Scripture lays out seven feasts across the year in Leviticus 23 — seven holy days spread through the calendar. But it also makes a separate, deliberate distinction. Twice, God names not the seven feasts but specifically three feast times: Three times in a year you shall keep a feast to me. You shall keep the…
Continues from: Was the Passover a Sin Offering? — in Ancient Israel. This asks the same question of the cross that the companion post asked of Egypt. We come to the cross already certain what it’s about: our sin. “Christ died for our sins” sits so deep in us that we read it onto everything the…
Continues from: Review of Some APPARENT Inconsistencies of The Cross We left off holding a conundrum. The feast sequence places Atonement after Pentecost, still ahead of us — yet the cross is saturated with Atonement fulfillments. Both true, and flatly contradictory if we read the timeline as a single line. The trouble is the single line….
The feasts land in sequence, at their appointed times. The pattern holds — Passover, Unleavened Bread, the counting of weeks, Pentecost, each fulfilled when the calendar said it would be. That sequence has always placed Atonement’s fulfillment in the future: after Pentecost, after Christ’s return, still ahead of us. Passover Unleavened Bread Wave Sheaf Feast of…
Continues from: Does Leaven Really Mean Sin? — that post clears away “leaven = sin”; this one clears away something larger. Read the institution of the Passover in Exodus 12 and notice what the lamb is never called. It is the Passover. It is not a sin offering. Not there, not later, not anywhere does Scripture…