The Tribulation Calendar: (2) The Lord`s Feast Days.

The Feasts of the Lord.

As we study the Tribulation Calendar (and beyond) will see the Lord fulfilling Israel`s final Feast days. The Lord`s Feasts are mainly to do with God`s purpose for Israel.

`The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: The feasts of the Lord which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my Feasts.” (Lev. 23: 1 & 2)

The Feasts are –

The Sabbath, the Passover and Unleavened bread, the Feast of First-fruits, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.

Each year Israel`s calendar revolved around the harvests and their appointed times, God`s Feast times. Some were a special day, and some were a week or more. Most months of the calendar had a Feast and a reminder of something in Israel`s history.

Then looking forward to their fulfillment we see that God`s timing is so accurate, from a special day to days. All the Feasts will be fulfilled by the Lord.

Further Feast days were added to the main festivals, and these are related to Israel’s final chastisement.


We know these Feasts have been fulfilled –

The Passover - Jesus sacrifice on the cross. (John 19: 14) (Nisan - March/April)

Unleavened bread - The pure life of the Lord and for us to live in the outworking of that. (1 Cor. 5: 7 & 8)

First-fruits – Christ rising from the dead. (1 Cor. 15: 23)

Feast of weeks – 49 days after First-fruits leads to Pentecost (50th day) Jesus fulfilled the law and now the promise to all who believe in Jesus, God`s Holy Spirit within our hearts. (Acts 2: 1 – 3) (Sivan – May/June)



The other Feast Days yet to be fulfilled are –


The Feast of Trumpets

The Feast of Trumpets fulfillment is Israel`s dark day. It occurs at the New Moon when the primary night light of the heavens is darkened. Israel`s prophets repeatedly warned of a coming dark day of judgment. They knew it as `the Day of the Lord,` that terrible period of time at the end of the age when the Lord will pour out His fiery judgment not only upon Israel`s enemies, but upon Israel herself to bring her to repentance and into the New Covenant. (Tishri – September/October)


The Day of Atonement

Yom Kippur events prophetically point to Messiah`s future work with the nation of Israel. They will occur at Messiah`s coming to establish His ruler through Israel. As a nation Israel will come face to face in repentance with their Messiah - Israel`s national Day of repentance. (Zech. 12: 7 - 14) (Tishri – September/October)


The Feast of Tabernacles

When the Messiah sets up His millennial kingdom rule, He will gather the remnant of Israel back to her land. The righteous among the Gentiles, too, will be gathered to the Lord. They will go up from year to year to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles - God is with us. (Zech. 14: 16 - 21) (Tishri – September/October)

The word `Day` in Hebrew and Greek means a period of time and a specific day.

The 3 Days (Feast of trumpets, Day of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles) are all celebrated by Israel in the month of Tishri, (September/October) however, their fulfillment will be during the Tribulation and beyond, over a period of time.

Application.

It is a joy to know that God has written His Prophetic Calendar for us to know of His timeline and purposes for not only us but for Israel and the nations. We are not adrift on Man`s war machines, but have our faith firmly with the Lord for His purpose to bring many sons to glory. Then for those still on the earth we know that God`s hand of mercy is still outstretched for them. (eg. the great multitude that no one can count in the tribulation. Rev. 7: 9 - 17)

Then to think that Israel has kept those Feasts over the years and will yet know their Messiah after they have gone through the fire of refining. (Mal. 3: 3)

bobinfaith said:

Good morning, Marilyn;

This is a very interesting thread.

Can you break down the basic differences between the Prophetic, Feasts and Hebrew calendars, and how there is an interconnection between the 3.

God bless you, sister, and will join in later today.

Bob

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Thank you Bob, for I do like to think about such things and dig into God`s Word. Glad you do too.

The Feasts.

`And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: `The feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my Feasts.`" (Lev. 23: 1 & 2)

The Feasts are - Sabbath, Passover, Unleavened Bread, First-fruits, Weeks, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles.

Israel celebrated them every year at certain times. However, they are not just for remembrance of God`s provision and deliverance in the past, (eg. Lev. 23: 42 & 43) but they are for God`s final provision and deliverance of Israel. As believers in the Body of Christ we are also included in some of the Feast`s fulfillment.


The Prophetic.

The prophetic aspect of the Feasts began to be fulfilled on the cross by the Lord Jesus. This was at the feast of Passover. (John 18: 28) The Lord`s life was pure, represented by unleavened bread.

`Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore, let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, nor with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. ` (1 Cor. 5: 7 & 8)

Jesus was also the fulfillment of the First-fruits Feast when He rose from the dead and later ascended to the father. `Christ the First-fruits...` (1 Cor. 15: 22)

The Feast of Weeks was fulfilled by the Lord at the appointed time of 7 weeks after Passover. (Pentecost. Acts 2)

The Feasts of Trumpets, Day of Atonement and Tabernacles are yet to be fulfilled by the Lord in the tribulation and beyond into the millennium. The Body of Christ will have been taken to their inheritance in glory before then.



The Hebrew calendar.

This is based on the moon, the lunar calendar. The harvests and Feasts are all subject to the timing of the moon.

`Then God said, "Let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and seasons, and for days and years.` (Gen. 1: 14)

`He (God) appointed the moon for seasons;...` (Ps. 104: 19)

The Jewish calendar was ordered both by the movements of the sun, moon and stars, and also by National Festivals and the agricultural cycle. The year was divided into months marked by the phases of the moon, with an extra month added every few years to adjust as necessary.

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