---
title: "The Spring Feasts, for Easter"
category: "feasts"
description: "Six weeks from Passover to Pentecost: the lamb, the Last Supper's cups, the Lord's Supper, unleavened bread, the firstfruits sheaf and the Feast of Weeks."
tags: ["feasts", "passover", "easter", "pentecost", "audience/teaching", "small-groups"]
draft: false
primary_passage: "Leviticus 23:4-22"
series:
  cut: season
  sessions:
    - study: feasts/passover.md
      why: "The night God judged Egypt and spared every house marked with the lamb's blood."
    - study: feasts/last-supper-four-cups.md
      why: "The Passover cups at the Last Supper, and the one Jesus vowed not to drink until the kingdom."
    - study: feasts/lords-supper.md
      why: "The memorial meal Jesus gave His church, as the Passover was Israel's."
    - study: feasts/unleavened-bread.md
      why: "Seven days without leaven, and a church Christ's sacrifice has already made unleavened."
    - study: feasts/firstfruits.md
      why: "The first sheaf waved on the third day, and Christ the firstfruits of the dead."
    - study: feasts/weeks.md
      why: "Fifty days to the first loaves, and the day God poured out His Spirit."
date_created: 2026-10-22
date_modified: 2026-10-22
ai_provider_models:
  - anthropic/claude-opus-5.5
---

# The Spring Feasts, for Easter

**In one sentence:** God wrote the spring feasts into Israel's calendar and kept each one in His Son
Jesus, the Passover lamb slain, raised as the firstfruits of the dead, who poured out the Spirit at
Weeks, so the Easter you keep rests on dates God set and kept.

Start six weeks before Easter Sunday so that Firstfruits, the resurrection week, falls on Easter.
The first three weeks stay on the night of the Passover, from Egypt to the upper room to the
Lord's table, before moving through the feasts in the order of Leviticus 23.

## The weeks

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