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“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 celebration of God’s provision and presence. It commemorates the Israelites living in temporary shelters for forty years while they wandered in the wilderness. Sukkot is a harvest festival, marking the end of the agricultural year in Israel when the final crops are gathered. Once the Hebrews entered the Promised Land,…
“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…
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“For the thing that I fear comes upon me, and what I dread befalls me. I am not at ease, nor am I quiet; I have no rest, but trouble comes.” (Job 3:25-26 ESV) Do the words of Job strike a chord with you? To say that he was stressed would be an understatement. So much is happening in his life, and he doesn’t know why. Everything is gone. His children, his servants, his flocks and herds. This is stress—to the extreme. His world is upside down, and nothing indicates that God ever told him why. A UNIVERSAL PROBLEM Stress…
“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he will joyfully carry it home on his shoulders. When he arrives, he will call together his friends and neighbors, saying, ‘Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep. In the same way, there is more joy in heaven over one lost sinner who repents and returns to God than over ninety-nine…
But those who wait on the LORD Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31, NKJV) Are there certain verses in the Bible that have become your favorites? Do they hold special meaning for you because God used them to sustain you and bring you through a difficult situation? I think we each have those special verses that speak to us in a special way. Several encouraging Bible passages are often quoted and have become very familiar to us. Perhaps they are…
So Saul clothed David with his armor, and he put a bronze helmet on his head; he also clothed him with a coat of mail. David fastened his sword to his armor and tried to walk, for he had not tested them. And David said to Saul, “I cannot walk with these, for I have not tested them.” So David took them off. (I Samuel 17:38-39, NKJV) When Saul consented to allowing David to fight Goliath, he thought it would be best if David would fight him with his armor and in his way. If all it took was armor and a battle…
