Thurs.’s Devo - God's Feasts

Read: Exodus 23:14-25:40; Matthew 24:29-51; Psalm 30:1-12; Proverbs 7:24-27 There were three times during the year that the people were to celebrate the Lord’s feasts: the feast of unleavened bread to celebrate their exodus from Egypt, the feast of harvest of the first fruits and the feast of ingathering at the end of the year. They were to bring offerings to every feast. The feasts were all arranged during harvest periods where the men of the families would bring to the Lord their first fruits of the harvest. *** The rules of the gifts they brought were: they could not offer a sacrifice that had to be killed with leavened bread, the fat could not remain until the morning and they could not cook a baby lamb or goat in its mother’s milk. Since all these sacrifices were a precursor to Christ’s ultimate sacrifice on the cross, these requirements had to do with his death. So the first one: blood sacrifices had to accompany unleavened bread means that the sacrifice had to be sinless since yeast represented sin. Jesus fulfilled that one as the spotless lamb. The second one was that the fat couldn’t remain until the next day. Christ was completely consumed on the day he was crucified - he gave everything for us on the cross that day. The third was was they couldn’t cook a kid in his mother’s milk. Christ didn’t just die for the Jew, but for the world. We could go much deeper. *** God promised to send his Angel before them and they were to fear and obey him. If they did, he would protected them from their enemies. They were not to worship the gods of the people of the land, but completely overthrow their power and destroy their gods. When they served the Lord he would bless their bread and water. God would take sickness away from them and none of them would be barren. God would put fear on the hearts of their enemies and send hornets to drive them out little by little. They were to make no covenants with them because if they were allowed to stay, they would turn the people to serve their gods and be a snare to them. *** Aaron, Nadab, and Abidu and the seventy elders were to worship from afar, but only Moses was to go up and meet with the Lord. *** Moses wrote all the words down and built an altar and 12 pillars to represent the tribes. He read what he had written to the people and they agreed to do all God had said. He took half of the blood from the gifts of the people and put it in bowls and sprinkled it on the people, then sprinkled the rest on the altar. *** Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and the 70 went with Moses up a little way on the mountain. They saw the Lord standing on sapphire stone surrounded by the glory of heaven. God called Moses up to receive the stone talents He had written. Moses took Joshua up with him on the mount. He put Aaron and Hur and the elders in charge of tending to the matters of the people. *** The glory of God was on top of the mountain as a fire. Moses went up into the smoke and disappeared. *** God told Moses to build him a holy sanctuary so he could live among them. He gave him a list of the things the people could give for the sanctuary. With these gifts they were to make the altar, and the mercy seat with two cherubim on the top. Under the mercy seat was to be the ark where the stone tablets was to be kept. This was where God would meet with him. The people were to make a table and dishes and utensils to eat with. They were also to make a menorah to place in the Holy Place with snuffers and tongs. All these were to be covered with gold to show the glory of God. They were made according to the ones in heaven that God showed Moses. *** In Matthew, Jesus had been describing the time of great tribulation for the saints. After this time, the sun would be darkened and the moon not able to shine. The stars would fall from heaven and the powers of heaven shaken. During our day we have seen a darkening of God’s light on the earth - God’s church has been silenced. The evil has been ruling. The stars are falling from Hollywood, the business world, the medical world, the media, the leaders of our education, etc. as their evil is being exposed. The leaders in the world are being shaken now that Trump is in office. *** The sign of the Son of man has appeared in the sky when the planet Jupiter entered into the womb of Virgo and made a loop through her and exited 42 weeks later on September 23, 2017. This day also marked the first day of the Feast of Trumpets where the would would gather to resolve disputes and receive forgiveness of sins. Could this mark the Birth of the Millennial Kingdom and Christs reign on earth? I believe it did. From that day the Ecclesia began to gather together in great meetings all over the earth. *** Matthew 24:37 tells us that it will be like as in the days of Noah. Before the flood they were eating a drinking and marrying up till the day he entered the ark. The powers in control have been engaging in the most horrific sacrificing of children for scientific research, organ harvesting, worship of Satan, pediphilia, and driving their blood for anti-aging… just to name a few. Our courts are unjust and our politicians are corrupt. These were the same things they were doing in Genesis before the flood. God says that they thought of evil continually. *** But then in our reading, God began to pick them off. Two would be in the field and one would be taken the other other left… In other words, God is cleansing the land of the evil workers in the fields of society. He warns the evil people that they do not know when the Son of man is coming to take them out. The ones who God finds faithful will become the rulers of his goods. We see this happening with Trump’s new cabinet of mighty men. The evil person thinks he has gotten away with his sins because he hasn’t been arrested yet, but he needs to fear, because God is coming for them all. All the hypocrites that have deceived us will be judged. *** Lord, help us to have the right attitude as we see the wicked being destroyed and taken out of the earth. May we determine more than ever to build back a nation of righteousness, truth and love. May love be our main goal.