THE SEVEN FEASTS OF YHVH, THE FATHER – dates 2026 (table format)

 The PURPOSE of the FIRST COMING of YESHUA, THE LAMB of GOD the FATHER was to SAVE all people – John 3:16

FEAST SEASON 1

Sundown 31 March to sundown 1 April 2026

(Always 14 Aviv later called Nisan on the Bible Calendar).

 “In the first month (Aviv), on the fourteenth day of the month (14 Aviv), between sundown and complete darkness, comes Pesach for YHVH.” Leviticus 23:5.

The Passover meal includes bitter herbs and unleavened bread, and it points to Yeshua who was sacrificed for us. Read about Yeshua’s last Passover meal with His disciples in Matthew 26:17-30, Mark 14:12-25, Luke 22:7-23 & 1st Corinthians 11:23-29. 

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the BRONZE ALTAR (meaning: the CROSS). 

(Always 15-21 Abib/ Aviv or Nisan on the Bible Calendar).

 The 1^st day (sundown 1-2 April) andthe 7^th day (sundown 7-8 April) must be celebrated as a Sabbath – no work is to be done (Leviticus 23:7-8).

“On the fifteenth day (15 Aviv), of the same month (Aviv) is the festival of matzah (unleavened bread); for seven days you are to eat matzah (unleavened bread).” Leviticus 23:5.

 The leaven (a metaphor for sin) must be cleansed from our dwellings and our HEARTS. Believers in Yeshua the Messiah choose to take up his/ her cross and to die with Him to their old sinful lives/ fleshly nature by repenting and turning away from their sins back to Abba Father (teshuvah in Hebrew). Read Luke 9:23-25 & Galatians 2:20.

We are instructed to remove all leaven (sin) from our homes during this week and meditate on Yeshua’s sacrifice for our sins.

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the BRONZE LAVER/ WASH BASIN (meaning: WATER BABTISM and daily REPENTANCE).

(Always 18 Abib/ Aviv or Nisan on the Bible Calendar).

 “After you enter the land, I am giving you and harvest its crops, you are to bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest to the priest. He is to wave the sheaf before YHVH, so that you will be accepted;  the priest is to wave it on the day after Shabbat (the Sabbath/ Shabbat is on the 7^th day, therefore the first fruit wave offering hat to be brought before YHVH on the Sunday, being the 1^st day of the week)” Leviticus 23:10-11.

 This corresponds to the resurrection of Yeshua the Messiah, the “First Fruit” on the Sunday morning (the 1^st Day of the week). Read Matthew 28:1, Mark 16:1-2, Luke 24:1 & John 20:1.

 Spiritually, believers are born again in Him as children of Abba Father that follow in the footsteps of Yeshua the Messiah in obedience to Abba Father with the Holy Spirit leading them in spirit and in truth (in word and deed). Read John 3:3-5, 2^nd Corinthians 5:17-18 & 2^nd Peter 1:3-11.   

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the GOLDEN TABLE of SHOWBREAD (meaning being raised from the dead as a new person and entering the HOLY PLACE (the presence of Yeshua the Messiah) and eating the BREAD of LIVE from the table of Yeshua the Messiah – the WORD of YHVH.

Counting the Omer commence for 50 days up to the Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost. Read Leviticus 23:15-21 These are the 50 days between Passover (commemorating the exodus and the resurrection).

and the Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost (commemorating the formal giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai and the giving of the Holy Spirit in the New Testament).

FEAST SEASON 2 

Yeshua the Messiah, baptizes believers with the HOLY SPIRIT and with FIRE (Matthew 3:11 & 1^st Corinthians 12:13). 

 This Day (sundown 23 to 24 May) must be celebrated as a Sabbath – no work is to be done (Leviticus 23:21).

 The Feast of Weeks/ Pentecost commemorates three things:

1). The DAY the first fruits of the wheat harvest were brought into the temple.

