Sukkot

FEAST

of

TABERNACLES

Feast of Booths ~ SUKKOT ~ Feast of Ingathering

With the final blowing of the Shofar, the Jewish high holy days draw to a close and the focus of the Jewish community shifts from the solemnness of Yom Kippur to the jubilant celebration of the festival of Sukkot. Sukkot begins on the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Tishrei, which is 5 days after Yom Kippur. Sukkot is the last of the three pilgrimage festivals (Shalosh R'galim).

This autumn harvest festival is known by a variety of names. Like Passover and Pentecost, it has both historical and agricultural meaning.

• To give thanks for the fruit harvest and the bounty of nature in the year that had passed. At the end of the year when you gather in your labors out of the field (Ex. 23:16); after you have gathered in from your threshing-floor and from your winepress (Deut. 16:13). Agriculturally, Sukkot is a harvest festival and is sometimes referred to as Chag Ha-Asif , the Festival of Ingathering.

• Historically, Sukkot commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert, living in temporary shelters. Leviticus 23:43, That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.

And the Word will shall become flesh and shall be tabernacled among you. John 1:14

• God is our shelter
• Yeshua Messiah is the tabernacle or dwelling place of God
• He is our high priest

Celebrate this holiday with joy and share in the ancient ways of Yeshua by making a spiritual pilgrimage in your heart. Allow Him to dwell with you!

(photo of Rodger at Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Sept 2009)