2/18/2009 8:21 AM
SPIRITUAL DIARY
My Worship Time Focus: Passover; Pentecost
Bible Reading &
Meditation Reference: Numbers 28:16-25; 26-30
Message of the verses: “16 ¶
‘Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the LORD’S
Passover. 17 ‘On the fifteenth day of this month shall be
a feast, unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. 18 ‘On
the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. 19
‘You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the LORD:
two bulls and one ram and seven male lambs one year old, having them without
defect. 20 ‘For their grain offering, you shall offer
fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for a bull and two-tenths
for the ram. 21 ‘A tenth of an ephah you shall offer for each
of the seven lambs;
22 and one male goat
for a sin offering to make atonement for you.
23 ‘You shall present these
besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt
offering. 24 ‘After this manner you shall present daily,
for seven days, the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the
LORD; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the
continual burnt offering. 25 ‘On the seventh day you shall have a holy
convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
26 ‘Also on the day of the first
fruits, when you present a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of
Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work.
27 ‘You shall offer a
burnt offering for a soothing aroma to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram,
seven male lambs one year old; 28 and
their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for
each bull, two-tenths for the one ram,
29 a tenth for each
of the seven lambs; 30 also one male
goat to make atonement for you. 31 ‘Besides the continual burnt offering and its
grain offering, you shall present them with their drink offerings. They shall
be without defect.”
This is two
sections in Warren Wiersbe’s book, “Be Counted” that I am going over for
today’s SD. It should be noted that all
of this is repeated from earlier books in the Scripture, (Exodus and Leviticus)
where these feasts are explained in further detail. It should also be noted that this is a
reminder to this second generation by the Lord through Moses of the importance
of these feasts. All of these feasts are
pictures of Jesus Christ and what He has done to fulfill the meaning of these
feasts.
Passover is
a picture of the death of the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world
for Jesus Christ died on the cross exactly when the lambs of the Passover were
slain. Next comes the feast of
unleavened bread which was for seven days, and the children of Israel
Next will
come the feast of Pentecost and this came fifty days after Passover, counting
from the Feast of Firstfruits, which was the day after the Sabbath following
Passover. For Christians this
celebration is the beginning of the Church for it began on Pentecost as can be
seen in Acts chapter two.
Spiritual meaning for my life today: As I look at all of the Jewish Feasts I can
seen the Lord Jesus Christ in all of them for He is the Lamb of God and He took
away my sins, and He is the Firstfruit, and He is the head of the Church, and
He will come to get His bride when the harvest on this earth is done as
indicated by the feast of Tabernacles. It is heart breaking to me that the
people of Israel
My Steps of Faith for
Today:
- Give myself to the Lord for service and worship.
- Put on my spiritual armor.
- Learn more about my Lord and Savior Jesus Chirst.
- Learn contentment.
2/18/2009 9:17 AM
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