“You are to celebrate the Lord’s festival for seven days… so that your generations may know that I made the Israelites live in shelters when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.” Leviticus 23:41- 43. The Feast Of Tabernacles (Sukkot) The Feast of Tabernacles was a joyous weeklong…
“Because on this day atonement will be made for you, to cleanse you. Then, before the Lord, you will be clean from all your sins.” Leviticus 16:30, NIV. The Day of Atonement was the most solemn and sacred day in Israel. On this day, the high priest would cleanse himself…
“The Lord said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.” Leviticus 23:23-24, NIV. The Feast of Trumpets today is commonly celebrated as Rosh Hashanah. It is a time for personal…
“From the day after the Sabbath… Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the Lord.” Leviticus 23:15-16. The Feast of Weeks, Shavuot in Hebrew, and later known as Pentecost in the Greek language, is 50 days…
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land I am giving you and reap its harvest, you are to bring the first sheaf of your harvest to the priest.” Leviticus 23:10 (CSB) A Little Feast INTRODUCTION I want to give a little introduction of the first…
“Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” 1 Corinthians 5:8 The seven feasts can be organized into three sections of time. At the beginning of the year, it was the…
Leviticus 23:2 states, “Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.” This week, our devotions will cover the seven feasts the Jews were to celebrate throughout the year. These…
For Such a Time as This At the start of Esther’s story, Mordecai refused to bow to Haman, which set off a chain of events that threatened the entire Jewish people. But Mordecai stood firm. He didn’t regret his stand, and he didn’t back down—he acted in faith, not fear.…
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 Fear can make your world tremble and paralyze your voice. When fear begins to pillage our faith, or when we have…