the feasts and festivals of christ
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The Feasts The Feasts and Festivals and Festivals
of Christof Christ
The Purpose of Feast and The Purpose of Feast and FestivalsFestivals
• What is the purpose of your birthday in the scheme of your life?
• What is the purpose of July 4th?
• What is the purpose of Christmas?
Rememberence!
Why Discuss Feasts and Why Discuss Feasts and Festivals?Festivals?
• We are 2,000 years removed from the time of Christ.
• A thorough study of the life of Christ involves a study of the feasts and festivals takign place during his life.
• Why not?
The Passover FestivalThe Passover Festival
• Key Passages of the Passover:
• Exodus 12.6
• Leviticus 23.5,8
• Numbers 28.16-25
• Deuteronomy 16.1-8
The Passover FestivalThe Passover Festival
• This festival was celebrated the 14th day of the first month.
• It was celebrated about the same time as the barley harvest.
• This festival was actually two celebrations in one:
• The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Since the two feasts were close together and they resembled each other, they were combined into one festival.
The Passover FestivalThe Passover Festival
• During the festival a lamb was slain and it was eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
• The blood of the lamb symbolized the cleansing of sin.
• The unleavened bread symbolized purity.
• The bitter herbs symbolized the bitterness of the
bondage in Egypt.
Jesus was crucified during the Passover.
The Pentecost FestivalThe Pentecost Festival
• Key Passages of Pentecost:
• Numbers 28.26-31
• Deuteronomy 16.11-12
• Acts 2
The Pentecost FestivalThe Pentecost Festival
• This feast was celebrated 50 days after the offering of the barley sheath during the Passover festival.
• The feast fell during the wheat harvest.
• It was also known as the Feast of Weeks or Feast of Firstfruits.
• This was a one-day festival.
The church was established on Pentecost.
The Feast of TabernaclesThe Feast of Tabernacles
• Key Passages of the Feast of Tabernacles:
• Exodus 23.16
• Leviticus 23.16, 33ff
• Numbers 29.12-35
• Deuteronomy 16.13-15
• John 7.37
The Feast of TabernaclesThe Feast of Tabernacles
• This feast fell at the end of the autumn harvest on the 15th day of the seventh month.
• During this feast the Israelites lived in leafy booths for seven days.
• This commemorated the wandering in the Wilderness.
• This feast was also known as the Feast of Booths or the Feast of Ingathering
The Day of AtonementThe Day of Atonement
• Key Passages of the Day of Atonement:
• Leviticus 16; 23.26-32
• Numbers 29.7-11
The Day of AtonementThe Day of Atonement
• The Law of Moses called for one fast—The Day of Atonement.
• This day was set aside for the cleansing of sins.
• This day used a scapegoat.
• This goat symbolized the sins of the people.
• It was sent off or taken into the wilderness and abandoned to die.
• Symbolizing that God had forgiven the sins of the people.
Why a Record of the Why a Record of the Feasts/FestivalsFeasts/Festivals??
• Christ was our Passover Lamb.
• Christ brought unleavened bread into the rememberance of his body.
• The feast of Tabernacles show us our hope and life is found in the faith in Christ.
• Christ was the scapegoat for our sins.
Why?Why?
So you can walk through the gates of So you can walk through the gates of Heaven!Heaven!