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See how Jesus fulfills the Old Testament Feasts. Many people don't understand the importance of the Old Testament Feasts and how they relate to Jesus. See the Bible come to life as you see how the feasts are fulfilled in Jesus. The seven Old Testament Feasts are: 1. The Passover: This is the foundational feast 2. Unleavened Bread: This feast was to last for 7 days 3. First Fruits 4. Pentecost or Feast of Weeks 5. Feast of Trumpets 6. Day of Atonement 7. Feast of Tabernacles

The seven Old Testament (=Hebrew) Festivals are:

7 feast of the Menorah

Spring festivals
  • Around start of April:
      1. Pesach / The Passover (Jesus Cross)
      1. Unleavened Bread: This feast was to last for 7 days
      1. First Fruits (Jesus ressurection)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Easter➡ “Eostre” / Beltane

An outlier
  • Around half May:
      1. Shavuot / Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) – (50 days after ‘First Fruit’ is the First Harvest. First time Holy Spirit came onto disciples of Jesus Christ)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: None!

Fall festivals
  • Around start of October
      1. Rosh HaShanah/ Feast of Shouting / Trumpets (2nd coming of Christ)
      1. Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement
      1. Sukkot / Feast of Tabernacles

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Halloween/“All Hallows’ Day” ➡ Samain

An outlier

  • Around start of December:
    • Hanukkah / Feast of Lights - its origin is non-Mosaic (see link)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Christmas

Overview of western holidays with pagan origins:

Despite Christianization, the importance of agricultural and social cycles had preserved “the ancient British festal system”, which he believed consisted of eight holidays corresponding to

  • Candlemas (2 February),
  • Lady Day (25 March),
  • May Day (1 May),
  • Midsummer Day (24 June),
  • Lammas (1 August),
  • Michaelmas (29 September),
  • Halloween (31 October),
  • Christmas (25 December).