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Biblical Holy Days Overview
Complete Introduction
(continued)
 Shavuot
- The Feast of Weeks
Between Passover and Shavuot, when Jews celebrate the giving
of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, they are told to count seven weeks (49
days) -- a very curious commandment indeed. Shavuot is celebrated and a
harvest offering on day fifty (Pentecost)--Leviticus
23:15-22.
THE PAST: "When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in
one place... all of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak
in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Now there were staying in Jerusalem
God-fearing Jews from every nations under heaven... each one heard them
speaking in his own language,"--Acts
2:1-4.
THE FUTURE: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the
whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come... go
and make disciples of all nations... teaching them to obey everything I have
commanded you. And surely I will be with you always, to the very end of the
age,"--Matthew
24:14;
28:19-20.
 Rosh
Ha-Shanah - The Feast of Trumpets & The Ten Days of Awe
The Shofar--Ram's horn Trumpets are blown to proclaim a gathering for worship
and the Jewish New Year--Leviticus
23:23-25;
Psalm 81:3. The horn was also used to announce
the public display of the Ark of the Covenant--1
Chronicles 15:24,
16:6; announce the new king--1
Kings 1:34-35; warn of battle against the Gentiles by divine
intervention--Isaiah
18:3-6; to inflict fear and concern--Amos
3:6; and to announce the coming Day of the Lord--Zephaniah
1:16;
Zechariah 9:14.
THE FUTURE: "Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy
hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the Day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand,"--
Joel 2:1. "Multitudes, multitudes in the
valley of decision [Ten Days of Awe], for the Day of the Lord is near in
the valley of decision,"--
Joel 3:14. "Do not be afraid of what you are
about to suffer. I tell you, the Devil will put some of you in prison to test
you, and you will suffer persecution for ten days. be faithful, even to
the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life,"--Revelation
2:10.
"Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet... for disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction... prepare for battle... the city must be punished; it is filled with oppression... take warning, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you and make your land
desolate so no one can live in it,"--Jeremiah
6:1-8.
 Yom
Kippur - The Day of Atonement
The High Priest would open the Holy of Holies, briefly exposing the Ark of
the Covenant, to sprinkle blood on the Ark for Israel's sins, where either one
received complete forgiveness, or if unrepentant was cut off from the people--Leviticus
23:26-32.
THE FUTURE: "The Seventh Angel sounded His trumpet... then God's
Temple in Heaven was opened, and within His Temple was seen the Ark of His
Covenant [and basis for judgment]. And there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm,"--Revelation
11:15-19. "The Temple, that is, the Tabernacle of Testimony [Ark of
Ten Commandments], was opened. Out of the Temple came the seven angels with the
seven plagues... and no one could enter the Temple until the seven plagues of
the seven angels were completed," --Revelation
15:5-8.
The Year of Jubilee
"Then have the trumpet sounded everywhere on the tenth day of
the seventh month; on the Day of Atonement sound the trumpet throughout your
land. Consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout the
land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you; each one of you is
to return to his family property and each to his own clan,"--Leviticus
25:9-10.
THE PAST: "He [Jesus] went to Nazareth, where He had
been brought up, and on the Sabbath day He went into the synagogue, as was His
custom. And He stood up to read. The scroll of the prophet Isaiah was handed to
Him. Unrolling it, He found the place where it is written [Isaiah
61:1-2]: The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because he has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the
prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to
proclaim the [Jubilee] Year of the Lord's favor,"--Luke
4:16-19.
THE FUTURE: The prophet writes of the coming day when
Messiah will finish the Isaiah proclamation on the final Jubilee... "to
proclaim the [Jubilee] Year of the Lord's favor, and the Day of
Vengeance of our God"--the Day of the Lord. Isaiah also wrote, "For the
Day of Vengeance was in My heart, and the [Jubilee] Year of My Redemption
has come... I trampled the nations in My anger; in My wrath I made them drunk
and poured their blood on the ground,"-- (Isaiah 63:4, 6).
 Sukkot
- The Feast of Tabernacles/Booths
Feast of Tabernacles Temporary Booths are constructed to remind Israel of the
Wilderness wandering for forty years. A Lulav of Palm Branches are waved
ushering the Kingdom--Leviticus
23:33-44.
THE FUTURE:
--On earth. "How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It
will be a time of trouble for Jacob [144,000--Revelation
7:3-8], but he will be saved out of it... though I completely
destroy all the nations among which I scatter you [into the wilderness
for 40 days--"a day for each year,"--
Ezekiel 4:6;
Numbers 14:34]. I will not completely destroy
you. I will discipline you but only with justice; I will not let you go entirely
unpunished [for the sin of the house of Judah],"--Jeremiah
30:7-11.
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