They were in a boat, and Jesus warned them about the leaven of the Pharisees. They thought he was scolding them for forgetting to bring bread. He had, by then, fed thousands twice over from a few loaves — and they were worried about lunch. So he turned and asked them a string of questions,…
This post was prompted by a few responses to The Biblical Principle of Cycles Within Cycles. The Feast of Weeks is unique among all of God’s feasts. Every other appointed time sits on a fixed calendar date — Passover on the fourteenth, the Day of Atonement on the tenth of the seventh month, and so…
This post is a follow-up to The Feast of LEAVENED Bread. The Feast of Weeks and Jubilee share the same structure — seven sevens plus one. But one has a defined beginning and end. The other does not. Pentecost is where the finite count connects to the eternal cycle. Fifty days. Fifty years. The same…
This post is a continuation of The Tower of Babel. The Feast of Weeks is the longest feast in the Leviticus 23 calendar — seven full weeks of counting, from the wave sheaf offering to the fiftieth day. Most readers pass through it without noticing that it can be called by what it contains. Not…
When John is handed the scroll in Revelation, it is sealed with seven seals. We tend to read past that word. A scroll is not a book. A book lets me skip to the last chapter and read how it ends. A scroll will not. It is one continuous length, rolled, and if it is…
What are the feasts of Leviticus 23 actually for? The first answer most of us reach for is the obvious one: God commanded them — the calendar, the appointed times. That’s true. But there is a deeper answer in the same passage of Proverbs that begins “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of…
This follows from Where Does the Week Come From? — that post shows where the week comes from; this one follows the same cycle outward. Start with something we handle without a second thought: a calendar. Here’s a simple one, laid out so the first day of the month falls on day one and the Sabbath on…
The Greek word behind every occurrence of “church” in the New Testament is ekklesia: a called-out assembly. The parts point the way — ek, out, and kaleō, to call — a people called out and gathered. The word itself doesn’t fix what they’re called out of, or gathered toward — that comes from how it’s used. And the pattern was…