Feasts

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These are entirely Jewish; there were three principal ones—passover, Pentecost, and tabernacles (Deut. 16), with four others that may be called feasts of lesser note, the unleavened bread, the firstfruits, the feast of trumpets, and the great Day of Atonement (Lev. 23). These seven give a brief history of events from the cross to the glory: Passover, Christ’s death; unleavened bread the holy life connected with it (1 Cor. 5); firstfruits, the resurrection; Pentecost, the forming of the Church (Acts 2), these are past. Then trumpets, the summoning of the Jews from all nations; the day of atonement when they look on Him they have pierced, and mourn; and the tabernacles; the rest and peace of the millennium; all which are still future. Of the three great feasts, two will be observed in the millennium— Passover, and tabernacles (Ezek. 45).