Tag Archives: Old Testament Holy Days

The Feast of Tabernacles and the Eternal Dwelling Place

Posted on October 10, 2022 by John Valade

This time I want to discuss how some scriptures are sometimes either appropriately or inappropriately “mapped” to others in the Bible. For instance, there is what seems to be a common understanding among some Messianic Christian groups and offshoots of … Continue reading →

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The Eighth Day

Posted on March 6, 2019 by John Valade

For many years the former Worldwide Church of God associated Jesus’ statements of “the last day, that great day of the feast” with the sacred assembly held on the day after the seventh day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Many … Continue reading →

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Revelation and Response In Torah-based Festivals – Part 2

Posted on December 14, 2014 by John Valade

[I finished the last post with two important questions my Theology of Christian Worship paper was intending to answer.The first is “what overarching revelatory themes should a liturgy convey?”  And the second is “what constitutes properly reverent obedience?”  The final … Continue reading →

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Revelation and Response In Torah-based Festivals – Part 1

Posted on December 6, 2014 by John Valade

Last time I ranted about what I perceive to be a trend toward mysticism in Evangelicalism that was promulgated in the classrooms of seminaries I attended. One might well wonder what views of my own I was formulating about worship … Continue reading →

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“You Shall Read This Law”

Posted on October 19, 2014 by John Valade

[Bible references in this post are from the New Revised Standard Version] One of the clues that the so-called old covenant follows a fairly standard ancient covenant format is that ancient covenants usually have what the experts refer to as … Continue reading →

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