Leviticus 23:33-44 And the LORD
spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying,
The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles
for seven days unto the LORD. On the first day shall be an holy convocation:
ye shall do no servile work therein. Seven days ye shall offer an offering
made by fire unto the LORD: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation
unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD:
it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. These
are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and
a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon
his day: Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and
beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which
ye give unto the LORD. Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month,
when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast
unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on
the eighth day shall be a sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first
day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs
of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before
the LORD your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the
LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute for ever in your
generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell
in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
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: I am
the LORD your God. And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the
feasts of the LORD.
Numbers 29:12-40 And on the fifteenth
day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall
do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a
sweet savour unto the LORD; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish: And
their meat offering [shall be of] flour mingled with oil, three tenth
deals unto every bullock of the thirteen bullocks, two tenth deals to
each ram of the two rams, And a several tenth deal to each lamb of the
fourteen lambs: And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside
the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
And on the second day [ye shall offer] twelve young bullocks, two rams,
fourteen lambs of the first year without spot: And their meat offering
and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: And one
kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering,
and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings. And on the
third day eleven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs of the first year
without blemish; And their meat offering and their drink offerings for
the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according
to their number, after the manner: And one goat [for] a sin offering;
beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his
drink offering. And on the fourth day ten bullocks, two rams, [and]
fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: Their meat offering
and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the
lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: And one
kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering,
his meat offering, and his drink offering. And on the fifth day nine
bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the first year without spot:
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks,
for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number,
after the manner: And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. And on
the sixth day eight bullocks, two rams, [and] fourteen lambs of the
first year without blemish: And their meat offering and their drink
offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall
be] according to their number, after the manner: And one goat [for]
a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering,
and his drink offering. And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams,
[and] fourteen lambs of the first year without blemish: And their meat
offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and
for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:
And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering,
his meat offering, and his drink offering. On the eighth day ye shall
have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work [therein]: But ye
shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour
unto the LORD: one bullock, one ram, seven lambs of the first year without
blemish: Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock,
for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number,
after the manner: And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual
burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering. These
[things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows,
and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your
meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that the LORD
commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 16:13-17 Thou shalt
observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered
in thy corn and thy wine: And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou,
and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant,
and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that
[are] within thy gates. Seven days shalt
thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy Godin the place which the LORD
shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thine
increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt
surely rejoice. Three times in a year shall all thy males appear
before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast
of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of
tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: Every
man [shall give] as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD
thy God which he hath given thee.
Sukkot is a memorial celebration of how Israel dwelt in booths in the
wilderness after God brought them out of captivity in Egypt. It is an eternal
memorial to be kept every year for seven days with rejoicing and one of
three requiring journey to Jerusalem to celebrate. There is also an interesting
wording in Deuteronomy that this feast is to be kept “in the place
which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall bless thee in
all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou
shalt surely rejoice.”
The Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long autumn harvest festival. Tabernacles
is also known as the Feast of the Ingathering, Feast of the Booths,
Sukkoth, Succoth, or Sukkot. The Feast of Tabernacles was the final
and most important holiday of the year. The importance of this festival
is indicated by the statement, “This is to be a lasting ordinance.”
The divine pronouncement, “I am the Lord your God,” concludes
this section on the holidays of the seventh month. The Feast of Tabernacles
begins five days after Yom Kippur on the fifteenth of Tishri (September
or October). It is a drastic change from one of the most solemn holidays
in our year to one of the most joyous. The word Sukkoth means “booths,”
and refers to the temporary dwellings that Jews are commanded to live
in during this holiday, just as the Jews did in the wilderness. The
Feast of Tabernacles lasts for seven days and ends on the twenty-first
day (3x7) of the Hebrew month of Tishri, which is Israel’s seventh
month. It is expounded in Leviticus 23:43 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: I am the LORD
your God.
