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NAMES IN ALL CAPS INDICATE THE SEVEN PRESCRIBED FEASTS OF MOSES.
The three that have three asterisks (***) in front of them are the ones which every able male was expected to attend.
Note that of the seven prescribed feasts of Moses, the first three all have to do with the First Coming of Christ, the last three have to do with the Second Coming, and the one in the middle, Pentecost, is the birth date of the Church.
According to Colossians 2:16-17, holy days are a shadow of things to come.
Leviticus 23 -is the key passage which describes the seven feasts.
The feasts were figures of things to come. It is very surprising how many of the most important events in Jewish and Christian history have occurred on one of these dates, especially when one notices the correlation between the events and what the corresponding feast originally signified. The Jewish people had an old civil calendar that started in the month of Tishri, but when Passover was instituted, the month of Nissan became the first month of their religious calendar.
Note: For much more information on the many amazing events which were fulfilled on these various days, we recommend reading Grant Jeffrey's Appointment With Armageddon (See Prophecy Books Section), and visiting Chuck Missler's site at Koinonia House We have noted some of the places where these two scholars have slightly different views from ours.
The Prophecy Puzzle has a section devoted to listing all the feasts and fasts of Israel and the events which have been associated with each one.
Nisan - First month of the new
(religious) calendar (Seventh month of
the ancient (civil) calendar)
(March/April)
First of Nisan - New Year
Tenth of Nisan
Sanctification of the Passover Lamb
Christ was "Cut Off" - Day of the Triumphal Entry
According to calculations by Sir Robert Anderson in his book The Coming Prince, sixty-nine "weeks" of years (prophetic years of lunar months = 360 days) occurred from March 14, 445 BC. in the reign of Artaxerxes Longimanus, until April 6, AD. 32. 1 Kings 8:2,65; Nehemiah 8:14-18. See Prophecy Books section.
Fourteenth of Nisan
*** THE PASSOVER SUPPER
Leviticus 23:4-5
The Last Supper - New Covenant
Luke 22:19-20
The Crucifixion -
John 12:23-24,27-28 later the same Jewish day (Day lasts from sunset to sunset)
Fifteenth of Nisan
THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED
BREAD
Leviticus 23:6-8
Exodus journey from bondage of Egypt began
Exodus 12:41
Seventeenth of Nisan
FIRSTFRUITS
Exodus 23:19; Leviticus 23:9-14
Israel ate the firstfruits of the promised Land
Joshua 5:10-12
(Passover - 14th- Old corn - 15th, Last time Manna given - 16th, New fruit - 17th)
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ
1 Corinthians 15:20;
Matthew 27:52-53
Sixth of Sivan
(50 Days after Feast of Firstfruits)
***THE FEAST OF WEEKS
Leviticus 23:16,21
(Pentecost - 50 days) (Feast of Harvest)
Giving of the Holy Spirit to the Church Acts 2:1-4
Missler also feels this could be the date
for The Rapture. He shows this is the
only feast which allowed leavened
bread (Gentile flavor), and that this is
also known as the Feast of Harvest, and
that Jesus used "the harvest" as an
idiom to refer to the ingathering of
believers.)
Tammuz - Fourth Month
(June/July)
Seventeenth Day of Tammuz -
The Fast of Mourning
Zechariah 8:19
Av - Fifth Month Ninth of Av Zechariah 7:5
Tishri - Seventh Month (First month of
the ancient (civil) calendar) First of Tishri Leviticus 23:23-24
Possible date for Rapture Missler thinks this is possible date
of Birth of Christ (Sept. 29 2 BC.).
(Missler, Personal Update,
September, 1995, p. 14 and
December, 1995, pp. 9-10.) Third of Tishri Tenth of Tishri Leviticus 23:26-32
Fifteenth of Tishri Leviticus 23:33-34, 42-43
Possible date of the Birth of Christ
The theme of the feast and the time
of year fits. It is also nine months after the
proposed date of Christ's
conception. (See Hanukkah below.) Chisleu - Ninth Month Twenty-Fourth of Chisleu(Kislev) Recapture of the Temple and
cleansing of Sanctuary (165 BC.)
Twenty-Fifth of Chisleu Possible date of the conception of
Christ Possible date of the visit of the
Magi (one year later) Adar - Twelfth Month
(December/January)
Fourteenth and Fifteenth of Adar
(July/August)
The Fast of Tisha B'Av
• The twelve spies returned with their report.
• Solomon's Temple destroyed by Babylonians (587 BC.) Lamentations 2:7; Zechariah 8:9
• Destruction of the Second Temple by Romans (70 AD.)
• England expelled all Jews (1290 AD.) (Until Lord Cromwell, 1657 Right of Jewish Settlement)
• Spain expelled all Jews (1492 AD.)
• World War I declared (1914)- Russian persecution of Jews
(September/October)
ROSH HASHANAH
Ancient New Year's Day (Civil)
(The Feast of Trumpets)
(Of course, ANY day is possible for The
Rapture. We can not know the day or
the hour, but this is a distinct
possibility.)
Fast of Gedaliah
YOM KIPPUR
The Day of Atonement
*** THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES
(November/December)
Day before Hanukkah
Hanukkah
(Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication)
Feast of Purim
