Welcome and a heartfelt greeting to our newest listeners from Florida, California, Brazil, Chile, Spain, Bangladesh, Ecuador, Italy, and Vietnam. Thank you for joining our community — we pray God’s manifold blessing on you and your loved ones. In this episode of Contending for the Faith, Bishop Ronald Roston and Bishop LaCreece Roston explore the biblical feasts: what they are, who they were given to, and why they remain relevant for believers today.

Using Leviticus 23 as the foundation, the hosts explain the two groups of feasts — the spring feasts (Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost) linked to Yeshua’s first coming, and the fall feasts (Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles, Dedication, Purim) pointing to His return. They emphasize that these are the Lord’s appointed times (moed), intended as holy convocations and symbolic object lessons that prefigure spiritual realities fulfilled in Christ.

The episode focuses closely on Passover and Unleavened Bread, showing how Jesus fulfilled the sacrificial lamb imagery, the unbroken-bone detail, the Last Supper, and the meaning of unleavened bread as sinlessness. Historical practices, scriptural cross-references (Exodus, Leviticus, John, Isaiah, 1 Peter, and others), and cultural context are used to help listeners appreciate the feasts’ ongoing spiritual significance. The hosts close with encouragement to re-listen to the segments, read their books, and continue contending for the faith. Shalom.