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Chapter 14: The Seven Feasts of Israel

Connect…

One of the best days of the year is when your entire family gets together and celebrates something.
Perhaps it’s someone’s birthday or a holiday on the calendar. We enjoy the fellowship and, most of the
time, good food! Sometimes we share with one another how special each other is. It just is a special
day to set aside the daily cares of the world and concentrate on family.

God knew we would enjoy such days. But more importantly, He designed special days throughout the
year to be set reserved to worship Him. He also had a secondary reason for commanding Israel to
observe special feasts every year. He wanted to communicate to them what His plan for redemption
involved in pictorial and illustrative fashion. Each of the seven feasts He commanded Moses to observe
communicates aspects of His redemptive plan for the ages. Today we are going to study the various
feasts God commanded Moses and the people of Israel and see when and why he created them.

Objectives…

1. The student should be able to name and explain the seven feasts given to Moses for Israel to
observe.

2. The student should be able to explain the difference between a weekly Sabbath and a High Sabbath
and why differentiating the two is so important.

3. The student should be able to name and describe the religious holy days observed today in Israel.

The Lesson ...

The Seven Annual Feasts of the Lord
Leviticus 23 is the single chapter in the Scriptures that sums up everything. God’s eternal plan from
chaos to eternity is ingeniously revealed through the nature and timing of the Seven annual Feasts of
the Lord.

Leviticus 23:1-2 And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto
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them, The set feasts of Jehovah, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set
feasts.

Sacrifice is the major feature of feasts. Believers are not responsible for keeping these feasts, but
knowledge of them enhances our faith. Our Lord kept every one of them without fail, even celebrating
Passover on His last earthly night.

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