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Celebrate the Feast
of Harvest
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¡°Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the crops
you sow in your field. Celebrate the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the
year, when you gather in your crops from the field.¡±
[NIV] Exodus 23:16
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Today is the Feast of
Harvest.
Do you know when or
what that day is for?
We will check what
that day means to us?
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God gave the
Israelites three times a year they are to celebrate
a festival to him.
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Do you know three
festivals the Israelites had to celebrate?
They are the Feast of
Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Harvest,
and the Feast of
Ingathering.
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The first feast was
the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
When the Israelites
were in Egypt as slaves, God led them from Egypt
with the great leader
Moses.
That is a feast to celebrate
the memorial of their deliverance from Egypt.
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The king of Egypt, Pharaoh, was an evil king. After undergoing ten plagues from God, he finally sent
them away.
The tenth plague God
saved the Israelites out of terrible.
That was the plague
that the first son of the house if there was no
the blood of a lamb
on their doorposts then that child was killed by the angel of Death.
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But the Israelites
listened to God's words and they applied the blood of lamb to the doorposts
and the lintels. God let the oldest sons of the Israelites be saved so they
gave thanks to God.
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The second is the
Feast of Harvest.
After the Israelites
came out of Egypt, they had built their tents and lived there for 7 days for
celebrating desert life for 40 years.
When they had
finished the "Exodus," they thanked God for His guidance and the
easy life of now and so they represented that time by having this feast seem
like desert life in order to remember that their deliverance was from God.
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The third is the
Feast of Ingathering.
The Israelites had
spent the desert for 40 years
because of their
disobedience.
Finally, they could
arrive at Canaan where they were promised.
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God helped the
Israelites win every war.
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Finally, they
experienced the amazing grace of ingathering crops from the land. The
Israelites ingathered the first crops and they celebrated The Feast of
Ingathering at God's command.
They knew God had let
them have a good harvest and bear much fruit so they served God and gave a
party out of gratitude.
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This feast of
Ingathering is a thankful feast giving thanks to God who let them have a
bountiful amount of harvest crops. Keeping this feast, the Israelites thanked
God for their harvest crops in their own land to God.
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When they kept this
feast in Israel, the men would bring gifts to God to Jerusalem.
Because if God did
not help on each occasion, they could not gain crops, so they gave gifts to
God out of a grateful heart.
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We have harvest time
twice in Korea.
In Spring, we harvest
barley and in Fall we harvest rice.
So we give thanks to
God for the harvest barley. That is the feast of Ingathering.
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The other meaning, we
thank God for keeping us healthy and for not having many accidents during the
last half of a year.
So we like to give
special gifts.
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Let's thank God for
our school life for the last six months and keeping our family's health. God
gives more to the people who are truly thankful for what they have!!
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