Before we talk about Leviticus Festivals, let's talk about the month of September (which refers to the month of harvest). Sept is a prefix with Latin root meaning "seventh". In ancient Rome there were only 10 months and the first month was March. In about 700 B.C. Numa Pompilius, the Roman King, changed the calendar to add two more months.
Leviticus Festivals:
-Shabbat (Sabbath): weekly day of rest
-Rosh Hashanah (Sept 1; Lev 23:23-25 - 1st day of 7th month) - It marks the beginning of Jewish new year, proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation (time to get together).
-Yom Kippur (Sept 10; Lev 23:26-32 - 10th day of 7th month) - A 25-hour fasting begins on 9th day at evening to evening on the 10th, it's the only fasting day decreed in the Bible. It is a time to enumerate one's own wrongdoings into three different parts: inquities, transgressions, or sins (http://bit.ly/av7xlu)
-Sukkot (Sept 15-22; Lev 23:33-44 - 15th day of 7th month for 7 days) - People gather together to give thanks for a bountiful harvest with the themes of the gathering of the second grain crop and the autumn fruit. (1 of 3 pilgrimage festivals)
-Passover, Pessah (March 14 at twilight; Lev 23:4-8 - 14th day of 1st month, and 15th for 7 days for the Feast of Unleavened Bread) - Freedom is the main theme of the festival where Israel came out of Egypt into the Exodus, a liberation from bondage. Families were in hurry, so no leavened bread is eaten in memory of the 10th plague that the Lord "passed over" homes of Israel and their departure. (1 of 3 pilgrimage festivals)
-Shavout (Late May or early June; Lev 23:9-22 - 50 days after Passover) - It marks the peak of new grain harvest and the ripening of first fruits, including seven species mentioned in the Bible: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomengrates, olives, and dates. When the Lord gave us the harvest, we are to bring the firstfruits of our harvest to the priest to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. (1 of 3 pilgrimage festivals)
Those are Jewish festivals included in the Leviticus festivals, later Purim, Hanukkak, and etc are added to Jewish festivals. It would be creative for us to add those Leviticus festivals to our festivals of how God wrote our chapters in His book!
Kari-ish Festivals:
-Wholly Surrender & Rededication (Jan 1; Kari 22:158) - A time to give up and tell God to get out of the waiting room to help us out, fixing our Spiritual Family's crisis so that we may be restored and renewed.
-A Turn Around (April 10-12; Kari 22:257-260) - A memorial celebration of how God rescued Kari from Egypt, so that she may be on the path to the Promise Land.
-A Day of Birth (July 6; Kari 0:1 & Jeremiah 1:5) - Celebrating mother's womb and God's calling for Kari before she came to be!
-Spiritual Cliff, No Turning Back (Oct 26; Kari 23:110) - Time of realization that there's nothing aside God's path for me. Nothingness is not better than death itself, therefore there is no way of turning back to the old ways of life so I had to press through to stay on God's path.
What about you? What are the most important parts of your life that impacted your spiritual journey? Let's create your own name-ish festivals to remember those major turning points! Those name-ish festivals may help you to retrace your way back to your original love and passion for God.
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