LEVITICUS 23
These were appointed times, holy convocations, and were the ways of God in gathering and blessing His people. Though repeated yearly, they were typical of the ways of blessing from the cross to the millennium. The Sabbath — God’s rest — is first named, on which the others were founded; then the list begins again at verse 4.
Antitypes.
Abib 14th
The Sabbath. Lev. 23:1-3 (Evening) Passover killed 1. Passover Feast. Lev. 23:5-8 2. Feast of Unleavened Bread
Christ our Passover slain.
15th
3. First Fruits (Barley) “day after the Sabbath.” Lev. 23:9-14
The Resurrection.
Zif Sivan
4. Pentecost: Feasts of Weeks: Feast of Harvest (Wheat). Lev. 23:15-22.
Descent of the Holy Ghost and the Church formed.
Tammuz
Ab
[The present intrval.]
Elul
Tisri 1st
Feast of Trumpets: holy convocation. Lev. 23:23-25
Israel awakened; they afflict their souls; receive their Messiah, and are brought into blessing in the millennium.
10th
Day of Atonement. Lev. 23:26-32
15th
Feast of Tabernacles: Ingathering of the Vintage Lev. 23:33, 34
Bul
Chisleu 25th
[Feast of Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabeus when the temple was re-dedicated, B.C. 166, John 10:22.]
Tebeth
Sebat
Adar 14th
[Feast of Purim. Esther 9:21.]