Lesson 60: - Fall Feasts
There are three feasts in the fall of the year: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Trumpets is a celebration of the New Year. It is a time of rejoicing, a time of new things, and in some cases a signal of changes for the people if the New Year falls into specific requirements – such as the seventh year which was to be a year of no labor, or the Year of Jubilee which came every fiftieth year.
Nine days after the Feast of Trumpets was the Day of Atonement – a day of fasting and prayer for the people, the day the High Priest went into the Holiest Place of the Tabernacle to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people each year. The Feast of Tabernacles (also called Feast of Booths) followed. Please read about these Feasts in Leviticus 23.
As the Bible says in Matthew 24:36, we cannot know the day or the hour when these feasts will be fulfilled by Jesus as perfectly as He fulfilled the spring feasts with His first coming. As the spring feasts began the religious year – the spiritual life – so the fall feasts began the civil or governmental life, and will be fulfilled in Jesus’ second coming. He has not yet told us how everything in these feasts show us pictures of Himself, but there are some things we can begin to understand from the rest of Scripture:
The Feast of Trumpets says the inner door of the Tabernacle is opened; in Revelation 4:1 Jesus showed John the open door in Heaven.
The Day of Atonement is a day of being reconciled to God through judgment of sin. Many Bible teachers believe this will be fulfilled in some way in connection with the time of Great Tribulation which is still to come.
The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) is a time of great joy and celebration, and may well find its fulfillment in the establishment of Jesus as the King for the entire earth as He returns to earth to reign.
While we cannot know how all these feasts will be fulfilled by Jesus, we CAN know they WILL be fulfilled just as perfectly as He fulfilled the first four feasts in His first coming. Jesus said we cannot know the day or the hour, but He also chided the religious leaders of His day for not seeing the signs of the times and recognizing the seasons from those times (see Matthew 16:1-4).
*Dig deeper: What signs Jesus named in Matthew 24 do you see being fulfilled in our world today?
There are three feasts in the fall of the year: the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Trumpets is a celebration of the New Year. It is a time of rejoicing, a time of new things, and in some cases a signal of changes for the people if the New Year falls into specific requirements – such as the seventh year which was to be a year of no labor, or the Year of Jubilee which came every fiftieth year.
Nine days after the Feast of Trumpets was the Day of Atonement – a day of fasting and prayer for the people, the day the High Priest went into the Holiest Place of the Tabernacle to offer sacrifices for the sins of the people each year. The Feast of Tabernacles (also called Feast of Booths) followed. Please read about these Feasts in Leviticus 23.
As the Bible says in Matthew 24:36, we cannot know the day or the hour when these feasts will be fulfilled by Jesus as perfectly as He fulfilled the spring feasts with His first coming. As the spring feasts began the religious year – the spiritual life – so the fall feasts began the civil or governmental life, and will be fulfilled in Jesus’ second coming. He has not yet told us how everything in these feasts show us pictures of Himself, but there are some things we can begin to understand from the rest of Scripture:
The Feast of Trumpets says the inner door of the Tabernacle is opened; in Revelation 4:1 Jesus showed John the open door in Heaven.
The Day of Atonement is a day of being reconciled to God through judgment of sin. Many Bible teachers believe this will be fulfilled in some way in connection with the time of Great Tribulation which is still to come.
The Feast of Tabernacles (or Booths) is a time of great joy and celebration, and may well find its fulfillment in the establishment of Jesus as the King for the entire earth as He returns to earth to reign.
While we cannot know how all these feasts will be fulfilled by Jesus, we CAN know they WILL be fulfilled just as perfectly as He fulfilled the first four feasts in His first coming. Jesus said we cannot know the day or the hour, but He also chided the religious leaders of His day for not seeing the signs of the times and recognizing the seasons from those times (see Matthew 16:1-4).
*Dig deeper: What signs Jesus named in Matthew 24 do you see being fulfilled in our world today?