Jesus Unmasked: The Truth Will Shock You by Todd Friel

Author:Todd Friel
Language: ara
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Tags: Christian
ISBN: 9780892217267
Publisher: New Leaf Press
Published: 2014-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

2. Props to Pastor R.W. Glenn for his brilliant and concise insights on the Sabbath.

Chapter 14 — Jesus Is Seven Festivals

God is not a crabby curmudgeon. The true God is a God of joy who invites — no, He commands — His people to celebrate.

While the Jews were mundanely wandering the wilderness, God ordered them to celebrate His goodness seven times a year. These festivals were not meant to be a humdrum gathering for the Society of Long Faces. Festivals were meant to be parties that honored God.

Colossians tells us that there was more to these festivals than what meets the eye. You guessed it — festivals were Old Testament types for Jesus.

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ (Col. 2:16–17; NIV).

There is no question that the seven annual festivals are pictures of Jesus and His redemptive work, but caution must be exercised trying to figure out how exactly the festivals foreshadowed Jesus.

Four Spring Festivals

The first of the four annual festivals were spring feasts: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, and Pentecost. These were celebrations for the harvest of the spring crop, wheat. These were known as the Harvest Festivals.

The first three festivals, Passover, Unleavened Bread, and First Fruits, are very closely linked as they occur successively.

These are the appointed times of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at the times appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover. Then on the fifteenth day of the same month there is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any laborious work (Lev. 23:4–7).

1. Passover: Fourteenth day of Nissan (March or April), Friday.

This was covered in chapter four, but if you recall, Passover was the celebration of the night God sent the tenth plague to the Egyptians, forcing the Pharaoh to let God’s people go.

God threatened to kill the firstborn son of everyone in the land. Unless. Unless they showed faith by sacrificing a lamb and painting the blood around the doorframe of their homes. This lamb was to be special.

> Only an unblemished, spotless lamb was an acceptable sacrifice.

> The lamb was to be selected on “lamb selection day,” Monday.

> The lamb would live with its people for a short time, until Friday.

> The lamb was to be sacrificed in Jerusalem on Friday.

> The lamb was to have no broken bones.

How Is Jesus Like the Passover Lamb?

> Jesus was spotless. He never sinned. Ever.

> Jesus likely entered Jerusalem on Monday of Passover week. This was “lamb selection day.”

> Jesus dwelt with us for only a short time, 33 years.

> He was sacrificed in Jerusalem on a Friday.

> Unlike most crucifixion victims, none of Jesus’ bones were broken.

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