Feast of Tabernacles - Harvest Festival Message Fuller Baptist Church, Kettering October 5 2014

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

2. Harvest Festival – Jewish Style
1. Time
2. Transition
3. Transformation
4. Triumph
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3. • More? Day of teaching
• October 10-11
• Friday 7pm 10pm -
Saturday 9.30am -
6pm
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4. The Jewish Calendar

5. 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

6. The Jewish Calendar

7. 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

8. The Jewish Calendar

9. High Holidays
• Rosh Hashanah –
Jewish New Year -
Repentance
• Yom Kippur – Day
of Atonement -
Reconciliation

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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)

13. • 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)

14. 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

15. A Command to Remember
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.”

16. A Command to Rejoice x3
Leviticus 23:40
On 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)

17. The Succah

18. Succah City

21. The Four Species
• Cit

22. 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.”

23. The Illumination Ceremony
John 8:12 When Jesus spoke
again to the people, he said,
“I am the light of the world.
Whoever follows me will never
walk in darkness, but will have
the light of life.”

24. 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

25. Transformation
• From within – a
persona relationship
• To our world – social
and political
• To all creation –
environmental and
cosmic

26. The Future Harvest

27. 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.

28. 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)