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Friday, April 13, 2007

Worship Planning Idea: Celebrating three Old Testament Spring festivals

From Reformed Worship:

The three springtime Old Testament “religious festivals” are

* Purim—the celebration of deliverance from Haman’s plot to kill the Jews
* Passover—the celebration of deliverance from Egypt
* Pentecost—the Feast of Weeks, or firstfruits

In the Jewish calendar, each of these festivals commemorates one of the great acts of God’s provision or deliverance. But they are also shadows, hints, prophecies of the One who was to come. They help us as a church understand how the Old Testament is integral to the New Testament. As we celebrated these festivals we had the sense that significant portions of the Bible—many of them very obscure and strange to us—were unlocked and given to us. And as we saw their fulfillment in Christ, some shadowy parts of the Old Testament came into clearer light. ...

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Posted by Nathan Bierma on 04/13 at 11:41 AM
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