Title: Harvest Festival (Ex 23:14)
Contents In this time, we would like to look at the [biblical basis for keeping the festival of harvest], which is why we should keep the festival of harvest. When the people of Israel disappeared from Egypt for the first time in 430 years and went up the wilderness, God called Moses to Mount Sinai and instructed them on all the religious ceremonies necessary for them to properly serve God. Among them are the festivals they must observe three times a year. [You shall keep feasts to me the third time every year] (Exodus 23:14) These three feasts will eventually become the three major festivals of the nation of Israel. These three feasts are the Passover, the Feast of Harvest, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
Earth: Other Names of Harvest Festival
First, the Feast of First Fruits (Exodus 34:22): Although the Israelites had never cultivated a single sack of grass with their own hands during their 40-year-old wilderness life, there was no food, so there were no people to starve to death, and eventually they reached the land of Canaan, a stable settlement. .
After 40 years there, they gradually cultivated and harvested fruits with their own hands. The first thing to give thanks to God with the first ripe fruits obtained here is the Harvest Festival. four
At this time, the name [Feast of Firstfruits] was created to commemorate the first fruits harvested after entering Canaan's welfare.
Second, the Feast of Weeks: This is derived from the fact that after the Feast of Unleavened Bread, you can reap fruit seven times by seven. (Deuteronomy 16:9-16, Numbers 28:26)
Third, Pentecost: The name was given because it is the 50th day after the Feast of Weeks.
(Leviticus 23:16) However, these words were used in the New Testament era (Acts 2:21).
Earth: Reasons to observe the Feast of Harvest Festival
First, God Himself said that this feast must be observed. This is the fact that God's command for the Feast of Harvest is absolute (Exodus 23:14-17).
Dear saints, the orders of the people of this world can be withdrawn, changed, or compromised by any person. But God is not. No one will resist God's commands.
Because if you disobey God's commands, you will be harmed and if you obey, you will receive blessings. (Deuteronomy 6:1-3 Deuteronomy 7:9-11) This means that God's commands must be accompanied by [responsibility], You can see that there is.
A good example of this is God's command to Abraham, his obedient life, and the great blessings that followed. (Genesis 22:1-4) If we obey God's word, God takes responsibility for everything above us. give it The holy water of the Harvest Festival was clearly God's absolute command.
The second reason to keep the Harvest Festival is that God's blessings and graces are so great. Dear saints, the three feasts that the people of Israel keep contain the same spirit, and that is the [spirit of thanksgiving]. However, even with the same gratitude, you can see that his meaning is different.
In other words, Yuwonjeol is a day to commemorate the grace that God has bestowed upon us.
In other words, if the Passover is a commemoration of [spiritual grace] among God's graces, the Feast of Harvest Festival is a festival to commemorate the gift of material grace to those who have received spiritual grace.
Therefore, it can be said that the blessing of the Feast of Harvest is not granted to anyone, but only to those who have received the grace of the Feast of Yuwon. Dear brothers and sisters, the Bible says that if you receive grace and do not know how to give thanks, you will go away with the beast.
The psalmist was moved by God's grace, saying, [How can I repay all this grace that the LORD has given me?] (Psalm 116:12)
In 1992, when half of the year was gone, look back to the moment you take the first step in the second half of the year.
Not only myself, but my parents, my wife, my husband, my children, my home, my workplace, and the church I am in are all with God's help and intervention until this time. I have to quietly bow my head before God. I know it will be
The kiss you gave us! The expression of my reaction to this is that it must be embodied through the seasons of jubilee.
Conclusion: Then, how does the Bible tell us to keep this Feast of Harvest?
?쏽ou shall keep the Feast of Weeks before the LORD your God, and give a voluntary gift to measure your strength, as the LORD your God has blessed you, you and your children, your slaves and your slaves, and the Levites who live in your city, and the strangers and orphans who are among you. Let the widows together rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God, in the place the LORD your God has chosen to place his name.??(San 16:10-12)
Dear saints, Do you have brothers and sisters who have grown up around Will and are grieving? Do you remember those who have not been seen in church for a while? Let everyone know this Harvest Festival to all of them so that they can all participate in turning the Spirit and giving to God so that a meaningful feast can be celebrated in the church. wish.
Our God always grants grace and blessings to those who are thankful for greater gratitude. As we celebrate the Harvest Festival this year, I sincerely wish you the best of luck in the history of discovering infinitely many blessings in your life.
Three times a year all of you will appear before the Lord God and the God of Israel. I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders. When you come to see the Lord and your God three times a year, no one will covet your land. will not see.--Exodus 34:23-24--