Holy Days
All of God’s Holy Days are important in that they have a deeper connection to a greater purpose for God’s plan.
These annual feasts were commanded by The Most High in Leviticus and in Deuteronomy. Leviticus 23 explains how to keep the weekly Sabbath, a day of rest, along with how to observe His Holy Days throughout the year.
The seven Holy Days are: Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Last Great Day.
They begin in the Spring and end in the Fall.
Passover originally celebrates the Israelites’ deliverance from slavery in Egypt, through the sacrifice of a lamb to the Most High. Exodus 12
Now Christ is our Passover who also has been sacrificed and requires repentance of our sins to receive salvation. I Corinthians 5:7
On the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord where seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Leviticus 23:6
Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened….
I Corinthians 5:7-8
Leaven symbolizes sin in our lives.
Exodus 34:22 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.
Deuteronomy 16:9-13
9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
10 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
11 And thou shalt rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to place his name there.
12 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
The Feast of Trumpets is a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Leviticus 23:24
The Day of Atonement shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Leviticus 23: 27-33
Christ is our atonement.
The Feast of Tabernacles is a time that the Lord commanded Israel to remember His deliverance from the bondage of Egypt and for His provision. They were to live in “booths” for seven days. Leviticus 23:34-44
The Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrated even in God’s Kingdom on earth.
Zechariah 14:16, 18, 19
This was a holy convocation with commands to do no work.