2). The DAY the summary of the Torah, the TEN WORDS/ COMMANDMENTS was written on stone by the FINGER of GOD (the HOLY SPIRIT); and

3). The DAY the summary of the Torah, the TEN WORDS/ COMMANDMENTS began to be written on the HEARTS of believers through the HOLY SPIRIT. 

Believers follow Yeshua the Messiah living a lifestyle of hearing and listening/ obeying/ doing (shama in Hebrew), the WORD of Abba Father and in so doing renewing our minds in preparation for the second coming of Messiah Yeshua and we proclaim the Good News/ the Gospel to other people using the specific gifts we are equipped with by Abba Father (redemptive gift/ personality), Yeshua the Messiah (calling/ office gift) and the Holy Spirit gifts given to assist us in the execution of our purpose. Read Romans 12:1-2, 2^nd Corinthians 10:4-6 and Romans 12. 

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the GOLDEN SEVEN BRANCH MENORAH (meaning: the outpouring of the Holy Spirit – being BAPTIZED by Yeshua the Messiah with the Holy Spirit and with FIRE –being set alight to fulfill our purpose to bring His, Good News/ the Gospel/ His light to the world).

 The PURPOSE of the SECOND COMING of YESHUA, THE MESSIAH, this time as the LION of ABBA FATHER, the conquering KING, is the RESURECTION and FETCHING (RAPTURE) of the set apart believers who lived lives committed to Him, bearing the FRUIT of the HOLY SPIRIT, reflecting HIS CARACTER. As well as DESTROYING the enemies of YHVH FATHER and reigning a thousand years on the earth after which He the final JUDGEMENT will take place as well as SUBMISSION of everything to YHVH the FATHER – 1^st Corinthians 15:21-28 & Revelation chapters 16-22. 

FEAST SEASON 3 

 This Day (sundown 11 to 12 September) must be celebrated as a Sabbath – no work is to be done (Leviticus 23:24).

 “In the seventh month (Tishrei), the first of the month (1 Tishrei) is to be for you a day of complete rest for remembering, a holy (sacred) convocation (assembly/ gathering/ meeting) announced with blasts of the shofar (ram’s horn).” Leviticus 23:24.

This represents the FIRST RESURECTION from the dead. Read Revelation 20:6. 

It is celebrated by blowing the shofar (a ram’s horn).

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the GOLDEN ALTAR of INCENCE (meaning prayer and interceding for other people). Exodus 30:7-8, Psalm 141:2 & Revelation 5:8 & 8:3-4. 

 This Day (sundown 20 to 21 September) must be celebrated as a Sabbath – no work is to be done (Leviticus 23:27-32).

 “The tenth day of the seventh month is Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement); you are to have a holy convocation (assembly/ gathering/ meeting), you are to deny yourselves (to fast) and you are to bring an offering made by fire to YHVH.” Leviticus 23:27.

The Day of Atonement is also known in the Bible as JUDGEMENT DAY. 

It is the only required DAY of FASTING in the Word of YHVH. It is a highly holy day during which people’s sins are to be evaluated and judged and people are to REPENT of their sins. This represents the EVALUATION of the BRIDE/ BELIEVERS – called the JUDGEMENT SEAT of the MESSIAH Read Romans 3:23-26 & 14:10-12, 1^st Corinthians 4:5 & 11:31, 2^nd Corinthians 5:10 and Hebrews 9:3-5. 

Yeshua the Messiah will defeat the enemies of YHVH the Father on this DAY (referred to as the SEVEN BOWLS of JUDGEMENT) and Satan will be bound a thousand years. Read Revelation chapters 16-19 & 20:1-6. 

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the ARK of THE COVENANT (meaning: Judgement in accordance to the TEN COMMANDMENTS of YHVH.

And

THE EIGTH DAY/ THE LAST DAY (Sh’mini Atzeret).

The 1^st day (sundown 25-26 September) and the 8^th day (sundown 2-3 September) must be celebrated as a Sabbath – no work is to be done (Leviticus 23:36-39).

