Chapter 5.14
Feast &
Festivals
Hanukkah, Yon Kipper, Rosh Hashanah, Atonement
Two
High Holy Days, Passover, Pentecost, Purim
Three
Great Pilgrimage Festivals, Booths, Jubilee
Three
Day of Rest, Trumpets
Feast and Festivals commemorated an
historical event in the life of Israel or marked the beginning or ending of an
agricultural year. The poor, orphaned,
widowed and the traveler were welcomed to MOST of the feast.
The Law of Moses established seven
festivals of enjoyment and times of rest from work.
Three
Great Pilgrimage Festivals: Passover, Pentecost,
Tabernacles/Booths
Two High
Holy Days: Yom Kippur/Day of Atonement, Rosh Hashanah/Trumpets
Two
Days of Rest: Weekly Sabbath, Monthly
New Moon Sabbath
Festivals
and feast Added Later: Hanukkah, Purim
An
addition Festival: Jubilee
occurred every 50 years, a time when all Hebrew debt was forgiven
and all Hebrew slaves freed and the land returned to its original tribe and
owner.
Jewish
Calendar
The Jewish months and their DIFFERENT
SPELLINGS are based on
Babylonian influence. Note their new
year starts in April and is based on their agricultural growing seasons; Planting. I list
these because of the confusion that comes with the different dates listed in
the different books of the Bible as well as the different commentaries. Example; Abib & Nisan are both the 1st
month in the New Year.
Ecclesiastical New Year refers to early Christianity;
starts the 1st month; Nisan… April.
Civil New Year refers to the agricultural practices;
starts the 7th month; Tishri…
October.
Leap years have 13 months… There is a Metonic
cycle of 19 years. Twelve are common years
and seven are leap years. The 12th
month (March) becomes Adar 1 and the 13th
month is added and becomes Adar 2.
I INCLUDE ALL THIS TO DRIVE YOU ABSOLUTELY CRAZY…
To further complicate it, these months
fall between our months; for example, Nisan the 1st month would be BETWEEN March & April. Iyar the 2nd month would be BETWEEN April & May.
Ecclesiastical Year (religious
year) WITH
DIFFERENT SPELLINGS
1. April: Nisan, Nisanu, Abib
2. May: Iyar, Iyyar, Ayaru, Ziv
3. June: Sivan, Siwan, Simanu
4. July: Tammuz, Tamuz, Dumuzu, Dumuzi
5. August: Ab, Abu, Av
6. September: Elul, Ululu
7. October: Tishri, Tishrei, Tashrtu,
Ethanim
8. November: Marchesvan, Marheswan,
Martheshvan, Cheshvan, Arakhsamna, Bul
9. December: Kislev, Kislew, Kislimu, Chisleu,
Chislev
10. January: Tebeth, Tebetu, Tevet
11. February: Shebet, Shebat, Shevat, Sebat, Shbat,
Shabatu
12. March: Adar, Adaru
THREE GREAT
PILGRIMAGE FESTIVALS
#1 Feast of Passover
Passover (Pesach) is a spring festival
associated with barley. It is observed
on the evening of the 14th day of Nisan or Abib (April) the first month. It was on this evening
that Israel left Egypt; the meaning of the word Passover
is primarily “to pass over;” a suspension
of justice, withholding punishment, to spare.
NOTE to just DRIVE YOU CRAZY; they called the
first month of the religious year Abib,
but after their exile they called it Nisan.
The Seder (the service) began the first night at sundown with the main feast recalling the last
meal the Jews ate in Egypt; remembering their captivity and liberation.
Four Questions were to be asked by
the youngest child present.
a) Why is the night of the Passover different from all other nights of the
year?
b) Why do we use unleavened bread?
c) Why bitter herbs and the dipping of vegetables?
d) Why the cushions at the host chair?
The Host
responds by reciting the history of Israel’s passage from bondage to freedom.
This is the First of the three great Festival pilgrimages
for Israel to remember its past and renew their faith in God. Every male was expected to observe the three
pilgrimage feast. The first and last day
were kept as Sabbaths or holy convocations where no work was performed and the
people came together and offered sacrifices.
