festival year. The Jewish festival year included five major feasts—Passover, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, and Tabernacles. These follow the unfolding of the plan of salvation, just as the two apartments follow the unfolding of Christ’s High Priestly ministry in heaven’s sanctuary. In other words, both these structures have to do with Christ’s saving work. Passover represents Calvary, Pentecost is when His sacrifice was accepted in heaven, Trumpets came ten days before the Day of Atonement, and
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