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Episode 633: The Feast of Tabernacles Will Be Observed By All
Notes:
More Feast of Tabernacles Camaraderie and Love is coming to the World soon
WE ARE IN A LOVE COVENANT WITH OUR CREATOR GOD AND HIS SON
What two things did Jesus emphasize to His disciples just prior to His departure? Love and spreading the gospel to teach others to observe all the correct things is our goal.
John 21:15-17..Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon,.., do you love Me more than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed My lambs.” 16..again a second time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My sheep.” 17 ..”Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?” Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, “Do you love Me?”..he said to Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You.” Jesus said “Feed My sheep.
What did Jesus not say to Peter? He did not at this point talk about being more obedient, He talked about love and feeding a love laden gospel to His sheep. We have found that the Feast of Tabernacles is a major time for feeding and loving the sheep of God. The history of the True Church of God during the period of 1934 thru 1972 found that those who attended the Feast of Tabernacles grew spiritually.
Matthew 28:19-20″Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
Observing all things includes the annual Sabbaths like the Feast Days. People came together and enjoyed spiritual love and camaraderie. Following all of God’s Laws and commands are good for us. These are God’s Feast Days and He knows what is good for us. The world thinks Xmas and Halloween etc. are good for us. They have no idea, they are so deceived.
Lev. 23:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, The Feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim, holy convocations, even these are MY appointed feasts.
Mark 2:27 NKJV 27 And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
We know that Christ is the God who spoke to Moses and the others. See I Cor. 10:1-5. These are God’s or Christ’s appointed feasts. These are not the Jews Feasts, though they keep them, they belong to Christ. He set us an example of keeping them. It was the biggest physical feast in God’s calendar. However, it was not just a vacation. They were to rejoice and learn.
De 16:15 Seven days you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose. Because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.
The feast is a time to rejoice with all the bounty of the Fall harvest, a time to picture the millennial paradise coming soon. When Christ comes again he will usher in the millennial reign of paradise foreshadowed by the Feast of Tabernacles. The feast is God’s festival.
Leviticus 23:4 ‘These are the feasts of the LORD, holy convocations which you shall proclaim at their appointed times.
Therefore we will be blessed when we celebrate them. COME TO THE FEAST!
JESUS CHRIST ATTENDED THIS HOLY DAY AT THE RISK OF HIS LIFE
Jesus set us an example of how important is the Feast. Christ attended the Feast at the risk of His life. Some of us have gone to the Feast of Tabernacles at risk to our jobs. But Jesus risked his life to attend! If the Holy Days, commanded by God, and mentioned in the New Testament, were to be done away, why would Jesus have kept them at the risk of His life?
John 7:1.., for He did not desire to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him… The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its works are evil. 8 You go up to this feast; I am not yet going up to this feast; for My time is not yet fulfilled.
Jesus knew that the ruling authorities not all Jews were planning his destruction out of mad jealousies and evil spiritual influences. So he avoided the normal caravans of festival travelers from his region.
9 And saying He these things to them, He remained in Galilee. 10 But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as in secret.
Jesus came to the Feast secretly but he did not let anything deter him from attending or speaking.
John 7:14-15 NKJV 14 Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught. 15 And the Jews marveled, saying, “How does this Man know letters, having never studied?”
John 7:30-31 NKJV 30 Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come. 31 And many of the people believed in Him, and said, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?”
Jesus amazed the people regarding His depth of understanding and many began to see the truth of his Messiah ship.
John 7:37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me…
Christ risked his life to proclaim the spread of God’s love to mankind at the Feast of Tabernacles. Why did Jesus set this example for us? The over flowing love and unity is good for us. The leadership of the nation of Judah was frightened of Jesus popularity with most Jews and his obviously powerful teachings and miracles. Yet he came to the feast to proclaim.
John 7:38 NKJV 38 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”
Christ proclaims to all that rivers of God’s spirit delivering love to world will someday flow from Jerusalem to the world. The fall Holy Days foreshadow the second coming and millennial paradise of love and prosperity.
THE APOSTLE PAUL STRUGGLED TO KEEP A FEAST AT GREAT RISK ALSO
Remember Paul is the author of most of the New Testament. People today misunderstand his words and use him to justify doing away with the Holy Days of God. However note Paul’s actions.
Acts 18:19 And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews. 20 And they asking him to stay a longer time with them, he did not consent, 21 but took leave of them, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that is coming in Jerusalem,..
Paul calculating the travel time knew he had to leave to speak and face a CITY where the ruling elites wanted him stone cold dead similar to Christ situation. If the New Testament Church had already done away with these holy days doesn’t his rushing away from an opportunity to make converts seem strange? The same leadership that killed Christ also fears him and his ministry more than the other Apostles. Paul wants his teaching to be heard as part of the richness of the Holy Days.
ALL THE WORLD WILL KEEP THE FEAST OF LOVE WHEN JESUS RULES
Note the world’s soon coming future with regard to the Feast of Tabernacles.
Zechariah 14:16-19 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 17 ..whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 18 If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.