Feast of Unleavened Bread occurred on the 15th
day as part of Passover closely
intertwining and forming a double festival for SEVEN more days and all bread that was consumed was unleavened.[1]
As the life of the blood was drained from the sacrificial animal so the life of the leaven was removed from the bread. The
disposition of leaven symbolizes the casting out of insincerity.[2]
The feast originated in the home, but was later
transferred to the Temple. Neither the
hired servant nor the uncircumcised male could partake of the meal, but could
observe it on the corresponding day of the second month.
The feast was instituted by God commemorating the
historic deliverance of Israel and their flight from Egypt. This is when the death angel passed over the
Israelites killing all the first born of Egypt.[3]
Because of the haste of being ready to leave, the Hebrews made their bread
without leaven with no time to wait for it to rise. Eventually these two celebrations were merged
into one.
In the New Testament, Jesus attended
Passover at the age of twelve[4]
and at the age of thirty three He was crucified during the Feast of Passover
festival. His blood being the ultimate
sacrifice to redeem us from the power of sin and death.[5]
Peter’s imprisonment and deliverance was
also at this same season.[6]
#2 Feast of Pentecost
Pentecost is a spring festival also, celebrating the wheat grain harvest and
follows Passover on the 6th day of the month of Sivan (June). This is a one day festival observed as a
Sabbath in the tabernacle; this gathering marked the end of the harvest and the
beginning of the seasonal offering of first fruits.
Feast of First Fruits, Feast of Harvest, Feast of Weeks[7] are the other names it
was known by; originally it was an agricultural festival, but later became
associated with the religious history of Israel and was transformed into the
observance of the giving of the Torah
on Mount Sinai 50 days after the Death Angel passed
over them in Egypt with their departure and arrival at Mount Sinai.[8]
Pent means 50; the feast name comes
from the fact that this festival occurs early in the third month; 50 days after
the offering of the barley sheaves at the feast
of unleavened bread on the first
Sabbath of Passover; it is counted from the second day of the feast.
It is regarded as the Second of the three obligatory observances, and
falls between Passover and Tabernacles. The community was expected to come together to
show their gratitude toward God with their first fruits of the early harvest. This Holy Convocation offering included the
first fruits of their produce and the waving of two loves of leavened bread. The feast lasted only a single day and marked
the completion of the Wheat harvest and no one was allowed to work on
this day. Free will offerings
were to be made; it was a day of rejoicing with the family, the Levite, Widow,
Orphan and the poor.
In the Apocrypha; the book of Jubilees lists
all the covenants of the OT in this feast.
(I encourage you to get a copy of
the Apocrypha to understand the thinking of the Israelites.)
In the New Testament; on the
Day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled the followers of Jesus in
an upper room and they began to speak in languages that were not their own. Numerous attending this festival experience
the outpouring of the Gifts of the Spirit.
Some Students believe that this gift
of the Spirit and the other gifts passed away with the early disciples, but
scripture says differently; “the gifts of God are
irrevocable”.[9]
#3 Feast of Tabernacles
Tabernacles is a Fall Harvest Festival; it is also called the Feast of Booths or the Feast of
Ingathering.[10]
This is the Third and last in the series
of the great Festival pilgrimages. This
festival commemorated the wanderings of the Israelites while in the wilderness.
The festival requirement was that they had to
dwell in Arbors
or Booths.
They would make a temporary tent or
booth as shelter out of interwoven Myrtle, Palm or Willow branches along with
sticks and fruits from the harvest as a commemoration and reminder of God’s
protection during their flight from Egypt and their meager accommodation while
in the wilderness. After the Babylon captivity, the willow became an emblem of sorrow. [11] Many booths could be found all year on top of
their homes and shared with the sojourner.
The festival took place at the end of the
harvest season year in the month of Tishri
(October) 15th through
the 21nd, 5 days after the Day of
Atonement which ended Tishri 10th. The first and eighth days were holy
convocations (Sabbaths) with days of rest. There was
rejoicing with the Priest, family, servants, widows, orphans as well as the
traveler.
The Feast portion took place for a period of seven days and was also a festival of
thanksgiving to God for The Ingathering from the threshing floor and the wine press.
The Solemn Assembly portion took place on the eighth
day the 22nd; the last day known as the
Great Day.[12]
All ceremonially clean and physically capable males were required to go to the
“Tabernacle” with their offerings; this
marked the conclusion of the Ecclesiastical
year. Every seven years they were required to read
publically the Law; the Torah to all the people during this festival.
