Sabbath:

The Sabbath is the first Holy Day given for our observance, denoted as a day of rest and sanctioned as a Holy Convocation. The Sabbath, celebrating creation, is the foundation upon which every succeeding Holy Day rests. Yah’s Plan of Salvation starts by giving His creation rest and gathering believers in a worship of thanksgiving.

The biblical Sabbath is a weekly day of rest, an outward sign of worship, for those that observe its call. Sabbath in the Bible (as the verb Shavath) is first mentioned in the Genesis creation narrative where the seventh day (Saturday) is set aside as a day of rest and is sanctified, made Holy, by Yah (God) in Genesis 2:1~3.

Passover:

10th Day of the First Lunar Month in Yah’s Sacred Calendar

The Triumphal Entry of Yahshua into Jerusalem days before His crucifixion is of pivotal importance as it initiates the Passover season, specifically the selection of the lamb or goat which became the Old Testament precursor to the New Testament Passover Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, (Yahshua).

As foretold in the Book of Leviticus, Chapter 23, the weekly Sabbath is the first Holyday convocation followed by the first proclaimed Feast day of Passover occurring in the first lunar month of the sacred biblical calendar.

The first of Yah’s Holydays, Passover, encompasses a number of days with three distinct meanings in three distinct time periods: The Passover, The Sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, and The Passover Sacrifice of the First Born. Passover season begins on the tenth day of the first month with the selection of the lambs to be killed whose blood symbolizes the sealing of both those called out believers from sin and the ancient Israelites in Egypt from a literal death. That “passed over” sparing them. The meal at Passover is often referred to as “The Lord’s Supper” in the New Testament.

Feast of Unleavened Bread:

Leviticus 23:6~8 And on the fifteenth day of the same month (the first month) is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

As we begin the second Holy Day Feast, Yah reveals its meaning and why we are to memorialize this event each year as a constant reminder of whom we are and why we are called. Eating unleavened bread for seven days pictures the putting on of Christ into our inward parts, symbolizing imbibing His nature, His character and His laws.

This important step in Yah’s Plan of Salvation literally depicts the winter barley harvest as the first growth, His increase, His earliest harvest after waiting all winter. The sheaf physically represents the first fruit of this earliest harvest, with a very important symbolic meaning that will be explained regarding the nation of Israel. The Wave Sheaf Offering pictures the resurrected Christ being accepted by Yah (God) as the very first human being to be actually born of God...the first fruit of the first harvest of brethren.

Yah (God) commanded Moses to petition Pharaoh for the Israelites and their animals to embark on a three day journey into the wilderness to worship Him. Yah knew Moses’ three day request to Pharaoh who was hardened by Yah would encounter resistance. Pharaoh’s denial would become the catalyst for the eventual Israelite exodus from Egypt. After many miracles and Pharaoh’s resisting them, the newly called nation of Israel finally departed Egypt on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the second of Yah’s annual Holy Days. On the last day of this seven day feast, the Israelites are seen commemorating a memorial, a holy convocation, with feasting, and the offering of sacrifices of thanks to Yah according to Yah’s given ordinances.

Feast of Weeks:

Following the Three Day Journey into the Wilderness, the Feast of Weeks is celebrated fifty days after the wave sheaf offering when the Holy Spirit was given to aid the people of Yah. Seven weeks or seven Sabbaths must pass followed by the next day, Sunday, the Feast day, the first day of the week. The Holy Spirit is a power from Yah the Father known as the Spirit of Yah, not a person, for Yah is Spirit. We can see Christ in Pentecost as the first person of the spiritual first harvest also known as” The First of the first fruits.”

Feast of Trumpets:

As the spring Holy Days celebrated historical events most integral to the Plan of Salvation, the fall Holy Days commemorate equally prominent future events that will determine the eternal destiny of mankind living with Yah as mandated in His Plan of Salvation. The first fall holy day is The Feast of Trumpets. The Feast of Trumpets is celebrated at the end of the fall harvest time associated with the turn of the year, at the beginning of autumn, on the first day of the Seventh Lunar month according to Yah’s holy calendar. It commemorates the return of Yahshua with His wrath and involves the changing of believers into new life after the tribulation of the saints, after the last trumpet is sounded. At the time of the Feast of Trumpets the temple rituals have symbolic ramifications associated with the Book of Revelation where Yahshua, heralded by the seven trumpets, is then followed by the seven vials poured out upon mankind.

Atonement:

The second of the autumnal holy days, features the last trumpet blast thus commemorating Yah redeeming His people by ultimately putting away Satan so Yah and Yahshua can live together in the renewed Jerusalem on earth with his people. With Satan now bound for a thousand years, the earth and mankind can rest and once again restore the beloved city.

Feast of Ingathering:

With Atonement accomplishing the redemption of sin, the Feast of Ingathering (Tabernacles) contains a seven day celebration joining believers together with Yahshua at the wedding supper at the marriage of the Lamb, Yahshua, to His bride, His church of the first fruits.

The Last Great Day:

The Last Great Day represents the time after the preceding seven day Feast of Ingathering, the completion of the 7000 year cycle, the 1000 year millennium, the time allotted for the rest of mankind to be resurrected for judgment before Yah’s White Throne when each remaining person will receive a sentence of eternal life or one of destruction, the latter, an eternal separation from Yah and Yahshua. This final judgment completes Yah’s Plan of Salvation.