Read: Deut. 14-16
Moses told them again what he told their parents in Leviticus 11 about what to eat and not eat. Everything God made was a picture of what was in heaven or hell. The clean animals personified heavenly beings and the unclean demonic beings. The unclean animals ate dead animals and were only awake at night which are characteristics of demons. Satan does his deeds in the dark and can only bring death.
Moses went over the year of Jubilee when everyone who has been a slave can go free with a blessing. Then he retaught them the passover, unleavened bread, the feast of weeks (which we call Pentecost), and feast of tabernacles. These feasts were dates that all the men were to come to Jerusalem to celebrate.
Moses warned them to judge every man fairly. They were not to plant a grove of trees near the altar of the Lord not set up any image. The word “grove” means “Asherah” in the Hebrew. So God was talking about a specific idolatrous practice. According to the Easton Dictionary Asherah was the name of a sensual Canaanitish goddess Astarte, the feminine of the Assyrian Ishtar. Its symbol was the stem of a tree deprived of its boughs, and rudely shaped into an image, and planted in the ground. This is where we get the word Easter from.
Lord, today may we walk in Your joy with our ears open to Your voice.
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