Festival Of Weeks (Pt.4) Series

Quick recap of what we have covered so far:

All 7 Feasts are found in Leviticus Chapter 23.

We have covered 3 of the 7, and today we will learn about The Festival of Weeks.

For each of these Feasts we have been taking into consideration these 5 things:

Understand the Hebrew calendar

Historical significance

Scripture that guides us through this journey

How each feast leads us to Jesus

What it means to us as Christians

The key passage for this study is:

Colossians 2:16–17 “So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.”

As we are connecting the dots from the OT to NT, we should keep in mind that the whole bible is the unified story that leads to Christ.

7 Feasts as laid out in

Leviticus Chapter 23:

Passover

Feast of Unleavened bread

Feast of First fruits

Feast of Weeks / Day of Pentecost

Feast of Trumpets

Day of Atonement

Feast of Tabernacles

BODY

When we looked at Passover, we examined:

When it was established

Why it was established

Who established it

All these are found in Exodus chapter 12.

We also examined two NT passages that tied in to Exodus Chapter 12.

1 Peter 1:19 “but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot.”

John 1:29 “The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!”

Just as the unblemished lamb was used to mark the doors of the Jewish people, so death would passover them in Egypt and they would be delivered from slavery from Pharoah, Jesus is our Passover Lamb who delivers us from the slavery of sin.

Next, we took a closer look at:

The Feast of Unleavened Bread.

The significance of Unleavened Bread is that the Israelites had to leave in Egypt in haste and there was no time to let the bread rise, therefore they left out the leaven, or yeast.

The leaven or yeast is symbolic of the sin in our lives, and Jesus is our Unleavened Bread of Life.

Paul gives a powerful analogy in:

1 Corinthians 5:6–8 “Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Therefore purge out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, since you truly are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.”

We then looked how sin “puffs up” our lives, just a yeast “puffs up bread”.

The next feast we discussed was:

Feast of Firstfruits

Our key verse for these message was:

1 Corinthians 15:20 “But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.”

We looked at:

Kinds of First Fruits

What First Fruits mean to God

How Jesus is our First Fruit

I challenged you to dig a bit and find more scripture with “first-fruits” in them.

In these first 3 Feasts, we see Jesus in all three.

Passover represents His crucifixion and death.

Unleavened Bread represents Jesus’ burial.

First Fruits represents Jesus’ resurrection.

Let’s look at the next Festival.

Feast of Weeks

Stand with me as we honor God while reading His word.

Leviticus 23:15-21 read from by bible

v15-16 reminded about Peter asking Jesus about forgiveness

Leviticus 23:15–16 “‘And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord.”

This have become known as Feast of Weeks.

Hebrew word: Shavout (pronounce) which means “weeks.” A week of weeks...

50 days after leaving Egypt, the Lord descended on Mt. Sinai in fire to meet with Moses and reveal the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 19:16–19 “Then it came to pass on the third day, in the morning, that there were thunderings and lightnings, and a thick cloud on the mountain; and the sound of the trumpet was very loud, so that all the people who were in the camp trembled. And Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet with God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly. And when the blast of the trumpet sounded long and became louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by voice.”