Core Teaching · The Feasts
Not Jewish holidays. Not optional traditions. Not relics of the old covenant. The Feasts of YAHUAH are His appointed times — His calendar, His prophetic blueprint, His gathering signals for the remnant in the last days.
Hebrew: מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה · Transliteration: Moedei YAHUAH · Translation: "the Appointed Times of YAHUAH"
The modern world runs on a Roman calendar built around pagan emperors and pagan gods. The church world runs on a calendar built around Christmas and Easter — both of which YAHUAH never commanded and which carry pagan origins the historians do not dispute. YAHUAH has His own calendar. He laid it out plainly in Leviticus 23. He called the days "My Feasts" — not Israel's, not Moses's, not the priests'. His.
"Speak unto the children of Yashar'el, and say unto them, Concerning the Feasts of YAHUAH, which ye shall proclaim to be set-apart assemblies, even these are My Feasts."
The Father set the calendar. The Son honored it. The remnant keeps it. There are no neutral parties in the calendar war. Every believer keeps some calendar. The question is whose. The remnant chooses YAHUAH's.
Two Hebrew words anchor the entire framework:
MOEDIM (מוֹעֲדִים)
"Appointed times." Not random. Not optional. Set by appointment, like a meeting on a calendar. YAHUAH set these dates Himself. They mark His gathering of His people across history and into the Kingdom. The same word is used in Genesis 1:14 for the lights in the heavens "for signs and for seasons" (literally moedim) — the Father wove His calendar into creation itself.
MIQRA QODESH (מִקְרָא קֹדֶשׁ)
"Set-apart assembly" or "holy convocation." A summoning. A rehearsal. The Feasts are not private observances — they are corporate gatherings where the covenant community rehearses YAHUAH's redemptive plan in real time. Each Feast is a rehearsal of something the Father is doing or will do.
Leviticus 23 lists the seven Feasts and stamps each one with the phrase "a statute forever throughout your generations" (Leviticus 23:14, 21, 31, 41). The Father called them eternal. The Son honored them. The remnant takes Him at His Word.
The four Spring Feasts come back-to-back in late March / April / late May / early June. They prophesy YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH's first coming — and the Father fulfilled each one through His begotten Son with prophetic precision on the exact appointed date.
Hebrew: פֶּסַח · 14th day of the first month (Aviv/Nisan). YAHUAH commanded Israel to slaughter a spotless lamb, mark the doorposts with its blood, and eat it that night — and the death angel passed over (Exodus 12). YAHUSHA died as the Passover Lamb on the exact day of Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7 — "even MASHIACH our Passover is sacrificed for us"). His blood marks the doorposts of the heart. Judgment passes over those who are covered by it.
Hebrew: חַג הַמַּצּוֹת · 15th-21st of the first month. Seven days, no leaven (chametz) in the house. Leaven represents sin and corruption (1 Corinthians 5:6-8). YAHUSHA's sinless body rested in the tomb during Unleavened Bread — the Father's literal proof that the Son had no leaven in Him. His body did not see corruption (Psalm 16:10, Acts 2:27).
Hebrew: בִּכּוּרִים · The day after the Sabbath during Unleavened Bread. Israel waved the first sheaf of the barley harvest before YAHUAH — the firstfruits of the larger harvest to come. The Father raised YAHUSHA from the dead on First Fruits (1 Corinthians 15:20 — "now is MASHIACH risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept"). His resurrection is the guarantee of the harvest of the remnant at His return.
Hebrew: שָׁבוּעוֹת · 50 days after First Fruits ("Pentecost" = "fiftieth"). Originally the wheat-harvest feast and the day YAHUAH gave the Torah at Sinai. YAHUAH poured out the RUACH HAQODESH through His Son YAHUSHA on Shavuot (Acts 2:1-4). The Father wrote His Torah on hearts of flesh, as Jeremiah 31:33 promised. The same day He gave the Law in fire on Sinai, He gave the Spirit in fire in Yerushalayim. Same Father. Same purpose. Same appointed time.
Four Feasts. Four fulfillments. Every one of them landed on the exact appointed day. The Father's calendar is not symbolic background — it is the chronological architecture of redemption.
Three Fall Feasts cluster in the seventh month (Tishrei, September / October). They prophesy YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH's return. The Father has not yet pulled the trigger on these — but every Fall Feast that passes is a rehearsal of what He WILL do.
Hebrew: יוֹם תְּרוּעָה · 1st day of the seventh month. A day of trumpet blasts (shofar) — a wake-up call. The traditional Jewish name is Rosh Hashanah. Scripture is plain: when YAHUSHA returns, He returns with a trumpet. Matthew 24:31 — "He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect." 1 Thessalonians 4:16 — "the Master Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trump of Elohiym." Revelation 11:15 — "the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Master, and of His MASHIACH." The remnant listens for the trumpet because the Father will sound it.
