Leviticus 23:33-44. The LORD said to Moses, "Say to the Israelites: `On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. For seven days present offerings made to the LORD by fire, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made to the LORD by fire. It is the closing assembly; do no regular work.
Today, on the first day of the feast, each participant had to collect twigs of myrtle, willow, and palm in the area of Jerusalem for construction of their booth. These "huts" or "booths" were constructed from bulrushes as joyful reminders of the temporary housing erected by their forefathers during the Exodus wanderings.
Leviticus 23:40 On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month. 42 Live in booths for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in booths 43 so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God. 44 So Moses announced to the Israelites the appointed feasts of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 16:14 And you shalt rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates.
The Name...
Feast is Mo'ed or mo'edim in Hebrew and means rehearsal or memorial or appointed time, and is often translated as festival or feast in this case.
Tabernacles is the name given for the tents that the Israelites dwelt in for the 40 years. It is celebrated today with temporary structures each family makes out of branches and other make shift materials. The "booth" in Scripture is a symbol of protection, preservation, and will be where the saints will be when they are fleeing from the wrath of the devil into the wilderness.
Psalm 27:5 For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Psalm 31:20 You shalt hide them in the secret of your presence from the pride of man: you shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
Isaiah 4:6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the day time from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and for a covert from storm and from rain.
Feast of Tabernacles to me represents both the past, when the Israelites spent time in the wilderness as they sojourned to the promised land and the future, when we will all have to flee [ on wings?? ] to the wilderness in the last days. It is celebrated after Yom Kippur [ Day of Atonement ] in the fall. It is the last of the feasts of the Lord with a special eighth day attached to it. The Jewish Calendar in the month of Tishri 15-21 which would be September - October depending on the year is where you will find it. Tabernacles (Booths / Sukkot/ Ingathering) began on the 15th day of the 7th month, and, therefore, began 5 days after the Day of Atonement. This “Feast of In-gathering” is blessed picture of the Scriptural final Harvest! Succoth is the third pilgrim feast, when Israel was commanded to come before God in Jerusalem. It lasted seven days only, yet at the end of this feast; on the eighth day is a Holy Sabbath. It was a separate feast, a one day festival.
It is the only feast mentioned during the Yeshua's reign..
Zechariah 14:16...19 "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left . . . 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.”
What Yeshua said during this feast...
John 7:37-40 “In the last day, that great day of the feast, Yeshua stood and cried saying, 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.' (But this spoke he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet glorified.) Many of the people therefore, when they heard this saying, said, 'Of a truth this is The Prophet.”
That saying has many vivid thoughts run through the believer's minds, the memory of the rock where water came flowing out during the travels through the wilderness. The priests on the eighth day would go out and gather the flowing waters out of the Pool of Siloam with great ceremony to start a new cycle on the eighth day, and this water is taken into the temple to be poured on the altar. The living waters where the river flows out from the tree of life.
The rejoicing community included family, servants, orphans, widows, Levites, and sojourners.
Exodus 23:16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of your labours, which you have sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labours out of the field.
Deuteronomy 16:13 You shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that you have gathered in your corn and your wine: 14 And you shalt rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. 15 Seven days shalt you keep a solemn feast unto the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless thee in all yours increase, and in all the works of yours hands, therefore you shalt surely rejoice.
Isaiah 27:12-13 Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together one by one like handpicked grain. He will bring them to his great threshing floor—from the Euphrates River in the east to the brook of Egypt in the west. In that day the great trumpet will sound. Many who were dying in exile in Assyria and Egypt will return to Jerusalem to worship the Lord on his holy mountain.
King Solomon dedicated the temple during Feast of Tabernacles which you may read in 1 Kings chapter 3.
Ezra 3:1-4 Zechariah 14:5-16 Therefore because of this event, this festival is also called the Feast of Dedication. It was celebrated after the Babylonian captivity.
Zechariah 12:10 “Then I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. They will look on me whom they have pierced and mourn for him as for an only son. They will grieve bitterly for him as for a firstborn son who has died. Besides the construction of the booths, the festival included the ingathering of the labor of the field , the ingathering of the threshing floor and winepress, and the ingathering of the fruit of the earth
Nehemiah 8:14-17 . They found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to live in booths during the feast of the seventh month 15. and that they should proclaim this word and spread it throughout their towns and in Jerusalem: "Go out into the hill country and bring back branches from olive and wild olive trees, and from myrtles, palms and shade trees, to make booths"--as it is written. 16. So the people went out and brought back branches and built themselves booths on their own roofs, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God and in the square by the Water Gate and the one by the Gate of Ephraim. 17. The whole company that had returned from exile built booths and lived in them. From the days of Joshua son of Nun until that day, the Israelites had not celebrated it like this. And their joy was very great.
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, said God.
Josephus in his writings referred to the Feast of Tabernacles as the holiest and greatest of the Hebrew feasts.
The Syriac name for the Pleiades is Succoth/booths.
Hope this triggers your mind into studying this further ....
as advised I have begun this thread with the intent of Learning as much as possible about the feast of tabernacles .
