What are the Feasts of God and Why are they Important?

The feasts include Passover, Unleavened Bread, First Fruits, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, Tabernacles, and the Sabbath. It may be argued that these feasts are Jewish and solely part of the old covenant. However, the Lord's Word does not label them as exclusively Jewish; they are referred to as the Feasts of the Lord and are described as perpetual, which implies they are to continue forever. Jesus said, "Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I did not come to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass from the Law until all is accomplished. Whoever then annuls one of the least of these commandments, and teaches others to do the same, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever keeps and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." (Matthew 5:17-19). Examine the chart, and it becomes evident that not everything has been accomplished.

Feast	Meaning for us	When
Passover	Cross	March or April
Unleavened Bread	Cleansed from Sin	March or April
Feast of First Fruits	Resurrection	March of April
Pentecost	Church Age/ Gift of the Holy Spirit Given	Late May or Early June
Trumpets	Rapture	September
Atonement	Judgement	September
Tabernacles	Heaven	Late September or Early October

I eagerly anticipate the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles, symbolizing Heaven for God's children. 

Jesus is the vine, and we are the branches. We have been grafted onto the good olive tree. Israel was the original good olive tree, the chosen ones. We, being the wild olive tree, have been grafted onto the good olive tree through Jesus and adopted into the family. Therefore, as adopted children, it stands to reason that we should learn and follow the rules of our new family. When I saw follow the rules, I mean follow the heart of the rule, not the letter of the rule. There are many aspects that we can't do. Also, Jesus has filled the law of sacrifice. 

According to Romans 3:20 "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Hence, the Law is necessary to delineate the issue clearly. Indeed, we are saved by grace, but comprehending its full meaning is unattainable without grasping the Law or the rules that are beyond our reach without God's gracious aid. I am thankful that the need for sacrifices has ceased, as Jesus was the ultimate sacrifice.

     When we remember the feasts, it gives us a chance to show our children and others just how wonderful our God is. I love keeping the Feasts with my children. It gives me a chance to do hands on teaching of some difficult areas of the Bible. Most children and adults learn better when they are able to see, touch, taste, and hear. Many of the Feasts give a perfect chance to walk through the Old Testament while looking ahead to the New Testament.  As I have pointed out, Jesus did not come to do away with the Law, but to fulfill the Law. According to (Matthew 22:36 40), "Jesus said unto him, ‘Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.’ On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

When you truly love someone and they invite you to spend time together, you make every effort to be there. Similarly, many profess their love for God but decline to participate in His feasts, which seems inconsistent. These feasts are not exclusive to Jews or limited to the Old Covenant. They serve as a reminder of God's deeds and a celebration of what He will do in the future.

Potato and Scrambled Eggs

Ingredients:

• 1 small potato
• 6 eggs
• Cooking oil
• Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Peel and wash potato.
2. Dice potato into very small cubes.
3. Cook potato in frying pan with a small amount of oil over medium heat covered. Remember to stir occasionally. Salt and pepper to taste. 
4. Beat eggs. 
5. When potato is soft, add in eggs. 
6. Cook until eggs are done. 
7. Remove from pan and eat. 

Tortillas and eggs with salsa

 

Ingredients:

• 5 corn tortillas 
• 4 eggs 
• Salt and pepper to taste 
• Cooking oil 
• ¼ cup of salsa

Directions:

1. Cut the tortillas into small squares

2. Put a small amount cooking oil into a frying pan and make it hot.

3. Put the tortilla pieces into the frying pan with medium heat. Put a lid on top.

4. Beat the eggs. Add in salt and pepper to taste.

5. Pour the egg over the tortilla pieces.

6. Cook until egg is done. 

7. Pour in salsa. 

8. Heat until salsa is hot. 

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Dipping Sauce

This is a great tasting dipping sauce. My mom made this as like a homemade Thousand Island. One day my husband saw it and tasted it. He said that it reminded him of Raising Cane's Sauce. 

