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The biblical meaning of burden encompasses various aspects of responsibility, sin, community, God’s provision, and personal growth. While burdens can be heavy and overwhelming, the Bible offers hope and encouragement for those who carry them.
- Passover — Leviticus 23:4-8. This feast remembers the last plague in Egypt, when the angel of death “passed over” the children of Israel who applied the blood of the lamb to their doors.
- Unleavened Bread — Leviticus 23:6. This seven-day feast begins on the day following the start of Passover. In the haste of the Israelites to leave Egypt, there was no time to add leaven (yeast) to their bread.
- First Fruits — Leviticus 23:10. The Feast of First Fruits is one of three Jewish harvest feasts to thank and honor God for all he provided. Although they didn’t know it at the time, the children of Israel were celebrating what would become a very important day.
- Feast of Weeks or Pentecost — Leviticus 23:16. This feast is the second of the three harvest feasts. It occurs exactly seven weeks after the Feast of First Fruits, so it’s also called Pentecost which means “50 days.”
- Dates with Destiny
- Woah! Slow Down There
- The Spring Feasts
- The Fall Feasts
- The Feasts as Witnesses and Pointers
The first thing to talk about is the word for feast used in Hebrew. The word for “feast” is moed (מועד). This word is based on a very important root word, יעד. In general, we say that moed means “appointed time”, or set feast. But there is more to it. There is certainly a sense of destiny associated with the word, but the word is also used to talk ...
Other Hebrew words for the feasts are mikra (מקרא) and atsera(עצרה). Mikra is often translated as “holy convocation”, and it means to call people together. It is also one of the words we use in Hebrew for “Bible”, because it has to do with the word for reading as well as calling. The second word, often translated as “solemn assembly”, is the word t...
Then the next set of feasts come in the Spring, and are all related to one another: In Exodus 12, God instructs the Israelites to start the calendar in the first month, which is now known as Nisan in the Spring. “This month will mark the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you. Tell all the congregation of Israe...
Then there is a long gap before the next festivals in the fall. This gap between the Spring feasts and the fall feasts is not dependent on wherever Shavuot ended up, but rather starts on the first day of seventh month, which means the gap between them varies and is of uncertain length, year to year. This testifies of our experience of waiting, livi...
Now you might ask, with all these amazing signs that point so clearly to Jesus, why don’t Jewish people believe in Him? A large part of the answer is that the Jewish picture of the Messiah is very different to the Lamb of God, the Suffering Servant who came 2000 years ago. They were expecting a conquering king, a victorious warrior, who would usher...
May 13, 2024 · The saying “my yoke is easy and my burden is light” is part of a larger passage (Matthew 11:28–30), in which Jesus tells all who are weary and burdened to come to Him for rest. He isn’t speaking here of physical burdens.
Jan 4, 2022 · The Feast of Tabernacles, also known as the Feast of Booths and Sukkot, is the seventh and last feast that the Lord commanded Israel to observe and one of the three feasts that Jews were to observe each year by going to “appear before the Lord your God in the place which He shall choose” (Deuteronomy 16:16).
Apr 8, 2024 · During the seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, Christians today are to avoid physical leaven as a constant reminder of sin’s pervasiveness and our need to diligently remove it (1 Corinthians 5:7; Philippians 2:12).
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Mar 14, 2024 · Answer. About a week after Jesus plainly told His disciples that He would suffer, be killed, and be raised to life (Luke 9:22), He took Peter, James, and John up a mountain to pray. While praying, His personal appearance was changed into a glorified form, and His clothing became dazzling white.
