Title: Daily and Yearly Preparation for Heaven

Topic: Salvation

Summary: The daily sacrifices, weekly sabbaths, and three annual feasts prescribed in the Old Testament are a picture of how to prepare for heaven.

Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.

References:
2 Peter 2:22, 10
Numbers 28:1
Exodus 23:14, 17
Leviticus 23:1, 5, 10, 33
Deuteronomy 16:1, 9, 13-14
Luke 6:1
Acts of the Apostles 2:1; 20:16
Nehemiah 8:13-14
Ezekiel 45:21, 25
Zechariah 14:16
John 7:2, 37

In natural language, to be "prudent" is basing your actions on logical, long-term thinking and with full consideration of all contingencies. It is very cool-headed, setting aside instant desires and short-term gratification. But while prudence is intellectually driven, it is not devoid of intent -- it just seems that way because it is based on substantial, distant and well-considered goals rather than the excitement of the moment. The spiritual meaning of prudence in the Bible is similar; it represents acting from ideas that we know to be true, but doing so with an underlying desire for good. So it is action driven by truth, but with good as its end. "Prudent" can also be used in the negative sense, representing the craftiness and guile that evil can bring to bear when using falsities to attack what is true.