(Exo 23:14 NKJV)  "Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year:

 

The First of the Three Feasts:

The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Associated with the feast of the Passover)

 

(Exo 23:15)  "You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty);

 

(1 Cor 5:7 NKJV)  Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us.

 

 

(Lev 23:1-5 NKJV)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {2} "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.

 

What is a holy convocations?

(Lev 23:2 NIV)  . . . which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies.

 

So there were “services,” if you will, associated with the feast that they were to keep.  Then, almost parenthetically, we have verse 3:

 

{3} '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.

 

(Lev 23:4) 'These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. {5} 'On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord's Passover.

 

 

(Lev 23:6-8 NKJV)  'And on the fifteenth day of the same month [the very day following the feast of the passover] is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD; seven days you must eat unleavened bread. {7} 'On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it. {8} 'But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD for seven days. The seventh day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no customary work on it.'"

 

The third feast in Leviticus is actually the second required feast mentioned in Exodus:

 

(Lev 23:9-12 NKJV)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {10} "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. {11} 'He shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted on your behalf; on the day after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. {12} 'And you shall offer on that day, when you wave the sheaf, a male lamb of the first year, without blemish, as a burnt offering to the LORD.

 

(Exo 23:16) "and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and [the third feast:] the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.

 

 

(Lev 23:10)  "Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: 'When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. . . . {15} 'And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. {16} 'Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the LORD.

 

 

(Acts 2:1 NKJV)  When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. . . . (Acts 2:41)  Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

 

(Lev 23:10)  “then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest. . . . {15} 'And you shall . . . {16} 'Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath;”

 

The Feast of Pentecost:  the first fruits!

 

Two of these three feasts have been fulfilled.

 

 

 

 

(1 Cor 15:20 NKJV)  But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

 

So where are we?

Exodus addresses the three required feasts.

Leviticus 23 describes seven feasts.

What are they?

 

Fulfilled:

1.The Passover

2.The feast of unleavened bread

3.The feast of first fruits,  

4.Pentecost

 

Yet to be fulfilled:

 

5.The feast of trumpets

6.The Day of Atonement

7.The feast of tabernacles.

 

(Lev 23:23-25 NKJV)  Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, {24} "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a sabbath-rest, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. {25} 'You shall do no customary work on it; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.'"

 

 

I take it to be the end of the World!

Notice what is said in Matthew 24:

 

(Matthew 24:31) "And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

 

So what would that mean?

The beginning of judgment—the saved

 His elect would be gathered to safety.

 

Paul also speaks of the last trumpet!

 

 (1 Cor 15:51-52 NKJV)  Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed; {52} in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

 

6.  The Day of Atonement

 

(Lev 23:26-32 NKJV)  And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: {27} "Also the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you; you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. {28} "And you shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God. {29} "For any person who is not afflicted in soul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. {30} "And any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people. {31} "You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

{32} "It shall be to you a sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath."

 

Some feel that this indicates that there may still be a time of suffering for the children of Israel because they rejected Christ and crucified Him.  At this point, I won’t go into this possibility further.

 

(Lev 23:34 NKJV)  "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

 

This one I think we are waiting to realize.

 

(Rev 21:3-4 NKJV)  And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. {4} "And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away."  What a hope!

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