Today, we come to the last of the 3 distinctives of the Feast of Tabernacles. We explored the Biblical mandates of living in booths, temporary dwellings, during the Feast and the palm and fruit branches. Now, we need to look at the sacrifices offered during the Feast (Nu 29:12-38) because…
We covered quite a bit about the fruit and palm branches yesterday, so I won’t spend a lot of time on this today. Whether or not the fruit and palm branches were intended to be used to build the sukkah or ceremoniously carried around deserves more study. There were many…
Perhaps the most distinctive of the Feast of Tabernacles is that you are to live in temporary dwellings, or literally “booths”. Sometimes this word is translated “tent” or “tabernacle”, but it is actually a broader category than that. Three things specially marked the Feast of Tabernacles: its joyous festivities, the…
“Why are you keeping a Jewish holiday?” she asked. “Weren’t those rituals done away?” For me, this is not an uncommon question to get asked whenever the subject of religion comes up. And, let’s face it that this is a lot more preferable than, “Oh, that’s the Old Testament!” as…
Most will be heading to one of the Feast of Tabernacles sites today, if you haven’t left already. I want to wish everyone a blessed and enjoyable Feast! At PhiloLogos.org, there is an interesting reference to the Feast of Tabernacles in the online book The Temple: Its Ministry and Services:…
Some things just need to be said, I guess. It apparently would seem odd to some to look forward to the Day of Atonement, but I did this year. The past year has been especially busy, and it seems every year it means more to me. I am happily looking…
This is the Day of Atonement. The Jews call it “Yom Kippur”. It is considered a “sabbath of sabbaths”. The Jews consider these fall Holy Days the “Days of Awe”. The Day of Atonement is a day of reconciliation between God and man and for man to cleanse himself before…
I am celebrating 2 anniversaries back to back this year. Tonight is Rosh Hashanah on the Jewish calendar, since Biblical days are observed sundown to sundown. Literally, it means “head of the year”, or what we would call “New Year’s Day”. However, it is so much more than that. In…
The September Legacy Letter just came out. For those who are not aware, Legacy Institute is a school in Chiang Mai, Thailand that teaches its students English, computer skills, agriculture and the Bible. Leon Sexton was a minister in WCG under Herbert W Armstrong, and he continues to teach in…
Coincidences are God’s way of being anonymous, the saying goes. I believe there is some truth to that. I’m not a big believer in coincidences, although I’ll grant that it certainly appears that God allows certain things to happen without an immediate direct interference. Otherwise, we would all be puppets…