival or a new Moon or a Sabbath. These are all a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ. Nice. And so Paul points out to the Colossians that all of these things that the Jews might want to pass judgment on these new Christians, food festivals, they were shadows. Jesus is the substance. Jesus is the thing standing in the light that cast that shadow in the past on what the Jews were supposed to do, they were to point to him.

Now, I don’t know for those listening who’s all familiar with the feasts of old and how they were celebrated and just much about them. I know for me, and maybe you can share a little bit too, I didn’t really learn about them until I was much older in adulthood. I knew about Passover because you hear it in conjunction with Easter a lot. But other than that, there wasn’t a lot of deep dive into that until I was older.

No, and I have a similar story. I’ve heard of them. I of course read about them, but the only thing I would’ve understood when I was younger was that we did communion. To be honest, I didn’t even realize for a long time that that was connected to Passover. And as I got older and got into the word more mature, you start connecting these dots and you’re like, wait a minute. Oh, that’s what that comes from. That’s what that comes

From. You say connecting the dots and I say uncovering treasure, I feel like anytime that I figure something out or is revealed to me or the Lord just sends you on these puzzle piece you find, yeah, you’re like, ah, that’s cool. This is awesome. That’s kind of how I see it. And I love how when it comes to the feasts and you’re learning about them and the different aspects of them, you really do see this revealing of what God is orchestrating and how it does tie to Christ. And it’s just so beautiful. And honestly, you guys, if you want to do a deep dive or you want more information on this, just go to YouTube and type in how did Christ fulfill the feast or is fulfilling the feast? And there are so many people talking about it. So just an encouragement there.

Another thing to think about is when looking at the Bible, the Bible itself is the revelation of God. It is God revealing himself to humanity, to his creation. He’s revealing his son Jesus to creation. So when you read the Old Testament through the lens of how is God revealing himself and how is he revealing his son? And that’s when you start seeing these puzzle pieces come together, you’re like, wait a minute. So that’s where we’re getting at.

Cool. So if you want to find out about these feasts and where God commands the Jews to participate and observe these celebrations, it is found in Leviticus 23. And so we’ll just start there. And I thought originally the notes were broken down one at a time, but I always love doing an overview and even afterwards, another summary because I feel like it kind of locks in like, okay, what is it that we’re talking about? And so I’ll just run down the list of the seven feasts and the verses of where you can find it and then we’ll go into each one. So again, this is from Leviticus 23, and the first feast is Passover, and that’s found in verse five. Then the second feast, the feast of unleavened bread verses six through eight, the feast of first fruits nine through 14, the Feast of Weeks 15 through 22, feast of Trumpets, 23 through 25, day of Atonement, 26 through 32, and Feast of Booths 33 through 43.

And these aren’t the only places that these feasts are talked about. Of course, they’re sprinkled throughout the old and the New Testament. They’re in other books of the Bible. And there’s also other references and stories where you’re like, oh, that was happening during that time. And so you should dig into this. We’re not doing a deep dive into each one of the feast. We’re going to give these big overviews and showing how they connect to Christ, but thank you for that.

Another side note, the first four that were listed are considered spring feast. They happen earlier in the year, and then there’s a break in the summertime, and then there’s the last three in the fall. And those are all very quite close together.

And I have a really interesting thought on this when we get down to the last three. Okay, so the question we got to ask because we always ask these is why did God want the Jews to do these feasts? What was the purpose behind them? And there’s always a purpose in what God does. And so we can ask, when we ask this question, then it helps us look in the scripture and be like, okay, what’s God doing? How is he revealing himself? How’s he revealing his son? And some of the reasons for that is the feasts were given to give them rest. A lot of the times the feast required you’re not allowed to work, you’re not allowed to do this, you’re not allowed to do that, you just rest. But the other one was to celebrate that they wanted celebration. You got to remember God made these people out of nothing and then they were slaves for 400 years and then they were brought into the promised land after fighting and war, and it wasn’t easy. It wasn’t like, and God wanted them to know rest and no celebration.

