For the Christian in the Church Age dispensation, we are not bound by the laws of Moses. Of course, we should keep the Ten Commandments, since they are the main foundation of any righteous civilization. The other parts of the Law of Moses that deal with dietary restrictions, religious protocols, and holy feast days are not ones that Christians are required to keep.
Colossians 2:16-17- Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Paul does warn, however, that there is a future time(or dispensation) when someone will be required to keep these.
The Law has some very specific requirements, but I want to look at just the holy feasts. These are laid out in Leviticus 23. Four are to be kept in the springtime, and three are to be kept in the autumn. Three are meant to be celebrated where the tabernacle was pitched, and then later in Jerusalem where the temple was located, and they require the people to travel in order to properly keep these feasts.
Deuteronomy 16:16-17- Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Regardless of where and how these feasts were to be kept, they are referred to as "holy convocations". That means this is a sacred gathering together in public because God Himself has called Israel to come together, and He will be in their midst.
Leviticus 23:1-2- And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
There are seven different feasts that the Jewish people were required to keep each year. These feasts have an amazing relationship to the two advents of Christ!
The first is the Passover (Pesach). This is the first feast that the people were to travel to keep.
Leviticus 23:4-5- These are the feasts of the LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons. In the fourteenth day of the first month at even is the LORD'S passover.
This feast is only one day long. It is a remembrance for when the Lord's death angel swept through Egypt and wiped out all the firstborn of those who didn't have the blood on the doorposts.
Exodus 12:3,6,7,12,13- Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
As the angel of death went down the street, he looked to see where the blood was missing. It didn't matter what type of person was inside the house, if there was no blood then death took a life. It didn't matter if the household was worthy, if there was blood then the angel passed by that home.
This placing of the blood on the door only happened that one time in Egypt.
Exodus 12:14- And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
When Jesus came and died, He fulfilled all the requirements of the Law of Moses. He was their Messiah who gave Himself a lamb (as Abraham prophesied to Isaac so long ago on the mount). The Passover is the feast of salvation!
I Corinthians 5:7b- For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Hebrews 9:9-28- For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of calves and of goats, with water, and scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book, and all the people, Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Jesus is our Passover lamb. It is not a coincidence that He was crucified during Passover. When God sees the blood of Jesus Christ on a believer's account, then His judgement will passover that person and they will be granted life in heaven instead of face the penalty of death in hell.
Hebrews 10:10- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Christ's sacrifice only needed to be offered once. He doesn't need to be sacrificed over and over again. Once for all!
The second feast is the feast of unleavened bread (Chag Hamotzi). People generally combine these first two because they are celebrated in quick secession, however Passover is only one day, the first day, and then the feast of unleavened bread follows for the next seven days.
Leviticus 23:6-8- And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread. In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
This feast comes directly after the Passover. There is no time gap between the two.
There are some that say the KJV translators shouldn't have used the word "Easter" in their translation of Acts 12, that it should have been translated "Passover", but let us look at it.
Acts 12:1-4- Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword. And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.
Herod, being a Gentile, wouldn't have been celebrating a Jewish holiday. Also, the Passover had already occurred because the Jews were celebrating the feast of unleavened bread. If Herod had indeed intended to wait until the Passover, then he would have had to wait almost another year entirely!
Seven days of unleavened bread. This is a lot like the Christians walk should be.
Matthew 16:12- Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
Luke 12:1- In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
I Corinthians 5:8- Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
As Christians, we should not be hypocrites who exude religious piety of self righteousness, but we should hold fast the doctrine of faith in sincerity and speak it boldly in truth just as Christ did.
Christ is the bread of life! If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say He was thinking about unleavened bread when He spoke those words since He is without sin. Also, He was born in Bethlehem (which means "house of bread"). There's no coincidence with God!
John 6:35- And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
The third feast is the Feast of Firstfruits (Yom Habikkurim).
Again, no time has really passed, we move quickly from one feast to the next. The Israelites were to bring the early crops from their spring planting.
Leviticus 23:10-14- Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you, and shall reap the harvest thereof, then ye shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest unto the priest: And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it. And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the LORD. And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin. And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
This feast allows leaven in the bread. Why? Because it's a picture of the church of God which is made up of both Jew and Gentile!
