Yeshua used the same phrase when he told his disciples about the timing of His return: “No one knows the day or the hour except my Father in heaven” (Matthew 24:36). As a Jewish man, Yeshua understood ‘no one knows the day or the hour’ to be an idiom for Yom Teruah like we understand the Fourth of July as Independence Day. While living in the flesh as the son of man, he could not know the year for the prophetic fulfillment of Feast of Trumpets, but he did know on what ‘appointed time’ it would occur. Paul did too.
Feast of Unleavened Bread – Matzah
enerations to remember Israel’s hasty exodus from the land of Egypt. The ‘appointed time’ of matzah was fulfilled by the burial of Yeshua, the unleavened bread from heaven, ‘the coming one.’ Paul tells the Corinthians that followers of Messiah are to remove the ‘soured dough’ lump of false teachings and celebrate the Feasts of Unleavened Bread and Passover, not with the puffed up bread of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and sincerity in the truth of God’s Word.
The Passover – Pesach
Pesach is to be celebrated throughout all the generations of the people of Israel wherever they lived. In Joshua chapter 5, the Israelites celebrate Pesach in Gilgal after taking flint knives and circumcising all the men who had come out of the wilderness. In 2 Kings chapter 23, King Josiah destroys all the high places and idols in Israel, and the nation celebrates Pesach in Jerusalem for the first time since the days of the Judges. In Ezra chapter 6, when the Israelites return from captivity in Babylon, everyone who renounced the pagan practices of the nations celebrated the Pesach.
What does it profit a man?
Thoughts on Yom Rishon, the first day of the week: What does it profit a man to know all 619 Torah commandments, but neglect the widow and the fatherless? What does it profit a man to know all the pagan roots of the holidays, but neglect the hearts and souls of the those who are lost and dying? What does it profit a man to know all the shadows