FEAST DAYS
Our Father Yahweh has given us specific
times we should set aside for Him in addition to the Seventh Day (Saturday).
These times have very special meaning to His people. And they are such fun
times, too. One very special time involves getting all leaven out of your
house--checking the closets, the frig, the freezer, the toaster - you can have a
good time finding it all. Of course, the meaning of the leaven goes much deeper
than that. Many families arrange special events and special foods for this
time since we are asked not to have leaven in our homes for an entire week.
Another special time involves going away and living in a place not normally your
home. This could be a motel or a camper or a tent and it is an entire week
of celebration in His Word. If your family goes away to a place with other
Believers, you will find there are fun things going on all week. Of course,
there is a very serious side to all His Days and the most solemn (serious) day of
the entire year is called the Day of Atonement. This is a day when you are
not to eat any food all day--it can be difficult until you learn how to do it.
The pages listed below will be activated
several weeks prior to each event. We hope you will spend some time studying
His days with your parents and, of course, you should be learning how to read His
word on your own as well. You can learn all about His appointed times in His
word, and we've put just a few of the verses here:
Leviticus 23 (from the New International
Version)
Verses 1-2: Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak
to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed feasts, the appointed
feasts of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. There are
six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day
of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath
to Yahweh.'"
Verses 5-8: Yahweh's Passover begins at twilight on the
fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month, Yahweh's
Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without
yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. ,,,And
on the seventh day hold sacred assembly and do no regular work.'"
Verses 15-16: "'From the day after the Sabbath, the day
you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count
off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an
offering of new grain to Yahweh.
Verses 23-25: Yahweh said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: 'On the first
day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated
with trumpet blasts. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to Yahweh
by fire.'"
Verses 26-28: Yahweh said to Moses, "The tenth day of this seventh month
is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, ... Do
no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made
for you before Yahweh.
Verses 39-43: "So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to Yahweh
for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a
day of rest. On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and
palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before Yahweh you Elohim
for seven days. Celebrate this as a festival to Yahweh for seven days each year.
This is to be a lasting ordinance by the generations to come; celebrate it in
the seventh month. Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites
are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites
lie in booths when I brought then out of Egypt. I am Yahweh your Elohim.
SPECIAL TIMES PAGES
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Passover Lesson Series
(1st day and 7th day of the Feast of
Unleavened Bread are High Days)
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Passover and Feast
of Unleavened Bread
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Feast of Weeks (Pentecost);
Seventh Month Days:
HalleluYah!
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