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Y'SHUA IN THE FEASTS
OF ISRAEL
SESSION FOUR
D. Feast of Tabernacles
1. Names
a. Sukkot
-- Feast of Tabernacles, Booths
b. Feast
of Ingathering (final harvest)
2. Date -- begins
on 14th day of Tishri (seventh month)
3. Biblical
References
a. Lev.
23:34-36, 39-43
b. Deut.
16:13-15
c. Ex.
23:16
4. Historical
Observance
a. Construction
of leafy booths - sukkah
b. Themes
(1)
Reminder of desert experience
(2)
Thankfulness for the harvest -- physical, spiritual
provision
(3)
Time of great joy
5. Feast of
Tabernacles During Y'shua' Lifetime
a. Water
pouring ceremony
(1)
Prayers for rain
(2)
Reminder of God's provision of water in wilderness
(3)
Symbolized Holy Spirit (Joel 2:28)
b. Hoshanah
Rabah -- the Great Hosanna
(1)
Ps. 118:25
(2)
Hoshanah -- save now
(3)
Water and light
6. Y'shua' Role
in Feast of Tabernacles
a. Living
Water
(1)
John 7:2, 14, 37-39
(2)
John 4:13
(3)
Is. 55:1
(4)
Life and redemption
(5)
Restoration and forgiveness
b. Light
of the World
(1)
John 8:12
(2)
Mishna -- commentary on Jewish Scriptures...
(3)
Shekinah -- the Glory of God
(4)
Col. 1:19
c. Y'shua
as our Tabernacle
(1)
John 1:14
(2)
He dwelt -- tabernacled -- among us
7. Feast of
Tabernacles Today
a. Building
of sukkah -- booth
b. Harvest
festival
8. Prophetic
Fulfillment of Feast of Tabernacles
a. Y'shua'
millennial reign on earth
(1)
Y'shua will rule from Jerusalem
(2)
Zech. 14:16-17
(3)
Nations will go to Jerusalem to celebrate Tabernacles
b. Y'shua
our Tabernacle
(1)
Rev. 21:3-4
(2)
God will dwell -- tabernacle -- among us
(3)
Whole earth as God's sukkah (tabernacle)
IV. Conclusion
A. Y'shua in
All Seven Feasts
1. Passover
-- Lamb of God, sacrificed for our sins
2. Unleavened
Bread -- Sinless Body, broken for us
3. First Fruits
-- the Resurrection and the Life
4. Pentecost
-- His Body, the Church
5. Trumpets
-- Regathered with Him at the Rapture of the
Church
6. Day of Atonement
-- His judgment of the Earth
7. Tabernacles
-- Y'shua, our Tabernacle, reigning on Earth
B. Jewish Observance
of Feasts Today
1. Altered because
of destruction of Temple
2. Still of
prime importance
"The catechism of the
Jew consists of his calendar.
On the pinions of
time which bear us through life,
God has inscribed
the eternal words of His soul --
inspiring doctrine,
making days and weeks, months
and years the heralds
to proclaim His truths. Nothing
would seem more fleeting
than these heralds of time,
but to them God has
entrusted the care of His holy
things, thereby rendering
them more imperishable and
more accessible than
any mouth of priest, any monu-
ment, temple or altar
could have done."
Judaism Eternal, vol. 1, p.3
C. Future prophetic
fulfillment of Feasts
1. Spring feasts
fulfilled already, on actual dates of Jewish feasts
2. Fall feasts
yet to be fulfilled, but expected on actual dates, too
D. Role of Feasts
for Christians
1. Observance
of feasts is not commanded
2. Knowledge
of feasts is important
a. Knowledge
of Y'shua' life on earth
b. Understanding
of His work in our lives
c. Understanding
of His work in the future of the Earth
d. Encourages
faith
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