Feast of Tabernacles obsolete or current?

To ascertain that the sin of irreverence is the root cause of the disunity and confusion that exist in the church, the body of Christ let us take a close examination of the Lord’s appointed festivals especially the feat of Tabernacles to prove how much we who profess to be believers in Jesus Christ are demonstrating a lack of love, respect, honor, appreciation, gratitude and complete irreverence to Jesus Christ whom we claim to love.

Let me begin by asking some very simple questions:

1. how many professing believers know of a biblical festival called the “Feast of Tabernacles?

2. How many of those who have heard about it are observing it?

3. How many of those who are observing it truly knows and understand the meaning and the rationale for observing this festival in our New Testament dispensation?

In the Old Testament the rationale for observing this festival is stated as follows: “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).

But today, in our New Testament dispensation what is the rationale for observing the Feast of Tabernacles? I know that there are those who although they are not native Israelites dwell in temporary dwellings during this festival, but what is truly the significance and rationale for observing this festival in our New Testament dispensation?

Let us be open-minded and allow the Holy Spirit to help us understand the rationale and significance of the feast of Tabernacles in our new dispensation. Let us first and foremost begin by confirming that it is the LORD the WORD of God who later became Jesus Christ that gave these instructions to observe this festival to the Lord.

Now it is plainly stated in scriptures that; “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” Therefore, since Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever and He before ordained that this festival be kept in His honor and scriptures confirm that this festival will be observed in the future as clearly stated 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” (Zechariah 14:16).

This festival is so important to the Lord that in the future, punishment will be imposed on any family or nation that will not come up and observe the feast of Tabernacles as plainly stated saying; “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” (Zechariah 14:17-19).

And so, I beg to ask the question, why is it that the majority of those who professed to be believers in Jesus Christ either do not know about this festival, those who have heard about it but choose not to observe it and even those who are observing it presently do not know the spirit or rationale for observing it. What a shame!

To be continued

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With brotherly love

Lucius Joseph