 “But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month (15 Tishrei)…you are to observe the festival of YHVH seven days.” Leviticus 23:39.

 It can be considered to spend time camping and or spending time, like eating meals in a temporary dwelling/ structure in your garden (called a sukkah in Hebrew). Read Leviticus 23:42-43.

 At the end of the THOUSAND YEARS Satan will be set free for a short while to again DECEIVE the nations on earth (to TEST them for the LAST TIME), before the WHITE THRONE JUDGEMENT will take place. ALL people who ever lived will now be resurrected for the FINAL JUDGEMENT and determining of each person’s eternity will be decided based on each person’s own choices they made while living on earth. Read Daniel 7:9-10 & 12:2, Matthew 12:36 & 25:31-46, John 12:48, Acts 17:31, Hebrews 9:27 and Revelation 20:7-15.

 Yeshua the conquering King defeats ALL powers and authorities (including death and sheol/ hell/ the place of the dead) as the last enemies of YHVH the Father – they are thrown into the LAKE OF FIRE where the antichrist/ antimessiah, the false prophet and Satan will already be – this is known as the SECOND DEATH. Read Revelation 19:20, 20:10-15 & 21:8.

 Thereafter Yeshua will subject EVERYTHNG, including Himself and His Kingdom to YHVH the Father. Read 1^st Corinthians 15:24-28.

Believers whose names are written in the BOOK of LIFE, will lie FOREVER with YHVH the Father and Yeshua the Son in the New Jerusalem on the new earth. Read Luke 10:20, Philippians 4:3 & Revelation 21-22.

Tabernacle/ Temple Furniture representation: the MERCY SEAT (meaning: Believers in and followers of Yeshua the Messiah in obedience to YHVH the Father, who repented daily of accidental (unintentional) sins, will be protected by the MERCY received through YESHUA the MESSIAH against the DEADLY JUDGEMENTS of the Ten Commandments. Romans chapter 2, 1^st Peter 3:18 & 1^st John 2:1-2. 

Believers are not commanded by YHVH to keep these feasts, but it has value in preparation for END TIME PERSECUTION and TRIBULATION (trial, suffering, testing). 

 “…the Jews (people from the tribe of Judah and Benjamin) resolved and took upon themselves, their descendants and all who might join them that without fail they would observe these two days (of Purim) in accordance with what was written in (this letter) and at the appointed time, every year; and that these days would be remembered throughout every generation, every family, every province and every city;…” Read Esther 9:27-28.

The message of Purim gives every believer a reason to celebrate. God’s consistent protection of His people gives a sense of hope and security. God is a covenant keeping God who is faithful to every generation. Exodus 20:6.

 Purim also reminds believers that we have a responsibility to accomplish God’s will. It is captured in Esther 4:14b, Who knows whether we have not been placed where we are “for a time such as this?”

 The message is therefore that God partners with people to PROTECT the people in covenant with Him.

 “Then came Hanukkah (the Feast of Dedication) in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Yeshua was walking around the Temple area, in Solomon’s Colonnade.”  Read John 10:22-23.

Not only did Yeshua celebrate Hanukkah, but He observed it in the same Temple that had been cleansed and REDEDICATED a few generations earlier under the Maccabees. Reminding us on a deeper spiritual level that the light of Messiah Yeshua must burn brightly in each believer who are indeed the Temple of the Holy Spirit.

 As to all Biblical holy days, there are spiritual lessons to be learned from Hanukkah – LIGHT, COURAGE and FAITH.

This festival commemorates a time when the TRUE WORSHIP of GOD was RESTORED in Jerusalem. The Temple no longer stands today; it is now the HEART of EACH BELIEVER and FOLLOWER of YESHUA the MESSIAH that is the TEMPLE where the HOLY SPIRIT of GOD dwells. 1^st Corinthians 6:19-20.

Therefore, believers must take heed of the PURITY of their BODIES as the TEMPLE of GOD by not allowing idolatry in their lives but use their BODIES to GLORIFY GOD.