Daily Bible Portion (Thursday)
Daily Bible Portion – 5 of 7
"ORDINANCES"
(Weekly Reading>>Exodus 21:1-24:18, Jeremiah 34:8; 33:25-26, Matthew 5: 38-42, Hebrews 9:15-22; 10:28-39)
The land of Israel can only accept that which is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh otherwise it will reject or spew out what it does not recognize as it did in 721 BCE when the Northern Kingdom of Israel went into captivity. When we obey the ordinances of the Sabbath we too will receive the blessings and sanctification, and return back to the Land (Genesis 2:3).
Three Annual Festivals
(Exodus 23:14-17)
We are to come to Yahweh in celebration and worship at His appointed times. His feasts are eternal appointments for each generation and are prophetic in nature, designed like a roadmap to bring the Bride to her wedding. Three times a year Yahweh’s people are to come before Him to celebrate His feasts:
•Passover/Unleavened Bread
•Pentecost/Shavuot
•Tabernacles/Sukkot
The Passover and the seven-day celebration of Unleavened Bread reflect the calling forth of the Bride of the Messiah and her consecration (as a royal priesthood). The counting of the days [Omer] to Pentecost (forty-nine days plus one or seven weeks) leads the Bride of the Messiah to her betrothal and the receiving of her Marriage Covenant, which was given at Mount Sinai during the Feast of Pentecost, also called Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. These are celebrated in the Spring. And in the Fall, the Children of Israel were to come together to worship at the Feast of Ingathering starting with the Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah, then ten days later celebrate the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur (the wedding day) and five days after that the Feast of Tabernacles, also called Sukkot or Booths, the time when the Bride and Groom emerge after the wedding to celebrate at the wedding reception with the guests from the nations.
Coming into these celebrations, Moses gave the Gospel and the Sabbaths as our guide,which leads the Bride to her wedding, preparing her every step of the way to that special day. These Feasts are also called paths of right ways or righteousness. When the Feasts are not celebrated or honored, the Bride will be unprepared and may even miss her wedding day. These Feasts are rehearsals until the actual day arrives. The more she rehearses the more prepared she will be for the main event, as each year deeper revelation is imparted to the Bride by the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh. The difference between those who are the Bride and those who are wedding guests is obedience to Yahweh’s Gospel. Obedience will bring the Bride into her wedding in holiness (Matthew 25:1-10).
The Cup
When we come together to remember Yeshua with the bread and wine, the bread we partake in must have no leaven (sin).
Shabbat is the sign of the Mosaic Covenant and is considered the wedding ring of the Bride. Sin separated the Bride from her Bridegroom. The sign of her devotion to the Covenant she made with Him at Mount Sinai is that she worships the Lord of the Sabbath in an appropriate manner.
The Passover is an eternal memorial feast held once a year in the 14th day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar (March/April Gregorian calendar). It is this cup spoken of in Luke 22:17 that we drink before the Passover as a memorial of Yeshua’s sacrifice as the Lamb of Yahweh who took our sins upon Himself. The term kingdom of God describes Yeshua’s movement on the earth. It is also a reference to the Word of Yahweh in the flesh, Yeshua, the personification of Yahweh. When Yeshua said, “I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes,” He was telling His disciples of His return as the Bridegroom for His Bride and the cup He will drink again with them at the wedding supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:9).
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"ORDINANCES"
(Weekly Reading>>Exodus 21:1-24:18, Jeremiah 34:8; 33:25-26, Matthew 5: 38-42, Hebrews 9:15-22; 10:28-39)
The land of Israel can only accept that which is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh otherwise it will reject or spew out what it does not recognize as it did in 721 BCE when the Northern Kingdom of Israel went into captivity. When we obey the ordinances of the Sabbath we too will receive the blessings and sanctification, and return back to the Land (Genesis 2:3).
Three Annual Festivals
(Exodus 23:14-17)
We are to come to Yahweh in celebration and worship at His appointed times. His feasts are eternal appointments for each generation and are prophetic in nature, designed like a roadmap to bring the Bride to her wedding. Three times a year Yahweh’s people are to come before Him to celebrate His feasts:
•Passover/Unleavened Bread
•Pentecost/Shavuot
•Tabernacles/Sukkot
The Passover and the seven-day celebration of Unleavened Bread reflect the calling forth of the Bride of the Messiah and her consecration (as a royal priesthood). The counting of the days [Omer] to Pentecost (forty-nine days plus one or seven weeks) leads the Bride of the Messiah to her betrothal and the receiving of her Marriage Covenant, which was given at Mount Sinai during the Feast of Pentecost, also called Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. These are celebrated in the Spring. And in the Fall, the Children of Israel were to come together to worship at the Feast of Ingathering starting with the Feast of Trumpets/Yom Teruah, then ten days later celebrate the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur (the wedding day) and five days after that the Feast of Tabernacles, also called Sukkot or Booths, the time when the Bride and Groom emerge after the wedding to celebrate at the wedding reception with the guests from the nations.
Coming into these celebrations, Moses gave the Gospel and the Sabbaths as our guide,which leads the Bride to her wedding, preparing her every step of the way to that special day. These Feasts are also called paths of right ways or righteousness. When the Feasts are not celebrated or honored, the Bride will be unprepared and may even miss her wedding day. These Feasts are rehearsals until the actual day arrives. The more she rehearses the more prepared she will be for the main event, as each year deeper revelation is imparted to the Bride by the Holy Spirit/Ruach HaKodesh. The difference between those who are the Bride and those who are wedding guests is obedience to Yahweh’s Gospel. Obedience will bring the Bride into her wedding in holiness (Matthew 25:1-10).
The Cup
Exodus 23:18 “Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to me along with anything containing yeast.”
When we come together to remember Yeshua with the bread and wine, the bread we partake in must have no leaven (sin).
Shabbat is the sign of the Mosaic Covenant and is considered the wedding ring of the Bride. Sin separated the Bride from her Bridegroom. The sign of her devotion to the Covenant she made with Him at Mount Sinai is that she worships the Lord of the Sabbath in an appropriate manner.
Luke 22:17 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, Take this, and divide it among yourselves:
The Passover is an eternal memorial feast held once a year in the 14th day of the first month on the Hebrew calendar (March/April Gregorian calendar). It is this cup spoken of in Luke 22:17 that we drink before the Passover as a memorial of Yeshua’s sacrifice as the Lamb of Yahweh who took our sins upon Himself. The term kingdom of God describes Yeshua’s movement on the earth. It is also a reference to the Word of Yahweh in the flesh, Yeshua, the personification of Yahweh. When Yeshua said, “I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God comes,” He was telling His disciples of His return as the Bridegroom for His Bride and the cup He will drink again with them at the wedding supper of the Lamb (Revelation 19:9).
Luke 22:20 “In the same way, after they ate the bread He [Yeshua] took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.’ ”
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