“Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.”
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: these are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies. The festivals are the Lord's: my appointed festivals. The covenant community does not own the festival calendar; they inherit it and proclaim it. The sacred assemblies — the convocations that the feasts require — are the community gathered not for human convenience but for divine appointment. The proclamation of the sacred assemblies communicates the public character of the covenant worship: the feasts are not private devotion but communal proclamation.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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