When the Bible wants to express joy and vitality, it often talks about feasting!

Then I heard what sounded like a great multitude, like the roar of rushing waters and like loud peals of thunder, shouting: 'Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give him glory! For the wedding of the Lamb has come. ... Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!'

-Revelation 19:6-7a,9a

The Feasts of God model the mission, sequence and significance of Jesus’ redemptive work.

 

The major events of Jesus' life occur on the days of the seven feasts.

The Three Spring Feasts:

Pesach: Passover—Feast of Redemption

A time to remember Our Passover lamb was slain for us.

Matzah: Sanctification—Feast of Unleavened Bread

A time to sanctify and purify ourselves.

The absence of leaven represented the absence of sin.

Bikkurim: Acknowledge Provision—Feast of First Fruits.

Celebrated as part of Passover.

This was a time to yield the first fruits of the harvest to God.

A visual of the heart of gratitude acknowledging God’s provision.

The Summer/Fall Feast

Shavuot: Pentecost—Feast of Weeks

A time to rejoice once again in God’s provision beyond our needs. A foreshadowing of what is to come.

Here is what we will notice:

Jesus died on Pesach, Passover.

Jesus went into the tomb on Matza, unleavened.

Jesus rose from the dead on Bikkurim (First Fruits)

And the Holy Spirit descended on Shavuot (Pentecost).

The Messiah fulfilled the first four festivals on the exact appointed day of each festival.

The Final 3 Feasts

Rosh Hashanah: Feast of Trumpets

Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement

Sukkot: Feast of Tabernacles

Rosh Hashanah: Feast of Trumpets

Rosh Hashanah is a time to get very serious about sin and repentance.

Rosh Hashanah is the day God sits in judgment over His people.

The Gospel of grace does not void God's discipline.

 

The people of God are encouraged to ask the following questions:

Do my actions warrant God’s blessings?

OR

Have I lived in such a way to circumvent the favor of God?

Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

-Galatians 6:7

Rosh Hashanah is the only Feast that occurs on the Day of the New Moon. Darkness falls.

Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you long for the day of the Lord? That day will be darkness, not light.

-Amos 5:18

That day will be a day of wrath—a day of distress and anguish, a day of trouble and ruin, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness.

-Zephaniah 1:15

Immediately after the distress of those days ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.'

-Matthew 24:29

Messianic Jews firmly believe that Jesus will return during the Feast of Rosh Hashanah, the First Fall Feast, September.

Ten days after Rosh Hashanah or Feast of Trumpets, the holiest day of the year is ushered in. Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement.

"For the Sin which we have committed before thee with unclean lips, and for the sin which we have committed before thee with impure speech."

"For the sin which we have committed before thee wittingly or unwittingly, for all these, O God of forgiveness, forgive us, pardon us, grant us atonement."

"In the Book of Life, blessing, peace and good sustenance, may we be remembered and inscribed before thee."

When Jesus comes the first time, he comes as the suffering servant.

When Jesus comes the second time, He comes as the Kinsmen redeemer.

He exacts vengeance on those who persecuted his family.

I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained. They called out in a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until you judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'

-Revelation 6:9b, 10

The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Then I saw three impure spirits that looked like frogs; they came out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. They are demonic spirits that perform signs, and they go out to the kings of the whole world, to gather them for the battle on the great day of God Almighty. 'Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.' Then they gathered the kings together to the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

-Revelation 16:12-16

Prophetically, this is when Armageddon comes.

Armageddon is the future Rosh Hashanah!

Har: Mountain and Meggido: Old Testament Battle Field.

This is a symbol representing one last effort to dethrone God.

This is not regret but defiance.

The Biblical Feasts and the Book of Revelation remind us that we had better get serious about our sin.

Repentance is getting off of one train and onto another. You are in the wrong train. Get out. Get off, today! Right-about-face.

-D.L. Moody

If you are not killing sin, sin will be killing you.

-John Owen

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