Hebraic
Musing – What’s the Significance of HIS (SPRING) Feast Days?
The book of Lamentations includes
a verse by Jeremiah bemoaning the sins of God’s chosen people that
brought about the Exile and desolation in Israel. Are you one of God’s chosen? The verse that caught my attention was “The
roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed feasts.”
Here are God’s appointed SPRING
FEASTS and they are designed to begin our relationship with Almighty God. Each feast has significant reasons why God
wants us to remember them and to remember Him!!!
Pesach, or
Passover, is celebrated on the 14th of Nissan, (April-ish)
commemorating the Israelites deliverance from slavery in Egypt. Were you delivered from slavery one day? Is that an event worth commemorating? When was your Re-Birthday? Do you remember the moment? Our Lord wants us to set aside a day to
remember our deliverance from slavery through Jesus' death as the sacrificial
lamb. Remember, this was the day Yeshua
was sacrificed on the cross to free us from slavery. Reread
Hag HaMatzoh, or Unleavened
Bread, is celebrated on the 15th of Nissan for 8 days, until the 21st
during which time we are to eat only Unleavened Bread, bread without yeast, without
‘sin’. On this day in history,
Yeshua was buried and is likened to Matzot, bread without leaven/sin. Do we preach Sin & Obedience often enough? This day devoted to cleansing from sin was so
important to Yahweh that He declared it to be one of the three Pilgrimage Feasts.
“Three times a year all your males shall
appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles;”
Deut. 16:16 NIV Pilgrimage Feasts
require a trip to Jerusalem to celebrate the three harvests.
Yom HaBikkurim, or
Shirat HaOmer, is on the 16th of Nissan when we are to remember that
God gave us the land and dedicating the 1st harvest - Barley - to Him. It is a Three-day feast. This is a picture of Jesus' Resurrection. Yeshua arose on the 3rd day of Passover
season. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians
15:20-23 “But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the firstfruits
of those who have fallen asleep. …For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will
be made alive. … Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who belong
to him.” NIV This is a picture of
Resurrection Day; we are living as the New Man, replacing the Old Man described
in Ephesians. 4:20-24.
Shavuot, or Pentecost,
is celebrated 50 days after Yom HaBikkurim.
We remember the day and moment that God put HIS commandments on our
hearts. Do you remember the moment
when you accepted Yeshua as your Lord? The
Lord declared – “The time is coming... when I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant I made with
their forefathers when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant, though I was a husband to them. This is the covenant I will make with the
house of Israel after that time," declares the Lord. "I will put my law
in their minds and write it on their hearts.” Jeremiah 31:31-33 NIV
Yes, these are the SPRING feasts
that God commanded us to observe. I’ll
bet He had good reason for us to remember the day we began our relationship
with Him!!!
Points to Ponder
What have we
missed by not celebrating these Feasts with God’s perspective?
Do we
celebrate our Re-Birthday?
What was the
Lord telling you while you were digested His Word?
Next week
let’s look at the FALL Feasts and our walk and future events!
Yosef a.k.a. Joe Brusherd
January
23, 2024
Author: “Hebraic Insights – Messages
exploring the Hebrew roots of our faith”
“Biblical Marriage (by Yosef)”
Weekly “Hebraic Musings”
Note – Edited version of June 10,
2009 Hebraic Insight #23’ “Significance of His (SPRING) Feast Days”
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