Appointed Times

Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) Five days later, Israel celebrated its most joyous appointed time of the year with the fall harvest (2nd and final harvest of the year), also known as the appointed time or the Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33-36,40,42-43 and Numbers 29:12-40), Feast of Booths (Sukkot), or [...]

Feast of Trumpets or Rosh Hashanah The Feast of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:23-25, Num. 29: 1-6) or Rosh Hashanah (New Year’s Day), which is observed in the fall, marked the start of a new agricultural and civil year in Israel. This appointed time was announced with the blast of trumpets, [...]

Pentecost or Shavuot The next appointed time on the Jewish calendar was the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot) (Leviticus 15:22, Deut. 16:9-10), which fell in late spring, on the fiftieth day (or a full seven weeks) after the Feast of Firstfruits. The feast of weeks involved offering the first loaves [...]

In Leviticus 23:1-2, the Lord told Moses, “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: These are My appointed times, the times of the Lord that you will proclaim as sacred assemblies.   The name ‘appointed times’ is self explanatory. These are times appointed by the Lord for a specific purpose. [...]