On page 1 of the Bible, God creates.

He creates in six days, and on the seventh day, he stops.

And he enters his creation like a king, entering his throne room to rest and rule.

And God does this to rest and rule with humanity.

This is seventh day rest, the ideal, the thing God created but was lost, the thing we still

hope for.

And so to remember seventh day rest and to anticipate it coming again, God told Israel to stop

on the seventh day and rest from work.

In a way we are mimicking the way God created the cosmos.

And now we want to take another step forward and look at another way God wants Israel to celebrate rest.

There are seven sacred annual feasts that are built into the calendar year.

And the role of the sun moon and stars on the fourth day of creation is to mark those.

The whole symbolic ritual calendar of Israel that you'll meet in Exodus,

Leviticus, Numbers to the Rautomy is already baked into creation in the first

fourth and seventh days of Genesis 1. Sacred time.

Sacred time. Life shouldn't be just one day bleeding into the next.

Life shouldn't be a long, grudging march of endless toil.

We're meant for so much more and to help us remember that, God gave Israel these feasts.

There is no sacred calendar rhythm more influential than the one that begins Israel's sacred calendar year,

which is Passover.

So today on the show, we're going to discuss one of the most famous stories in the Bible,

how when oppressed people, toiling as slaves to an ancient empire, were miraculously

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