PITWM VERSE BY VERSE http://www.pitwm.net/pitwm-sunday-school.html Leviticus 23:15-22 LESSON: THE FEAST OF WEEKS – February 14, 2016 INTRODUCTION / SYNOPSIS: 23:1-4 God instructed Moses to announce to His people (Israel) to celebrate several annual festivals of the Lord. They are ordained by God to be holy convocations; 1 reserve certain dates on their calendar for national public worship and sacrifice. The Jews worked from sunrise to sunset and they counted the months by the different phases of the moon as they watched the seasons come and go. God had promised a seed time and a harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night (Gen. 8:22). Now He is talking to them about special days called “feasts” for them to celebrate. “Feasts” did not mean just eating but appointed times to celebrate God’s intervention in history or His daily care. Six days they were to work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest. "Sabbath" means rest. It was not one of the annual “feast” days, but was a very important day, and the Jewish people were expected to honor it. To dishonor it meant death (Num. 15:32-36). FEASTS: PASSOVER (23:5): CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS The first “feast” was the Passover (23:5) which marked Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and a celebration that the lamb was slain and the blood sprinkled on the door posts of each Israelite home. It reminded the people of God’s deliverance. UNLEAVENED BREAD (23:6-8): SEPARATION FROM SIN The second “feast” day was that of Unleavened Bread (23:6-8), which began the day after the Passover and continued for a week. It was a time when the Jews ate only unleavened bread with their meals and when they cleansed all the yeast from their homes. It reminded the people they were leaving the old life behind and entering a new way of living. FIRSTFRUITS (23:9-14): CHRIST RAISED FROM THE DEAD During this time a “sheaf of first fruits” of barley was offered (23:9-14) as a wave offering before the Lord God and it symbolized the fact that it all came from Him. It reminded the people how God provided for them. I. THE TIME OF THE FEAST Leviticus 23:15-16a THE FEAST OF WEEKS (23:15-21): later called in the New Testament, PENTECOST: BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH 23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: This feast was to be celebrated counting from the next day after the Sabbath that the sheaf of the wave offering was brought counting off seven 1 http://www.family-times.net/commentary/leviticus-23-1/ LESSON:
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PITWM VERSE BY VERSE
http://www.pitwm.net/pitwm-sunday-school.html
Leviticus 23:15-22
LESSON: THE FEAST OF WEEKS – February 14, 2016
INTRODUCTION / SYNOPSIS:
23:1-4 God instructed Moses to announce to His people (Israel) to celebrate several annual festivals of the
Lord. They are ordained by God to be holy convocations; 1reserve certain dates on their calendar for national
public worship and sacrifice. The Jews worked from sunrise to sunset and they counted the months by the
different phases of the moon as they watched the seasons come and go. God had promised a seed time and
a harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night (Gen. 8:22). Now He is talking to them about
special days called “feasts” for them to celebrate. “Feasts” did not mean just eating but appointed times to
celebrate God’s intervention in history or His daily care. Six days they were to work, but the seventh day is a
Sabbath of solemn rest. "Sabbath" means rest. It was not one of the annual “feast” days, but was a very
important day, and the Jewish people were expected to honor it. To dishonor it meant death (Num. 15:32-36).
FEASTS:
PASSOVER (23:5): CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS
The first “feast” was the Passover (23:5) which marked Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and a celebration that
the lamb was slain and the blood sprinkled on the door posts of each Israelite home. It reminded the
people of God’s deliverance.
UNLEAVENED BREAD (23:6-8): SEPARATION FROM SIN
The second “feast” day was that of Unleavened Bread (23:6-8), which began the day after the Passover
and continued for a week. It was a time when the Jews ate only unleavened bread with their meals and when
they cleansed all the yeast from their homes. It reminded the people they were leaving the old life behind and
entering a new way of living.
FIRSTFRUITS (23:9-14): CHRIST RAISED FROM THE DEAD
During this time a “sheaf of first fruits” of barley was offered (23:9-14) as a wave offering before the Lord
God and it symbolized the fact that it all came from Him. It reminded the people how God provided for them.
I. THE TIME OF THE FEAST Leviticus 23:15-16a
THE FEAST OF WEEKS (23:15-21): later called in the New Testament, PENTECOST: BIRTHDAY OF THE CHURCH
23:15 And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought
the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: This feast was to be celebrated counting
from the next day after the Sabbath that the sheaf of the wave offering was brought counting off seven