{"id":18459,"date":"2021-11-08T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_23_1-14-copy\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:09:12","slug":"leviticus_23_15-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/leviticus_23_15-25\/","title":{"rendered":"You Were Made For More Than Just Surviving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leviticus 23:15-25 \u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 23:15-25.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 23:15-22 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n15\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.
\n16\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the\u00a0LORD.
\n17\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of firstfruits to the\u00a0LORD.
\n18\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Present with this bread seven male lambs, each a year old and without defect, one young bull and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the\u00a0LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings–an offering made by fire, an aroma pleasing to the\u00a0LORD.
\n19\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Then sacrifice one male goat for a sin offering and two lambs, each a year old, for a fellowship offering.
\n20\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The priest is to wave the two lambs before the\u00a0LORD\u00a0as a wave offering, together with the bread of the firstfruits. They are a sacred offering to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0for the priest.
\n21\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly and do no regular work. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live.
\n22\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“‘When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the\u00a0LORD\u00a0your God.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 15-22:\u00a0\u00a0Leviticus 23 is basically the Israelites\u2019 event calendar, listing out all the biggest holidays that God wanted the Israelites to celebrate during the year.\u00a0\u00a0It starts with the weekly Sabbath day, meant as a day of rest (Leviticus 23:3).\u00a0\u00a0Then there\u2019s the Feast of Unleavened Bread, also called Passover (Leviticus 23:4-8), meant to commemorate the day when God spared (\u201cpassed over\u201d) every firstborn Israelite male by sacrificing a lamb instead and had everyone eat bread made without yeast in preparation for their swift escape out of Egypt.\u00a0\u00a0Then there\u2019s the Feast of Firstfruits (Leviticus 23:9-14), which is all about giving God the first part of the harvest, recognizing that their land belongs to God and that God is their provider.\u00a0\u00a0Some consider the Feast of Firstfruits part of the Passover since the Feast of Firstfruits happens during the Passover.<\/p>\n

This leads us to verses 15-22, which describe the Feast of Weeks.\u00a0\u00a0What is\u00a0the Feast of Weeks?\u00a0\u00a0The Feast of Weeks also known as Pentecost.\u00a0 Pentecost was one of the big three festivals in the Jewish calendar (the other two being the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles).<\/p>\n

When the grain was ready to be harvested each year, the Israelites would take the first batch of grain and offer it to God (Leviticus\u00a023:9-14). 50 days (7 weeks) after this grain offering was Pentecost (The word “Pentecost” comes from the Greek for “the 50th day”).<\/p>\n

The original purpose of Pentecost was to thank God for His blessings, and in particular for the harvest He had given that year.\u00a0 In this way Pentecost was like the Jewish version of Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

It’s fitting and awesome that centuries after Moses wrote about Pentecost in\u00a0Leviticus\u00a023, God chose Pentecost to be the day that He would send His Holy Spirit to His church (Acts 2:1).\u00a0 After all, what greater blessing can we as Christ followers receive than His Holy Spirit?<\/p>\n

Let’s thank God for sending His Holy Spirit to live in us, to be with us, to help us understand the Word of God, to experience God’s presence, to comfort us and to point us to Jesus. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

May today and every day be Pentecost for you — a time to experience God’s blessings and to give thanks for His blessings, especially His Holy Spirit.\u00a0\u00a0May the Holy Spirit\u2019s comfort, peace, and counsel be with you greatly in this time.<\/p>\n

Leviticus 23:23-25 (NIV)<\/em><\/strong>
\n23\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The\u00a0LORD\u00a0said to Moses,
\n24\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0“Say to the Israelites: ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts.
\n25\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0Do no regular work, but present an offering made to the\u00a0LORD\u00a0by fire.'”<\/em><\/p>\n

On verses 23-25:\u00a0\u00a0Verses 23-25 describe the Feast of Trumpets, a day of rest when the Israelites would gather to worship God and trumpets would be blasted.<\/p>\n

From all these festivals it is clear that\u00a0God doesn\u2019t just want us to go through life just working ourselves to the bone and barely surviving.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Rather, God made us to rest, to rejoice and to remember His goodness in our lives.\u00a0\u00a0May you schedule regular times to do just that: to rest, to rejoice and to remember God\u2019s goodness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank you that You don\u2019t want us just to go through life working ourselves to the bone and barely surviving.\u00a0\u00a0You made us also to rest, to rejoice and to remember Your goodness in our lives.\u00a0\u00a0So may we be intentional about resting, rejoicing and remembering so that we would live life to the fullest, as You designed it to be.\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Leviticus 23:15-25.\u00a0 Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

Leviticus 23:15-22 (NIV)
\n15\u00a0\u00a0“‘From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks.
\n16\u00a0\u00a0Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the\u00a0LORD.
\n17\u00a0\u00a0From wherever you live, bring two loaves made of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with yeast, as a wave offering of first fruits to the\u00a0LORD…….<\/p>\n

On verses 15-22:\u00a0\u00a0Leviticus 23 is basically the Israelites\u2019 event calendar, listing out all the biggest holidays that God wanted the Israelites to celebrate during the year.\u00a0\u00a0It starts with the weekly Sabbath day, meant as a day of rest (Leviticus 23:3).\u00a0\u00a0Then there\u2019s the Feast of Unleavened Bread, also called Passover (Leviticus 23:4-8), meant to commemorate the day when God spared (\u201cpassed over\u201d) every firstborn Israelite male by sacrificing a lamb instead and had everyone eat bread made without yeast in preparation for their swift escape out of Egypt.\u00a0\u00a0Then there\u2019s the Feast of Firstfruits (Leviticus 23:9-14), which is all about giving God the first part of the harvest, recognizing that their land belongs to God and that God is their provider.\u00a0\u00a0Some consider the Feast of Firstfruits part of the Passover since the Feast of Firstfruits happens during the Passover.<\/p>\n

This leads us to verses 15-22, which describe the Feast of Weeks.\u00a0\u00a0What is\u00a0the Feast of Weeks?\u00a0\u00a0The Feast of Weeks also known as Pentecost.\u00a0 Pentecost was one of the big three festivals in the Jewish calendar (the other two being the Feast of Unleavened Bread and the Feast of Tabernacles).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18462,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18460,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18459\/revisions\/18460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}