Meditations

God has decreed it.  In the Garden of Eden, God said to Adam, “in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die”.  Genesis 2:17.   Adam disobeyed God and ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.  Adam died spiritually that day.  Esau, Adam’s son offered a sacrifice of the fruit of the ground to God.  God rejected it.  Why?  No animal was killed as His brother Abel had offered.   No blood was spilt.  The fruit came from the earth that God cursed, because of Adam’s sin.  God in His grace and mercy instituted the slaying of lambs, bulls and goats upon an altar of earth for the temporal forgiveness of sins.  In order to appease God’s wrath this ordinance was given to the people of  Israel, and to the strangers within their borders, who would embrace this sacrificial offerings for the forgiveness of sins.  Note the word “sins”.  The annual sacrifices could only atone for sins co...

Valentine’s Day 2016 is gone.  It’s over.  It’s forgotten.  We are now on to Easter Eggs and all things yellow. Easter has been taken over by the secular world.  For a great many, outside and inside of Christendom, Easter is about eggs.  Easter has also been relegated to children, as Christmas has been.  I have often heard mothers of adult children – inside and outside of Christendom – say “Christmas is for children”.  Some mothers have mentioned that their children are grown and gone from the home, so they are no longer interested in celebrating Christmas.  They observe the Christmas activities inside and outside of the church from the sidelines. The world system driven by the enemy of our souls, has come in and removed the focus of the Christian’s celebration of Christmas and Easter from the love of God to fun for the kids.   Yes, I understand that once pagans celebrated these dates or dates close to these celebrations with...