Just a quick, big picture snippet of this magnificent Feast...

The Feast of Tabernacles is primarily celebrated by telling and retelling our testimonies of God's faithfulness to deliver, redeem, and, by His grace, fulfill His promises in our lives – all while gathering in our temporary happy huts sharing meals! Also during the Feast of Tabernacles, God instructed Israel to make offerings on behalf of the nations. This week-long celebration ended with a Day of Ingathering! The big picture fulfillment of Tabernacles is at the end of the age and the Wedding Supper of Lamb being celebrated with all those who accepted His gracious invitation!

The snippet I would like to highlight is how God introduced His Feasts in Scripture which encapsulates the essence of this particular Feast. When The Lord, through Moses, gave Israel His Seven Feasts, He begins with 

"...you shall PROCLAIM…"

Interestingly enough, God does not begin with the listing of His Seven Feasts, but begins with The Sabbath  - why is that? Why does He say PROCLAIM the Seven Feasts, but start with the Sabbath, which is not one of the Seven Feasts? Glad you asked!

The Sabbath is the pictorial model for all the completed and finished works of God. The Feasts are to be like The Sabbath and each Feast is the telling of how God completes His finished works.

For example, in the most basic big picture, He became our Passover in His death, burial, and resurrection, so that we could Pentecost/Shavuot receive the infilling of the Holy Spirit, and go work and reap the harvest, inviting all the nations to come join the party and to Tabernacle/Sukkot with Him in His one big Happy Hut! Each Feast is a pictorial of the completed Sabbath – the finished works of Christ! 

After the Lord's instructional “list" He says again, PROCLAIM THIS! 

His basic instruction:

1. I want you to proclaim this story

2. This is the story

3. Now, go proclaim this story

In kind, when our very Jewish Messiah sent His very Jewish disciples into the nations, He said, “Go and PROCLAIM this Gospel into all the world!” When they went into all the world, and PROCLAIMED His Gospel, it might have sounded something like this, 

“Shalom y'all! Guess what? Messiah has come!” And the Gentiles (anyone who was not Jewish), said something like this, “Great! What's a Messiah?” 

And from there, the pictorial Feasts, so richly illustrated in God's plan of salvation, the completed works of Christ, began to be PROCLAIMED!

Obviously, those who think the Sabbath and the Feasts of The Lord are old school haven't realized the larger prophetic pictorial fulfillment coming to pass before our very eyes. We are actually very near the millennial Sabbath Day, which is called the Millennial Reign of Christ. The Bible says that the restored nation of Israel and the nations of the world will celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles during the Millennial!

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. Zech 14:16

In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it. / And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. Is 2:2, 3

At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts. Jer 3:17

WOW, that's exciting! I look forward to the Day when The King sits upon His throne in Jerusalem, Tabernacle-ing on Earth with us – I really do look forward to this – and the global chatter is about the wonders of God's faithfulness to all mankind! 

But until then, beloved, let's PROCLAIM our testimony, telling our story how God delivered and redeemed us and inviting as many as we can to the party! Just as Jesus Himself stood during the Feast of Tabernacles and PROCLAIMED,  

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. 38He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”  John 7:37

From my happy hut to yours, may our lives be filled with the testimony of His faithfulness! 

Joy! 🙌