Playlist: Congregation of Israel (topic)
Are God's Holy Days To Be Kept Today?
Sermon/Bible Study by Martin G. CollinsThe congregation of Israel received its first direct instructions from God concerning the Passover while still in Egypt. On the tenth day of the first month every household was to select a lamb, and on the fourteenth day the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel was to kill it at twilight. With regard to religious …
The Purpose of the Church
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by John W. RitenbaughThe text distinguishes the congregation of Israel from the church by noting that Israel is never called the church of God in the Old Testament. Instead, the phrase appears twenty-three times as the congregation of Israel and twelve times as the congregation of the Lord. The term ekklesia carries implications of sanctity and …
Acts (Part Fourteen)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughIn the material, the congregation of the Lord refers to the assembly in which individuals could hold public office such as priest, elder at the gate, or judge. Deuteronomy 23:2 states that one of illegitimate birth shall not enter the congregation of the Lord even to the tenth generation, and Deuteronomy 23:3 extends the same …