| There are 7 Feasts of the Lord – 4 in Spring and 3 in Autumn [Fall]. |
| Passover – Unleavened Bread – First Fruits – Pentecost – then – Trumpets – Atonement – Tabernacles |
| Do the seven Feasts of the Lord outlined in Leviticus 23 point to the end times and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ? |
| What is God’s message concerning these Feasts? |
| Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: BUT THOSE [THINGS WHICH ARE] REVEALED [BELONG] UNTO US AND TO OUR CHILDREN FOR EVER, that [we] may do all the Words of this Law. |
| Is this one of those secrets revealed? |
| Psalm 25:14 The secret of the LORD [is] with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant. |
| The seven Feasts of the Lord gives us a clue as to how the end times will unfold . |
| How? |
| Well, look at how the first four Feasts out of the total seven Feasts unfolded. |
| We know that Jesus died on Passover. |
| He was buried on Unleavened Bread. |
| Then Jesus rose again on First Fruits. |
| 50 days [by Inclusive Reckoning] later, the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost. |
| Jesus fulfilled the first four Feasts perfectly on their appointed days during His First Coming. |
| So we would expect that He would fulfil the three later Feasts during His Second Coming. |
| Consider the fifth Feast: |
| It’s called the Feast of Trumpets. |
| The Feast of Trumpets is a day ordained by God to call His people together and to stir their hearts for the coming King of Israel who will reign over all the Earth. |
| This Feast speaks of many things including the Gathering unto Christ, The Return of the Lord, a prophetic look forward and backward, and the Day of Atonement. |
| Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) |
| To make atonement means to make restitution for a wrong that was done. |
| This is the day the Jews were to be humble and to apologise to God. |
| It was a chance for them to get their hearts and minds and lives in order before Him. |
| As the High Priest went into the Most Holy Place, animals were killed as part of the ceremony. |
| This Feast is when the entire nation of Israel’s sins were dealt with as a whole. |
| It is when the high priest would go inside the holy of holies only once a year and on this day to offer atonement for the sins of the entire nation. |
| What the high priest did there couldn’t make up for their sins more than once a year but this pointed to the promise of the One who could permanently pay for our sins. |
| Whereas Jesus and these animals that would have been killed – the bull and one of the goats were a thank offering but the scapegoat took on their sins. |
| The sins of Israel were to be put on the scapegoat and that animal was sent out into the desert. |
| Jesus was found guilty by the Jewish leaders and He was taken out of the city to be killed. |
| He Himself is a sacrifice that takes away our sins and the sins of the whole world. |
| Jesus fulfilled the Day of Atonement and our debt has been paid. |
| During the Feast of Trumpets, God tells His people to rest. |
| For this time, no work is allowed. |
| Both men and women give food to God as a sacrifice. |
| In Leviticus 23:24, God tells His people to get together and blow Trumpets. |
| On the same front, the sound of a trumpet is also linked to the time when Jesus will come back for His bride. |
| When He gets back, there will be a huge wedding feast. |
| In Revelation 19:9 it says blessed are those who are invited to the Wedding Feast of the Lamb. |
| Trumpets and the end times: |
| The Scriptures clearly states that Jesus will descend from heaven at the sound of a trumpet. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, |
| 1 Corinthians 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the LAST TRUMP: for the TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. |
| Paul is correlating the Feast of Trumpets to the trumpet sounding at the descent of the Lord from heaven. |
| There are too many coincidences in this pattern for us to not be inquisitive. |
| Consider the four Feasts and how Jesus fulfilled them. Then we can better understand how possibly Jesus could fulfil the three later Feasts at His Second Coming. |
| Passover |
| How do we know Jesus died on Passover? |
| Well, we know it as the last supper, but the last supper was actually the Passover Meal, the Passover Feast, the Passover Sacrifice (Pesach) on Nisan 14. It preceded the Feast of Unleavened Bread (Passover) (Pesach) which was held on Nisan 15-21. |
| Luke 22:8 And he [Jesus] sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat. |
| Luke 22:13 And they went, and found as he had said unto them: and they made ready the passover. |
| Even though the Israelites didn’t realise it at the time, they were enjoying a very important day – the 14th day of the month of Nisan. |
| In Leviticus 23, God specifically lays out when the Passover should take place: |
| Leviticus 23:5 In the FOURTEENTH [DAY] OF THE FIRST MONTH [previously called “Abib” and since Ezra’s time known as “Nisan”] AT EVEN [is] the LORD’S PASSOVER. [Passover Sacrifice (Pesach)] [Leviticus 23 then discusses the Passover, the 7 Days of Unleavened Bread, Pentecost, Trumpets, Atonement, the 7 Days of TABERNACLES, and the Last Great Day in verses 5 to 36.] [In Judaism, the “Last Great Day” refers to the eighth day of the Feast of TABERNACLES (Sukkot), also called “Shemini Atzeret”, which is considered a significant day of celebration and represents the final stage of the harvest festival.] |
