Story of My Life

We have just finished celebrating Passover, Firstfruits, and the Week of Unleavened Bread, and I have been reflecting on the lessons I have learned from celebrating these holidays over the past 11 years. The seven day holiday of Unleavened Bread is one that often gets overlooked by most Christians today. Many people don't even know it exists. But it's one of those special times that God calls His appointed times, and there is much to be gained and learned by acknowledging it, keeping it, and celebrating it. In the Bible, God often talks to us and teaches us using practical terms to explain spiritual things. Sometimes this might be in a story or parable. Other times He asks us to physically do something to learn a spiritual concept. That's exactly what happens when we prepare for the Feast of Unleavened Bread. In  Exodus 12, Leviticus 23, Numbers 28, and Deuteronomy 16, we find the instructions God gives His people for keeping Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Brea

Yesterday, many people celebrated what is known in churches as "Palm Sunday". What they were celebrating is an event that falls on the 10th day of the First Month on God's calendar. This year that date falls on Monday, April 15th: today!  This is the day that Yeshua (Jesus) rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, and the people waved palm branches and cried, "Hoshiana!"  This was very symbolic and significant, and you can read about it in your Bible in Matthew 21, Mark 11, Luke 19, and John 12.  Yeshua was fulfilling a prophecy found in Zechariah 9:9, which says: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, Humble, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.   The word "hoshiana" is transliterated in our Bibles as "hosanna". Don't ask my why. I'm not a linguist, so I don't know. But what I do know is t