Jewish Feasts Fulfilled in Christ at Calvary: Introduction

[asterisktom]

In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to go from solid truth to peripheral possibilities. Our emphases ought to match the emphases of the New Covenant, not the Old. Also, the greater light of the New Testament should be applied to the Old, not the other way around.

Jewish Feasts Fulfilled in Christ at Calvary: Introduction

This is a detailed study of the Feasts of Leviticus and their relation to the New Covenant. 1. Well-Grounded Theology. The Feasts Fulfilled in Christ. In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to …

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[Ben1445]

In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to go from solid truth to peripheral possibilities. Our emphases ought to match the emphases of the New Covenant, not the Old. Also, the greater light of the New Testament should be applied to the Old, not the other way around.

Jewish Feasts Fulfilled in Christ at Calvary: Introduction

This is a detailed study of the Feasts of Leviticus and their relation to the New Covenant. 1. Well-Grounded Theology. The Feasts Fulfilled in Christ. In ascertaining Biblical doctrine we ought to …

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I would only note that, while we don’t celebrate it the same way, communion and Passover are loosely the same thing.
The Lord’s Supper was a Passover. And we don’t eat the bitter herbs of Passover or sit for hours pondering the moment of our freedom (though to some the mere minutes of the extra time spent on communion may seem like forty years in the wilderness, as oft as we take the bread and the cup). But I think that a good review of Passover would help us understand better what Jesus did for us.
Passover has no expiration date.
Exodus 12:14
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

Again, we keep our ordinance differently in churches, generally, using only the items highlighted in the NT.
But it would not surprise me if we were to spend eternity eating Passover meals.

 

[percho]

'These are appointed seasons [Feasts] of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons: Lev 23:4 YLT

Excluding the seventh day, which I believe every seventh day from the first seventh day of creation, to be a holy convocation, feast, appointed time; How many holy convocations are listed in Lev. 23?

Are these holy convocations a feast day?

How many? I also do not find where God gave each holy convocation day a specific name, yet believe there are seven feast days.

1 Cor 5:7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ, [On the 14th day of the first month at even.]
1 Cor 15:17 YLT and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

Is to be unleavened, to be, having had ones sins washed from him in the blood of the Lamb? Does the above justify two days of holy convocation?


'And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work; Num 28:26

I wonder what that day of first fruit was about, the day of the third day of holy convocations? Would it have been possible without the death of the LORDS Passover?

John 16:7 KJV Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Why would the church think that day was meant for them?


I think the fulfilment of the feasts began with the death of Christ.

 

[asterisktom]

'These are appointed seasons [Feasts] of Jehovah, holy convocations, which ye proclaim in their appointed seasons: Lev 23:4 YLT

Excluding the seventh day, which I believe every seventh day from the first seventh day of creation, to be a holy convocation, feast, appointed time; How many holy convocations are listed in Lev. 23?

Are these holy convocations a feast day?

How many? I also do not find where God gave each holy convocation day a specific name, yet believe there are seven feast days.

1 Cor 5:7 cleanse out, therefore, the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened, for also our passover for us was sacrificed -- Christ, [On the 14th day of the first month at even.]
1 Cor 15:17 YLT and if Christ hath not risen, vain is your faith, ye are yet in your sins;

Is to be unleavened, to be, having had ones sins washed from him in the blood of the Lamb? Does the above justify two days of holy convocation?


'And in the day of the first-fruits, in your bringing near a new present to Jehovah, in your weeks, a holy convocation ye have; ye do no servile work; Num 28:26

I wonder what that day of first fruit was about, the day of the third day of holy convocations? Would it have been possible without the death of the LORDS Passover?

John 16:7 KJV Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.

Why would the church think that day was meant for them?


I think the fulfilment of the feasts began with the death of Christ.

I can't see how we can call holy convocations as feast days, especially given the description of these convocations and feasts.

I used to believe that there were seven Levitical feasts, but could only find three mentioned as such. A quick search will reveal only the three mentioned above, three times when males were required to come up to Jerusalem, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. Other supposed feasts are actually holy convocations. And they are connected with the three Feasts, but a Feast is not a convocation. We also have direct proof on their being only three Feasts of Torah in the following three passages; two in Exodus and one in Deuteronomy :

“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: 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); and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field. Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord God.” - Ex. 23:14-17

“Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.” - Ex. 34:23

“Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God at the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Booths; and they are not to appear before the LORD empty-handed.” - Deut. 16:16

The feasts certainly are important to study, seeing that they tell us much about the person and work of Christ, but churches go too far in trying to perpetuate them in their own assemblies.