Camping can be great fun. God wanted His people to spend a week camping every year. But why? The Hebrews call this last of the annual festivals Sukkot (or Succot) meaning “booths.” It is still practiced by many Jewish families today, when they build temporary structures outside, with walls of cloth or wood and roofs […]
The second appearing in Hebrews 9 is not the Rapture, but Christ’s second appearing to Israel. We spent five lessons on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16. But let’s think about its future fulfillment. “Christ has not entered the holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true, but into heaven itself, […]
Read More… from June 22, 2022 — The Day Of Atonement (Yom Kippur)
The long, sweltering days of Israel’s alienation from her God will soon give place to her rebirth! The next event on God’s calendar is inviting His Son to bring His Bride home. Often called the Rapture (based on the Latin word for the Greek harpazo, “caught up,” 1 Thess 4:17), it will also herald the […]
Read More… from June 21, 2022 — New Year’s Day: The Feast Of Trumpets
How much we owe God’s Spirit! Our life, gifts, unity, peace, guidance, instruction, comfort… Through the prophet Joel, God promised His people that some day, “I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh” (Joel 2:28). And on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2, that’s exactly what happened! In fact, as Peter preached to […]
Read More… from June 20, 2022 — When Pentecost Was Fully Come
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 […]