| The Passover Feast reminded people of that the last plague in Egypt, when the angel of death passed over the homes of the Israelites who had painted their doors with the blood of a lamb. |
| Exodus 12:3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the TENTH [DAY] of this MONTH [NISAN] they shall take to them every man a LAMB, according to the house of [their] fathers, a LAMB for an HOUSE: |
| Exodus 12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. |
| Exodus 12:5 Your LAMB shall be WITHOUT BLEMISH, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats: |
| Exodus 12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the FOURTEENTH DAY of the same month [NISAN]: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall KILL it in the EVENING. [The start of the 15th day] |
| Exodus 12:7 And they shall take of the BLOOD, and strike [it] on the TWO SIDE POSTS and on the UPPER DOOR POST of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. [Jews equate this to forming the shape of a cross] |
| Exodus 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it. [Equates to the Passover Sacrifice] |
| Exodus 12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. |
| Exodus 12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. |
| Exodus 12:11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it IN HASTE: it [is] the LORD’S PASSOVER. [The Bible makes very clear that Israel killed AND ate the Passover on the 14th day. There was NO HASTE of any kind during that night of the Passover, though there was an extremely high level of FEAR. The Hebrew noun here translated as “IN HASTE” is “chippazown”, which is used only three times in the Old Testament. This noun is formed from the primitive root verb “chaphaz”, which is used nine times in the Old Testament. The PRIMARY meaning of the Hebrew noun “chippazown” is NOT “haste”, but FEAR. The “haste” is sometimes only a consequence of the FEAR. But the word “chippazown” inherently did not really mean “haste”. The Hebrew word that really means “haste” is “MAHAR”, as in Genesis 18:6] [“And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it IN TREPIDATION: it [is] the LORD’S PASSOVER.” – It is not the manner of eating but the ATTITUDE with which they were to eat that God was speaking about in Exodus 12:11.] |
| Exodus 12:12 For I will pass through the LAND of EGYPT THIS NIGHT [Abib, now Nisan 14], and will smite all the firstborn in the LAND of EGYPT, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD. |
| Exodus 12:13 And the BLOOD shall be to you for a TOKEN upon the houses where ye [are]: and when I SEE the BLOOD, I will PASS OVER YOU, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy [you], when I smite the LAND of EGYPT. [1 John 1:7 – The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.] |
| Exodus 12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a MEMORIAL; and ye shall KEEP IT A FEAST to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall KEEP IT A FEAST by an ordinance for ever. [General Note: The text was only divided into verses long after it had originally been written, and those divisions are not in any way “inspired”. But these verse divisions do have a major influence in how we understand any text. In Exodus 12:14 we have a clear example of a mistranslation coupled with an inappropriate division into verses.] And the day shall be a memorial for you. . . And you shall celebrate it [as] a feast to Jehovah, for your generations. . . You shall celebrate it [as] a law forever. (Exodus 12:14 Green’s Literal Translation (LIT)). Notice the 3 sentence breakdown. The Passover, goes from verse 3 to the end of the first sentence in verse 14. THAT CONCLUDES THE DISCUSSION OF THE PASSOVER. Thus it summaries the Passover as follows: “And the day (or THIS day, the 14th of Nisan) shall be a memorial for you.” THE SECOND SENTENCE IN VERSE 14 THEN STARTS A NEW SUBJECT, the Days of Unleavened Bread, which discussion continues up to verse 20 inclusive. “And you shall celebrate IT [as] a feast to YHVH, for your generations. You shall celebrate it [as] a law forever.” The Hebrew pronoun incorrectly translated as “IT” in Exodus 12:14 is “attah” and it is a SECOND PERSON pronoun – NOT A THIRD PERSON PRONOUN. The Hebrew text here clearly reads “YOU” and NOT “IT”; the text refers to people NOT the Passover day. “AND YOU (attah) SHALL CELEBRATE A FEAST TO THE ETERNAL for (or throughout) your generations. You shall celebrate it (as) a law forever.” This rendering then agrees with Leviticus 23:5-6 and Numbers 28:16-17 and Exodus 12:14-15 tell us that the Passover (the 14th) is the memorial, and the Feast is a reference to Unleavened Bread (the 15th to the 21st inclusive). |
| Feast of Unleavened Bread |
| Exodus 12:15 SEVEN DAYS shall ye eat UNLEAVENED BREAD; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. |
| Exodus 12:16 And in the FIRST DAY [there shall be] an HOLY CONVOCATION, and in the SEVENTH DAY there shall be an HOLY CONVOCATION to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of you. |
| Exodus 12:17 And ye shall observe [the FEAST of] UNLEAVENED BREAD; for in this SELFSAME DAY have I brought your armies OUT OF THE LAND of EGYPT: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever. |
