Tuesday, March 27, 2007
FEAST OF TABERNACLES (BOOTHS)
READ JOHN 7:1-2
Jesus is walking in Galilee, staying away from Judea for the time being, for they (the Jews) were attempting to kill Him. They would have never succeeded in killing Him for His time has not yet come!
Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) (The following information is taken from the book, The Feast of the Lord by Kevin Howard and marvin Rosenthal)
1) Meaning: All Israelites were required to dwell in tabernacles or booths during the holiday. It was an annual reminder of God's provision during the 40 years wilderness sojourn when Israel had lived in similar shelters. The feast was a joyous occasion, commenorating God's past provision in the wilderness and His present provision with the completion of the harvest.
2) Time: Autumn of the year, late September to mid-October.
3) Record: The people were to live in booths and rejoice before the Lord with branches (Lev. 23:33-43), daily sacrificial offerings (Num. 29:12-39), and the Law was to be read publicly in the Sabbatical year (Dt. 31:10-13)
4) Importance: 1) People were to travel to Jerusalem for this feast and brought their tithes and offerings, 2) great number of required sacrifices were offered. "Each day one goat, fourteen lambs, two rams, and a number of bullocks (thirteen on the first day, decreasing by one each day)." Also offered were meal offerings (flour and oil) and drink offerings (wine), 3) this week long feast was, "...viewed with great awe, for it was during the Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon dedicated the newly built Temple to the Lord. At that ancient observance of Tabernacles (2 Cor. 5:3), the Shekinah glory of the Lord descended from Heaven to light the fire on the altar and fill the Holy of Holies. (I Ki. 8:2; 2 Chr. 7:1-10)."
FATHER, THE ONE WHO PROVIDES, HELP US TO REMEMBER EACH DAY THAT ALL OUR PROVISION FOR LIFE IS IN YOUR SON. AMEN
Jesus is walking in Galilee, staying away from Judea for the time being, for they (the Jews) were attempting to kill Him. They would have never succeeded in killing Him for His time has not yet come!
Feast of Tabernacles (Booths) (The following information is taken from the book, The Feast of the Lord by Kevin Howard and marvin Rosenthal)
1) Meaning: All Israelites were required to dwell in tabernacles or booths during the holiday. It was an annual reminder of God's provision during the 40 years wilderness sojourn when Israel had lived in similar shelters. The feast was a joyous occasion, commenorating God's past provision in the wilderness and His present provision with the completion of the harvest.
2) Time: Autumn of the year, late September to mid-October.
3) Record: The people were to live in booths and rejoice before the Lord with branches (Lev. 23:33-43), daily sacrificial offerings (Num. 29:12-39), and the Law was to be read publicly in the Sabbatical year (Dt. 31:10-13)
4) Importance: 1) People were to travel to Jerusalem for this feast and brought their tithes and offerings, 2) great number of required sacrifices were offered. "Each day one goat, fourteen lambs, two rams, and a number of bullocks (thirteen on the first day, decreasing by one each day)." Also offered were meal offerings (flour and oil) and drink offerings (wine), 3) this week long feast was, "...viewed with great awe, for it was during the Feast of Tabernacles that Solomon dedicated the newly built Temple to the Lord. At that ancient observance of Tabernacles (2 Cor. 5:3), the Shekinah glory of the Lord descended from Heaven to light the fire on the altar and fill the Holy of Holies. (I Ki. 8:2; 2 Chr. 7:1-10)."
FATHER, THE ONE WHO PROVIDES, HELP US TO REMEMBER EACH DAY THAT ALL OUR PROVISION FOR LIFE IS IN YOUR SON. AMEN
Monday, March 19, 2007
JESUS, THE BREAD OF LIFE
READ JOHN 6:41-71
41-42) What is the Jew's complaint? Jesus claim to be the bread from heaven, yet they knew His father and mother here on earth. How can He be from heaven? Their problem was they had an earthly perspective and not a heavenly perspective.
43-47) These verses demonstrate the spiritual blindness of the Jews. They had been taught by God from the prophets, the Father had been drawing their people for centuries from His Word and yet they refused to believe. (the quote (v.45) is from Isa. 54:13)
48-71) These Jews were blinded to the truth. Read Hosea 4:4-10 and notice that the people were stumbling over true knowledge. QUOTE: (from Holman Treasury of Key Words) "The Hebrew word kasha, "to stumble," to stagger," "to reel," or "to totter," can also mean "to be feeble" or "to cause to stumble." Failing to continue on a true path, to be sidetracked, or to find offense and turn away from a true path is the root idea. Israel in Hosea's day was sidetracked by their morally culpable refusal to know God the way they should have...A person was openly rebelling against God if he or she did not recognize the true knowledge of God that He had made known. Because of Israel's refusal to know God, He Himself put a stumbling block in their way - His divine judgement (Jer. 20:11). The rebellious people, because of their attitude, "stumbled" kashal over that which was to light their path (Hos. 14:9). Malachi warned that the false teaching of the priest, the spirutal leaders of the people, was also causing God's people to stumble. But God was also ready to help the unrighteous person who turned from his or her wicked ways, assuring them that they would not fall (Ezek. 33:12)."
These Jews were leaders who were in spiritual blindness, refusing to come to the true knowledge of the right path, and were also a stumbling block for the people. Jesus was showing them what the right path was, Himself. This is what Jesus is pointing out throughout the rest of the chapter.
1) You must come to Jesus on God's terms. Not on their terms, not on the terms of an earthly leader.
