Feasts of the Lord in Leviticus 23 and Jesus first and second coming.

1. The Feasts of the Lord,
Jesus First and Second Coming

2. Overview
• God’s Calendar
• Leviticus 23: Feasts of the Lord
• Jesus 1st coming
• Jesus 2nd coming

3. God’s Calendar
• God’s calendar is based on the moon
• Composed of 12 months of 29 or 30 days
• Leap year happens 7 times in a 19 years cycle
• Leap year contains a 13 month to catch up
with the Solar year

4. God’s Calendar (2)
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Nisan Iyar Sivan Tammuz Av Elul Tishri CheshvanKislev Tevet Shevat Adar*
*Adar 2 is added in leap years
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

5. God’s Calendar (3)
Month Number of Days Gregorian Calendar Month
Nissan 30 March-April
Iyar 29 April-May
Sivan 30 May-June
Tammuz 29 June-July
Av 30 July-August
Elul 29 August-September
Tishri 30 September-October
Cheshvan 29 or 30 October-November
Kislev 30 or 29 November-December
Tevet 29 December-January
Shevat 30 January-February
Adar 30 February-March

6. Leviticus 23
• 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 convocations; they are my appointed feasts…”
• The Sabbath (Shabbat)
• The Passover (Pesach)
• The Feast of Unleavened bread (Hag Hamatzot)
• The Feast of Firstfruits (Reshit Katzir)
• The Feast of Weeks (Shavuot, Pentecost)
• The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
• The Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
• The Feast of Booth (Sukkot, Tabernacles)

8. Feasts of the Lord, Leviticus 23:

9. 1st Feast: Passover
• Starts on Nisan 14 at Sundown, finishes on Nisan 15 at
Sundown
• High priest bind the Lamb to the sacrificial altar at 9 AM
• At 3 PM that day he would ascend the altar and slaughter the
Lamb
• The he would close the ceremony by uttering the Hebrew
word, Kalah: “it is finished”

10. Jesus 1st coming Fulfillment
• Crucified on Nissan 14, 3790 (Wednesday April 5, 30 AD most
probable date but there is uncertainty, we know for sure that
Pontius Pilate was Prefect of Judaea from 26-36 AD)
• Nailed to the cross at 9 AM
• Mark 15:25 And it was the third hour when they crucified him
• Died at 3 PM
• Matthew 27:46-50 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a
loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my
God, why have you forsaken me?”. And some of the
bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” And one of
them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and
put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. But the others
said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” And
Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit.
• Mark and Matthew reports hours the Hebrew way, from dawn:
6 AM + 3 Hours = 9 AM
6 AM + 9 Hours = 3 PM

11. Jesus 1st coming Fulfillment
• John 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said,
“It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

12. 2nd Feast, Unleavened Bread
• Nisan 15
• Jews remove all leaven (representing sin) from their home
and eat only flat bread, or Matzah
• One of the rituals involved wrapping a piece of Matzah, which
was traditionally “striped and pierced”, in a linen napkin and
hiding away to be found later by the children, who would then
receive a reward.

13. Jesus 1st coming Fulfillment
• The “striped” and “pierced” body of Jesus who is the “bread
of life” and the “man without sin”, was wrapped in linen
shroud and lay hidden away in the tomb.
• Matthew 27:59-60 And Joseph took the body and wrapped it
in a clean linen shroud and laid it in his own new tomb, which
he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the
entrance of the tomb and went away.

14. 3rd Feast, Feast of First Fruits
• The day after the Sabbath that follows Passover.
• High priest would ceremoniously wave a sheaf of the first
fruits of the barley harvest before the Lord.

15. Jesus 1st coming fulfillment
• Representative of the “First Fruits” of the “harvest of the
redeemed”, Jesus arose from the dead on the Feast of first Fruits.
• Matthew 28:1-6 Now after the Sabbath (Plural), toward the dawn
of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary
went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great earthquake,
for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and
rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like
lightning, and his clothing white as snow. And for fear of him the
guards trembled and became like dead men. But the angel said to
the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who
was crucified. He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see
the place where he lay.

16. Jesus 1st coming fulfillment
• 1 Corinthians 15:20 But in fact Christ has been raised
from the dead, the first fruits of those who have
fallen asleep.

17. 4th Feast, Feast of Weeks
• Sivan 6
• Also called “Pentecost”
• 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits
• Observed with two large loaves of bread
• Loaves memorialized the giving of the Ten commandments at
Mount Sinai, at which time, “God’s Law was written on two
tablets of stone”

18. Jesus 1st coming Fulfillment
• Exactly 50 days after the Feast of First Fruits, the Lord
sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in the hearts of the
believers. The Law was written not on tablet of stones
but on the hearts of those who would receive him.
• Acts 2:1-4 When the day of Pentecost arrived, they
were all together in one place. And suddenly there
came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing
wind, and it filled the entire house where they were
sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to
them and rested on each one of them. And they were
all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in
other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance.

19. 5th Feast, Feast of Trumpets
• Tishri 1st
• Rosh Hashanah, 1st day of the Jewish Calendar, seen as a type
of “New Years Day” for Israel
• Blowing of trumpets 100 times, both in the Temple and in the
land. The 100th, or last, trumpet blast was known as “the last
trump”

20. Jesus 2nd Coming
• The Rapture
• 1 Corinthians 51-52 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all
sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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 be changed.
• Thessalonians 4:16-17 the Lord himself will come down from
heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and
with the trumpet call of God, the dead in Christ will rise first. After
that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together
with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
• Revelation 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and
there were loud voices in heaven, saying, “The kingdom of the
world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he
shall reign forever and ever.”

21. Jesus 2nd Coming
• The Torah calls the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Teruah, or ”the
day of awakening blast”
• Isaiah 26:19 Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise. You
who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy! For your dew is
a dew of light, and the earth will give birth to the dead.

22. Jesus 2nd coming
• Jesus said in Matthew 24:36 “But of that day or hour no one
knows”
• The Feast of Trumpets was known as “the hidden day”: in
part because its commencement was uniquely dependent on
the first sighting of the New Moon.

23. Jesus 2nd coming
• Due to the uncertainty inherent to sighting a tiny sliver of the
crescent moon, as well as the secondary issue of notifying
everyone that the feast had begun in time, the Feast of
Trumpets became the only two-day holiday practiced in
Israel.
• So speaking of the timing of the Feast of Trumpets, the Jews
would typically say “Of that day and hour no one knows”

24. 6th Feast, Day of Atonement
• Tishri 10
• Yom Kippur, it was on this day that the High Priest was
allowed behind the veil of the Temple into the “Holy of
Holies”, where he would plead forgiveness for Israel in the
presence of God’s Glory
• The day of Atonement is also known as “the day of Face to
Face with God”

25. Jesus Second Coming
• Israel will turn towards the one they pierced
• Zechariah 12:10-11 And I will pour out on the house of David
and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for
mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they
have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an
only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a
firstborn. On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as
great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of
Megiddo.

26. 7th Feast, Feast of Tabernacles
• Tishri 15 to 21
• Israelites were commended to build a “tabernacle” or Sukkah
(temporary hut), and to inhabit it
• In Exodus God commended the Israelite to build a tabernacle
so he could dwell amidst them

27. Jesus Second Coming
• The feast of Tabernacle will be observe in the millennium.
Zechariah 14:16 Then everyone who survives of all the nations
that have come against Jerusalem shall go up year after year to
worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of
Tabernacles.

28. Conclusion
• Jesus first coming fulfilled the first four Feasts to the exact day
and time. It seems logical that Jesus second coming will fulfill
the remaining three Feasts on God’s appointed days too.