Feasts of the Old Testament

The feasts and sabbaths of the Old Testament (Law of Moses) contain very important spiritual meanings. While these feasts are not required to be kept today (see Col 2:13-17), they foreshadow the offering and sacrifice of Jesus Christ for the salvation of God’s people. They also point to the Christian life, judgment on the Last Day and eternity with God in the new earth. The below YouTube videos examine the spiritual meanings of the feasts. Below the links to YouTube videos are other links to a summary of the spiritual meanings of each of the feasts as well as associated Bible passages. For a study of the spiritual meaning of the Old Testament Sabbath, please click here to view.

Background of the Feasts of the Old Testament

The 7^th Day Sabbath

Passover

Feast of Unleavened Bread

Feast of First Fruits (day after Sabbath)

Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)

Feast of Trumpets (Sabbath)

Day of Atonement (Sabbath)

Feast of Tabernacles (Sabbath on 1^st and 8^th day)

The 7^th Year Sabbath of the Land – The Poor May Eat

The Jubilee of the 50^th Year – The Land Rests

3 Visits to Jerusalem (Passover/Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Tabernacles)

 

Background of the Feasts of the Old Testament

 

In the original Hebrew of the Old Testament, the word for ‘feast’ is moed, which literally means an appointed time. Therefore, the timing of these feasts is important. These ‘feasts’ are also called holy convocations. Holy means to be set apart for the service of God. Convocation (Hebrew: miqra) means to be called out and assembled. Sabbaths point to the ‘rest’ of salvation by God’s grace.

 

There are 8 feasts found in the Law of Moses. They are discussed in Leviticus 23 as well as many other places:

• 7th Day Sabbath – Lev 23:3
• Passover – Lev 23:4-5
• Feast of Unleavened Bread – Lev 23:6-8
• Feast of First-Fruits – Lev 23:9-14
• Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) – Lev 23:15-22
• Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:25
• Day of Atonement – Lev 23:26-32
• Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) – Lev 23:33-44

 

There are also two other feasts that are discussed in the Old Testament:

• Feast of Purim (Esther 9:20-32)
• Feast of the Fast of the 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th ‘months’ (Zech 8:19)

 

The feasts in the Law of Moses are also called holy convocations (I.e., holly calling). This directly foreshadows the holy calling of God’s people (see 2 Tim 1:9). These feasts also feature various offerings and sacrifices. These offering and sacrifices all ultimately have their fulfillment in the offering and sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The various animals that were sacrificed symbolize various aspects of the nature of Jesus Christ.

 

Five of the 8 feasts in the Law of Moses also involve sabbath days (I.e., no service work) :

• 7th day sabbath – Lev 23:3
• Feast of unleavened bread (1st and 7th day) – Lev 23:6-8
• Feast of trumpets – Lev 23:24
• Day of atonement – Lev 23:32
• Feast of tabernacles (1st and 8th day) – Lev 23:39

 

The time of occurrence of the feasts of the Lord also have symbolic / spiritual meanings:

 

7th day Sabbath (Lev 23:3) – rest / salvation

• 7 – Perfection of Purpose

Abib, beginning of months – beginning of salvation

• Feast of Passover (Lev 23:4-5) – sacrifice of Christ / God passes over those under the blood
• Feast of Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:6-8) – holy life of Christ and His people
• Feast of First-fruits (Lev 23:9-14) – resurrection of Jesus Christ

Passover (Lev 23:4-5) – sacrifice of Christ’s blood (soul)

• 10th day – Lamb – fulness of time God sent forth His son – Gal 4:4
• 14th day – witness (2), perfection of God’s purpose (7)

Unleavened Bread (Lev 23:6-8) – holy life of Christ and His people

• 15th day – witness of God’s will (3) of salvation (5)
• 21st day – witness of God’s will (3) perfection of purpose (7)

First-fruits (Lev 23:9-14) – resurrection of Jesus Christ

• Day after sabbath (8th day) – super-abundance of the resurrection (many to be saved)

Feast of the 3rd month (Sivan) – witness of God’s will:

Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) (Lev 23:15-22) – sending of the Holy Spirit

• 50th day after feast of first-fruits – complete (10) salvation (5) of God’s people
• Sivan – Est 8:9 – of Persian origin  – Points to Gentiles (Pentecost, feast of unity – Acts 2:1, Exo 23:14-17)

Feasts of the 7th month – perfection of God’s purpose

Trumpets (Lev 23:23-25) – Last Day (judgment)

• 1st day – unity of God’s people in the resurrection

Day of Atonement (Lev 23:26-32) – Christ entering the holy of holies with then sacrifice of His blood

• 10th day – complete fulness of Jesus Christ’s ministry of sacrifice

Feast of Tabernacles (Lev 23:33-43) – Eternity dwelling with God

• 15th day – Witness of God’s will of salvation
• 8th day – superabundance of eternity with God

 

The 7^th Day Sabbath

 

Lev 23:3  Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

 

Click here to view separate webpage about the 7^th Day Sabbath

 

Passover

 

The Passover is fulfilled in Jesus Christ by His blood that brings the salvation of God’s people by the ‘passing over of sins’

 

 

Lev 23:4-5  These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.  (5)  In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover.

 

Note: Passover is to be celebrated in conjunction with the Feast of Unleavened Bread. See Feast of Unleavened Bread section below for more related verses.

 

• Passover – Gr: pascha (G3957) – 29 occurrences
  • Mat 26:2, Mat 26:17, Mat 26:18, Mat 26:19, Mar 14:1, Mar 14:12, Mar 14:14, Mar 14:16, Luk 2:41, Luk 22:1, Luk 22:7, Luk 22:8, Luk 22:11, Luk 22:13, Luk 22:15, Joh 2:13, Joh 2:23, Joh 6:4, Joh 11:55, Joh 12:1, Joh 13:1, Joh 18:28, Joh 18:39, Joh 19:14, Act 12:4, 1Co 5:7, Heb 11:28
  • Ye know that after two days is the feast of the passover, and the Son of man is betrayed to be crucified.  (Mat 26:2)
  • Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?  (Mat 26:17)
  • And he said, Go into the city to such a man, and say unto him, The Master saith, My time is at hand; I will keep the passover at thy house with my disciples.  (Mat 26:18)
  • And the disciples did as Jesus had appointed them; and they made ready the passover.  (Mat 26:19)
  • After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.  (Mar 14:1)
  • And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?  (Mar 14:12)
  • And wheresoever he shall go in, say ye to the goodman of the house, The Master saith, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?  (Mar 14:14)
  • And his disciples went forth, and came into the city, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.  (Mar 14:16)
  • Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.  (Luk 2:41)
  • Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.  (Luk 22:1)
  • Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.  (Luk 22:7)
  • And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.  (Luk 22:8)
  • And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?  (Luk 22:11)
  • And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover.  (Luk 22:13)
  • And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:  (Luk 22:15)
  • And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,  (Joh 2:13)
  • Now when he was in Jerusalem at the passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.  (Joh 2:23)
  • And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.  (Joh 6:4)
  • And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.  (Joh 11:55)
  • Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.  (Joh 12:1)
  • Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.  (Joh 13:1)
  • Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.  (Joh 18:28)
  • But ye have a custom, that I should release unto you one at the passover: will ye therefore that I release unto you the King of the Jews?  (Joh 18:39)
  • And it was the preparation of the passover, and about the sixth hour: and he saith unto the Jews, Behold your King!  (Joh 19:14)
  • Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:  (1Co 5:7)
  • Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.  (Heb 11:28)
• Passover – Heb: pesach (H6453)
  • Exo 12:11, Exo 12:21, Exo 12:27, Exo 12:43, Exo 12:48, Exo 34:25, Lev 23:5, Num 9:2, Num 9:4-6 (3), Num 9:10, Num 9:12-14 (4), Num 28:16, Num 33:3, Deu 16:1-2 (2), Deu 16:5-6 (2), Jos 5:10-11 (2), 2Ki 23:21-23 (3), 2Ch 30:1-2 (2), 2Ch 30:5, 2Ch 30:15, 2Ch 30:18, 2Ch 35:1 (2), 2Ch 35:6-9 (4), 2Ch 35:11, 2Ch 35:13, 2Ch 35:16-19 (5), Eze 45:19-21 (3), 2Ch 30:17