I love that word celebration. And I know in my own life, anytime there’s something to look forward to, a party, the 4th of July party, something where you go, oh, this is going to be epic. This is going to be fun. I think it’s cool just that God gave them something to look forward to year after year after year, season after season, he established these, and still to this day, people look forward to these. So I think that’s cool.

Another reason he gave the feasts to memorialize different things God did for the people of Israel and to remind them of those things. So often he would say, do this in remembrance to remember what I did. So there was the Feast of Passover, which we’re going to talk about, and then there was the feast of unleavened bread and there’s all these feasts that took place. It was to point the people back to what God did

And then prophetically it’s to point to what he’s doing

Going to do. Yes, which is amazing. And that goes into the third one is these feasts were prophetic in pointing, foreshadowing, giving the people something to look forward to in the future. So this is what it says in. So I did a quick search and I went to got questions.org. And there’s actually a lot of people that write really good articles on got question.org. Not all of ’em, but a lot of them. And it says this, the Hebrew word feast

Mo diem

Modi o diem literally means appointed times.

So I’m going to set these times aside for you. Yeah.

Here’s this time. This time, God has carefully planned and orchestrated the timing and sequence of each of these seven feast to reveal to us a special story.

So they can’t be moved around, they’re set.

No, but he does say that there will be someone that comes that’s going to mess with the dates of times, specifically talking about this idea of messing all this up. The seven annual feasts of Israel were spread over seven months of the Jewish calendar at set times appointed by God. They’re still celebrated by observant Jews today, but for both Jews and non-Jews who have placed their faith in Jesus the Jewish Messiah, these special days demonstrate the work of redemption through God’s son. Cool. I just thought that was a really good summary of what we’re talking about. So why don’t you read these two scriptures that kind of point us to God’s command out

Why doing this? Yeah. So I told you guys that the feast are kind of listed out in Leviticus 23, but if we go back a little bit to 22, it ends with this starting at verse 31. So you shall keep my commandments and do them. I am the Lord and you shall not profane my holy name, that I may be sanctified among the people of Israel. I’m the Lord who sanctifies you, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the Lord. So I feel like there’s this reminding of who’s in charge. I’m the authority here and I’m going to give you these things to

Sanctify

You, to sanctify you and my name. And my name is holy. And I want you to remember that.

Yeah. So he’s using these laws, all the laws, not just the feasts to make his people stand out in the world

Which they

Have over the course of history. 23 verse one, the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, these are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocation. They are my appointed feasts. Now also what I love about the feasts and all the laws, God gave these to all the people. It wasn’t just for certain people, they were all to participate in all of them. And so there was no one person or group of people

That it was an equalizer thing.

Everyone was required to do these things. So we’re going to discuss the importance of these seven feasts,

Starting with number one, Passover. Again, Leviticus 23, 5. It says In the first month, on the 14th day of the month at Twilight is the Lord’s Passover. The Passover was the beginning of the calendar for God’s

People. Yeah. This is when God tells the people in Exodus chapter, he says, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the lane of Egypt, this month shall be for you. The beginning of months, it was almost like it was a new beginning for the people. He’s like, this is your start. You were not a people. Now, boom, today you, you’re a people. You have a calendar of your own. And it shall be the first month of the year for you. The first Passover, if everyone remembers it was actually the 10th plague over Egypt. We look at it as like, wow, this is like a meal. It’s like a blessing. We look at it as communion, but we have to remember how it started. It was the 10th plague over Egypt, and it was about death. It was about destruction. It was about judgment, which

Is sad. Yeah.

