FEAST DAYS Our Father Yahweh has given us specific times we should set aside for Him in addition to the Seventh Day (Saturday). These times have very special meaning to His people. And they are such fun times, too. One very special time involves getting all leaven out of your house--checking the closets, the frig, the freezer, the toaster - you can have a good time finding it all. Of course, the meaning of the leaven goes much deeper than that. Many families arrange special events and special foods for this time since we are asked not to have leaven in our homes for an entire week. Another special time involves going away and living in a place not normally your home. This could be a motel or a camper or a tent and it is an entire week of celebration in His Word. If your family goes away to a place with other Believers, you will find there are fun things going on all week. Of course, there is a very serious side to all His Days and the most solemn (serious) day of the entire year is called the Day of Atonement. This is a day when you are not to eat any food all day--it can be difficult until you learn how to do it. The pages listed below will be activated several weeks prior to each event. We hope you will spend some time studying His days with your parents and, of course, you should be learning how to read His word on your own as well. You can learn all about His appointed times in His word, and we've put just a few of the verses here: Leviticus 23 (from the New International Version) Verses 1-2: Yahweh said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to Yahweh.'"
Verses 5-8: Yahweh's Passover begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month. On the fifteenth day of that month, Yahweh's Feast of Unleavened Bread begins; for seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. ,,,And on the seventh day hold sacred assembly and do no regular work.'"
Verses 15-16: "'From the day after the Sabbath, the day you brought the sheaf of the wave offering, count off seven full weeks. Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to Yahweh.
Verses 23-25: Yahweh said to Moses, "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. Do no regular work, but present an offering made to Yahweh by fire.'"
Verses 26-28: Yahweh said to Moses, "The tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves, ... Do no work on that day, because it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before Yahweh.
Verses 39-43: "So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to Yahweh for seven days; the first day is a day of rest, and the eighth day also is a day of rest. On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before Yahweh you Elohim for seven days. Celebrate this as a festival to Yahweh for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance by the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites lie in booths when I brought then out of Egypt. I am Yahweh your Elohim.
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