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Supplemental Notes:
The
Feasts
of
Israel
The Feasts of Israel, set by God, are not
only commemorative in a historical context,
but are also prophetic. The first three
feasts in the 1st month point to the
Messiah’s First Coming; the last three
feasts in the 7th month, to His Second Com-
ing. The middle feast highlights the Church,
in more ways than is generally recognized.
This briefing reveals the rich background
of these feasts with many surprises for the
Biblical believer, and yet only scratches the
surface.
© 1994 Koinonia House Inc.

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The Feasts of Israel
The ultimate teaching aid (Mt 5:17; Rom 15:4).
Law = tutor (Gal 3:24-25)
Feasts prophetic (Col 2:16, 17)
NT in OT concealed; OT in NT revealed.
Calendar
• Pope Gregory XIII, 1582: 365 1/4 days
• Jewish day starts at sunset
• 360-daycalendar:Allancientcalendarschange
701 B.C. (See Signs in the Heavens.)
• Lunar calendar: 11 1/2 days shorter.
• Intercalary months: leap years of 13 months:
3rd, 6th, 11th, 14th, 17th, 19th leap years.
Feast Days (Lev 23; Num 28-29; Deut 16)
God set their feast times (Lev 23:4); mowar =
“to keep an appointment”; “holy convocation”;
migraw = rehearsal.
Feasts
Nisan
Passover
Feast of Unleavened Bread
Feast of First Fruits
+ 49 days: Feast of Weeks (Shavuot)
Tishri
Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teruah)
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
Feast of Tabernacles (Succoth)
Passover
Commemorates deliverance from Egypt (Ex
12:1-14; 43-48; Lev 23:5).
Israel = “my firstborn” (Ex 4; 21-23). God pre-
dicted deliverance 430 years earlier
(Gen 15:13-16—to the day!).
Lambs observed: 10th - 14th.
Slain “between the evenings” of 14th.
[Friday 13th: Egyptian (Gentile) calen-
dar (Veilikovsky).]
Entire lamb to be consumed; nothing left to
the next day (Ex 12:1-13; Lev 23:4,5).
Originally killed by head of household, not
priests; transferred to the Temple (Deut
16:1-6).
Not a bone to be broken (Ex 12:46; Num 9:12;
Ps 34:20).
Jesus
First introduced as Lamb (Jn 1:29, 36). Our
Passover (1 Cor 5:7); only one of all?
(Ex 12:6 “...it...” (Isa 53; Ps 22).
10th of Nisan: Jn 12:1 (6 days before).
Observed (Mt 21:23-27; 23).
Pilate: “I find not fault in him” (Jn 19:4).
Without blemish (1 Pet 1:18-21).
“No bones broken”: Jn 19:31-33, 36.

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Feast of Unleavened Bread
Hag haMatzah (Lev 23:6-8)
(One of three feasts which were compulsory:
Deut 16:16.)
Leaven
Type of sin: corrupts by puffing up
OT: Ex 12:15; 13:7; Lev 2:11; 6:17; 10:12
NT type: Mt 16:6; Lk 13:21; 1 Cor 5:6-8;
Gal 5:7-9.
[Cf. Woman and the leaven? Mt. 13:33.]
Jesus “made sin for us”: 2 Cor 5:21; 1
Jn 3:5.
“I Am the bread of Life”: Jn 6:32-35; 47-
51
Other Bread Models
Manna
Melchizedek: Bread and Wine (Gen 14)
[Who gives to whom?]
Joseph: Baker (broken)
Wine Steward (redeemed) Gen 40
Frees from the old life, bondage; call to sepa-
ration (Eph 4:22). Clothes make the
man! (Rom 12:1,2).
Bedikat hametz: ritual search for leaven...
Matzah: pierced, striped?
Three: middle one broken =
aphikomen; half wrapped in cloth and
hidden?
Nothing to be left (Ex 12:10). Blood
provided life (Lev 17:11; Mt 26:27,
28).
Four cups:
“Bring out”
“Delivering”
“Redemption/Blessing”
“Taking out”
Mishna:
Wine mixed with warm water?
Mishna, Pes. VII 13; John 19:34.
Passover Lamb = “His Body.”
Haggadah = “showing forth” (Ex 13:8).
Application
His blood on the doorposts of our heart:
1 Jn 1:7; 1 Cor 15:51-57; Eph 2:13;
Jn 5:24.
Uncircumcised could not participate;
of heart: Deut 10:16; Jer 4:4; Gal 3:26;
Phil 3:3; Rom 2:28-29; Gal 6:15; 2 Cor
5:17.