Which is exactly what salvation’s about. It’s about Jesus taking that death and destruction on himself to say from us, which is how this first one points to Christ, that Jesus is the Passover lamb. So the lamb that the people of Israel, the people, the Hebrews were to sacrifice need to be a young lamb. There was no spot or wrinkle or anything like that. And the lamb, it was perfect and they had to slaughter it and they had to put the blood over the door so that the angel of death, which is a pre Christophany of Christ, it’s a pre-incarnate Christ. He was the one that went through and passed this judgment on anyone who didn’t have this blood covering them. And so we see immediately that Christ’s blood is what covers us.

And do you want to explain how they applied that blood? Because I love the picture that it gives. We did this with our kids one year during Passover,

Go and well

Over the lentil of the door, they put the blood with a hiss up branch going across the top and on the two sides. And when we were demonstrating it for our kids, we had them go up to the doorpost and show us how it gets applied and what image they see. And they’re like, oh, it’s a cross. It’s up down.

Yeah, it’s a cross.

So it’s pretty cool.

First Corinthians five, seven says, cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump as you really are unleavened for Christ. Our Passover lamb has been sacrificed something. If you go back and read this story of the first Passover, one of the things that God commanded actually is that they needed to take this lamb and they needed to live with it for a certain amount of time. They had it in the home, they slept with it, they took care of it. It didn’t live out in

The pasture. It was not a nobody

Lamb. That lamb became their lamb and they knew it. So it actually hurt when they sacrificed it. It reminds us that when we look at the cross, we know that it’s our sin that put him there. This is who Jesus is, the Passover lamb. John the Baptist also calls him. He says, Jesus the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world when he

Sees nothing. John 1 29.

Yeah. When he sees Jesus coming, he says, this is the lamb of God. Let you read that next one.

Mark 14 tells us that. He says, I was the Passover when Jesus was crucified.

And in one Peter one 19, it tells us that we are saved from our sinful ways by the blood of Christ who is like a lamb without blemish. So it’s by his perfect unblemished blood. His sinless blood is what washes us. It covers our doorpost, keeps us from death.

And then Hebrews four 15 says, for we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weakness, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are yet without sin. So again, just pointing back to his holiness, his perfection and the fact that he took this burden for us.

So this first feast, this Passover is how God set the Hebrews free from lifelong slavery. So God had all these plagues, the nine plagues to judge and punish Israel or Egypt in the Pharaoh. But this last one was to actually set them free. It was as if they were passing from death to life. They were saved from death, that slavery in the Egypt or the world, and they were brought into a new land. They were made of people. And that’s exactly what God does in Jesus Christ, which is the last Passover, that last supper that he had. He sets every person who believes in him free from the power of sin and death.

So good. Yeah.

So our Egypt is behind us and our promised land is before us because of Christ.

Thank you Lord.

So this last verse, Romans one through two, there is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death in a few feasts from now. I’m going to talk about that again, the law of death and the law of the Spirit.

Well, I love going back to what Jesus said about fulfilling the law that he didn’t come to abolish it. He didn’t just make it to where sin doesn’t matter anymore or that you’re not going to die by your sin. But in fact, he said it’s free from it, which oh my gosh, it’s even better.

Yeah. So the second feast is found in Leviticus 23 6, and this is the feast of unleavened bread. I think it was Elliot. It was like, why do they care so much about unleavened bread? I said, well, Elliot leaven is a symbol for sin. What God was saying is, take the sin out. I did some research on this. I was like, where does leaven come from? And it comes from yeast, which is wild. It’s a bacteria, it’s in the air and it’s just everywhere. And the idea is like sin is here. And so getting rid of it is a futile thing unless there’s a savior to get rid of it.

And as far as the process going back to that first, because it happened right after Passover. They were on the move. They were on the run. So there wasn’t a process where the yeast could form in the dough. They didn’t have time. So they didn’t have time. And so it’s the unleavened bread is just the basic of water, flowers.

Yeah. It was again, a symbol of what God did and that they were moving and it was urgent, but also that it was so urgent that sin gets left behind that the 11 gets left behind.

