Today’s passage: Deuteronomy 16
Helpful thoughts:
- In today’s passage, Moses recounts the three major feasts for Israel.
- Passover (The Feast of Unleavened Bread – vs. 16)
- The month of Abib coincides with March/April.
- Christ would later be crucified at Passover.
- The Feast of Weeks (The Feast of Harvest – Exodus 23:16)
- This feast later was called in the Greek, “Pentecost” (Acts 2)
- The Feast of Booths (or, The Feast of Tabernacles)
- This feast would occur in September/October.
- Passover (The Feast of Unleavened Bread – vs. 16)
- The people were commanded to appoint judges who would judge justly.
- Justice was not to be perverted, it was not to be partial, and it was never to be tainted through purchase.
Questions to consider:
- How did God later use these feasts in the death of Christ and the birth of the Church? How did the gathering of all Israel for these feasts promote what God was doing in the time of Christ’s death, resurrection, ascension, and the beginning of the Church?
- What promise did the command to appoint judges in each town confirm? What will be filling all of these towns across Israel that would require so many judges? What was going to happen for the people of Israel?
- Why did/does God demand justice? What brings about injustice? How can Christians pursue justice in ways that glorify God and love our neighbor as ourselves?