Tag: drink
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Food and Drink- Exodus 29:31-46
Earlier, we saw the table of presence given as a reminder that God intended to eat and drink with His people. With the sacrifice of Christ, God would pull His own mercy seat up to the table because the veil would be torn. This eating and drinking imagery permeates all of the religious practices God…
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Love the Law and Celebrate Good Things
God has given Israel some laws that will prosper them as a society and promote justice within their borders. The people agree to keep these laws. There is a ceremony to consecrate the people of Israel and make the laws official for them—a sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood as if to say, “If we…
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Celebration- Exodus 23:14-19
God writes into His Law that Israel is to celebrate three national feasts each year—the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover), the Feast of the Harvest (Weeks or Booths), and the Feast of Ingathering (Pentecost). The fact that these are feasts, insinuates that the people not only sacrificed to the Lord, but ate of the sacrifices.…
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Tobit- Missing the Bible’s Point
Tobit 6:10-13 Raphael reveals to Tobias that there is a woman named Sarah who is without a husband and that Tobias is entitled to her and her father’s estate under the Law. Therefore, Raphael instructs Tobias that they must stay at Sarah’s father’s house. The Law in Numbers 27:1-11 and 36:1-13 prescribes the responsibility of…