The Feast of Tabernacles: Jesus Christ Reigns Over All the Earth

Good News Magazine ^ | 2000 | Various

[DouglasKC]

Lev 23:34 "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.
Lev 23:35 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

Last night, at sunset, began the 15th day of the 7th month. The Lord Jesus Christ commanded his followers to observe His feast by holding a holy gathering.

[sola gracia]

United Church of God needs to read the book of Hebrews. The old covenant has passed and we are in the New Covenant. Jesus Christ has become all to the New Testament saint.

[RoshYisrael]

Happy Sukkot and Shmini Atzeret (Last Great Day) to all. Our loving elder brother Yahshua HaMessiah has risen and rules over His Saints.

[kindred]

Amen brother. The article is excellent and biblically accurate and therefore many who have departed from the Word of God and followed traditions and fables will not understand that only God in the person of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour can and will bring in the millennial rule of Jesus Christ, God's only begotten Son, on the earth.
It will happen and the closer we get to the rapture of the body of Christ, the more the revolted province of the earth will reject the right ways of God and Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. They make it plain who they are by denying Scripture as the only source of truth.
Nevertheless, The Word of God stands sure as Israel is in the land and some 11 prophecies have been fulfilled in the last century till now and the last time prophecy began to be fulfilled in such manner was the Lord Jesus in His first Advent.
Psalm 2
PS 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
PS 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
PS 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
PS 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
PS 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
PS 2:6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
PS 2:7 I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
PS 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
PS 2:9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
PS 2:10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
PS 2:11 Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
PS 2:12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

[kindred]

[United Church of God needs to read the book of Hebrews. The old covenant has passed and we are in the New Covenant. Jesus Christ has become all to the New Testament saint.]

I am a sola scripture Christian and not of the liberal leftist church and beleive that this article is supported by Scripture as I have read it and so it says. The United Church of God, who are they? Perhaps one of many sects.
Let God be true and every man a liar.
You should read and study the Scriptures and stop playing and changing the Word of God lest His wrath fall on you for following a sect; the Roman Church is a sect and has departed from the Word of God as the only source of truth and all doctrine.

[Quix]

THANKS.

WELL DONE.

[Uri’el-2012]

United Church of God needs to read the book of Hebrews. The old covenant has passed and we are in the New Covenant. Jesus Christ has become all to the New Testament saint.

YHvH describes His New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 - 40.

Read it and tell me are we there yet ?

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[safisoft]

The old covenant has passed and we are in the New Covenant

Because you made this statement, I assume that you do not know that the Greek verb tenses of Hebrews 8:13 are not past tense, and neither is the word "Covenant" [diatheke] found in the verse. Your preconceived theology got ahead of you Bible knowledge.

But while you are learning about studying the Bible, let me ask you a few questions:

- Can you define, using Scripture alone (no italicized words), what the "Old Covenant" is?

- Can you define, using Scripture alone, what the "New Covenant" is, where in Scripture it is promised, and to whom it was promised?

[Uri’el-2012]

Feast of Tabernacles is the birth day of Yah'shua.

The question is whether you believe and trust
the Holy Word of Elohim in Luke 1
or you trust the traditions of man

Yah'shua's birth on Sukkot
(Sukkot is the Feast of Tabernacles or booths,
where we live in temporary shelters.
Sukkot is when YHvH took on a temporary
garment to be with His People
and to die as the Lamb of G-d on Pesach
in order to bring salvation to all
who would call on His Name:
(Romans 10:13 & Joel 2:32)
Yah'shua ( YHvH is become my salvation)).

Ps. 18:2, 46; 27:1; 35:9; 38:22; 88:1;
118:14; 119:174; 140:7; Isa. 12:2; 56:1;
61:10; Mic. 7:7; Hab. 3:18

Sukkot as the date is supported by Elizabeth's
pregnancy of John the Immerser.
The time sequence is outlined by the
Holy Word of Elohim in Luke 1 with Zacharias.

Zacharias served as a high priest and
based on his tribe, we know when he served
(1 Chronicles 24:7-18) and when he was
struck dumb and when John was conceived.

John would have been born on Pesach.
Most Jews believed that Elijah
would come at Pesach to announce
the coming of the Messiah (Malachi 4:5).

Factor in when Miriam visited her cousin Elizabeth,
Elizabeth was six months pregnant (Luke 1:26)
Thus the timing of Yah'shua's birth can be ascertained.

John (1:14) tells us that Yah'shua was made flesh
and tabernacled among us.

The word "dwelt" in the Koine Greek is:

σκηνόω Strong's G4637 - skēnoō
1) to fix one's tabernacle,
have one's tabernacle,
abide (or live) in a tabernacle (or tent),
tabernacle
2) to dwell

Eight days after the beginning of Sukkot is
another Holy Feast Day called Shemini Atzeret.

Eight days after a Jewish male is born he is circumcised.

After the Eighth day comes the the most Joyous day:
Simchat Torah or
the rejoicing in the Torah (The Word of Elohim).

Nine months back from Sukkot is Chanukah
where the light entered the temple.

Biblical Dates for the Birth of Yochanan the Immerser
and for the Conception and Birth of Yeshua HaMashiach

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[SkyDancer]

[jjotto]

You forgot to mention Zechariah 14:

16 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.

17 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.

18 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.

19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

[STYRO]

Thank you DouglasKC.

[topcat54]

The Feast of Tabernacles: Jesus Christ Reigns Over All the Earth

Christ is presently reigning over the earth.

23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming. 24 Then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father, when He puts an end to all rule and all authority and power. 25 For He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. 26 The last enemy that will be destroyed is death. (1 Cor. 15)

Note the order, according to Paul: Christ is resurrected (a past event), and then His followers are resurrected at His coming, and then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father.

