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The appointed feasts God gave Israel, and a few later ones. “These are My appointed feasts, the feasts of the LORD.” Several of them point to Christ: “Christ, our lamb, has been sacrificed.”
Sabbath
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The weekly day of rest, rooted in creation and in the exodus, and a sign between God and Israel. It is the seventh day, from evening to evening. On our calendar that is Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, every week, not one month of the year.
Passover
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A lamb, blood on the doorposts, a meal eaten in haste, and a night the LORD passed over. The fourteenth day of the first month, Nisan. On our calendar that is usually March or April.
Unleavened Bread
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Seven days without leaven, because they left Egypt in haste, and because leaven is a picture you can taste. The fifteenth through the twenty-first of Nisan, starting the day after . Usually March or April.
Firstfruits
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The first sheaf of the harvest, waved before the LORD before anyone ate the new grain. It was the day after the Sabbath in the week of Unleavened Bread. One reading fixes that as the sixteenth of Nisan. Another waits for the Sunday after the weekly Sabbath, so the day moves within that week. Either way it falls in March or April.
Weeks, or Pentecost
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Fifty days after Firstfruits. It was a wheat harvest feast, and in 's memory it became the day the Spirit came. In the fixed count it is the sixth of Sivan. On our calendar it is usually May or June.
Trumpets
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A day of trumpet blasts in the seventh month: a call, a gathering, a warning. The first day of the seventh month, Tishri. Usually September or October. The day began when the new moon was seen, so its exact hour was not known in advance.
The Day of Atonement
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The one day of the year when blood was brought into the Most Holy Place, and a live goat carried the people's sins away. The tenth day of Tishri, the seventh month. Usually September or October.
Booths, or Tabernacles
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Seven days living in booths, so Israel would remember the tents God gave them when He brought them out of Egypt. It begins the fifteenth of Tishri and runs seven days, with an eighth day of assembly. Usually September or October.
Purim
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The lots, the gallows, and the reversal: a feast Israel kept because they were not destroyed. The fourteenth of Adar, and the fifteenth in the city where the fighting had been. Usually February or March.
Dedication, or Hanukkah
The feast remembering the temple's cleansing. Jesus walks in the temple in winter, and they ask Him to tell them plainly. The twenty-fifth of Kislev, for eight days. On our calendar that is usually late November or December.
New Moons
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The start of each month, with trumpets and offerings, a rhythm of time lived under God. The first day of each month, when the new moon was seen. New Moons fall in every month of our year, not in one season.
Jubilee
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The fiftieth year: liberty proclaimed, land returned, debts released. It is a year, not a month on the calendar. The trumpet that opened it was sounded on the Day of , the tenth of Tishri, so it was announced in September or October of that year.