The Lord Jesus Christ ('Yeshu'a Hamashiach') fulfilled the Spring Festivals (Feasts): Passover/Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost/Firstfruits were celebrated on the days they were commanded to be kept. So it's reasonable to assume that the following four (4) Fall Festivals (prophetic as they are) will also be fulfilled on the days they were commanded as sacred assemblies in Leviticus 23.
1. Feast of Trumpets/Lev. 23:23-25 (Heb. 'Yom Teruah')-Announcing the Messiah's Return/'Day of the Lord'/Judgment of AntiChrist and False Prophet/Resurrection of the Saints
Main Symbol: Trumpets--Return/Judgment/Resurrection
2. Day of Atonement/Lev. 23:26-32 (Heb. 'Yom Kippur')--A Fast day--The Marriage Supper of the Lamb/ The Reconciliation of man with God/Repentance and Forgiveness)/Jubilee Year/Satan Bound
Main Symbol: Holy of Holies (Ark of Covenant)--Presence of God
3. Feast of Tabernacles/Lev. 23:33-36 (Heb. 'Sukkot' or Booths) - A Seven-day festivities celebrating the Messiah's rulership on Earth during Millenium, culminating to the 'Last Great day' or Seventh-day, symbolized by the 'Great White Throne Judgment' of Revelation 20; and the end of the old material/physical universe.
Main Symbol: Booth or Sukkah, Water (7th day)
4. The Eighth Day Feast/Lev. 23:36b & 39b* (Heb. 'Shemini Atzeret' *New Beginning) The beginning of a New Cycle--a symbol of the New Heaven and New Earth, and Eternity with God (Rev. 21 & 22)
Main Symbol: Light--Eternal
As we can see, these Fall Festivals carry with it defining and meaningful future fulfilment of God's plan of salvation for ALL mankind!Rejoice with us as we proclaim these sacred assemblies in their seasons!
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*Eighth Day Feast--is commonly assumed to be part of Sukkot or Tabernacles. But it actually an entirely separate feast with different purpose and meaning. Lev. 23 command is clear as to how many days the Feast of Tabernacles should be kept: "Seven days" not "eight" (Lev.23:33). The Hebrew word 'atzeret' is generally translated as "assembly", with linguistic root ('atzor'), meaning "pause", "stop" or "tarry". Hence, "shemini atzeret" is characterized as a day when the Jewish people "tarries" to spend an additional day with God after Tabernacles, to re-start anew. Part of their tradition is by reading the Torah back from the very beginning.
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