So in Leviticus 23, 6 it says, and on the 15th day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread to the Lord. For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

So Jesus not only fulfilled this feast in his own flesh by being completely sinless, so he was without leaven because that’s what that represents. But he also fulfilled it by using the unleavened bread to signify a new covenant he he was making with the world in his broken body. He was shedding his own blood, breaking his own body to remove the sin from us to take the 11 out of us so that we can become like him. And so when he read Luke 2219,

Luke 22, 19 through 20 says, and he took bread. And when he gave thanks, he broke it and gave it to them saying, this is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me. And likewise, the cup after they had eaten saying, this cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.

This was Jesus saying, I am fulfilling this festival, this unleavened bread. I am the unleavened bread. I’m the bread of life. He calls himself.

And this is that relationship to communion that you mentioned earlier that when we as believers participate in communion, we’re taking that piece of unleavened bread and we’re remembering his body that was broken for us and participating in taking the juice or the wine or whatever you use to represent his blood

Parents, if you ever just want an easy way of sharing the gospel with your kids, it’s intaking communion. You say, this cracker, this bread, this represents Jesus’s body that he broke so that you can have a whole body. This is his blood that he spilled so that you can be made whole so that you don’t have to die. And so we do that pretty much every week. We get to tell our kids the gospel by saying Jesus did it so that we don’t have to. So the third feast, what is that one?

It’s first fruits. And this is found in Leviticus 2319 through 14. I’m going to let you read it since it’s a little bit long and my

You’re a little blurry. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the people of Israel and say to them, when you come into the land that I give you and reap its harvest, you shall bring the sheath of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. This is also where many people get the idea of tithe. It’s this idea of first fruits, and you shall wave the sheath before the Lord so that you may be accepted on the day after Sabbath, the priest shall wave it. And on the day when you have waived the sheath, you shall offer a male lamb, a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord. And the grain offering with it shall be two tenths of an EFA and fine flour with oil, a food offering to the Lord with a pleasing aroma. And the drink offering when it shall be of wine with it shall be of wine a fourth of a hen. And you shall eat neither bread nor grain, parched or fresh until the same day, until you have brought the offering of your God. It is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. First of all, I love that God loves food. These are all these sacrifices, all these feasts, all they all often are around food.

Even the particularness of the aroma. You pick up words like this and you’re like, oh, he likes it.

And what’s awesome about this one, this first fruits, is that it points to the resurrection of Jesus Christ that as the Messiah, not only did he die for us, but he rose again so that we can have new life in him. And the Bible even tells us in First Corinthians chapter 15 that Jesus is the first fruits it says, but in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. So Jesus himself is a first fruit offering to God on our behalf, so that we being fruits and prophet leftover, we can also have that we get to go and be with him. And so he is the first fruit offering.

I love that. The New Testament confirms for us. He is the Passover lamb. He is the first fruit. It is so specific. And so it just helps us navigate what it is that we’re talking about. And that’s why we wanted to tie all these verses in together for today. And if you look at the timing of these, we didn’t put these in our notes, we should have. But the way that he fulfilled these, you guys, they’re on the dot. They’re on the dot for Passover. When Passover starts is when he passed away on the cross. And then for instance, this one, first fruits is when he resurrected, it was the resurrection. But in the timeframe that was given in scripture, he fulfilled all of these,

Speaking of the fourth feast, the week of Pentecost. Is it the Feast of Weeks? It’s

The Feast of Weeks.

Yeah. Or Pentecost is the name of it. And guess when Pentecost took place?

It’s specifically on Pentecost, but it’s specifically seven weeks from, was it?

Yeah, it was 50, 50 days. 50 days from the resurrection. And this is exactly what happens. So I’m going to read it in Leviticus 2315 through 22. You shall count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheath. Now remember, he died on the Sabbath. Remember they had to hurry up and get him off the cross and because they had to, Joseph claim themselves. So 50 days from that, you shall do this offering count 50 days of the day after the seventh Sabbath, then you shall present a grain offering of new grains of the Lord. You shall bring from your dwelling place two loaves of bread to be waived, made of two tenths of an iffa. They shall be a fine flour. So it goes through all of this of what they should do. This was a feast. This was a festival. This was the day of Pentecost, and it was to take place 50 days after that Sabbath, which the day of Pentecost in the New Testament took place 50 days exactly after Christ rose from the dead.

It’s so cool, and it’s okay that you don’t want to read all those details, but I think the very end is pretty cool. It says that starting in verse 21, and you shall make a proclamation on the same day. You shall hold a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. It’s a statue forever. So in thinking about a proclamation and thinking about just setting this time aside to be holy, and knowing what took place on Pentecost specifically 50 days after Jesus died is powerful.

And Jesus tells his disciples, go and wait for me. I’m going to send you the Holy Spirit. So listen to how this plays out. So exactly 50 days after Jesus dies, the day of Pentecost takes place, all of his disciples are there, and God, through Jesus sends his Holy Spirit to his disciples. And do you remember what took place right after the Holy Spirit fell on them like tongues of fire?

Well, didn’t people hear? Thousands of people hear essentially the gospel in their own language.

So Peter comes out and he gives that his great first sermon after the Holy Spirit fills them, and they all hear him in different languages and they hear the other disciples all speaking, they’re all hearing in their own languages. But do you remember how many people were saved that day? How many Jews

It 3000.

It says 3000 Jews were that day that they believed in Jesus. So what’s amazing about this, what’s beautiful about this is that according to many rabbis and biblical evidence, did you know this, the 10 Commandments with Moses was given on the day of Pentecost?

I did hear this. You

Did? Yes.

Okay. But only a year or two ago, I didn’t realize it was connected.

Thousands of years prior the law, the 10 commandments came, remember the law of death came on the day of Pentecost with fire and with power. All these things on the mountaintop. Remember this? So, and on that day, 3000 men died because they made this golden calf. They worshiped an idol. He comes down and he’s like, what’s happened?

So in Jesus’ death and resurrection, and now this particular day there’s a redemption.

Yeah. So 3000 Jews are safe. So on that day, Aaron and his sons were to go throughout the people and kill 3000 men. So the messengers, the priests did the killing on this day, the priests did the saving, the message from Jesus, the Holy Spirit came and 3000 Jews, it was like everything that the law couldn’t do, Jesus

Accomplished. It’s so cool.

So yeah, it’s amazing.

It’s so beautiful. It’s so cool. I mean, God knew from the beginning that all of this would play out this way, but for us to find it, like I said, it’s treasure. It’s so cool. And I don’t know for you guys, but for me, it just reaffirms my faith and my belief and going, wow, only God could have done that.

That’s amazing. And it just adds color to all these things like why did 3000 men die that day? And then you’re like, but why did 3000 men get saved? And you start getting these connections.

It’s so cool. Okay, so those are the first three spring feast, or sorry, first four spring feasts that we mentioned, and now we’re going to go into the fall feast, which again, if you look at the timing, they’re very close together. And as believers we see and scripture tells us how Christ fulfilled those spring feasts. Now for those who believe that Jesus is coming again, we get to look at these feast and examine them and go, okay, how is he going to fulfill these ones and what does it mean for us? Yeah.

And before, why don’t you read it first in Leviticus 23. And then

So feast number five is the Feast of Trumpets, and it’s found in Leviticus 23, 23 through 25. And it says this. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the people of Israel saying, in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blasts of trumpets. A holy convocation, you shall not do any ordinary work and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.

So this feast of Trumpets was a feast of rest, and it was supposed to be at the end of this seventh month or on the first day of this month. And all of them were to participate in it

And very specifically, lots of noise.