Galatians 3:26-28- For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
The firstfruits were the very first ripe produce from the harvest. Christ is the first fruit of a promise made long ago- Resurrection from the dead.
God showed this to Ezekiel in the valley of dry bones. He performed a miracle for Ezekiel to witness and brought those bones to together, covering them with flesh, and then breathing life into them.
Ezekiel 37:12-14- Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 26:19- Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
I Corinthians 15:20-23- But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.
Revelation 14:1,4- And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads. These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.
Christ was the very first to rise from the dead, but He won't be the last. The firstfruits also include the church who goes up in the rapture before the tribulation and the 144,000 who will be raptured from the earth before the Great Tribulation.
The fourth is Pentecost (Shavu'ot) or the Feast of Weeks. This is the second feast that the people were required to travel to keep. This is celebrated in late spring or early summer. It is celebrated exactly seven weeks after Passover, or 50 days after if you count the day of Passover.
Leviticus 23:15-21- And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete: Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. Ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves of two tenth deals: they shall be of fine flour; they shall be baken with leaven; they are the firstfruits unto the LORD. And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD. Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings. And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the LORD, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the LORD for the priest. And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
This feast is exactly 50 days after the firstfruits. It will not fall on a Saturday, which is the typical holy day. When the Bible says Sabbath, it is speaking of a holy day, not always a Saturday! Anywhere the Scriptures mention a High Day, or a High Sabbath, it is referencing a day OTHER than Saturday (Shabbat)!
John 19:31- The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Christ was not crucified on a Saturday, but on a Wednesday. It was a High Sabbath.
Christ went up to heaven forty days after His resurrection.
Acts 1:1-5- The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen: To whom also he shewed himself alive after his passion by many infallible proofs, being seen of them forty days, and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God: And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, saith he, ye have heard of me. For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.
However, the Holy Spirit didn't descend on the disciples until ten days later on Pentecost, which marks the summer harvest.
Acts 2:1-4- And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Why did God wait ten days between these two events? I don't know, yet. Perhaps He had some more things to take care of in heaven, or maybe He was teaching the disciples patience and that He wasn't coming back immediately. Whatever the answer, God always has His reasons.
Again, it is mentioned that no servile work was to be done therein.
On Pentecost, or Shavuot, God gave Moses and the people of Israel His law. Summer is also a season when the Jewish people remember the destruction of the Temple. The day is called Tisha B’Av and it is a day of mourning and fasting. The Jews lost their temple, and in their estimation, their access to worship God in the way that He expressed to them that He was to be worshipped.
Later, on this day God poured out His Spirit on His disciples in Jerusalem. The Jewish people don't realize that God no longer requires a temple to worship, but that every saved believer is a temple by virtue of the indwelling of the Holy Ghost.
I Corinthians 6:19- What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
These four feasts all coincide with Christ's first advent and His death on Calvary. The last three feasts will coincide with Christ's second advent and His millennial kingdom.
There is a four month gap between the fourth feast and the fifth feast. These last three are kept in autumn.
John 4:35- Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.
Christ was reiterating to the people regarding something they already knew. Once the first fruits show up, there's about four months before harvest time. This gap in time represents God's foreknowledge regarding the Church Age (a period of time when God deals with both Jew and Gentile in the same way- as sinners in need of a Savior).
The fifth feast is the Feast of Trumpets (Yom Teru'ah or Rosh Hashanah).
This feast occurs around the end of September. I've read that the priests would blow the trumpet to get those who worked in the fields to stop and come in for worship, though I'm not certain if that is completely accurate. It was a solemn day with trumpet blasts reminding people to reflect on their lives and repent; this feast begins the High Holidays, also called the Days of Awe, that lead up to the Day of Atonement.
Leviticus 23:24-25- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
The trumpet was used to assemble or warn the congregation.
Joel 2:15-1- Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.
It was also used during war.
Jeremiah 4:19- My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
God used the trumpets when Joshua attacked Jericho, and when He used Gideon to defeat the Midianites. God's plans always include the sound of a trumpet (which is known as a trump).
