1. Written by John Sittema, 2010

2.  17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, 18 do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

3.  You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

4.  Feasts of the LORD

5.  Feasts of the LORD:  Seven feasts, celebrated three times a year, with dating according to the Jewish calendar.  Spring  Passover (1 st month, 14th day)  Unleavened Bread (1 st month, 15 th day through 21 st )  Firstfruits: (1 st month 16 th day)  Pentecost: 50 days later

6.  Feasts of the LORD:  Seven feasts, celebrated three times a year, with dating according to the Jewish calendar.  Fall  Trumpets (7 th month, 1 st day)  Atonement (7 th month, 10 th day)  Booths (7 th month, 15 th day through the 21 st day)

7.  To tell them what it means to be the holy people of God:  Lev 23:2 and 4 are nearly identical: “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.  But…Isaiah 1:12-16

8.  Were all seven feasts to be celebrated in the wilderness?

9.  Firstfruits, Pentecost, Booths to be done in the promised land.  Why?

10.  Were all seven feasts to be celebrated in the wilderness?  Firstfruits, Pentecost, Booths to be done in the promised land.  Why?  “Lean forward, look back”

11.  Lev 23:3-What is this verse looking back to?

12.  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Then God got up early the next morning and went back to work. (Gen 2:1- 3)

13.  Sabbath lead-ins:  Exodus 20: 4 th commandment- For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.  Lev 23:3  Dt. 5:14 “You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

14.  A year of rest for the land (Lev 25:1-7)

15.  Year of Jubilee, 50 th year (Lev 25:8-55)  Redemption of the land; “The land is mine”  Blessing of three years of crops;  Kindness to poor brothers;  Release from servitude;  An economic model?

16.  Hebrews 10, Colossians 2:17 : The law as a shadow of good things to come instead of the true form of these realities; the substance is Christ  Each feast was a type of Messiah; shadows are connected to the person

17.  Passover  Unleavened Bread  Firstfruits  Pentecost  Trumpets  Day of Atonement  Booths  Crucifixion  Burial  Resurrection  Gift  Preaching the Gospel  Joy of salvation  Living fellowship

18.  Feasts were remembrances (looking back) and rehearsals (leaning forward)  Looking back to see Shalom in the creation;  Leaning forward to see Shalom in the Jubilee;  A journey “from rest to restlessness to rest.”  Feasts pointed to the Messiah, fulfilled in Jesus, the gospel proclamation and the eternal Jubilee.