Annual Feasts
Questions for Study 17
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I. The Sabbath (23:1-3)
1. Who appointed the feasts and sacred assemblies? (1-2, 37-38, 44; Rom. 14:1-8) What is the first? (3) What did Jesus have to say about the Sabbath? (Matt. 12:2-8; Luke 4:16, 13:14-16)
II. The Passover and Unleavened Bread (23:4-8)
2. What is Passover to the Israelites? (1; Exodus 12:26-27; Num. 9:1-3, 28:16-17, 33:3; Deut. 16:1) What were they to sacrifice and eat? (Deut. 16:2, 7; Luke 22:15-20; John 6:53-58) How did Jesus fulfill the Passover? (John 1:29, 1:35-36; 1 Peter 1:18-20)
3. What does yeast represent in the Bible and how does this explain what the Lord instructed Israel in verse 6? (1 Cor. 5:6-8; Matt. 16:11-12; Gal. 5:7-12) What else were they to do during the Feast of Unleavened Bread? (7-9; Exodus 12:17-20; Num. 28:17-25; Deut. 16:8)
III. First Fruits (23:9-14)
4. What was the priest to do with the very first harvest of grain? (9-11; Exodus 23:16) What else were they to do on that day? (12-14) How did this foreshadow Jesus' resurrection? (1 Cor. 15:20-23) And someday ours? (James 1:18; Rom. 8:23)
IV. Feast of Weeks (23:15-22)
5. How many days were they to count off for the next feast? (15; Deut: 16:9) What were they to do? (16-21; Deut: 16:10-12) How was this fulfilled? (Acts 1:3, 2:1-4)
V. Feast of Trumpets (23:23-25)
6. What were they to do on the first day of the seventh month? (23-25) What were trumpets and rams horns used for? (Num. 10:1-10)
7. When will this be fulfilled? (Matt. 24:30-31; Isaiah 27:12-13; 1 Thess. 4:13-18; 1 Cor. 15:50-54) What events in history foreshadowed this? (Ex. 19-20 with Hebrews 12:18-29; Joshua 5-6)
VI. Day of Atonement (23:26-32)
8. What was the second feast in the seventh month? (26-28) What were they to do? (29-32) When will this be fulfilled?
VII. Feast of Tabernacles (23:33-44)
9. When was the Feast of Tabernacles to be celebrated? (33-36; Num. 29:12; Deut. 16:13) What was the eight days to include and why? (39-43; Num. 29:13-38; Deut. 16:14-15) When will this be fulfilled? (Zech. 14:16-19)
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