Note, Paul does not speak of Christ reigning physically on the earth in the future. (In fact, nowhere in the NT does it speak of Christ reigning physically on the earth. Some folks come to that conclusion by applying the same failed hermeneutical principles that got the Jews in Jesus’ day all confused, looking for a carnal king.)

There is no need to artificially insert a time period of 1000+ years between verses 23 and 24.

Christ is already reigning.

9 "Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. 30 Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, He would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne, 31 he, foreseeing this, spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that His soul was not left in Hades, nor did His flesh see corruption. 32 This Jesus God has raised up, of which we are all witnesses. 33 Therefore being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear. 34 For David did not ascend into the heavens, but he says himself: 'The Lord said to my Lord, "Sit at My right hand, 35 Till I make Your enemies Your footstool." ' 36 "Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ." (Acts 2)

Peter is quite clear. After His resurrection from the dead, Christ was raised up to heaven and seated on the throne of David.

'The Lord said to my Lord, " Sit at My right hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool." ' The futurist does not understand events this way. In futurism, Christ leaves His heavenly throne to sit on a carnal, earthly throne with enemies all around. It is not until the very end of the futurists’ thousand year that Christ’s enemies are finally defeated, and that is only by heavenly intervention of God the Father (cf. any futurist interpretation of Rev. 20:9).

[topcat54]

Because you made this statement, I assume that you do not know that the Greek verb tenses of Hebrews 8:13 are not past tense,

It wouldn’t make sense if it were, since it was about present conditions at that time almost 2000 years ago. “Passing away”, not “passed away.” But within a short time they could say “passed away.”

and neither is the word "Covenant" [diatheke] found in the verse.

Technically that is correct, but it’s a non sequitur. The immediate context is the new covenant (diatheke kainos; see verse 8). Verse 13 refers to both “new” (kainos) and “waxing old” (palaioo). What are these referring to if not covenant?

Your preconceived theology got ahead of you Bible knowledge.

Ditto.

[topcat54]

YHvH describes His New Covenant in Jeremiah 31:31 - 40. Read it and tell me are we there yet ?

Thankfully, we have more than just the OT to explain to God’s people what He meant by the term. So, the answer to your question is, “yes, we are.”

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood (kainos diatheke), which is shed for you. (Luke 22:20)

4 And we have such trust through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think of anything as being from ourselves, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who also made us sufficient as ministers of the new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life. (2 Cor. 3)

And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. (Heb. 9:15)

22 But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, 23 to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are registered in heaven, to God the Judge of all, to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of Abel. (Heb. 12)

The new covenant, as given to us by Jesus and His apostles, was instituted when His blood was shed for the forgiveness of the sins of His people. The word “new” only makes sense in contrast with something else, something, well, old.

The old covenant involved the blood of animals shed by a human priesthood before a physical altar in a man-made temple, along with the other trapping, the “shadows of good things to come” (Col. 2:16,17) .

The new covenant was established by the blood of Christ, the great High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, at a “temple made without hands” (John 2:19).

We can rejoice that the old carnal ways, temporary pointers to messiah, have been put away forever. The new covenant is a universal truth extending to all nations, the world. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son.”

[DouglasKC]

United Church of God needs to read the book of Hebrews. The old covenant has passed and we are in the New Covenant. Jesus Christ has become all to the New Testament saint.

Biblically the feasts of Jesus Christ our Lord fall outside of the covenants. The old covenant was agreed to by the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Yet the feasts of the Lord, including the weekly sabbath, had apparently already been introduced to Israel by God himself long before they made the old covenant:

Exo 5:1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.'

So they knew that God wanted them to observe a feast BEFORE the old covenant was struck.

Exo 12:17 So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
Exo 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
Exo 12:19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.

Again this was given BEFORE the old covenant was instituted. These are the feasts of Passover and Unleavened Bread. The festivals of our Lord Jesus fall outside of the covenants.

Further evidence of this is Zechariah:

Zec 14:16 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.
Zec 14:17 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.
Zec 14:18 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.
Zec 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

In the future, after Christ returns, note that it's STILL a condition of worship of Jesus Christ that his followers observe his holy days.

The books of Hebrews notes many changes in the administration of the new covenant and old covenant, but changing or banning the Holy days of Jesus Christ is not among them. Biblically at least.

[Uri’el-2012]

Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in My blood (kainos diatheke), which is shed for you. (Luke 22:20)

The New Covenant seems to be associated
with the celebration of Passover.

Do you celebrate Pesach ?

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[DouglasKC]

Note the order, according to Paul: Christ is resurrected (a past event), and then His followers are resurrected at His coming, and then comes the end, when He delivers the kingdom to God the Father.

In your theological understanding when did/is/are/does the saints of God become resurrected?

[Diego1618]

Biblically the feasts of Jesus Christ our Lord fall outside of the covenants. The old covenant was agreed to by the Israelites at Mount Sinai. Yet the feasts of the Lord, including the weekly sabbath, had apparently already been introduced to Israel by God himself long before they made the old covenant:

You nailed it. The Feasts and Sabbaths of The Lord were never part of the Old Covenant and not only predated Sinai.... I believe they predated the Egyptian Captivity. More importantly.....we are never told to discontinue their observance...........anywhere in the new scriptures.

Great article....... Douglas! Thanks.

[topcat54]

In your theological understanding when did/is/are/does the saints of God become resurrected?

At the day of the Lord, which comes as a thief in the night, when Christ returns to put an end to death and deliver up the kingdom to the Father (cf. John 5:28,29; 11:24,25; Acts 24:15; 1 Thess. 5:2; 2 Peter 3:10).