Leviticus 23:4–8
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a culture that is desperately trying to erase the memory of God. Our secular overlords understand something that many Christians have forgotten: if you want to control a people, you must first control their calendar. You must dictate their rhythms of work and rest, of feasting and fasting. It is a flat, gray, uniform expanse of time, punctuated only by frantic consumerism on designated holidays that have been stripped of all transcendent significance, or by the celebration of various fashionable rebellions. Into this drab and secular wasteland, the Word of God speaks with glorious, life-giving authority. God is the Lord of time because He created it. Leviticus 23 is not a collection of quaint suggestions for ancient Israelite theme parties. It is the divine liturgy, the sacred rhythm, that God hardwired into the life of His covenant people.