Ezekiel 45:25 → Leviticus 23:4

Leviticus 23:4 is a rubric rather than a feast: "These are the LORD's appointed feasts (מוֹעֲדֵי יְהוָה, mo'adei YHWH), the sacred assemblies (מִקְרָאֵי קֹדֶשׁ, miqra'ei qodesh) you are to proclaim (קָרָא, qara) at their appointed times." Everything that follows in Leviticus 23 — Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits, Weeks, Trumpets, Atonement, Booths — stands under it. Ezekiel's calendar has a corresponding heading of its own, and the comparison is best made there. Ezekiel 45:17 reads: "it shall be the prince's part to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and drink offerings for the feasts (חַג, chag), New Moons, and Sabbaths — for all the appointed feasts (מוֹעֵד, mo'ed) of the house of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings... to make atonement (כָּפַר, kaphar) for the house of Israel." Ezekiel 45:25, the seventh-month feast, is the last item legislated under that heading. Set side by side, the two rubrics govern their material differently. Leviticus organizes the appointed times around proclamation and assembly: the people are convened. Ezekiel organizes them around provision and atonement: one man pays, and the house of Israel is covered. Ezekiel's calendar never uses מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ (miqra-qodesh) at all. The whole festal year has been reframed from what Israel is summoned to do into what is done for Israel, and by whom. That is not a lesser vision of worship but a truer account of how worship becomes possible, and it is why the New Testament can call the feasts "a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ" (Colossians 2:17). The appointed times were always appointments God kept.