Tu‘apulelulu ‘Akosi 12, 2021
you shall rejoice before the Lord your God
te ke fakafiefia ‘i he ‘ao ‘o Sihova ko ho ‘Otua
Teutalonome 16 (Deuteronomy 16)
(v. 11-12) And you shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
(v. 11-12) pea te ke fakafiefia ‘i he ‘ao ‘o Sihova ko ho ‘Otua, ‘e koe, mo ho foha, mo ho ‘ōfefine, mo ho‘o tamaio‘eiki, mo ho‘o kaunanga, mo e Līvai ‘oku ‘i ho kolo, pea mo e muli mo e tamai mate mo e fine uitou ‘oku ‘i ho lotolotonga, ‘i he potu ‘e fili ‘e Sihova ko ho ‘Otua ke ‘afio ai hono huafa. Pea te ke manatu na‘a ke pōpula mo koe ‘i ‘Isipite: pea te ke tokanga mo fai ‘a e ngaahi tu‘utu‘uni ko eni.
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
As the section dealing with the statutes commenced with the place of worship, it closed with the restatement of the importance of the great feasts which by their annual recurrence set the whole year in relation to worship.
The year commenced with the Passover. Thus at the beginning the Hebrews were reminded of how their true national existence resulted from their deliverance by God out of Egypt's bondage. The Passover feast must be maintained in the land and observed at the proper center of worship in order that the day of the exodus might be remembered perpetually. Thus their fundamental relationship to God was to be brought to mind at the beginning of every year.
The next event of importance in the consecration of the year was the feast of Pentecost, in which the first fruits of the harvest were to be presented to the Lord, thus reminding them that not only their existence as a nation, but their perpetual sustenance was dependent on the selfsame fact of relationship to Him.
Finally, in this particular application came the feast of Tabernacles. This was to be a time of rejoicing in which master and servant, people and priests, fathers and children, the prosperous and the bereft were all to be included.
On these three occasions all the males were called upon to appear before God and to bring with them gifts. Thus the value and importance of stated and united worship were solemnly enforced on the people as they stood on the threshold of their land.
In this chapter, verse eighteen, we have commenced the section dealing with the subject of judgments. Here Moses commanded the appointment of judges and officers and declared the principles on which they were to act. These were to be those of strict righteousness without any wresting of judgment. There must be no respect of persons and no reception of bribes. There must be no false worship.
David Guzik :: Study Guide for Deuteronomy 16
You shall rejoice: There was no ritual of sacrifice commanded at Pentecost. Instead, it was a time of joyful thanksgiving for the harvest, and heart-response to God.
You shall remember: The joy of Pentecost was intensified by remembering the bondage Israel had escaped.
Leviticus 23:15-21 describes how, at the feast of Pentecost, Israel was to celebrate by bringing a new grain offering to the LORD and by waving two loaves of leavened bread unto the LORD. Prophetically, this is a powerful picture of the work of God in the New Covenant, fulfilled at the Day of Pentecost in Acts 2.
No atoning sacrifice was necessary because the price had already been paid by Jesus.
There was a great harvest unto God, and great thanksgiving for that harvest.
The response to God on the day of Pentecost was not done out of obligation to a particular law. It was the joyful heart-response of God's people unto Him.
The church, founded on the day of Pentecost, would include the "leavened bread" of the Gentiles, waved as holy before God - made holy by the work of Jesus the Messiah.
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