Feast of Tabernacles Fulfillments
Second Coming Fulfillment
If you recall the study of
Pesach Seder (Unleavened Bread), it is on the fourteenth day of the seventh
month that Israel had to make preparations prior to the fifteenth of the
month for Sukkot, which was one of the seven moedim, a high holy day in
which no servile work could be done. And in Nisan annually it was also the
day of preparation and ultimately fulfilled when Yeshua was crucified. That
pattern of a Sabbath feast is mirrored in the building of the booths in
which Israel would live in for the duration of the seven days of Sukkot,
beginning with a holy convocation in which no servile work could be done.
So Sukkot (Tabernacles) started on the same day of the month (15th) as Pesach
Seder (Unleavened Bread) six months earlier. Sukkot, however, ends with
a holy convocation not on the seventh day of the month like Pesach Seder,
but on the eighth day.
Significance of the 8th Day
When looking at the significance of numbers in the Bible, the
number seven is agreed to be the number of completeness. There are seven
days in the week, mirroring the creation of the world by God and His day
of rest. In
Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy, there are 70 sevens that mark the
time in which God will complete His work bringing Israel back to Him. A
day is as a thousand years, 2 Peter 3:8-13, and so following the pattern
there would be 6,000 years of God working with man and 1,000 years of rest.
The
number eight represents a new beginning and we can see this represented
both historically and prophetically.
Looking at these same patterns, the eighth day is the first day of a
new week and in the 1,000 year principle, it is after the Messianic kingdom
of 1,000 years of rest on earth that the final judgment is completed and
we begin a new age in a new heaven and a new earth for time without end.
Revelation 20:11-21:7
Yeshua presented Himself as the Lamb of God on 10 Nisan in 30 AD. Four
days later on Pesach
(Passover) He was crucified on 14 Nisan and was buried for three days
and nights in the heart of the earth like Jonah in the whale. Jonah 1:17
| Matthew 12:40 So it was that transition from the 17th to the 18th of Nisan
that Christ was risen from the dead in His glorified body on the eighth
day having defeated death for us. That Sunday was the
wave
sheaf offering, called Firstfruits. 1 Corinthians 15:20-26
Shavuot
(Pentecost) is to be the last of the spring moedim, or appointed times,
and takes place on the 50th day after Firstfruits. Seven weeks of seven
days are counted from the Sabbath and on that seventh Sabbath, the eighth
day is the feast of weeks, Shavuot. It was on this day in 30 AD that the
followers of Christ were gathered together and the Holy Spirit descended
upon them, for the first time those that believed were indwelt with the
Spirit of God and they proclaimed the Gospel in many languages of those
who had traveled from abroad to Israel for Shavuot, each hearing in their
own language. A new more intimate relationship with God by His Spirit was
made possible from that time forward.
If the three fall feast days of
Yom Teruah,
Yom Kippur,
and Sukkot are indeed tied to Christ’s second coming as the
four spring feasts
were tied to His first, we should expect them to similarly be fulfilled
in the same year sequentially as they were in 30 AD. As seen in the
days of repentance, it would seem that both Yom Teruah and Yom Kippur
are tied together in that time and four days later is Sukkot.
Revelation 12:6, 14-17 And
the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there
a thousand two hundred [and] threescore days. ... And to the
woman were given two wings of a great eagle,
that she might fly into the
wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times,
and half a time, from the face of the serpent. And the serpent
cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might
cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the
woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which
the dragon cast out of his mouth. And the dragon was wroth with the
woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep
the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
We see this woman, symbolizing Israel, protected from the dragon in the
wilderness. She is given a means of escape from the
time of Jacob’s trouble as promised and protected in the wilderness
after that unparalleled tribulation by the dragon that gives his power and
great authority to the beast. Revelation 13:5 It shows the transition during
the
great tribulation from phase 1, Jacob’s trouble, to phase 2 the
remnant of Israel not protected globally and those with the testimony of
Yeshua. As for Israel, she has just gone through the worst time in Jewish
history and has escaped by the hand of God once again to live in the wilderness
under His protection. It is during this time that it would seem God is speaking
comfortably to her and bringing her to an understanding of their Messiah,
possibly with the help of the
144,000
young men from the 12 tribes of Israel who are sealed with the seal of God.
Hosea 2:14-23 Therefore,
behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor
for a door of hope: and she shall sing
there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came
up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be at that day, saith the
LORD, [that] thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt call me no more Baali.