History of Celebrating the Passover:

• Passover often not celebrated
• Passover in the second year after Exodus – Num 9:1-5
• First Passover in Canaan – Josh 5:10-12
• Hezekiah Keeps the Passover in the 2nd month – 2 Chr 30:1-27
• Josiah restores the Passover – 2 Ki 23:21-27, 2 Chr 35:1-19
• Exiles returning to Jerusalem kept the Passover – Ezra 6:19-22
• 1st year of Christ’s ministry – John 2:13-22
• 2nd year of Christ’s ministry – John 6:1-15
• 3rd year of Christ’s ministry – Mat 26:17-29, Mar 14:12-25, Luk 22:7-20

 

 

Exodus 12 – The Initial Passover

• And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,  (2)  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.  (3)  Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this monththey shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:  (4)  And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.  (5)  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:  (6)  And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.  (7)  And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.  (8)  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.  (9)  Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.  (10)  And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.  (11)  And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.  (12)  For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.  (13)  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.  (14)  And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.  (15)  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.  (16)  And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.  (17)  And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.  (18)  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.  (19)  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.  (20)  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.  (21)  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.  (22)  And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.  (23)  For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.  (24)  And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.  (25)  And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.  (26)  And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?  (27)  That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.  (28)  And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. (Exo 12:1-28)
• It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.  (Exo 12:42)
• Exo 12:43-51  And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:  (44)  But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.  (45)  A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.  (46)  In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.  (47)  All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.  (48)  And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.  (49)  One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.  (50)  Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.  (51)  And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

 

Passover Descriptions:

• Passover meaning – Exo 12:11
• Feast – Exo 12:14
• Feast – Exo 12:43
• Ordinance – Exo 12:14, Exo 12:43
• Memorial – Exo 12:14, Exo 12:42
• Israel, slaves and strangers who are circumcised – Exo 12:43-51

 

Timing:

• Lamb (or goat) on the 10^thday of 1^st month – take and keep it – Exo 12:1-6
• Kill lamb (or goat) at evening of the 14^thday – Exo 12:6

 

Lamb Description:

• No blemish – Exo 12:5
• 1 year old – male of 1 year – Exo 12:5

 

Actions:

• Blood put on doorposts and lintels of the house – Exo 12:7
  • Blood is a token (sign) – it’s a passover, judgment on Egypt – Exo 12:13
• Eat it completely in the night, roasted with fire (not sodden) – Exo 12:8
  • What’s not eaten, burned with fire – Exo 12:10
• Eat it with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs – Exo 12:8-9
• Eat it with loins girded, shoes on feet, staff in hand and with haste – Exo 12:11

 

Purpose:

• Smite all the firstborn of the land, man and beast (judgment) – Exo 12:12
• Death of the First born – Exo 12:29-32
• Final plague – Israel came pout of Egypt – Exo 12:33-42, Exo 12:51

 

 

Num 9:1-14 – Details on How to Keep the Passover

• Num 9:1-14  And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying,  (2)  Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his appointed season.  (3)  In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.  (4)  And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.  (5)  And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.  (6)  And there were certain men, who were defiled by the dead body of a man, that they could not keep the passover on that day: and they came before Moses and before Aaron on that day:  (7)  And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?  (8)  And Moses said unto them, Stand still, and I will hear what the LORD will command concerning you.  (9)  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  (10)  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.  (11)  The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  (12)  They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.  (13)  But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.  (14)  And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

 

 

Josiah restores the Passover

• And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the LORD your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant. Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah; But in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, wherein this passover was holden to the LORD in Jerusalem.  (2Ki 23:21-23)
• (1)  Moreover Josiah kept a passover unto the LORD in Jerusalem: and they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month.  (2)  And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house of the LORD,  (3)  And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,  (4)  And prepare yourselves by the houses of your fathers, after your courses, according to the writing of David king of Israel, and according to the writing of Solomon his son.  (5)  And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the families of the fathers of your brethren the people, and after the division of the families of the Levites.  (6)  So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.  (7)  And Josiah gave to the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.  (8)  And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offeringstwo thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.  (9)  Conaniah also, and Shemaiah and Nethaneel, his brethren, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, chief of the Levites, gave unto the Levites for passover offerings five thousand small cattle, and five hundred oxen.  (10)  So the service was prepared, and the priests stood in their place, and the Levites in their courses, according to the king’s commandment.  (11)  And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.  (12)  And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the LORD, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.  (13)  And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons, and in pans, and divided them speedily among all the people.  (14)  And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.  (15)  And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters waited at every gate; they might not depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.  (16)  So all the service of the LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar of the LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.  (17)  And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.  (18)  And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.  (19)  In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept. (2 Chr 35:1-19)

 

 

Feast of Unleavened Bread

 

The Christian Life of eating the Bread of Life, Jesus Christ (Word of God) in sincerity and truth resulting in afflictions

 

These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD’S passover. And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  (Lev 23:4-8)

 

Other Passages:

• And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,  (2)  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.  (3)  Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this monththey shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:  (4)  And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.  (5)  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:  (6)  And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.  (7)  And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.  (8)  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.  (9)  Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.  (10)  And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.  (11)  And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.  (12)  For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.  (13)  And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.  (14)  And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.  (15)  Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.  (16)  And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.  (17)  And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.  (18)  In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.  (19)  Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.  (20)  Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.  (21)  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.  (22)  And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.  (23)  For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.  (24)  And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.  (25)  And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.  (26)  And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?  (27)  That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.  (28)  And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. (Exo 12:1-28)
• And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.  (Exo 12:39)
• The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.  (Exo 34:18)
• Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.  (Exo 34:25)
• And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passoverthe children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.  (Num 33:3)
• Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night. Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God, of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to place his name there. Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life. And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning. Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee: But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt. And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy tents. Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.  (Deu 16:1-8)
• First Passover in Canaan:
  • And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evenin the plains of Jericho. And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day. And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. (Jos 5:10-12)
• Hezekiah’s Joyous Passoverand Feast of Unleavened Bread:
  • (1)  And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passoverunto the LORD God of Israel.  (2)  For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the congregation in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.  (3)  For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves sufficiently, neither had the people gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.  (4)  And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.  (5)  So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.  (6)  So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.  (7)  And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them up to desolation, as ye see.  (8)  Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.  (9)  For if ye turn again unto the LORD, your brethren and your children shall find compassion before them that lead them captive, so that they shall come again into this land: for the LORD your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.  (10)  So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.  (11)  Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.  (12)  Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.  (13)  And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.  (14)  And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron.  (15)  Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house of the LORD.  (16)  And they stood in their place after their manner, according to the law of Moses the man of God: the priests sprinkled the blood, which they received of the hand of the Levites.  (17)  For there were many in the congregation that were not sanctified: therefore the Levites had the charge of the killing of the passovers for every one that was not clean, to sanctify them unto the LORD.  (18)  For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one  (19)  That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.  (20)  And the LORD hearkened to Hezekiah, and healed the people.  (21)  And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.  (22)  And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.  (23)  And the whole assembly took counsel to keep other seven days: and they kept other seven days with gladness.  (24)  For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.  (25)  And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.  (26)  So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in Jerusalem.  (27)  Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people: and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling place, even unto heaven. (2 Chr 30:1-27)
• Ezekiel’s Temple – Passoverand Unleavened Bread
  • In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten. And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering. And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering. And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah. (Eze 45:21-24)

Offerings of the Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread:

• And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the LORD. And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten. In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein: But ye shall offer a sacrifice made by fire for a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, and seven lambs of the first year: they shall be unto you without blemish: And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil: three tenth deals shall ye offer for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram; A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs: And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you. Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering. And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.  (Num 28:16-25)

 

Leaven – false doctrines, hypocrisy and evil that causes false church growth (no sincerity / truth)

• False doctrine – Gal 5:9, Mat 16:6-11
• Sin – 1 Cor 5:7-8
• 1 Cor 5:7 – Christians are unleavened and ‘keep the feast’
• Unleavened – sincerity / truth – 1 Cor 5:8
• Hypocrisy of Pharisees – Lk 12:1
• Leaven of Pharisees and Herod – Mk 8:15
• Leaven of Pharisees and Sadducees – Mat 16:6-11
• The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.  (Mat 13:33)

