Shalom,
Leviticus 23 is the single chapter of the entire Tanakh that sums up everything. God’s eternal plan -- from chaos to eternity -- is ingeniously revealed through the nature and timing of the Seven annual Feasts of the LORD.
Lev 23:4 KJV
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
In less than seven minutes, we will come to realize that the entire human race now exists between two of these feasts. Let us survey God’s calendar in its essence.
Sacrifice is the major feature of the feasts.
Believers in Mashiach are also responsible to keep these feasts, and the knowledge of them enhances our faith. Our Lord kept every one of them without fail, even celebrating Pesach on His last earthly night. Now we will see what the feasts are called, when they happen and why they remain significant.
It was on Mount Sinai that God gave Moses the dates and observances of the seven feasts. Here are their names :
1. Passover (Pesach) - Nisan 14
2. Unleavened Bread (Chag Hamotzi) - Nisan 15-22
3. First Fruits (Yom habikkurim) - Nisan 16
4. Pentecost (Shavu’ot) - Sivan 6
5. Trumpets (Yom Teru’ah) - Tishri 1
6. Atonement (Yom Kippur) - Tishri 10
7. Tabernacles (Sukkot) - Tishri 15
When do they happen?
God’s calendar is based on the phases of the moon. Each month in a lunar calendar begins with a new moon.
Pesach falls on the first full moon of Spring. The first three feasts, Pesach, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits fall in March and April.
The fourth one, Shavu’ot, marked the summer harvest and occurs in late May or early June.
The last three feasts, Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Sukkot happen in September and October.
The Spring Feasts
1.
Passover (Pesach).
Leviticus 23:5 specifies that the festival year begins with Passover on “the fourteenth day of the first month” (Nisan 15).
Lev 23:5 KJV
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Passover is the Feast of Salvation.
In both testaments, the blood of the Lamb delivers from slavery – the Jews from Egypt, the Christians from sin.
Think about the tenth plague in Exodus 12:27 when Egypt’s first born sons died while the angel of death “passed over” the Jewish homes with the blood of the lamb on their door posts.
Exo 12:27 KJV
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.
In the B’rit Chadashah (New Testament), Jesus serves as the sacrificial lamb. It is no coincidence that our Lord Himself was sacrificed on Passover.
In Egypt the Jew marked his house with the blood of the lamb. Today the Christian marks his house – his body, “the house of the spirit” with the blood of Christ. Passover, then, represents our salvation.
2.
Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMotzi).
Leviticus 23:6 puts the second feast on the next night : “On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Y-H-V-H; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.”
Lev 23:6 KJV
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.
Leaven or yeast in the Bible symbolized sin and evil.
Unleavened bread, eaten over a period of time, symbolized a holy walk, as with the LORD (Y-H-V-H).
Unleavened bread, in the B’rit Chadashah (New Testament) is, of course, the body of our Lord, Yeshua Ha Mashiach. He is described as “the Bread of Life” (Lechem haChayim).
Joh 6:35 KJV
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Joh 6:48 KJV
I am that bread of life.
He was born in Bethlehem, which, in Hebrew, means, “House of Bread” (Bet Lechem).
Look at the matzah !
Matzah (also Matzoh, or Matsah) Hebrew : מַצָּה, in Ashkenazi is Matzo or Matzoh, and, in Yiddish, Matze) is a cracker-like flatbread made of white plain flour and water.
You will see that the matzah is striped :
Isa 53:5 KJV
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The matzah is pierced :
Psa 22:16 KJV
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Zec 12:10 KJV
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And the matzah is pure, without any leaven, as His body was without any sin. And the Passover custom of burying, hiding and then resurrecting the second of three pieces of matzot (the middle piece), presents the Gospel (Afikomen).
3.
First Fruits (Yom Habikkurim).
“On the morrow after the Sabbath” following Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:11 schedules First Fruits, the feast for acknowledging the fertility of the land He gave the Israelites.
Lev 23:11 KJV
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.
They were to bring the early crops of their spring planting and “wave the sheaf before the LORD.”
Lev 23:12 KJV
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.
Unfortunately, the modern church has come to call this feast “Easter,” named after Ishtar, the pagan goddess of fertility.
We continue to revere objects of fertility such as the rabbit and the egg which is totally wrong and against the Scripture.
The First Fruits celebration was to be over God’s replanting of the earth in the spring. Today this feasts celebrates the resurrection of the Lord Yesua Ha Mashiach on First Fruits, which indeed occurred (plus, eventually, the resurrection of the entire Church!).
To be more details please click here : Yeshua is our First Fruits - Wednesday Crucifixion
4.
Pentecost (Shavu’ot).
Leviticus 23:16 says, “Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shell ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Y-H-V-H.”