So what’s interesting about this timing of fall feasts that we believe haven’t yet been fulfilled but will be fulfilled by Jesus himself, I thought of like we talked about a few episodes ago, the fig tree lesson that Jesus gives. And he says in Matthew 24 32, from the fig tree learn its lesson, as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts out its leaves that summer is near. So he’s saying as soon as the tree starts to come alive as trees usually do in spring, but we learn that fig trees are the latest. So they happen right before summer, which means that at the end of summer, which means fall is when it will fruit and be harvestable. So he tells them, in light of the second coming, you’ll know that when you see these things take place, that’ll be the beginning of birth pains. And the end is near that. I’m coming again. He makes reference to the fall. He’s talking about the summer, but he’s essentially saying the fruit’s coming in the fall. In the fall, the fre begins this idea of these fall feasts, I think. And he’s using something like a tree which is cultivated and you have to harvest it to allude to the days of his second coming. And I just think that’s really crazy. So these fall feasts have to do with his second coming. Many believe that the FEA trumpets have to do with the rapture. I believe that. Let’s

Talk about why

There’s so many scriptures that we’re going to read that talk about his second coming, his arrival by trumpet.

So this is the first one that really stands out to me. It is just one of those things where you’re like, how do you even dispute or have a different opinion? But it’s okay. I know some people do. I’m just saying for me, this is one of those, okay, one Thessalonians four 16 for the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first.

It’s pretty clear there’s going to be a trumpet. And so there’s this feast of trumpets that was to be declared by a trumpet. And then there’s this coming of Christ to gather his church to be with himself declared by a trumpet. So you can see this connection. The next one is in one Corinthians 1552. In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, for the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall all be

Changed. So again, we have these two verses that are talking about both a trumpet and being raised and being with Christ.

It also, the Feast of trumpets was to be a time of rest, to be a time where you’re taken out of the normal work, the work load. And that’s what believers believe are going to take. Many believers believe are going to take place when we get raptured, is we’re being taken out of our work this life that we’re in this flesh that’s so burdensome and we’re going to be transformed in a twinkling of an eye and we’re going to be with the Lord forever and rest with him.

So for those that do believe in the rapture, we believe that it will happen in a moment and that nobody knows the day or the hour. But I think that this particular piece of information is really fascinating when you think about that. Do you want to share about back in the day with the

Priest? Yeah. So this feast specifically began when the priests would go out. And so it was around a certain day.

It wasn’t a specific day, which the other feasts were.

It was based off of the new moon and what a new moon is, if you go outside and you look and there’s no moon in the sky, it’s completely black. That’s just before a new moon. The New Moon actually starts right when the first sliver of light, like the little moon crescent shape shows up the very first twinkling of a little light shows on that moon. So

They would be looking for

This. They would go out nightly and they’d be like, okay, it’s not yet. We don’t see it. They’d go out again. Oh, we don’t see it yet. And then once one of the priests would recognize in the sky, they would say, oh, there’s the moon and there’s the first little bit of light showing on the moon. That was the beginning of the New Moon. And so that moment was when the feast began. And there’s something interesting that Jesus says when they ask him about the day or the hour, he says, no one knows the day or the hour, not even I or the angels in heaven, but only the Father. And we talked about this when we were alluding to the symbolism of the Galilean wedding, and this was, we believe Jesus pointing to this feast saying, you’re not going to know the day or the hour because you have to look for that very specific moment. And the Father knows when that’s taking place.

But we can be prepared. We can keep watch, we can pay attention. We can also

Know the

Season and know the season. They weren’t looking for this in the spring. They were looking for it in the fall. And so I think as believers, the confirmation that I get is be prepared. Keep your eyes open and pay attention and look up. Yeah, look

Up. Yeah, look up so we can know the season. And so this Feast of Trumpets, we believe is a symbol for what Christ is coming to do when he comes to rapture his church. Okay, number six,

The Day of Atonement, Leviticus 23, 26 through 32 says this. And the Lord spoke to Moses saying Now on the 10th day of this seventh month is the day of atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord. And you shall not do any work on that very day. For it is a day of atonement to make atonement for you before the Lord your God. Would you be able to finish?