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Feast of First Fruits
Lev 23:9-14 (“on the morrow after the Sab-
bath...”) First fruits: representative of
the entire harvest.
Egypt: 3 days into the desert,
Red Sea: delivered from death unto life!
Jesus = Fulfillment
1 Cor 15:20-23; Mt 27:52-53?
Eph 1:6; Rom 11:16 (Cf. Job 19:25-26)
Application
Gal 2:20; Rom 6:11-14; Jas 1:18.
When did Noah’s “new beginning” start?
(Gen 8:4).
Two Calendars: Ex 12:2
Months Old New
Tishri (Ethanim) 1 7
Cheshvan (Bul) 2 8
Chisleu 3 9
Tevet 4 10
Sh’vat 5 11
Adar 6 12
Nisan, Aviv 7 1
Ilyar (Zif) 8 2
Sivan 9 3
Tammuz 10 4
Av 11 5
Elul 12 6
Passover: 14th of Nisan
1st month of the religious year;
7th month of the civil year.
How long was Christ in the grave? 3 days.
Resurrection, our “new beginning” in Christ:
14 + 3 days = 17th of Nisan, 7th month
on the Genesis calendar!
Our new beginning in Christ was on the anni-
versary of the earth’s “new beginning”
under Noah!
Also, Israel’s beginning, crossing of the Red
Sea on the 17th of Nisan (3 days into
the desert).
[In their flight after Passover, Israel retrieved
the body of Joseph from his tomb (Ex 13:19-
20). After Passover, Jesus was retrieved from
another Joseph’s tomb on this anniversary.]
Friday or Wednesday?
Controversy: outstanding scholars on both
sides of the issue. Many defend the church
tradition of “Good Friday.” Others, probing the
complexities of the various “Sabbath” obser-
vances, argue for the Wednesday, with the
complete “3 days and 3 nights”:
The Sign of Jonah; Mt 12:40

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Final Week
Friday: At Bethany
6 days before the Passover (Jn 12:1)
Saturday: Triumphal Entry
Mt 21:5; 12, 17; Mk 11:7, 11; Lk 19:28
Sunday: The Fig Tree Cursed
Mt 21:18; Mk 11:12
Monday: Conspirators counsel
Mt 26:2; Mk 11:20; 14:1; Lk 22:1
Tuesday: Last Supper
Mt 26:17; Mk 14:7; Lk 22:7
Wednesday: Crucifixion
Jn 19:14, 31, 42; Mk 15:42; Lk 23:17, 54
Thursday: Beginning of Feast of Unleavened
Bread (Lev 23:4-8 lasts seven days; 1st and
last days are Sabbaths); Mt 27:62; Lev 23:6-7
[Jewish year includes seven Sabbaths, in ad-
dition to the Saturday Sabbaths.]
Friday: Women prepare spices
Saturday: “and rested...” Lk 23”56;
“after the Sabbaths...” Mt 28:1 >6:00 PM
Sunday: He is risen. The new beginning.
Mt 28:11; Mk 16:1; Jn 20:1

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The Feast of Weeks
Hag Ha Shavuot
Also, Hag Ha Kazir, The Feast of Harvest
(“the 1st Harvest)
Lev 23:15-22 (Cf. Acts 2)
“morrow after Shabbat after Passover”
= First Fruits + 50 days
(Greek: Pentecost)
One of 3 compulsory (Deut 16:16)
Fulfillment: Jn 14:23, 26; Acts 1:8; 2:1-47.
Birth of Israel
Giving of the Torah (Ex 19).
(Thus also called “The Feast of Revelation”)
Passover: 14th of Nisan;
Crossing of Red Sea +3 = 17th of Nisan
3rd day of 3rd month: 46 days
Moses to prepare for the 3rd day: 49 days
(Note: Death of David on 6th of Sivan?)
Birth of the Church: Acts 2
Compare closely: Ex 19 and Acts 2
Observance
2 loaves of leavened bread (integrated? not
offered on altar)
2lambsoffered(Jew+Gentile?Lawvs.Grace?)
“Trumpet of God”: only 2X in Bible:
Giving of the Torah at Sinai (Ex 19:13, 16).
Rapture (1 Thess 4:16).
Enoch Tradition
Born 6th of Sivan.
Translated (raptured) 6th of Sivan.
(Note Noah’s flood analogy, below.)
[Earliest prophecy in the Bible by Enoch (of
the Second Coming!) Jude 14, 15.]
Israel and Church are Distinct
Seventy Weeks, by Gabriel (Dan 9:24-27)
9:24 Scope of prophecy
9:25 69 weeks
9:26 (Interval, or “gap”)
9:27 70th week
(See Daniel’s 70 Weeks briefing package.)
Church hidden in OT (Eph 3:3-7)
Luke 4:18, 19 vs. Isaiah 61:1,2 and note
omission.
Same gap between Rev 12:5 and 6. (Is
the Man-child the ascension of the Body
of Christ? or are both in view?)
Israel temporarily set aside:
Luke 19:42 vs. Rom 11:25
(A Gentile rapture on 6th of Sivan could
restart the clock for Israel?)

