Three of the four spring holidays
are celebrated within an eight-day period (Abib
14-21). The three spring festivals overlap or
run into each other. The fourth and final spring
feast is the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot or Pentecost).
The Feast of Weeks is held seven weeks or fifty
days following the morrow after the Sabbath
of Passover.
The spring holidays of Passover,
Unleavened
Bread, and Firstfruits
are a portrait of the death and resurrection
of Y'shua (Jesus). He sacrificed Himself on
Passover, was buried on the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, and was resurrected on Firstfruits. The
Feast
of Weeks (Shavuot or Pentecost) was the
day the Holy Sprit fell on believers.
Passover
and the Feast
of Unleavened Bread are held in immediate
sequence. The lamb was slain on the fourteenth
and the Feast of Unleavened bread began on the
fifteenth day of the first month. And in the
fourteenth day of the first month is the Passover
of the LORD. And in the fifteenth day of this
month is the feast: seven days shall unleavened
bread be eaten (Num. 28:16-17). This passage
might account for why Jesus began His Passover
seder on the fourteenth. These are distinctly
different holidays falling on different days;
however, due to their closeness they are usually
treated as one festival. (The scriptures seem
to teach that these are two names for the same
festival. See Exodus 13:3-8.)
As you study the Spring Festivals,
you will see the plan of God fulfilled in such
dramatic detail that you cannot help but be
stricken by the awesomeness of our Eternal King.
The spring festivals clearly prophesy the first
coming of Messiah and the fall festivals are
prophetic of His second coming.
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