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.

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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

The Pharisees were a sect of the Jewish church at the time of the New Testament. The name comes from a root that means "separate", and apparently this was self-chosen to indicate that they believed in a strict following of the Jewish law as expressed in the books of Moses, which separated them from most other contemporary Jews. From Jesus' words, this separation had degraded into a self-righteous conviction that they were better than others, and that a strict adherence to the letter of the law was more important than any thought of the law's spirit or of love toward the neighbor.

(References: Divine Providence 231 [4]; The Apocalypse Explained 746 [17], 939 [2])