10 lessons · Primaries
Dear Primaries,
When you have a birthday, do you like for your mom to bake a cake and give you a party? Do you like to celebrate because you are one year older? You want your friends to join you when you celebrate this day, don’t you?
God wants us to celebrate with friends. He has given us many festivals to celebrate. He wants us to have a very special meal. He wants us to go to church. Do you like to go to church when there is a potluck? Are there some really good foods you like to eat? God knew that we would enjoy these things. And He gave us days to celebrate.
Every one of the days we celebrate tells us something very important. The Passover tells us about something that happened a long, long time ago. God’s people were slaves in Egypt. God told Moses to tell Pharaoh to “Let my people go.” The Passover tells us something else. It tells us that Jesus loves us so much that He was willing to give His life for the bad things we do.
After we celebrate the Passover God wants us to celebrate the Days of Unleavened Bread. Does your mom do a good house cleaning just before you celebrate these days? Does she bake some special breads and foods that you just eat during the Days of Unleavened Bread? Your lesson will tell you why we eat this special bread. You’ll want to read it and find out why.
Seven weeks after the Days of Unleavened Bread we get to have another big celebration. This is one of the three times in the year that God wants you to give Him an offering.
We go a long time before we have another day that God wants us to celebrate. This time it is the Feast of Trumpets. In the Bible a trumpet was blown on the first of every month. The Feast of Trumpets is the first day of the seventh month. A trumpet was blown to celebrate this very special day. Read your lesson and find out what kind of sound will be made when our Friend Jesus returns to this earth.
Have you ever played with a little goat at the petting zoo or on a farm? On the Day of Atonement God told the High Priest to do a lot of things. God told the High Priest to have two goats for this celebration. Do you know why?
Like the turtle, the Israelites carried their beds on their backs. When it’s time to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles we pack our bags and go live in a temporary home for seven days. This is to remind us of something. Do you know what it is? Read you lesson and find out why? But why do we stay at the Feast of Tabernacles eight days when the Bible says we are to celebrate the Feast for seven days. You’ll find the answer in your lesson on the Last Great Day.
Celebrations are so much fun. Keeping God’s Feast days should be a real celebration. God is so good to give us these days. Now let’s celebrate!
Allie Dart
Managing Editor
This set of ten lessons explains why we celebrate God's holy days and why we don't celebrate Easter, Halloween, and Christmas.