God's Prophetic Calendar
When God gave Moses the Torah he included feasts, or Appointed Times, that were for both remembering what he has done, but also looking forward to the first and second comings of the Messiah. Based on a lunar calendar, the dates move from year to year; these are the dates for the Biblical Feasts in 2025.
Note - each starts at sunset of the first day and ends at sunset on the last day.
Spring Feasts
Passover - evening of 12th April 2025
This celebrates God's power over evil demonstrated at the Israelites' exodus from Egypt, but also looks to the coming of Jesus, our true passover lamb, as we celebrate our own liberation from slavery to sin.
Unleavened Bread - 12th–19th April 2025
Initially remembering the haste with which the Israelites left Egypt, this is a time to focus on the fact that Jesus removes our sin so we live in the light of that.
First Fruits - 19th–20th April 2025
Whilst this is a celebration of the first harvest, it's thought by many to be the day on which Jesus defeated death; he being the firstfruits of all who would believe and be saved.
Shavuot (Pentecost) - 7th–8th June 2025
This was a celebration of the giving of the law to Moses and later, the coming of the Holy Spirit to dwell in us.
Autumn Feasts
Day of Trumpets (Yom Teruah) - 22nd–23rd September 2025
The day on which Israelite Kings were crowned, it's a day of noisy celebrations, ultimately looking forward to the last trumpet marking return of Jesus, the King of all kings.
Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) - 1st–2nd October 2025
The day on which the priests would perform the annual sacrifice to make atonement for the people, but now a celebration of the fact that Jesus has made atonement on our behalf, once for all.
Feast of Booths, or Tabernacles (Sukkot) - 6th–14th October, 2025
This is a commemoration of the Israeiltes 40 years wandering in the wilderness, living in tents. It also celebrates God's dwelling with mankind in the Tabernacle, in the Temple, in human form as Jesus the Messiah and ultimately looks forward to us leaving our temorary dwelling here on earth and living with God in the new heavens and earth. It is likely that Jesus was born during Sukkot.
Other celebrations
These are not feasts that were prescribed by God, but many people mark them as without the events they commemorate, it would not have been possible for the prophecies regarding the coming of Messiah Jesus to be filfilled.
Purim - March 13th–14th, 2025
This marks the salvation of the Israelites from the hand of Haman in the Persian Empire.
Hanukkah - 14th–22nd December 2025
The Festival of Lights celebrates the dedication and the reinstatement of worship of God in the temple in Jerusalem following the overthrow of Seleucids. It is a time for focusing on God's goodness to us through history and rededicating ourselves to him.