Leviticus 23 outlines the various feasts celebrated under the law, as well as events observed during that period. The feasts and events are broken down as follows:
The passover (v4-5)
The feast of unleavened bread (v6-8)
The sheaf of the firstfruits (v9-14)
The feast of weeks (v15-21)
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Introduction
2:1-10 – Yahweh hath done this;
2:11-19 – Jeremiah speaks to Jerusalem: thrown down and not pitied;
2:20-22 – Jerusalem speaks: prayer.
The first song of Lamentations introduces Jerusalem’s affliction and the sin that was the source of the problem. We find Je…
Jehoahaz: the favoured of Judah
Towards the end of the reign of Josiah, God ensured an intensity of prophetic work so that there were four contemporary prophets all simultaneously warning Judah of the judgment that was about to befall them.1 This was no accident.
Judah had stubbornly rejected …
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There are certain events in Scripture which are challenging to the 21st century sense of justice. One of these situations is recorded in 2 Samuel 21, where sevens sons of Saul are hanged for a crime that Saul committed. Does this mean that God is unjust? Evidently, in the days of Ezekiel, there…
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The chariot of Israel
Both Elijah and Elisha were called “the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof” (2 Kings 2:12; 13:14) because it was known and understood that Yahweh was working through his prophets. The foundation for this expression is laid by David when he is instructing Solomon…
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Introduction to Lamentations
The book of Lamentations contains five lamentations, which all refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and of the Kingdom of Judah by the Chaldeans. Each song bewails the unutterable misery that has befallen the covenant people in this catastrophe, and the disgrace whic…
This discussion is intended to be an introduction to the subject of the cherubim, to lay out the essentials of the subject as they develop through Scripture. It is not exhaustive—it is just enough to start the reader on a journey of discovery. It is a beautiful subject, but a deep one, for it reve…
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Tisha B’Av
As the story has it, Napoleon was walking through a small village in France, when he heard weeping coming from inside a small ramshackle building nearby. The sound was enough to stop Napoleon in his tracks and compel him to investigate this commotion. As he entered the building, he h…
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During the Lord’s ministry the disciples became increasingly aware of the nobility, grace and glory of their Master (John 1:14-16): “The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth…And of his f…
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“For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” (2 Cor. 4:6)
In the previous article we reflected on the wondrous concept of being “in Christ”: members of his body, …
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