Significance of Sukkot

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On the Day of Atonement, there will be the coming of the Lord to His temple, your mind. The second coming, and the coming of the Lord to His temple, is distinct and separate events. The Day of Atonement is the coming to His temple and the Feast of Tabernacles is the second coming.
 
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Yeshua himself invokes Feast of Trumpets imagery when he says, “They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great glory. And He will send forth His angels with a great trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.”[1]
I lean more towards the seventh trumpet sounding long and hard throughout the last days from the Feast of Trumpets, through the Day of Atonement, and on through the Feast of Tabernacles right up to the eighth day.

[1] Matthew 24:30,31
 
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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.

The Feast of Tabernacles is known as the Final fall harvest of the Land, and on the eighth day will be the final harvest of souls with the Lord’s Return. The Feast of Tabernacles is in the fall on the Jewish Calendar in the month of Tishri 15-21 which would be September - October depending on the year.

The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths / Sukkot/ Ingathering) began on the 15th day of the 7th month, and, therefore, began 5 days after the Day of Atonement. During those intervening 5 days, the Israelites worked in their fields, harvesting the final crop of the year. At the conclusion of that harvest, and with many of the harvested (in gathered) fruits and crops actually hanging on the walls of their booths (tabernacles / tents), the Feast of Tabernacles began, a feast which lasted 8 days (7 days of the Feast plus the Sacred Assembly which was held on the 8th day, so it is part of the Feast also). It was also called Booths. The Feast of Tabernacles occurred at the end of the fall harvest which concluded ALL of the harvests.

On the Second Coming of Yeshua, you are not to know the day or the hour but you can know the season. You do have a promise found in the Feast of Tabernacles which is a promise of His return. This Feast is also called the “Feast of In-gathering”.[1] It is blessed picture of the Scriptural Harvest! Succoth is the third pilgrim Feast, when Israel was to come before God in Jerusalem. It is important in the last days to keep the Feast of Tabernacles for you know not when the Lord will return but you have His promise to keep His Word. In the Words of the Feast of Tabernacle are found the promises of His return.

"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.” [2] This shall be the punishment of spiritual Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

[1] Exodus 23:16.
[2] Zechariah 14:16-19




 
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The seventh feast of the Levitical convocations is the Feast of Tabernacles. Tabernacles represent the fullness of the indwelling of God in you. It is God's purpose to dwell (Tabernacle) among His people. God is building His Temple in you, the body of Yeshua, that He might have a dwelling place in which and through which He can abide among all the nations of the earth.

The seventh Feast of the Feast cycle, is part of the prophetic plan, pointing to the completion of God’s His plan of Salvation, preparing for the time the faithful will enter into the great Sabbath. “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.”[1]

God's plan of human redemption to the glory and likeness of His Son will not be completed and finished until the mystery of God is finished.[2] The Feasts of Tabernacles 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.
King Solomon dedicated the temple during Feast of Tabernacles which you may read in 1 Kings Chapter 3. Therefore because of this event, this festival is also called the Feast of Dedication. It was celebrated after the Babylonian captivity.[3]

Then the Lord my God will come and all his holy ones with him. On that day the sources of light will no longer shine, yet there will be continuous day! [4] Only the Lord knows how this could happen! And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day there will be one Lord—his name alone will be worshiped. Jerusalem will be raised up in its original place and will be inhabited … and Jerusalem will be filled, safe at last, never again to be cursed and destroyed.

[1] John 7:37-40
[2] 1 John 3:1-3
[3] Ezra 3:1-4
[4] Zechariah 14:5-16


 
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These four species to make up the temporary tabernacle represent the unity, the victory, the sorrow over loss, and the love of God. Holding these four species symbolizes the need for the faithful in Almighty to utilize all their faculties in His service. With the palm you have finally the fortitude to go and sin no more. You have the victory that crowns Yeshua as our Lord of Lords, King of Kings. With the willow, you weep for those whom you have witnessed to and witnessed their decisions and you still confessed the Yeshua is our Messiah and followed him. The citron is symbolic of our repentance and love for Yeshua. Our out life is now full with the flavor of Yeshua like characteristics. The myrtle is the symbolic of our faith and patient waiting for the Great and Terrible Day when Yeshua returns.

