Biblical Feasts & Holidays

THEY DIDN’T JUST KILL JEWS: Why You Should Remember the Holocaust

January 27, 2017 Kerry Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Political Events

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, observed annually on January 27. The UN established Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005, choosing January 27 because the date marks the liberation of the notorious death camp at Auschwitz. (International Holocaust Remembrance Day is distinct from Israel’s own Holocaust Remembrance Day occurring in the…...

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Another Sign God is in Control of Recent Political Warfare Against Israel

January 7, 2017 Kerry Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Current Events: Prophetic Views, Intercession, Israel's Restoration, Palestinian Conflict, Political Events

Tomorrow, January 8, is the Fast of Tevet 10 (“Asara b’Tevet”), marking the first day of the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem that led to the destruction of the Temple in 586 BC. (2 Kings 25:1, Zechariah 8:19) The siege also led to Jewish exile from the Land. To this day,…...

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Hanukkah and Christmas Convergence Celebration

December 18, 2016 Kerry Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, One New Man, Spiritual Growth

In a few days Hanukkah and Christmas will both fall on December 25.  Jews around the world will usher in the Festival of Lights as Christians celebrate the Light of the World. Often the two holidays coincide because Hanukkah is an eight day commemoration. But this year’s convergence of Christmas…...

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How Hanukkah Empowers Us to Overcome the New anti-Israel Alignment this New Year

November 1, 2016 Kerry Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Intercession, Israel's Restoration, Spiritual Growth

A day before Hanukkah, US President Obama brokered UN Security Council Resolution 2334, declaring that Judea and Samaria (including the Western Wall) belong to Palestine. The resolution puts in place putative legal groundwork, lacking until now, for dividing Israel into a Palestinian state. The exquisitely evil timing of the American…...

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Deeper Meanings of the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot)

October 10, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Current Events: Prophetic Views, Spiritual Growth

Traditionally called the season of our joy, Sukkot begins in Israel tonight, on Tishrei 15. Despite the ongoing trials of life, the nation takes a full week to rejoice in God’s goodness, as Deuteronomy16:13 commands. Then it emerges strengthened by His joy. What a message to the world – and…...

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Tu b’Av: the Jewish Holiday of Love (August 19, 2016)

August 18, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Current Events: Prophetic Views, Spiritual Growth

  Tu b’Av (translated, 15th [day of the month] of Av) is known as the holiday of love. It is not a Levitical feast, nor is it directly referenced in the Scriptures. There are, however, interesting biblical associations with this historical celebration. Tu b’Av falls this year on August 19,…...

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Tisha b’Av: Mourning Destruction of the Temple in Light of a “New and Living Way”

August 11, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays, Current Events: Prophetic Views, Spiritual Growth

  The Jewish observance of Tisha b’Av (translated “9th day of [the month of] Av”) falls this year on August 13-14.  Marked by fasting, prayer and Scripture readings, Tisha b’Av is considered the saddest day of the year. This is because on precisely Av 9, devastating calamities have befallen the…...

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Biblical Feasts: The Sabbath

August 8, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays

The Sabbath existed well before God’s law was written and given to Israel; indeed, before Israel ever came into being. When Deity designed from dust the climax of His creation—-mankind made in His image—-the universe experienced a holy hush, its first divine pause: “By the seventh day God had finished…...

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Biblical Feasts: Passover

August 8, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays

Passover is one of seven Levitical Feasts or “appointed times,” according to the Hebrew meaning of “feast.” The feasts are dates God has calendared to meet with His people according to seasons He has set. Passover was never meant to be mere ritual, but an encounter with the Eternal One.…...

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Biblical Feasts: Shavuot

August 8, 2016 Sandra Teplinsky Biblical Feasts & Holidays

In Leviticus 23:15-22 God commands that after seven full weeks transpire following the Feast of Firstfruits, we are to celebrate the Feast of Shavuot. Shavuot is the Hebrew word for “weeks” and the feast is also known as the Feast of Weeks. In Greek it is referred to as Pentecost…...

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