When God had completed the creation, He rested. It was the seventh day, and on account of God having rested, it is called the “day of rest,” or the Sabbath. Such was His delight in viewing the completeness of His work, and in His resting, that He blessed and hallowed the seventh day. Soon, however, […]
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 […]
We notice that the first four feasts come close together at the beginning of the year. Then come almost four months of reaping until the last sheaf was cut, though there was still good grain left standing in the corners of the fields. In creation, God made the world in six days and rested on […]
The road north from Grand Rapids to Sault Ste. Marie, like many Christians’ lives, begins well and ends well. In the middle, however, it gets sidetracked. A beautiful superhighway heads north through rolling countryside and you make good headway. Then, about 50 miles along the road, the government abruptly ran out of money, or the […]