Daily Manna
Monday, December 08, 2014

Keeping the Feast

TEXT: LEVITICUS 23:9-22

"And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete" (Leviticus 23:15)

In His infinite wisdom, God instituted holy feasts and convocations for the children of Israel. Each of these feasts were instituted for a purpose and He expected strict compliance if they would enjoy His blessings.

Our text today deals with some of the feasts instituted by the Lord especially the Feast of Pentecost which is also known as the Feast of weeks. It is called the Feast of weeks because it was observed fifty days or seven weeks and one day after the Passover. It is also called the Feast of harvest. The Feast of Passover also known as the Feast of Unleavened Bread was divinely instituted to commemorate Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and the sparing of their first born sons when all the first born of the Egyptians died. This was made possible by the killing of the Paschal Lamb, pointing to the shedding of the blood of Christ, for the salvation of the whole world. Every sinner who applies the blood of Jesus upon his heart by faith would receive forgiveness of sin, pass from death to life and be made a new creature in Christ Jesus.

Fifty days after the Passover comes the Feast of Pentecost. While the children of Israel ate unleavened bread during the Feast of Passover, they were to eat bread that was leavened at Pentecost because it was an acknowledgment of God’s goodness to them in their ordinary food which was leavened, whereby they offered generously to the Lord, giving glory to God as the Lord of their harvest. This annual feast was instituted in remembrance of the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, the fiftieth day after they came out of Egypt.

It is noteworthy that the pouring out of the Spirit upon the apostles and the early church was on the day of Pentecost, exactly fifty days after Christ our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Moreover, there was a repetition of the law by which they were required to care for the poor connected with the Feast of Passover. This taught them and us by application, that the joy of harvest should express itself in charity to the poor.

God cares for His people. He has provided salvation for every sinner, sanctification for believers and the Spirit’s baptism for the saints. “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.”

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