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Based on the command of YHVH ELOHIM to His people, they must gather and celebrate at least three times in a year.
Deuteronomy 16:16 "Three times a year all your males shall appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks, and at the Feast of Tabernacles…”(Also see Exodus 23:14)
Attendance was so vital that at least all heads of house (males) were ordered to appear at whatever locale God determined for the full length of each ‘feast’. Among the ‘churches’ today that ‘keep’ these feasts of God, few, if any, uphold the God ordained ‘summons’ to fully attend each.
Among the Kadazans, known to many as Jesus People, it has been a tradition and customary practices that had been embedded into their culture to celebrate harvest festival as a thanksgiving to Kinoingan for a bountiful harvest. This was practiced among them even before they were colonized by the British and those before them i.e. Sultan of Brunei and Sultan of Sulu.
Based on their genesis story, Kinoingan or Kinorohingan (tindal) (which means a name above all names or the Ancient One) gave His only daughter (in some version Son) as a sacrifice to save His children (Kadazan - which means 'being who has His breath (ka)) from hunger from a famine arising from a poor harvest.
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