We’re all ready and excited for the Feast of Tabernacles this year. It’s not the same without everyone’s smiling faces at Lake Murray and do we have something to grin about!
Read MoreThis is an important notice regarding the live streaming we plan to record over the course of the Feast of Tabernacles in 2019.
Read More“After the Babylonian captivity the Feast of Tabernacles began to be strictly and generally kept, and more minute definitions and more expanded applications of the concise Pentateuchal injunction were imperatively demanded, in order to secure uniformity of practice, as well as to infuse devotion and joy into the celebration.”
Read More“In Lev 23:26-32 mention is made in the list of festivals of the Day of Atonement, on the 10th day of the 7th month. It is ordered that for this day there shall be a holy convocation at the sanctuary, a fast, an offering by fire, and rest from labor from the 9th day of the 7th month in the evening.”
Read More“In Lev 23:23-25 the first day (new moon) of the seventh month is set apart as a solemn rest, ‘a memorial of blowing of trumpets’ (the Hebrew leaves ‘of trumpets’ to be understood), signalized further by ‘a holy convocation,’ abstinence from work, and the presentation of ‘an offering made by fire’.”
Read More“Also called Feast of Lights, or Feast of the Maccabees, Hanukkah commemorates the rededication in 165 B.C.E. of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, which had been desecrated three years earlier by Syrian king Antiochus IV Epiphanes in his efforts to wipe out the Jewish religion."
Read MoreExodus 12:1-14 and 21-28 contain the instructions regarding the observance of the Passover. Between those two sections is the first mention of the Days of Unleavens.
Read More“Shavuot occurs on the sixth of the Hebrew month of Sivan.The name Shavuot (‘weeks’) derives from its celebration seven weeks (a week of weeks) after Pesach. In the Torah it is also designated by the names Chag Hakatsir, the Harvest Festival (Exodus 23:16), and Chag Habikurim, the Feast of First Fruits (Exodus 34:22).”
Read More“SHROVE TUESDAY is the day before Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Its name came from the old custom of confessing (being shriven) on that day. Shrove Tuesday is a time of rejoicing in many countries and communities. It is the last day of the carnival season of southern Europe, and corresponds to the Mardi Gras of the French and the Pancake Tuesday of the English.”
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