Burning Bush Festival
The Burning Bush Festival is first and foremost a Festival of the people, for the people, and by the people.
The Feasts and festivals of Ancient Israel had a purpose. They punctuated the life of people who came together in the union and discipline of a free society as the nation of God bound by love in order to take care of the Weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith which include caring for the needs of our neighbors and the widows and orphans of our society through Pure Religion in matters of health, education, and welfare. We are NOT to provide for the needy of society through the Covetous Practices and the men who call themselves benefactors but who exercise authority one over the other like the socialists do.
The Way of Christ was like neither the way of the world of Rome nor the governments of the gentiles who depend on those fathers of the earth through force, fear and fealty who deliver the people back in bondage again like they were in Egypt. Christ's ministers and true Christians do not depend upon systems of social welfare that force the contributions of the people like the corban of the Pharisees which made the word of God to none effect. Many people have been deceived to go the way of Balaam and the Nicolaitan and out of The Way of Christ and have become workers of iniquity.
The Christian conflict with Rome in the first century Church appointed by Christ was because they would not apply to the fathers of the earth for their free bread but instead relied upon a voluntary network providing a daily ministration to the needy of society through Faith, Hope, and Charity by way of freewill offerings of the people, for the people, and by the people through the perfect law of liberty in Free Assemblies according to the ancient pattern of Tuns or Tens as He commanded.
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Abraham sought to do the will of God by freeing people from the ways of Nimrod's city state like Ur and Haran. Moses came back to Egypt to free the people from the bondage of Egypt. And Jesus came to set people free from the world of sin for his way was The Way, the truth and the light.
The rulers of the world who call themselves Benefactors bring people into bondage as merchandise or human resources by spreading among them "gifts, gratuities and benefits". The Festivals were meant to help people fulfill what Christ commanded his disciples in order to facilitate the way of righteousness as a society of love and charity through faith instead of force.
The Festivals were not about a day but a way. All the Feasts had a purpose and a plan to benefit the people by helping them learn to love one another in a system of service rooted in the righteousness of God.
The ancient Fall festivals of free people—like Ancient Israel and their Feast of Booths (or Tents) and other fall or harvest festivals seen amongst other cultures and nations—had a purpose within those societies that was essential for the health and well being of the people and the maintenance of liberty within their community. The nobility and virtue of the festivals were dependent upon the character and spirit of the people who held them.
The The Burning Bush Festival is what you make it. The Church offers hundreds of acres and its resources so that you will have a place from which to gather and create the fellowships of the early Church in faith, hope and charity. It is up to you to make that happen in your life and in the lives of those who you love and love the Lord.
 Festival August 30 -September 2, 2024. |
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In these free societies, where the people were not bound together by the legal forces contracts or the autocratic power of a ruling class, the people were bonded together by the “perfect law of liberty” through the relationships of love, honor, benevolence, diligence, peace and courage. In other words by virtue.
- “A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.” Daniel Webster
To nurture the gracious bands of a free society it was necessary to gather and renew those bonds of mutual friendship and virtue. This is a primary purpose of the Burning Bush Festival. But it is also to learn to share and share to learn.
- “Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.” John Adams
The Burning Bush Festival is dedicated to the purpose of sharing information, knowledge and skills that lead to independent living for men and women. Alternative methods of pursuing the virtuous and righteous happiness of a free society are a primary focus at all festivals.
All cultures change over time or elements creep into them and alter their original nature and character. The only protection from the sloth and slavery of an apathetic society is the individuals diligence and dedication to setting all men of the same virtue free by sharing the skills of liberty.
- “When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice.” —Barbara Amiel
Like ancient Israel some people seek to be freed from bondage and in attempting to govern themselves in righteousness they come face to face with their own lack of virtue. What they were doing during their annual festivals often seems to be as mysterious today as the symbol of the “burning bush” that inspired Moses to seek to set those people free. Throughout history mankind has moved from bondage to liberty and back to bondage again. Coming together to celebrate the principles and precepts that have set all mankind free is a passion that burns the hearts of virtuous men and women all over the world. It is that fire which does not consume.
- “A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.” —Daniel Webster
The theme of life and liberty is independent living.
- “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” —Thomas Jefferson
Independent living is responsibility in action. It is your Festival and therefore it is up to you to make it a festival worth celebrating by being a part of it. If you have a talent, skill or just wish to be of value and service to others in their quest for virtuous liberty come and share it with others.
- “It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.” —Jose Marti
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- ↑ Matthew 20:25-26 But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister;
Mark 10:42-43 But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
Luke 22:25-26 And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye shall not be so: but he that is greatest among you, let him be as the younger; and he that is chief, as he that doth serve.