Spring Feasts
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Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)
The Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) celebrates the wheat harvest and the giving of the Law at Sinai, fulfilled in the New Testament by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit which empowered the Church and wrote God’s Law on the hearts of believers.
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The Feast of Firstfruits
Firstfruits is the feast of the early harvest that required Israelites to trust God with their first crops, typifying the Resurrection of Jesus Christ who rose on this day as the guarantee of the future resurrection of all believers.
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Feast of Unleavened Bread
The Feast of Unleavened Bread is the seven-day festival immediately following Passover that calls God’s people to symbolically and practically purge the “leaven” of sin from their lives to walk in holiness.
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Passover
The Passover is the celebration of God delivering the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, when the blood of a spotless lamb caused the angel of death to pass over their homes.
Bible Characters
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Mark (John Mark)
John Mark was a young disciple who overcame early failure to become a trusted companion of Paul and Peter, ultimately authoring the dynamic Gospel that bears his name.
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Matthew
Matthew was a despised tax collector transformed by grace into a devoted apostle, whose Gospel bridges the Old and New Testaments by proclaiming Jesus as the promised Messiah and King.
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Nabal
Nabal was a wealthy but foolish landowner whose arrogance and refusal to show hospitality to David led to divine judgment and his sudden death.
Biblical Events
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Mark (John Mark)
John Mark was a young disciple who overcame early failure to become a trusted companion of Paul and Peter, ultimately authoring the dynamic Gospel that bears his name.
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Matthew
Matthew was a despised tax collector transformed by grace into a devoted apostle, whose Gospel bridges the Old and New Testaments by proclaiming Jesus as the promised Messiah and King.
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Nabal
Nabal was a wealthy but foolish landowner whose arrogance and refusal to show hospitality to David led to divine judgment and his sudden death.
Bible Locations
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Jezreel
Jezreel was the fertile royal seat of King Ahab and Queen Jezebel, famous for the murder of Naboth and the site where divine judgment eventually wiped out their entire dynasty.
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Aphek
Aphek was a strategic military stronghold and staging ground on the Sharon Plain where the Philistines gathered to capture the Ark and where David was providentially released from the Philistine army.
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Lachish
Lachish was the second most powerful city in ancient Judah, a mighty fortress whose dramatic fall to Assyria and Babylon serves as a pivotal moment in biblical history and archaeology.