Bible verses on leavened / unleavened:

• Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.  (Mat 13:33)
• Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.  (Mat 16:6)
• How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?  (Mat 16:11)
• Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.  (Mat 16:12)
• And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.  (Mar 8:15)
• In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.  (Luk 12:1)
• It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.  (Luk 13:21)
• Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?  (1Co 5:6)
• Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:  (1Co 5:7)
• Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.  (1Co 5:8)
• A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.  (Gal 5:9)

New Testament verses on the Feast of Unleavened Bread:

• Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?  (Mat 26:17)
• After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death.  (Mar 14:1)
• And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?  (Mar 14:12)
• Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.  (Luk 22:1)
• Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.  (Luk 22:7)
• And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)  (Act 12:3)
• And we sailed away from Philippi after the days of unleavened bread, and came unto them to Troas in five days; where we abode seven days.  (Act 20:6)

 

Old Testament Unleavened / Leavened Verses:

• And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.  (Gen 19:3)
• And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.  (Exo 12:8)
• Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.  (Exo 12:15)
• And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.  (Exo 12:17)
• In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.  (Exo 12:18)
• Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.  (Exo 12:19)
• Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.  (Exo 12:20)
• And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.  (Exo 12:34)
• And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.  (Exo 12:39)
• And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.  (Exo 13:3)
• Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.  (Exo 13:6)
• Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.  (Exo 13:7)
• Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)  (Exo 23:15)
• Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my sacrifice remain until the morning.  (Exo 23:18)
• And unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened tempered with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of wheaten flour shalt thou make them.  (Exo 29:2)
• And one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer out of the basket of the unleavened bread that is before the LORD:  (Exo 29:23)
• The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.  (Exo 34:18)
• Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.  (Exo 34:25)
• And if thou bring an oblation of a meat offering baken in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, or unleavened wafers anointed with oil.  (Lev 2:4)
• And if thy oblation be a meat offering baken in a pan, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mingled with oil.  (Lev 2:5)
• No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.  (Lev 2:11)
• And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.  (Lev 6:16)
• It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.  (Lev 6:17)
• If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.  (Lev 7:12)
• Besides the cakes, he shall offer for his offering leavened bread with the sacrifice of thanksgiving of his peace offerings.  (Lev 7:13)
• Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and a bullock for the sin offering, and two rams, and a basket of unleavened bread;  (Lev 8:2)
• And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:  (Lev 8:26)
• And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:  (Lev 10:12)
• And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.  (Lev 23:6)
• Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD.  (Lev 23:17)
• And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.  (Num 6:15)
• And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.  (Num 6:17)
• And the priest shall take the sodden shoulder of the ram, and one unleavened cake out of the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and shall put them upon the hands of the Nazarite, after the hair of his separation is shaven:  (Num 6:19)
• The fourteenth day of the second month at even they shall keep it, and eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.  (Num 9:11)
• And in the fifteenth day of this month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.  (Num 28:17)
• Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of thy life.  (Deu 16:3)
• And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.  (Deu 16:4)
• Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.  (Deu 16:8)
• Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:  (Deu 16:16)
• And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the selfsame day.  (Jos 5:11)
• And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it.  (Jdg 6:19)
• And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so.  (Jdg 6:20)
• Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel of the LORD departed out of his sight.  (Jdg 6:21)
• And the woman had a fat calf in the house; and she hasted, and killed it, and took flour, and kneaded it, and did bake unleavened bread thereof:  (1Sa 28:24)
• Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.  (2Ki 23:9)
• Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;  (1Ch 23:29)
• Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.  (2Ch 8:13)
• And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great congregation.  (2Ch 30:13)
• And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the LORD day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the LORD.  (2Ch 30:21)
• And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.  (2Ch 35:17)
• And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.  (Ezr 6:22)
• In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.  (Eze 45:21)
• They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.  (Hos 7:4)
• And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.  (Amo 4:5)
• Another parable spake he unto them; The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a

 

 

 

Feast of First Fruits (day after Sabbath)

 

Jesus Christ as the Firstborn from the dead that was offered unto God and given to His people as the Word of God

 

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.  (Lev 23:9-14)

 

Other Passages:

• The first of the firstfruitsof thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  (Exo 34:26)
• And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein; That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his name there. And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us. And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the LORD thy God. And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous: And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage: And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression: And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders: And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey. And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God: And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the stranger that is among you.  (Deu 26:1-11)
• First-fruits and the barley harvest
  • And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.  (2Sa 21:9)
  • So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.  (Rth 1:22)
  • Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished. (Joe 1:11)
• Barley (H8184) – Heb: seorah – 34 occurrences
  • Exo 9:31, Lev 27:16, Num 5:15, Deu 8:8, Jdg 7:13, Rth 1:22, Rth 2:17, Rth 2:23, Rth 3:2, Rth 3:15, Rth 3:17, 2Sa 14:30, 2Sa 17:28, 2Sa 21:9, 1Ki 4:28, 2Ki 4:42, 2Ki 7:1, 2Ki 7:16, 2Ki 7:18, 1Ch 11:13, 2Ch 2:10, 2Ch 2:15, 2Ch 27:5, Job 31:40, Isa 28:25, Jer 41:8, Eze 4:9, Eze 4:12, Eze 13:19, Eze 45:13, Hos 3:2, Joe 1:11
  • An ingredient of bread – Barley (H8184) bread (lechem – H3889) – 2 Ki 4:42, Eze 4:9, Jud 7:13, Eze 13:19
  • Lev 27:17 – Homer of barley seed worth 50 shekels
  • Num 5:15 – Offering for an adulterous wife is 1/10 of an ephah of barley
  • Ruth 2:17 – Ruth gleaned an ephah of barley
  • Ruth 3:15 / Ruth 3:17 – Boaz gives Ruth 6 measures of barley
  • 2 Ki 4:42 – 20 loaves (lechem) of barley
  • 2 Ki 7:1, 2 Ki 7:16, 2 Ki 7:18  – 2 measures (H5429) of barley for a shekel (famine)
  • 2 Chr 2:10 – Hiram’s fellers to receive 20,000 measures (HJ3734) of barley
  • 2 Chr 27:5 – Tribute from Ammon – 10,000 measures (H3734) of barley
  • Eze 45:13 – offering is 1/6 part of an ephah of a homer of barley (ephah is 1/10 of a homer – Eze 45:11) – both wheat and barley were valued the same
  • Hos 3:2 – Bought adulteress wife for 15 of silver, a homer of barley and half homer of barley
• Barley (G2915/G2916) – Gr: krithe / krithinos – Rev 6:6, John 6:9, John 6:13
• Barley – New Testament – G2915 / G2916 (krithe, krithnos)
  • 3 occurrences – Rev 6:7, John 6:9, John 6:13 (feeding of the 5000) – 5 barley loaves – valued at 200 denarion to feed them – Mk 6:37, John 6:7 – took up 12 baskets
  • Rev 6:6:  3 measures of barley is 1 denari
• Plague of hail (order of the early harvests):
  • And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.  (Exo 9:31-32)
  • So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz to glean unto the end of barley harvestand of wheat harvest; and dwelt with her mother in law.  (Rth 2:23)
• Feast of first-fruits (barley harvest)
  • Wheat harvest tied to the feast of weeks (Pentecost one of 3 feasts where all the males were required to appear) – see Exo 34:22
• First-fruits
• Heb: bikkur (H1061) – 18 occurrences
  • Exo 23:16, Exo 23:19, Exo 34:22, Exo 34:26, Lev 2:14 (2), Lev 23:17, Lev 23:20, Num 28:26, 2Ki 4:42, Neh 10:35 (2), Neh 13:31, Eze 44:30, Isa 28:4, Eze 47:12, Num 18:12-13 (2), Num 13:20, Isa 28:4, Num 18:13
• First-fruits – Fulfillment (Resurrection of Christ and Christians raised with Him spiritually)
  • G536 – Gr: aparche (literally, off-beginning) – Ro 8:23, Ro 16:5, 1 Cor 15:20, 1 Cor 15:23, 1 Cor 16:15, James 1:18, Rev 14:4, Ro 11:16
• Resurrection of Jesus Christ – 1 Cor 15:20, 1 Cor 15:23
  • But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.  (1Co 15:20-23)
  • First to rise from the dead:
    • Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come: That Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.  (Act 26:22-23)
  • Jesus Christ – first-begotten of the dead:
    • And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood  (Rev 1:5)
    • And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.  (Col 1:18)
    • I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.  (Rev 1:18)
    • God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.  (Act 13:33)
      • Gr: gennao (begotten / born) – G1080
    • I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.  (Psa 2:7)
    • For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son? And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, And let all the angels of God worship him.  (Heb 1:5-6)
      • Born – Gr: gennao (begotten / born) – G1080
      • First-begotten – Gr: prototokis (first  from seed) – G4416 – other occurrences:  Mat 1:25, Lk 2:7, Ro 8:29, Col 1:15, Col 1:18, Heb 11:28, Heb 12:23, Rev 1:5, Heb 1:5-6
    • So also Christ glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee.  (Heb 5:5)
      • Gr: gennao (begotten / born) – G1080
    • Christians as first-fruits  James 1:18, Ro 8:23, Rev 14:4, 1 Cor 16:15, Ro 16:5, Jer 2:3
      • Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.  (Jas 1:18)
      • Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.  (Jer 2:3)
      • And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.  (Rom 8:23)
      • These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.  (Rev 14:4)
      • I beseech you, brethren, (ye know the house of Stephanas, that it is the firstfruits of Achaia, and that they have addicted themselves to the ministry of the saints,)  (1Co 16:15)
      • Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.  (Rom 16:5)
      • For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.  (Rom 11:16)
    • Christians are raised with Christ (born again)
      • Made alive with Christ (by grace ye are saved) – Eph 2:5
      • Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.  (Col 2:12)
      • Risen with Christ – Col 3:1
      • Renewed in the spirit of your mind – Eph 4:23
      • Raised to walk in newness of life – Ro 6:4-6
      • Arise from the dead – Eph 5:14
      • Raised/Resurrected  Rev 20:46, Ro 6:411,7:6, Gal 6:15, Eph 4:2125, 5:14, Eph 2:1,5,6, 2:10,15, Col 2:1113, 3:1, Phil 3:1014, 2 Cor 4:1011, Ro 8:11, John 14:19, Ez 37:114, 1 Pet 3:21, Lk 2:34, Ro 5:10, James 5:15

