10 lessons · Seniors
These ten lessons cover observance of God’s Holy Days and non-observance of Easter, Halloween, and Christmas.
Dear Senior Teen,
From the beginning God knew that mankind needed days to celebrate. He set aside seven days for us to celebrate every year. Only through celebrating these days can you fully understand and appreciate how awesome God’s plan is. These are not hit-and-miss meaningless days that leave you with a hangover and a headache. These are holy days! These are God’s holy days showing His plan, His purpose, and His character. They are feel-good days. How? Well, after you’ve celebrated these days as God would have you do, you feel good because you know that you’ve pleased Him. Each holy day provides you with the opportunity to Explore God’s Plan and better understand what God is trying to do for you.
Do you want your freedom? Well, it’s in God’s plan to Let Freedom Ring! He set the Israelites free after 430 years of slavery. As the Israelites were slaves, we are in bondage to sin. Explore God’s Plan in lesson one and learn that God wants you to be free of sin. You can have this freedom by recognizing that Christ died for your sins, and repenting of them.
Everything comes with a price tag. Before we can become all that we want to – all that God wants us to be, we have to do certain things. We can’t measure up if we’re all loaded down with sin. So God gave us the Days of Unleavened bread to celebrate. Before those days even start we put leavening out of our houses picturing putting sin out of our lives. We eat unleavened bread for seven days as we celebrate putting Christ, the Creator of all things, into our lives.
Fifty days later we celebrate a most wonderful gift God wants to give us – His Spirit. God took the Israelites to the foot of Mt. Sinai for this celebration. Fireworks on the Fourth of July have never equaled the manifestations on that first Pentecost. This demonstration was so awesome that the people trembled. God did this so that His people could Explore God’s Plan. He gave them the Ten Commandments so they could know how to live and to celebrate without bad consequences.
The Bible tells us that Christ will return when the seventh trumpet sounds. Living Christians, along with all the faithful saints who have died will meet Christ in the air. Now that will be a celebration! Are You Ready to Proclaim Liberty?
Put it Together so that you can celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles and Explore God’s Plan. It far surpasses anything you or I could put together. We live this temporary life on earth looking forward to the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ on this earth. And He wants you to share in that celebration for 1000 years! But the best is yet to come. God will come down to live with us and He’ll bring a new heaven and a new earth with Him. He’ll put an end to crying, sorrow, suffering and pain. The seventh holy day – the Last Great Day – pictures eternity! How awesome! When God plants the heavens do you Want Your Planet?
Down through time man has substituted his own days to observe rather than celebrating the days that Explore God’s Plan. YEA has included lessons to help you understand why God doesn’t want you to celebrate these days and how to answer your friends. It’s Not in the Plan shows you the origins of Easter. You’ll learn why Halloween is a Not-So-Good Night. The lure of the Christmas Folklore can be very enticing. But God’s awesome plan isn’t based on myths, falsehoods, or folklore. Celebrating God’s holy days brings you to a deeper knowledge and understanding of the True God and how He wants to share everything with you.
Read your lessons before class and learn how to celebrate God’s way.
Allie Dart
Managing Editor