Last Great Day - the Eighth
Day 2017 September 16, 2017
The Eighth Day:
Following
the Feast of Tabernacles is a final High Day. It's designated as an Eighth Day,
different from the seven-day Feast of Tabernacles but included as part of the
Feast of Tabernacles. It is known as the
Last Day of the Feast, or as I was taught, called Last Great Day. Meaning, the 8th Day is a Holy Day in its own
right and the end of FOT, but separate High Day.
Leviticus
23:36 For
seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy
convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It
is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.
Leviticus 23:39 'Also on the fifteenth day
of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you
shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall
be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day
a Sabbath-rest.
Numbers 29:35 'On the eighth day you shall have a sacred assembly. You shall do no
customary work.
The
8th day is called Shemini Atzeret (Eighth Day of Assembly).
In
ancient times, the Feast of Tabernacles (FOT) starts with a water-drawing
ritual, which by pouring out the remains of last year’s water symbolized faith
that the coming year’s rains would fall just in time.
Since
Jews were celebrating the FOT and did not want rain during the feast, because
they lived in booths. The prayer for rain in their prayers was
made on the 8th Day, in which the Jews ask God not only for rain but for the
right amount of rain to be a blessing and not a curse; rain that will take care
of the a people with fertile crops, not drown them in a major flood.
On this 8th Day it was also the
custom and tradition to draw / fetch water from the fountain or pool of Siloam,
some of which they drank with loud shout of praise and thanksgiving, and some
was poured on the altar, while they sang from one location to another of joy. The priest filled
a golden vial with water from the fountain of Siloam,
which was borne with great seriousness, attended with the noise of trumpets,
through the gate of the temple, and being mixed with wine, was poured on the
sacrifice on the altar
Isaiah 12:3-4 You will draw water joyfully from the wells of
salvation. And you will say at that time:
(4) "Give thanks to the
LORD; call on his name. Make known his actions among the nations. Proclaim that
his name is exalted.
Rain,
of course, is made up of water, descending from the skies. It is a type of the Holy Spirit of God. Comparing God's Spirit to rain, the prophet
Joel writes,
Joel 2:28-29 "And it shall come to
pass afterward That I will pour out My
Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old
men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions. (29) And also on My
menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.
Isaiah
the prophet wrote:
Isaiah 55:1 "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, Come to the waters;
And you who have no money, Come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.
Jesus
gives us the living waters: Samaritan
women
John 4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give
him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a
fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."
On
the 8th day, the Jews would parade seven times around the altar while the
people recited Psalms 118 with trumpets through the gate of the Temple, in
memory of the seven times around the walls of Jericho.
Psalms
118:25-26
Save now, I pray, O LORD; O LORD, I pray, send now prosperity. (26) Blessed is
he who comes in the name of the LORD! We have blessed you from the house of the
LORD.
Perhaps
at the very moment that the priest was pouring water on the altar, Jesus' voice
rang out: If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink.
Let’s
now turn to, find what Jesus said about this day
John 7:2 Now the Jews' Feast of
Tabernacles was at hand.
The FOT was
for 7 days but the feast was continued for eight days, and the eighth or last
day was the most important, and was called the great day of the feast, and is
the closing scene to the FOT. On this
day they finished the reading of the law, which they begin at the
beginning of the feast.
There is some
disagreement over this day, but this is the way I see it. We may see it different. The 8th day was all about water
and this is what Jesus said. It is not
really clear. So what happens on the 8th
Day.
Rivers of Living Water
John 7:37-38 On the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me
and drink.
(38) He who
believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of
living water." (if anyone - All
people)
Living Water, what is this.
John 7:39 But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom
those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified.
Jesus
was not talking about physical thirst here. He was revealing that if any man
have spiritual thirst, and believes on Him, he can come to Jesus and drink in
the Holy Spirit. Living waters.
A NEW BEGINNING
The
8th Day, then, represents the completion of the FOT, and the beginning of LGD,
according to God's Plan. It represents a NEW BEGINNING. This "new beginning" requires
"rain" -- a type of the Spirit of God poured out in order to produce
a new crop and a new harvest!
The
8th Day represents the beginning of a new RAINY SEASON, during which the earth
is nourished by rain from the heavens.
Spiritually, then, it represents the pouring out anew of God's Holy
Spirit and the looking forward to a NEW HARVEST for the Kingdom of God!
After
the lake of fire, a new heaven and a new earth will appear. The new earth will
become the headquarters for all future projects of the God Family is one of the
things this 8th Day represents.
Let’s
look what John said, “New Heavens and a New Earth”
Revelation
21:1-4 Now
I saw a new heaven and a new earth,
for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. Also there was no
more sea.
New
Jerusalem come down out of heaven to the earth, and become the capital of the Kingdom
of God
(2) Then I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. (3) And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He
will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. (Think, the Father
is with us)
(4) And God will wipe away every tear from their
eyes; there shall be no more death,
nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no
more pain, for the former things have passed away."
We found that the 8th Day is a “New Beginning”
when Jesus creates new heavens and a new earth.