 

Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)

 

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A holy calling of all God’s people to the harvest of First-Fruits (Salvation of all God’s people / indwelling of the Holy Spirit)

 

Old Testament References

 

• Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.  (Jer 5:24)
  • Reserves – literally, to keep
  • Appointed – literally, statutues / ordinances
  • Weeks – shabua(H7620), literally – sevened
  • Harvest – katsiyr(H7105)
  • Tied to the former and latter rain (salvation) – feast of weeks and ingathering (Feast of Tabernacles) – see latter rain study
• And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations. And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of the corners of thy field when thou reapest, neither shalt thou gather any gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them unto the poor, and to the stranger: I am the LORD your God. (Lev 23:15-22)
• Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn. And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee: And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to place his name there. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes. (Deu 16:9-12)
• Also in the day of the firstfruits, when ye bring a new meat offering unto the LORD, after your weeks be out, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: But ye shall offer the burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; two young bullocks, one ram, seven lambs of the first year; And their meat offering of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals unto one bullock, two tenth deals unto one ram, A several tenth deal unto one lamb, throughout the seven lambs; And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you. Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.  (Num 28:26-31)
• 3 Feasts where all males would come to Jerusalem
  • Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded. (2Ch 8:12-14)
  • And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  (Exo 34:22-26)
  • Three timesthou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.  (Exo 23:14-17)

 

New Testament References

 

Feast of Pentecost:

• Greek: pentekoste (G4005, literally, the fiftieth) – 3 occurrences (Acts 2:1, Acts 20:16, 1 Cor 16:8)
• But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.  (1Co 16:8)
• For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.  (Act 20:16)
• And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. (Act 2:1-4)
  • 7 sevens (49 days) of waiting for the promise of the Father (Holy Spirit)
  • And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.  (Luk 24:49)
  • And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me.  (Act 1:4)
  • But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.  (Act 1:8)

 

Symbolism of Pentecost

 

• Convocation (H4744, miqra – literally, a ‘calling’) – ‘holy calling’ points to salvation 2 Tim 1:9, Rom 8:28, Rom 8:30, Rom 9:24; 1Th 4:7; 2Th 2:13-14; Heb 3:1; 1Pe 1:15-16, 1Pe 2:9; 1Pe 2:20-21
  • One of the 3 feasts, where all the males need to go to Jerusalem – Exo 23:17
  • Symbol of unity in the church
  • One accord in one place (Acts 2:1) – unity (see Old Testament 3 feasts where all makes were to report)
  • Unity:
    • Unity of marriage – Eph 5:31, Gen 2:24, Mat 19:5, Mar 10:7-8, 1Co 6:16
    • One Spirit – 1 Cor 6:17, 1 Cor 12:13, Eph 2:18, Eph 4:4, Phil 1:27
    • One body – Rom 12:4, Rom 12:5, 1Co 6:16, 1Co 10:17, 1Co 12:12, 1Co 12:13, 1Co 12:20, Eph 2:16, Eph 4:4, Col 3:15.
    • One mind – Job 23:13, Rom 15:6, 2Co 13:11, Php 1:27, Php 2:2, 1Pe 3:8, Rev 17:13.
    • One faith – Eph 4:5
    • Oneness of God’s people – no more middle wall, all one in Christ – Eph 2:11-22
    • One lawgiver – James 4:12
    • Union with Christ  John 14:20, 15:4, Eph 1:4, 1 Cor 1:30, Ro 8:1, Gal 5:6, 1 John 3:24
    • Love is bond of unity  Col 3:14
    • Jesus prayed for so world would know us  John 17:21
    • Jesus prayed that we may be perfected in unity  John 17:11, 21-23
    • Same mind  Phil 2:2, Ro 15:5
    • One mind, one spirit striving for the Gospel  Phil 1:27
    • How good for bothers to dwell in  Ps 133:1
  • Harvest / First-fruits – Exo 23:14-17 (see especially, 2 Chr 8:12-14) – points to salvation
  • 7 sabbaths / 50^thday
    • 7 – perfection of purpose
    • 50 – points to salvation
      • Jubilee – 50^thyear
      • Pentecost – 50^thday (after resurrection of Jesus Christ) – Acts 2:1-41
        • 3000 saved – Acts 2:41
      • Parable of the 2 debtors– And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on. There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged. And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head. (Luk 7:40-44)
      • See symbolic meaning of 5
    • Pentecost fully come (Acts 2:1) – fulfillment of the feast of the Old Testament
    • Filled all the house where they were sitting (Acts 2:2) –
    • Cloven tongues lie as fire that sat on each of them (Acts 2:3) –
      • Refiner’s fire  (saved as through fire) – Is 48:10 (furnace of affliction), Zech 13:8-9, Mal 3:2-3, Isa 1:25-26, Job 23:10, Psa 66:10, Pro 17:3, Jer 9:7, Eze 20:38, Eze 22:18-22, Zec 13:8-9, Mal 3:2-3, Heb 12:10-11, 1Pe 1:6-7, 1Pe 4:12-18, Rev 3:18-19, Is 4:4, 1 Cor 3:13-15, Jude 23, Is 6:6-8, Dan 3:19-25, Is 48:10
      • Judgment begins with the house of God – 1 Pet 4:17
        • 1 Peter – theme is Christian suffering
      • Baptized with Holy Spirit and fire – Mat 3:11, Lk 3:16
        • Baptized with Holy Spirit – 3:11; 28:19; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33; Acts 1:5; 2:38; 10:47; 11:16.
      • Cloven tongues of fire – Acts 2:3-4 – points to the Word of judgment
        • 2 Witnesses – Rev 11:2-3
        • The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire – Ps 29:7
        • Ps 39:3 – My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue
        • Ps 78:21, Ps 105:39  – at night, Israel led by the light of fire
        • If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee. (Pro 25:21-22, see also Ro 12:20-21)
        • Two-edged sword (Rev 1:16, Heb 4:12 – dividing of soul and spirit)
        • For we are unto God a sweet savor of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: To the one we are the savor of death unto death; and to the other the savor of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?  (2Co 2:15-16)
      • Holy Spirit comes to convict of sin, righteousness, and judgment – John 16:7-11
    • Filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:4) –
      • Filled (Greek: pletho, G4130) – 24 occurrences (cognates full, fulfilled, multiply, etc. are  G4128, G4129, G4130, G4134, G4135, G4136, G4137, G4138, G4140)
      • Do search on fill, full, ghost, spirit, holy, multiply, etc.
    • And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron’s garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office.  (Exo 28:3)
    • And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,  (Exo 31:3)
    • And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;  (Exo 35:31)
    • So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house.  (Eze 43:5)
    • And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him.  (Luk 2:40)
    • And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.  (Act 2:4)
    • And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;  (Eph 5:18)
    • For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.  (Luk 1:15)
    • And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:  (Luk 1:41)
    • And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,  (Luk 1:67)
    • Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.  (Act 1:16)
    • And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.  (Act 2:4)
    • Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,  (Act 4:8)
    • And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.  (Act 4:31)
    • But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back part of the price of the land?  (Act 5:3)
    • And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.  (Act 9:17)
    • Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him,  (Act 13:9)
    • And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost.  (Act 13:52)
    • Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.  (Rom 15:13)
    • Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.  (Gen 25:8)
    • And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days: and his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.  (Gen 35:29)
    • And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,  (Luk 4:1)
    • Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.  (Act 6:3)
    • And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:  (Act 6:5)
    • But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,  (Act 7:55)
    • For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.  (Act 11:24)
    • But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.  (Num 14:24)
    • And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.  (Deu 34:9)
    • For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.  (Job 32:18)
    • Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.  (Ecc 4:6)
    • The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,  (Eze 37:1)
    • But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.  (Mic 3:8)
    • And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness,  (Luk 4:1)
    • Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the gospel of Christ.  (Rom 15:19)
    • So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.  (Rev 17:3)

 

• Began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance (Acts 2:4) –
• Waiting for the promise (Acts 1:4, Lk 24:49) –
  • Power of the Holy Spirit to be witnesses unto the uttermost pats of the earth
    • This feast was a symbol of the coming of the Holy Spirit as salvation goes forth  Acts 2:14, Acts 11:16, 1 Cor 12:1213
    • Picture of coming of the Holy Spirit / salvation (first fruits) goes forth  Acts 2:14, Acts 11:16, 1 Cor 12:1213
  • In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.  (Eph 1:13-14)
  • Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.  (Act 2:33)
  • But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.  (Joh 14:26)
  • And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.  (Joh 14:16-17)
  • But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:  (Joh 15:26)
  • Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.  (2Pe 1:4)
  • But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.  (Gal 3:22)
  • Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.  For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.  And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.  Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.  (Act 2:38-41)
  • And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers,  God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee … Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:  And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.  (Act 13:32-33,38-39)
  • And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:  (Act 26:6)
• For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.  (Rom 4:13)
• For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:  (Rom 4:14)
• Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,  (Rom 4:16)
• He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God;  (Rom 4:20)

 

Feast of Trumpets (Sabbath)

 

God’s purpose of salvation and judgment on the Last Day by the hearing of God’s voice (trumpet) resulting in  praise and Joy

 

Lev 23:23-25  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  (24)  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  (25)  Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

 

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.  (Lev 23:23-25)

• H8643 (Heb: teruah – sound / blowing of a trumpet) – 36 occurrences

o From H7321 Heb: rûa‛ – literally, to mar (split the ears) – see ‘shout’

o Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:24, Num 29:1

o Trumpet of Jubilee on 7^th month, 10^th day (Day of Atonement) – Lev 25:9

• Numbers 10:1-10(2 silver Trumpets)
  • Both blown – Congregation gathers at tent of the meeting
  • 1 blown – elders assemble
  • Blow 1^stalarm – East camps set out – Num 10:5 (H8643)
  • Blow 2^ndalarm – South camps set out – Num 10:6 (H8643)
  • Alarm – for war
  • Day of gladness, feast, 1^stof the month – blow over sacrifice and offerings
• Shout of a king is with Israel – Num 23:21
• Moses sent them to war with a blowing of a trumpet – Num 31:6
• Shout of the people at Jericho – Josh 6:5, Josh 6:20
• Ark of the Lord comes into camp – 1 Sam 4:5-6, 2 Sam 6:15, 1 Chr 15:28 (voice of a shout separate from the blowing of a trumpet)
• Warning not to fight with the Lord – 2 Chr 13:12 (priests shoutwith a trumpet)
• Asa’s reforms – 2 Chr 15:14 (shouting with voice separate from trumpets)
• Praised the Lord – Ezr 3:11-13 (voice)
• Fill lips with ‘rejoicing’ – Job 8:21
• See God’s face with ‘joy’ – Job 33:26
• Warfare – Job 39:25
• Sacrifices of ‘joy’ – Ps 27:6
• Play skillfully with a ‘loud noise’ – Ps 33:3
• ‘Joyful sound’ – Ps 89:15
• Praise Him … upon ‘high sounding’ cymbals – Ps 150:5
• Alarm for war – Jer 4:19, Jer 20:16, Jer 49:2, Eze 21:22, Amos 1:14, Amos 2:2, Zeph 1:16

• Blowing of trumpets – Heb: terû‛âh (H8643) – literally, clamor (36 occurrences)
  • Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first dayof the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.  (Lev 23:24)
  • Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth dayof the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.  (Lev 25:9)
  • When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.  (Num 10:5)
  • When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.  (Num 10:6)
  • He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the LORD his God iswith him, and the shout of a king is among them.  (Num 23:21)
  • And in the seventh month, on the first dayof the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no  servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.  (Num 29:1)
  • And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of everytribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.  (Num 31:6)
  • And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blastwith the ram’s horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.  (Jos 6:5)
  • So the people shouted when the priestsblew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.  (Jos 6:20)
  • And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.  (1Sa 4:5)
  • And when the Philistines heardthe noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark of the LORD was come into the camp.  (1Sa 4:6)
  • So David and all the house of Israel brought up ()the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.  (2Sa 6:15)
  • Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.  (1Ch 15:28)
  • And, behold, God himself iswith us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against the LORD God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.  (2Ch 13:12)
  • And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.  (2Ch 15:14)
  • And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he isgood, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.    (Ezr 3:11)
  • But many of the priests  and Levites and chief of the fathers, who wereancient men, that had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid   before their eyes, wept with a loud voice; and many shouted aloud   for joy:  (Ezr 3:12)
  • So that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.    (Ezr 3:13)
  • Till he fill thy mouth with laughing, and thy lips with rejoicing.  (Job 8:21)
  • He shall pray unto God, and he will be favourable unto him: and he shall see his face with joy: for he will render unto man his righteousness.  (Job 33:26)
  • He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off,  the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.  (Job 39:25)
  • And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.  (Psa 27:6)
  • Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.  (Psa 33:3)
  • God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.  (Psa 47:5)
  • Blessed isthe people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O LORD, in the light of thy countenance.  (Psa 89:15)
  • Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.  (Psa 150:5)
  • My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.  (Jer 4:19)
  • And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;   (Jer 20:16)
  • Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites;  and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.  (Jer 49:2)
  • At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint batteringrams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.  (Eze 21:22)
  • But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind:  (Amo 1:14)
  • But I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerioth: and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, andwith the sound of the trumpet:  (Amo 2:2)
  • A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and against the high towers.  (Zep 1:16)

 

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish: And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram, And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs: And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you: Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.  (Num 29:1-6)

 

Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.  (Num 10:10)

 

And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.  (Ezr 3:1)

 

From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple of the LORD was not yet laid.  (Ezr 3:6)

 

So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinims, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities; and when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their cities.  (Neh 7:73)

And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water gate; and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel.  (Neh 8:1)

And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.  (Neh 8:2)

And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.  (Neh 8:3)

And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.  (Neh 8:4)

