Week 5: Feasts of the Lord

Objective: 

1. Review the commandments in chapter 19 and relate them to our lives
2. Review the Feasts of the Lord and how the Lord wants us to participate in feasts (church feasts too)
3. Learn the year of Jubilee and the law concerning slavery (how the Bible does not condone slavery as some claim)
4. Read Gods promises to those who keep His commandments in chapter 26 and also His warnings 

Resources:

• Fr Tadros Y Malaty Commentary
• Catena Bible Commentary

Reading:

• Leviticus 18: Skip
• Leviticus 19:1-17
• Leviticus 20-22:skip
• Leviticus 23: All
• Leviticus 24: skip
• Leviticus 25: All
• Leviticus 26: All
• Leviticus 27: skip

Key verse(s):

"‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God." Leviticus 19:3

Comments: 

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

1. Which laws show compassion for the poor?
2. Which of these commandments were included in the Ten Commandments mentioned in the Holy Book
   of Exodus 20? Match them.
3. Which laws show compassion for the poor?
4. Which of these commandments were included in the Ten Commandments mentioned in the Holy Book of Exodus 20? Match them.
5. What commandments God gave that show His special care for the poor?
6. What is the New Testament name for the "Feast of the Weeks"?
7. How would the Feast of Tabernacles remind the Israelites of their wilderness journey?
8. Name the Seven feasts mentioned in this chapter and the purpose for celebrating each of them.
9. What promises did God make to the Israelites in v. 18-22 and what were the conditions on which the promises rested
10. List four things that took place during the year of Jubilee.
11. What was the difference between the Jubilee year and an ordinary Sabbath year?
12. Does God promote slavery? Explain

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

1. You shall love your neighbor as _________.
2. When you plant trees for food you can eat from their fruits on:
   a) the 1st year b) the 3rd year c) the 4th year d) the 5th year
3. Why should we be holy?
4. Give verse that proves we should respect the elders.
5. Which day came right after the Passover? a) the Sabbath b) the Feast of Unleavened Bread c) the Feast of the First Fruits d) the Feast of the Weeks
6. The ____________ and ______________ are two of the feasts celebrated on the seventh month
7. When can the grain of the new harvest be eaten?
8. Name the feasts celebrated on the seventh month?
9. The year of Jubilee is celebrated on the: a) 7th year b) 10th year c) 25th year d) 50th year
10. A slave can serve his master until the ________ of _________.
11. What feast is celebrated every 50 years?
12. What would the people of Israel eat if they can't sow nor gather produce on the 7th year?
13. What was the condition God made when lending to the poor?