Sion y las fiestas

Jesús estableció la Sion espiritual al guardar la fiesta de la Pascua del nuevo pacto.

Sion y las fiestas son inseparables. Es porque Sion es el lugar señalado donde se celebran sagradamente las fiestas de Dios. En los tiempos del Antiguo Testamento, los israelitas fueron bendecidos en Sion ofreciendo sacrificios en las fiestas de acuerdo con la ley de Moisés. Hoy en día, los santos son bendecidos con la vida eterna al guardar las fiestas del nuevo pacto en la Sion espiritual. La Sion espiritual fue establecida por Jesús con las fiestas del nuevo pacto en los tiempos del Nuevo Testamento. Existen siete fiestas anuales de Dios: la Pascua, la Fiesta de los Panes sin Levadura, la Fiesta de las Primicias (el Día de Resurrección), la Fiesta de las Semanas (el Día de Pentecostés), la Fiesta de las Trompetas, el Día de Expiación, y la Fiesta de los Tabernáculos; asimismo, el Día de Reposo como fiesta semanal.

Significado de Sion

Sion era originalmente un monte en Palestina, y David, el segundo rey de Israel, conquistó la fortaleza de Sion e hizo de esta la capital. Cuando Salomón edificó el templo de Dios en esa zona, Sion se convirtió en el lugar donde se encontraba el templo de Dios.

En los tiempos del Nuevo Testamento, Jesús, el rey David espiritual, estableció la Sion espiritual. Con respecto a esto, el Antiguo Testamento profetizó que Dios moraría en Sion para siempre y daría la bendición de la vida eterna.

“Mira a Sion, ciudad de nuestras fiestas solemnes […]. Porque ciertamente allí será Jehová para con nosotros fuerte […]; al pueblo que more en ella le será perdonada la iniquidad.”

- Isaías 33:20–24

La Sion mencionada aquí es la Sion espiritual. Es porque las bendiciones del perdón de pecados y de la vida eterna comenzaron a darse con la venida de Jesús en los tiempos del Nuevo Testamento. La característica más importante de la Sion espiritual es que es un lugar donde se celebran las fiestas de Dios. La Biblia enseña que Dios está con nosotros en Sion y concede la bendición del perdón de pecados. Dado que la paga del pecado es la muerte, solo si recibimos el perdón de pecados podemos ser liberados de la muerte y tener vida eterna. Para recibir la salvación, debemos encontrar Sion, la iglesia verdadera que guarda las fiestas solemnes de Dios. Para esto, primero debemos conocer las fiestas solemnes de Dios.

Las fiestas solemnes que se guardan en Sion

En el primer tiempo, están la Pascua y la Fiesta de los Panes sin Levadura; en el segundo tiempo, la Fiesta de las Primicias y la Fiesta de las Semanas; y en el tercer tiempo, la Fiesta de las Trompetas, el Día de Expiación y la Fiesta de los Tabernáculos. En el libro de Éxodo, a la Fiesta de las Semanas se le conoce como la Fiesta de la Siega, y a la Fiesta de los Tabernáculos se le llama la Fiesta de la Cosecha. No solo existen tres fiestas anuales, sino siete en total (Levítico 23). Las tres fiestas son fiestas representativas entre las siete fiestas agrupadas en tres tiempos. Por esta razón, las fiestas anuales de Dios se llaman las siete fiestas de tres tiempos.

In the first time, there are the Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread; and in the second time, there are the Day of Firstfruits and Pentecost; and in the third time, there are the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles.

God instituted the feasts according to Moses’ work from the Exodus to the establishment of the tabernacle. These feasts were not just the history of the past, but served as prophecies about what Jesus would do in the future. Since Jesus came as a prophet like Moses, the work of Moses was a shadow of Jesus’ work. The origin of the seven feasts established according to the work of Moses and their fulfillments are as follows.

Passover

• Date: Evening of the 14th day of the first month by the sacred calendar
• Origin: The Israelites, who had been slaves in Egypt, were freed by the power of the Passover (Éxodo 12).
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: The Israelites, who were enslaved in Egypt, are a shadow of human beings spiritually being slaves to sin in this sinful world. The Israelites were freed from Egypt through Moses by keeping the Passover with the flesh and blood of the lamb. This prophesied that God’s people would be freed from the sinful world through Jesus Christ by keeping the Passover. On this day, Jesus, who is the reality of the Passover lamb, gave the forgiveness of sins and eternal life through the bread and wine that represent His flesh and blood, and established the new covenant.

