Dear Brian,
What I believe is that everything about Jesus life was fulfillment of the OT feast. I can put them here and how we see His fulfillment of them.
1st Rosh Hashannah- Feast of Trumpets
Numbers 29
1: And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
At the sound of the Shofar the calendar is restarted and they read the sacrifice of Isaac. This feast is believed to be a future fulfillment in the Rapture or His return to the earth. Also, it is thought to be the day on which He was baptised by John.
2nd Yom Kippur- Day of Atonement
Leviticus 16 (the scape goat)
21: 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:
22: 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.
As soon as Jesus was baptised by John He went into the desert to be tempted by the devil I believe He was functioning as the scape goat. In the Talmud they say that on that year the cord on the goats neck no longer changed color to show which goat was teh sapegoat. They realized that God was not taking their offering.
Lev. 23
27: Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
28: And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God.
9: For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people.
30: And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.
31: Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
The Lord was denying himself by fasting for 40 days and took on himself all the sins of Israel. Did you notice that it says for all your generations. Most of the feast state that these are forever.
3rd-Sukkot-Tabernacles/Booths
Exodus 23
16: And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.
Leviticus 23
31: Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32: It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
33: And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
34: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
35: On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
36: Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein.
37: These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
38: Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
39: Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
40: And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
41: And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
42: Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
43: That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
44: And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
Zechariah 14
16: And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
17: And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
18: And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
19: This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
This is a very important feast to the Lord it is mentioned many times in screipture and is one of the three times a year the entire House of Israel is to come before him in assembly, WHen they were in the wilderness he told them to build a Tabernacle dwelling for him not a huge Temple but a simple Tabernacle and we see his desire is to Tabernacle/dwell with his people. Therefore I believe his birth was at teh time we celebvrate God taberncaling with us and the deliverance of Egypt. That is also why I think every Nation of the world will come to this festival in Jerusalem/Zion in the future to Celebrate the King of Israel who saved them from their slavery to sin.
These are the first three Feast and I will continue later.
Have a blessed baptism day:-)
Nancy |
