While we understand that scripture alone is enough to show us what is permissible or not, understanding the big picture brings greater clarity, joy and peace to God's people. Understanding the purpose and fulfillment of God's feasts helps us to see the bigger picture. There are many pieces to understanding the fulfilling of the feasts, both individually and collectively. Elements can be seen scripturally, spiritually, historically, anthropologically, agriculturally, linguistically, and in phraseology to name a few. I hope that there are some pieces in here that will be a blessing to you.

Every feast is a study on its own and directly correlates to the physical and spiritual harvest seen in scripture; the following is a rough outline to shed light on the whole:

1. Triune Completion (Was, is, and will be)

a. Everything "was" (Old Testament/physical), everything "is" (New Testament/ spiritual & manifesting physically), and "will be" (the fullness of times, completion, new bodies, fully manifested spiritual reign.

i. As seen in the Sabbath fulfilling and the coming Sabbath rest.

ii. Pesach/Passover - Salvation from Physical slavery/Time of the physical barley harvest (Was), Salvation from bondage of sin/ during which the spiritual barley harvest took place (Is), salvation from the influence and reign of sin in the millennial kingdom: commemorated by the fourth cup: cup of the kingdom (Will be)

iii. Shavuot/Pentecost- the law on stone given on mount sina, the presence of God in fire, etc., and three thousand deaths for sin (Was), The writing of the law on the heart, God's presence via his Holy Spirit in fire, etc., and three thousand souls saved, the start of the harvesting of the wheat (Is), Final harvesting process of the wheat: threshing, winnowing, gathering (Will be)

iv. Yom Teruah/Feast of Trumpets - with each set of sounds is a different call out to God: cry of condition, remembrance of God, crying to God, awakening to sin, crying out in repentance, and asking for mercy and forgiveness, and crowning God as King - directly connected to ten days of awe & Sabbath of Penitence: has up to Yom Kippur to get right before judgment & to have name written in book of life before gates of heaven are closed- also correlates to the time of the physical grape and olive harvests (Was), acknowledge sin, call upon Yeshua/Jesus, crown him as king and get right before judgment, have name both written and sealed in the book of life (Is), some grapes (Israel) and olives (Judah) awaken and come together (all Israel) to a place furnished in the wilderness, rending hearts with trumpet blasts, crowning Yeshua/Jesus as King, the lamb in the midst, (who knows the day and hour of the heart of man?), The great final exceeding blast, God roars from heaven (Will be)

v. Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement - High priest offers blood sacrifice for sins of the world, seeking forgiveness, giving to charity, disannulment of vows, remembering martyr's, opening the ark & pulling out the Torah scrolls, wearing white, a great shofar blast, closing of the gates, judgment of either blessing or curse, and more (Was), Yeshua/Jesus the high priest gave the blood sacrifice of his body for the sins of the world, seeking forgiveness from God, giving to charity, being the martyrs, continuing in God's written word, faithful believers receiving judgment of blessing (Is), disannulment of vows with death, God hearing the martyrs cries, God's people are given white to wear, the gates/doors are shut, the temple of the ark is opened, the temple fills with smoke and the wrath of God is poured out on the wicked, including the ungathered grapes which are trampled and destroyed, judgment of rewards for saints (Will be)

vi. Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles - pilgrimage to Jerusalem, build booths/tents/tabernacles to dwell in for memorial purposes, temple sacrifices and water libation ceremony commemorating physical living water, temple lighting (in place of God's glory during second temple), Hashanot (please save us), Hoshana Rabbah (the great please save us), carrying out judgment or blessings, all night and week long celebration joy and feasting, and more, (along with Chag HaAsif/ Feast of Ingathering: celebration of all crops gathered; particularly barley, wheat, grapes, olives) (Was), Yeshua/Jesus light of the world, the Holy Spirit waters flowing out of the faithful believer, Yeshua/Jesus as Hosannah during entry into Jerusalem, and more (Is), Hoshanot - Yeshua/Jesus is seen again: "blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord", sacrifice (supper celebration/fouls and beasts invited), Yeshua/Tabernacle in the midst, light of God's presence via Yeshua/Jesus, Millennial blessing of rain and judgment of no rain, living waters out of Jerusalem, and more (Will be)

b. The Hebraic wedding also ties into each of the feasts (Details not listed)

