1st_Day_Feast of Tabernacles_2022 October 10, 2022
Feast of Tabernacles of hope and faith in Lord Jesus.
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Days of Feast of Booths (2 Chron_8:13) or Feast of Ingathering (Exodus 23:16) is another name for the
Feast of Tabernacles. 7th
month: Tishri
Leviticus 23:34-35 "Speak to the children
of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for
seven days to the LORD.
(35) On the first day there
shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary
work on it.
Notice,
7 days only with the first day is a holy convocation.
We
are also strangers and pilgrims on the earth as this is a public confession as
an outward sign that we are not at home yet, that we are looking for
something far better.
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
They had faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
Just as Abraham
Hebrews 11:8-10 By faith Abraham obeyed
when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an
inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. (9) By faith he
dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in
tents with Isaac and Jacob, the
heirs with him of the same promise;
(10) for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose
builder and maker is God. {new Jerusalem}
We also wait for the New Jerusalem because Our
faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
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.
Leviticus 23:41 You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 23:43-44 (43) that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.' " (44) So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.
These are all good, but the feast is to teach us a lesson.
Deuteronomy 16:13-14 "You shall observe the
Feast of Tabernacles seven days,
when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. (14)
And you
shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter,
your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the
fatherless and the widow, who are within
your gates.
Deuteronomy
16:15 Seven
days you shall keep a sacred feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses,
because the LORD
your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your
hands, so that you surely rejoice.
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them." {we are gathering here}
Living in a temporary dwelling will teach us
that our bodies in this life are only temporary. It is not
meant to last forever. The Apostle Paul tells us: Our faith and hope in our Lord Jesus when we are
changed to spirit being in the future.
2 Corinthians 5:1-2 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. (2) For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven,
Our faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
2 Peter 1:13-14 Yes, I think it is right, as long as I am in this tent, to stir you up by reminding you, (14) knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me.
The Feast is a time to rejoice because it pictures the World Tomorrow, 1000 year Millennium.
What will it be like to live during the Millennium under the rule of the Jesus the Messiah, Creator Lord in the Kingdom of God.
Micah 4:1 Now it shall come to pass
in the latter days That the mountain of the LORD's house Shall be established on the top of the
mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and peoples
shall flow to it. {over all the nations}
Micah 4:2 Many nations shall come
and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, To the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways,
And we shall walk in His paths."
For out of Zion the law shall go forth, And the word
of the LORD from Jerusalem.
Micah 4:3 He shall judge between many peoples, And
rebuke strong nations afar off; They shall beat their swords {food} into plowshares, And their spears into
pruning hooks {fishing}; Nation shall not lift up sword
against nation, Neither shall they learn war anymore.
Micah 4:4-5 But everyone shall sit
under his
vine and under his fig tree, {own land} and no one shall make them afraid;
For the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken.
(5) For all people walk each
in the name of his god, But we will walk in the name of the LORD our
God Forever and ever.
We will have a 1,000 years of peace and prosperity. We will be the firstfruits of God's spiritual
born into God's Family.
We will have the opportunity of bringing Word of God to every human then alive and to those
are born during the Millennium.
Our faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
We
see from Scripture that Jesus Kept or observed the Feast
John 7:2 Now the Jews' Feast of
Tabernacles was at hand.
Jesus
told his followers to do what:
John 7:8-10 You go up to this feast. I am not
yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come." (9)
When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee. (10)
But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not
openly, but as it were in secret.
Jesus
also kept the feast.
John 7:11 Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said,
"Where is He?"
Notice
the Jews expected Jesus to be at the feast, as was His custom and example.
Why
did Jesus not go up with His Followers?
John 7:1 After these things Jesus
walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.
John 7:14 Now about the middle of the feast Jesus
went up into the temple and taught.
Are
we not to follow Jesus example in life. His Way of Life.
1 Peter 2:21 For to this you were
called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps:
1 John 2:3-6 Now by this we know that we
know Him, if we keep His commandments. (4) He
who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. (5) But whoever keeps
His word, truly the love of God is
perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. (6) He who says
he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
Jesus in His life set us an
example to follow and we are to do likewise.
The Feast of Tabernacles pictures Jesus dwelling with mankind and ruling
over the nations for 1,000 years. The
start of the Millennium. Our faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
All
people will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacle during the Millennium.
Ezekiel 45:25 "In the seventh month,
on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast,
he shall do likewise for seven days,
according to the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering, and the
oil."