And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up:  (Neh 8:5)

And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.  (Neh 8:6)

Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.  (Neh 8:7)

So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.  (Neh 8:8)

And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.  (Neh 8:9)

Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.  (Neh 8:10)

So the Levites stilled all the people, saying, Hold your peace, for the day is holy; neither be ye grieved.  (Neh 8:11)

And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.  (Neh 8:12)

• Mirth – joy – see H8055, H8056 and H8057

 

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.  (Isa 27:13)

 

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.  (1Co 15:52)

 

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:  (1Th 4:16)

 

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.  (Rev 11:15)

 

Blowing of Trumpets on the First Day of each month as well as Annual

• New moon – moon cannot be seen (moon is darkened)
• Moon Symbolizes the Old Testament Ceremonial Law as a veiled symbol of the Gospel – see moon (month) study
• Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.  (Num 10:10)
  • Trumpet – Heb: H2689 / also see H2690 (Heb: chatsar) – 35 occurrences – a quavering sound (general term for a trumpet)
• To the chief Musician upon Gittith, A Psalm of Asaph. Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.  (Psa 81:1-4)
• Trumpet – H7782 (Heb: shophar – 72 occurrences) – curved horn
• And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the LORD; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;  (Num 28:11)
• And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.  (2Ki 4:23)
• And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:  (1Ch 23:31)
• Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them. (Isa 1:13-14)

 

Trumpets in the Old Testament – Summary

• Call for assembly, transport, war, praise – Num 10
  • Num 10, 2 Sam 2:28, 2 Sam 18:16, Jer 4:19, Jer 20:16
• Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:24, Num 29:1
• Jubilee – Lev 25, Num 36
• Battle of Jericho – Josh 6
• New moon (1^stday of month), festivals – Ps 81:3, Lev 25, etc.
• Alarm for war – 1 Cor 14:8, Neh 4:1920, Num 10, Jud 3:27, Jud 7:822, Josh 6, Jer 4:5, Jer 4:1921, Jer 6:1, Jer 6:17, Jer 51:27, Zeph 1:16, Heb 12:19, Rev 8:2, Rev 11:15, Jud 7:19, Eze 33:3-6
• Last Trump – Judgment Day / Gathering of the Elect  1 Cor 15:52 (last trumpet), 1 Thess 4:16, Mat 24:31, Is 27:13, Zech 9:14, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15
  • OT symbols of Judgment Day  Ex 19:16 (shophar), Ex 19:13 (Yobel), Is 27:13 (shophar), Ps 47:5 (shophar)
  • Jericho – Josh 6:1-20 – 1^st6 days circled city once, 7 preists blowing trumpets with the ark following them. On 7^th day, circle city 7 times, blow trumpets on the 7^th circle – city walls fell flat with a great shout.  (Total of 13 circles, 7 blasts on the trumpets, 7 preists with 7 trumpets).
• Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:23-25, Num 29:1-6 (signified 2^ndhalf of the year)
• Shout on Day of Atonement (beginning of Jubilee) – Lev 25:9
• Blow trumpet at new moon  Ps 81:3 (i.e. festival that points to Christ)
• Loud voice to declare transgression  Is 58:1

Trumpet Word Study

• New Testament – (Gr: salpigx, G4536, G4537, G4538) – total 24 occurrences
  • Angels come with a trumpet to gather the elect – Mat 24:31
  • Trumpet points to a preparation for battle – 1 Cor 14:8
  • Last trump – return of Christ, saints raised in glory – 1 Cor 15:52, 1 Thess 4:16
  • God’s voice as a trumpet (Word of God) – Heb 12:19 (Ex 19:16-19), Rev 1:10, Rev 4:1
  • 7 angels with 7 trumpets – Rev 8:2, Rev 8:6-13, Rev 9:1, Rev 9:13-14,. Rev 10:7, Rev 11:15
  • Do not sound a trumpet when giving alms – Mat 6:2
  • Trumpeters in Babylon – Rev 18:22
• Old Testament:
• H3104 (Heb: yobel  – 27 occurrences) – Jubilee
  • Jubilee – Lev 25:10-13 (4), Lev 25:15, Lev 25:28 (2), Lev 25:30-31 (2), Lev 25:33, Lev 25:40, Lev 25:50, Lev 25:52, Lev 25:54, Lev 27:17-18 (3), Lev 27:21, Lev 27:23-24 (2), Num 36:4
  • Fall of Jericho -Jos 6:4-6, Jos 6:8, Jos 6:13
  • Signified Jubilee  Lev 25:910 w/ Josh 6:5 (Heb: Yobel), Josh 6 (Heb: shophar)
  • Trumpet –God’s voice on Mt. Sinai – Ex 19:13
  • H7782 (Heb: shophar – 72 occurrences) – curved horn
  • Symbolized voice (God’s) – trumpet – Ex 19:16, Ex 19:19, Ex 20:18
  • Trumpet of the Jubilee – Lev 25:9
  • 7 Trumpets of the 7 priests – Jericho fall – Josh 6:4-9, Josh 6:13, Josh 6:16 (Lord has given you the city), Josh 6:20
  • Ephraim – Ehud blew trumpet, children of Israel went down from the mount – Jud 3:27
  • Spirit of the Lord came upon Gideon and he blew a trumpet – Jud 6:34
  • Men took their trumpets – Jud 7:8
  • 300 men with trumpets – Jud 7:16-22
  • Saul blew trumpet (war) – let the Hebrews hear – 1 Sam 13:3
  • Joab blew a trumpet (war) – 2 Sam 2:28, 2 Sam 18:16 (held back the battle)
  • David brought ark with sound of a trumpet – 2 Sam 6:15, 1 Chr 15:28
  • Absalom’s trumpet that he reigns – 2 Sam 15:10
  • Sheba blows trumpet for war against David – 2 Sam 20:1
  • Sheba’s head cut off – trumpet blew – 2 Sam 20:22
  • Solomon anointed king – trumpet blows – 1 Ki 1:34, 1 Ki 1:39, 1 Ki 1:41
  • Announcement of Jehu as king – 2 Ki 9:13
  • Asa’s reforms – 2 Chr 15:14
  • Rebuilding of the temple, trumpet to alarm for war – Neh 4:18-20
  • Related to warfare – Job 39:24-25
  • God goes up with a shout, sound of a trumpet (warfare) – Ps 47:5
  • Trumpet at new moon, time appointed on solemn feast day – Ps 81:3
  • Make a joyful noise – Ps 98:6, Ps 150:3
  • Hearing of God’s word – Isa 18:3
  • The last day – great trumpet blown – Isa 27:13
  • Lift up voice as a trumpet, show people their sins – Isa 58:1
  • Call for battle, alarm / warning for war – Jer 4:5, Jer 4:19, Jer 4:21, Jer 6:1, Jer 6:17, Jer 42:14, Eze 33:3-6, Hos 5:8, Hos 8:1, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15, Amos 2:2, Amos 3:6, Zeph 1:16, Zech 9:14
  • Judgment of Babylon – Jer 51:27
• H2689 / H2690 (Heb: chatsar) – 35 occurrences – a quavering sound (general term for a trumpet)
  • Blow trumpets before the ark of the Lord / brought into the temple – 1 Chr 15:24, 2 Chr 5:12-13, 2 Chr 7:6
  • Priests sound the trumpet before battle – 2 Chr 13:14
  • Hezekiah restores temple worship – 2 Chr 29:26-28
  • Numbers 10:1-10 (2 silver Trumpets)
    • 2 silver trumpets – Num 10:2 (calling of the assembly and journeying)
    • Both blown – Congregation gathers at tent of the meeting – Num 10:7-8
    • 1 blown – elders assemble
    • Blow 1^stalarm – East camps set out – H8643
    • Blow 2^ndalarm – South camps set out – H8643
    • Alarm – for war – Num 10:9
    • Day of gladness, solemn days, feast, 1^stof the month – blow over sacrifice and offerings – Num 10:10
  • Moses sends to war – Num 31:6
  • Overthrow of Athaliah – 2 Ki 11:14, 2 Chr 23:13
  • Trumpets for the house of the Lord – 2 Ki 12:13
  • Transport of the ark – 1 Chr 13:8
  • Blow trumpets before the ark of the Lord / brought into the temple camp – 1 Chr 15:24, 2 Chr 5:12-13, 1 Chr 15:28, 1 Chr 16:6, 1 Chr 16:42, 2 Chr 20:28
  • Warning not to fight with the Lord, but with the Lord – 2 Chr 13:12-14
  • Asa’s reforms – 2 Chr 15:14
  • Foundation of the temple/ rebuilt walls  – Ezr 3:10, Neh 12:35, Neh 12:41
  • Praise of God – Ps 98:6
  • Judgment / war – Hos 5:8

