This chapter explains the 7 feasts that the Israelites are to celebrate from year to year.
the Jewish calendar year begins with the month of Aviv (Abib0 (Nissan) which is in March - April. The new moon of begins in this time frame begins the new year. The first full moon designates the time the Passover is celebrated followed by the feast of Unleavened Bread and the feast of the first-fruits. These feasts are all in the month of Aviv.
The Passover is in remembrance of the way God delivered the Israelites hastily out of Egypt after the tenth plague came upon the Egyptians (the death of the firstborn). The Israelites were instructed to kill an unblemished lamb, anoint their doorframe with the blood, and consume all of the meat that night. In the morning they fled Egypt with Moses leading them by the guidance of YHWH. This event delivered the Israelites out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt by the hand of God. Each year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year they were commanded to celebrate this feast to commemorate this deliverance. They were to slaughter and eat the meat of the lamb, along with bitter herbs, unleavened bread, and wine. This is the supper that Jesus celebrated with His disciples on the night He was betrayed. Prophetically, this feast foreshadowed the sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God, who delivered those who were chosen by God out of the realm of sin and death into eternal life. The bitter herbs represented the hardships that the Israelites endured in Egypt and foreshadowed the sufferings of Jesus for us. The unleavened bread brings to remembrance the fact that they fled Egypt in such a haste that they did not have time to leaven their bread. And they traveled quickly night and day for seven days until they came to the Red Sea They could not stop and wait for their bread to be leavened and rise. The Passover meal included three pieces of unleavened bread. It was flat bread with stripes and holes pierced in it
This chapter explains the 7 feasts that the Israelites are to celebrate from year to year.
the Jewish calendar year begins with the month of Aviv (Abib0 (Nissan) which is in March - April. The new moon of begins in this time frame begins the new year. The first full moon designates the time the Passover is celebrated followed by the feast of Unleavened Bread and the feast of the first-fruits. These feasts are all in the month of Aviv.
The Passover is in remembrance of the way God delivered the Israelites hastily out of Egypt after the tenth plague came upon the Egyptians (the death of the firstborn). The Israelites were instructed to kill an unblemished lamb, anoint their doorframe with the blood, and consume all of the meat that night. In the morning they fled Egypt with Moses leading them by the guidance of YHWH. This event delivered the Israelites out of the bondage of slavery in Egypt by the hand of God. Each year on the fifteenth day of the first month of the year they were commanded to celebrate this feast to commemorate this deliverance. They were to slaughter and eat the meat of the lamb, along with bitter herbs, unleavened bread, and wine. This is the supper that Jesus celebrated with His disciples on the night He was betrayed. Prophetically, this feast foreshadowed the sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God, who delivered those who were chosen by God out of the realm of sin and death into eternal life. The bitter herbs represented the hardships that the Israelites endured in Egypt and foreshadowed the sufferings of Jesus for us. The unleavened bread brings to remembrance the fact that they fled Egypt in such a haste that they did not have time to leaven their bread. And they traveled quickly night and day for seven days until they came to the Red Sea They could not stop and wait for their bread to be leavened and rise. The Passover meal included three pieces of unleavened bread. It was flat bread with stripes and holes pierced in it
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