What is the Feast of Tabernacles?

On Monday 10^th October 2022 is the Lord’s Feast of Tabernacles and the question I am asking is, how many of those who profess to know and believe in Jesus Christ and calling Him Lord, Lord has any knowledge about this festival and its relevance. Remember, Jesus Christ warned us saying; “Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (Matthew 7:21-23).

Or, how many of the few who knows about this festival but for some reason or the other refuse to observe it and those who observe it, do not truly know and understand the relevance of this festival in our New Testament dispensation and therefore are not observing it in spirit and in truth.

I therefore, beg to ask the question, what is the Feast of Tabernacles? Is it simply a Jewish festival which has no bearing on Gentiles and since we are no longer under law but under grace does not signify anything of significance to us in this New Testament dispensation?

Well, let us take a close examination of the Feast of Tabernacles for this is what 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” (Leviticus 23:34-38).

Please note carefully that this festival is one that is devoted to the Lord principally to offer to Him the food for His offerings, so the question is why is this feast devoted to the Lord? The irony of truth is, when this festival was first introduced to the children of Israel it was to remind them and their generations that the Lord made the children of Israel to dwell in booths when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

For this is what the Lord spoke to Moses saying “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 23:41-43).

What we ought to bear in mind however is that, God’s dealing with the children of Israel was a shadow and copy of the reality, so what is the reality with regards to the Feast of Tabernacles?

In reality, the Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the time when the Word who was God and was in the beginning with God and by whom all things were created, became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

So while the children of Israel are to observe this festival to remind them of their temporary dwellings, we are to observe this festival to remind us of our permanent dwelling in the body of Christ for in Him we live and move and have our being and have become His offspring.

It is so heartbreaking to see the majority of those who profess to know and believe in Jesus Christ giving so much time, energy and resources in celebrating the pagan festival of Christmas in honor of Christ’s birth and openly and blatantly rejecting or despising the festival which commemorates the birth of our Lord and Savior.

Even the few who are observing the festival of Tabernacles do not associate the birth of Christ with this festival saying that the date of Christ’s birth is unknown and if He wanted us to commemorate the date of His birth He would have made it known just as He made known to us the date of His death.

What a delusion, what a deception because the date of Christ’s birth is as equally important as the date of His death because, if Christ did not become flesh He could not die and become our Savior, for as God alone He could not die so He had to take on flesh in order to pay the price of death for humanity so then what is the proof to confirm the date of Christ’s birth?

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To be continued, stay tuned

With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph