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The spring Feasts of the Lord represent prophecies already fulfilled.  They are: THE FEAST OF PASSOVER   Date: Nisan 14  (March/April).   The Passover commemorates Israel's deliverance from death through the applied blood of a lamb. For the believer, this feast commemorates the death of Jesus, the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. He is the one who has delivered us out of the slavery of sin and bondage through the sacrifice of His blood.   THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD Dates: Nisan 15-22 (March/April). The Feast of Unleavened Bread recalls Israel's deliverance from slavery and the urgency with which the people left Egypt without even waiting for their bread to rise. Purging leaven is biblically symbolic of eliminating sin.  It illustrates the urgency for Believers to escape the enslavement of the world and begin their spiritual journey to the promised land. It is also symbolic of Jesus, the Bread of Life, who is free from leaven which is symbolic of evil.   3 THE FEAST OF FIRST FRUITS Date: Nisan 17 (March/April) First Fruits was the time when the first yields of the harvest were presented to the Lord.   These first fruits of the crop were representative of all the harvests to come.   Prophetically for Believers, this feast symbolizes the resurrection of Jesus.  He was the grain of wheat which died to bring forth the first fruits of all resurrections.  It also indicates that we should give the first fruits of our labor, the tithe, to the Lord. THE FEAST OF PENTECOST (Feast of Weeks/Shavuot) Date: Silvan 7  (May/June) Fifty days after Passover. This feast commemorates the giving of the law at Sinai some 50 days after the exodus from Egypt.  For Believers, this feast symbolizes the giving of the Holy Spirit at the birth of the church age and its operation under the New Covenant of grace:  Acts 2.   The fall feasts represent prophecies yet to be fulfilled. They include: THE FEAST OF TRUMPETS (Rosh Hashanah)   Date: Tishri 1 (September/October). This feast marked the end of harvest and beginning of the Jewish new year.  For the Believer, this feast is symbolic of new beginnings and the glorious day when Jesus will return at the trumpet sound to take His people to their spiritual Promised Land   (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 and 1 Corinthians 15:52). THE DAY OF ATONEMENT (Yom Kippur) Date: Tishri 10 (September/October). This was the most holy day of the year when atonement for Israel's sins was made by the High Priest. For Believers, this feast is symbolic of the atoning work of Christ on the cross.  A key truth manifested by this feast is that there is only one way to approach God and be forgiven and that is through the shed blood of the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES (Feast of Booths/Sukkot/Ingathering)   Dates: Tishri 15-22 (September/October). The booths constructed during this feast celebrated the time when Israel lived in temporary shelters prior to building permanent structures in their Promised Land.  This feast commemorates God's faithfulness in the past, especially during their wilderness journey.  It is also called the Feast of Ingathering because it was held at the conclusion of the reaping season and included a week of joyous celebration for the harvest.  For the 4 believer, it speaks of God's faithfulness in the past and prophetically of our coming into our Promised Land after we abandon our temporary earthly tabernacles.  It also reveals that in the Kingdom of God, the end is better than the beginning. These are the Feasts of the Lord, not something instituted by the people.  Israel had other feasts, but these are specifically mandated as the Feasts of the Lord.  These appointed times during which God’s people are called to repent; to reflect and rejoice over what God did in the past; and to look forward in faith to what He will do in the future.