Shadows of the Future

Seven Jewish Feasts

Shadows of the Future

Matthew 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have not come to abolish these things but to fulfill them.

Hebrews 10:1a For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself,

Shadows of the Future – 7 Jewish Feasts

PassoverUnleavened BreadFirstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

TrumpetsAtonementTabernacles

Passover

1Peter 1:18-19 You know that from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors you were ransomed — not by perishable things like silver or gold, but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.

Passover

Protection from Destruction

Covered by Identification

New Life Begins

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Unleavened Bread

John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats from this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

Yeast’s Association with Evil

Mark 8:15 And Jesus ordered them, "Watch out! Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod!"

Acts 2:27 because you will not leave my soul in Hades, nor permit your Holy One to experience decay.

Application

1Corinthians 5:7-8 Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch of dough — you are, in fact, without yeast. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. So then, let us celebrate the festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of vice and evil, but with the bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.

Unleavened Bread

No yeast for the journey

The body that wouldn’t decay

Ridding our lives of Immorality

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Firstfruits

1Corinthians 15:20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.

22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

Firstfruits

Barley – first crop of the year

New life from a seed thrown into the ground

An eternal seed of life

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Pentecost - Two Loaves

Leviticus 23:17 From the places where you live you must bring two loaves of bread for a wave offering; they must be made from two tenths of an ephah of fine wheat flour, baked with yeast, as first fruits to the LORD.

A New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:33 "But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land," says the LORD. "I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people.

Hostilities Ended

Ephesians 2:14 For he is our peace, the one who made both groups into one and who destroyed the middle wall of partition, the hostility,

Birth of the Church

Acts 2:1-2a Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. Suddenly …

Acts 2:4a All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, …

Weeks

Wheat harvest

Law and Spirit

Community

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Trumpets

Matthew 24:30-31 Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man arriving on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he will send his angels with a loud trumpet blast, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

Rapture

1Corinthains 15:51-52 Listen, I will tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Trumpets and Shouts – Oh my…1Thessalonians 4:16-17 For the Lord himself

will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be suddenly caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.

Trumpets

No one knows the hour

Rapture of the saints

Preparation for judgment

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Atonement

Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. But they are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

Atonement Access

Romans 3:25 God publicly displayed him at his death as the mercy seat accessible through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness, because God in his forbearance had passed over the sins previously committed.

Atonement

Examination

Judgment

Sin Forgiven

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Tabernacles

John 14:1-2 "Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me. There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

Water of Life

John 7:37-38 On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.' "

Light of the World

John 8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

Final Scene

Revelation 22:1-2 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life — water as clear as crystal — pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb, flowing down the middle of the city's main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

God Dwells with Us

Revelation 22:3-5 And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him, and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. Night will be no more, and they will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, because the Lord God will shine on them, and they will reign forever and ever.

Tabernacle

God lives with His people

Jesus - living water and light

A final resolution

Passover

Unleavened Bread

Firstfruits

Weeks (Pentecost)

Trumpets

Atonement

Tabernacles

Feasts – Shadows of the Future

Passover – Safe HouseUnleavened Bread – Removal of ImmoralityFirstfruits – New Life

Weeks (Pentecost) – Covenant Community

Trumpets – Rapture Atonement – Judgment Tabernacle – God Living with Us