Our company cancelled until tomorrow morning so I'm going over the information you sent. Thank you again.
So, it looks like Passover, Pentecost and the Tabernacles are the 3 feast days God wants us to keep. I'll have to look into the Tabernacles as I don't know what it is all about. Passover I have been studying, while going through Exodus and Pentecost I believe I understand. I'm very new at this Hebrew way of worship. I don't remember any of this being discussed in the Protestant church I attended. Of course, they may have, I just never paid much attention (she said as her head lowers in shame).
It sounds as if you have been very busy but I hope you find time to comment on the "souls" issue. You have given scripture about the dead, asleep, etc. but I still don't know your thoughts on what happens. I'm very interested.
Your friend.......Ping
I do not believe in the immortality of the soul. I believe that the Hebrew word "Nephesh" (translated soul) means simply an air breathing animal. When that animal dies....the soul dies.
[Genesis 1:21] And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
The word highlighted is #5315. nephesh (neh'-fesh)properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal.
[Genesis 2:7] And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Same word describing animals and men.....soul (Nephesh)! Souls die!
Three TIMES a year, which are composed of multiple holy days.
Exo 34:23 "Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
This can be confusing, but think of it as three general time periods. The spring feasts, Pentecost and the fall feasts. The spring and fall holy days occur so close together that when people observed them in the past they went and stayed for the whole thing. For example, all of the fall holy days (trumpets, atonement, tabernacles first day,last great day) fall in a three week or so period. In biblical times Gods' people would gather and stay for the entire period rather than going through the often long journey of going home and returning.