12 Jewish Feasts
Jewish Feasts Leviticus 23:1-44
These were appointed times, holy convocations, and were the ways of God in gathering and blessing His people. Though repeated yearly, they were typical of the ways of blessing from the cross to the millennium. The Sabbath - God’s rest - is first named, on which the others were founded; then the list begins again at verse 4.
Antitypes. | ||
Abib 14th | The Sabbath. Leviticus 23:1-3 (Evening) Passover killed 1. Passover Feast. Leviticus 23:5-44. Feast of Unleavened Bread | Christ our Passover slain. |
15th | 3. First Fruits (Barley) "day after the Sabbath." Leviticus 23:9-14 | The Resurrection. |
Zif Sivan | 4. Pentecost: Feasts of Weeks: Feast of Harvest (Wheat).Leviticus 23:15-22. | Descent of the Holy Ghost and the Church formed. |
Tammuz | ||
Ab | [The present intrval.] | |
Elul | ||
Tisri 1st | Feast of Trumpets: holy convocation. Leviticus 23:23-25 | Israel awakened; they afflict their souls; receive their Messiah, and are brought into blessing in the millennium. |
10th | Day of Atonement. Leviticus 23:26-32 | |
15th | Feast of Tabernacles: Ingathering of the VintageLeviticus 23:33-34 | |
Bul | ||
Chisleu 25th | [Feast of Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabeus when the temple was re-dedicated, B.C. 166, John 10:22.] | |
Tebeth | ||
Sebat |
Adar 14th | [Feast of Purim. Esther 9:21.] |