Category: Appointments With God

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Atonement Discussions Prophets and Writings

Jonah 1: Beginning look at the ‘sign of Yonah’

Studies in Prophets and Writings

The book of Jonah is the Haftarah reading during the Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur. The main theme of Jonah is how God deals with different kinds of sinners and brings them into His fold: repentance and sacrifice. We have been taught this idea that all sinners are equal and because all sinners are equal, all sinners require the same remedy, but it’s not that simple. As Yonah sets out to run away from God’s mission, we discover that the more we know, the more God requires. Although God saved both the mariners and the people of Nineveh from His wrath, He did not use the same method to do so.

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Appointments With God Discussions Torah

Overview of Shabbat and God’s appointments (Leviticus 23)

How do we proclaim a Holy Day? By making it a priority in our schedule to show up and attend to it. (Photo by Dwayne Blee/Freeimages.com via Creative Commons license)

An appointment can be a place, a time or an event. When we use the word moedim, it’s an appointment or an assignment. The Tabernacle of Meeting is the Tabernacle of Appointments. When we “proclaim” His holy days, God can work in us to sanctify us. How do you proclaim an appointed time? Proclaiming is an active verb, not a passive verb. It’s not something we say, it’s something we do. You proclaim an appointed time or moedim by what you do on that day. You either do it or don’t do it. You show up or you don’t. If you do it, you are proclaiming it. If you ignore it and don’t do it, you aren’t proclaiming it.

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Appointments With God Chanukah

Chanukah drama: Conquering compromise

Kari briefs Rose on the role of Antiochus IV.
Kari briefs Rose on the role of Antiochus IV.

Similar to the dramatic reading and play that Hallel Fellowship puts on to teach the text and themes of Purim, the festival in the biblical book of Esther, the congregation presented a play about Chanukah, the Festival of Dedication, aka the Festival of Lights.

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Apostolic Writings Appointments With God Atonement Discussions Jubilee Sabbatical Year

John 13:34-35: How new is Yeshua’s ‘new command’?

Is Yeshua’s “new commandment” in John 13:34-35 really new? An answer is taught through God’s appointed times of Yom haKippurim (Day of Atonement), Shmittah (sabbatical year) and Yobel (Jubilee year).

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Appointments With God Atonement Discussions Torah

Day of Atonement foreshadows multiple roles for the Messiah (Leviticus 16:20-34)

Leviticus 16, describing Yom haKippurim (Day of Atonement), is a beautiful picture of God’s making us clean and the multifaceted role of the Messiah in that cleansing.

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Atonement Discussions

Leviticus 15:1-16:19: Uncleanness of mankind and cleansing on Yom haKippurim

Leviticus 10-16, which includes the teaching on Yom haKippurim (Day of Atonement), teach God’s view of “holiness” and “cleanliness” before Him and how God makes us holy and clean.

Lev. 15:1-15 discusses what to do if a person has a discharge, such a bout of diarrhea, this text tells us what to do to take care of the one with the discharge as well as how the caretaker(s) take care of themselves that they do not catch the uncleanness.

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Apostolic Writings Appointments With God Chanukah Discussions Prophets and Writings

Chanukah: Prophecy and memorial for conception of Messiah and declaration of His mission

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What does ‎Chanukah (Festival of Dedication) have to do with believers in ‎Yeshua (‎Jesus)? It’s in the ‎Bible, and Yeshua celebrated it. In doing so, He gave one of the most startling teachings about Himself (John 10:22-38). As well as a remembrance of the perils of giving up God’s words to fit in or save one’s neck, Chanukah is a memorial of the great miracle of the conception of the ‎Messiah — ‎Immanuel (God With Us) — through Miriam (Mary) (Luke 1; 1Chronicles 24; Haggai 2).