| Leaven often stands for sin and decay. |
| Once yeast is added to the bread it can’t be taken out. |
| The effects of sin in our lives are similar. |
| The Jews were always killing perfect animals to briefly make up for their sins. |
| A permanent answer could only be found in the Messiah who was the perfect sacrifice without any sin. |
| Jesus’s sinless life is symbolised by the Unleavened Bread. |
| Only the Messiah, the perfect sinless sacrifice, could be a permanent solution. |
| He is the only perfect sacrifice for our sins. |
| Because Jesus died, we don’t have to face the punishment that we deserve. |
| 1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: |
| This verse clearly states that Jesus is the Passover Lamb. |
| Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed during the Last Supper. |
| Jesus and the disciples weren’t simply having Communion, they were partaking in Passover, and Jesus knew that they always did Passover in remembrance of Egypt and the Israelites being set free. |
| But now Jesus was saying do this in remembrance of Me. |
| Passover lambs were born in stables and were looked after by shepherds. |
| Jesus the Passover Lamb of God was born in a stable and was visited by shepherds. |
| While in Egypt, Passover lambs were sacrificed and God’s people were spared. |
| John 1:29 ¶ The next day John [the Baptist] seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the LAMB OF GOD, which taketh [margin, beareth] away the sin of the world. |
| When John the Baptist said this, he knew what the Passover sacrifices meant. |
| We know that the Passover lambs were sacrificed at 3.00 pm, which is the ninth hour of the day, according to the Jewish reckoning of time. This time coincides with the traditional time for the afternoon or “evening” sacrifice in the Temple. |
| Jesus died on the cross at 3.00 pm. |
| As the Passover lamb was about to be slaughtered, it escaped from the hands of the priest. Instead, Jesus the true Passover Lamb was dying for us. |
| After Passover comes the Feast of Unleavened Bread. |
| Leviticus 23:6 And on the FIFTEENTH DAY of the same month [Abib, now Nisan] [is] the FEAST (chag) of UNLEAVENED BREAD unto the LORD: SEVEN DAYS ye must eat unleavened bread. [Feast of Unleavened Bread] [The seven day period of the Days of Unleavened Bread is designated by the word “chag” to make clear that THIS is one particular period God looks upon as a “FEAST”. Then the word “chag” is not used again until verse 34.] |
| Luke 22:7 ¶ Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed. |
| In their hurry to get out of Egypt the Israelites did not have time to add leaven or yeast to their bread. |
| During this week of Unleavened Bread, Jews don’t eat anything with yeast in it. This is done in remembrance of how hard life was in Egypt and how God had set them free from slavery. |
| This is just like the blood of the Passover Lamb which sets us free from the slavery to sin. |
| In the Bible, leaven often refers to sin or decay. |
| Get rid of the old yeast so that you may be a new unleavened batch – as you really should be. |
| 1 Corinthians 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: |
| This verse sums up the Passover and Unleavened Bread perfectly. |
| We see that Jesus as the Lamb, was slaughtered on Passover and buried during Unleavened Bread. |
| Not only does He remove our sins, He nourishes our souls. |
| Jesus’s body, which was in the grave during the first days of this Feast, is like a kernel of wheat being planted and waiting to burst forth as the Bread of Life. |
| John 6:35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the BREAD of LIFE: he that cometh to Me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on Me shall never thirst. |
| This leads us to the Feast of First Fruits. |
| According to God’s calendar the first day of the week was always the day after Sabbath. |
| Sabbath is Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. |
| The first day of the week after Sabbath would be Sunday. |
| Although Passover could occur on any day of the week during any given year, the Feast of First Fruits was always on the first day of the week after Passover. |
| So First Fruits would always be on a Sunday. |
| And what day did Jesus rise from the dead? – Sunday. |
| So Jesus is the First Fruits. |
| 1 Corinthians 15:20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, [and] become the FIRST FRUITS of them that slept. |
| Paul says that Jesus is the First First of the dead in 1 Corinthians 15:20. |
| He is the First First of many people who will be resurrected to endless eternal life, because of the New Covenant of His blood, and this includes every child of God. |
| Paul uses the language of these seven Feasts all over the place. |
| The Israelites used to bring the first crop of grain to the Lord along with two loaves of bread that had been left to rise. |
| God had a plan to save more than just the Jews. |
| This plan was made clear through Jesus in Matthew 9:37: |
| Matthew 9:37 Then saith He unto His disciples, The harvest truly [is] plenteous, but the labourers [are] few; |
| Jesus tells his students the Harvest is great but the workers are few. |
| Then He puts the plan into action by telling them in Acts 1:4 to wait in Jerusalem for the Holy Spirit. |
