Camp With God During the Feast of Tabernacles
PRAISE The LORD!
The very last Feast of The LORD in the year is in full swing right now: The Feast of Tabernacles (also called The Feast of Booths, The Feast of Ingathering). It started this weekend, from the evening of October 2, and will end seven days later on October 9.
As you may know, I have written variously on previous occasions that, The Feasts of The LORD, commanded by God in His Word, are very much for us to celebrate in Christ Jesus.
Without controversy, we in Christ Jesus are actually Jews; we are Jews both now and FOREVER. Please believe this Truth of God with reverence and joy.
“For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.” Romans 2:28-29.
I noted in a recent Word, and I say here again, that, spiritually, indeed, naturally, these are very heightened, crucial and unprecedented days in the world.
As such, we must be like “the sons of Issachar who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do,” (1 Chronicles 12:32).
How do you celebrate The Feast of Tabernacles?
The principle is simple. The most important Wisdom for success in Jesus was taught by Mary His mother:
“Whatever He says to you, do it. ” John 2:5.
Below is what The LORD says to us to do on The Day of Atonement:
“Then The LORD spoke to Moses, saying, “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.
On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.
For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to The LORD.
On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to The LORD.
It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it. These are The Feasts of The LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to The LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day — besides The Sabbaths of The LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to The LORD.
‘Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep The Feast of The LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before The LORD your God for seven days.
You shall keep it as a Feast to The LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days.
All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made The Children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I AM The LORD your God.’ ” Leviticus 23:33-43.
Jesus Christ is THE Ultimate Sacrifice, The Final Sacrifice. Indeed, The True and Perfect Sacrifice.
Therefore, to “offer an offering made by fire to The LORD“, with reverence and Godly fear, greatly thank God and praise Him EXCEEDINGLY DAILY for The Sacrifice of Christ.
Pray and present, “Christ…an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma…” (Ephesians 5:2).
Proclaim The LORD’s Death for His praise and glory. Praise God for what He has done for us through The Cross.
The “grain offering” is fulfilled by The Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Again, let us celebrate by PRAISING GOD meaningfully and heartily for The Resurrection of The LORD Jesus Christ “who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was RAISED because of our justification….” (Romans 4:25).
When Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He presented Himself with His PRECIOUS Blood to The Father in Heaven on our behalf, (John 20:17; Hebrews 9:11-12), so that WE can now go to The Father through Jesus, by The Blood of Jesus! (Hebrews 4:15,16;10:19-22).
The Resurrection of Jesus “Christ the firstfruits” and The Presentation of Himself and His PRECIOUS Blood to The Father, IS The True Grain Offering to The LORD.
As our LORD Jesus Christ rose from the dead and presented Himself to The Father, so shall we: “Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ’s at His coming,” (1 Corinthians 15:23).
The LORD Himself explained it so wonderfully with great insight and wisdom, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain,“ (John 12:24).
See also 1 Corinthians 15:35-38,
“But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain — perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.”
Furthermore, “the drink offering” was fulfilled by The LORD Jesus Christ at The Feast of Tabernacles when He, in John 7:37-39, announced The Supply of The Holy Spirit to us, and faithfully poured The Spirit out most dramatically, as recorded in Acts 2:1-4.
“On the last day, that great day of The Feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as The Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning The Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive…” John 7:37-39.
Here is a very beautiful insight.
“Each day during The Feast of Tabernacles a joyous celebration was observed in which the priests brought water (symbolic of the water supplied from The Rock in Exodus 17) to The Temple from the pool of Siloam in a golden pitcher. During the procession the people recited Isaiah 12:3. The water was poured out on The Altar as an offering to God while the people shouted and sang. Jesus was The Fulfillment of all that the ceremony typified (1 Corinthians 10:4),” (© New Sprint Filled Life Bible).
So, during this Feast and beyond, let us offer our lives as a Drink Offering to God in serving Him (Philippians 2:17), filled with The Holy Spirit. Let The Spirit of Life flow through us to others.
Ensure to get a Sabbath rest on the first day (well, it’s already gone) and the seventh day.
And, as commanded, you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before The LORD your God for seven days.
This is practical and praise-worthy to do. Do it for The PRAISE of The LORD.
Finally, you may have gone camping before. Now The LORD wants you to camp for Him.
“You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I AM The LORD your God.’ ”
As the children of Israel were brought out of the bondage of Egypt and dwelt in the wilderness before The Promised Land, so we The Children of God, delivered out of the bondage of sin, are now in the wilderness of this life, this testing world before our Promised Land of Heaven.
Whatever may be possible physically, do it. However, spiritually, you must camp with God in this Feast of Tabernacles.
Seek The LORD. Seek His Face evermore.
On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to The LORD.
Again, pray and present, “Christ… an Offering and a Sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma,“ (Ephesians 5:2).
See also the related HKP Word: “Keep The Day of Atonement & Other Feasts of The LORD“.
“The LORD Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.” 2 Timothy 4:22.
“Farewell” Acts 15:29.
~ Jacob Awagah
“And having been perfected, He became The Author of Eternal Salvation to all who obey Him,” Hebrews 5:9.