Thematic Bible: Reasons for
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Attendance » Reasons for » The example of the apostles
After worshiping Him, they returned to Jerusalem with great joy. And they were continually in the temple complex blessing God.
When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.
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Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the temple complex, and broke bread from house to house. They ate their food with a joyful and humble attitude,
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Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.
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Attendance » Reasons for » The divine command
Instead, you must turn to the place Yahweh your God chooses from all your tribes to put His name for His dwelling and go there.
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“All your males are to appear three times a year before the Lord your God in the place He chooses: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. No one is to appear before the Lord empty-handed.
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Attendance » Reasons for » A refuge in times of trouble
When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
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Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers, read it, then went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.
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Attendance » Reasons for » Blessing pronounced upon
to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
(This is an ordinance for Israel.
Attendance » Reasons for » Christ, our example
He came to Nazareth, where He had been brought up. As usual, He entered the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read.
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Attendance » Reasons for » A comfort in old age
There was also a prophetess, Anna, a daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was well along in years, having lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, and was a widow for 84 years. She did not leave the temple complex, serving God night and day with fastings and prayers.
Attendance » Reasons for » A place of instruction
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the house of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us about His ways
so we may walk in His paths.”
For instruction will go out of Zion
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.