There is only one interest I want for my life: to experience the love of God—not only to know His love but to experience His loveliness, fall madly in love with Him, and drink deeply of His love, knowing every beautiful facet of it.
I prefer to focus on the attractiveness of God’s character as revealed by the beauty of Jesus’s faithfulness, which makes the pagan vestiges and lies about God lose their impact. In this light, the festivals express beautiful messages about God’s character that help us rehearse the story of redemption
We are called to persevere in the light of the festivals’ spiritual message: just as God delivered and led Israel in the wilderness, He will deliver and guide us to eternal life in His presence on a renewed earth.
To see the festival narratives merely as exciting stories is to miss their connections to what Jesus did on the cross and how God will confront the future pharaohs of our world to bring about our final redemption.
Knowing the difference between holiday festivals and Levitical festivals is important and helpful.
Christ is the center of typical law—the Lamb of God sacrificed for our sins—and this law is extremely valuable for our study of the facets of His sacrifice and ministry.
Theological InTents 