Feast of Tabernacles
the seventh chapter of John describes what Jesus said and did during the Feast of Tabernacles.
The Feast of Tabernacles is seven days long—to picture the Millennium.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were merely heirs when they dwelled on Earth (Hebrews 11:9).
While heirs they dwelled in tabernacles, or booths, sojourning in the land of promise.
Booths, or temporary dwellings, pictured that they were not yet inheritors.
That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths,
when I brought them out of the land of Egypt?…” (Leviticus 23:42-43
God says of Ephraim that they will “dwell in tabernacles,
as in the days of the solemn feast” (Hosea 12:9)
They were wanderers, waiting to inherit the promises of salvation.
He will gather the nations before Him and say: “Inherit the kingdom” (Matthew 25:34).
the festival of Tabernacles—or feast of booths—the sixth festival.
to be kept for seven days, beginning the 15th day of the seventh month
of God’s calendar
[A]nd they shall not appear before the [Eternal] empty:
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
the Lord thy God which he hath given thee” (Deuteronomy 16:13-17).
I wonder maybe, like when cain and abel brought sacrafices,
or when the angeles presented themselves to God,
even satan came, was he required to show not say.
Leviticus 23:33-35:
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.”
“[A]nd ye shall rejoice before the [Eternal] your God seven days.
It shall be a statute for ever in your generations:
ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month” (verses 40-41).
the yearly material harvest seasons in ancient Israel as
the picture of the spiritual harvest of souls.
There is a spring grain harvest(first fruits),
and the second is a main harvest(rest of man).
the festival of Tabernacles is to be held “at the year’s end” (Exodus 34:22).
the festival of Tabernacles, or booths, is called the “feast of ingathering.”
pictures the fall harvest—the great harvest of souls in the Millennium!
Zechariah 12th and 13th chapters
the meaning of the festivals of Trumpets and Atonement is made
in the 14th chapter.
The time is the Millennium. “And the [Eternal] shall be king over all the earth:
the time when “living waters”—salvation, the Holy Spirit—“shall go out from Jerusalem
“And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against
Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts,
and to keep the feast of tabernacles”
And what will happen if they refuse to obey God? (verse 17).
nations will be forced to keep the Feast of Tabernacles, from year to year,
when Christ is ruling with a rod of iron! no rain for punishment.
This eighth day, technically a separate feast, is called “the last day,
that great day of the feast” (John 7:37).
what Jesus preached about on that day: “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.?… [O]ut of his belly [innermost being] shall flow rivers of living water. (But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive?…)” (John 7:37-39).
a time when Gentiles who died in ignorance will be given an opportunity(Ezekiel 16:53)
those in Israel who died in their sins will be given opportunity (Ezekiel 37).
“These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
beside the sabbaths of the Lord?(Leviticus 23:37-38)
seem God did not do away with his holy convocations.
we will also go back to Gods calander, not romans time table