Note: Later on,
another day was added to the festival known as Simhath
Torah (Joy of the Law) just for the purpose of
the JOY of reading the Law publically. In
the Antiquity of the Jews;
Josephus calls it the greatest and holiest day of the Jewish feasts. I
encourage you to get a copy of the Antiquity of the Jews by Josephus the Jewish
Historian; a non-believing contemporary of Jesus Christ.
In the New Testament; it was on THIS very last day of this feast that Jesus stood up and said, “If anyone thirsts,
let him come to me and drink”.[13] Some
thought He was the Christ; the Prophet that was to come,[14]
but there was a division among the people over him. Some of them wanted to arrest him, but oddly
enough, no one laid hands on him.[15]
Numbers 29:12-40 – Offerings for the Feast
of Booths
12On the fifteenth day of the
seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. YOU
SHALL NOT DO ANY ORDINARY WORK, and you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days.
13 And you shall offer a burnt offering,
a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
thirteen bulls from the herd, two rams, fourteen male lambs a year old; they
shall be without blemish;
17 On the SECOND DAY twelve bulls from the herd, two rams,
fourteen male lambs a year old without blemish,
18 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities;
20 On the THIRD DAY eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen male
lambs a year old without blemish,
21 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities;
23 On the FOURTH DAY ten bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs a
year old without blemish,
24 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities;
26 On the FIFTH DAY nine bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish,
27 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities;
29 On the SIXTH DAY eight bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish,
30 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities;
31 also one male goat for a sin
offering; besides the regular burnt offering, its grain offering, and its drink
offerings.
32 On the SEVENTH DAY seven bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs
a year old without blemish,
33 with the grain offering and the drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs,
in the prescribed quantities; .
35 On the EIGHTH DAY you shall have a solemn assembly. You
shall not do any ordinary work,
36 but you shall offer a burnt offering,
a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs
a year old without blemish,
40 So Moses told
the people of Israel everything just as the LORD
had commanded Moses.
(ESV)
TWO HIGH HOLY
DAYS
#1 Feast of Trumpets
New Moon Festivals were a MONTHLY Sabbath of REST, with special sacrifices and the blowing of trumpets.
Seventh Month Festival: The first day of the SEVENTH new moon Tishri (October) 1st and 2nd
was set aside as the Feast of Trumpets,
the foremost of the new-moon celebrations; this began the Civil New Year for
the Jews.
Trumpets were blown from morning to evening; it was
observed as a solemn day of REST,[16]
ceasing from hard labor, beginning with the sounding of the Shofar (a hollowed-out
ram's horn). It was accompanied with special
memorials, sacrifices, general rejoicing and the reading of the Law in public.
Some students of the Word Belief System is that the ORIGIN
of the blowing of the Seventh Month Trumpets were to
counteract the influence of the Babylonian New Year Festival which occurred at
the same time while they were in Babylonian captivity.
Later in history “Trumpets” became associated with Rosh Hashanah, the
Jewish New Year that is celebrated in
the fall. It’s the first of the High
Holy Days; "Rosh" is the Hebrew word for head, "ha" is the definite article, and "shanah" means year; thus "Rosh Hashanah" means “head [of] the year”,
referring to the Jewish New Year’s Day. The custom of eating symbolic foods such as
apples dipped in honey were to evoke "a
sweet new year".
Rosh Hashanah is a two-day celebration, which begins on the first day of Tishrei (October) which is the first month of the Jewish CIVIL
YEAR, but is the seventh
month of the ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR.
Don’t even try to wrap you head around these
mental gymnastics; see my chart.
#2 Day of Atonement
The Day of Atonement was also known
as Yom Kippur
and is the
Holiest day of the year. There was NO FEASTING because for
approximately 25 hours, they were to FAST and REST. This is the only Law of Moses that required EVERYONE to fast; it included careful cleaning of the Tabernacle, cleansing of
the High Priest and of oneself; fasting and attending a holy gathering and
ceasing all activities of work.[17]
It was observed once a year on the 10th
of Tishri,
the seventh month (October), ten days after the Fall New Year to atone for their sins. An offering of Incense was made by the High
Priest in the Holy of Holies.[18]
This was the only time of the year that
the High Priest entered into the Holy
of Holies.
