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the tomb, he again became sinless; the sacrifice was complete, and the tomb held no leaven. The feast
of Unleavened Bread was a picture of the burial of Jesus. Jesus had paid the sin debt in total! This feast
was a rehearsal that the Son of God would become sin for us, and that we could become righteous in
Him. 2 Corinthians 5:21:

21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us,
so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

First Fruits (Yom habikkurim) – Nisan 16 – 22. This was a feast in which God commanded Israel to bring
the spring harvest and wave a sheaf of grain (omer) before the Lord. It was to be waved the DAY AFTER
THE SABBATH or on Sunday. The week Jesus died, the Passover occurred on a High Sabbath, not the
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weekly sabbath (Saturday). In 33 AD, the High Sabbath began on Wednesday evening and concluded
Thursday evening. Friday was a normal day, but then the weekly sabbath began on Friday evening to
Saturday evening. The third day since Passover would be on Sunday morning, three days and nights
after Jesus was placed in the tomb. Isn’t it amazing that Jesus Christ was in the tomb, as He told us He
would be, three days and three nights, and arose on the very day that the sheaf of grain was waved
before the Lord? The Feast of First Fruits was a rehearsal for the resurrection of Christ, on the VERY
DAY!

Pentecost (Shavu’ot) – Silvan 6: The Feast of Weeks.
According to the Old Testament, they would go to the
day of the celebration of First fruits, and beginning
with that day, and then count forward 50 days. The
fiftieth day would be the Day of Pentecost. So, First
fruits is the beginning of the barley harvest and
Pentecost the celebration of the beginning of the
wheat harvest. Since on the 50 day it was honored, it
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was seven (7 days) weeks or 49 days or a week of
weeks. That’s how it got its name. The Jews
celebrated God’s gift of the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai, the Old Covenant of God to
His people. But Christ fulfilled the law or Old Covenant and brought to us a New Covenant under grace.
The Holy Spirit was to come as a validation of the New Covenant to seal every believer in Christ.
Pentecost was a rehearsal of the coming of a New Covenant. And on that EXACT DAY, the Holy Spirit
baptized believers by indwelling those who trusted in Him by faith.

Now we need to look at the Fall Feasts

In review, the fall feasts are Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teru’ah) – Tishri 1, The Day of Atonement (Yom
Kippur) – Tishri 10, and the feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) – Tishri 15

One of the fall feasts may have been fulfilled in Christ’s first coming.

We celebrate Jesus’s birth on Christmas each year. But it is doubtful that Jesus was born on December
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25 . The earliest mention of December 25 as Jesus’ birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century Roman
almanac that lists the death dates of various Christian bishops and martyrs. The first date listed,
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December 25, is marked: natus Christus in Betleem Judeae: “Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea.”

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