Lev 23:4 | KingComments | STEP | Now come the feasts that will lead to the peace of the kingdom of peace. They have already been mentioned once in the introduction in connection with the prophetic meaning. Now it is a matter of “the times appointed for them”: 1. The Passover must be held on the 14th of the first month. 2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread immediately follows the Passover and is held from the 15th to the 22nd of the first month. 3. The sheaf of the first fruits is offered on a sabbath after the beginning of the harvest. 4. The Feast of Weeks, the middle one, is celebrated in the third month, fifty days after the offering of the first fruits; this feast is called the Feast of Weeks because it takes place seven weeks after the previous one. The fifth feast is the start of the second group of three feasts that take place exactly half a year later: 5. The Feast of new moon is on the 1st of the seventh month. 6. The day of atonement is on the 10th of the seventh month. 7. The Feast of Booths is from the 15th to the 22nd of the seventh month. There is a link between the first group of feasts and the second group of feasts: 1. On 10-1 the Passover lamb must be taken into the house; on 10-7 is the day of atonement. 2. On 15-1 the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; on 15-7 the Feast of Booths begins. Another division of the feasts can be made according to the words “the LORD spoke to Moses”: . The harvest feasts can only be celebrated in the land. There are three harvest feasts: 1. The feast of the sheaf of the first fruits is celebrated when the very first grain comes from the land. That is the barley harvest. 2. Fifty days later the wheat harvest follows ( ; ) and the wave breads are brought. 3. In the seventh month the last harvest feast, the Feast of Booths, takes place on the occasion of the harvest of grapes and olives.

‏ Leviticus 23:4

Order to Proclaim the Appointed Times

Now come the feasts that will lead to the peace of the kingdom of peace. They have already been mentioned once in the introduction in connection with the prophetic meaning. Now it is a matter of “the times appointed for them”:

1. The Passover must be held on the 14th of the first month.

2. The Feast of Unleavened Bread immediately follows the Passover and is held from the 15th to the 22nd of the first month.

3. The sheaf of the first fruits is offered on a sabbath after the beginning of the harvest.

4. The Feast of Weeks, the middle one, is celebrated in the third month, fifty days after the offering of the first fruits; this feast is called the Feast of Weeks because it takes place seven weeks after the previous one.

The fifth feast is the start of the second group of three feasts that take place exactly half a year later:

5. The Feast of new moon is on the 1st of the seventh month.

6. The day of atonement is on the 10th of the seventh month.

7. The Feast of Booths is from the 15th to the 22nd of the seventh month.

There is a link between the first group of feasts and the second group of feasts:

1. On 10-1 the Passover lamb must be taken into the house; on 10-7 is the day of atonement.

2. On 15-1 the Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; on 15-7 the Feast of Booths begins.

Another division of the feasts can be made according to the words “the LORD spoke to Moses”: Lev 23:1 ; 9 ; 23 ; 26 ; 33.

The harvest feasts can only be celebrated in the land. There are three harvest feasts:

1. The feast of the sheaf of the first fruits is celebrated when the very first grain comes from the land. That is the barley harvest.

2. Fifty days later the wheat harvest follows (Exo 9:31-32; Rth 1:22 ; Rth 2:23) and the wave breads are brought.

3. In the seventh month the last harvest feast, the Feast of Booths, takes place on the occasion of the harvest of grapes and olives.