Where are you paying attention? Yeah. What verse are you at?

29.

Okay. For whoever is not afflicted on that very day shall be cut off from his people. And whoever does any work on that day, on that very day, that person I will destroy from among his people. There’s some specific words in here. Afflicted destroy you shall not do any work. It is a statute forever. Throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places shall be to you a sabbath of Solomon. Rest. And you shall afflict yourselves on the ninth day of the month, beginning and evening. From evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.

I don’t want to be distracting, but when you said stuttered on shell, I’m like, oh no. He still has to say Sabbath and Solomon

Know’s Funny. It’s lots of S. So many believers think this prophetically points to the day of the second coming of Jesus Christ. Again, we’ve talked about this, the rapture of the church and the second coming of Jesus Christ are two separate events

Where the first we can meet him in the clouds, essentially meet him. And then the second is his second coming is his foot touching ground on Mount. And

He’s coming to judge. The first time he came, he as a lily lamb. The second time he’s coming as a king to smite. And so like I said, we look at these words, destruction, atonement even. And it talks a lot about work. So those that are not being cut off. So there’s something very specific being said here because in the second coming of Christ, those who relied on their own works, those who continued to work, I’m a good person. I’m my own righteousness. I don’t need God, I don’t need Jesus. I do my own thing. They’re the ones who will be destroyed. It’s the ones who have ceased from their work, the ones who have relied on the work of someone else. Jesus relied on Christ are in that rest. The Bible tells us that Christ is our rest, our Sabbath, those are the ones that will not be destroyed. And so this day of atonement, though we are atone for in Jesus Christ, the day of atonement, the day of judgment that’s coming is going to be who is atone for by Christ and who is at tried atone for themselves. And those who have tried atoning for themselves will not be qualified and they will be destroyed.

So this isn’t in our notes. I want to go on a little tangent and you kind of tell me if I’m way off here. Let’s do it. Okay. And you’ve been going through Revelation, so you’re familiar with the end and the wrath and everything that’s going to happen. And I think we’ve touched on this in previous episodes, but if the Feast of Trumpets is first and it does get fulfilled by a rapture church being taken and then the Holy Spirit being removed out of the way, which Revelation talks about, but there’s still people left here on Earth, how would this day of atonement feast play a role in those who are left and not being reliant upon themselves to get them through it, but also not having the Holy Spirit here?

Well, the revelation says that it’s going to come down to a decision. It’s going to come down to either dying in opposition to the world order or joining the world order and doing what they’ve asked you to do, doing what they like.

Alliance, almost

Aligning yourself with who? The antichrist.

Yeah. So I think that this does have some significance there in the relationship of the people who are still here but believe in Christ and are still trying to follow him, but are also enduring those things that are taking place.

So Christ is going to come the one who atone for our sins, and he’s going to judge those who are not atone for because they did not take the free offering that he gave. They did not receive and believe in what he did for them. And so last one, number seven, go ahead Tabernacles. This the Feast of Tabernacles or Feast

Of Booths. Booths.

What’s interesting is Tabernacle was the first temple. It was a tent, it

Was temporary, was a temporary dwelling

Place. And so it says this in verse 33, and the Lord spoke to Moses saying, speak to the people of Israel saying on the 15th day of this month, and for seven days is the feast of booths to the Lord. Verse 35, on the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work for seven days. You shall present food offerings to the Lord on the eighth day. You shall hold a holy convocation and present a food offering to the Lord. It’s a Psalm assembly. You shall not do any ordinary work. So some really cool things here. I believe this points to something that Revelations talks about, which is the wedding feast of Christ. We’re going to be eating food with Jesus in heaven while this stuff’s going on earth and it talks about presenting food offerings to the Lord. But many scholars believe that this feast points to the Lord’s promise that he will once again tabernacle with his people.

