levitical feasts ✡️ typologies for our 🇺🇸 thanksgiving 🙏🍽️ holiday 🦃

Posted : 15 Nov, 2022 05:55 PM

We can see a similarity between this Levitical offering and the way the Pilgrims gave thanks for their bountiful harvest. We also see this in our Thanksgiving Day. It is a special day, set apart, to thank God for His provision of food and for all He provides in our lives. Therefore, in pattern and type, our Thanksgiving celebrations are biblically grounded in the lessons of Levitical feasts.



Levitical Feasts Point to Jesus

In pattern and type, Jesus is the Bread of Heaven and His broken body is to be remembered by the breaking of bread. Jesus first offered His disciples the broken bread and then He offered the wine, representing His shed blood. His body was broken in His physical suffering on the cross, and then His side was pierced and His blood poured forth. The bread of the barley and grain harvests (Passover and Shavuot) represents the Lord’s body and the fruit of the vine from the grape harvest in the fall produced the wine that typified Jesus’ shed blood. Wine was produced by the crushing of the grapes until the juices flowed. Jesus also was “crushed.” He was “bruised for our iniquities.” (Isaiah 53:5)



Typology like this is interesting to see the types and patterns in the Bible that point to Christ. It’s also a wonderful revelation of God’s precision in revelation to His people; and it’s a fingerprint of the Holy Spirit’s perfection in His inspiration of the words of the Bible.



On Thanksgiving Day, and every day of the year, let’s remember that before we give thanks for the abundance we have received from God, to first give thanks for who God is. He is the Abundant Giver of every good and perfect gift (James 1:17)—and the most perfect gift of all is Jesus. Praise Him!



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I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving

Psalm 69:30

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