TWO GOATS WERE SELECTED; one was sacrificed and with the other; the sins of the people were symbolically placed on the
“Scapegoat” which was released and then
driven into the wilderness bearing their sins.[19]
Atonement means “to
cover over;” this same word was use
by Moses to cover over the ark inside and out with tar or pitch so that you could not see
the wood. The blood
of Jesus covers over inside and out the sin of the Christian; out of the sight
of Almighty God.
TWO FESTIVALS
ADDED LATER
#1 Festival of Dedication - Hanukkah
Dedication is also called Festival of Lights
or Hanukkah; the festival was
instituted on the 25th day of the 9th month of Kislev (December) as a day of Remembering
and Thanksgiving to Judas Maccabeus.[20]
On Kislev (December) 25th 167B.C the temple was
polluted with pagan sacrifices by Antiochus Epiphanes IV, king of Syria; he
forbid the Jews to engage in sacrifices, rites, feast and worship of any kind.
On Kislev (December) 25th 164B.C, three years later
to the day, the rag tag devout followers of Jehovah who desired the “freedom of
Worship” formed “The Maccabean Revolt”,
a battle of the few against the greater forces of the Seleucid army; obtained
victory and forced the repeal of the ordinances against the free worship in Israel. Israel recovered and cleansed the sanctuary
and brought forth a new altar which was then dedicated. Children were told of the brave stores of The Maccabees in
order to stir in them the desire to emulate them.
This became an EIGHT DAYS FESTIVAL celebrating the cleansing and rededication of the Temple after its
desecration by the Greeks three years earlier. If it were not for the Maccabees, the
monotheistic faith of the One God of the Jewish people might have perished. SELAH
You can learn more about the Maccabees by
reading about them in the Greek Apocrypha; the 1st and 2nd
book of Maccabees. These
books were left out of the canonized Bible because they were never a part of
the Hebrew Bible and have not been found in any Hebrew form.
Hanukkah is the only Jewish festival that is not ordained or mentioned in the
Hebrew Bible. Interestingly, Christians celebrate CHRISTMAS, the birth of Jesus Christ on the same day as the Jews celebrate the “FREEDOM OF
WORSHIP” of the one True God Jehovah; neither of which is
commanded to be celebrated.
According to the Talmud, the Jews found a lamp in the Temple
with a one-day supply of oil, but it stayed miraculously lit for the eight days
of the festival. The relighting of the candelabras took on the
name Festival of Lights. Each day one additional candle is lighted
until a total of eight candles is reached. They sang the “Hallel
Psalms”; which is a very, very lengthy Psalm. Psalms 113:1
NOTE: Some students think, and I understand why; that Hanukah was considered a second celebration of
the eight days of the Feast of Tabernacles. The Great Historian Josephus calls The
Festival of Lights the Freedom
OF their Worship. The Apocrypha tells
the story of Judas
Maccabeus carrying
on the war on behalf of Israel. In the New Testament this was also the
Festival when THE JEWS asked Jesus to plainly tell them if He was the Messiah or not. He
answered them with a similitude about how Sheep know their Master voice and
obviously they were not His sheep; but He did go to say, “The Father and I are One.”
The Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1:59 - Dreadful desecration on the
Altar the 25th
59 On the 25th
of the month they offered sacrifice upon the altar which was set up on the
altar of burnt offering.
1 Maccabees 3:2 – Revolt; Judas Maccabeus
2 Then his son
Judas, who was called Maccabeus, arose in his stead and all his brothers and
all who had stood by his father helped him, and with gladness carried on
Israel’s war.
1 Maccabees 4:52 - Offered sacrifices on the New
Altar; the 25th
52 And they
arose on the 25th day of the ninth month that is the month of Chislev
(December), in the one-hundred and forty-eighth year,
and offered sacrifices according to the law upon the NEW altar of burnt offering which they had made.
The Works of Flavius Josephus
Antiquities 12:7:7 – Festival of Lights – Freedom
of Worship
7 Now Judas
(Maccabees) celebrated the festival of the restoration of the
sacrifices of the temple for eight days, and omitted no sort of
pleasures thereon; but he feasted them upon very rich and splendid sacrifices;
and he honored God, and delighted them by hymns and psalms. Nay, they were so
very glad at the revival of their customs, when, after a long time of
intermission, they unexpectedly had regained the FREEDOM OF THEIR WORSHIP, that they
made it a law for their posterity, that they should keep a festival, on account
of the restoration of their temple worship, for eight days. And from that
time to this we celebrate this festival, and call it LIGHTS. I suppose the reason was
because this liberty beyond their hopes appeared to them; and that thence was
the name given to that festival. Judas also rebuilt the walls round about the
city, and reared towers of great height against the incursions of enemies, and
set guards therein.
