Worship: For Heaven’s Sake Three times per year, the Israelites assembled for a total of seven annual feasts at Shiloh, until Jerusalem became the center of worship. (Read more below.)
Wellness: For Health’s Sake Pastor Flemons, a doctor of biblical wellness, introduced these herbs for hypertension: garlic, parsley and cayenne. (Read more below.)
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Thursday, February 23, “Confession is good for the soul!” and Benefits of Fasting. Reference number 390.
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Worship: February 19 – The Division of Canaan; February 20 – The Last Words of Joshua; February 21 – Tithes and Offerings; February 22 – God’s Care for the Poor; February 23 – The Annual Feasts; February 24 – The Earlier Judges; February 25 – Samson [All topics per Patriarchs and Prophets by Ellen G. White, accessible at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pp/pp.asp]
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Romans 8:24-25 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
John 15:13-14 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
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For Heaven’s Sake…
“The first of these festivals, the Passover, [and] the feast of unleavened bread, occurred in Abib, the first month of the Jewish year, corresponding to the last of March and the beginning of April. (PP 537.3) … On the fourteenth day of the month, at even, the Passover was celebrated, its solemn, impressive ceremonies commemorating the deliverance from bondage in Egypt, and pointing forward to the sacrifice that should deliver from the bondage of sin. When the Saviour yielded up His life on Calvary, the significance of the Passover ceased, and the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper was instituted as a memorial of the same event of which the Passover had been a type.” PP 539.5
The Feast of Unleavened Bread immediately followed the Passover. It was a seven-day feast of which the first and the seventh days were holy convocations. On these two days no servile work was to be done. On the second day of the feast, the first fruits of the year’s harvest were presented before God. Leviticus 23:11 reads, “And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.” Just so, Resurrection day was also the day that Jesus, the Passover Lamb now our High Priest, appeared before our heavenly Father on His throne, according to John 20:17. It was the day after the Sabbath following Passover. Speaking to Mary, “Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.” Paul, in 1 Corinthians 15:20, said, “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.”
But it was a time of great disappointment during that week that followed the Crucifixion. The disciples felt hopeless. Their hopes were shattered. They had not understood yet that Jesus was their Passover Lamb. He had become the firstfruits unto GOD. He had assumed the role of the High Priest, all according plan and in sync with the symbolism of the feasts.
Then came Pentecost, fifty days from the offering of first fruits. Also called the feast of harvest and the feast of weeks, Pentecost occupied only one day, which was devoted to religious service. The second chapter in the Book of Acts tells of a harvest, referred to as the early rain experience of the Holy Spirit. It was the day of Pentecost after the Resurrection of Jesus that the disciples had gathered in the upper room and were with one accord when they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. On that one day, these Galileans miraculously preached the Gospel to the multitudes gathered for the feast, who heard the Gospel spoken in more than a dozen different languages. That same day this religious service yielded about three thousand souls, who were added to the church of Christian believers.
In the seventh month, they observed the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Ingathering, and the Feast of Tabernacles. They held one sabbath, which was a memorial of blowing trumpets. On the tenth day of the same month was the Day of Atonement, in which the people searched themselves to discover sins yet unconfessed and unrepented of so that all of their sins could be blotted out.
After the Dark Ages, a powerful movement erupted throughout rural America that eventually went global. It was a time referred to as the Loud Cry. The prophecies of Daniel and the Revelation were being miraculously unlocked. This was the actual Feast of Trumpets to which the symbolic blowing of the trumpets typified. True to the plan, this was followed by the actual Day of Atonement, which began in 1844. Like them, we are to afflict our souls that our sins may be blotted out before the great day of the Lord comes. “For whatsoever soul it be that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut off from among his people” (Leviticus 23:30).
Next came the harvest or the Feast of Ingathering and the Feast of Tabernacles, which also came in the seventh month on the fifteenth day. It was during the season of ingathering that they acknowledged God’s bounty in the products of the orchard, the olive grove, and the vineyard. It was the crowning gathering of the year and it lasted seven days. “Like the Passover, the Feast of Tabernacles was commemorative. In memory of their pilgrim life in the wilderness the people were now to leave their houses and dwell in booths, or arbors, formed from the green branches ‘of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook.’ Leviticus 23:40, 42, 43. PP 540.4
“The Feast of Tabernacles was not only commemorative but typical. It not only pointed back to the wilderness sojourn, but, as the feast of harvest, it celebrated the ingathering of the fruits of the earth, and pointed forward to the great day of final ingathering, when the Lord of the harvest shall send forth His reapers to gather the tares together in bundles for the fire, and to gather the wheat into His garner. At that time the wicked will all be destroyed. They will become ‘as though they had not been.’ Obadiah 16. And every voice in the whole universe will unite in joyful praise to God. Says the revelator, ‘Every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.’ Revelation 5:13.PP 541.2
“The people of Israel praised God at the Feast of Tabernacles, as they called to mind His mercy in their deliverance from the bondage of Egypt and His tender care for them during their pilgrim life in the wilderness. They rejoiced also in the consciousness of pardon and acceptance, through the service of the day of atonement, just ended. But when the ransomed of the Lord shall have been safely gathered into the heavenly Canaan, forever delivered from the bondage of the curse, under which ‘the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now’ (Romans 8:22), they will rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory. Christ’s great work of atonement for men will then have been completed, and their sins will have been forever blotted out.PP 542.1″
(This study is based on Leviticus 23 and chapter 52, “The Annual Feasts,” in Patriarchs and Prophets (PP), by Ellen G. White, available at this link: http://www.whiteestate.org/books/pp/pp.asp.)
For Health’s Sake…
Obviously, these herbs are also foods commonly used to garnish meals. Garlic dilates blood vessels and cleans the arteries by reducing cholesterol. It also builds up the immune system, which reduces free radical damage to the arteries.
Parsley is a diuretic. It pulls excess water from the bloodstream and releases it from the body through the kidneys. This lowers the blood pressure. Congestive heart failure is a result of too much fluid around the heart and in the bloodstream.
Cayenne is nature’s nitroglycerin. Used in powder form or as a tincture under the tongue, it quickly dilates the blood vessels. This quickly interrupts a heart attack. Besides that, cayenne makes all herbs work better.