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And what that means is be with them where they are. That was what the tabernacle was about. It was a place where God would dwell with their people so all the people would camp around the tabernacle and he would be in the middle of it. And so there’s a verse in Micah. I’ll read the Micah one because it’s longer and you can read the Revelation one. Thanks. And then we’ll see how these connect. So Micah four verses one through five, it shall come to pass in the later days that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established as the highest of the mountains and it shall be lifted up above the hills and peoples shall flow to it. And many nations shall come and say, come let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.

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This is what believers say for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples and shall decide disputes for strong nations far away and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall there learn war anymore, but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree. There’s that fig tree again. And no one shall make them afraid. For the mouth of the Lord of hosts has spoken for all the peoples walk each walk each in the name of its God. But we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever. So this is talking about God promising to be with his people again. Now read what Revelation 21 says.

Okay, verse three. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, behold the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them and they will be his people and God himself will be with them as their God.

This is the whole story of revelation. It culminates in this city and it says that there is no need of a temple because God is there. God himself is with his people. And it says that we will be his people and he will be our God. And so this feast of Tabernacles, this promise that God will tabernacle with us once more, that God will walk with us as he did with Adam and Eve, that he’ll be face to face with us, that he will be ours and we will be His. Love it. And that’s what Revelation shows us is going to take place.

So

Good. These fall feasts that haven’t taken place yet, that haven’t been fulfilled yet are going to be fulfilled. Amen.

Amen. Okay, well Leviticus 23 ends with this. Verse 44 says, thus Moses declared to the people of Israel the appointed feasts of the Lord. And I think it’s so cool that, I mean, Moses was a long time ago, that was a long time ago. And people are still observing these today. And as believers we can look at these feasts and even celebrate them if you wanted to and walk through the same process and significance of what they mean.

Yeah, we’ve done some of them

Before for the Jewish heritage, but also know that they point to something so much greater and have joined that

And they have been and are going to be fulfilled completely and perfectly in Jesus Christ. So we’ve used these to talk to our children about, so we used Passover to talk to them about Jesus and what he did for us.

We actually side note, we were invited to a dinner that a friend of ours hosted and he loves ministering to the children and I think he’s gifted in that. And your parents were visiting at the time. And so we got to celebrate by going and there was probably like 25 other families there, their entire living room and house. A lot of people was taken up with tables. But they did really special things for the younger kids to help understand and place. Like talking about the plagues and things like that. They had, I remember little rubber bugs on the table and just, I remember him narrating the man who hosted, he narrated the whole story and gave the traditional aspect of what Passover meant to us and how Christ fulfilled it. And it was so perfect. It was so good.

And if you ever want to go deeper, there was symbolism in all the elements.

All the element of the plate. Yeah. Yeah.

Had symbolism all pointing to Christ. So you can dig in as deep as you want on that.

Super fun. What do you pray for us? Alright. Dear Lord, we just come before you and we just thank you so much for today. We thank you for the seven feasts that you gave the Jewish people and how they’ve been able to preserve it over all of these years. And I just thank you specifically for the way that Christ came and fulfilled the first spring feasts, the first four. And we look forward to the day he fulfills the last three. And we just pray that our eyes and our hearts and our minds would be prepared, but also aware of what you’re doing, the story that you are playing out right in front of us. Just everything that you you’re doing in this world. But also in our marriage, Lord, in our marriages, we just pray that our eyes would see clearly how you’re moving and that we would join you and participate in your work and celebrate your work and remember the things that you’ve done and look forward to things that you’re doing we just pray over marriages right now and just ask that you would help us to remain unified, be on the same page, and also talk through some of these treasures and things that we are finding in scripture and just the power of your word.

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I pray that it’s alive in us and alive in our lives, that we’re talking about it, discussing it deep, diving into it and praying over it, and especially as parents. Lord, I pray for every parent that’s listening right now and us included, that we would be teaching these things to our children and giving them the same opportunity to know you and to know who you are and what you’re doing, and we just lift all this up in your name. Amen. Amen.

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