God’s Harvest Festivals
“Three times you shall keep a feast to Me in the year: You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread (you shall eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month of Abib, for in it you came out of Egypt; none shall appear before Me empty); and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.”
God’s seven annual festivals listed in Leviticus 23 are several times grouped together as three main festival seasons of the year.
- Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread fall in an eight-day period in the spring.
- The Feast of Harvest, called Pentecost in the New Testament, falls in late spring or early summer.
- And the Feast of Ingathering, better known as the Feast of Tabernacles, comes in the fall, along with the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Eighth Day/Last Great Day.
For an overview of God’s festivals and God’s plan of salvation, see “Festival Meaning: What Are the Meanings of Each of God’s Festivals?”