| Acts 1:4 And, being assembled together with [them], commanded them that they should not depart from JERUSALEM, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, [saith He], ye have heard of Me. |
| The church was born on that day called Pentecost and the Harvest started with 3,000 people. |
| The Word spread to both Jews and non-Jews; the two leavened loaves of bread bringing the Harvest to us. |
| The next Feast is the Feast of Weeks, also known as Pentecost. |
| It happens 7 weeks after the Feast of First Fruits. |
| By Inclusive Reckoning – which was the biblical way of counting – 7 weeks times 7 days / week equals [our] 49 days but their 50 days. |
| Penta means 5 – a pentagon has five sides. |
| Pentecost means 50th or 50th day. |
| Leviticus 23:15 ¶ And ye shall count unto you from the MORROW after the SABBATH [this would be a Sunday], from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; SEVEN SABBATHS shall be complete: [Unlike many other translations, the KJV is correct with respect to the “shabbath” words.] |
| Leviticus 23:16 Even unto the morrow after the SEVENTH SABBATH shall ye number FIFTY DAYS [By inclusive reckoning, this would also be a Sunday]; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD. [Equates to Pentecost] [Unlike many other translations, the KJV is correct with respect to the “shabbath” words.] |
| This last verse instructs the Israelites to count fifty days from the day after the Sabbath following the First Fruits offering, and on the 50th day, they are to present a new grain offering to the Lord. |
| Then you shall present a grain, i.e. meat, offering of new grain to the Lord. |
| In the Old Testament this was a Feast to celebrate the harvest. |
| In the New Testament we see this played out, spiritually, through the harvest of souls. |
| Acts 2:1 ¶ And when the day of Pentecost was fully come [Sunday 31 AD, June 16], they were all with one accord in one place. |
| Acts 2:2 And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. |
| Acts 2:3 And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. |
| Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. |
| Acts 2:38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and BE BAPTIZED every one of you IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST for the remission of sins, and ye SHALL RECEIVE the gift of the Holy Ghost. |
| Acts 2:41 ¶ Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added [unto them] about three thousand souls. |
| The harvest of souls began with about 3,000 people being saved that day. |
| All of the Feasts up to this point are aligning perfectly with the Feast days on their appointed times. |
| These are not coincident, but divine acts of God. |
| That’s why so many Christians look to the three later Autumn [Fall] Feasts as a blueprint for His Second Coming. |
| And here’s why: |
| The three Autumn [Fall] Feasts are the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. |
| These three Feasts provide clues as to how the end times will unfold. |
| The Feast of Trumpets |
| Leviticus 23:23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, |
| Leviticus 23:24 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the SEVENTH MONTH, in the FIRST [DAY] of the month [Tishrei 1 – Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)], shall ye have a Sabbath, a memorial of BLOWING OF TRUMPETS, an holy convocation. |
| The Feast of Trumpets is celebrated with a trumpet blast and then a gathering of holy people with the Lord. |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:16 For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. |
| Re-wind to the words of Jesus: |
| Matthew 24:30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. |
| Matthew 24:31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. |
| We know for sure that there is a connection between the sound of a trumpet call and the gathering of God’s holy people. |
| Consider the next Feast, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). |
| The Day of Atonement equates to the Ransom, or Payment. |
| Many Christians incorrectly consider the Day of Atonement to be the day Jesus returns to earth and receives the fulfilment of the ransom He paid by shedding His blood, His atonement. |
| Here is an interesting type and antitype regarding Moses and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ: |
| Remember that Moses went up the mountain Mount Sinai twice to receive the Commandments of God and then he came back down the mountain from the presence of the Lord to the people – two times. |
| The first time Moses came down from the mountain was to find a people in total sin with the golden calf and indulging in revelry. |
| Moses in his anger threw and broke the stone tablets with the 10 Commandments. |
| So the first coming down of Moses from the presence of God, down the mountain to the Israelites, he came upon a rebellious and sinful people. |
| Moses went up Mount Sinai a second time to meet with God. |
| When Moses came down from Mount Sinai the second time he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. |
| Moses came back the second time radiant. |
| Jesus’s Second Coming is characterised by glory and power. |
| Recap: the first time Moses came was to a rebellious people. |
| The first time Jesus came from heaven to earth was to find a rebellious sinful people. |
