I really liked the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie. It had some pretty neat special effects. However, do you realize that what they were looking for was not the real ark? No, it was a shadow of the real one! 1Now of the things which we have spoken this…
Some, in their justification of a belief in an eternal hell, point to Jesus’ story of Lazarus and the Rich Man. In a misguided zeal to prove the unprovable, some have gone as far as to claim that the story is not a parable! However, does this particular argument even…
[Note: This was originally published on the old blog last year after the Feast. However, one year hasn’t made it seem stale.] And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ~ Eph 4:30 You know, there just are some Scriptures that…
I am actually writing this ahead of time, but I want this to be a pointer back to the Feast of Tabernacles 2009 to help me to remember various aspects of it. I hope that this will jog my memory from time to time as I try to answer these…
“Shemini Atzeret” literally means “the 8th day of Assembly”. Sometimes it is called the 8th day of the Feast or the 8th day of Sukkot (Succoth), but it is actually a separate festival, as the Feast of Tabernacles is only 7 days (Lev 23:34). We saw before that 7 plays…
Hopefully, you are being fed good food during the Feast, both physically and spiritually. As the Feast winds down, I hope you have re-grasped the wonderful vision of what the world will be like under Christ’s rule. Have you ever considered why a thousand years? Why not a hundred? You…
During a recent discussion on this blog, we were talking about how some thought HWA’s writings may one day be part of the Bible. Frankly, I don’t believe that for various reasons that I won’t go into right now. However, right around the time of that discussion, I had come…
[Disclaimer: This was written beforehand, so it is not a reaction to any particular message at any particular Feast site. However, I find it helpful halfway through the Feast to be reminded of some things.] Sometimes you hear people talk about either getting or not getting “good meat” at services. …
Today, we come to the last of the 3 distinctives of the Feast of Tabernacles. We explored the Biblical mandates of living in booths, temporary dwellings, during the Feast and the palm and fruit branches. Now, we need to look at the sacrifices offered during the Feast (Nu 29:12-38) because…
We covered quite a bit about the fruit and palm branches yesterday, so I won’t spend a lot of time on this today. Whether or not the fruit and palm branches were intended to be used to build the sukkah or ceremoniously carried around deserves more study. There were many…