APPENDIX C – Appointed Times, Holy Convocations, Appointed Feasts

Leviticus 23

Notes

Fixed Festivals / Appointed Feasts / Three Annual Feasts

Feast of Unleavened Bread

This was celebrated with a holy convocation on the first and seventh days (Leviticus 23:6–8).

This was celebrated by Jesus and His disciples (Matthew 26:20–29, Mark 14:17–25, Luke 22:14–20 and John 13–17). It was at Passover, the day before the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that Jesus was crucified.^[2]

The eight days of celebrating Passover and The Feast of Unleavened Bread is often collectively referred to as “Passover,” or “Unleavened Bread.”

Feast of Weeks (Harvest)

This was celebrated with a holy convocation on the fiftieth day (Leviticus 23:9–21). There are seven weekly Sabbaths within the forty-nine days leading up to this feast day.

This fiftieth day is known in Greek as pentecost which means “fiftieth, or in this case, count fifty.” This was the day mentioned in Acts 2 where one hundred twenty believers were gathered in an upper room, were suddenly filled with the Holy Spirit, and the Church of Jesus Christ was born. This occurred fifty days after Jesus was crucified (compare with Acts 1:3–5).

This feast is also known as Feast of Harvest (Exodus 23:16).

Feast of Booths (Tabernacles; Ingathering)

This was celebrated with a holy convocation on the first and eighth days (Leviticus 23:33–36, 39). This feast was actually seven days long (Leviticus 23:34, 36, 39–43) but, in verse 36 the Lord said “On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation …” “On the eighth day” is not a misprint.

Numbers 29:1–34 gives more details on the offerings to be given in the seventh month (Tishri) of each year. Numbers 29:35 states, “On the eighth day [of the Feast of Booths (Numbers 29:12–34)] you shall have a solemn assembly …” This is the same day the Apostle John referred to as “the last day, the great day of the feast” (see John 7:2, 37; Nehemiah 8:18).

Another special note about this feast is that on the first and eighth days there was to be “a rest” (Leviticus 23:39). The Hebrew word used here for “rest” is shabbathon,^[3] which means “Sabbath observance.”

This feast is also known as Tabernacles, and Ingathering.

(See also, “QUESTION: Was it a coincidence that Jesus rose from the dead on the first day of the week?” for notes on how the feast days correspond to the ministry of Jesus Christ.)

APPENDIX C – Appointed Times, Holy Convocations, Appointed Feasts

From The Sabbath Was Made For Man by Meshach Baptiste. Copyright 2021. RBGDevotional.org

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