Spring Feasts Past and their Meaning

Notes of this teaching to download:   Spring Feasts of the Lord, Gods Holy Days

God declares that He cre­ated lights in the fir­ma­ment of the heaven for ” Moed” which means sea­sons or appointments.

Gen­e­sis 18:14 Is any thing too hard for God? At the time appointed (Moed) return unto you, accord­ing to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Gen­e­sis 21:2 For Sarah con­ceived, and bare Abra­ham a son in his old age, at the set time {moed} of which God had spo­ken to him. Exo­dus 9:5 And the YHWH appointed a set time, say­ing, Tomor­row YHWH shall do this thing in the land.

These are the Feasts of God, even holy con­vo­ca­tions, which you shall pro­claim in their sea­sons. Leviti­cus 23:1–4

These feasts are prophetic as we will see in the Spring Feasts and all these days point to Jesus Christ – our Passover – Unleav­ened bread – the first fruit etc.

The word “feasts” here are not events as pre­scribed by men, like anniver­saries or birth­day par­ties where souls “feast”. These appointed times in the Scrip­tures are appoint­ments made by God, as Almighty Cre­ator, who set forth the sun and moon as His timepieces.

LEVITICUS CHAPTER 23 — LISTS ALL 7 FEASTS OF THE LORD

1. (Lev 23 v 1–3) The Sabbath.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, say­ing, “Speak to the chil­dren of Israel, and say to them: ‘The feasts of the Lord, which you shall pro­claim to be holy con­vo­ca­tions, these are My feasts. Six days shall work be done, but the sev­enth day is a Sab­bath of solemn rest, a holy con­vo­ca­tion. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sab­bath of the Lord in all your dwellings.’”

a. The feasts of the Lord: This chap­ter intro­duces us to the seven annual feasts Israel cel­e­brated. These feasts are rich with sym­bolic and prophetic significance.

b. The sev­enth day is a Sab­bath of solemn rest: The Sab­bath was not prop­erly a feast, but like the feast days, it was a day set apart unto the Lord, and so a reminder regard­ing the Sab­bath is here.

2. (Lev 23 v 4–5) The Feast of Passover.

These are the feasts of the Lord, holy con­vo­ca­tions which you shall pro­claim at their appointed times. On the four­teenth day of the first month at twi­light is the Lord’s Passover.

a. On the four­teenth day of the first month: On the Jew­ish cer­e­mo­nial cal­en­dar, the first month was known as Nisan; Passover was held on the four­teenth of Nisan each year.

b. The Lord’s Passover: Passover was meant to com­mem­o­rate Israel’s deliv­er­ance from Egypt, and with the sac­ri­fice of the lamb for each fam­ily, show how the blood of the lamb averted the judg­ment of God for each Israelite family.