 

Trumpet comparison with Bowl judgments

• 1^sttrumpet – hail and fire mingled with blood, 1/3 trees burned, all green grass burned – Rev 8:7
• 2^ndtrumpet – great mountain burning with fire thrown into see – 1/3 seal creatures died, 1/3 ships destroyed – Rev 8:8-9
• 3^rdtrumpet – Great burning star (Wormwood) fell on rivers and fountains of water, 1/3 of waters became wormwood – Rev 8:10-11
• 4^thtrumpet – 1/3 part of sun, moon and stars darkened – Rev 8:12
• 5^thtrumpet – Locusts (scorpion stings) hurt those who do not have seal of God – Rev 9:1-11
• 6^thtrumpet – 200,000,000 army horses (tails like serpents) kill 1/3 part – Rev 9:13-21
• 7^thtrumpet – Judgment day – wrath and reward – Rev 11:15-19
• Last trump
  • In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. (1Co 15:52)
  • Exo 19:16, Exo 20:18, Num 10:4, Isa 18:3, Isa 27:13, Eze 33:3, Eze 33:6, Zec 9:14, Rev 8:2, Rev 8:13, Rev 9:13-14
  • Trumpet Summary:
    • Alarm for war – 1 Cor 14:8, Neh 4:1920, Num 10, Jud 3:27, Jud 7:822, Josh 6, Jer 4:5, Jer 4:1921, Jer 6:1, Jer 6:17, Jer 51:27, Zeph 1:16, Heb 12:19, Rev 8:2, Rev 11:15, Jud 7:19, Eze 33:3-6
    • Last Trump – Judgment Day / Gathering of the Elect  1 Cor 15:52 (last trumpet), 1 Thess 4:16, Mat 24:31, Is 27:13, Zech 9:14, Joel 2:1, Joel 2:15
      • OT symbols of Judgment Day  Ex 19:16 (shophar), Ex 19:13 (Yobel), Is 27:13 (shophar), Ps 47:5 (shophar)
      • Jericho – Josh 6:1-20 – 1^st6 days circled city once, 7 preists blowing trumpets with the ark following them. On 7^th day, circle city 7 times, blow trumpets on the 7^th circle – city walls fell flat with a great shout.  (Total of 13 circles, 7 blasts on the trumpets, 7 preists with 7 trumpets).
    • Feast of Trumpets – Lev 23:23-25, Num 29:1-6 (signified 2^ndhalf of the year)
    • Shout on Day of Atonement (beginning of Jubilee) – Lev 25:9
    • Blow trumpet at full moon and new moon  Ps 81:3 (i.e. festival that points to Christ)
    • Loud voice to declare transgression  Is 58:1

 

7 Trumpets of Revelation

• And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets … And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.   (Rev 8:2,6)
  • 7 – symbolic / perfection of God’s purpose
• Church Age (Rev 8:7-12)
  • First 4 Trumpets – earth, sea, rivers/fountains of water, sun, moon, stars
  • Features the number 1/3
• Great Tribulation (Rev 9) – 1^stand 2^nd woes
  • 5^thand 6^th Trumpets  – army of locusts / 200,000,000 horsemen
  • 5^thtrumpet affects unsaved people
  • 6^thtrumpet features the number 1/3 (Christians)
• The Last Day (Rev 11:15-19) – 3^rdwoe
  • 7^thTrumpet – reward for the saved, judgment for the unsaved

 

Trumpets – An Alarm for War

• For if the trumpetgive an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?  (1Co 14:8)
• And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies. (Num 10:9)
• That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasting and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, A day of the trumpet and alarmagainst the fenced cities, and against the high towers.  (Zep 1:15-16)

 

Spiritual Warfare – Church Age, Great Tribulation and the Last Day

 

Church Age:

• For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds😉 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ  (2Co 10:3-5)
• Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.  (Eph 6:11-12)
• No man that wars entangles himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.   (2Ti 2:4)

 

Great Tribulation:

• And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue 42 months. And he opened his mouth in blasphemyagainst God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them … (Rev 13:4-7)

 

Last Day:

• And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty… And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.   (Rev 16:13-16)
• Judgment andSalvation
• And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever … And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou should give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth.  (Rev 11:15,18)
• Behold, I shew 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 trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.   (1Co 15:51-52)
• And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven …  and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.   (Mat 24:30-31)

 

