Feast
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Reference
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Dates
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Description
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Antitype
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Notes
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Weekly
Sabbath
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vv3-4
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The
seventh day of the week
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The
day
on which no work was to be done
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The
Sabbath rest in the Spirit in Christ
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Heb.3:
12- 4:11
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Passover
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vv4-5
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14th.
Nisan
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This
was to remember
Israel's deliverance from Egypt.
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Christ
is our Passover,
and the Lamb of God.
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Ex.
12; Num. 9:1-14;
Josh.5:10
Jn.1:29; I Cor.5:7; Isa.53:7 etc.
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Unleavened
bread
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vv6-8
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15th-21st.
Nisan
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For
7 days no leaven was
to be eaten or found in the house.
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We're
to purge leaven from
our lives
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I
Cor. 5:6-8
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Firstfruits
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vv9-14
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1st.day
of week
after Passover
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A
sheaf of first fruits
offered to God. a lamb was sacrificed as a burnt offering.
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Christ
is the First fruits
of them that sleep.
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I
Cor.15:20 etc.
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7-week
interval
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vv15-16
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A
period
of seven Sabbaths
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A
period
of no feast.
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Jesus
after His resurrection showed
Himself to many.
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Acts.1:3;
I Cor.15:5-9 etc.
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Pentecost
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vv17-21
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Took
place on the 50th. day
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Two
wave loaves , baken
with leaven waved to God.
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The
end of the age
of the Mosaic law; the start of the New Covenant.
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This
falls on the
anniversary of the law being given.Ex.19.
Also, it was 50
days
from the setting up of the Tabernacle to the removal from Sinai .
Ex.
40:17; Nim.10:11
Acts 2
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Harvest
interval
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v22
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From
3rd.
month to 1st. Tisri
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Period
of
harvest; no feasts.
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The
Age
of Grace
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Lev.19:10;
Deut. 19-22
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Trumpets
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vv23-25
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1st.
Tisri
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Trumpets
blown as a
memorial. Trumpets were used to tell Israel to: gather, move on,
warfare,
worship or Jubilee.
Num. 10:1-10; Lev. 25:9
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The
Age of Grace
will end with the trumpet sound.
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I
Thess. 4:16;
I
Cor.15:52; etc.
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Atonement
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vv26-32
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10th.
Tisri
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High
Priest entered
into the holy of Holies to make atonement, for the nation.
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Christ
has entered into
heavens for us and will return for us.
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Full
description in Lev.16
Heb. 4:14-16;
9:
18-27
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Tabernacles
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vv
33- 44
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15th-21st
Tisri
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Israel
dwells in tents to
remember the wilderness wanderings.
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This
feast will be kept
during Christ's reign on earth.
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Ex.23:16;
Num. 29:15f.
Deut.16:13
Zech.14:10-19;
Jn.7:37-39
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