Jesus told John:
Revelation
21:5 Then
He who sat on the throne said, "Behold,
I make all things new." And He said to me, "Write, for these
words are true and faithful." (a
new beginning – all things new)
Fountain of the water of
life
Revelation 21:6 And He said to me,
"It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I
will give of the fountain of the water
of life freely to him who thirsts.
(Jesus Same words – Holy Spirit)
Revelation
21:7-8 He
who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. (8) But the cowardly,
unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and
all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
Malachi 4:1 "For behold, the day
is coming, Burning like an oven, And all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly will be stubble. And the day
which is coming shall burn them up,"
Says the LORD of hosts, "That will leave them neither root nor branch. (burn then up)
Malachi 4:3 You shall trample the wicked, For they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet On
the day that I do this," Says the LORD of hosts. (ashes under the soles of your feet)
John then describes the
“holy city,” the New Jerusalem
Revelation
21:9 Then
one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last
plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the
bride, the Lamb's wife."
Revelation
21:10-16 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a
great and high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
(11) having the glory of God. Her light was like a
most precious stone, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. (12) Also she had a
great and high wall with twelve gates, and twelve angels at the gates, and
names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (13) three gates on the
east, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, and three gates on
the west.
(14) Now the wall of the city had twelve
foundations, and on them were the names
of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. (15) And he who talked with me had a
gold reed to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.
(16) The city was square: its length was the
same as its width. He measured the city with his rod, and it was about 1,374
miles long. Its length, width, and height were the same. (17) He also measured
its wall. According to the human measurement that the angel was using, it was
252 feet.
Revelation
21:22-23
But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord
God Almighty and the Lamb are its Temple. (23) The city had no need of the
sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The
Lamb is its light. (No Temple – We are
the temple of the Holy Spirit)
Notice:
Outside this city, in the magnificent New Earth, will dwell ALL THE NATIONS OF
MANKIND that will be SAVED, and given immortality and eternal life!
Revelation
21:24-27
And the nations of those who are saved
shall walk in its light, and the kings
of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. (25) Its gates shall not
be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there).
(26) And they shall bring the glory and the honor
of the nations into it.
(27) But there shall by no means enter it anything
that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
New Heavens and a New
Earth, Isaiah the prophet describes
Isaiah
65:17-19
"For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth; And the former
shall not be remembered or come to mind. (18) But be glad and rejoice
forever in what I create; For behold, I
create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, And her people a joy. (19) I will rejoice in Jerusalem, And joy in My
people; The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, Nor the voice of
crying. (New Beginning)
What did the Apostle Peter
say:
2 Peter
3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great
noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (11)
Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
(12) looking for and hastening the coming of the
day of God, because of which the heavens
will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent
heat? (13) Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
God will share with us, His
creation
Isaiah 66:22-23 “For as the new heavens and the new earth Which I
will make shall remain before Me," says the LORD, "So shall your
descendants and your name remain. (23) And it shall come to pass That from one
New Moon to another, And from one
Sabbath to another, All flesh shall come to worship before Me," says
the LORD.
(still observe the Sabbath)
Revelation
22:3-5 And
there shall be no more curse, but the throne
of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.
The Father and Jesus will be here on the earth.
(4) They shall see His face, and His name shall be
on their foreheads. (5) There shall be no night there: They need no lamp nor
light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them light. And they shall reign
forever and ever.
Revelation 22:13-14 I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last." (14) Blessed are those who do His commandments,
that they may have the right to the tree
of life, and may enter through the
gates into the city.
Revelation
22:15 But outside are dogs and sorcerers and
sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a
lie. (Ashes under out feet)
Revelation
22:17 And
the Spirit and the bride say, "Come!" And let him who hears say,
"Come!" And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take
the water of life freely. (water of
life)
Revelation
22:20-21
He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming quickly."
Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! (21) The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be
with you all. Amen.
The
Last Great Day or the 8th Day pictures a New Beginning when the New Jerusalem
comes down and the Father and our Elder Brother will make Their home on the
earth.
Then,
this is exciting
Genesis 1:28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and
multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have
dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
every living thing that moves on the earth."
Psalms 8:6 You have made him to have
dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
Hebrews 2:5 For He has not put the world to come, of which we speak, in
subjection to angels.
Remember, this is speaking of the “world to come”—not today’s world.
Hebrews 2:8 YOU HAVE PUT ALL THINGS IN
SUBJECTION UNDER HIS FEET." For in that He put all in subjection under
him, He left nothing that is not put under him. But now we do not yet see all things put under him.
The
“all things” must include heavenly, as well as
earthly things
But
now: indicates that the delay is only temporary.
This
mean specially the animal world, but is here applied to the universe
In
the Moffatt translation of the Bible renders the Greek word translated “all
things” as “the universe.”
In
other words, for those willing to believe what God says, he says that he has
decreed the entire universe—with all its galaxies, its countless suns and
planets—everything—will be put under man’s subjection.
But
wait a moment! Before you disbelieve, read the next words in the same eighth
verse:
“But
now we see not yet all things [the
endless universe] put under him [man].” Most of the translations experts means
man.
This is one of the
greatest miracles of all time, what we will be doing in the future.
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