Why the Feast of Tabernacles Belongs to God, Not Just the Jews

These are not just only Jewish festivals. These are God's festivals that were given to the Jewish people. So, terminology does matter. And so that's why the Christians need to understand that these are God's feasts. Yes, they're the Jewish feasts, but they're God's feasts first. And the Jewish, the Christian friends need to understand that. So, we have the understanding to worship in spirit and in truth, because just like it says here, these are His feasts and not anyone else's. Now, we'll read Leviticus 23. This is the Feast of Tabernacles commandment. And one thing that I'd like to go before we read the commandment, because I don't want to be too redundant on the people who've been with us throughout the feast season and they know these things. But in Genesis 1:14, the word for seasons in that passage is Moed as well. So, He's correlating the calendar moed, feast, divine appointments, to His feast days in Leviticus 23.

Does that make sense? Feast, Moed, divine appointments. That's what it means in the Hebrew. And then the calendar, seasons, Moed, divine appointments in the Hebrew. So, we've got to get to the Hebrew understanding of these things so we don't get deceived and thinking these are just seasons and fall and summer and spring. That's just not it. And that's why we've got to look at the original intent of the language to understand that. So, seasons in Genesis 1:14 means Moed, a divine appointment. And that's why you see all of the feast days on His calendar, because His calendar is based upon the sun and the moon and the stars. The Gregorian calendar is only based on the sun only. So, you got to get rid of it with the way to worship, because none of those days are in there, and the calendar is not in there either. Only His calendar with His days are in there. That's why you see the calendar with the days on it.

You don't see the ways that the Christians celebrate on the biblical calendar, Christmas, Easter, etc., etc., because it's not on there. Why would it be? So, we just have to realize the accurate understanding of how to read the Holy Bible to get into the right understanding of it, to worship in spirit and in truth. He wants us to be Bereans. He wants us to test everything. He wants us to show Him that we are approved. So, no one has an excuse. Paul says that to test everything. Paul says to show ourselves approved. So, I want to challenge myself and everybody else. Let's show ourselves approved. We've got too many Jews and Christians not showing themselves approved because they're not worshiping in spirit and in truth. About two billion Christians and about 15 million Jews. So, we don't have it going the way it should be going. We should be worshiping in spirit and in truth. And we've just got to have both parties understand the errors that they both have, which is pretty remarkable.

So, again, my friends, this is for seasons. This means divine appointments. And that calendar is the calendar based upon the sun and the moon and the stars. And all the festivals are in Leviticus 23. Leviticus 23 is the only chapter on the ways to worship from the Old Testament to the New Testament. That's it. One chapter. Leviticus 23 is where you celebrate, and where I celebrate, and where the set-apart believers celebrate. Now, if one's not set apart, then okay, then they can go do whatever they want to do, and they're just not set-apart believers. And that will be dealt with. But at the same time, if you're set apart, then you're going to be on these days. You're going to be on the calendar. You're going to be celebrating the Sabbath. You're going to be celebrating what He's designed. And that lets you know that you're going to be set apart, because He is set apart, and He wants us to be set apart with Him.

Very important, friends. I don't want to go too much into this because we go through it all the time, but these are for divine appointments for Jesus the Messiah, for Yeshua the Messiah. This is His calendar, and these are His feast days, because that's what God's designed for Him to fulfill. And why is that? Because He's the Jewish Messiah. He's the Son of God, and everything has to be proclaimed and prophesied so that He can fulfill it, if that makes sense. All right. So now let's go forward with this commandment in Leviticus 23. We are at the last moed, the seventh festival of the group, which is totally amazing. So, congratulations for those who have been through the trajectory with those, and for those who might not have, that's okay, but just please continue to add these to your repertoire, if you will, and ways to worship, and it will change your life truly forever. In Leviticus 23:34-44: "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.

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.'"

Okay, so this is the commandment for the Feast of Tabernacles. It's very clear. It's very point-blank on the rules and the regulations here. And so let's read it. It said, "Then the Lord said to Moses, saying, 'Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, the fifteenth of the seventh month, which is tonight, shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord.'"

Okay, so we'll stop there. It says, "Speak to the children of Israel." My friends, my Christian friends, you are a child of Israel.

How do we know that? Well, Paul says in Galatians 3:26-29, he's talking about the Abrahamic covenant and he says in the Mosaic covenant, the differences of those. And he says, "If you are a seed of Christ, we all are, then you are a seed of Abraham." Wow. And you're heirs according to the promise. