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It would be interesting to view all the feasts as fulfilled in Christ [His first coming] - is there Scripture to prove it?

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The only two that I remember are Passover and the feast of first fruits. Passover, as we all know, looked to Jesus' trial and death as the sacrificed Passover Lamb. The feast of first fruits was prophetic of the events at Pentecost, both of which happened on the same day. There are many othere feasts but these are the two most well known.

As i see it
Pesach.......unleavend bread, first fruit and pentacost are fullfilled.
Jesus was the Lamb(pesach)
He brouhgt a way out from sin (Unleavend bread removed from all houses)
He was the first born of new creation (first fruit)
Holy spirit poored out/in the apostles, with a wind and tongues of fire.
(at mt sinai God spoke with a loud voice and fire)

Then there are the fall feasts
Yom Teruah, the blowing of the trumpet, announcing His coming (back)
Yom Kippur, day of atonement, He is our atonement, His spirit convicts us ( in stead of aflict yourself)His dead was to restore the relationship wit God.
Sukkoth, ahhh sukkoth also fullfilled in His coming, he dwelt(tabernacled) with us, but i think sukkoth is only partly fullfilled ot has a double meaning mabey...?
When he returns, He wil tabernacle with us forever.

For me the following 3 feasts are the most important:

Pesach, shavuot and sukkoth
He came as a servant and Lamb to die, so we could be reconsiled with God, He gave the Holy Spirit for the time He went away, until He comes back to be with us forever and ever!!!

EMJE

Did Jesus fulfill all the feast? If the feasts of truimpets is about his second coming, well he has not. NOT YET


But his resurrection shows that he will, for it vindicated his claims to godhead and showed he is trustworthy. indeed that he is the only one who can fulfil all the feasts.

or have i missed something?

I see a tremendous amount of great discussion here. My thoughts are just that. My thoughts but I will try to expound a little.

I believe that Passover has been fulfilled As there were lambs slaughtered for sin atonement. As we all know Yeshua was the lamb of god and of course he was slain for our sin. Firstfruit has been fulfilled as he was the firstfruit from the dead. Firstfruits was the waving of the first of the wheat harvest as an offering to the Almighty. Tabernacles I believe is a twofold one as he (tabernacled with us) for a short while and he will Tabernacle with us forever. It sounds nice although it is possible it has been fulfilled already. The feast of Trumpets is interesting to me as Paul makes a reference that we would all be changed at the last Trump. Revelation we see the last trump sounded by the angel signifies the "great and terrible day of the lord"

Rev 10:7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.
Rev 11:18 And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth.


Rev 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

Revelation chapter 16 tells us of what is to follow.

So I think it may be possible that the Feast of Trumpets may still need to be fulfilled.

Hi all ,

I want to share on my view of the Feast of Tabernacles explaining how I see it already being fulfilled when Jesus came .Many Messianics teach that this feast is still to be fulfilled and I'm wondering how one could add to what already has been done.

Lev 23:23 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,
Lev 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall you have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Lev 23:25 You shall do no regular work on it: but you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.


The feast of tabernacles was also called the feast of ingathering. It was a harvest festival so to speak, where the final crops for the year were harvested. However it also served a commemoration to the years that Israel served in the wilderness.

Lev 23:34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Lev 23:35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work on it.
Lev 23:36 Seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you; and you shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and you shall do no regular work on it.


Lev 23:39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Lev 23:40 And you shall take on the first day the fruit of choice trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.
Lev 23:41 And you shall keep it as a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Lev 23:42 You shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are born Israelites shall dwell in booths:
Lev 23:43 That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

We see the primary reason for celebration is to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt.
As a Christian we know this symbolised the exodus from Sin. Just as the Passover Lamb is the Lamb of God .So Tabernacles symbolizes our sojourning in the world/wilderness on our way to the Promised Land.
After being delivered from bondage in Egypt, the people weren’t suddenly transported to the Promised land.
Paralleling our lives, they spent 40 years in wilderness dwelling in tents and God was with them in a cloud by day and a pillar of fire at night.
Following our acceptance of Jesus and his redemption from sin we aren’t magically transported to the real promised land either but we go through the wilderness, in our bodily tents.

During their time in the wilderness, they were not alone. He also fulfilled Tabernacles by tabernacling physically among us


Joh 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

Not only did He tabernacle with us 33 years on the earth ,he does so now with us and in us in this earthly sojourn.

Joh 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man loves me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

2Co 6:16 And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? for you are the temple of the living God; as God has said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Eze 37:26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore.
Eze 37:27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people

In the NT we learn that Jesus was that Rock that gave them water, a theme that Jesus then takes up when during the feast of tabernacles he said that whoever wanted Living water had to go to Him for it.[/color]

1Co 10:4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

The manna symbolized Jesus

Joh 6:47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes on me has everlasting life.
Joh 6:48 I am that bread of life.
Joh 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
Joh 6:50 This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Joh 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

He also was there as the light

Exo 13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them in the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:
Neh 9:19 Yet you in your manifold mercies forsook them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.


In NT at the feast of Tabernacles commemorating this time in the wilderness Jesus comes up and says He is the true Light of the world. In our wilderness of this world, Jesus is the light that we follow to show us the way we should go.

Now after all that does Jesus fulfill Tabernacles or not, is he the goal of what the physical exodus from Egypt represented.
Is what God requires today keeping the feast of tabernacles in the physical sense ie dwelling in booths and offering sacrifices?

Ezr 3:4 They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty of every day required;

Or wouldn't He rather you had been redeemed inwardly, accepted Jesus for the redemption of sins, and were now walking with Him ,our real pillar of light, who gives us real living water that will not cause us to thirst on your way to the Promised Land.

Heb 11:16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly: therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared for them a city.

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I've just checked on a few of my notes and I had the following

In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (Jh 7:37 38)

I'm being cautious here but am I right in saying that the following verses would be used also during the Feast of Tabernacles at the Temple Altar? or is this more false teaching/oral traditions? If it is true and this did happen then it would also show the feast as being fulfilled.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isaiah 44:3)

(04-08-2009 03:49 PM)4given Wrote: [ -> ]I've just checked on a few of my notes and I had the following

In the last day, that great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (Jh 7:37 38)

I'm being cautious here but am I right in saying that the following verses would be used also during the Feast of Tabernacles at the Temple Altar? or is this more false teaching/oral traditions? If it is true and this did happen then it would also show the feast as being fulfilled.

Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. (Isaiah 12:3)
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isaiah 44:3)

As far as I know, there is no water ceremony at the Temple Altar for the Feast of Tabernacles. Water is not mentioned at all for that feast, actually.

It is very possible that Jesus was referring to the Isaiah texts because He refers to Himself as Living Water to the Samaritan woman and then again on the last day of Tabernacles explaining that His living water will flow in us. The only association I can find in the OT that would relate water to Tabernacles is found in Zech 14 and my opinion is that Jesus is showing fulfillment in Him through that prophecy.

Although this passage is a major one for HR, in that they believe we will be celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles in the millennium and sacrificing as well, it's interesting to note, that the passage in Zech says that people will go up to Jerusalem. So I wonder, where are the booths? And, why are the nations instructed to celebrate the Feast? This feast was for the sons of Israel only, as a remembrance for freedom from their bondage in Egypt, not for the nations.

Zec 14:4 And his feet shall stand in that day on the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall split in the middle thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
Zec 14:5 And you shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yes, you shall flee, like as you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with you.
Zec 14:6 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:
Zec 14:7 But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.
Zec 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem;half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.
Zec 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and his name one.
Zec 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel to the king's winepresses.
Zec 14:11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Zec 14:16 And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:17 And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even on them shall be no rain.
Zec 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, with which the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
Zec 14:20 In that day shall there be on the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
Zec 14:21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

Interesting discussion for sure!