| Feast
[Russian] {Jewish} |
Season | For Israel under the Law | For All God's People Under Grace | Scripture | Event |
| Passover
[Paskha] {Pesach} |
Spring
(new beginning) |
Redemption from bondage in Egypt | Believers in Christ redeemed from bondage of sin | ..ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold.. but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. (I Peter 1: 18,19) | The
Crucifixion
(Redemption) |
| Unleavened Bread | Spring | Purging of all leaven | All believers in Christ cleansed from sin and empowered to walk in newness of life | Purge old...the old leaven that ye may be a new lump...for even Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us. (I Cor. 5:7) | (Sanctification) |
| (God) made Him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. (II Cor. 5:21) | (Justification) | ||||
| FirstFruits | Spring | Thanksgiving for firstfruits, the promise of the harvest to come (first of the grain presented to God). | Christ, the first to rise from. the dead -- the promise of resurrection and eternal life for all who believe on Him. | But now Is Christ risen from the dead... the firstfruits of them that slept...even so in Christ all shall be made alive. (I Cor. 15:20 and 22b) | The Resurrection of Christ |
| Feast of Weeks
[Pentekost]
{Shavu'ot} |
Late Spring 7 weeks after Passover (in gathering of first harvest) | Thanksgiving
for first harvest
and: |
God's first harvest of those redeemed in Christ (Jews and Gentiles) | And when the Day of Pentecost was fully come..they were all filled with the Holy Spirit ... (Acts 2:1a and 4a)..the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. (Acts 2:4b) | The
Coming of
the Holy Spirit
and: |
| According to oral tradition, the time of the giving of The Law at Sinai. | God's law written on the hearts of the redeemed. | I will put my law Into their hearts and in their minds I will write them. (Hebrews 10:16) | The Birth of the Church | ||
|
... Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. (John 4:35) |
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| Feast
[Russian] {Jewish} |
Season | For Israel under the Law | For All God's People Under Grace | Scripture | Event |
| Feast of
Trumpets
[Pamiat Trub] {New Year, Rosh Hashanah} |
Early Autumn | A Solemn Assembly (trumpets blown to prepare for the Day of Atonement) | The beginning of the re-gathering of Israel to the land in preparation for the final Day of Atonement | I will father them out of all countries whither I have driven them ... and I will bring them again unto this place and I will cause them to dwell safely (Jer. 32:37) | Israel Regathered |
| The assembly of all believers, dead and alive, in the heavens with Christ | For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God: ... and ... shall be caught up together ... to meet the Lord. (I Thess. 4:1 6 and 1 7) also (I Cor. and 15:52) | The Rapture of the Church and the Return of Christ | |||
| Day of Atonement
[Sudnie D'en] {Yom Kippur} |
Autumn | A Solemn Assembly for repentance and forgiveness under the Law (repeated annually) | Believers In Christ forgiven by one Atonement for all time | So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ... (Heb. 9:28) | Israel Returns to Her Messiah |
| The rest of Israel will repent and look to her Messiah in one day | And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplications, and they shall look an Me whom they have pierced and they shall moum for him ... in that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and ... Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness. (Zech. 12: 10 and 13: 1) | ||||
| Feast of Booths
(Tents,
Tabernacles) [Kuscha]
{Sukkot} |
Autumn
(final harvest) |
Harvest celebration and Memorial of Tabernacles in the wilderness | Joyous Assembly -- all peoples brought under the rulership of the King Messiah | ... everyone that Is left of all the nations which came up against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles (Zech. 14. 16) | The Kingdom of God on Earth |
| Feast
[Russian] {Jewish} |
Season | For Israel under the Law | For All God's People Under Grace | Scripture | Event |
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