Sukkot and the Other Biblical Feasts

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For those of you who are open to celebrating the Biblical Feasts, Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles, The Feast of Booths) is coming up in less than 3 months. Has anyone here celebrated this Feast, and if so, what did it look like for you, and what did it mean to you?
 
I have no continuing city here ,but seek one to come.I feel like I live in a tabernacle most of the time . Praise God. Heb 11: 16 But now they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly : therefor God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he has prepared them a city.
 
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As I cannot take the whole week off work and go to any of the community Sukkot camps I camp out in the back yard. I do take the High Sabbath days of the feast off work. I find it humbling to say the daily prayer for sukkot and to think of everything the LORD has blessed me with. During this week and I cannot help but think of the spiritual and material things he has blessed me with. This feast always reminds me that if I am to be part of the second exodus I have so much to learn and perhaps not much time to learn it. I thank God for all the wise men and women who believe in the second exodus and are teaching others to prepare. Even with all the information coming out about the second exodus I believe what the Lord has said about it

Jeremiah 15:2 And if they ask you, 'Where shall wego?' tell them, 'This is what the LORD says: "'Those destined for death,to death; those for the sword, to the sword; those for starvation, to starvation;those for captivity, to captivity.

Revelation 13:10 If anyone is to be taken captive,into captivity he will go. If anyone is to be killed with a sword, with a swordhe will be killed. Here is a call for endurance and faith of the saints:
 
I listened to my church who said that we must not worship God through rituals. I wasn't even to study them to learn what they were about. I was elderly when I broke enough with my church to study them and found God's complete plan for our salvation laid out in these feasts. It made my life center on God by how I lived it day to day. It was like being set free of rules to keep me from living.

My family is still bound by the rule to "don't do this, and don't do that". The NT was supposed to set us free, and God meant it that way. Christ's forgiveness is freely given, we are included without becoming Jews. The rituals have spiritual meanings, and it is the spiritual meanings that God sees. If we worship in spirit and truth, we don't have to also worship by what we do, except we must keep in mind that faith without works is dead. For the early pagans, they wouldn't have accepted God if it meant changing completely how they lived, so these rules our church has for us to keep us away from the feasts were beneficial then. We aren't pagans any longer, we are Christians. It is such a delight to use these feasts in our worship, now.

What a joy it has been to be free to live out the rituals that make those spiritual principles clear in human terms!
 
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RedTent said:
My family is still bound by the rule to "don't do this, and don't do that". The NT was supposed to set us free, and God meant it that way. Christ's forgiveness is freely given, we are included without becoming Jews. The rituals have spiritual meanings, and it is the spiritual meanings that God sees. If we worship in spirit and truth, we don't have to also worship by what we do, except we must keep in mind that faith without works is dead. For the early pagans, they wouldn't have accepted God if it meant changing completely how they lived, so these rules our church has for us to keep us away from the feasts were beneficial then. We aren't pagans any longer, we are Christians. It is such a delight to use these feasts in our worship, now.
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The Passover, first listed in Exodus, is a cleardepiction of the Crucifixion of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus, day-by-day,hour-by-hour. Even the time Jesus was on the cross, the day before theannual Sabbath, was the exact time of the burning of incense (prayer time) bythe High Priest in the temple worship. If one adheres to the learning ofthe feasts, it will open up a window, enabling us to see in greater detail, thedynamics of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Without it, I think, we cannot appreciate the blessings of truth andgrace as much as He would desire.
 
I just days off for Sukkot approved by my boss. I feel very blessed to be able to take the whole week off again. Praise God!
 
KohenMatt said:
For those of you who are open to celebrating the Biblical Feasts, Sukkot (The Feast of Tabernacles, The Feast of Booths) is coming up in less than 3 months. Has anyone here celebrated this Feast, and if so, what did it look like for you, and what did it mean to you?
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My first Feast of Tabernacles was in 1970. Seven days of church services in which the Kingdom of God and the Millenium are taught and explained. Then there is the eighth day, The Last Great Day (John 7:37) which is the shadow of the Great White Throne Judgment.

I have come away from each Feast refreshed, rejuvenated and rededicated to the knowledge of God's truth and His ways.
 
kenisyes said:
My wife and I had a ministry of restoring the fulfullied feast of Sukkot for nearly thirty years. I think we are still the only Christians who build the sukkah from fresh wild materials every year. Enjoy: http://www.kenbehrens.com/Tabernacles.pdf
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We do this differently, are understanding of a tabernacle is a temporary dwelling, so we go to the place God places His name each year and stay in a motel, hotel or condo. These serve as temporary dwellings to remind us that we...

Heb 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.

And seek the Kingdom of God.

Our experience.
 