The rejoicing community included family, servants, orphans, widows, Levites, and sojourners. [1] 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.[2] Then God will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David and on all the people of Jerusalem. God said they will look on Him 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 [3]And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of the fall, is known as the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year.[4]

Samples of the fall crop were hung in each family's both to acknowledge God's faithfulness in providing for His people. Zion is the mountain where God will reign.[5] Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients glorious.

Many peoples will come and say, "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that you may walk in his paths." The law will go out from Zion, the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.[6] And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death in victory . . . wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the LORD has spoken it.

[1] Deuteronomy 16:13; Isaiah 27:12-13

[2] Zechariah 12:10
[3] Exodus 23:16
[4] Leviticus 23:39
[5] Isaiah 24:23; Isaiah 2:2
[6] Isaiah 25:6-8,
 
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Thank you Visionary for this informative thread!

It is interesting though that the feast of tabernacles seemed to be an evolving holiday, for example: what's written in Nehemiah differs from Leviticus. This article covers a lot about the differences -
https://thetorah.com/sukkot-in-ezra-nehemiah-and-the-date-of-the-torah/
It might be worth a study and another look at what's written about the feast of tabernacles in the New Testament.
 
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The eighth day is significant. Eight is a number for perfection. This perfection is not the same as the perfection of seven. In kabbalistic teachings, the number seven symbolizes perfection. Perfection that is achievable via natural means is represented by the seven. Eight symbolizes that which is beyond nature and its (inherently limited) perfection.

Between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot is a count of seven weeks. During these weeks, there is a tradition of working on perfecting our seven emotions (love, fear, compassion, ambition, humility, bonding and receptiveness)—one emotion per week. At the conclusion of these seven weeks we have worked on sufficiently perfected ourselves to be worthy of receiving the Torah on Shavuot. A completed person has control over all seven emotions.

Eight, on the other hand, is symbolic of an entity that is one step above the natural order, higher than nature and its limitations. That's why Chanukah is eight days long. Maccabees' resolve to battle the Greeks wasn't logical or natural. They drew on reservoirs of faith and courage that are not part of normative human nature. The miracle that lasted eight days, an oil burning that is celebrated to this day and to commemorate this comes an eight-branched menorah. Along the same idea, boys when they are eight-day old babies, are circumcised symbolizing Israel's supernatural and logic-defying covenant with God.

The eighth day of the Sukkot is the last day of the feasts separate from the seven day count but included as Shemini Atzeret. When we read the instructions for the feast of Sukkot in the book of Leviticus, there seems to be some distinction between the first seven days and the eighth day. God commanded us to celebrate the feast for seven days, starting with a holy convocation on the first day. He then continues by giving instructions for the offerings which are to be done, once again, for seven days. Subsequently, on the eighth day, there is to be a holy convocation, it is to be an assembly. [1]

There are many references to the 8th day in Scripture. The 8th day is also the first day of the week; the 8th year is the first year of a new sabbatical cycle. It is taught that the 8th day always refers to new beginnings.

Ordination of the priests
Leviticus 8:33
Leviticus 8:35–9:1
Look what happened afterward…

Leviticus 9:22–24
22 Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he stepped down after making the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings. 23 Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting. When they came out and blessed the people, the glory of God appeared to all the people. 24Then fire came out from before God and consumed the burnt offering and the portions of fat on the altar; and when all the people saw it, they shouted and fell on their faces.

