Scripture Reading: Leviticus 23:15-22
Key Verse: From wherever you live, bring two loaves...as a wave offereing to the Lord (Leviticus 23:17).
Meditation: Beginning with Moses, the Jewish nation celebrated seven annual sacred feasts "of the Lord” climaxed with deep religious joy. They praised God for being their ultimate defender and provider. Rooted in historical happenings of divine interventions, all of them also carried a messianic meaning.
Three of the feasts demanded compulsory attendance of all males. On the day of the Passover or Pesach they commemorated the deliverance from the angel of death on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. That night blood, of an unblemished lamb was applied to the doorposts of their homes to spare the first born male of that home from being slain by the death angel. Today the festival would have its fulfillment when Christ the sinless lamb was slain for our sins. (usually celebrated in March or April)
The Feast of Tabernacles( Booth)- Sukkoth recalled the entrance into the Promised land of Canaan. First they lived in booths made of branches and boughs of trees. The feast reenacted the initial joy and recalled the lessons 40 year detour through the wilderness of unbelief.( this usually held in Sept-October and is similar to a feast of thanksgiving.)
Pentecost or Shavuot took place 50 days after the Passover. (This is the day that the Isrealis and Jews all over the world remember as the day that God gave to man the 10 commandments and the rest of the Torah or the first 5 books of the Bible to this nation of former slaves)
The Holy Spirit came on the disciples during this commemorative celebration. Significantly, this took place 50 days after Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.
Thought for the Day: Fifty days after the sinless Lamb was slain, the Spirit was poured out.
15 “‘From the day after the day of rest - that is, from the day you bring the sheaf for waving - you are to count seven full weeks, 16 until the day after the seventh week; you are to count fifty days; and then you are to present a new grain offering to Adonai. (God-master) 17 You must bring bread from your homes for waving - two loaves made with one gallon of fine flour, baked with leaven - as firstfruits for Adonai. 18 Along with the bread, present seven lambs without defect one year old, one young bull and two rams; these will be a burnt offering for Adonai, with their grain and drink offerings, an offering made by fire as a fragrant aroma for Adonai. 19 Offer one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings. 20 The cohen (priest) will wave them with the bread of the firstfruits as a wave offering before Adonai, with the two lambs; these will be holy for Adonai for the cohen. 21 On the same day, you are to call a holy convocation; do not do any kind of ordinary work; this is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.
22 “‘When you harvest the ripe crops produced in your land, don’t harvest all the way to the corners of your field, and don’t gather the ears of grain left by the harvesters; leave them for the poor and the foreigner; I am Adonai your God.’”
From the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
Key Verse: From wherever you live, bring two loaves...as a wave offereing to the Lord (Leviticus 23:17).
Meditation: Beginning with Moses, the Jewish nation celebrated seven annual sacred feasts "of the Lord” climaxed with deep religious joy. They praised God for being their ultimate defender and provider. Rooted in historical happenings of divine interventions, all of them also carried a messianic meaning.
Three of the feasts demanded compulsory attendance of all males. On the day of the Passover or Pesach they commemorated the deliverance from the angel of death on the eve of the exodus from Egypt. That night blood, of an unblemished lamb was applied to the doorposts of their homes to spare the first born male of that home from being slain by the death angel. Today the festival would have its fulfillment when Christ the sinless lamb was slain for our sins. (usually celebrated in March or April)
The Feast of Tabernacles( Booth)- Sukkoth recalled the entrance into the Promised land of Canaan. First they lived in booths made of branches and boughs of trees. The feast reenacted the initial joy and recalled the lessons 40 year detour through the wilderness of unbelief.( this usually held in Sept-October and is similar to a feast of thanksgiving.)
Pentecost or Shavuot took place 50 days after the Passover. (This is the day that the Isrealis and Jews all over the world remember as the day that God gave to man the 10 commandments and the rest of the Torah or the first 5 books of the Bible to this nation of former slaves)
The Holy Spirit came on the disciples during this commemorative celebration. Significantly, this took place 50 days after Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.
Thought for the Day: Fifty days after the sinless Lamb was slain, the Spirit was poured out.
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