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Jesus Christ Himself
Jesus
Christ Himself confirmed to Pilate that His kingship began from His birth
because when Jesus was brought before Pilate, he called Jesus, and said to Him,
"Are You the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered him, "Are you
speaking for yourself about this, or did others tell you this concerning
Me?"
Pilate
answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have
delivered You to me. What have You done?" Jesus answered, "My kingdom
is not of this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would
fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not
from here." Pilate therefore said to Him, "Are You a king then?"
Jesus answered, "You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was
born and for this cause I have come into the world, that I should bear witness
to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice." (John 18:33-37).
So
why does the majority of professing believers refuse or are unable to associate
the birth of Jesus Christ with the Jewish feast of Tabernacles?
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The birth of Jesus Christ is
intertwined with the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles
Since
Jesus Christ was inaugurated as King from birth and it was for this cause that
He was born and came into the world and there is a feast which has been
specifically ordained by God to honor the King of kings and Lord of hosts why
are we who profess to believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of Man not observing
this festival?
For
this is what the prophet Zechariah wrote saying; “And it shall come to pass
that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall
go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.’
“And
it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, on them there will be no
rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no
rain; they shall receive the plague with which the LORD strikes the nations who
do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.’
“This
shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do
not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In that day "HOLINESS TO THE
LORD" shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the LORD's
house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and
Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts” (Zechariah 14:16-21).
Remember
that, Jesus Christ the Beloved Son of God by whom all things whether in heaven
or on earth visible or invisible were created, divested Himself of His glory
and became the Son of Man is the same yesterday, today and forever. Therefore,
if the feast of Tabernacles was instituted and ordained to be observed in the
past and will be observed in the future why is it not being observed today by
the majority who professed to be believers in Jesus Christ as the Beloved Son
of God?
We
should also question ourselves and ask why is there an eighth day associated
with the Feast of Tabernacles? This eighth day commemorates the circumcision of
Jesus Christ, the day on which HE received the name which is above all other
names and inducted Gentiles who at that time were without Christ, being aliens
from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise,
having no hope and without God in the world one together with the Jews.
This
Eighth Day or the Last Great Day also foreshadows eternity when the Jesus
Christ will hand over everything back to the Father after His millennial reign
on earth.
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With brotherly love
Lucius Joseph
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