It is the end of another long week. It is also the Sabbath and a special one at that. This evening at sundown was the start of Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement). If you look at the Bible with clarity, the feasts that we now call the Jewish Feasts were originally God's Feasts. The only reason that they are called the Jewish Feasts is because the Jewish people have been the only ones to keep them. I am reading a book on my nook from Barnes and Noble called "Feasts of Faith - Finding Jesus in the Jewish Feasts." I am really looking forward to reading all about them. Over the past couple of years, it has been revealed to me by God's Spirit that these feasts are for us to celebrate also.
Yeshua (Jesus) celebrated all of the feasts. If we can learn about the feasts, and then study the life of Yeshua, I believe that we will get a better understanding of the days when he walked on this earth. He perfectly atoned for our sins, believers. And yet on Yom Kippur the sins that so easily beset us are read aloud and repentance should come. Even though we are followers of Yeshua, we still sin. It may seem legalistic or traditional to engage in the feasts, but there seems to be a richness that we just haven't been able to grasp here. I pray that the God who ordained these feasts will teach us more about his character through our observance of them. They are His feasts.
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