Three times a year you are to celebrate a festival to me. The feast calendar is introduced as a comprehensive requirement: three annual festivals for every Israelite. The three times a year structure the agricultural year around three moments of covenant worship. Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 16 develop the feast calendar in detail. The triple rhythm — spring, summer, fall — means no season of the year passes without a covenant gathering. The feast calendar is the liturgical architecture that prevents the covenant community from reducing religion to private observance. Acts 2:1 records the Spirit falling at Pentecost — one of the three pilgrimage feasts. The early church's founding moments consistently occur within the liturgical calendar of the covenant.

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