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Seven Sabbaths

Seven Sabbaths. Part 6 Tabernacles. Tabernacles. Tabernacles.

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Seven Sabbaths

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  1. Seven Sabbaths Part 6 Tabernacles

  2. Tabernacles

  3. Tabernacles • The Feast of Tabernacles is a week-long harvest festival. Tabernacles is also known as the Feast of the Ingathering, Booths or Sukkot (variations in spellings occur because these words are transliterations of the Hebrew word pronounced “Sue-coat”). • History records that four huge candelabra were constructed, lighted, and attended by young men ascending ladders periodically with pitchers of oil to keep them burning. The light from these lamps illuminated the whole city, and around them danced distinguished men with torches in their hands, singing hymns and songs of praise. The dancing as well as the music continued until daybreak.

  4. Tabernacles • The Feast of Tabernacles was the final and most important holiday of the year. • The Feast of Tabernacles begins five days after Yom Kippur on the fifteenth of Tishri (September or October). • It is a drastic change from one of the most solemn holidays in a year to one of the most joyous. The word Sukkoth means “booths,” and refers to the temporary dwellings that Jews are commanded to live in during this holiday, just as the Jews did in the wilderness. • The Feast of Tabernacles lasts for seven days and ends on the twenty-first day (3x7) of the Hebrew month of Tishri, which is Israel’s seventh month.

  5. Tabernacles • What were they to remember? • Matthew Henry’s commentary explains: • 1.) The meanness of their beginning, and the low and desolate state out of which God advanced that people. Note: Those that are comfortably fixed ought often to call to mind their former unsettled state, when they were but little in their own eyes.

  6. 2.) The mercy of God to them, that, when they dwelt in tabernacles, God not only set up a tabernacle for Himself among them, but, with the utmost care and tenderness imaginable, hung a canopy over them, even the cloud that sheltered them from the heat of the sun. God’s former mercies to us and our fathers ought to be kept in everlasting remembrance. They were to keep this holiday in thankfulness to God for all the increase of the year; however, the emphasis is that Israel’s life rested upon redemption which in its ultimate meaning is the forgiveness of sin. This fact separates this holiday from the harvest festivals of the neighboring nations whose roots lay in the mythological activity of pegan gods. Tabernacles

  7. Tabernacles • Biblical Account of the Feast: • Leviticus 23: 34-44 • Numbers 29:12-40 a total of 189 sacrifices made.

  8. Tabernacles • They lived in booths made of boughs of trees and palm trees for the seven days of the feast (Lev. 23:42). • The first and eighth days were High Sabbaths. • The Priest offered sacrifices on the seven days. • On the eighth day there was a solemn assembly. • Men carried cluster (Lulav) of branches to the synagogue to wave as they rejoiced before the Lord.

  9. Tabernacles • Water was also an important part of the Feast of Tabernacles. (Jewish Customs) • Before the festival, the Priests taught on every passage in Scripture dealing with water. • In Old Testament Biblical times, gold pitchers of water were brought from the pool of Siloam to the temple. The Priest would pour out the water over the altar to signify Israel’s gratitude for the rain that had produced the harvest, and would pray for rain in the next year. The priest would recite Isaiah 12:1-3.

  10. Tabernacles • The Cluster of Branches may have consisted of: (Jewish tradition) (Lulav) • Branches of the Palm trees (taw-mawr – date palm) • The boughs of a thick tree (Myrtle tree) [neh 8-15] • Willows of the brook (Willow or Poplar) • Citron Branches

  11. Tabernacles • There is spiritual significance based on the characteristics of the cluster: • The palm bears fruit (deeds) but is not fragrant (spiritual blessing). • This is like a person who lives by the letter of the law but does not have compassion or love for others.

  12. Tabernacles • There is spiritual significance ……… • The myrtle only has fragrance, but can’t bear fruit. • This is like a person who may recite scripture, but doesn’t produce fruit.

  13. Tabernacles • There is spiritual significance ……… • The willow can neither produce fruit nor fragrance. • This is like a person who is intrigued by different doctrines but never produces fruit.

  14. Tabernacles • There is spiritual significance ……… • The citron creates both fruit and fragrance. • This is like a faithful believer who lives a balanced life in wisdom before God and man. Believers should strive to be like the citron.

  15. Tabernacles • Spiritual Lessons from the Feast of Tabernacles • God is our Shelter • Jesus is the Living Water • Jesus Washes away our sins • Jesus is the Light of the World • Jesus is preparing our Permanent Home

  16. Tabernacles • Prophetic Significance • Revelation 21:3 • Zechariah 8: 18-22 • Jesus is the Tabernacle of God • John 1:14 • Colossians 2:9 • He is in our Midst through the Name of Christ • Matthew 18:20

  17. Tabernacles • The Beginning of the Millennium • Micah 4:1 • Only the Tabernacles & Passover are mentioned in Millennial Worship • Ezekiel 45: 21-25 • Zachariah 14: 16 • Hosea 6: 3 explains that Christ will come as the Latter & Former Rain:

  18. Tabernacles Former Rain Latter Rain

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