Feasts

Days of Remembrance Four days each year are Days of Remembrance. Each one is the 1st day of a new season. They fall on the 1st day of the 1st, 4th, 7th and 10th months. The 1st day of the 1st month is the beginning of the year (Exodus 12:2). The 1st day of the…

The Fasts The prophet Zechariah names four fasts. They are in the 4th, 5th, 7th and 10th months. Yahuah promised that these sad days would one day become happy feasts: Thus saith YHWH of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the…

How to keep the Last Supper at home: bread, the cup, and Scripture on the night the Messiah ate with His disciples before the cross.

Passover Long ago, our ancestors were oppressed in Egypt until the Most High sent Moses to redeem us by His hand.  In the month of Abib, on the 14th day of the month at midnight, Yah sent one last plague on the Egyptians, which left all of the firstborn of the land dead throughout the night.  The…

Week of Unleavened Bread Long ago, our ancestors were oppressed in Egypt until the Most High sent Moses to redeem us by His hand.  In the month of Abib, on the 14th day of the month at midnight, Yah sent one last plague on the Egyptians, which left all of the firstborn of the land dead throughout…

First Fruit Waving Long ago, our ancestors were oppressed in Egypt until the Most High sent Moses to redeem us by His hand.  In the month of Abib, on the 14th day of the month at midnight, Yah sent one last plague on the Egyptians, which left all of the firstborn of the land dead throughout the…

The Feast of Weeks comes 50 days, or seven weeks and a day, after the Sunday within the Week of Unleavened Bread (Leviticus 23:15-21).  Our ancestors would make offerings of crops to the Most High and also other offerings.  This celebration is also called the Feast of Harvest (Exodus 23:16), Day of Firstfruits (Numbers 28:26),…

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. (Leviticus 23:24) Day of Trumpets At the beginning of the month of Ethanim, our fathers would have a sacred gathering of celebration wherein…

The Day of Atonement On the 10th day of the 7th month, we are to afflict our souls (fast) as a memorial of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16, Leviticus 23:26-32). When the sons of Aaron carried the priesthood in the Temple, the high priest would go into the most holy place after making a…

Feast of Tabernacles On the 15th day of the 7th month, called Ethanim, comes the highlight of our ancestors' year.  An eight-day festival with two excuses to take off work. We're talking about the Feast of Tabernacles, also known as the Ingathering, the last of the appointed times given to Moses in the Law (Purim…