| The second time Moses came down from the presence of the Lord his face was glowing and he came back to a covenant people. |
| At the Second Coming of Jesus, when He comes from heaven to earth, He will be full of glory and radiance and He will come back for a covenant people. |
| There is also the interesting connection between these two events that goes back in Jewish history. |
| According to Jewish belief, the day that Moses went back up the mountain was on Elul 1. |
| Moses was then with God for 40 days and 40 nights. |
| Therefore, Moses came down from God’s presence on the Tishrei 10 – the Day of Atonement. |
| However, Jesus’s Second Coming will be on Tishrei 1 – Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah) |
| Also, Moses’s second time coming down from the presence of God, he brought the instructions to build the tabernacle, which leads us to the next Feast. |
| The Feast of Tabernacles |
| The Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot, is a joyous celebration that follows the Day of Atonement in the Jewish calendar. It’s a week-long festival characterised by feasting, rejoicing, and dwelling in temporary shelters called sukkahs. |
| The Feast of Tabernacles is a celebration of how God provided for and protected the Israelites while they were in the wilderness for 40 years. |
| For the seven days of the festival, people live in temporary buildings, just like they did when they were in the desert. |
| In the desert, the Lord lived with the Israelites in a tent Temple called The Tabernacle. |
| The Feast also marks His presence with us as He Tabernacles with us. |
| Jesus name is Emmanuel, which means God with us. |
| He put on a temporary Tabernacle which was a human body so that he could live on Earth and be an offering. |
| The Feast of Tabernacles holds prophetic significance. |
| We believe that this Feast points forward to the Second Coming of Jesus, when He will reign over the Earth. |
| On this day God will no longer just dwell in the holy of holies, behind a veil, but He will come to Earth and live with mankind. |
| The Bible says on that day the Lord will become king over all the Earth. |
| Zechariah 14:9 And the LORD shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be ONE LORD, and HIS NAME ONE. |
| The Feast of Tabernacles is a reminder of God’s promise to come back to His people. |
| When He does, Revelation 21:4 says that death or pain will be no more and that God will wipe away every tear from our eyes: |
| Revelation 21:4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be NO MORE DEATH, neither SORROW, nor CRYING, neither shall there be any more PAIN: for the former things are passed away. |
| His coming back is the Fulfilment of the Hope we have all had in our Christian lives. |
| The Feast of Tabernacles is a Feast that celebrates the gathering of the harvest which has just taken place and is full of rejoicing in God’s blessing and abundance. |
| The gathering of harvest: |
| Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass in the last days, [that] the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. |
| So this could very well be a type and antitype of when Jesus comes and He sets up His kingdom on earth and begins His reign. |
| God has always desired to tabernacle with His people. |
| God wants to dwell with us. |
| Just look at these verses: |
| Revelation 21:3 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. [Exodus 29:45; Leviticus 26:11-12; Zechariah 2:10; 2 Corinthians 6:16] |
| John 14:23 JESUS answered and said unto him, If a man love ME, he will keep MY words: and MY FATHER will love him, and WE will come unto him, and make OUR abode with him. [NB: WE and OUR. Notice it’s the Father and the Son who makes their home INSIDE US; NOT THREE, only TWO beings live inside us by their Spirit.] |
| John 1:14 And THE WORD WAS MADE FLESH, AND DWELT AMONG US, (and we beheld HIS GLORY, the GLORY as of THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER,) full of GRACE and TRUTH. [The word begotten means derived from something which is already in existence.] |
| So the Feast of Tabernacles relates to the gathering of the Autumn [Fall] harvest. |
| Hence its other name. The Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot, is also referred to as the Feast of Ingathering. This name reflects its historical connection to the Autumn [Fall] harvest season, specifically the ingathering of crops. It’s one of the three pilgrimage festivals in Judaism, where people would traditionally gather in Jerusalem. |
| Prophetically, this seems to point to the time when the final harvest of souls has been completed and the celebration can now begin in the messianic kingdom of Jesus Christ. |
| Matthew 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked [one]; |
| Matthew 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. |
| Matthew 13:40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world. |
| Matthew 13:41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; |
| Matthew 13:42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. |
| Matthew 13:43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. |
| God doesn’t do anything by accident. There is a reason He set up these Feasts in the Law. |
| And we know that Christ is the fulfilment of the Law. |
