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Feast days and Holy days

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HOW TO CELEBRATE THE FEAST DAYS AND HOLY DAYS

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With all the feasts / holy days: 

ahead of time make you sure your house is clean

wash yourself

wear fresh clean clothing

make sure you have program of the day

have a short gathering of praying, reading scriptures and watching, listening to related videos and or music

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If you have guests or a big gathering:

make sure you have a clear program of the day

have 1 or 2 MC's/ speakers that will lead the activities during the gathering

make sure you have enough food, drinks and seating

make sure you have a program (child nursery) for the children, so that their sound will not disturb the meeting

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GENERAL NOTE:

do not do anything too long. Let the celebration be short and sweet to the point.

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Purpose of the Passover Feast:

Remembering the Israelites their deliverance from the slavery in Egypt.

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Celebration today:

1-day feast:

Passover preparation:

1 week before this feast start eating up all the yeast out of the house.

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4 days before the Passover evening:

Selecting and separating a perfect 1-year-old sheep lamb or goat lamb. Ex.12:1-5

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Passover feast start: starting at sundown till night: preparing the bitter herbs, the unleavened bread and killing and

fire-roasting the perfect 1-year-old sheep lamb or 1-year-old goat lamb. Ex. 12:6-7

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Passover recipe:

Bread without yeast

Bitter berbs: make a sauce of sellery, fenegreke, etc

Goat lamb / sheep lamb: lamb with olive oil, salt and peper fire roasted above a fire.

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Celebration of the Passover: starting at midnight till sunrise

Eating the fire roasted lamb together with bitter herbs and bread made without leaven, in every household, everybody being dressed in their outdoor clothing (jackets and shoes). Ex.12:8-14

Do not make it into a sitdown-buffet-restaurant-all-you-can-eat-dinner-feast

It is supposed to be a hasty meal, eating as if you are in a haste, just like how it was in the time with Moses.

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Comment on verse Ex.12:7. The blood does not have to be stricken on the doorpost any more. That was a foreshadow of what was to come. ha Mashiach already fulfilled that at the crucifixion.

Yahusha ha Mashiach is the perfect lamb. When Israelites and Gentiles accept and thus “eat” ha Mashiach the perfect lamb, they will, through His death and resurrection, be delivered from spiritual death and slavery to sin. This gives the Israelites the possibility to enter the kingdom and be restored to their original role, purpose and position of ruling in the kingdom together with Yahusha ha Mashiach. The Gentiles will have the possibility to become servants in the kingdom of Yahusha ha Mashiach.

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Scriptures: Ex.12:1-14, Ex.12:20-38, Lev. 23:5, Nu.9:1-14, 28:16, Deut.16:1-3a, 4b-7. Mt.26:17, Mk.12:1-14, 28:1, Lk.4:16, Jn.5:9, John 6:46-58, Ac.13:42, Col.2:16, Heb.4:1-11. Isa14:1-2

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The Messiah is the Passover lamb, so the attention must be on Him.

Remembering how He saved his people from the bondage of sin.

The focus is not on the food.

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Purpose of the Feast of unleavened bread:

Remembering the Israelites how YAHUAH brought them out of Egypt in haste. They had no time to bake bread with leaven.

In haste they left; they no time to for the luxuries of life.

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Also remembering how He will bring Israel out of Babylon into the Kingdom of Yahusha ha Mashiach.

 

Celebration today:

7-day feast: holy gathering on the 1st and 7th day. No servile work on the 1st and 7th day. The feast of unleavened bread should be celebrated by removing all leaven (and leaven products) out of the house so that leaven cannot be consumed for seven days. Instead; consuming bread without leaven and holding several gatherings, reading scriptures and praising YAHUAH. 7 days of feast.

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Alternative food that you can eat during the week instead of bread; pancakes

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Scriptures: Ex.12:15-20, Ex.20:39, Ex.13:3-9, Mat.24:17

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The Messiah is the Unleavened bread; The man without sin.

We must eat and totally accept The man without and nothing else.

He is the only way to salvation.

Again the focus is not on the food.

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Purpose of the Feast of First Fruits

Thanking the Most High for the first harvest of the year.

Thanking the Most High for the ha Mashiach to be the first to resurrect out of the dead and receive the resurrection body. Thanking The Most High for the promise of future resurrection body of all the righteous.

Ha Mashiach was the first one.

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Celebration today:

1-day feast: A holy gathering where you thank the Most High for the first harvest of the year.

And read scriptures about the resurrection and the resurrection body.

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Scriptures: Exo. 34:26, Prov. 3:9-10,

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Purpose of the Feast of weeks/ Harvest Feast / Feast of Pentecost:

Remembering the Israelites of YAHUAHs blessing on their second harvest of the year.

All Israelite men would gather in Jerusalem to celebrate the holy gathering.

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Why is this feast called "Feast of Weeks" ?

1 week is also 7 weeks (49 days)

Feast of "Weeks" is 2 x 49 days

49 days + 50 days after First Fruits the Israelites celebrated this feast.

Lev. 23:15-16

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Why is this feast also called "Harvest Feast" ?

The Israelites would thank The Most High for their second harvest of the year.

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Why is this feast also called "Feast of Pentecost" ?

Etymology. The term Pentecost comes from the Greek Πεντηκοστή (Pentēkostē) meaning "fiftieth". It refers to the Jewish festival celebrated 49 days + 50 days after First Fruits, also known as the "Feast of Weeks" and the "Feast of 50 days"

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Celebration today:

Remembering the feast of Pentecost / Feast of weeks / Harvest Feast where the disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirit and spoke with different tongues and men of different nations understood them in their own native language. Also personally thanking YAHUAH for having received the Holy Spirit after baptism.

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The disciples received / harvested the gift of The Most High by receiving the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.

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Scriptures: Lev.23:9-15, Jub.6:22, Acts 2, Rom.8:23, 1Cor.15:20-23, Acts.20:16, Luke 24:49, John 14:16-17, Acts 26, John 15:26. Ex.23:16a, 34:22a, Lev.23:15-21, Nu.28:26-31, Dt.16:9-12. Ac.2:1-4, 20:16, 1Cor.16:8

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Remember one another to be full of the Holy Spirit.

Encouraging one another to grow in the fruits of the Spirit.

Encouraging to discover / cultivate / use their gifts of the Spirit

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Purpose of the Feast of trumpets:

Preparing the Israelites for battle, the coming of Yahusha ha Mashiach and judgment day.

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Celebration today:

1-day feast: A holy gathering, literally hearing the sound of the shofar/trumpet (Num.29:1), warning and getting the people ready for the coming Great Tribulation and the coming of Yahusha ha Mashiach. Isa.58:1. The book of Revelation also mentions the blowing of trumpets which will lead to the coming of Yahusha ha Mashiach.

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Scriptures: Lev.23:23-25, Nu.29:1-6.

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Encouraging each other to be woke and alert. 

Inform each other of the latest news and world developments.

Teaching and revealing the current and future prophecies.

Encourage and teaching each other to flee Babylon, to homestead. 

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Purpose of the Day of Atonement:

Atoning the Israelites with YAHUAH.

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Celebration today:

1-day feast: A day of rest and no servile work, fasting, self-evaluation, repentance and forgiving.

After His crucifixion Yahusha ha Mashiach went into the heavenly tabernacle to shed His blood for the nation of Israel. Therefore, we are no longer to make sacrifices with animals.

 

Scriptures: Lev.16, 23:26-32, Nu.29:7-11, Isa.58, Rom.3:24-26, Heb.9:7, 10:3, 19-22. Isa.58:1-14, Mat.6:14-18.

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Repent of all sins

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Purpose of the Feast of Tabernacles:

Remembering the Israelites the journey from Egypt to Canaan how they dwelt in booths in the wilderness for forty years and how YAHUAH provided for them food, shelter and raiment.

Also preparing the Israelites for dwelling in tents and boots in the future.

The Israelite would also dwell in tents to gather the third (and last) harvest of the year.

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Celebration today:

8-day feast: holy gathering on the 1st and 8th day. No servile work on the 1st and 8th day. A week of celebration for the deliverance out of Egypt. Dwelling in tents and boots and praising YAHUAH.

During our travels we dwelt in the presence of YAHUAH. In the future this will happen again in the wilderness and in the Kingdom. Read Zechariah Chapter 2. Hos.2:6, Isa. 60:19-20, Rev.21:22-25.

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Scriptures: Ex.23:16b; 34:22b, Lev.23:33-36a, 39-43, Nu.29:12-34, Dt.16:13-15, Zec.14:16-19. Jn.7:2, 37.

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Purpose of the Feast of Dedication (optional feast):

Remembering how Jonathan Maccabee led the Israelites people into fighting against this tyranny of the Greeks and rededicating the temple to YAHUAH. During the time of the Maccabees, Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Greeks had defiled the temple and made it law that the Children of Israel could no longer follow the commandments of YAHUAH. The Greeks also stole the vessels from the temple and began to profane the temple by sacrificing swine and other abominations in the temple.

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Celebration today:

Feast and have a holy gathering to YAHUAH and read through the scriptures how we regained control over our temple. We are now the temple (Acts 7:48, 1Cor.3:16-17, so we must rededicate our self for service to YAHUAH.

Scriptures: Joh.10:22, 1Macc. Chapter 14, 1Cor.6:19-20, Lev.23:36b, Nu.29:35-38.

 

Purpose of the Purim feast (optional feast):

Remembering the Israelites of their national deliverance in the time of Esther and in the future tribulation times.

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Celebration today:

2-day feast; two days of reading the scriptures concerning this history and scriptures about deliverance from enemies by YAHUAH. A day of joy, feasting and giving presents. Est.9:19

On behalf of YAHUAH, ha Mashiach will defend His people against their enemies.

 

Scriptures: The whole book of Esther, Ps.20:5-9, Ps.72:14, Ps.86:14, Ps.140:4, 2Sam.22:3, Ps.18:48, Ps.59:1-2, 2 Esdras13:32-38).

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