Tabernacles Eternal Home Feast 7 t Name Tabernacles

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Feast # 7 t Name: Tabernacles MEANING: Leviticus 23: 33 – 44 The most powerful of Israel’s feasts. It comes at the end of harvest, when crops are gathered and the people rejoice. As they look at the full harvest, people remember that 6 months previously they had dedicated the whole harvest to God (“first fruits”). Pious Jews construct a tabernacle (or “booth”, or “sukkah”) in which they and their family dwell during the feast, as a temporary reminder of earlier blessings. Tabernacles (or Sukkot) is an 8 day feast, beginning and ending with a Sabbath. During Jesus’ first incarnation the Sukkot included on each day a “libation of water” procession from the well at Siloam to the Temple. This was a symbolic act reminding the Jews of Isaiah 12: 3. Eternal Home

Feast # 7 t Name: Tabernacles PROPHETIC FULFILMENT: All nations will be blessed through Israel (Genesis 12: 3) and one day, in the future, Israel’s ancient enemies will go up year by year to worship the Lord and to celebrate the feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14: 16). Tabernacles reminds us of the latter harvest, and of Israel’s wilderness experience, when God dwelt with His people in their 40 - year temporary home. So today we are reminded that God faithfully watches over His people who presently live in a land that is not our true home [1 Peter 2: 11 ]. We are exiles living in a foreign land, yet God is with us. Furthermore He is coming again to live permanently with His people [ Revelation 21: 1 – 5 ] Eternal Home

Feast # 7 t Name: Tabernacles PRESENT JEWISH OBSERVANCE: Historically, Tabernacles looks backwards to the exodus when Israel lived in booths for 40 years [ Leviticus 23: 42 -43 ]. This reminds Jews of that time of exodus; also of the temporary nature of human existence. It also looked forwards to the future when God’s promise to Abraham will be fulfilled – when “all nations will be blessed through you” (Genesis 12: 3). Today faithful Jews construct a Sukkah outside their home (sometimes inside if outside is impossible). Often a local synagogue will construct a Sukkah and incorporate this in some way into their services. We note, however, that the modern Jewish observance is stuck in the past; it provides only a vague and uncertain hope for the future. Eternal Home

Feast # 7 Re: JESUS See John chapter 7. Name: Tabernacles t Eternal Home Jesus the bridegroom will return for His bride [ Matthew chapters 24 and 25 illustrate this ]. Jesus will return. We must recognise that the Word (Jesus / Yeshua) tabernacled amongst us [ John 1: 14 ], but in the future His abode with us will be permanent and ever-lasting [ Daniel 7: 13 -14; Revelation chapter 21 ]. In the First Century observances, on Hoshana Rabba, the final day of Tabernacles, the daily “libation of water” ceremony reached its climax – the water was poured into a basin near the altar. Let us think of Jesus’ attendance at that final Sukkot feast. As the Priest stood with an empty flask, a Man called out “if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me as scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him” [ John 7: 37 – 38; Proverbs 18: 4; Isaiah 58: 11 ]. In saying this, Jesus was claiming that the miracle in the wilderness, when the rock gushed forth water, pointed to Himself!

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