Lev 23:16 KJV
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
In late May or early June, Shavu’ot marked the summer harvest. Leviticus 23:17 requires an offering of two loaves of bread, baked with leaven. These loaves symbolize the church being comprised of both Jew and Gentile.
Lev 23:17 KJV
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.
A review of the first four feasts reveals that Yeshua was crucified on Pesach, buried on Unleavened Bread, raised on First Fruits and sent the Ruach Hakkodesh on Shavu’ot. Because we have not yet seen the fulfillment of feast number five - Trumpets - we remain under the orders of Shavu’ot.
The Fall Feasts
5.
Trumpets (Yom Teru’ah).
Ever since Isaac was spared by virtue of the ram being caught in the thicket by its horn, God seems to have enjoyed the trumpet. He used it when Joshua conquered Jericho. In Leviticus 25:8-10, he specified its use in having trumpets “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (that quotation appears today on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, assuring the people that America was founded by Bible readers).
Lev 25:8 KJV
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.
Lev 25:9 KJV
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.
Lev 25:10 KJV
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.
Leviticus 23:24 requires that, “in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets.”
Lev 23:24 KJV
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.
The Feast of Trumpets occurs in September.
This jump in time from the Feast of Pentecost in May or June seems to represent the Church Age in God’s planning, since the trumpet unquestionably represents the Rapture of the Church.
The trumpet was the signal for the field workers to come into the Temple. The high priest actually blew the trumpet so that the faithful would stop harvesting to worship. Now, when the trumpet sounds in accordance with 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, living believers will cease their harvest and rise from the earth. The Church will be taken out of the world.
1Co 15:51 KJV
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 KJV
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 15:53 KJV
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
6.
Atonement (Yom Kippur).
Leviticus 23:27 provides a day of confession, the highest of holy days. “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 Y-H-V-H.”
Lev 23:27 KJV
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.
This is the one feast that is not fulfilled by the Church, because the Church owes no atonement. The Church is not innocent, of course, but it is exonerated. The Day of Atonement will be fulfilled in a wonderful way when the Lord Yeshua Ha Mashiach returns at His Second Coming.
Yom Kippur is vitally important for Messianic Jews and Christians, since it reminds us of our great need for God’s intervention in our lives, and also helps us walk in the truth. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye (plural) may be healed" (James 5:16).
Eschatologically, Yom Kippur represents the national restoration of Israel at the end of the Great Tribulation period, but it also is a reminder of the terrrible cost of sin in our lives. Sin is so offensive and the debt is so great that it took nothing less than the sacrifice of Yeshua Himself in order to secure our reconciliation with God. We therefore should tremble with fear before God in reverent gratitude of His mercy toward us.
The Future Fulfillment
Just as Rosh HaShanah reveals the coming time of Judgment and the rapture of the kehillat Mashiach (church of Christ), Yom Kippur prophetically pictures the Day of the LORD or the Day of Judgment in the Acharit HaYamim (last days).
After the judgment of the nations during the Great Tribulation, national Israel will be fully restored to the LORD and their sins will be purged (see Matthew 24). Indeed, our beloved Mashiach will one day return to Israel, cleanse her temple, restore her to Himself, and set up His glorious kingdom.
Hallelu-Yah!
7.
Tabernacles (Sukkot).
Leviticus 23:34 says, “The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.”
God wanted to celebrate the fact that He provided shelter for the Israelites in the wilderness. Each year on Tabernacles, devout Jews build little shelters or “booths” (sukkot) outside their houses and worshipped in them. Tabernacles represents the Lord’s shelter in the world to come (olam habah), His great Tabernacle to exist in Jerusalem during the Kingdom Age.
The LORD will establish His Tabernacle in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 37:26), and the world will come every year to appear before the King and worship Him (Zechariah 14:16-17).
Eze 37:26 KJV
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Zec 14:16 KJV
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 KJV
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Chanukah, by the way, was not given by God on Mount Sinai, but was prophesied in Daniel 8:9-14, and took place in 165 BC when the Temple was rededicated.
Dan 8:9 KJV
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 KJV
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 KJV
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 KJV
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 KJV
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Dan 8:14 KJV
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Chanukah is actually the Day of Dedication, the day when Y-H-V-H dedicated His only begotten Son Yeshua Ha Mashiach to all mankind.
Chanukah is actually the Day of Light, the day when the Light of the world came from everlasting, it is the day when the Word was conceived. It is the day when Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:18 KJV
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
To be more detail about Chanukah please click here : When Jesus was conceived - When Jesus was born
Now you probably agree that Christianity’s Jewish roots offer an eye to the future as well as the past. The next time someone mentions “The Seven Feasts of Israel,” you’ll realize they’re really talking about the Seven Feasts of all time!
Blessing,
Andre
Leviticus 23 is the single chapter of the entire Tanakh that sums up everything. God’s eternal plan -- from chaos to eternity -- is ingeniously revealed through the nature and timing of the Seven annual Feasts of the LORD.
