Let's Have A Feast

So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. Genesis 26:30 NKJV

definition

feast[1]

noun

1. a: an elaborate and usually abundant meal often accompanied by a ceremony or entertainment : BANQUET
   b (1): something that gives unusual or abundant enjoyment
   // a visual feast
   (2): ABUNDANCE, PROFUSION
   //an unprecedented feast of corruption, gargantuan in scale — Neil Sheehan
2. : a periodic religious observance commemorating an event or honoring a deity, person, or thing

Passover

• Exodus 12
• Leviticus 23:5

• Description /Instructions
  • Select a lamb on the 10th day of the first month (Nisan => March/April)
  • 1 year old male lamb without blemish
  • Kill the lamb on the 14th day
  • In Egypt they covered the door posts with the lamb's blood
  • Roast the lamb in fire and eat with bitter herbs and unleavened bread that night
  • Nothing was to remain until morning, but if it was, it had to be burned with fire
  • The first time, they ate with haste in preparation to leave Egypt
• Connection to the past
• Represents the final plague of Egypt
• Death passed over the first borns of Israel
• This marked the Israelites' freedom
• Since this began their nation, it was considered to the 1st month
• Connection to prophecy
• Christ is our Passover Lamb (1 Corinthians 5:7)
• The blood of the Lamb keeps the 2nd death from claiming us (Ephesians 1:7; Revelation 7:14)
• Christ died at Passover (Matthew 26:17-20; Mark 14:12-26; Luke 22:7-39; John 13:1-17:26)[2]

Feast of Unleavened Bread

• Exodus 12:15-20
• Exodus 13:6-7
• Leviticus 23:6

• Starts the day after Passover
• Lasts for 7 days
• Description/Instructions
  • 7 days of unleavened bread
  • 1st day is a holy convocation
  • No work on the 1st or 7th days (declared Sabbaths)
  • Offering given to God each of the 7 days
  • 7th day is a holy convocation
  • No leaven can be in the house or near them
• Connection to the Past
  • Represents them fleeing from Egypt
• Connection to Prophecy
  • Symbolically, leaven is sin (1 Corinthians 5:6)
  • Represents purging sin and being cleansed by the Lamb
  • Christ is referred to as the Bread of Life; since He was without sin (leaven) He would also be unleavened bread

Festival of First Fruits

• Leviticus 23:9-14

• 17th day of Nisan (During the Feast of Unleavened Bread)
• Description/Instructions
  • First sheaf of the harvest was to be dedicated to God
  • 1 year old unblemished male lamb was to be offered
  • 1 quart of wine given as a drink offering
  • 4 quarts of fine flour mixed with oil given as a grain offering
  • No bread, roasted grain, or new grain was to be eaten until that day[4]
• Connection to the Past
  • Represented their first harvest outside of Egypt, as an independent nation
  • It showed their trust in God that future harvests would take place
• Connection to Prophecy
  • Christ was also the first fruit
  • He rose on the 3rd day, the 17th of Nisan[3]

In the Next Episodes

• Let's Have A Feast Part 2 (to be released on March 25, 2020)
  1. Feast of Weeks/Pentecost (Shavout)
  2. Feast of Trumpets
  3. Day of Atonement
• Let's Have A Feast Part 3 (to be released on April 1, 2020)
  1. Feat of Tabernacles
  2. Purim
  3. Hanukkah

References

1. "Feast". Merriam-Webster; March 17, 2020
2. Frank Daniels. "The Timing of Passover". 1999
3. Matthew Ervin. "The Seven Feasts of Israel are Fulfilled in Jesus". Apple Eye Ministries. March 7, 2014
4. I assume bread here means leavened bread (see Leviticus 23:14)