2. The LORD'S feasts vs Jewish feasts

a. Established afore in the firmament

i. Genesis 1:14 KJV — "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"

ii. Leviticus 23:2 KJV — "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."

iii. Both the words seasons and feasts are the same Hebrew word: Strong's Hebrew 4150: Mowed, or moed, or mowadah: properly an appointment, i.e. a fixed time or season; specifically a festival; conventionally a year; by implication, an assembly (as convened for a definite purpose); technically the congregation; by extension, the place of meeting; also a signal (as appointed beforehand)

b. They were always "The feasts of the LORD" (Leviticus 23:4, 37, 43)

c. God called them "my feasts" (Leviticus 23:2)

d. Strangers and sojourners kept the feasts (Exodus 12:48-49)

e. "Your feasts" was used only when feasts were not observed in the manner that God commanded (Isaiah 1:14)

3. The LORD'S supper-feast (1 Corinthians 11:20) (another individual study)

a. Supper: Strong's Greek 1173: deipnon: dinner, i.e. the cheif meal (usually in the evening): feast, supper.

b. Historically, every week, saints assembled and ate a meal with the third cup of the Passover (the cup of blessing/the cup of redemption). The entire feast that was no longer being observed correctly was split and the meal that takes place in the middle of Pesach with the bread and cup that followed was given to a people who would observe it correctly. When the veil comes off the eyes of the grapes and olives and all are gathered at the ingathering, all will partake of the fourth cup in unity.

4. Quartodecimanism (from Latin quarta decima: fourteenth): Historically, from the first century, Christians in Jerusalem and Asia Minor observed Passover and the death, burial, and resurrection of Yeshua/Jesus on Nisan 14 (Partakers were called quartidecimani: a Latin word meaning “fourteenthers”; and Polycarp, a bishop who followed the apostle John, observed on Passover). Alternatively, Christians in the churches of Rome, who were followers of Peter and Paul, observed after the full moon of the vernal equinox and referred to the day as Easter. Anicetus of Rome was an observer of Easter. Between 68 A.D. and 155 A.D. , there was a dispute known as the “Quartodeciman controversy” When neither Polycarp or Anicetus could convince one another to switch their observance, they decided to continue their own way of observing without any separation of fellowship.

a. Easter in Acts 12:4 is Strong’s Greek 3957: Pascha: the Passover (the meal, the day, the festival or the special sacrifices connected with it): - Easter, Passover.

5. All to the glory of God: 1 Corinthians 10:31 KJV — "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God."

6. Being mindful and loving towards weak consciences of unlearned individuals, as to not provoke stumbling (1st Corinthians 10:16-23, 25-33)

7. Romans 14:5-6 KJV — "One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind. He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks."

8. Colossians 2:16-17 KJV — "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."

9. Colossians 2:20-22 KJV — "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?"

Conclusion

1 Samuel 16:7 KJV — "But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart."

It is not given to the gentiles to observe the established feasts physically, aside from the fulfilled supper of Passover: the Lord’s Supper. The purpose of the feasts for gentiles was fulfilled spiritually and by the manifestation of God's promised salvation. Faithful believers are to commemorate, daily and weekly, God's partial fulfillment of all the feasts, as also seen in the agape feasts/ feasts of charity (referred to in Jude 1:12). If faithful believers choose to observe the feasts, acknowledging and honoring the fulfillment, in unity, in fellowship with God, giving glory to God, Yeshua/Jesus, and Ruach HaKodesh/the Holy Spirit, not in vain repetition, or ritualistically in the sense of duty, how joyous and pleasing would that be to God and the partakers!

"The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace."

Numbers 6:24-26 KJV