For almost two months the people labored in the fields; then it was time to celebrate again! With the spring festivals over—Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits—the people would return to their farms to bring in the winter field crops. One week would turn into two, and then three, and then…. You see why it was […]
Read More… from June 17, 2022 — Pentecost (The Festival Of Weeks)
The firstfruits sheaf wasn’t the whole harvest, but it was a promise of the harvest to come. Some of these festivals must await Israel’s entrance into the Promised Land. “When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your […]
The Passover and this feast are linked, as much as are Christ’s death for us and His life in us. As we saw in our last lesson, the Passover was the “beginning of months” (Ex 12:2) for Israel—the birthday of the nation. No longer labor camp slaves, they were now the people of God. And […]
Read More… from June 15, 2022 — The Feast Of Unleavened Bread
Fascinating! As far as God is concerned, the true beginning of history was the death of His Son! God loves when His people get together! He arranged three annual conferences, first in Shiloh and then in Jerusalem, once His people settled in the land. Wending their way from little farms in the Golan, joined by […]
Could you paint a panorama of Israel’s history with seven special holidays? The Lord did! Three vital chapters reveal God’s plan for the ages: Leviticus 23, outlining the seven festivals of Jehovah, show God’s view of the history of Israel; Matthew 13, with seven parables, explains God’s view of the history of the kingdom; and […]
The Lord puts us in a very special place in His mind and heart. Do we do the same with Him? In the same way that a disfigured priest was not to serve in the holy place, so any sacrifice offered to the Lord, “must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect […]
Read More… from June 10, 2022 — The Two-Way Holiness Highway
Even those who cannot at present be acting as priests must make sure to keep eating as priests. Beginning in Leviticus 21:16, the Lord discusses with Moses the physical disqualifications of functioning priests. Let’s remember that what Israel had in a physical way we now have in a spiritual way. Yes, we do have a […]
Here the subject is: the difference it makes when our lives are lived just to please the Lord. The idea of priesthood in the Bible cannot be over-emphasized, for four reasons at least. First, because the priesthood was the divine solution to provide a bridge between sinful Israelites and a holy God. Second, because the […]
Read More… from June 8, 2022 — The Priests’ Sanctifying & Sacrificing