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.
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 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 millennium, all the nations will have
to keep the feast of tabernacles. Therefore, it can’t be fulfilled
yet. 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 5773: sunset September 30, 2012 - nightfall October
7, 2012
Jewish Year 5774: sunset September 18, 2013 - nightfall September
25, 2013
Jewish Year 5775: sunset October 8, 2014 - nightfall October 15,
2014
Jewish Year 5776: sunset September 27, 2015 - nightfall October
4, 2015
Jewish Year 5777: sunset October 16, 2016 - nightfall October 23,
2016
“Be not overcome
of evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21
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