FEASTS OF ISRAEL CHRISTIANITY OASIS HAS PROVIDED YOU WITH THIS FEASTS OF ISRAEL STUDY. MANY HAVE HEARD OF THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL ARE PROPHECY AND ARE A SIGN OF THE END TIMES? THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL ARE TRULY SHADOWS OR PROPHECY OF EVENTS TO COME. LET'S SEEK AND FIND THE TRUTH OF THE FEASTS OF ISRAEL, SHALL WE? SIGN OF THE END TIMES BIBLE STUDY PROPHECY   THESE ARE SOME OF THE THE MOST AWESOME PROPHESIES REVEALED IN THE BIBLE. THE FEASTS AND CELEBRATIONS WHICH ARE THE HOLY DAYS THAT THE ISRAELITES WERE TOLD, BY GOD THROUGH MOSES, TO HONOR EACH YEAR, WERE ACTUALLY ... SHADOWS OF THINGS TO COME COLOSSIANS 2:16-17 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. IN OTHER WORDS ... GOD CREATED THESE DAYS OF CELEBRATION AS SIGNS OF MAJOR SPIRITUAL EVENTS THAT WOULD OCCUR ON THESE FEAST AND CELEBRATION HOLY DAYS IN THE FUTURE. YOU WILL FIND AFTER YOU HAVE COMPLETED THIS STUDY THAT THE JEWISH FEASTS AND CELEBRATIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN CELEBRATED BY THE ISRAELITES FROM THE TIME OF THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, WERE CREATED BY GOD AS SHADOWS OF MANY SPIRITUAL EVENTS THAT HAVE ALREADY OCCURRED SUCH AS THE BAPTISM AND DEATH OF JESUS, THE INTRODUCTION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AT PENTECOST AND EVEN FUTURE EVENTS SUCH AS ... THE END TIMES. TO UNDERSTAND THIS STUDY YOU MUST BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE JEWISH CALENDAR AND THE TRUTH THAT THERE ARE TWO NEW YEARS LIKE THE AMERICAN NEW YEAR WITHIN EACH ONE YEAR PERIOD.   JEWISH CALENDAR   Name of Month Month Number Length of Days Gregorian Calendar  Equivalent   Nissan 1 30 days March-April Iyar 2 29 days April-May Sivan 3 30 days May-June Tammuz 4 29 days June-July Av 5 30 days July-August Elul 6 29 days August-September Tishrei 7 30 days September-October Cheshvan 8 29 or 30 days October-November Kislev 9 29 or 30 days November-December Tevet 10 29 days December-January Shevat 11 30 days January-February Adar 12 29 or 30 days (30 in leap year) February-March Adar II 13 29 days March-April ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE THERE ARE 360 DAYS IN A YEAR SO THEY HAD TO ADAPT THE CALENDAR TO STAY WITH THE SEASONAL CHANGES    Nisan Zif Sivan Tammuz Abib Elul 1st month 2nd month 3rd month 4th month 5th month 6th month                         Ethanim Bul Chisleu Tebeth Sebat Adar 7th month 8th month 9th month 10th month 11th month 12th month THE JEWISH CALENDAR HAS TWO DISTINCT STARTING POINTS. KINDA LIKE HAVING TWO NEW YEARS. THEY ARE ON THE FIRST AND SEVENTH MONTH. KEEPING THIS IN MIND, LET US PROCEED. TO GET YOU FAMILIAR WITH FEAST SHADOWS LET'S START OFF WITH THE FEAST SHADOW KNOWN AS ...   WORK SIX DAYS, REST ON THE SEVENTH The Bible says that God worked 6 days  Genesis, Chapter 1 and on the 7th day, He rested.  Genesis 2:2  God also made this law apply to His people. They were to work 6 days and rest on the 7th.  Exodus 20:9-10  And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shall GATHER in the fruits thereof. Exodus 23:10 ... If His people had a servant or slave, they were to work 6 years and be set free the 7th year. God's people were also to sow in the land and gather fruits for 6 years but not on the 7th. Even Jesus, when He was put on the Cross, hung there 6 hours, and died at the beginning of the 7th hour.  Mark 15:25 and Mark 15:34-37   We see a pattern created by God. There are 6 time periods of work and 1 time period of rest. DAY OF REST   The Bible says that after the End Times, there is a one thousand year period of time, known as the "Millennium" which Satan is imprisoned and there is a time of peace and REST for mankind. REVELATION 20:3-4 And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.    1000 YEARS = ONE DAY TO GOD In 2 Peter 3:8 it says that Heaven and Earth are reserved for fire and judgment, but that One day to God is 1000 years to mankind. Again, in Psalms 90:4 it says that a thousand years in God's sight are as but a day, as a "watch" in the night. Now, let us do a little simple math ... If God says that ... Mankind shall work 6 days and rest on the 7th ...  1000 years to man is but 1 day to God ... There is a one thousand year time period known as the Millennium ... Mankind must "work" for 6 days or 6000 years and rest for 1000 years. SO THIS HOLY DAY CALLED SABBATH IS A SHADOW OF THE EVENT KNOWN AS THE MILLENNIUM   Below is a table that will show you how we’ll be studying the other feast shadows, to make them easier to understand and reference between. DAY FEAST AND/OR EVENT SHADOW OF 7th Day God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. (Genesis 2:2-3) The 4th Commandment Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Exodus 20:8-10    MILLENNIUM Revelation 20:3-4     THIS PARTICULAR SHADOW SIGN IS STUDIED MORE IN DEPTH IN THIS STUDY:  7000 YEAR SIGN NOW THAT YOU GET THE IDEA OF WHAT A HOLY DAY SHADOW IS ... BUCKLE UP CUZ YOU ARE GONNA LEARN JUST HOW COOL GOD IS.   