Thematic Bible: Feast of


Thematic Bible




They will knock you and your children down to the ground. They will not leave one stone upon another. What's more you do not know when this visit will take place. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of TimeVisitationDestruction Of The TempleGod VisitingBuilding Stones RejectedPutting Things DownGod's TimingGods Timingrecognition

What will you do on the day you are called to account for these things, when destruction comes from far away? Where will you run for help? Where will you leave your wealth? Verse ConceptsMoney, Attitudes ToRich, TheVisitationGod VisitingReckoningDrawbacks To RichesPeople From Far Away

They are worthless, a work of mockery. In the time of their punishment they will perish. Verse ConceptsVisitationUseless IdolsPunishmentsjoking

Egypt's hired soldiers are like fattened calves. They will turn and run away together. They will not stand their ground. The day of destruction is coming. At that time they will be punished.' Verse ConceptsHiringVisitation

The time for them to be punished will come. The time for them to pay for their sins will come. When this happens, Israel will know it. They think that prophets are fools and that spiritual people are crazy. They have sinned a lot, and are filled with hostility. Verse ConceptsFolly, Examples OfAttitudes Of HostilityPersecution, Forms OfRejection Of God, Results OfReward, DivineThe Recompense Of The WickedVisitationProphecy IgnoredCounted As FoolsHating The RighteousKnowing FactsReckoned Insanedistractions

The best of them is as a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge! Your watchmen's day has come. Your visitation has come. Now you will be perplexed. Verse ConceptsThornsWeedsVisitationThe Timing Of His Coming

It was morning, the day after Preparation. The chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together with Pilate. Verse ConceptsThe Next DayPreparing Foodpreppinganniversarycredibility

Evening arrived. It was the Preparation Day (Exodus 16:22-27), the day before the Sabbath. Verse ConceptsPreparing FoodSabbath ObservedPreparation

It was the day of the Preparation and the Sabbath was near. Verse ConceptsBeginningOn The SabbathPreparing Food

Now it was the Preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews: Behold, your King! Verse ConceptsPreparing Food


Joyful occasions such as your New Moon Festivals and your other religious festivals, you are to blow the trumpets when you present your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings. Then I will help you. I AM JEHOVAH YOUR GOD! Verse ConceptsJoy, Of IsraelMemorialNew Moon FestivalTrumpetAnimal Sacrifices, BurntAnimal Sacrifices, Peace OfferingTrumpets For CelebrationThe Lord Is GodFestivals ObservedRegulating Sacrifices

and whenever burnt offerings were presented to Jehovah on Sabbaths and at New Moon festivals and at appointed feasts. They were to serve before Jehovah regularly in the proper number and in the way prescribed for them. Verse ConceptsMoonSabbath, In Ot

He set aside part of the king's property for burnt offerings, the morning and evening offerings, burnt offerings on the weekly worship days, the New Moon Festivals, and the annual festivals, as it is written in Jehovah's Law. Verse ConceptsNew Moon Festival

At the beginning of each of your months you shall present a burnt offering to Jehovah: two bulls and one ram, seven male lambs one year old without defect. With each bull there will be a grain offering of twenty-four cups of flour mixed with olive oil, with each ram a grain offering of sixteen cups of flour mixed with olive oil. With each one-year-old lamb a grain offering of eight cups of flour mixed with olive oil. This is a burnt offering, a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah. read more.
The wine offering that goes with each bull will be two quarts of wine, with each ram one and one half quarts of wine, and with each lamb one quart of wine. This will be the monthly burnt offering for every month of the year. In addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, one male goat must be offered to Jehovah as an offering for sin.