Hebrew: יוֹם כִּפּוּר · 10th day of the seventh month. The most solemn day of the year. The High Priest entered the Most Set-Apart Place once a year to make atonement for the nation. Two goats: one slaughtered, one driven into the wilderness bearing the sins of the people. YAHUSHA the High Priest already entered the heavenly Most Set-Apart Place with His own blood (Hebrews 9:11-12). But the FINAL Yom Kippur — when judgment falls and the books are opened (Revelation 20:11-15) and the remnant of Israel mourns and recognizes YAHUSHA whom they pierced (Zechariah 12:10) — is still ahead.
Hebrew: סֻכּוֹת · 15th-22nd of the seventh month. A seven-day Feast of dwelling in temporary booths, remembering Israel's wilderness journey and looking forward to YAHUAH's permanent dwelling with His people. When YAHUSHA returns and the Kingdom is established, Revelation 21:3 declares: "Behold, the tabernacle of Elohiym is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohiym Himself shall be with them, and be their Elohiym." Zechariah 14:16-19 prophesies that during the millennial reign, all nations will come up annually to Yerushalayim to keep Sukkot. Sukkot is the millennial Feast.
No. Leviticus 23 calls them "the Feasts of YAHUAH" — not "the Feasts of Israel" or "the Feasts of the Jews." They belong to YAHUAH, given to His covenant people. Leviticus 23 itself repeatedly names "the stranger that sojourneth with you" alongside native-born Israelites in observing them. In Zechariah 14:16-19, all nations come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles in the Kingdom age. The Feasts are YAHUAH's appointed times for everyone who walks in covenant with Him.
YAHUSHA fulfilled the Spring Feasts in His first coming (Passover by His death, Unleavened Bread by His sinless body, First Fruits by His resurrection, Shavuot by the outpouring of the RUACH HAQODESH). The Fall Feasts (Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles) are still awaiting fulfillment at His return. Fulfillment does not equal abolishment. Colossians 2:16-17 calls the Feasts "a shadow of things to come" — shadows still point to the substance. The remnant observes the Feasts as the Father's annual rehearsal of the gospel and the prophetic timeline.
The biblical Feasts come from Leviticus 23 directly: Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Shavuot (Pentecost), Yom Teruah (Trumpets), Yom Kippur (Atonement), Sukkot (Tabernacles). Modern Jewish observance includes these biblical Feasts but also adds traditions developed after the Babylonian exile (Hanukkah, Purim) and rabbinic customs not in Torah. The remnant observes the biblical Feasts as YAHUAH commanded them. We can honor the historical context Jewish observance preserves without elevating man-made tradition above YAHUAH's Word.
Start with Passover and Unleavened Bread in the spring. Read Exodus 12 and Leviticus 23. Remove the leaven (literal and spiritual) from your home for the seven days. Keep the appointed time as a memorial of YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH's death as the Passover Lamb. Add the other Feasts as you learn them — Shavuot in late spring, Yom Teruah / Yom Kippur / Sukkot in the fall. The remnant does not wait to start until they understand everything. They start with what they understand and grow.
Salvation is by repentance and faith in YAHUSHA HAMASHIACH, the begotten Son of YAHUAH, who died for our sins and was raised by His Father on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:3-4). Keeping the Feasts does not earn salvation. But once you know YAHUAH's appointed times, observing them is part of covenant obedience — and covenant obedience is the response of those who have been saved. The Feasts are not a salvation requirement; they are a covenant rhythm for those who already belong to YAHUAH.
Every Spring Feast is a memorial of what the Father already did through His begotten Son. Every Fall Feast is a rehearsal of what He is about to do. The remnant is being trained right now — not by sermons alone, but by the Father's calendar drilling the gospel into our annual rhythm.
The seventh trumpet has not sounded yet. But the wakeup blasts of Yom Teruah are not symbolic anymore — they are the Father saying every fall: I am about to do this. Be ready. The remnant lives lined up with the Father's calendar so that when the actual trumpet sounds, they recognize the sound. They have been rehearsing it for years.
Stop running on Rome's calendar. Stop running on the church's calendar. Get on YAHUAH's calendar. Start with Passover. Keep Unleavened Bread. Honor Shavuot. Listen for Yom Teruah. Fast on Yom Kippur. Build a sukkah for Sukkot. Teach your children the rhythm. Let the Father's appointed times reshape your year.
The Father set the calendar. The Son honored it. The remnant keeps it.
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