THERE IS A FEAST AND CELEBRATION IN ISRAEL KNOWN AS PASSOVER. LEVITICUS 23:5 In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD's Passover.   EXODUS 12:3-6 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. PASSOVER IN THIS CELEBRATION, THEY WERE TO BRING IN AN UNBLEMISHED LAMB ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR AND KEEP THIS LAMB FOR 4 DAYS. THEN ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH THE ISRAELITES WOULD KILL THEIR LAMB AND PLACE THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB ON THEIR HOMES TO SAVE THEMSELVES. THEY WERE TOLD TO DO THIS EVERY YEAR AND WAS CALLED PASSOVER. YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD THE STORY OF HOW THIS CELEBRATION CAME ABOUT, BUT DO NOT REALIZE IT. IT IS THE STORY OF THE GREAT EXODUS FROM EGYPT. (BOOK OF EXODUS) AFTER GOD HAD PLAGUED THE EGYPTIANS FOR NOT LETTING HIS PEOPLE GO, MOSES TOLD THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAT THE ANGEL OF DEATH WAS COMING TO KILL ALL THE FIRST BORN OF EGYPT AND IN ORDER FOR THE ISRAELITES TO PROTECT THEIR FIRST BORN CHILDREN FROM THIS ANGEL OF DEATH, THEY NEEDED TO PLACE LAMB'S BLOOD ON THEIR HOMES FOR THE ANGEL OF DEATH TO PASS OVER THEM. IT WAS CALLED ... THIS CELEBRATION WAS A SHADOW OF AN EVENT TO COME ...      JESUS' DEATH JESUS, KNOWN AS THE LAMB WITHOUT SIN CAME INTO JERUSALEM ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE 1ST MONTH AND WAS WITH THE PEOPLE FOR FOUR DAYS. HE WAS KILLED BY THE CHOICE OF HIS OWN PEOPLE ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH JUST AS THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE CELEBRATING THE PASSOVER. HIS BLOOD IS NOW THE SAVING GRACE. THERE IS A FEAST AND CELEBRATION IN ISRAEL KNOWN AS FIRST FRUITS WHICH WAS THREE DAYS AFTER PASSOVER WHERE THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE TO OFFER A HE LAMB WITHOUT BLEMISH AS A SACRIFICE TO THEIR LORD. LEVITICUS 23:10-14 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. THIS CELEBRATION WAS A SHADOW OF AN EVENT TO COME ... JESUS' RESURRECTION 3 DAYS AFTER JESUS, THE HE LAMB WITHOUT SIN (BLEMISH) WAS KILLED, HE WAS RESURRECTED ON SUNDAY MORNING AS OUR SPIRITUAL SACRIFICE. GOD USED JESUS AS THAT HE LAMB BECAUSE THERE WERE NOT ENOUGH SHEEP IN ALL THE WORLD TO ATONE FOR THEIR SINS. THERE IS A CELEBRATION KNOWN AS PENTECOST WHICH WAS 50 DAYS AFTER THE FIRST FRUITS CELEBRATION. LEVITICUS 23:15-16 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD IT WAS WHEN THERE WAS AN OFFERING OF FIRE MADE UNTO THE LORD. THIS EVENT WAS A SHADOW OF AN EVENT TO COME ... JESUS STAYED 40 DAYS AFTER HE RESURRECTED AND THEN WAS TAKEN UP TO HEAVEN. IT WAS 10 DAYS AFTER THAT WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WOULD INTRODUCE HIMSELF. WHICH WOULD MAKE IT 50 DAYS FROM THE DAY JESUS WAS RESURRECTED ON THIS DAY ABOUT 120 BELIEVERS IN JESUS ENCOUNTERED THE HOLY SPIRIT WHICH GAVE THEM GIFTS SUCH AS THE ABILITY TO SPEAK IN TONGUES AND THEY SAW TONGUES OF FIRE COME UPON THEM. ACTS 2:2-4 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. IT IS ALSO WRITTEN THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST TOLD HIS FOLLOWERS THAT THEY WERE BEING BAPTIZED WITH WATER BUT WOULD ONE DAY BE BAPTIZED WITH FIRE, REFERRING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT.   SHADOWS OF JESUS’ FIRST VISIT DAY FEAST AND/OR EVENT SHADOW OF 10th day of the 1st month   Bring in an unblemished lamb on the 10th day of the first month and keep it for 4 days. (Exodus 12:3-6) Jesus entering Jerusalem Jesus, known as the Lamb without sin, came into Jerusalem on the 10th day of the first month and was with the people for 4 days. 14th day of the 1st month The children of Israel killed the lamb and placed the blood of the lamb on the door posts so the angel of death (the destroyer) would pass over them and they would be saved. (Leviticus 23:5) The Passover lamb was eaten the night of the 14th day. (Exodus 12:6-8) Jesus death Jesus was killed by the choice of His own people on the 14th day of the 1st month, just as the Jewish people were celebrating the Passover. (Jesus is the Passover lamb) At the Last supper, Jesus said, This is my body, take and eat  (Matthew 26:26) Now this makes more sense, doesn’t it? HIS BLOOD IS NOW THE SAVING GRACE 15th day of the 1st month When the children of Israel were thrust out of Egypt, there was no time to wait for their dough to rise, so they baked unleavened bread because they had no other food prepared. (Exodus 