Véase también: Passover

Feast of Unleavened Bread

• Date: The 15th day of the first month by the sacred calendar
• Origin: After celebrating the Passover, the Israelites left Egypt the next day and went through hardships until they finished crossing the Red Sea.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: To remember this suffering, the Israelites kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread by eating unleavened bread for seven days. Jesus fulfilled the prophecy by going through hardships from that night after keeping the last Passover with His disciples and by being crucified the next day. In the New Testament times, we share in Christ’s sufferings by fasting on this day.

Véase también: Feast of Unleavened Bread

Day of Firstfruits (Day of Resurrection)

• Date: The day after the first Sabbath [the first Sunday] following the Feast of Unleavened Bread
• Origin: The Israelites safely crossed the Red Sea, and the Egyptian army that followed them drowned in the sea.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: Moses’ going into the Red Sea with the people represents Jesus’ going into the tomb; and their landing from the sea represents Jesus’ resurrection. Just as a sheaf of the first grain was offered to God on the day after the first Sabbath [on Sunday] after the Feast of Unleavened Bread in the Old Testament times, Jesus was resurrected on Sunday as the firstfruits of those who had fallen asleep.

Véanse también: Day of Firstfruits y Day of Resurrection

Feast of Weeks (Pentecost)

The apostles boldly preach the gospel after receiving the Holy Spirit on the Pentecost.

• Date: The 50th day after the Day of Firstfruits
• Origin: The day Moses went up to receive the first set of the Ten Commandments.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: On the Day of Pentecost, the 50th day from the day Jesus was resurrected, Jesus poured out the Holy Spirit. As a result, a great revival took place in the early Church.

Véanse también: Feast of Weeks y Pentecost

Feast of Trumpets

• Date: The 1st day of the seventh month by the sacred calendar
• Origin: While Moses was staying on Mount Sinai for forty days to receive the Ten Commandments, the Israelites worshiped the idol of a golden calf. When Moses saw this, he threw the tablets of the Ten Commandments and broke them, and that day, 3,000 people were killed. Afterwards, the people repented of their sins and took off all their ornaments, and Moses prayed for the people. As a result, he was able to receive the second set of the Ten Commandments on the 10th day of the seventh month by the sacred calendar. God appointed the day Moses received the second set of the Ten Commandments as the Day of Atonement, and ten days before it as the Feast of Trumpets, so that the people could prepare for the Day of Atonement by blowing the trumpet of repentance.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: When Moses was so long in coming down from Mount Sinai, the Israelites became corrupt and worshiped a golden calf. It was a prophecy that as years passed after Jesus left, churches would become corrupt and celebrate the days of sun-god in the New Testament times. Just as trumpets were sounded to announce the Day of Atonement, the Advent Movement urging for repentance took place.

Véase también: Feast of Trumpets

Day of Atonement

• Date: The 10th day of the seventh month by the sacred calendar
• Origin: The day Moses came down from the mountain after receiving the second set of the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: As the Ten Commandments were given again on the Day of Atonement, Christ’s work of mediation was resumed on the Day of Atonement on October 22, 1844 (the 10th day of the seventh month by the sacred calendar). On the Day of Atonement of the Old Testament, the high priest sent the scapegoat into the wilderness after placing all the sins of the Israelites on its head by laying his hands on it. This is a prophecy that Satan represented by the scapegoat, will be thrown into the fiery hell after being imprisoned in the abyss, bearing the sins of all people.

Véase también: Day of Atonement

Feast of Tabernacles

• Date: From the 15th day to the 22nd day of the seventh month by the sacred calendar
• Origin: After coming down from Mount Sinai after receiving the second set of the Ten Commandments, Moses delivered to the Israelites God’s will to build the tabernacle. For seven days, starting on the fifteenth day of the month, the people brought in overflowing materials for the tabernacle.
• Fulfillment of the Prophecy: On the Feast of Tabernacles, the Israelites built tents out of thick branches and rejoiced for a week. Since the materials for the temple and tree branches represent the saints who will be saved, the Feast of Tabernacles is a prophecy about the gospel work of gathering the saints who will be saved.

Véase también: Feast of Tabernacles

The True Church Keeping the Feasts

The members of the Church of God keep the Passover of the new covenant holy.

In the Old Testament times, the Israelites were blessed by keeping God’s feasts in Zion, following the Law of Moses. In the New Testament times, the church that worships holy and keeps the seven feasts in three times, following the examples of Jesus, is the spiritual Zion where we can be blessed with eternal life.

Today, the World Mission Society Church of God is the only true church that keeps the feasts of God as the Bible teaches.

See also

• Zion
• The Feasts of God

Related videos

• Sermon: Zion Where the Feasts Are Celebrated