Feasts

God designed specific feasts to celebrate His deliverance and provisions. In biblical times, Jewish men traveled to Jerusalem to participate in three primary feasts. Three times a year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD. (Ex. 23:17) Jesus has fulfilled the first two of these (spring and summer). In His return, the last will be fulfilled (fall)!

PASSOVER (Sacrifice)

Feast of Unleavened Bread observed with the Passover (spring feast)      

Jesus was sacrificed as the unblemished Passover Lamb of God in Jerusalem.

PENTECOST (Spirit)

Feast of Weeks (summer feast)  

Fifty days after the feast of first fruits, the Spirit baptized and anointed the Church to “Go ye.” (Jew & Gentile).

TABERNACLES (Second coming)

Feast of the Ingathering (fall feast)                 

Jesus will resurrect, rapture and gather His elect when He comes (parousia) for the 1,000-year reign

God built prophetic truth into the Jewish Feasts to reveal His future plan! 

Three primary feasts always celebrated in Jerusalem point to the PASSOVER (1st coming), PENTECOST (baptism of the Spirit) and PAROUSIA (2nd coming) or TABERNACLES. These three pilgrimage feasts focus on the Jewish journey with God that speak to His relationship with every saint. We now wait for the third feast to be realized in Christ’s second coming when He and His Kingdom are revealed together in glory. There are many exciting aspects to the parousia of Christ that we explore in the study, Just Like the Days of Noah. Join the adventure!

  • FULFILLED in the first coming of Christ by the sinless Passover Lamb and also the first fruits of the resurrection. The resurrection of the righteous will be next. “But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christ’s at His coming (parousia)” (1 Corinthians 15:23). According to Paul’s teaching on the rapture, the righteous resurrection must occur before the saints who remain are “caught up.” (1 Thess. 16-17). Jesus said that resurrection occurs on the “last day” (John 6:39-40, 44, 54) which is right before the 1,000-year reign according to Christ in Revelation 20:5.

  • FULFILLED 7 weeks after the resurrection of Christ by the Holy Spirit who came to baptize, anoint and unite Jew and Gentile believers as emissaries of the gospel and ambassadors for Christ. There is no longer a separation of Jew and Gentile. “There is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised…but Christ is all, and in all” (Colossians 3:11). At this feast, two loaves are waved (Jew and Gentile) before the Lord, whereas only one (Christ) is waved at the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

  • Observed after the Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement which are the two fall feasts celebrated prior to the Feast of Tabernacles. (Lev. 16:29) The Feast of Trumpets is celebrated as a time of reflection and repentance (clarifying God’s purpose for the trumpets in Revelation), or at least the first six. Those first six are trumpet judgments, not God’s wrath, and offer opportunities for repentance BEFORE His wrath after the seventh and last trumpet, which is also when the righteous dead are resurrected. (1 Cor. 15:52) The purpose of the trumpets is to prepare the world for the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur that follows. that prepares one for Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement. Then, the 1,000-year reign of Christ will begin with His gathered saints.

    The Greek word used in the Scriptures to refer to the glorious return of Christ is parousia. If you follow the Scriptures using this word, it becomes clear that His parousia is what we are waiting for, which is why the disciples ask Jesus, what will be the sign of Your coming (parousia) and of the end of the age? (Mt. 24:3)