title: The Feasts and The Future: The Cross to New Creation Foreshadowed in Israel's Feasts
author: James F. Bender
description: Jim Bender is a graduate of Covenant Theological Seminary. He has pastored churches in New York and Missouri and is currently the pastor of Nashville Baptist Church. Dan Fuller has been the bi-vocational pastor of Mount Zion Baptist Church for nearly twenty years. He and his wife are very active in their community along with their two sons.
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  PREFACE
  INTRODUCTION
  I.
  THE CALENDAR
  Dating the creation
  of the universe
  2.
  THE CHAMBER OF REFLECTION
  Prepararion
  for a journey
  3.
  KING SOLOMON'STEMPLE
  A community of brothers
  4.
  THE MOSAICPAVEMENT
  Opposiresunited
  5.
  KING SOLOMON'STHRONE
  The Master's chair
  6.
  LIGHT
  A metaphor for the word
  CONTENTS
  7.
  THE VOLUME OF THE
  SACRED LAW
  The' first grearer lighr
  8.
  THE TWO PILLARS
  A symbolof duality
  9.
  THE BUILDER'S TOOLS
  Increasing
  the power of the hands
  10.
  THE MASON'S
  CLOTHING
  Dressed for work
  II.
  THE BLADES
  The cut and thrust
  of
  clear thinking
  12.
  THE VEGETABLE WORLD
  Food, signs and attributes
  13,
  THE ANIMAL WORLD
  Images for humankind
  14.
  THE WORLD AND NATURE
  Nature
  is the other great book
  15.
  GREAT BANQUETS
  Eating and drinking
  tOgether
  16.
  THE MOST
  COMMON RITES
  Exploring
  behaviour
  through
  ritual
  17.
  LODGES OF ADOPTION
  Brothers and sisters
  18.
  IDEAS AND THE ARTISAN
  Thought
  is the raw material
  19.
  BECOMING A FREEMASON
  Reaching
  further
  CONCLUSION
  
  PREFACE
  Freemasons
  prosper
  in all free