Conclusion
Through this work, we have taken a journey from oppression and enslavement to freedom and a new creation, following the Feasts of YHWH map. From the beginning, we understood that the biblical authors were narrating humanity’s story within the framework of the Ancient Near East worldview. Throughout the narrative, Israel’s God displays…
Blog 156: YHWH-shammah
YHWH’s eighth name occurs at the end of the Book of Ezekiel, a prophecy about the Spirit of God moving to bring order to YHWH’s sacred dwelling place. YHWH had left Solomon’s temple, and Babylonian captors took His chosen people into exile for idolatry and desecrating the Sabbath, leaving the land a desolate wasteland (tohu wa bohu). As in the…
Blog 155: Where is There?
The Ancient Near East viewed its world in a way that provided a sense of order, explaining relationships between objects and interpreting natural events within its visual scope. Each thing was governed by a god formed from it, and the gods created humans to serve and feed them. Their cosmos included what was above the earth, on the earth, and…
Blog 154: The Resurrection New Beginning
In Blog 146, we explored the biblical references to an eighth day following seven days of purification rituals, showing that at the end of the seventh day, a new state of being emerged as a new creation in harmony with God and dedicated to Him. In Blog 148, we looked at the three eighth-day calendar events within the annual holyday timeline: the…
Blog 153: John’s Eighth Sign
Like the introduction to the signs, the introductory chapter of the eighth sign echoes themes of light, glory, the Spirit descending, and discipleship, confirming the beginning of the new creation introduced in John 1 through the resurrected Yeshua in John 20. The dawn of the new day is marked by the risen Yeshua’s glory as the Wavesheaf offering, His…
Blog 152: The First and Eighth Day Chiasm
We have been tracking the celestial cycle of the Feasts of YHWH through both linear and chiastic patterns, beginning with Passover and ending with the Eighth Day. What starts with Passover concludes with the Eighth Day’s new beginning; YHWH delivers Israel from bondage and exile so He can dwell among them, thereby subduing the…
Blog 151: The Book of Life and the Eighth Day Blessing
Before Israel began their journey from Mount Sinai to Canaan, God commanded Moses to take a census of Israel’s tribes, first by their father’s house, then by their families, and finally individually. In the census book, every Israelite belonged to one of the twelve tribes, to a family clan, and to a father’s house. Each name written in Moses’s book…
Blog 150: Filled With the Knowledge of God
The grand arc of the Biblical narrative shows that the Creator God of Israel is distinct from other gods. The Master of humanity’s history is gracious, patient, abounding in goodness and truth, and forgiving iniquity (Exo. 34:6-7). YHWH is faithful to His covenant, displaying loyal, justifying love with tender mercies. As His image bearers, the knowledge of…
Blog 149: Living in the Land
At the end of the Book of Numbers, Moses addressed the Israelites on the Plains of Moab, and his words became the Debarim, “these are the words” of instruction — the wisdom for living and remaining in the Promised Land, later compiled as the Book of Deuteronomy. At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at…