Title: Sabbath and Passover/Leviticus 23:1-42
Contents Hymn of the Week: 213 August 13, 1995
Subject: Sabbath and Passover Early morning at Youngjin Church
Text: Leviticus 23:1-42 23.hwp
This chapter is a rule for the feasts that the people of Israel must observe, and through these feasts, the people of Israel must keep, and the work of redemption and blessings performed by God is shown.
The people of Israel were to celebrate and rejoice as well as proclaim God's work of redemption and blessing by performing these feasts. The Israelites were to celebrate, rejoice, and proclaim God's work of redemption and blessing by performing these feasts. Israel's year is marked by religious feasts that are God's method of repeated education.
However, this system runs the risk of becoming a legal habit (Colossians 2:16). Nevertheless, the strength of this system is that it refreshes the memory of God's merciful dealings with his people.
The Feast of Firstfruits and the Feast of Weeks (Leviticus 23:9-21)
1. Feast of First Fruits (9-14). Among the fruits of the land of God, the ordinance on the day of offering the first grain is the ordinance of the Feast of Firstfruits.
The Feast of Firstfruits was held the day after the Sabbath during the Passover period to offer and consecrate the firstfruits of the barley harvest to God. Point out that it should begin with thanksgiving and worship to God, the Creator.
2. The Feast of Weeks (15-21). In the New Testament, the Day of Pentecost became the Feast of the Holy Spirit, and the meaning changed from the Feast of Thanksgiving to the Feast of the Holy Spirit. The two loaves of bread offered by Jehovah are symbols of the two churches in the New Testament era, that is, the churches of Jews and Gentiles.
Feast of Trumpets and Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:22-32)
The ordinances in verse 22 are the words of 19:9-10, which are God's rules of care and protection for the poor and foreigners. This is to show that God's law was given on the basis of love (Matthew 22:36-40; Galatians 5:14).
However, the fact that this regulation is mentioned after the Feast of Harvest means to share the harvests of God's grace, not alone, but with the marginalized of our neighbors.
Even in judging the people with justice, God shows infinite love.
Feast of Tabernacles (2nd) (Leviticus 23:39-44)
The Feast of Tabernacles is also called the Feast of Ingathering (39) because it is the Feast of Tabernacles (39) after the Israelites gather the produce of the land they cultivated and store them in warehouses (Exodus 23:16; 34:22). (40) He told them to take tree fruit, palm branches, lush branches, and willows and enjoy them for 7 days. They must dwell in booths (42) and observe this feast. What does that mean?
1. Thanksgiving for the joy of the harvest.
2. Remember the hardships of the past.
3. A typology of a stranger's life. The Feast of Tabernacles foreshadows that we cannot find an eternal city on this earth, so we must live a life of sojourners while longing for the eternal Canaan.
Prayer / May your glory be revealed on this earth.