Special Times
Exodus 34: 21 “Six days you shall
work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you
shall rest.
22 “And you shall observe the Feast
of Weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at
the year’s end.
23 “Three times in the year all your
men shall appear before the Lord, the Lord God of Israel. 24 For
I will cast out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; neither will
any man covet your land when you go up to appear before the Lord your God three
times in the year.
25 “You shall not offer the blood of
My sacrifice with leaven, nor shall the sacrifice of the Feast of the Passover
be left until morning.
26 “The first of the firstfruits of
your land you shall bring to the house of the Lord your God. You shall not boil
a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
27 Then the Lord said to Moses,
“Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a
covenant with you and with Israel.” 28 So he was there
with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he neither ate bread nor drank
water. And He wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the [d]Ten Commandments.
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GOD gave Moses instructions on how to handle special times
of the year.
My Observations:
- GOD
gave the children of Israel a celebration called the Feast of Weeks which
was a feast after seven weeks of the Passover, also known as the day of
Pentecost.
- GOD
gave the children of Israel the time of the firstfruits as a celebration
of spring and the beginning of the harvest.
- GOD
gave the children of Israel the Feast of Ingathering in which everyone was
supposed to come together and celebrate what GOD provided.
What I noticed is the amount of eating GOD had the children
of Israel do. Each festival contained eating and celebrating. Even the Feast of
the Passover was celebrated by eating demonstrating the remembrance of GOD’s
deliverance. The HOLY SPIRIT was later
poured out on the day of Pentecost during a celebration.
GOD then promises that HE would enlarge their borders. GOD
required that all men gather together three times a year and that HE would
protect their land. HE then told Moses to write the words of the covenant.
This is where GOD poured into Moses the beginning of the
writing of the first five books of the Bible, named the Torah. GOD wrote the
Ten Commandments on the tablets that eighty-year-old Moses dragged up the
mountain.
Challenge
- Why
did GOD remind Moses about the various feasts and celebrations?
- How
is GOD having you celebrate HIS deliverance of you and HIS people?
- Will
you celebrate GOD’s deliverance and enjoy a feast on HIS behalf?
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