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FEAST OF TABERNACLES!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19
Leviticus 23
Hebrews 11:9-10
“On the first day shall be
an holy convocation: ye shall
do no servile work therein.”
FEAST OF TABERNACLES!
On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, five days after the holy observance of the Feast of the Day of Atonement, all Israel was to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. This would not be changed to the Feast of Temple even after the Temple of Solomon replaced the Tabernacle. The meaning of the word “tabernacle” is “tent.” It signifies a temporary structure. During the period of the Feast of Tabernacles, which lasted eight days, the Israelites were to construct a temporary structure using goodly trees. Leviticus 23:40: “And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days.” With the branches from goodly trees, they built booths. They were to live in the booths throughout the eight days. Nehemiah 8:16: “So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.” The first and last days were days of rest, i.e. Sabbaths.
The spiritual significance was to remind the Israelites that they should live as sojourners in the Land of Promise. This world was not their eternal home even though it was called the Land of Promise. This was the Land that God promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This was the Land that Israel was to live in as God’s holy people. The promise was one of a holy nation, which all Gentile nations were not and could not be. This was the nation through which the whole world would be blessed. This was the nation where Jesus Christ was to be born and to receive His nationality. God could not use a Gentile idolatrous nation and convert it into His own holy nation. God began from nothing and made Israel into a holy nation where everything in Israel was ordained by God including the Land. The Feast of Booths or Tabernacles was to ensure that Israel remembered to live in holiness with the hope of eternity in heaven.
MEMORISATION: Leviticus 23:42-43
PRAYER: Make me a stranger on earth, to live only for eternity in Christ, O Father, Most High. In Jesus’ Name I pray. Amen.