MAY 16, 2022 Leviticus 23:15-16 And you shall count for yourselves from the day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering: seven Sabbaths shall be completed. Count fifty days to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you shall offer a new grain offering to the Lord. The day that this […]
MAY 15, 2022 Leviticus 23:10 Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: “When you come into the land which I give to you, and reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest to the priest.” As we read about these different feast days, one thing becomes clear […]
MAY 14, 2022 Leviticus 23:4 These are the feasts of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times. It is obvious that the Creator desires that we observe these special times He established to meet with His people but why does He want us to “proclaim” these feasts? Is it that we proclaim them […]
MAY 13, 2022 Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work on it; it is the Sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. In Ecclesiastes 3, Solomon declared that everything has a season and that there is a reason for every season. Inferred in […]
MAY 12, 2022 Leviticus 23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.” As I explained in the previous devotional, the Hebrew word moedim is literally translated as “appointed times.” This is the plural form of the root, moed, which means […]
MAY 10, 2022 Leviticus 23:2 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: “The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are My feasts.” When it comes to the Biblical feasts such as Passover or the Feast of Trumpets, there is a widely held misconception that these are “Jewish feasts.” While it […]
MAY 10, 2022 Leviticus 22:10 No outsider shall eat the holy offering; one who dwells with the priest, or a hired servant, shall not eat the holy thing. In the Sanctuary, anything that was considered holy could not be used for any common purpose. For instance, the shovels and pans used to gather the coals from the altar […]
MAY 9, 2022 Leviticus 22:1-2 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to Aaron and his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they do not profane My holy name by what they dedicate to Me.” Pursuant to the command we read in the previous devotion, this command emphasizes the need for the […]
MAY 8, 2022 Leviticus 21:16 Speak to Aaron, saying: “No man of your descendants in succeeding generations, who has any defect, may approach to offer the bread of his God.” On the surface, this sounds pretty harsh because, after all, who is the One who creates man? Why would He allow someone to be born with a defect and […]
MAY 7, 2022 Leviticus 21:10-12 He who is the high priest among his brethren, on whose head the anointing oil was poured and who is consecrated to wear the garments … shall not go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord. Needless […]
MAY 6, 2022 Leviticus 21:8 Therefore you shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy. Though it is not clearly stated in this verse, rabbinic sources interpret this verse to say that being consecrated to “offer the bread of your God,” the priests […]
MAY 5, 2022 Leviticus 21:1-2, 4 Speak to the priests, the sons of Aaron, and say to them: “None shall defile himself for the dead among his people, except for his relatives who are nearest to him … Otherwise he shall not defile himself, being a chief man among his people, to profane himself.” On many occasions, God reminds Israel […]