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The Seven (7)
Feasts/Festivals
Leviticus 23
zNew Series:
The Seven (7) OT Feasts/Festivals
Spring Feasts:
Passover (Pesach)
Unleavened Bread
First Fruits
Feasts of Weeks or
Pentecost (Shavuot)
Fall Feasts:
Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)
Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur)
Feasts of Tabernacles
(Sukkot)
Memorials established for us to pause, stop, and ponder...
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Memorial Day
A USA Federal Holiday observed on
the last Monday of May dedicated to
honor and mourn the men and
women who died while serving in the
US Armed Forces
May 1, 1865, 28 freed slaves buried
257 Union soldiers who died in a S.C.
Confederate prison camp
1868 –the first Memorial Day
1971 –Official Federal holiday 3pm National Memorial Moment
zBefore we start looking at each Festival,
we need to look at the Sabbath
Sabbath = “to cease” or “to rest” – not to sleep! Ps 121:4
states God never sleeps nor slumbers...He is always watching
Lev. 23 defines each of these feasts, however the Lord says,
“These are My appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are
to proclaim as sacred assemblies (no...not A/G!). There are 6
days when you may work, but the 7th day is a sabbath rest, a
day of sacred assembly...”
zGenesis 2: 1 - 3
“Thus, the heavens and earth were completed in all their
vast array. By the 7th day, God had finished the work He had
been doing, so on the 7th day He rested from His work. Then
God blessed the 7th day and made it holy because on it He
rested from all the work of creating that He had done.”
Rested = to pause, to stop, and to ponder...to be filled with a
sense of accomplishment, to be filled with satisfaction, and
to be ‘full’...
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Exodus 20: 8 –11
The 4th of the 10 Commandments
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you
shall labor and do all your work, but the 7th day is a sabbath to
the Lord your God...For in 6 days the Lord made the heavens
and the earth, the sea, and all in them, BUT He rested on the
7th day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the sabbath day and
made it holy.”
Rest was established by God for us, for humanity! ... To stop,
pause, and ponder...
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Exodus 31: 12 –18
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must
observe My sabbaths. This will be a sign between Me and you for
the generations to come, so you may know that I am the Lord Who
has made you holy... Observe the Sabbath because it is holy to
you...’” When the Lord finished speaking to Moses, He gave him
the two tablets of stone (10 Commandments) inscribed by the
finger of God.
*Sabbath is when He makes us holy and we cherish the Sabbath
as holy...it is holy to us
*Sabbath established before the law was given...the law was built
upon the Sabbath.
zJesus –The Lord of the Sabbath
Luke 6: 1 – 5, “On a Sabbath, Jesus and His disciples while walking
through a grain field, ate some of the grain. Some of the Pharisees
stated that they were breaking the Sabbath Law. Jesus responded
by reminding them that David and his men ate the consecrated
bread in the House of God ... Bread from the altar...The Son of Man
is the Lord of the Sabbath.”
Matt 12 adds to this story, “haven’t you read in the Law that the
priests on the sabbath duty in the temple desecrate the sabbath and
yet are innocent? If you had known what these words mean, ‘I
desire mercy, not sacrifice’ , you would not have condemned the
innocent. For the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath.”
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Daniel 7: 13 and Mark 10: 45 The Son of Man...
Dan 7: “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was
one like a son of man (Heb: bar enash = human) coming with the
clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was
led into His presence. He was given authority, glory and sovereign
power; all nations and peoples of every language worshiped Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away,
and His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.”
Mark 10: Jesus says He is the Son of Man! Incarnate: 100% man
and 100% God...The Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath
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Things to ponder:
The God Himself established the Sabbath
Sabbath means “cease” or “to rest”
The Sabbath was set for us! To help us grow in holiness
The 10 Commandments were based on the Sabbath
Jesus, the Son of Man is the Lord of the Sabbath
When we trust and grow in Jesus, He draws us to Himself,
we are able to live the Sabbath –we stop what we do,
pause, and ponder Who He is –falling before Him in
worship
