Feasts of Adonai

First Tabernacle Fellowship

3604 Stockton Blvd. Sacramento, CA 95820

 

CONGREGATION

Saturdays at 1:30 PM

Passover

Pesach & The Feast of Unleavened Bread (Motzot)

Pesach Celebration will be held on April 17 beginning at 6:30 PM. See announcement for information on how you can attend.

See Exodus 12 for this feast requirement. This feast is commanded by Elohim, commemorating the death of the Egypt’s first born. It was the final judgment before Isra’el made their Exodus from captivity. The Passover Seder meal is customarily eaten on the eve of Passover day, in accordance with when Yeshua ate the meal with His disciples the evening before his being sacrificed for our sins.

 

 

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Vayikra (Lev) 23:6-8

Begins on April 19th through April 25 There will be a Holy Convocation on Tuesday April 19th from 7 PM to 9 PM, and on Monday April 25th there will be a Holy Convocation from 7 PM to 9 PM The Feast of Unleavened Bread is to remember the haste with which Isra’el left Egypt at the Exodus; no time to leaven the bread they took with them. It is customary to “spring clean” the house of all leavening agents, as only unleavened goods are to be eaten during this time.

 

 

Feast of First Fruits (Bikkurim)

Beginning at Sundown April 17th to Sundown 25thth 2011 No Holy Convocation (Within The Feast of Unleavened Bread) Beginning at Sundown 23rd and ending at Sundown the 24th The Feast of First Fruits is the first day of the counting of the Omer forward to the Feast of Weeks, which is to begin the day after the Sabbath of Passover and counts 50 days (after the 7th Sabbath) to the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot (See below).

 

 

Feast of Weeks

Shavout Meaning 50

Vayikra (Lev) 23:6-8

Beginning at Sundown June 11th through Sundown the 12th 2011 Holy Convocation will convene at 1:30 PM on Sunday June 12th The Feast of Weeks not only commemorates the end of the grain harvest, but most importantly, it represents the anniversary of when Moses gave the Torah to the people of Isra’el at Mount Sinai, which is the pivotal point in the creation of Elohim’s people and the nation that was later to occupy the "Promised Land."

 

 

Rosh HaShanah

The Days of Awe or Yamim Nora'im are the most sacred days of the Hebrew Year. Rosh HaShanah begins this year on Elul, September 29th, at sundown through Elul, September 30th at Sundown. September 30 will be our Holy Convocation at 6pm. For Rosh HaShanah our meal course will be apples dipped in honey and any other foods of sweet nature that would signify a sweet new year. You are free to bring foods appropriate for this meal. We will sing songs of repentance and worship and offer prayers of teshuvah (repentance).

 

Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur – the Days of Awe or Yamim Nora'im are the most sacred days of the Hebrew Year. Awe is a loose translation of the Hebrew word nora which can also be translated as "reverence." What does this time commemorate? It deals exclusively with the fundamental questions of human nature and human destiny and with the connection between Yah and humans, sin and repentance, and mercy and justice.

 

The 10-day period beginning on Rosh HaShanah and ending on Yom Kippur September 19, 2010 is known as the "Ten Days of Repentance." This is a crucial time as the Prophet Yesha Yahu (Isaiah) 55:6 mentions this day as a day in which Yah may be found. During these days it is a definite time to seek Adonai.

 

Rosh HaShanah is also known as Yom Teruah the sounding of the Shofar. This sounding of the Shofar is to awaken us, as it begins the season of Teshuvah (repentance). For those looking for the rapture it is recorded in 1 Corinthians 15:52 that this day will occur with the sound of the Shofar "it will take but a moment, the blink of an eye, at the final shofar. For the shofar will sound, and the dead will be raised to live forever, and we to will be changed."

 


For those who thought that Rosh HaShanah was only relative to the Jews think again. When it occurs for real, this will be the most important day in the life of humanity and particularly the bride of YeShua. We celebrate it in preparation for that day.

 

 

Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur begins at Sundown October 8th and ends at Sundown October 9th. It is the holiest day of the year – the day on which we are closest to Yahweh and to the quintessential core of our own souls. It is the "Day of Atonement" – Lev 16:29-31 "It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you. For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be clean before Adonai from all your sins. It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. For twenty-six hours, from several minutes before sunset on Tishrei 9, October 8th, to after nightfall on Tishrei 10 October 9th, we "afflict our souls": we abstain from food and drink, do not wash or anoint our bodies, do not wear leather shoes, and abstain from marital relations.

 

Service Order October 9th beginning at 6 PM our Holy convocation ends. This will be a time of closing our fasting and prayer. We will have the Breaking of Consecration meal.

 

 

Feasts of Dedication

Hanukkah

As mention in the Gospel of John, 10:22

Beginning at Sundown December 21st through the 29th 2011. Although no a Biblical Feast this holiday is mentioned, as stated above: "Then came Hanukkah in Yerushalayim. It was winter, and Yahshuah as walking around inside the Temple area, in Shlomo’s Colonnade." Also know as The Festival of Lights, Hanukkah is observed for eight days by the lighting of the Hanukkah Menorah, but the Hanukkah Menorah has place for nine candles instead of the eight places on the Temple Menorah, the extra candle holder is distinct from the others as it is “the servant candle” which lights the others. Each night, one candle is lit and added to the others until all the candles are lit. This holiday is observed for the rededication of the Alter of theTemple along with the celebration of the victory by a group of Jews, let by Yehudah Maccabee, against the Hellenizing and defiling of the Holy Temple by the Greek ruler Antiochus IV, one of the four generals of Alexander the Great.

 

 

Sukkot

Festival of Tabernacles

Vayikra (Lev) 23:34-36

October 13 ending October 22 with Simchat Torah

This year we plan to celebrate this festival in Yisra’el.

 

Lev 23:34-36 “Tell the people of Isra’el, ‘On the fifteenth day of this seventh month is the feast of Sukkot for seven days to Adonai. 35 On the first day there is to be a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work. 36 For seven days you are to bring an offering made by fire to Adonai; on the eighth day you are to have a holy convocation and bring an offering made by fire to Adonai; it is a day of public assembly; do not do any kind of ordinary work.

 

This festival occurs for seven days, from October 21, Tishrei 15 to October 21 Tishrei 22. It completes the sacred festivals of the seventh month. In contrast to Rosh HaShanah, the Day of Atonement and Yom Kippur, this feast is a time of joy referred to in many cases as the Season of Our Joy.

 

The Scriptures seem to indicate that YeShua was born during this festival season, as there are many evidences that bear this out. It is also referred to in the Brit Hadashah (NT) as the Marriage Supper of the Lamb.

Holy Convocation