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup Kraft Mayo
• 1/2 Ketchup 
• 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper 

Directions:

1. Mix all ingredients together. 

7th grade English topics and Resources

 The 7th grade English student:

• Identifies, reviews, and diagrams simple, compound, and complex sentence patterns.
• Reviews eight parts of speech and studies prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections.
• Is introduced to infinitives and gerunds.
• Reviews principal parts of regular and irregular verbs—perfect tenses; conjugation of all six tenses; progressive verb forms; transitive and intransitive verbs; and subject-verb agreement.
• Increases noun study—exact, compound, collective, plural, and possessive.
• Develops use of personal pronouns—nominative, objective, and possessive case, demonstrative, interrogative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite pronouns. 
• Applies adjectives as indefinite pronouns, nouns, participles, and predicate adjectives.
• Develops writing and communication skills through use of sentence variety, outlining, paragraph writing, composition writing, and proofreading.
• Works with paragraph structure—indenting, main idea, topic sentence, summary, dependent and independent clauses, and phrases.

Resources:

• https://www.wordgametime.com/grade/7th-grade
• https://allinonehomeschool.com/language-arts-7/
• https://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
• https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/free-downloads/language-arts-level-7/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar
• handwriting pages
• https://www.studenthandouts.com/handwriting-worksheets/

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7th grade math Topics and Resources

The 7th grade math student:

•  Reads, writes, and works with whole and mixed numbers, integers, and proper and improper fractions.
• Learns the proper mathematical terminology—dividend, multiplicand, product, simplify, minuend, quotient, numerator, and denominator; changes fractions and decimals to percents; finds the number when a percent is known; finds the mean, mode, median, range, and rank; and interprets graphs, stem and leaf plots, and box and whisker plots.
• Is introduced to business and consumer arithmetic—profit and loss, commission, discounts, bills and receipts, and invoices with discounts; ratios, proportions, and percents.
• Reviews geometric concepts and finds perimeter, circumference, and surface area.
• Learns Biblical principles of finance, budgeting, saving, investing, and bank services.
• Reviews English and metric units of length, volume, weight, and temperature.
• Reviews basic geometry concepts and symbols and uses a protractor and compass to find perimeter and area of shapes and solids.
• Is introduced to equations—variable, sets, and set notation; vocabulary; symbols; and word problems

Resources:

• https://allinonehomeschool.com/step2-2019/
• https://allinonehomeschool.com/step-3-2020-update/
• https://www.mathgames.com/grade7
• https://www.stmath.com/play/7th-grade-math-games
• https://www.athomemiddleschool.com/math7
• https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math
• https://www.mathsisfun.com/links/curriculum-year-7.html

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6th grade English topics and Resources

  The 6th grade English student:

•  Increases word concepts—antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and heteronyms.
• Reviews nouns—common, proper, compound, singular, plural, possessive; and learns about collective nouns and nouns in apposition.
• Expands verb knowledge (action, linking, state-of-being, regular and irregular) to include verb tenses (present, past, future), and conjugation of all six tenses; verb agreement; and the review of troublesome verbs (learn/teach, sit/set, lay/lie, rise/raise).
• Identifies pronouns—personal (subjective and possessive), interrogative, demonstrative, relative, reflexive, and indefinite.
• Builds upon parts of speech—comparisons using adjectives and adverbs, prepositions and phrases, coordinating conjunctions, interjections, and diagramming.
• Strengthens sentence writing by using sentence patterns, interesting words, and exact nouns; recognizes subject and verb agreement; and types of clauses.
• Practices writing paragraphs and begins outlining and research.
• Uses simple, compound, and compound-complex sentences with effective coordination and subordination of ideas to express complete thoughts.
• Learns to identify types of sentence patterns and clauses.

Resources:

• https://allinonehomeschool.com/language-arts-6/
• https://www.wordgametime.com/grade/6th-grade
• https://www.homespellingwords.com/
• https://www.abcya.com/grades/6?irclickid=xElX0QV-
• https://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
• https://www.goodandbeautiful.com/free-downloads/language-arts-level-6/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar
• https://practicalpages.wordpress.com/free-pages/free-copywork-pages/
• https://www.studenthandouts.com/handwriting-worksheets/
• https://www.studenthandouts.com/english/

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