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Feast of Tabernacles
October 5, 2017

Five days ago was the Day of Atonement, a Holy Day that is a day of fasting rather than feasting, a Holy Day that foreshadows the banishment and exile of Satan and all that is evil. With Satan and all that is evil banished and exiled, all that can remain has the potential for good without influence from evil. This will be a time better than our happiest childhood memories and one that is so far-fetched and hard to grasp, that we are hard pressed to understand the signfiicance of what will be. Each day we hear and see reports detailing the effects of that which is evil. If you can imagine a time when evil is no longer, you can imagine the hope that is brought to us through the Feast of Tabernacles.

From the Book of Leviticus, we know that the Feast of Tabernacles is a time to rejoice and celebrate with family.

Leviticus 23:34-43
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. 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.

From these passages we could conclude that offerings made by fire and building and living in a temporary shelter are required. The temporary shelter is required of native born Israelites. Offerings mentioned anywhere in the Old Testament are replaced by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ who became an offering for us once and for all, meaning no other offering is required. We do know that for seven days we are to rejoice before God. Looking forward to this future time immediately after the banishment and exile of Satan and all that is evil, there will be much rejoicing to be done.

Hebrews 10:1-10
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.  For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me, to do thy will, O God. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

We do know that after Satan and all that is evil is exiled and banished, that the Feast of Tabernacles will be observed. We also know that discretion will be given to countries to observe or not observe, and those who choose not to observe will be punished.

Zechariah 14:16-21
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. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the LORD'S house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a celebration that looks forward to a future time when Satan and all that is evil and exiled and banished, a time when happiness is everywhere and people can rejoice as all threats associated with evil are no more. In a world filled with evil, the hope of this incredible time of peace is what we celebrate through the Feast of Tabernacles.

All verses are from the King James Version.
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