Good morning,
The Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot/Feast of Booths/Feast of Ingathering begins on the evening of 13 October and runs through the evening of 20 October. This is one holiday with four different names and meanings. This week we will explore these events.
The Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot/Feast of Booths/Feast of Ingathering
The Facts:
What do the Scriptures say about it?
Lev 23:34 “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day
of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the
Lord.”
Lev 23:35 “On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no
servile work therein.”
Lev 23:36 “Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YHVH:
on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an
offering made by fire unto YHVH: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no
servile work therein.”
Lev 23:39 “Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have
gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven
days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a
sabbath.”
Lev 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.”
Lev 23:42 “ Ye shall dwell in booths seven days…”
Deut 16:13 “Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days,
after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:”
Deut 16:14 “And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and
thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.”
When is it?
Lev 23:34 “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, the fifteenth
day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven
days unto YHVH.”
What are we commanded to do?
1. Keep it Holy as a regular Sabbath, doing no servile work or the things
associated with the seventh day Sabbath on the first day and the eighth day of
the feast.
2. Keep it at its time and season on the fifteenth day of the seventh month.
3. Have a holy convocation on the first day of the feast and on the eighth day
of the feast. This is a calling of the assembly or community of like-minded
believers to assemble together and celebrate Tabernacles. If no one is able to
convocate then call together your own family or travel to where another group
of believers are assembling and keeping this day Holy or set apart.
4. We are to build “booths or sukkahs” out of various branches mentioned in
Lev. 23:40. We are to dwell in booths or tents for seven days and rejoice
before YHVH. This is one of the pilgrimage feasts where all of the males have
to appear in Jerusalem before the Lord.
Tom Stearns, WASI Chaplain, 907 715-4001
Leave a Reply