Before the Tribulation, Jesus will gather the church home with a trumpet sound.
I Corinthians 15:52- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
I Thessalonians 4:16-17- For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Revelation 4:1-2- After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
The sixth is the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).
This is a day of confession, the highest of the Jewish holy days. This one won't always fall on a Sabbath (Shabbat) day.
Leviticus 23:27-32- Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD. And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the LORD your God. For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people. And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people. Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
In the Hebrew calendar, a day runs from one sunset to the next, or 6 pm to 6 pm. This definition is found in the Biblical description of the Yom Kippur holiday in Leviticus 23:32, where it says the holiday lasted “from evening to evening”. In Genesis 1, God said "the evening and the morning" were considered the first day, showing that even God begins His day in the evening.
The church owes no atonement, it's been exonerated through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. But, someone needs to repent! The Hebrew children who rejected their Messiah! Once they accept that Christ is the true Messiah the 2nd advent of Christ's return to destroy the armies of the AntiChrist will occur.
Romans 5:11- And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.
Every year on the day of atonement, the High Priest would offer a sacrifice for the sins of the nation. He would bring the blood of the sacrifice into the Holy of Holies and put it on the mercy seat.
Leviticus 16:15-17- Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat: And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness. And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.
The Tabernacle, and then the temple, had one section where the priests operated that contained the table of shewbread and the candlestick. But there was a second section that only the High Priest was allowed to enter which contained the ark of the covenant. The top of the ark between the Cherubim was known as the mercy seat.
Hebrews 9:2,3,5-8,11-12- For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary. And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all; And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God. But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
This blood offering had to be performed every year for the nation. Their sins would be forgiven for a year. Not forgotten. Not taken away. But forgiven.
But once Christ was crucified and risen again, He performed this ceremony in Heaven before God on the Throne (the true mercy seat) one time for the sins of the entire world. This sacrifice never has to be repeated. It was the perfect sacrifice that was required by God offered through the proper protocols. And it was eternally accepted.
Hebrews 10:10-13- By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
Anyone can avail themselves of this payment for sin. It is an opportunity offered to all.
The seventh and final feast that was given by Moses is the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot). This is the third feast that the people were required to travel to keep.
This feast was to celebrate how God provided shelter for the Israelites in the wilderness. Each year, Jews were to build shelters, or booths, to dwell in for seven days.
Leviticus 23:34-36, 39-43- Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein. Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.
When the Hebrew children were journeying to the Promised Land, God miraculously provided for them and protected them. This will happen again during the Tribulation, and after Christ's return they will spend the Millennium praising Him for this!
This feast is when the Lord Jesus Christ was born on earth as a human so long ago; that's why the shepherds were abiding in the fields with their flocks. God manifest in the flesh has a birthday! Each year during the Millennium, all people will come to worship at the temple in Jerusalem.
Zechariah 14:16- And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
The eighth day of this feast is another high day simply called "The Last Great Day".
John 7:37-38- In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
This last day is a sacred assembly. It represents the Great White Throne Judgement where all those who ever lived on this earth (except Christians during the Church Age) will stand before God and give account of their life.
Revelation 20:11-13- And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Daniel 12:2-3- And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
This will be the last great judgment of humanity- the end of all that was and the beginning of all that will forever be. Only those who have accepted Christ as their Savior during the Church Age will escape this judgment!
Notice that all of the feasts that require travel to Jerusalem for the Jews to observe were fulfilled, or will be fulfilled, in Jerusalem by Jesus Christ!
Leviticus 23:37-38- These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day: Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Now you understand how important these feasts are, not only historically, but also spiritually and prophetically! Jesus said that Moses spoke of Him. It wasn't that Moses said the name of Jesus, but that he prophesied of the coming of "that Prophet" who would be like him.
Deuteronomy 18:15- The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
John 6:14- Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world.
Jesus is the fulfillment of everything that was required by Moses from the Jewish people and promised to the Jewish people by God! Every year they repeat in tradition what they should be observing in faith. It's all laid out for anyone who takes the time to search it out.
