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Messiah in the Feast of Tabernacles Leviticus 23:33-43 Deuteronomy 16:13-17 John 7:37-53

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Messiah in the Feast of Tabernacles

Leviticus 23:33-43

Deuteronomy 16:13-17

John 7:37-53

Harvest Festival – Jewish Style

1. Time

2. Transition

3. Transformation

4. Triumph

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The Jewish Calendar

1. Pesach - Passover

• First Holiday in the Calendar - 14th Nisan

• The first of the Pilgrim Festivals (Shalosh Raglaim Lev. 23 4-8)

• Celebrated in home with celebratory meal (seder) and hagadah

The Jewish Calendar

2. Shavuot - Weeks

• Forty-nine days after 2nd night of Passover, second pilgrim festival

• Season of the Giving of the Law• Festival of the Firstfruits

(wheat)• Whole night of study (Tikkun

Leil Shavuot), with Book of Ruth

• Milk Products eaten

The Jewish Calendar

High Holidays

• Rosh Hashanah – Jewish New Year - Repentance• Yom Kippur – Day

of Atonement - Reconciliation

3. Rosh Hashanah - New Year

• Rosh Hashanah - First day of the civil year, seventh month of Tishrei

• Yom Hat’ruah - Day of Trumpets

• Yamim Noraim - Days of Awe

4.Yom Kippur - Day of Atonement

• Kol Nidre - All Vows• Avinu Malkenu - • Our Father, our King, be

gracious to us and answer us, for we have no merit of our own. Deal kindly with us and save us!

• Fasting and repentance

5. Sukkot - Tabernacles

• Main themes: Booths, Ingathering, Rejoicing

• Third of the three Pilgrim Festivals• Sukkah - temporary dwellings• Lulav (Palm, Myrtle, Willow

branches bound together) and Ethrog (citron)

• Lev 23:40 And you 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 you shall rejoice before the LORD your God seven days

• Water Pouring ceremony (Isaiah 12:3, John 7:37)

6. Simchat Torah - Rejoicing over the Law

• Shemini Atzereth, the eighth day of Sukkot.

• 9th day, the Rejoicing over the Law (11th century)

• Completion and beginning of Torah cycle

Leviticus 23:42b-43 “All native-born Israelites are to live in booths so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in booths when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”

A Command to Remember

A Command to Rejoice x3

Leviticus 23:40On the first day you are to take choice fruit from the trees, and palm fronds, leafy branches and poplars, and rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.(+ Deut. 16:14,15)

The Succah

Succah City

The Four Species• Cit

The Water Drawing Ceremony

John 7:37-38 On the last and greatest day of the Feast, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him.”

The Illumination Ceremony

John 8:12 When Jesus spokeagain to the people, he said,“I am the light of the world.Whoever follows me will neverwalk in darkness, but will havethe light of life.”

God Tabernacles with Us• John 1:14 And the Word became flesh,

and tabernacled (`εσκηνωσεv - eskenosen) among us, and we beheld his glory

• Yeshua is God and Man, true God in human tabernacle

Transformation

• From within – a persona relationship

• To our world – social and political

• To all creation – environmental and cosmic

The Future Harvest

The Future Kingdom

Revelation 21:3 Behold, the tabernacle of God [is] with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, [and be] their God.

The Meaning for Today• What - God has done for you

and me - Creation, Redemption, the history of salvation

• So- we should respond - Rejoice! Praise, thanksgiving, enjoyment of life in His presence

• Who - should be involved - Everyone! Include the stranger, poor, socially excluded

• How - reciprocal nature of blessing and obedience - that your JOY may be FULL! (Deut. 16.15)