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they
shall no more be remembered by their name. And in that day will
I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the
fowls of heaven, and [with] the creeping things of the ground: and
I will break the bow and the
sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down
safely. And I will betroth thee
unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness,
and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even
betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD,
I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; And the earth
shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear
Jezreel. And I will sow her
unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained
mercy; and I will say to [them which were] not my people, Thou [art]
my people; and they shall say, [Thou art] my God.
Isaiah 35:1-10 The wilderness
and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall
rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice
even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto
it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of
the LORD, [and] the excellency of our God. Strengthen ye the weak hands,
and confirm the feeble knees. Say to
them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your
God will come [with] vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will
come and save you. Then the
eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be
unstopped. Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the
tongue of the dumb sing: for
in the wilderness shall waters
break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground
shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation
of dragons, where each lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes.
And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The
way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it [shall be]
for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err [therein].
No lion shall be there, nor [any] ravenous beast shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there; but
the redeemed shall walk [there]:
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs
and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Jeremiah 30:23-31:14 Behold, the
whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind:
it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
The fierce anger of the LORD
shall not return, until he have done [it], and until he have performed
the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families
of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the LORD,
The people [which were] left
of the sword found grace in the wilderness; [even] Israel, when I went
to cause him to rest. The LORD hath appeared of old unto me,
[saying], Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore
with lovingkindness have I drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and
thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned
with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make
merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the
planters shall plant, and shall eat [them] as common things. For there
shall be a day, [that] the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry,
Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our God. For thus saith
the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of
the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O LORD, save thy people,
the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country,
and gather them from the coasts of the earth, [and] with them the blind
and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child
together: a great company shall return thither. They shall come with
weeping, and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them
to walk by the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they shall
not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim [is] my firstborn.
Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare [it] in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep
him, as a shepherd [doth] his flock.
For the LORD hath redeemed
Jacob, and ransomed him from the hand of [him that was] stronger than
he. Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion,
and shall flow together to the goodness of the LORD, for wheat, and
for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd:
and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow
any more at all. Then shall
the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for
I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make
them rejoice from their sorrow. And I will satiate the soul of
the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,
saith the LORD.
Isaiah 51:9-23 Awake, awake, put
on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the
generations of old. [Art] thou not it that hath cut Rahab, [and] wounded
the dragon? [Art] thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of
the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed
to pass over? Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come
with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy [shall be] upon their head:
they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and mourning shall
flee away. I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou,
that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the
son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass; And forgettest the LORD
thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations
of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury
of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where [is] the
fury of the oppressor? The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed,
and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.
But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared:
The LORD of hosts [is] his name. And I have put my words in thy mouth,
and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant
the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,
Thou [art] my people. Awake,
awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD
the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling,
[and] wrung [them] out. [There is] none to guide her among all
the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that
taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up. These
two [things] are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation,
and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort
thee? Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets,
as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the
rebuke of thy God. Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken,
but not with wine: Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God [that]
pleadeth the cause of his people,
Behold, I have taken out of
thine hand the cup of trembling, [even] the dregs of the cup of my fury;
thou shalt no more drink it again: But I will put it into the hand of
them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that
we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the
street, to them that went over.
From these prophecies of Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Hosea we see the promise
to Israel is not forgotten and they reference the latter days return of
Israel in the wilderness to be comforted by God and return to the days of
her youth out of Egypt. God will make her to lie down safely and return
to faithfulness to Him.
So it is possible that while Israel is protected, she has her blindness
removed as God reveals Himself to her in the wilderness as His wrath is
poured out on the earth. There she is protected and provided for, the scriptures
revealed that they had been blinded to so that they will come out of this
time recognizing Yeshua as their Messiah and saying blessed is He who comes
in the name of the Lord. They will be His people and He will be their God.
Sukkot is a seven-day feast that is to be a joyous time of rejoicing
following the solemn Yom Kippur. If the fall feasts are fulfilled at Christ’s
second parousia as the spring feasts were in His first, then we should see
the order of events line up with His arrival.
