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The Feast of Tabernacles
The Feast of Tabernacles (Booths or Shelters) is celebrated on the 15th day
of Ethanim (Tishri) the seventh month in the sacred calendar.
This feast begins a week during which all 'Israelites born' are
required to live in temporary dwellings or shelters. (Lev. 23:39-43). It is, at
its basic level, a memorial of the time when Yahweh made His people live in
tents and temporary shelters in the wilderness when He brought them out of the
land of Egypt.
At a higher level it is also a reminder or memorial of the fact that the
Almighty came down from heaven to live in a Tabernacle (a tent) amidst His
people Israel. (Exodus 33:7-11 & chapters 35 to 40)
The Westminster Dictionary of the Bible has this to say about the Tabernacle
in the wilderness. "The movable sanctuary in the form of a tent which God
directed Moses at Sinai to make, that God might dwell as king among His
people." (Exodus 25:8-9) Hence it was called:
- "the dwelling" (chs 25:9 margin of RV 26:1) and as the place where
Jehovah met His people.
- "the tent of meeting" (Exodus 40:34,35 RV), and as the depository
of the tables of the Law of testimony,
- "the tabernacle of the testimony" (Exodus 38:21, ch 25:21,22,
Numbers 9:15)
- It was also known by the general designation "house of Jehovah"
(Exodus 34:26, Josh. 6:24)"
From these and other passages we can see that the literal Tabernacle which
Moses built according to the Almighty's design was merely a type, a shadow, a
physical expression of:
- Yahweh's real spiritual habitation
- His point of contact with His people
- His law court or seat of justice, which not only housed his commandments
but from where He personally dealt out Judgement.
These three functions of the physical Tabernacle find fulfilment in Yeshua
the Messiah the only begotten Son of the Most High, who is, in reality, the
true Tabernacle of God.
Consequently, we may say that the Feast of Tabernacles is also a memorial of
the Almighty's astonishing condescension to come down to earth to tabernacle or
pitch His tent with humanity in the person of His Son. For Jesus Christ is
Immanuel, GOD WITH US, God incarnate; that is the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac and
Israel taking up his abode in the tabernacle of a human body, in order to
redeem and enable mankind to obey His eternal law.
| Romans 8:3 |
"For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh:
4. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk
not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." |
Is it any wonder that the profound reality of this fact (that God is going to
tabernacle with mankind for eternity) drew from the lips of an angel these
amazing words:
| 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." |
I repeat, Yeshua the Messiah is the Tabernacle of God!; and on the
earth made new he will again dwell in the midst of His people just as surely as
He occupied the tabernacle built by Moses in the days of old. That is what the
Feast of Tabernacles is a reminder and foretaste of
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