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Feasts of Trumpets
Yom Teruah
[Rosh HaShannah (“Head of the Year”)
= Jewish New Year]
Lev 23:23-25 (Torah = 1 day; 2nd day added
about 500 B.C.)
Teki’at shofar: ram’s horn; not silver Temple
trumpets.
Shofar: Isa 58:1; 27:13.
Akedah: substitutionary ram.
left horn = “first trump.”
right horn = “last trump.”
3 series of 10 blasts each.
final blowing of 10 blasts
Teki’ah Gedolah, “the great blowing.”
not short blasts (= “alarm”).
but long blasts = victory!
“The Last Trump”? (1 Cor 15:51-52)
Note: 7th trumpet judgment of Revela-
tion not “last” since trumpets will be
blown in Millennial Temple, etc.
(But 1 Thess 4:16-18: The Trump of God
only here and in Ex 19. See page 13.)
Yomim Noraim - Days of Affliction
Threshing floor idiom? (Lk 3:16, 17)
Ruth (Gentile bride) at Boaz’s feet (the
kinsman-redeemer) during the thresh-
ing floor event (Ruth 3:8-9)
Day of Atonement
Yom Kippur
10th of Tishri
(Lev 16:1-19; 23:26-32; Heb 9:1-16)
Most solemn of all feasts.
High priest: only day he enters the Holy
of Holies; sprinkles the Mercy Seat.
God, who “dwelleth between the cheru-
bim,” looking down on the broken law,
is propitiated (hilasterion, Gr.) by the
shed blood (of Christ). (Heb 9:1-16)
Two goats: azazel, scapegoat (Lev 16:20-
34; Mt 27:33; 2 Cor 5:21; Isa 53:6; 52:15)
[Lottery box for the Third Temple avail-
able for viewing at the Temple Institute
in Jerusalem.]
Red Heifer (Num 19; Heb 9:13)
Cf. Jn 2: water of purification to wine!
Veil: 4 inches thick (Josephus)
Rent: Mt 27:50, 51; Heb 10:10, 14, 17-
22; Isa 52:14, 15.
(Loss of Temple for 19 centuries, dilemma:
Lev 17:11, etc. no altar; no shedding of blood
= man-centered, good works system of appease-
ment—prayer, charity, penitence...)

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Feast of Tabernacles
Succoth(“Booths”)
15th of Tishri: 5 days (grace?) after Yom Kip-
pur (Lev 23:33-44) Compulsory (Deut 16:16).
Temporary dwellings: 7 days + special sabbath
Gaps in sides, roof = wilderness wan-
derings... (Feast = “rehearsal”)
After the week, leave temporary dwellings for
permanent (Hos 5:15-Hos 6:3; Zech 14:4, 9, 16).
Procession:
Lulav willow: no fragrance, no fruit
myrtle: fragrance, no fruit
palm: no fragrance, fruit
Ethrog citrus: fragrance + fruit
(Cf. Mt 13:3-9; 18-23; Rev 7:9)
Trees = men (Ps 1; Dan 4)
Jn 7:2, 20, 37-39; from Rock (1 Cor 10; Rev
21:3-6; 38).
Sacrifices: 13 bulls, 2 rams, 14 lambs, 1 kid
13, 12, 11... for 7 days = 70
(Cf. Gen 10, 70 nations; Talmud)
(Solomon dedicated the Temple on Feast of
Tabernacles)
Harvest = gathering the fruit (Deut 16:13)
Transfiguration during Feasts of Booths?
Cf. Peter: build 3 “succoths”? (Mt 17:4).
Rapture: (1 Cor 15:51; 1 Thess 4:13-16; Jn
11:21-26)
“Rapturemania”: Since early years of the
church: Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin, Augustine,
and others evidenced various views of His im-
minent return during their lifetimes.
Specific dates were predicted:
Joahchim of Flores in 1260;
Militz of Kromeriz in 1365;
Joseph Mede, 1660;
John Napier, the famed mathematician,
in 1688;
Pierre Jurieu of France, 1689;
William Whitson, 1715;
then 1734;
then 1866;
J. A. Bengal, 1836;
Joseph Worlf, 1847;
William Miller, 1843;
then again Oct. 22, 1844;
C.T. Russell, 1874;
E.C. Wisentant’s “88 reasons for 1988.”
Predictable? Mt 24:36; 25:13; Mk 13:22; Mt
24:44.
Protection? “The whole counsel of God.”

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Rapture Models in the
Old Testament
Noah’s Flood—three groups of people:
Those that perished in the judgment;
Noah’s Ark: preserved through the
judgment;
Enoch’s translation before the prom-
ised judgment.
Lot’s deliverance from Sodom prior to judg-
ment (Gen 19).
Daniel’s fiery furnace (Dan 3) Where was
Daniel?
Israel & Church (Dan 9).
Ruth at Boaz’s feet during threshing floor
(Ruth 3).
Explicit OT references (Isa 26:19-21; Zeph 2:2,3).
Willingly ignorant (2 Pet 3:3-6).
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