What Is The Third
Feast?
The term “Third Feast” is a reference to the Old Testament Feast
of Tabernacles, which was the last of the 3 major feasts established by God
for the people of Israel during their religious year. The Jews had two
different calendars▬one religious and
one secular. During their religious year, they were commanded in the Law to
appear before the Lord in Jerusalem three different times, in order to
celebrate three different feasts. The first feast was the Feast of Passover.
The second feast was the Feast of Weeks (or First Fruits). The third feast was
the Feast of Tabernacles. These three great feasts actually consisted of seven
sub-feasts. They are as follows:
The Feast Of
Passover
~Passover
~Unleavend
Bread
~Firstfruits
The Feast of Weeks
The Feast Of
Tabernacles
~Blowing
Of Trumpets
~The
Day Of Atonement
~Booths
Each of these Old Testament feasts is a type and shadow of a
New Testament experience. Each one▬with the
exception of the last two (Day of Atonement & Booths)▬has literally been fulfilled in Church history.
The spiritual fulfillment of the literal, OT Feast of Passover happened when
Jesus was crucified. He was the spotless Lamb that was sacrificed for the sins
of the world, and he was slain during the Jewish Feast of Passover. The
spiritual fulfillment of Pentecost (the Feast of Weeks)▬which represents the Baptism of the Holy Spirit
happened during the literal Jewish Feast of Pentecost.
Each of these feasts corresponds to our experience as we walk
with God. We experience and enter the Feast of Passover when we accept Jesus as
our Savior and begin to walk with Him. We enter and experience the Feast of
Pentecost when we are baptized and filled with the Holy Spirit. Most
Pentecostal brethren recognize this. But Pentecost is not the end of the story.
There is feast past Pentecost, and God is calling His people to enter and
experience this feast. This feast was referred to by John the Baptist.
Matthew 3:11 I indeed baptize you with water unto
repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am
not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.
The Feast of Tabernacles has to do with a complete purging and
cleansing of all sin and rebellion from our personalities. The first part of
this feast is the “Blowing of Trumpets”. It is the message that there is
something past Pentecost for us to experience, and it is a call to war. It is a
call for us to begin fighting God’s enemies that still dwell in our promised
land (our lives).
As we answer this call, we enter the Day of Atonement, which
is the affliction of the soul. This is where God begins to deal with all the
things in our lives that are not only illegal and immoral, but also those
things which are legal and moral, but which are hindering us nonetheless from
being purified. It’s a time when we begin to learn the difference between
living and ministering from the soul and from the spirit. It’s a time when we
learn to walk in a deeper level of separation from the world and sin, and we
are brought into a place of true holiness in experience.
The Feast of Trumpets began to be spiritually fulfilled in or
around 1948. Some years later the Day of Atonement began. This is the “feast”
(or spiritual season) we are currently in. When this feast has run its course,
God will have a people who are without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing, and
Messiah will return in glory to establish his earthly kingdom for a thousand
years. Satan will be bound, and the joy of what the Old Testament Feast of
Booths represented will begin.
You will notice from the Scripture on our Third Feast menu
page that the only feast still being celebrated during the Kingdom Age
is the Feast of Tabernacles. This is because all the other feasts, which are
actual phases of God’s redemptive plan, will have been completed at this point.
On the following pages you will find articles and audio
messages about this feast. We do not necessarily agree with every single
statement made by these writers or speakers. We are not endorsing them or any
religious group they may belong to. We are making these articles and messages
available because we believe the overall message they convey is true,
and that God’s people need to hear it. Try to have an open heart and a
teachable spirit. Ask the Lord to guide you. The Holy Spirit is well able to
witness to that which is true.
Dan Mace
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