Leviticus 23:40-43: Why would Jehovah command Israel to celebrate the journey through the wilderness? The wilderness is not just about the trials, but also teaches us about who our God is and helps us to understand his wrath. Lesson borrowed from Jim McGuiggan’s book: Celebrating the Wrath of God: Reflections on the Agony and Ecstasy of His Relentless Love, Chapter 9: Celebrating the Wrath of God. https://youtu.be/Cw1raePd0FQ

1. Celebrating the Wild
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Leviticus 23:40-43
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5. Jehovah your God … who led you through the great
and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and
scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water
Deuteronomy 8:15

6. How can we CELEBRATE the wilderness???
Jehovah your God … who led you through the great
and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and
scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water
Deuteronomy 8:15

7. How can we CELEBRATE the wilderness???
Count it ALL JOY, my brothers,
when you meet trials of various kinds
James 1:2
Jehovah your God … who led you through the great
and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and
scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water
Deuteronomy 8:15

8. How can we CELEBRATE the wilderness???
Count it ALL JOY, my brothers,
when you meet trials of various kinds
James 1:2
that he might humble you and test you,
to do you good in the end.
Deuteronomy 8:16

9. Know then in your heart that,
as a man disciplines his son,
Jehovah your God disciplines you.
Deuteronomy 8:5

10. But on the next day all the congregation of the people
of Israel grumbled against Moses and against Aaron,
saying, “You have killed the people of Jehovah.”
Numbers 16:41

11. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men,
who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Romans 1:18

12. For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone,
declares the Lord Jehovah; so turn, and live.
Ezekiel 18:32

13. Sinners in the
Hands of An
Angry God!
by Jonathan Edwards

14. In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you,
but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,”
says Jehovah, your Redeemer.
Isaiah 54:8

15. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out
against it, for their evil has come up before me.
Jonah 1:2

16. Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!
Jonah 3:4

17. Who knows? God may turn and relent and turn
from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.
Jonah 3:9

18. God relented of the disaster that he had said he
would do to them, and he did not do it.
Jonah 3:10

19. That is why I made haste to flee to Tarshish; for I knew that
you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and
abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster.
Jonah 4:2

20. And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which
there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know
their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
Jonah 4:11

22. You who are of purer eyes than to see evil
and cannot look at wrong,
why do you idly look at traitors
and remain silent when the wicked swallows up
the man more righteous than he?
Habakkuk 1:13

23. Yet I will rejoice in Jehovah;
I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Habakkuk 3:18

24. You shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days.
You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah
Leviticus 23:40-41

25. We implore you
on behalf of Christ,
be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20

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28. A Table in the Wilderness
#19
Celebrating the Wilderness
Leviticus 23:40-43
Compiled and Presented by:
Dave Stewart
2022 November 27
www.1corinthians1614.com
Synopsis: Why would Jehovah command Israel to celebrate the journey through the wilderness? The
wilderness is not just about the trials, but also teaches us about who our God is and helps us to
understand his wrath.
Lesson borrowed from Jim McGuiggan’s book: Celebrating the Wrath of God: Re
fl
ections on the Agony
and Ecstasy of His Relentless Love, Chapter 9: Celebrating the Wrath of God.
“Let all that you do be done with love.”
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