Every time my mother had a baby, she sent me to stay with her parents, and since I was the eldest of five, it meant that at least four times I lived with my grandparents. Sometimes I wondered if my mother had forgotten me. Once she left me there for nearly twelve months. However, I […]
Let me tell you about an event that turned the whole current of my future course from that day to this. I had heard that Captain W. and a few other Christians met on the first day of the week to break bread, like the disciples in Acts 20. One Lord’s day morning, I went […]
The Jewish Cultural Center was festooned with twelve colorful banners draped across its facade, depicting the ensigns of the sons of Jacob. It did not take me long to pull my car to the curb. Out in the field beside the building they had set up a make-believe kibbutz. A tent pretended to be the […]
The Feast of Unleavened Bread was inseparably associated with the Passover, the connection between the two being so close that they are sometimes spoken of as if they were the same (Lk. 22:1). The paschal lamb was slain on the fourteenth day of the month, toward the end of that day, and the Feast of […]
Jeremiah spoke with great clarity when he said: “Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. In His days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is […]
The Day of Atonement was Israel’s annual cleansing from sin. A full account of all the services of this eventful day will be found in Leviticus 16, given by Jehovah through Moses to Aaron. In Leviticus 23, it is viewed especially from the Divine side, as a feast of Jehovah, expressive of the joy derived […]
For several days before Pesach (Passover), Jewish people throughout the world cleanse their homes of all leaven in anticipation of celebrating Sedar. No matter what the circumstances, wherever a Jewish family still has a roof over its head and a box of matzoth, there mother and children gather around the table where father directs the […]
There are delicate differences and suggestive shades of beauty in the various names given to the subject of our present study–thus, The Feast of Weeks, Chag Shavuot, stresses the lessons which we learn in our times of waiting (Ex. 34:22; Deut. 16:10, 16; 2 Chron. 8:13). “The Firstfruits of thy labors” reminds us that no […]
This Feast of Firstfruits was never kept, nor could it be kept, in the wilderness or in Egypt. It could not be held anywhere else than in the Promised Land for the very simple reason that this sheaf that was to be offered was to be the first of the harvest of the land to […]