~ Jesus Christ and The Feast of Tabernacles
~
Background ~ “Search the
Scriptures—they testify of Me” — Jesus Christ (John 5:39).
“And beginning with Moses and with all the prophets, Jesus explained to
them the things concerning Himself in all the Scriptures” (Luke 24:27). “Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or
regarding a festival or a new moon or sabbaths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the
substance is of Christ. Let no one
cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of
angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, and not holding fast
to the Head, from whom all the body [the
true Church of Jesus Christ], nourished and knit together by joints and
ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God” (Colossians
2:16-19).
The Scripture ~ … “Then the Lord
spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Israel, saying: “The
fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven
days to the Lord. On the first day there shall be a holy
convocation. You shall do no customary
work on it. For seven days you shall
offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy
convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord.
It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it”’”
(Leviticus 23:33-36). …
note: Additional Scripture for
your review is found in Numbers 29:12-40 and Deuteronomy 16:13-17.
The Messiah ~ While
Jesus Christ—The Messiah did not speak directly about this feast it is clearly
representing the uniting with Jesus Christ—The Messiah and their ultimate
rest. “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. And it shall be that 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. 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” (Zechariah
14:16-19).
Future Fulfillment ~ This
is foretelling a time when Israel is securely in their land. In that day all their sins will be
forgiven. “These all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of
them, embraced them and confessed
that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly
that they seek a homeland. And truly if
they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would
have had opportunity to return. But now
they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called
their God, for He has prepared a city for them” (Hebrews
11:13-16).
~ Robert
Lloyd Russell, ABUNDANT LIFE
NOW
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