When God delivered Israel from slavery, he led them to the wilderness where he made an everlasting covenant with them. God describes his covenant with Israel as a marriage. In Jeremiah 2:2 God says of those early days, “I remember the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown” (NIV). God commanded Israel to celebrate the anniversary of their deliverance each year with a festival, called Passover, and the anniversary of when they entered into covenant with God in the wilderness at the festival of weeks, also known as Pentecost. Each of God’s appointed festivals points…