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I just days off for Sukkot approved by my boss. I feel very blessed to be able to take the whole week off again. Praise God!
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Not sure what your experience has been but I have lost good jobs to keep the Feast. Each time, I have been rewarded with another job at least as good and in the last instance, much better. My current employer and I have an understanding, he understands that I will not compromise with God's Feasts and will go. He has been very accomodating, in return I have been very willing to do over and above what he requires of me. We have a great relationship. God rewards faithfulness and obedience.
 
RedTent said:
I listened to my church who said that we must not worship God through rituals. I wasn't even to study them to learn what they were about. I was elderly when I broke enough with my church to study them and found God's complete plan for our salvation laid out in these feasts. It made my life center on God by how I lived it day to day. It was like being set free of rules to keep me from living.

My family is still bound by the rule to "don't do this, and don't do that". The NT was supposed to set us free, and God meant it that way. Christ's forgiveness is freely given, we are included without becoming Jews. The rituals have spiritual meanings, and it is the spiritual meanings that God sees. If we worship in spirit and truth, we don't have to also worship by what we do, except we must keep in mind that faith without works is dead. For the early pagans, they wouldn't have accepted God if it meant changing completely how they lived, so these rules our church has for us to keep us away from the feasts were beneficial then. We aren't pagans any longer, we are Christians. It is such a delight to use these feasts in our worship, now.

What a joy it has been to be free to live out the rituals that make those spiritual principles clear in human terms!
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Exactly, the 7000 year plan of salvation is revealed in the annual Holy Days.
 
john832 said:
Not sure what your experience has been but I have lost good jobs to keep the Feast. Each time, I have been rewarded with another job at least as good and in the last instance, much better. My current employer and I have an understanding, he understands that I will not compromise with God's Feasts and will go. He has been very accomodating, in return I have been very willing to do over and above what he requires of me. We have a great relationship. God rewards faithfulness and obedience.
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My boss is atheist. She used to begrudgingly allow me to not work on the Sabbath, as well as 7 days off of work. But God has given me favor with her, and now she asks me in advance about when I'll be gone every fall.

Praise God for the unwarranted favor He gives me.
 
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KohenMatt said:
My boss is atheist. She used to begrudgingly allow me to not work on the Sabbath, as well as 7 days off of work. But God has given me favor with her, and now she asks me in advance about when I'll be gone every fall.

Praise God for the unwarranted favor He gives me.
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Great for you. Gotta love it, don't you. Have a very blessed Feast season.
 
And the same to you. We're doing a Mikveh (Baptism/Cleansing/Repentance) Service in between Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur). What do you folks do for either of those days?
 
Trumpets is to us the shadow of the Christ's return. The warnings of war and destruction of the first six and then the seventh trump which is the shadow of the return of Christ and the resurrection of the dead in Christ (and of course the change of those in Christ alive at His coming).

Atonement is the twofold shadow of the goat which had the lot of the Lord on it, the making at one of the whole world with God by His atoning sacrifice. This shortly follows Christ's return as the order of the Holy Days shows. The second goat (led into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man Rev 20:1-3) shows the incarceration of Satan and the beginning of the Millenium with the responsibilty for sin laid on the head of it's true author.

Of course we fast on Atonement.
 
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And the same to you. We're doing a Mikveh (Baptism/Cleansing/Repentance) Service in between Feast of Trumpets and Yom Kippur). What do you folks do for either of those days?
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On the Day of Atonement several of us gather at a river to toss bread in the flowing water as a symbol of casting off all the sins of the past year.
 
RedTent said:
On the Day of Atonement several of us gather at a river to toss bread in the flowing water as a symbol of casting off all the sins of the past year.
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I've heard of several groups doing that before.

For us, we have a lengthy service with a lot of confession and repentance over trespasses and sins that we know about, as well as the ones in us that we don't know of. Most of us usually fast, as an example of afflicting yourself. It's not a fun celebration by any means, but it is powerful.
 
Less than 3 weeks until Sukkot! We're celebrating the Feast of Trumpets next Thursday with a Mikveh/Baptism in the river, and then celebrating Yom Kippur on the 4th, and starting Sukkot on the 18th!

May all of you choosing to celebrating these awesome days approach them with expectation for revelation and intimacy with our God!
 
Just a friendly update of encouragement....

Sukkot is only 7 days away!

This time next week I'll be celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. My family and I will have sent up our tent for the next 9 days, and we'll be surrounded by friends and family for the duration of the festival.

Our conference is about "Possessing the Land". Just as God sent Joshua and Israel across the Jordan to possess the land set aside for them, God is sending us to possess the inheritance He has for us in our lives.

Truth is, we've been promised an inheritance by God. Sadly, too many people are content with the knowledge that there is an inheritance waiting for them out there some day, some where. But since God's Kingdom is here and now, we can possess that inheritance now, and use it for God's glory.

Looking forward to it!
Matt
 
Yep, Saturday. Give or take a day depending on how people view the moon or the calendar.
 
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