Lev 23:4 KJV
These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
In less than seven minutes, we will come to realize that the entire human race now exists between two of these feasts. Let us survey God’s calendar in its essence.
Sacrifice is the major feature of the feasts.
Believers in Mashiach are also responsible to keep these feasts, and the knowledge of them enhances our faith. Our Lord kept every one of them without fail, even celebrating Pesach on His last earthly night. Now we will see what the feasts are called, when they happen and why they remain significant.
It was on Mount Sinai that God gave Moses the dates and observances of the seven feasts. Here are their names :
1. Passover (Pesach) - Nisan 14
2. Unleavened Bread (Chag Hamotzi) - Nisan 15-22
3. First Fruits (Yom habikkurim) - Nisan 16
4. Pentecost (Shavu’ot) - Sivan 6
5. Trumpets (Yom Teru’ah) - Tishri 1
6. Atonement (Yom Kippur) - Tishri 10
7. Tabernacles (Sukkot) - Tishri 15
When do they happen?
God’s calendar is based on the phases of the moon. Each month in a lunar calendar begins with a new moon.
Pesach falls on the first full moon of Spring. The first three feasts, Pesach, Unleavened Bread and First Fruits fall in March and April.
The fourth one, Shavu’ot, marked the summer harvest and occurs in late May or early June.
The last three feasts, Trumpets, Yom Kippur and Sukkot happen in September and October.
The Spring Feasts
1.
Passover (Pesach).
Leviticus 23:5 specifies that the festival year begins with Passover on “the fourteenth day of the first month” (Nisan 15).
Lev 23:5 KJV
In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
Passover is the Feast of Salvation.
In both testaments, the blood of the Lamb delivers from slavery – the Jews from Egypt, the Christians from sin.
Think about the tenth plague in Exodus 12:27 when Egypt’s first born sons died while the angel of death “passed over” the Jewish homes with the blood of the lamb on their door posts.
Exo 12:27 KJV
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.
In the B’rit Chadashah (New Testament), Jesus serves as the sacrificial lamb. It is no coincidence that our Lord Himself was sacrificed on Passover.
In Egypt the Jew marked his house with the blood of the lamb. Today the Christian marks his house – his body, “the house of the spirit” with the blood of Christ. Passover, then, represents our salvation.
2.
Unleavened Bread (Chag HaMotzi).
Leviticus 23:6 puts the second feast on the next night : “On the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread unto the Y-H-V-H; seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.”
Lev 23:6 KJV
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.
Leaven or yeast in the Bible symbolized sin and evil.
Unleavened bread, eaten over a period of time, symbolized a holy walk, as with the LORD (Y-H-V-H).
Unleavened bread, in the B’rit Chadashah (New Testament) is, of course, the body of our Lord, Yeshua Ha Mashiach. He is described as “the Bread of Life” (Lechem haChayim).
Joh 6:35 KJV
And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Joh 6:48 KJV
I am that bread of life.
He was born in Bethlehem, which, in Hebrew, means, “House of Bread” (Bet Lechem).
Look at the matzah !
Matzah (also Matzoh, or Matsah) Hebrew : מַצָּה, in Ashkenazi is Matzo or Matzoh, and, in Yiddish, Matze) is a cracker-like flatbread made of white plain flour and water.
You will see that the matzah is striped :
Isa 53:5 KJV
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
The matzah is pierced :
Psa 22:16 KJV
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
Zec 12:10 KJV
And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
And the matzah is pure, without any leaven, as His body was without any sin. And the Passover custom of burying, hiding and then resurrecting the second of three pieces of matzot (the middle piece), presents the Gospel (Afikomen).
3.
First Fruits (Yom Habikkurim).
“On the morrow after the Sabbath” following Unleavened Bread, Leviticus 23:11 schedules First Fruits, the feast for acknowledging the fertility of the land He gave the Israelites.
Lev 23:11 KJV
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.
They were to bring the early crops of their spring planting and “wave the sheaf before the LORD.”
Lev 23:12 KJV
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.
Unfortunately, the modern church has come to call this feast “Easter,” named after Ishtar, the pagan goddess of fertility.
We continue to revere objects of fertility such as the rabbit and the egg which is totally wrong and against the Scripture.
The First Fruits celebration was to be over God’s replanting of the earth in the spring. Today this feasts celebrates the resurrection of the Lord Yesua Ha Mashiach on First Fruits, which indeed occurred (plus, eventually, the resurrection of the entire Church!).
To be more details please click here : Yeshua is our First Fruits - Wednesday Crucifixion
4.
Pentecost (Shavu’ot).
Leviticus 23:16 says, “Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shell ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the Y-H-V-H.”
Lev 23:16 KJV
Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
In late May or early June, Shavu’ot marked the summer harvest. Leviticus 23:17 requires an offering of two loaves of bread, baked with leaven. These loaves symbolize the church being comprised of both Jew and Gentile.
