Fasting Day and Night

[wayfaring man]

"Day time fasting" + "night time eating" is not consistent with the Biblical theme of prayer and fasting.

Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. <-----> Esther 4:16

[ Note: Esther's thought of possibly perishing was not from going 3 days and nights without food or drink, but from being possibly sentenced to death by the king Ahasuerus.]

Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward hungry. <-----> Matthew 4:1+2

Fasting only during daylight is another way of missing out on the full effects of prayer and fasting. Such daylight fasting is common among Muslims.

To Know God's Word is to Know The Truth.

wm

 

[DYOLF]

Lev 23:27 The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned.

Jdg 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

 

[wayfaring man]

Lev 23:27 The tenth day of the seventh month is the Great Day of Forgiveness. It is a solemn day of worship; everyone must go without eating to show sorrow for their sins, and sacrifices must be burned.

Well, guess I'm prone to discount what is most often a "ritualized form", of fasting - which is for the most part done out of a sense of duty to "the law", instead of pleading as The Spirit spontaneously leads for mercy and grace.

Jdg 20:26 Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.

In the context of the above the children of Israel were in the middle of an arduous, bloody battle with their own kinsman, and therefore likely didn't want to be a bit weakened in their flesh by a sustained fast...once again not the kind of fasting that speaks of Christ. But the kind which still fits well with militants after the manner of this world, who war in the flesh, rather than by The Spirit.

Much of The Old is revised by The New.

wm