What a powerful message Pastor Sidney gave us Sept. 22 (LIfe’s Most Important Question) He laid out the Gospel for us in very clear terms that we can share it as an overflow of our love for Jesus. Amazingly, God has had every complexity of the Gospel laid out from before “Let there be” and it carries all the way through to the final “Amen”.

This week we start a series of festivals that are laid out in the Old Testament (Leviticus 23; Numbers 29).

These festivals, or High Holy Days, were ordered by God to the children of Israel to celebrate each year starting when God freed them from slavery in Egypt.

These festivals are:

Rosh Hashana (Head of the Year) celebrated with the blowing of the shofar
Yom Kippur, the day of atonement celebrated with fasting and sacrifices to atone for the sin of God’s people, when the High Priest would enter the Holy of Holies this one day every year to put the blood on the altar
Sukkot, the festival of shelters, when the whole nation would gather and sleep outside in shelters made of branches and leaves all together in unity

Although we may not all practice these Jewish festivals, these really point to the outcome of the Gospel: Jesus will return with the blast of the trumpet (1 Thess. 4:16), to bring His people for whom He made atonement (2 Cor. 5:21), to dwell with Him forever in perfect unity (1 Thess 5:10).

1 John 4:9-10 “ God showed how much He loved us by sending His one and only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.”

~Michelle Negron

High Holy Days: Jesus Will Return