Zechariah 14:16-17 And it shall come to pass that
everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from
year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast
of Tabernacles. (17) And it shall be that whichever of the
families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD
of hosts, on them there will be no rain.
After
returning to the earth in power and glory, Jesus will reeducate the people
through His annual festivals. It is so
much harder to unlearn “false things” than to learn new truths.
Jesus
will rule with a rod of iron, He will have to force
individuals to be happy.
Revelation 12:5 She bore a male Child who
was to rule
all nations with a rod of iron. And her Child was caught up to
God and His throne.
We
saw from the past that Jesus will rule from Jerusalem and we will rule under
Jesus and we will be Spirit born Saints.
Daniel 7:14 Then to Him {Jesus} was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, That all peoples,
nations, and languages should serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass
away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
Daniel 7:27 Then the kingdom and
dominion, And the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven, Shall be given to the people, the Saints of
the Most High. His kingdom is
an everlasting kingdom, And all dominions shall serve and obey Him.'
Do
we know who will be in the Kingdom of God
Luke 13:28 There will be weeping and
gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God,
and yourselves thrust out.
Ezekiel 37:24 "David My servant shall be king over them, and they shall all
have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My judgments and observe My
statutes, and do them.
Here,
Jesus is talking to His disciples
Matthew 19:28 So Jesus said to them,
"Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve
thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Revelation 5:10 And have made us kings and priests to our God; And we shall reign on the earth."
1 Corinthians 6:2 Do you not know that the saints will
judge {rule} the world? And if the world will be judged by you,
are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
Revelation 2:26-27 And he who overcomes, and keeps My works until the
end, to him I will give power over the nations; (27) 'He shall rule
them with a rod of iron; they shall be dashed to pieces like the
potter’s vessels as I also have received from My Father;
Our faith and hope in our Lord Jesus
The
government of God will last forever.
Daniel 7:18 But the Saints of the Most High
shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and
ever.'
This is you and me, the Saints of our Lord Jesus
We
will be serving the people by teaching the Law of God and directing them to
take the right action. We will also be
teachers.
Isaiah 30:20-21 And though the Lord
gives you The bread of adversity and the water of affliction, Yet your teachers will not be moved into a corner anymore, But your
eyes shall see your teachers. (21) Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying,
"This is
the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand Or
whenever you turn to the left.
Will
we be successful in teaching the people during the Millennium.
Jeremiah 31:34 No more shall every man
teach his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they all shall
know Me, from
the least of them to the greatest of them, says the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."
What
about sickness and disease, will the people be healed.
Isaiah 35:3-5 Strengthen the weak hands,
And make firm the feeble knees. (4) Say to those who
are fearful-hearted, "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will
come with vengeance, With the recompense of God; He will come and
save you." (5) Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, And
the ears of
the deaf shall be unstopped.
Isaiah 35:6-7 Then the lame shall leap like
a deer, And the tongue of the dumb sing. For waters shall burst forth in the
wilderness, And streams in the desert. (7)
The parched ground shall become a pool, And the thirsty land springs of
water; In the habitation of jackals, where each lay, There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
Food
will be plentiful in the lands
Isaiah 30:23 Then He will give the rain for your seed With
which you sow the ground, And bread of the increase of the earth; It will be
fat and plentiful. In that day your cattle will feed in large pastures.
The
wasteland will become fertile.
Isaiah 35:1 The wilderness and the
wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose;
Will
there be a new language?
Zephaniah 3:9 "For then I will
restore to the peoples a pure language, That they all may call on the
name of the LORD, To serve Him with one accord.
One
world language, like before tower of Babylon.
We
just covered why the Feast of Tabernacles was given to us by our Lord Jesus. Jesus gives us a glimpse to us what life
would be like during the Millennium (1000 years) as the Spirit of God will cover the earth as the waters cover the
sea.
Habakkuk 2:14 For the earth will be
filled With the knowledge of the glory of
the LORD, As the
waters cover the sea.
What
happens at the end of the 1,000-year period or
Millennium
Revelation 20:3 and he {angel} cast him {Satan}
into the bottomless pit, and shut him (Satan) up, and set a seal on him, so
that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things he must be released for
a little while.
Revelation 20:7-9 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison (8) and will go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to
battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea. (9)
They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the
saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. {This is the Final battle with mankind}
We
will continue, Looking forward to the weekly Sabbath, the 6th day of
the Feast of Tabernacles
