3 Feast Times?
Is there something God is trying to show us through the three feast times mentioned in Exodus 23:14-17 & Deuteronomy 16:16-17?
Proclaiming God’s Feasts
These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them.
Three Feast Times?
“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me. You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. As I commanded you, you shall eat unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt. None shall appear before me empty-handed. You shall keep the Feast of Harvest, of the firstfruits of your labor, of what you sow in the field. You shall keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your labor. Three times in the year shall all your males appear before the Lord God.
See also Deuteronomy 16:16-17, Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
The Three Feast Times
- Feast of Unleavened Bread
- Feast of Harvest/First Fruits/Weeks
- Feast of Ingathering/Booths/Tabernacles
Why Not The Entire Seven?
Return to Deuteronomy 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you.
What Are We to Give?
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required.
See also: Hebrews 10:4-6, Hebrews 10:11, Matthew 12:7, Micah 6:6-8, Hosea 6:6, Isaiah 1:11, Proverbs 21:3, 1 Samuel 15:22.
Why The Three Feast Times?
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
The Process of Death
Begins with:
- Desire
- Sin
- Death
- Sin
Eventually…
The last enemy to be destroyed is death.
See also: 2 Timothy 1:10, Revelation 21:4.