12:34,39) (Leviticus 23:6)   3 days after Passover Offer an he lamb without blemish of the first year as a sacrifice to their Lord. (Leviticus 23:10-14) Jesus’ resurrection 3 days after Jesus (the he lamb without sin) was killed, He was resurrected on Sunday morning. God sacrificed Jesus as that he lamb because there were not enough sheep in all the world to atone for people’s sins. EVEN JESUS' BAPTISM WAS FORETOLD BY A SHADOWED EVENT ... JOHN THE BAPTIST TOLD JESUS AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS THAT IT WAS JESUS THAT SHOULD BE BAPTIZING JOHN. JESUS TOLD JOHN THAT THEY NEEDED TO FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS. MATTHEW 3:13-15 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of Him. But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me? And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him. MOST DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT JESUS MEANT WHEN HE SAID THAT HE AND JOHN WERE TO "FULFILL ALL RIGHTEOUSNESS" ... HE WAS REFERRING TO SPIRITUAL FULFILLING OF A HOLY DAY KNOWN AS DAY OF ATONEMENT DESCRIBED IN ... LEVITICUS 16:21-31 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there: And he shall wash his flesh with water in the holy place, and put on his garments, and come forth, and offer his burnt offering, and the burnt offering of the people, and make an atonement for himself, and for the people. And the fat of the sin offering shall he burn upon the altar. And he that let go the goat for the scapegoat shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward come into the camp. And the bullock for the sin offering, and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought in to make atonement in the holy place, shall one carry forth without the camp; and they shall burn in the fire their skins, and their flesh, and their dung. And he that burneth them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp. And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you: For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that ye may be clean from all your sins before the LORD. It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever. ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH THE LEVITE PRIEST OF ISRAEL AT THE TIME (JOHN THE BAPTIST AT THIS POINT IN TIME) WAS TO CONFESS THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE AND PUT THESE SINS ONTO A HE GOAT AND SEND THE HE GOAT INTO THE WILDERNESS. THIS HE GOAT WOULD THEN HAVE ALL THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE ON HIM. JOHN THE BAPTIST WAS A LEVITE PRIEST AND JESUS DID TAKE THE SINS OF THE PEOPLE UPON HIMSELF. AFTER THE BAPTISM OF JESUS, HE WENT INTO THE WILDERNESS FOR 40 DAYS AND WAS TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL.  MATTHEW 4:1-11 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to Him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But He answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh Him up into the holy city, and setteth Him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto Him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give His angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth Him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto Him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil leaveth Him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto Him. THIS ALSO MEANS THAT JESUS' MINISTRY BEGAN WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED ON THE 10TH DAY OF THE 7TH MONTH AND LASTED UNTIL PASSOVER WHICH IS THE 14TH DAY OF THE 1ST MONTH. THERE ARE 360 DAYS IN A JEWISH YEAR. Jesus was 30 when he began His ministry … Luke 3:22-23  … His ministry lasted three years plus. The Gospel of John describes three different Passover feasts over the course of Jesus' ministry. This implies that Jesus preached for a period of three years ... John 2:13, John 6:4 and John 11:55 ...  It began at the Day of Atonement and ended on Passover which is 6 months apart. So Jesus’ ministry was 3 and a half years long. DAY FEAST AND/OR EVENT SHADOW OF 10th day of the 7th month Levite priest of Israel will confess the sins of the people and put these sins onto a he goat and send the he goat into the wilderness. This He goat would then have all the sins of the people on him. Leviticus 16:21-31 Jesus Baptism John the Baptist told Jesus at His baptism, that it was Jesus that should be baptizing John. Jesus told John that they needed to fulfill all righteousness. He was referring to Leviticus 16:21-31. John was a Levite priest and Jesus (the he goat) did take the sins of the people upon Himself. After Jesus was baptized, He went into the wilderness for 40 days and was tempted by the devil. Matthew 4:1-11   THAT MEANS JESUS' MINISTRY LASTED 3 1/2 YEARS.