#2 Festival of Purim
Purim comes from the book of Ester in
the Bible; Queen Ester, the king’s
Jewish wife, along with her cousin Mordecai,
foiled the plot to kill all the Jews by the evil schemer named Haman who cast “Purim”
(lots) to determine what day to carry out his evil plot of annihilation and extermination
of the Jews.[21] This festival came with Joy and Feasting
commemorating the remarkable deliverance from the evil
Haman.[22]
It was the reversal of fortune for the Jews who were
under an edict of death by the Anti-Semitic state. With the help of Ester and Mordecai,
the Jews were given the authority to fight for themselves and their lives were
spared.
Purim is happily celebrated on the 14th day
of Adar (March)
for the un-walled villages and 15th day
of Adar for the fortified villages; this is the Last month
of the Ecclesiastical religious year.[23]
As in other festivals, the rich were
called on for charity giving to the poor.
The reading in the Synagogue of the “Megillah” which is “The Scroll
of Ester” took place. When Haman’s name is
read from the scroll, the people shouted “Let his
name be blotted out” and “The name of the
wicked shall rot”. Then the NAMES of the sons of Haman are all read out in one breath to signify that
they were all hanged at one time. The
rest of the day was filled with merrymaking, gift exchanges and food.
The Apocrypha; the 2nd book of Maccabees this festival is referred to as “MORDECAI’S DAY”
Apocrypha
2nd Maccabees
15:36 – Mordecai’s Day: celebrate every year
36 And he hung Nicanor’s head from the
citadel, a clear and conspicuous proof to all of the Lord’s help. And that all decreed by popular vote of the
people never to let this day go by without observing it, but to celebrate the
thirteenth day of the twelfth month which is called Adar in Aramaic. The day
before MORDECAI’s DAY.
THREE DAYS OF
REST
#1 Sabbath 7th Day
There were two reasons taught for the
observance of the Sabbath.
FIRST: The
Sabbath was a day set
aside by God for rest because He rested on the seventh day after creating the
world.[24]
Sabbath began at sundown on Friday when
families would gather for a special meal; the observance would continue through
Saturday till sundown. The sacrifice meal would include a burnt offering
of lamb, a grain offering, and a drink offering.[25] Saturday
morning they would go to the synagogue for a solemn assembly; then the rest of
the day was spent reading God’s Word, resting, and eating; it was a day
of joy.
Sabbath: The Aramaic word means to cease;
desist; the
idea was not that of relaxation or refreshment, but that of the COMPLETE
CESSATION OF ACTIVITY from sunset to sunset.[26]
The Sabbath was not to be PROFANED in any way with work. The Talmud
has 39 main categories of work that was to be avoided. (As a child; the
Baptist church I attended would not allow me to go to a movie or to go swimming
on Sunday; not just no work on Sunday, but NO ACTIVITY.)
SECOND: The
Exodus Remembered: Israel was reminded
that when they were in bondage in Egypt THERE WAS NO REST. This Sabbath rest included all
their family, servants, foreigners and livestock. There is no express mention of the Sabbath before the Exodus.
The Exodus passage fixes the origin of
the Sabbath in the bondage of Israel, thus the Sabbath was made for man, not
man for the Sabbath.[27] It’s a sign
between Jehovah and Israel.
#2 Sabbatical 7th Year
The law provided for the land to remain
unplanted every seventh year allowing the land a needed time of rest; whatever
remained in the field was left for the poor.[28]
Debts were to be canceled allowing
people to have a fresh start.[29] The purpose was: RENEWAL
of land, HOPE with the cancelation of debts and LIFE with a fresh start.
#3 Jubilee 50th
Year
A Jubilee year occurred after seven sabbatical
years (7X7=49) which would be the 50th year.[30]
It was also a
Sabbatical year for the land allowing this to make two years in a row for the
land to remain fallow and any indebted land would revert to its original owner. There was a price adjustment in sales in view
of the approach of the Jubilee year. Any
Hebrew who had sold themselves into service would be released to freedom.
