The Holy Seasons Leviticus 23

 

Leviticus 23 – The Holy Seasons

 

There are seven feasts excluding the Sabbath day. Now that the Israelites have been delivered from Egypt, they are to set aside one day to worship God.  There is to be an ending from all labor and activity.  The Sabbath Day belongs to the old creation.  We belong to the new creation, but we honor Christ by setting aside the first day of the week.  Our rest comes through redemption. The Sabbath Day was not a feast day but was a set time. Passover was the fourteenth day of the first month.  It is the Lord’s Passover. “This month shall be to you the beginning of the months.” “For even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us” I Cor. 5:7. The Passover was brought to its fulfillment the night of the arrest of Jesus Christ after He observed the Passover with His disciples. It was observed one day, and the next day – the first day of the week began the feast of Unleavened Bread. It was eaten for seven days. It speaks of fellowship with Christ. It signifies that the value of the blood continues for the believer after he is saved.  The blood of Jesus keeps us clean. That is the meaning of the feast of Unleavened Bread. The season of First Fruits was done of the first day of the week.  Christ is called the first fruits. The offering of the first fruits indicated there would be a harvest to follow.  Believers are that harvest. The new crop of grain could not be enjoyed until this offering was waved before God.  For the believer, the death and resurrection of Christ brings us into the new relationships and blessings. The Feast of Pentecost always fell on the first day of the week. The day after the seventh Sabbath. This was fifty days after the offering of the wave sheaf of first fruits. It is also called the feast of Weeks.  It indicates the coming of the Holy Spirit to baptize believers into the body of Christ and to begin the calling out of the church. It was fifty days after the resurrection of Christ that the Holy Spirit came. They were to offer a new meal offering. After the resurrection of the Lord, he showed Himself alive for forty days. Believers can draw upon Christ for everything. For Salvation, for help and mercy, for sympathy and comfort. They were to rest on that day and cease from their works. They were to remember the poor and the strangers. The Season of Trumpets were blown seven times to get them on the march. The trumpets relate to the coming judgment. (To be cont.)  “They will hear the voice of the Lord like a trumpet”

 

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