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Old Testament Sacrifices
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Rituals for Levitical Offerings
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Special Sacrificial Rituals
F. Duane Lindsey, “Leviticus,” The Bible Knowledge Commentary, 1:168-69
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Old Testament Feasts and Other Sacred Days
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Eschatology of Israel’s Feasts (Lev. 23)
Date Length Feast Significance (Past) Typology (Future)
1. Weekly 1 day Sabbath* Reminder of: Millennial rest
(Shabbat) • Creation rest of God (Heb. 4:1-11)
• Deliverance from Egypt
Sign of Mosaic Covenant
(Exod. 20, 31; Deut 5)
2. 1-14 1 day Passover*† Redemption from Egypt by Redemption from sin by
(Nisan) (Read Song (Pesach) blood of the sacrificial lamb Christ's death as Lamb
of Songs) (Exod. 12) (1 Cor. 5:7b)
3. 1-15 7 days Unleavened Separation/break from Separated life of the
to 1-21 Bread*† dependence upon Egypt to redeemed for God
(Nisan) dependence upon God (1 Cor. 5:7a, 8)
4. 1-16 1 day Firstfruits Anticipation of God's future Resurrection of Christ
(Day after (barley sheaf material provisions (1 Cor. 15:20)
Harvest ceremony) -begins grain harvest
Sabbath)
5. 3-6 1 day Pentecost† Thanksgiving for God's past Coming of the Holy Spirit to
(Sivan) (Read Ruth) (Shavuoth) material provisions complete Christ's
(Weeks) -ends grain harvest (Deut. resurrection (Acts 2)
(Harvest) 16:9-12)
– Spring-Summer no feasts – Enjoyment of the harvest Church Age
6. 7-1 1 day Trumpets Preparation for national Rapture (1 Thess. 4:13f.)
(Tishri) (New Year) redemption and cleansing Revelation (Matt. 24:31)
(Rosh Hashanah) on Day of Atonement –Kingdom preparation
7. 7-10 1 day Day of National repentance and National repentance of
(Tishri) Atonement cleansing from sins of the Israel in the Tribulation
(Yom Kippur) people (Lev. 16) (Rom. 11:26-27)
8. 7-15 7 days Tabernacles*† Anticipated fulfillment of the Actual fulfillment of the
to 7-21 (Read (Booths/Tents) Abrahamic Covenant (Neh. Abrahamic Covenant
(Tishri) Eccles.) (Succoth) 8) –Kingdom (Matt. 17:4)
(the Lord)
(Ingathering)
9. 7-22 1 day Shemini Atzeret “8th Day of Assembly”
(Tishri) (Simchat Torah) “Rejoicing in the Torah”
The following days are not commanded in Scripture and probably have no eschatological significance:
10. 5-9 1 day 9th of Ab Destructions of Jerusalem:
(Ab) (Read Lam.) (Tish’ah be’ab) 586 BC & AD 70 ↑
11. 9-25 1 day Hanukkah Saving of the nation This Typology column
(Kislev) + 7 more (Dedication) under Judas Maccabeus shows that the order of
days of (Lights) in 164 BC Israel’s annual feasts
candle (Illumination) (cf. John 10:22) prophetically parallels her
lighting (Maccabees) experience as a nation
throughout history!
12. 12-14/15 2 days Purim Saving of the nation
(Adar) (Read Esther) (Lots) under Esther (9:21)
* Feasts celebrated in the Millennium (Isa. 66:23; Ezek. 45:21; 46:1; Zech. 14:16-19)
† Feasts celebrated in three annual Jerusalem pilgrimages by all male Israelites (Exod. 23:14-17)
