Feast Days of the LORD

The beginning of months — the first month of the sacred year as the Most High commanded to Moses and Aaron in Egypt. The new year marks the start of the biblical calendar and the appointed times that follow.

The memorial of Israel's deliverance from Egypt — the sacrifice of the lamb, observed on the fourteenth day of the first month. We remember the blood of the covenant and the redemption of His people.

Seven days of eating unleavened bread, beginning on the fifteenth of the first month. The first and seventh days are holy convocations — no servile work is done on those days. A remembrance of the haste of Israel's departure and the purging of sin.

Fifty days counted from the first fruits after Passover — the Feast of Weeks. A holy convocation celebrating the giving of the Law at Sinai and, in the New Testament, the outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ.

The first day of the seventh month — a day of memorial, a blowing of trumpets, and a holy convocation. It opens the fall feast season and calls the people of the Most High to remembrance and preparation for the Day of Atonement.

The most solemn of all appointed times — a day of fasting and affliction of the soul before the Most High. The high priest made atonement for the people of Israel, a shadow of the work of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who is our eternal High Priest.

A seven-day feast of rejoicing in the seventh month, commemorating the forty years Israel dwelt in booths in the wilderness. The first and eighth days are holy convocations. It is a time of great joy, gratitude, and gathering of the people.