THIS BRINGS US TO ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT.
 

THE JEWISH CALENDAR DAY DOES NOT START AT MIDNIGHT BUT RATHER SUNSET. THIS BEGINS THE 12 HOURS OF NIGHT HOURS AND AT SUNRISE IT BEGINS THE 12 HOURS OF DAY HOURS.

JESUS DIED AT THE NINTH HOUR OF THE DAY

SO THE NEXT DAY WAS A SABBATH DAY. (DAY OF REST FROM WORK)

THE FIRST DAY (THE 15TH DAY OF THE MONTH) WAS THE FIRST DAY OF THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD AND WAS A SPECIAL SABBATH AND AT SUNSET IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THIS SPECIAL SABBATH. NOT THE WEEKLY SABBATH.

THE MATH ON PROVING THIS TRUTH IS SIMPLE ... MATTHEW REVEALS THAT JESUS WAS FOUND MISSING THE DAY AFTER SABBATH.

HOW CAN IT BE THEN THAT THEY ASKED JESUS TO BE TAKEN DOWN FROM THE CROSS ON THE DAY BEFORE SABBATH AND HIS BODY WAS FOUND MISSING THE DAY AFTER SABBATH WHEN WE KNOW JESUS TOLD US HE WOULD BE IN THE EARTH 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS?

 IF JESUS DIED ON FRIDAY AND WAS FOUND MISSING ON SUNDAY MORNING ... HOW CAN ONE EVER MAKE THAT ADD UP TO 3 DAYS AND 3 NIGHTS?

FRIDAY NIGHT
SATURDAY NIGHT
SUNDAY NIGHT

THE PROBLEM IS THAT JESUS WAS FOUND MISSING SUNDAY MORNING. AS I SAID SIMPLE MATH ... JESUS DIED ON THE 14^TH DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH OF THE JEWISH CALENDAR JUST AS EVERY OTHER PASSOVER LAMB BEING SACRIFICED TO KEEP HIS PEOPLE FROM DEATH WAS.

HERE IS A LIL CHART TO MAKE DOING THE MATH ... EVEN EASIER

EVENTS OF PASSOVER ARE IN BLUE
EVENTS OF JESUS ARE IN RED