2) The way of salvation is in God's Word, we are to seek it and allow God to teach us THE WAY.
3) We don't personally see the Father, but come to Him through His Word and through Jesus Christ, His Son. Jesus is the revelation of the Father.
4) Manna in the wilderness came from heaven, but was temporary and could not save for all eternity, but Jesus can, He is the true bread of life.
5) Jesus gives them a real jolt. He talks about eating His flesh. It was abhorrence for a Jew to become some kind of cannibal. Again they were thinging only in the earthly terms not the spiritual truth. "What they failed to see was that the "eating" meant personal appropriation by faith, rather than the consuming of physical food." (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study) (See John 6:63)
FATHER, THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE RIGHT PATH, GIVE US BOLDNESS TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH AND GIVE US DISCERNMENT NOT TO STUMBLE OR CAUSE ANOTHER TO STUMBLE. AMEN
41-42) What is the Jew's complaint? Jesus claim to be the bread from heaven, yet they knew His father and mother here on earth. How can He be from heaven? Their problem was they had an earthly perspective and not a heavenly perspective.
43-47) These verses demonstrate the spiritual blindness of the Jews. They had been taught by God from the prophets, the Father had been drawing their people for centuries from His Word and yet they refused to believe. (the quote (v.45) is from Isa. 54:13)
48-71) These Jews were blinded to the truth. Read Hosea 4:4-10 and notice that the people were stumbling over true knowledge. QUOTE: (from Holman Treasury of Key Words) "The Hebrew word kasha, "to stumble," to stagger," "to reel," or "to totter," can also mean "to be feeble" or "to cause to stumble." Failing to continue on a true path, to be sidetracked, or to find offense and turn away from a true path is the root idea. Israel in Hosea's day was sidetracked by their morally culpable refusal to know God the way they should have...A person was openly rebelling against God if he or she did not recognize the true knowledge of God that He had made known. Because of Israel's refusal to know God, He Himself put a stumbling block in their way - His divine judgement (Jer. 20:11). The rebellious people, because of their attitude, "stumbled" kashal over that which was to light their path (Hos. 14:9). Malachi warned that the false teaching of the priest, the spirutal leaders of the people, was also causing God's people to stumble. But God was also ready to help the unrighteous person who turned from his or her wicked ways, assuring them that they would not fall (Ezek. 33:12)."
These Jews were leaders who were in spiritual blindness, refusing to come to the true knowledge of the right path, and were also a stumbling block for the people. Jesus was showing them what the right path was, Himself. This is what Jesus is pointing out throughout the rest of the chapter.
1) You must come to Jesus on God's terms. Not on their terms, not on the terms of an earthly leader.
2) The way of salvation is in God's Word, we are to seek it and allow God to teach us THE WAY.
3) We don't personally see the Father, but come to Him through His Word and through Jesus Christ, His Son. Jesus is the revelation of the Father.
4) Manna in the wilderness came from heaven, but was temporary and could not save for all eternity, but Jesus can, He is the true bread of life.
5) Jesus gives them a real jolt. He talks about eating His flesh. It was abhorrence for a Jew to become some kind of cannibal. Again they were thinging only in the earthly terms not the spiritual truth. "What they failed to see was that the "eating" meant personal appropriation by faith, rather than the consuming of physical food." (The Bible Knowledge Key Word Study) (See John 6:63)
FATHER, THE ONE WHO HOLDS THE RIGHT PATH, GIVE US BOLDNESS TO SPEAK YOUR TRUTH AND GIVE US DISCERNMENT NOT TO STUMBLE OR CAUSE ANOTHER TO STUMBLE. AMEN
Thursday, March 08, 2007
WORK OF GOD? BELIEVE IN JESUS
READ JOHN 6:28-40
28-29) What is the work of God? Believe in Jesus whom God has sent! "And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us." (I John 3:23)
30-40) Sign? O.T. had manna from heaven (Exodus 16), what sign could Jesus give them in order that they could believe?
JESUS HIMSELF WAS THE SIGN: It was not Moses who gave the bread, but God Himself and now He has given a better bread from heaven, Jesus Christ. This bread gives life to the world, yet there is a condition, you must believe. It is an individual appropriation, no one can believe for you. Come and believe in Him and you will never hunger or thirst. What is the benefit to knowing Jesus as the bread of life?
1) Will not be cast out from the presences of God and Jesus.
2) Will never be lost to Jesus.
3) Receiving eternal life.
4) Raise up on the last day.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR JESUS WHO IS THE TRUE BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN AND WHO NOURISHES THE SOUL FOR ALL ETERNITY. AMEN
28-29) What is the work of God? Believe in Jesus whom God has sent! "And this is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us." (I John 3:23)
30-40) Sign? O.T. had manna from heaven (Exodus 16), what sign could Jesus give them in order that they could believe?
JESUS HIMSELF WAS THE SIGN: It was not Moses who gave the bread, but God Himself and now He has given a better bread from heaven, Jesus Christ. This bread gives life to the world, yet there is a condition, you must believe. It is an individual appropriation, no one can believe for you. Come and believe in Him and you will never hunger or thirst. What is the benefit to knowing Jesus as the bread of life?
1) Will not be cast out from the presences of God and Jesus.
2) Will never be lost to Jesus.
3) Receiving eternal life.
4) Raise up on the last day.
FATHER, THANK YOU FOR JESUS WHO IS THE TRUE BREAD OUT OF HEAVEN AND WHO NOURISHES THE SOUL FOR ALL ETERNITY. AMEN
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