Battle – Spiritual War

• Battle (literally, war) – Final Day of Judgment – Rev 16:12-14, 1 Ki 22:21-23, Zech 14:2-3, Zech 14:12-14, Ps 55:18, Eze 13:5, Pr 21:31, Is 13:4, Joel 2:1-11, Rev 20:8, Rev 16:14, Rev 19:11-21 (especially Rev 19:19), Zech 10:3-5, Zech 12:2-11, Is 34:1-8, Rev 17:12-14, Eze 38-Eze 39, Zeph 3:8, Zeph 2:4-15, Dan 12:1 (war based on context of Dan 11:45), Dan 8:25, Dan 7:26-27, Dan 2:22-36, Dan 2:44, Micah 5:9-15, Is 31:7-9, Is 2:1-5, Joel 3:1-2, Joel 3:9-12
  • War in the Valley of Jehoshaphat – Joel 3:1-2, Joel 3:9-10
  • Plowshares into swords, pruning hooks into spears – Joel 3:10, Is 2:4
• Put swords away – kingdom of heaven / legions of angels (Mat 26:53) – not a physical battle
• Battle – Gr: 4171 (polemos) – also G4172 (polemeo) – literally, war
  • G4170 – Jas 4:2, Rev 2:16, Rev 12:7, Rev 13:4, Rev 17:14, Rev 19:11
  • G4171 –  Mat 24:6, Mar 13:7, Luk 14:31, Luk 21:9, 1Co 14:8, Heb 11:34, Jas 4:1, Rev 9:7, Rev 9:9, Rev 11:7, Rev 12:7, Rev 12:17, Rev 13:7, Rev 16:14, Rev 19:19, Rev 20:8
• War – G4070 / G4071 (polemeo – make war / polemos – war) – total 25 occurrences
  • 2^ndComing of Jesus Christ – final war – Last Day – 10 horns (Rev 17:14), Jesus Christ on White horse (Rev 19:11, Rev 2:16), Beast, kings, armies (Rev 19:19), Armageddon (Rev 16:14-16), Gog and Magog (Rev 20:8)
  • Beast – war (Great Tribulation) – Rev 13:4, Rev 13:7, wars and rumors of wars (Mk Mat 24:6-8, 13:6-7, Lk 21:9), Rev 9:7-9
  • Satan – war on saints during the church age– Rev 12:17, Lk 14:31, Heb 11:34, 1 Cor 14:8, between people due to lust – James 4:1-2, Eph 6:10-20. 2 Cor 10:1-5, Ro 13:12, 2 Cor 6:7, 1 Thess 5:8
  • Weapons are not of the flesh, but spiritual (not a political battle)  Eph 6:1112, Phil 3:20, Mat 24:7, Is 42:67, Eph 2:6, 1 Pet 2:511,20ff,  Mat 22:1522, Lk 2:14, Hos 1:7, 2 Tim 2:4, 2 Cor 10:3f, Eph 2:19, Mk 8:3133, 1 Pet 1:1, Rev 1:6, Heb 13:14, Col 1:13, John 18:3637, Col 3:14, Lk 12:14, Mat 10:34, 2 Tim 2:16, Mk 12:17, Ps 73:25, Zech 9:9, Lk 22:36, Ro 12:12, Lk 12:13ff, Mat 5:38f, 1 Cor 6:18, Hos 8:9, 7:11, Ro 13
  • War by faith and a good conscience – 1 Tim 1:18-19
  • Fight the good fight of faith – 1 Tim 6:12
  • Fleshly lusts wage war  1 Pet 2:11, James 4:11, Ro 7:23
  • War in heaven (the cross)– Rev 12:7 (Michael and His angels verses Satan and his angels)
  • Heb 2:14 – through death, He might destroy (render idle) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, 1 John 3:8-10 (destroy works of the devil)
  • Satan bound for a 1000 years, so he will not deceive nations – Rev 20:1-7 – Christ and His people reign for 1000 years
• Satan’s kingdom spoiled – Mat 12:22-29, Mk 3:22-27, Lk 11:17-23, Is 49:24-26 (points to salvation), Is 53:10-12, Col 2:15 (spoiled principalities and powers), Acts 26:18, Col 1:13, 2 Tim 2:26
• Jesus led captivity, captive – Ps 68:18, Judges 5:12, Eph 4:8-11
• Parallel to 1^st2 horses – Rev 6:3-4
• Prince of this world is judged – John 16:11
• Now is the judgment (by His death)  – prince of this world to be cast out – John 12:30-32
• Prince of this world comes – John 14:30 (the battle is about to begin)
• Jesus highly exalted (glorified) after the cross – Phil 2:8-11
• Translated into the Kingdom of Christ – Col 1:13-14
• Satan fall as lightning (serpents and scorpions are subjected) – Lk 10:17-20
• Satan’s head bruised – Gen 3:15, Ro 16:20, Heb 1:13, Heb 2:8-15, Heb 10:13, Acts 2:34-35, Mk 16:19, Mat 11:27, Mat 22:44, Mat 26:64, Mat 28:18,  Ps 8:6, 110:1, Eph 1:22, 1 Cor 15:24-27, Rev 13:3, Rev 13:12-14
  • Satan makes  war on the remnant of the Woman’s Seed – Rev 12:17
  • Satan – war on saints during the church age – Rev 12:17, Lk 14:31, Heb 11:34, 1 Cor 14:8, between people due to lust – James 4:1-2, Eph 6:10-20. 2 Cor 10:1-5, Ro 13:12, 2 Cor 6:7, 1 Thess 5:8
  • War by faith and a good conscience – 1 Tim 1:18-19
  • Fight the good fight of faith – 1 Tim 6:12
  • Fleshly lusts wage war  1 Pet 2:11, James 4:11, Ro 7:23
  • Beast makes war during the Great Tribulation – Rev 13:4,7
• Satan went to make war with God’s people
  • War by faith and a good conscience – 1 Tim 1:18-19
• Intense time of spiritual warfare – see Rev 6:3-4, Rev 11:7
• Spiritual killing of Christians during the Great Tribulation – see Rev 9:15
• Battle of the kingdoms  spiritual battle, not physical (Mat 10:3436, Lk 12:5153)
• Killing by words / tongue  1 John 3:15, Mat 5:2122, Pr 11:9, Ro 3:1315, Jer 9:3, 18:18, Ps 140:3, Ro 3:13, James 3:8, Pr 18:21, Ps 52:4, 57:4, 59:7, 64:3, 120:2
• Weapons are not of the flesh, but spiritual (not a political battle)  Eph 6:1112, Phil 3:20, Mat 24:7, Is 42:67, Eph 2:6, 1 Pet 2:511,20ff,  Mat 22:1522, Lk 2:14, Hos 1:7, 2 Tim 2:4, 2 Cor 10:3f, Eph 2:19, Mk 8:3133, 1 Pet 1:1, Rev 1:6, Heb 13:14, Col 1:13, John 18:3637, Col 3:14, Lk 12:14, Mat 10:34, 2 Tim 2:16, Mk 12:17, Ps 73:25, Zech 9:9, Lk 22:36, Ro 12:12, Lk 12:13ff, Mat 5:38f, 1 Cor 6:18, Hos 8:9, 7:11, Ro 13
• Fight the good fight of faith – 1 Tim 6:12
• Fleshly lusts wage war  1 Pet 2:11, James 4:11, Ro 7:23
• Dead to sin  Ro 6:2
• Crucify flesh with passions  Gal 5:24
• Lose life for Christ  Mat 10:39, Mk 8:35, John 12:24:25, Lk 9:2326, 2 Tim 2:11
• Bear cross  Lk 9:23, Mat 10:38, 16:24, Mk 8:34, Lk 17:33, John 12:25
• Spirit vs. Flesh  Gal 5:17, Ro 8:511
• Mortify your members – Col 3:5
• Christians die daily  Mat 24:9, 2 Cor 1:9,4:1012, 6:9,7:3, Ro 8:3539 (Ps 44:22, Ps 141:7), James 5:6, 1 John 3:15, 1 Cor 4:9, 15:31, Mat 5:2122, Hab 1:24, James 2:911,  Ps 94:17, Ps 44:22, Rev 6:9, Mk 8:35
• Old Testament violence  persecution of the righteous  Hab 1:2,9, Ob 10, Pr 16:29, Joel 3:19, Gen 27:41, Eze 25:12, Amos 1:11, Jer 20:8, Ps 11:5, Mat 24:9
• Ps 140:14  violence with words
• Innocent blood  2 Ki 24:4, Jer 22:17
• Christians Have Been Crucified w/ Christ  Gal 2:20, 5:24, 6:14, Ro 6:6
• Wars and rumors of wars Spiritual war  see 1 Pet 2:11, 2 Tim 2:4, Lk 14:31, 1 Cor 9:7, 1 Tim 1:18, 2 Cor 10:34, Rev 11:7, 12:7,17, 13:4,7, 17:14, 19:11,19, Rev 6:34

 

 

 

Day of Atonement (Sabbath)

 

The offering of Jesus Christ to redeem His people by covering their sins represented by the blood of a goat and thesending away of another goat with the sins of God’s people

 

 

Lev 23:26-32  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  (27)  Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.  (28)  And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.  (29)  For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.  (30)  And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.  (31)  Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.  (32)  It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

 

It  shall be a sabbath  of rest  unto you, and ye shall afflic) your souls,  by a statute  for ever.
(Lev 16:31)

 

Atonement for iniquity  Titus 2:14, Is 53:56,1012, 2 Cor 5:21, 1 Pet 3:18, Ro 5:10, Lev 16

 

Feast of Tabernacles (Sabbath on 1^st and 8^th day)

 

The Joyous Day of Eternity when God ‘dwells’ with His people

 

Lev 23:33-44  And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,  (34)  Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.  (35)  On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.  (36)  Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.  (37)  These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:  (38)  Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.  (39)  Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.  (40)  And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.  (41)  And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.  (42)  Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:  (43)  That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.  (44)  And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

 

Deu 31:9-13  And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.  (10)  And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,  (11)  When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.  (12)  Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:  (13)  And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

 

The 7^th Year Sabbath of the Land – The Poor May Eat

 

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And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD. Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof; But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard. That which groweth of its own accord of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, neither gather the grapes of thy vine undressed: for it is a year of rest unto the land. And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee, And for thy cattle, and for the beast that are in thy land, shall all the increase thereof be meat. (Lev 25:1-7)

 

The Jubilee of the 50^th Year – The Land Rests

 

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And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine undressed. For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this jubile ye shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another: According to the number of years after the jubile thou shalt buy of thy neighbour, and according unto the number of years of the fruits he shall sell unto thee: According to the multitude of years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of years thou shalt diminish the price of it: for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sell unto thee. Ye shall not therefore oppress one another; but thou shalt fear thy God: for I am the LORD your God. Wherefore ye shall do my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; and ye shall dwell in the land in safety. And the land shall yield her fruit, and ye shall eat your fill, and dwell therein in safety. And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years. And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store. The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.  (Lev 25:8-23)

 

3 Visits to Jerusalem (Passover/Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Tabernacles)

 

Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee. (Deu 16:16-17)

 

 

And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end. Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. For I will cast out the nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.  (Exo 34:22-26)

 

Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field. Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord GOD.  (Exo 23:14-17)

 

Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar of the LORD, which he had built before the porch, Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles. And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.  (2Ch 8:12-14)