By faith he kept the Passover, and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn should not touch them. Verse ConceptsFirstbornMoses, Significance OfSprinklingTouchSprinkling BloodDeath Of The FirstbornThe DestroyerExploits Of Faith

The fifteenth day of the same month the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins. You must not eat any bread made with yeast for seven days. Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadNew Year, TheYeastSeven Days

They celebrated it on the fourteenth day of the first month at dusk while they were in the Desert of Sinai. The Israelites did everything as Jehovah commanded Moses. Verse ConceptsTwilight

The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. Verse ConceptsPassoverThe Number Fourteen

Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah. Verse ConceptsJudgesUnique FeastsTimes Of People

Josiah celebrated the Passover to Jehovah in Jerusalem. The Passover lamb was slaughtered on the fourteenth day of the first month. Verse ConceptsYearsThe Number Fourteen

The first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus. They asked: Where do you wish to eat the Passover? Verse ConceptsPassover lambFeastingTypesWhere Are Things?

Every year his parents went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. Verse ConceptsFeastingVisitingWorship, Times ForEvery Yearparenthood

He said to them: I have earnestly wanted to eat this Passover with you before I die. Verse ConceptsPassoverSuffering, Of Jesus ChristRight Desirescommunion


Celebrate the Harvest Festival when you begin to harvest your crops. Celebrate the Festival of Shelters in the autumn, when you gather the fruit from your vineyards and orchards. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksFeast Of TabernaclesCelebrationsHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityNew Year, ThePentecostSowing And ReapingWorship, Times ForYearsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]AgricultureFirst fruitsCelebrationcelebrating

Celebrate the Festival of Weeks with the first grain from your wheat harvest. Celebrate the Festival of the Final Harvest at the end of the season. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHarvestPentecostWeeksWheatWorship, Times ForYearsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]Time Of Year

until the day after the seventh week. This is a total of fifty days. Then bring a new grain offering to Jehovah. Verse ConceptsMore Than One MonthRegulations For Cereal Offerings

During the Festival of Weeks, you must have a holy assembly. On that day you must not do any regular work. Bring Jehovah your new grain offering, the first produce harvested from your fields. Verse ConceptsFeastingFeast Of WeeksCelebrationsHolidayHoliness, As Set Apart For GodConvocationsFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Cereal OfferingsFirst fruits

Then celebrate the Festival of Weeks to Jehovah your God. Bring a freewill offering in proportion to the blessings Jehovah your God has given you. Verse ConceptsAbility, To GiveFeast Of WeeksGenerosity, Used TowardsAnimal Sacrifice, Free Will OfferingTithesFeast Of Weeks [Pentecost]Free Willinterracial

Observe a special day of rest on the first day of the seventh month. Gather together for worship when the trumpets sound. Present a food offering to Jehovah. Do not do your daily work.

Gather for worship on the first day of the seventh month. Do not work. Trumpets will be blown on that day. Present a burnt offering to Jehovah. It is an odor pleasing to him: one young bull, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects. Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: six pounds of flour with the bull, four pounds with the ram, read more.
and two pounds with each lamb. Also offer one male goat as a sin offering. In this way perform the ritual of purification for the people. Offer these in addition to the monthly burnt offering with its grain offering, and the daily burnt offerings with their proper grain offerings and wine offerings. It is a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

Ezra the priest brought the law to the meeting of the people. They were all able to listen to it. It was the first day of the seventh month. Verse ConceptsHigh Priest, In OtHoliness, As Set Apart For GodLiteracyMonth 7

Nehemiah, who was the Tirshatha (Governor), and Ezra, the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were the teachers of the people, said to all the people: This day is holy to Jehovah your God. Let there be no sorrow or weeping. For all the people were weeping on hearing the words of the law. He said to them: Go away now, and take the fat for your food and the sweet for your drink, and send some to him for whom nothing is made ready. This day is holy to our Lord. Let there be no grief in your hearts. The joy of Jehovah is your strong place. So the Levites made all the people quiet, saying: Be quiet, for the day is holy; and do not give way to grief. read more.
All the people went away to take food and drink, and to send food to others, and to be glad, because the words that were said to them had been clearly communicated.