Matthew 24:29-31, Mark 13:24-27, and Luke 21:25-28 all place Christ’s
return just after the signs of the
sixth seal of Revelation 6:12-17, which is the coming
wrath of God. As His faithful bride is not appointed to wrath, 1
Thessalonians 5:1-11, and Israel is protected on the earth from the
dragon for 3 1/2 years, Revelation 12:14-16, we see a distinct picture
of Israel
being taken swiftly out of the dragon’s grasp around the time of the sixth seal coinciding with His coming. This is also
shown in Revelation 7, where a vision of an innumerable multitude in heaven
before the throne from the
catching away of the bride and the sealing of the
144,000
of the 12 tribes of Israel on the earth prior to the wrath being poured
out.
I was recently watching a video from Olive Branch Fellowship called
The Moedim - Part 7: Sukkot where the teacher made a point I hadn’t
noticed before as the focus was on Israel in terms of Sukkot. However,
while we see Israel taken to the wilderness to dwell protected in
booths, notice what those who are standing in heaven are doing.
Leviticus 23:40-41 And ye shall take you
on the first day the boughs of goodly trees,
branches of palm trees, and the
boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the
LORD your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days
in the year. [It shall be] a statute for ever in your generations: ye shall
celebrate it in the seventh month.
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and,
lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds,
and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed
with white robes, and palms in their hands;
This would seem to indicate that both groups described in this time
just after the sixth seal and before the wrath of God is poured out are
celebrating the same feast, one group on earth and the other in heaven.
In light of the fall feasts then, that same order can be seen where the
unknown day of Yom Teruah and the blowing of the last trump would call up
the faithful resurrected and living bride to meet Him at His coming, Israel
would have just been taken to the wilderness and protected, recognizing
the coming of the Messiah and being unblinded at the fulness of the Gentiles,
and have a solemn assembly where they afflict their souls on the day of
atonement, having just come out of the
time of Jacob’s trouble where many of Israel are broken off. Then
comes Sukkot, where they are to rejoice before the Lord and live in booths
reminding them of their time in the wilderness coming out of Egypt where
God saved them from captivity.
If that is the case, and Israel’s repentance is completed and blindness
lifted, the eighth day of Sukkot will truly be a time of great rejoicing.
I’ve always been a Christian, although not always a good one. I remember
in my early teens when I was baptized of my own choice and the weightlessness
I felt after. It was a tangible thing in my soul that I knew had changed
in me. I’m so excited for this time for remnant Israel as a nation,
not longer blinded, protected in the wilderness to realize just as their
forefathers were saved from Egypt into the wilderness, so too will they
be as they learn of the Messiah they were blinded to. 42 months later they
will enter into the Promised Land and the Messianic Kingdom. In this way
I believe the realization of their sins and true repentance will wipe away
their sins as they accept Christ and the Lord will teach them, perhaps through
the
144,000.
Messianic Kingdom Fulfillment
Zechariah 14:16,17 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 it shall
be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall
be no rain.
We see here that all during the
Messianic
Kingdom, all the nations will have to keep the feast of tabernacles.
I believe the ultimate fulfillment of this fall feast will be in eternity,
when God tabernacles with men once again.
Revelation 21:2,3 And I John saw
the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of
heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and
he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself
shall be with them, and be their God.
List of Dates
Sukkot will occur on the following days of the secular calendar:
Jewish Year 5784: sunset September 29, 2023 - nightfall October
6, 2023
Jewish Year 5785: sunset October 16, 2024 - nightfall October 23,
2024
Jewish Year 5786: sunset October 6, 2025 - nightfall October 13,
2025
Jewish Year 5787: sunset September 25, 2026 - nightfall October
2, 2026
Jewish Year 5788: sunset October 15, 2027 - nightfall October 22,
2027
Jewish Year 5789: sunset October 4, 2028 - nightfall October 11,
2028
Jewish Year 5790: sunset September 23, 2029 - nightfall September
30, 2029
Jewish Year 5791: sunset October 11, 2030 - nightfall October 18,
2030
“Be not overcome
of evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
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