[1] Leviticus 23:34–36

 
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Final Harvest should trigger the time of the resurrection on that last great day. What could be a better holy assembly than us who are the fruits of His labor gathered in the great ingathering harvest at the resurrection? [1] You have gone from the first fruits of those resurrected to the final harvest which are those that will meet the Lord in the air, those that are alive and those that are woke up by the Trump of God in the feasts of the Lord. Jude refers to the same scene when he says, “Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of His saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds.”[2]

When this work shall have been accomplished, the followers of Yeshua will be ready for His appearing. [3] Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years. Then the believers which our Lord at His coming is to receive to Himself will be a "glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing."[4] Then she will look like what Solomon described as "forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners."[5]

On the eighth and final day of the feast, the high priest of Israel, in a great processional, made up of priests and tens of thousands of worshipers, descended from the Temple Mount to pause briefly at the Pool of Siloam. A pitcher was filled with water, and the procession continued via a different route back to the Temple Mount. Here, in the midst of great ceremony, the high priest poured the water out of the pitcher onto the altar. Here Yeshua stated "I am living water" [6]

Since in Israel the rains normally stop in March, there is no rain for almost seven months! If God does not provide the "early" rains in October and November, there will be no spring crop, and famine is at the doorstep. This ceremony, then, was intended to invoke God's blessing on the nation by providing life-giving water.

It is in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles and this eighth day that the gospel of John records a fascinating event. The Son of God was saying in the clearest possible way that He alone was the source of life and blessing; that He could meet every need of the human heart. Doesn’t that remind you of Rev 22: 2 where you are brought to the throne of God? “In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.”[6] Doesn't this remind you of the branches of every fruit for the Sukkot?

[1] Leviticus 23:34–36
[2] Jude 14,15
[3] Malachi 3:4
[4] Ephesians 5:27
[5] Song of Solomon 6:10
[6] Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13
[7] Revelation 22:2; Joel 2:23-29
 
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Collection of what I have studied and learned and how I put it all together..

That's a lot to remember!

Knowing where it all came from will deflect charges of plagiarism - we do not know which parts are your work and which are from other sources.
 
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That's a lot to remember!

Knowing where it all came from will deflect charges of plagiarism - we do not know which parts are your work and which are from other sources.
It was God lead, inspired, and with my unique perception.
 
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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 given; because that Yeshua was not yet glorified.)[1]This waiting for the rains is also mentioned by James who said that you are to be patient just like a farmer is patiently waiting for the spring rain to get the seed to grow, and the fall rains so that it brings the crop to head and ready for the harvest. [2] The water and the "pillar of light" provided during the wilderness wandering (when people dwelt in tabernacles) was temporary and in contrast to the continuing water and light claimed by Yeshua during this feast which commemorated that wandering period.

The visions which speak of the coming of all nations to worship at Jerusalem refer to the Feast of Tabernacles on the occasion of their pilgrimage “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. Yet, 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 sees therein: and in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.”[3]

[1] John 7:37

[2] James 5:7
[3] Zechariah 14:16
 
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This feast speaks eloquently of Yeshua's millennial Kingdom - of a new beginning away from the ravages of the curse of sin. In that day, the earth will give her full bounty, all animals will be docile, armies will no longer march, every man will sit under his own fig tree and righteousness will become a reality in the earth. “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in my entire holy mountain, said the LORD.”[1] But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken it.[2]


[1] Isaiah 65:25
[2] Micah 4:4; Deuteronomy 31:10-13
 
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I was reading commentary about the feast of tabernacles and came across something interesting.
Rashbam said: "That is why at harvest time they [= the Jews] are to leave [their] houses that are full of all good things and live in huts, so that they will remember that in the wilderness they had no land [which they owned] and no houses in which to live. It is for that reason that God set the holiday of Sukkot at the time of the harvest of the threshing floor and the vat,[21] so that their hearts will not grow haughty about their houses that are full of all good things, lest they say “Our own hands have won this wealth for us.”

That made me think about the impermanence of sukkot/tabernacles and it reminded me of Hebrews 11:
Heb 11:8-16 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. (9) By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: (10) For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (11) Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. (12) Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable. (13) These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. (14) For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. (15) And truly, if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned. (16) But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

The Israelites dwelt in tabernacles in the wilderness, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob dwelt in tabernacles. Couldn't it be said of all of those written about in Hebrews 11 that they are the people of tabernacles, who are looking for "a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God"?

So as we sit in our tabernacles, isn't it a time to reflect on:

Heb 13:14 For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
 
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