Jesus Christ Reigns Over All the Earth.
“God's plan for mankind involves restoration. The Feast of Tabernacles symbolizes the restoration process.
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During this 1,000-year period, God will change even the nature of wild animals, reflecting the peace that will descend upon society.”
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Jesus and the Feast of Tabernacles.
“During the Feast of Tabernacles in the Bible, two important ceremonies took place. The Hebrew people carried torches around the temple, illuminating bright candelabrum along the walls of the temple to demonstrate that the Messiah would be a light to the Gentiles. Also, the priest drew water from the pool of Siloam and carried it to the temple where it was poured into a silver basin beside the altar.
The priest called upon the Lord to provide heavenly water in the form of rain for their supply. Also during this ceremony, the people looked forward to the pouring out of the Holy Spirit. Some records reference the day spoken of by the prophet Joel.
In the New Testament, Jesus attended the Feast of Tabernacles and spoke these remarkable words on the last and greatest day of the Feast:
"If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him." (John 7:37-38, NIV)
The next morning, while the torches were still burning Jesus said:
"I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life." (John 8:12, NIV)
Sukkot pointed to the truth that Israel’s life, and our lives too, rest on the redemption which is in Jesus Christ and his forgiveness of sin.” Excerpt from: https://www.learnreligions.com/feast-of-tabernacles-700181
There are some pictures of sukkots there, and they look just like nativity scenes. And why not, Jesus was born on the Feast of Tabernacles and circumcised on The Eighth Day which is next Sabbath.
https://christinprophecyblog.org/2018/11/on-what-jewish-feast-was-jesus-born/
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God’s Festivals as Shadows of Things to Come
Colossians 2:16-17
So let no one judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the substance is of Christ.
This passage is explained in detail in “Colossians 2:16-17: Did Paul Warn Christians Against Keeping God’s Law?” We encourage you to study that explanation to clear up several misconceptions about this passage.
In essence, Christians were still enjoying the biblical festivals with eating and drinking, and apparently were being judged by those who believed in philosophies of self-denial. Paul mentions these ascetic ideas later in the chapter: “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” (Colossians 2:21).
Some think that when Paul said the festivals are “a shadow of things to come,” it was a put-down. They think Paul was saying the festivals were not important. But another way to look at these shadows is to see that they help us picture the objects of which they are shadows. For example, the Passover clearly represents the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and foreshadowed that event. Pentecost foreshadowed the coming of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of the New Testament Church.
In the same way, the four fall festivals foreshadow events that have not yet taken place. Learn more about these important events in God’s plan of salvation.” From: https://lifehopeandtruth.com/bible/blog/gods-festivals-as-shadows-of-things-to-come/?
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The Feast of Tabernacles
“The seven-day Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:33-36), was celebrated by the ancient Israelites with makeshift shelters, recalling their transitory dwelling when they left Egypt and made their way to the Promised Land.
Also called the Feast of Ingathering (Exodus 23:16; Deuteronomy 34:22), this festival celebrated the late summer and early fall harvest in the land of Israel. In a spiritual sense it represents the great ingathering of God’s spiritual harvest of mankind following Christ’s return. This feast looks forward to the time of the earthly rule of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Himself observed this feast during His ministry and told others to do so as well (John 7:8-14). The Bible even states that instead of being done away, this feast will be observed by the gentile (non-Israelite) nations during Christ’s reign over the earth (Zechariah 14:9, 16-18).
Scripture tells us that the resurrected saints will reign with Christ. Revelation 20:4 says: “And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them . . . And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years” (compare Daniel 7:27).
The wonderful truth is that when Christ returns, true Christians from this age will rule under Him as kings and priests (Revelation 5:10; 20:6)—leading the rest of the world into God’s ways.” Excerpt from: https://www.ucg.org/beyond-today/beyond-today-magazine/the-bibles-prophetic-festivals
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The Festival of Tabernacles. Leviticus 23:33-44
“33 The Lord said to Moses, 34 “Say to the Israelites: ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36 For seven days present food offerings to the Lord, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the Lord. It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work.
37 (“‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the Lord—the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day. 38 These offerings are in addition to those for the Lord’s Sabbaths and[a] in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the Lord.)
39 “‘So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the Lord for seven days; the first day is a day of Sabbath rest, and the eighth day also is a day of Sabbath rest. 40 On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees—from palms, willows and other leafy trees—and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the Lord for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters 43 so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.’”
44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed festivals of the Lord.”
Because we are grafted in, we also need to keep the feasts. See verses: https://www.cgg.org/index.cfm/library/verses/id/6797/gentiles-grafted-in-verses.htm
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Update
Well, Monday was the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. It is not a feast like the other Holy Days, it is supposed to be a day of fasting and praying. I did fast until it was over in the evening, and I did quite a bit of praying. Praying that my daughter, Wendy will soon be well from her accident.
On Wednesday, the 30th, my neighbor,June had to use up a gift card by the end of the month that could only be used at major nationwide stores. It wouldn’t work at our local food store and our little Walmart didn’t have what she wanted, so we drove to College Station. The card wouldn’t even work at HEB even though that is a a very large chain of food stores here in TX. So we went to the food dept. at the Walmart in College Station. They don’t have all the things that she wanted, me neither, but she got a lot of organic groceries. We will have to see if it will work at Krogers (Fred Meyer in other parts of the USA) when she gets her next one, because they have a better selection of food.
On Thursday the little bus came to pick me up and it took me to Wendy’s home in College Station. Medicare pays for it when I am going there for medical reasons, but this time it was a private trip at $3.50 each way. I helped her pack up her deceased father-in-law’s clothes into his SUV and I drove it to the Mission there to donate them, but not the near new SUV ! We took his walker for Wendy to sit on when she got tired, but he was a big man and it was just a heavy nuisance.
Wendy isn’t comfortable about driving yet. I don’t like driving the 75 MPH freeway to College Station, because a lot of them are doing over 80. It is nothing but miles and miles of open road and if one of them had a blow-out at those speeds, it could involve a lot of vehicles and it would take a long time for help to get there. I hear about the pile-ups on that road. Anyway, I just don’t like to drive the freeways around here. I am used to Conroe’s 65 MPH, and they mostly stick to it, but around College Station it is just that … college students showing off. I didn’t mind driving to the mission because it was all town driving and Wendy was with me so I wouldn’t get lost.
I had taken my grooming clippers because Wendy likes me to trim the feet of her two dogs, an Australian Shepherd and an American Eskimo. They are my very sweet grand-dogs and behave very well. The bus brought me home, and it was a happy day to finally see my daughter after her horrific accident.
As usual on Friday, June, Sherry and I studied the lesson for this week’s Sabbath School, and Sherry and I went to it the next day. The lesson at church was, as always, fun. It was also the first day of Sukkot, The Feast of Tabernacles, so June wanted to spend it with her friends on Zoom, because it was a “High Sabbath” day.
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