Ex.31:13-17

of the week

commemorates God resting on the 7th day and to give a day of rest and worship.

Special Offering

Go to the synagogue; no work, no driving, no turning on  the lights, etc.

2 perfect lambs 1 year old ; drink offering.

Yeshua, after living a perfect life and keeping the law, paid our debt on the Tree (Cross) and said 'it is finished)

Prerequisite to 1st step: stop our struggling and 'rest' from our own works.

Yeshua fulfills requirements of the Law so we might rest.

 Deut. 16:1-

14th day

Commemorates redemption from Death & slavery. Ex. 12:1-30

Select one perfect lamb on 10th day, kill it on 14th day, before the evening (outside of camp), eat it at twilight---return home in the morning.

Passover Seder, a dinner in which you tell Passover story. No leavened food.  (Afikomen)

Sacrifice   one perfect male lamb.

Yeshua, the Lamb of God was sacrificed for us. 1 Cor. 5:7

Step 1: Redemption, beginning of salvation, deliverance---apply the Blood of the Lamb of God to our hearts (spiritually) by accepting Him. (1 Peter 1:28-29)

Yeshua dies on the Cross and bears our sins.

 Deut. 16:

15th day

Ex 12:34

Purge all leaven from the dwelling and eat only unleavened bread (matzoh) for 7 days. No work 1st and 7th day.

No leaven; eat only matzoh---(unleavened bread) for 7 days.

Offering by fire for 7 days: 2 bullocks, 1 ram, 7 lambs, and sin offering...1 kid.

Yeshua, the Bread of Life was buried. 1 Cor. 5:7-8

Step 2: turn from sin, humanistic values, and worldliness. Be holy. (2 Peter 2:9)

Yeshua is buried, descends to Hell, makes a spoil of all principalities & powers, takes the keys to Death and Hell.

 Ex. 23:16

16th day

Thanksgiving for 1st harvest; consecration of firstfruits to God.

Bring in firstfruits of barley harvest; 1 unleavened loaf for wave offering, no work.

 Lag b'omer... Count 33 days from the 2nd day of Passover, celebrate the day.**(see below for more info)

1 wave offering (unleavened) and 1 perfect male lamb.

Yeshua arose from the dead on this day to be the Firstfruit of the Resurrection. (He was the only sinless One ...unleavened)

Step 3: Consecration to Jesus...our lives, possessions, talents. HE gets the firstfruits. (Romans 12:1)

Yeshua is resurrected, walks on the Earth for 40 days, then ascends to Heaven.

 Deut. 16:9-12

or beginning of 4th

Thanksgiving for 2nd harvest; consectation of firstfruits to God.

Bring in firstfruits of wheat harvest; 2 unleavened loaves for wave offering, no work.

Read from Torah (1st five books of the Scriptures); decorate homes and synagogues, sing praise, read story of Ruth.

2 wave offerings (leavened), 7 lambs, 1 bull, 2 rams; sin offering...1 kid, 2 lambs.

The Holy Spirit came down on the day of Shavuot (Pentecost); the beginning of the Church, the firstfruits. (We still sin... leavened) Acts 2

Step 4: Being filled with the Holy Spirit to give us power to be witnesses for Jesus.

Holy Spirit comes, the Church begins, Israel is partially blinded and the Gentiles come into the fold. The state of Israel ceases for a time.

 Num. 29:1-6

1st day

Memorial of blowing of shofars (trumpets); a call to return to God, 'Tshuvah' and prepare the heart by repentence.

No work, blow 2 silver trumpets, & blow the shofar (ram's horn); time of remembering and repentence, a time of return to God.

Blow a shofar (ram's horn); 10 days of penitence; this is called the Jewish New Year.

1 bullock, 1 ram, 7 male lambs; sin offering...1 kid.

The regathering of Israel to the land; Israel begins to hear testimony of Yeshua and begins to repent---before the 2nd coming.

Step 5: Testimony; be a witness for Jesus; share the good news. (Acts 1:8)

Israel begins to gather to the land and to God again, and becomes a nation once more. They begin to turn to their Messiah---suffer persecution.

 Deut. 29:7-11

10th day

To make atonement for all of Israel, that they might have peace with God and be cleansed of sin for another year.

No work; Israelites to afflict their souls, repent of the past year's sins; high priest to make a blood atonement for himself...then for all of Israel.

Most solemn day of the year; no work, fast all day. The Orthodox Jews gather near the water to symbolically cast away sins; all vows are dissolved.

1 bullock, 1 ram, 7 male lambs; sin offering...1 kid; (high priest sacrifices 2 goats and 1 bullock)

Israel 'says' "Blessed is He that comes in the Name of the Lord" (Math. 28:29); Israel 'looks upon Him whom we pierced and mourns.

Step 6: Being truly 'at one with God'---conformed to his image. (the perfecting of the Body---death---being with the Lord) 2 Cor. 5:6-9 Phil 1:23

The birth pangs increase---at some point, the judgments on the unbelieving world begin. Israel mourns for their sins and looks to Yeshua.

 Num 29:12-39

(for 7 days and 8th day is a holy Sabbath)

Feast of rejoicing for the final ingathering of harvest;  and to commemorate deliverance from Egypt and from 40 years in wilderness.

No work, special offerings each day; take branches of palms and rejoice, build a 'booth'  outdoors and dwell in it for 7 days.

Tradition adds 1 extra day---9 total---songs of praise; booths built and meals eaten inside by Orthodox.

1 year old; sin offering...1 kid.

Final harvest (Math.13:24-30) wheat and tares, separated, tares burnt, all believers to be gathered to God and rejoice forever (Micah 4:1-5)

1 Cor. 15:35-58

Yeshua returns---unbelievers are gathered and judged. Believers gathered and time of rejoicing begins.