SIGN OF THE COVENANT
As one starts studying their family roots, you begin to learn how others have worshipped and have celebrated holidays too.
We have lots of Puritan stock in us, and it appears that the Puritans modeled their feasts days after the sacred feasts in the Old Testament including Passover, Firstfruits, Tabernacles, and so forth. These were Holy Days, the very reverse in most instances of our modern holidays. They were days of prayer, Sabbath worship, fasting, giving of alms, and thanks to God.
GATHER WITH THE FAMILY
This week I was drawn to the story of Moses and the plague as currently, we have much fear in our country with a virus. As the entire world is in fear, and masking up I was, however, reminded that during the plagues of Moses’s time God did not tell his people to separate, but gather with their covenant family and friends and that the plague would not harm their households. This message is the opposite of what we are hearing now even in our church we are being forbidden to gather.
Today I put up our “blood”(scarf) above the door a bit early before Passover to remind our home of the covenant we have made as Israel, and that it is He who we follow, and He who will save us!
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