Title: Days to Remember (7 of 8)
Series: You Lost Me at Leviticus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Leviticus 23
- We're walking through Leviticus together on Wednesday evenings and believe it or not, we are almost near the end of our study. Tonight, we come to Leviticus 23. Remember, Leviticus is a manual for worship for the people of Israel. And their worship manual would not be complete without a catalog of their annual feasts and special days. READ 23:1-2
- *If you want to get confused, study the development of the modern calendar. By the time of Julius Caesar, the calendar was so out of step with nature that Caesar ordered a Greek astronomer named Sosigenes to straighten things out. Unable to alter the movements of the heavens, Sosigenes solved the problem by temporarily adding nearly three extra months to the calendar, giving the year 46 B.C. 445 days! The people born that year must have had fun later on trying to figure out their birthdays. Pope Gregory XIII (1502-85) commissioned the calendar we use today. In fact, it is a revision of the old Julian calendar. When Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, September 3 became September 14, and eleven days disappeared from British history. Twenty-year-old George Washington found his birthdate moved from February 11 to February 22. Perhaps he celebrated his birthday twice a year.1*
- Calendars are a normal part of our modern busy world, but they weren't that important to the people of Israel in Moses' day. The Jews worked from sunrise to sunset, counted the months by the phases of the moon, and watched the seasons come and go. God had promised them "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night" (Gen. 8:22), and they were content. Each day was a sacred gift from God.2
- In the old covenant period God gave to His people sacred days and weeks. God's sacred calendar carried the message that God's people live in constant contact with God and ord ...
Series: You Lost Me at Leviticus
Author: Jim Perdue
Text: Leviticus 23
- We're walking through Leviticus together on Wednesday evenings and believe it or not, we are almost near the end of our study. Tonight, we come to Leviticus 23. Remember, Leviticus is a manual for worship for the people of Israel. And their worship manual would not be complete without a catalog of their annual feasts and special days. READ 23:1-2
- *If you want to get confused, study the development of the modern calendar. By the time of Julius Caesar, the calendar was so out of step with nature that Caesar ordered a Greek astronomer named Sosigenes to straighten things out. Unable to alter the movements of the heavens, Sosigenes solved the problem by temporarily adding nearly three extra months to the calendar, giving the year 46 B.C. 445 days! The people born that year must have had fun later on trying to figure out their birthdays. Pope Gregory XIII (1502-85) commissioned the calendar we use today. In fact, it is a revision of the old Julian calendar. When Great Britain and its colonies adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, September 3 became September 14, and eleven days disappeared from British history. Twenty-year-old George Washington found his birthdate moved from February 11 to February 22. Perhaps he celebrated his birthday twice a year.1*
- Calendars are a normal part of our modern busy world, but they weren't that important to the people of Israel in Moses' day. The Jews worked from sunrise to sunset, counted the months by the phases of the moon, and watched the seasons come and go. God had promised them "seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night" (Gen. 8:22), and they were content. Each day was a sacred gift from God.2
- In the old covenant period God gave to His people sacred days and weeks. God's sacred calendar carried the message that God's people live in constant contact with God and ord ...
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