" You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your wine press. ( Deuteronomy 16:13)
" You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dweel in booths that your generation may knowI made the children of Israel will in booths when I brough them out of the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God."
Leviticus 23:42-43
Did you know the Feast of Tabernacles, or, Sukkot, is our final Fall feast and follows on the heels of Yom Teruah( the day of the blowing of the shofar) and Yom Kippur (see previous post)? Another definition for the Feast of Tabernacles is " habitation." In the Book of Leviticus, we see the Lord commanded the Israelites to dweel in tabernacles, or, booths ( huts, or, sukkah's pronounced SOOkah - in Hebrew) as He guided through their wilderness experience with a pillar of fire by night ( the Shekinah Glory, or manifeasted presence of God) and a cloud by day ( the Holy Spirit.)
Today's Jewish community still celebrates the Feast of Tabnacles as the Lord says - in booths, or tents, gathered with their families and recalling thier ancestor's who travelled through the wilderness.
Jews and Gentiles, as new creations in Messiah - "grafted in" ones (Romans 9:11) celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles by building a physical "sukkah" and spending time in it with our families, our reasons for celebrating are far more spiritual in nature. As I mentioned in my former psot, the Old Covenant is a type and shadow of things to come in the New Covenant. SO it is with the Feast of Tabernacles. The significance today for Jewish and Gentile believers is that God dwells WITHIN US! through the presence of the Holy Spirit! WE ARE the booths in which the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob dwells!
BEEF AND RICE STUFFED CABBAGE
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