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How does Paul preach Jesus to the Gentiles? He identifies Him as “FOR INDEED CHRIST, 1
“our Passover, sacrificed for us”. Jesus was called by John the
Baptist “the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world” OUR PASSOVER, WUSA3.”S
(John.1:29). Peter refers to Jesus as “A Lamb without blemish SACRIFICED FOR
and without spot” (1 Pet. 1:19). Is it therefore wrong for a
1 Cor.5:7

Christian to celebrate the very feasts that depict Jesus as our

Passover sacrificed for us? Is that indeed a form of legalism or bondage?

Now, notice Paul’s mandate to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

It is not the oldness of the letter in which the Jews were to purge out “...PURGE OUT 2
the leaven from their physical houses that Paul addresses, THE LEAVEN...SINCE YOU

ARE TRULY
UNLEAVENED...
but rather that leaven really represents the sin of malice and LET US KEEP THE FEAST,
wickedness in the believer’s walk. This kind of leaven should be NOT WITH OLD LEAVEN...
purged out of our spiritual houses for we are the Temple of God
BUT WITH THE
UNLEAVENED BREAD
(1 Cor. 6:19). To eat unleavened bread in a spiritual sense, OF SINCERITY
is to walk in paths of sincerity and in truth before God! The letter of
the Law kills, but the spirit of the Law gives life! (2 Cor. 3:6). Is it to be A33ND TRUTH.”

1 Cor.5:7-8

considered bondage to the Law for Christians to keep this fuller 3

understanding of the Feast of Unleavened Bread? “BUT NOW CHRIST IS RISEN

When Paul preached the resurrection of Christ, he FROM THE DEAD, AND HAS
BECOME THE FIRSTFRUITS
used the third feast called Firstfruits to get his point OF THOSE WHO HAVE
across to these Gentile believers. Two thousand years FALLEN ASLEEP...

later we have allowed the tradition of men to change its CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS,
name to “Easter” which is in essence the goddess of AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE

CHRIST’S AT HIS COMING.”

fertility (Ishtar) with all its pagan-based trappings. How 1 Cor.15:20-23
well Jesus spoke of the power behind such tradition:

“ALL TOO WELL YOU REJECT THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY KEEP YOUR TRADITION…
MAKING THE WORD OF GOD OF NO EFFECT THROUGH YOUR TRADITION WHICH YOU HAVE HANDED DOWN”

Mark 7:9,13

We come now to the fourth feast of Leviticus 23,

(“Feast of Weeks”) but called in the New Testament,

Pentecost. The four gospels tell the story of the

death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The

Book of Acts begins a new dispensation with the

events of Pentecost and the birth of the church. The

Book of Acts contains forty years of the history of

the church. The 21 epistles which follow the Book of

Acts were written by the inspiration of the Holy

Spirit, and given to the church to define the call to

sanctification, and provide instruction necessary for

accomplishing God’s will. The Holy Spirit brings

POWER (at the Feast of Pentecost) TO PREPARE

The first three feasts were fulfilled in rapid (for the coming Feast of Trumpets).

succession. Fifty days separate the Feast of 4 55
Firstfruits from Pentecost. On the very day
appointed to Pentecost, the Holy Spirit is given as THE LONG INTERVAL
described in Acts Chapter Two. After Pentecost, OF NO FEASTS

BEING FULFILLED:

there is a long interval of three months in which THE CHURCH AGE
there are no feasts given. This is a depiction of

the present dispensation of the church. This

“long interval” will end with the fulfillment of the HOLY SPIRIT RAPTURE OF THE
Feast of Trumpets-the rapture of the church! SENT BY CHRIST CHURCH BY CHRIST
ON PENTECOST
ON TRUMPETS