The Ten Commandments which the Lord gave to His people
provided broadly for man’s duty towards God, and also his duty towards his
neighbor. So now, as He gave ordinances
for man’s moral and legal responsibilities toward one another in matters of
property, injury and trespass, God now turns His attention to matters
concerning himself.
Now, He
provided that three feasts per year were to be kept. They were (i)
the feast of unleavened bread.
This feast was commanded to be a 7 day feast when no bread which was
made of leaven was to be eaten. This we will remember was in memorial to the
Egyptian redemption when they were commanded to eat at the time of the Passover
and thereafter in the month abib unleavened bread; (ii)
The feast of harvest, which was commanded to be symbolized by the first
fruits of all that was sown in the field; and
(iii) the feast of ingathering,
which is at the end of the year when all the labor would have been gathered in
out of the field.
Further,
God said, three times in the year, all the males shall appear before the Lord
God. Do not offer the blood of my
sacrifice, God repeated, with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my
sacrifice remain until the morning. The
first of the first fruits of the land you shall bring into the house of the
Lord your God; and do not boil a kid in its mothers milk.
This is how
God acts, has always acted; He is very
clear, specific, and certain; and leaves nothing to chance or conjecture with
regard to what he wants his people to do, or how they aught to act in keeping
or carrying out his commands. More
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