Note: We certainly
know about the Jubilee year, but scripture does not report that the sabbatical
year or the Jubilee years were actually observed,
but were grudgingly withheld.[31]
The Take Away
The feast were an acknowledgment
that the SEASONS
were the work of the one God YAHWEH and were given for the benefit of man.
It acknowledged God as the provider with unbounded love towards the
chosen people of Israel; the beneficiary of His Divine favor. The sacrifices offered hope of forgiveness
and reconciliation to God. It’s an
acknowledgement of sin and a devotion to God’s laws; it’s a mixture of sorrow for sin
and Joy of the Lord.
As Christian
Gentiles we have been grafted into the Jewish Vine and now have Jewish Roots.
“I was excited when they said; hey man, let’s
go to Church”. It’s in the Book
Psalm 122:1 – I was glad to go into the
House of the Lord
1 I was glad when they said, “Let us go to the
house of the LORD!”
ESV
Romans 11:17 – The Christian now has
Jewish Roots
17 But if some of the branches were
broken off, and YOU, being a wild olive, was GRAFTED in among them,
and did become partaker with them of the root of
the fatness of
the olive tree;
ASV
[1] Leviticus 23:6 – Feast of Unleavened Bread is for seven days
[2] 1 Corinthians 5:7 – Dispose the leaven of
insincerity to be a New Lump
[3] Exodus 12:13 – The blood is a sign; when I see
the blood I will pass over you
[4] Luke 2:41-42 – Jesus observed Passover at the
age of twelve
[5] Colossians 1:20 – Christ’s blood on the cross reconciled the Believer to
God
[6] Acts 12:3 – Peter was arrested during Feast of Unleavened Bread
[7] Exodus 34:22 – Feast of Weeks -- Exodus
23:16 - Feast of Harvest; Feast of Ingathering -- Acts 2:1-4 – Day of
Pentecost – Spoke in other tongues -- Numbers 28:26-31 – Feast of Weeks
[8] Exodus 19:1 – Egypt Passover to Mount
Sinai & Torah; 50 days
[9] Romans 11:29 - The gifts and the calling of
God are irrevocable
[10] Deuteronomy 31:10-11 - Feast of Booths every 7 Years; Read the Torah -- Exodus 23:16 – You shall keep the Feast
of Ingathering
[11] Psalm 137:1-2 – Weeping by the Willow trees;
an Emblem of Sorrow
[12] Numbers 29:35 – The Eighth Day; A Solemn
Assembly
[13] John 7:37-38 - If anyone thirsts, let him
come to me and drink
[14] John 7:40-41– Can the Prophet; the Christ come from Galilee?
[15] John 7:43-44 – There was division among them; some wanted to arrest
Jesus, but no one laid a hand on Him
[16] Numbers 29:1-6 – Feast of Trumpets; a Holy Convocation
[17] Leviticus 23:27-32 - The Day of Atonement; do no ordinary work
[18] Numbers 29:7-11 - Offerings for the Day of Atonement; grain and meat, do
no ordinary work
[19] Leviticus 16:9-10 – Two Goats; Sin atonement and Scapegoat sent into the
Wilderness
[20] John 10:22 – Hanukkah, December 25th; Festival of Dedication
-- John 10:23-30 – Tell us plainly; Are
you the Messiah? THE FATHER AND I ARE ON
[21] Esther 9:26– Purim named after Pur (casting lots)
[22] Esther 9:20-22– Purim; Jews saved from their enemies
[23] Esther 9:28– Purim; commemorate throughout every generation
[24] Genesis 2:2-3 - God rested on the Seventh day
[25] Numbers 28:9-10 – Sabbath - Burnt offering lamb, meal & drink
[26] Exodus 20:8-11 – No one is to work anymore on the Sabbath
[27] Mark 2:27 - Sabbath
made for man, not man for the Sabbath
[28] Exodus 23:10-11 – Let the land rest in the seventh year -- Leviticus 25:2-7 – Seventh year; NO sow, reap, prune… Share what comes up
[29] Deuteronomy 15:1-3 - End of Seven Years release the debts of your
neighbor)
[30] Leviticus 25:8-12 – The 50 year was a Year of Jubilee
[31] Jeremiah 34:9-11 - CHANGED THEIR MINDS and took back their slaves
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