Lev 23:17 KJV
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.
A review of the first four feasts reveals that Yeshua was crucified on Pesach, buried on Unleavened Bread, raised on First Fruits and sent the Ruach Hakkodesh on Shavu’ot. Because we have not yet seen the fulfillment of feast number five - Trumpets - we remain under the orders of Shavu’ot.
The Fall Feasts
5.
Trumpets (Yom Teru’ah).
Ever since Isaac was spared by virtue of the ram being caught in the thicket by its horn, God seems to have enjoyed the trumpet. He used it when Joshua conquered Jericho. In Leviticus 25:8-10, he specified its use in having trumpets “proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof” (that quotation appears today on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, assuring the people that America was founded by Bible readers).
Lev 25:8 KJV
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.
Lev 25:9 KJV
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.
Lev 25:10 KJV
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.
Leviticus 23:24 requires that, “in the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets.”
Lev 23:24 KJV
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.
The Feast of Trumpets occurs in September.
This jump in time from the Feast of Pentecost in May or June seems to represent the Church Age in God’s planning, since the trumpet unquestionably represents the Rapture of the Church.
The trumpet was the signal for the field workers to come into the Temple. The high priest actually blew the trumpet so that the faithful would stop harvesting to worship. Now, when the trumpet sounds in accordance with 1 Corinthians 15:51-53, living believers will cease their harvest and rise from the earth. The Church will be taken out of the world.
1Co 15:51 KJV
Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 KJV
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 15:53 KJV
For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
6.
Atonement (Yom Kippur).
Leviticus 23:27 provides a day of confession, the highest of holy days. “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 Y-H-V-H.”
Lev 23:27 KJV
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.
This is the one feast that is not fulfilled by the Church, because the Church owes no atonement. The Church is not innocent, of course, but it is exonerated. The Day of Atonement will be fulfilled in a wonderful way when the Lord Yeshua Ha Mashiach returns at His Second Coming.
Yom Kippur is vitally important for Messianic Jews and Christians, since it reminds us of our great need for God’s intervention in our lives, and also helps us walk in the truth. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just, to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye (plural) may be healed" (James 5:16).
Eschatologically, Yom Kippur represents the national restoration of Israel at the end of the Great Tribulation period, but it also is a reminder of the terrrible cost of sin in our lives. Sin is so offensive and the debt is so great that it took nothing less than the sacrifice of Yeshua Himself in order to secure our reconciliation with God. We therefore should tremble with fear before God in reverent gratitude of His mercy toward us.
The Future Fulfillment
Just as Rosh HaShanah reveals the coming time of Judgment and the rapture of the kehillat Mashiach (church of Christ), Yom Kippur prophetically pictures the Day of the LORD or the Day of Judgment in the Acharit HaYamim (last days).
After the judgment of the nations during the Great Tribulation, national Israel will be fully restored to the LORD and their sins will be purged (see Matthew 24). Indeed, our beloved Mashiach will one day return to Israel, cleanse her temple, restore her to Himself, and set up His glorious kingdom.
Hallelu-Yah!
7.
Tabernacles (Sukkot).
Leviticus 23:34 says, “The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord.”
God wanted to celebrate the fact that He provided shelter for the Israelites in the wilderness. Each year on Tabernacles, devout Jews build little shelters or “booths” (sukkot) outside their houses and worshipped in them. Tabernacles represents the Lord’s shelter in the world to come (olam habah), His great Tabernacle to exist in Jerusalem during the Kingdom Age.
The LORD will establish His Tabernacle in Jerusalem (Ezekiel 37:26), and the world will come every year to appear before the King and worship Him (Zechariah 14:16-17).
Eze 37:26 KJV
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
Zec 14:16 KJV
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 KJV
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
Chanukah, by the way, was not given by God on Mount Sinai, but was prophesied in Daniel 8:9-14, and took place in 165 BC when the Temple was rededicated.
Dan 8:9 KJV
And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
Dan 8:10 KJV
And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.
Dan 8:11 KJV
Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
Dan 8:12 KJV
And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
Dan 8:13 KJV
Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot?
Dan 8:14 KJV
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.
Chanukah is actually the Day of Dedication, the day when Y-H-V-H dedicated His only begotten Son Yeshua Ha Mashiach to all mankind.
Chanukah is actually the Day of Light, the day when the Light of the world came from everlasting, it is the day when the Word was conceived. It is the day when Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:18 KJV
Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
To be more detail about Chanukah please click here : When Jesus was conceived - When Jesus was born
Now you probably agree that Christianity’s Jewish roots offer an eye to the future as well as the past. The next time someone mentions “The Seven Feasts of Israel,” you’ll realize they’re really talking about the Seven Feasts of all time!
Blessing,
Andre
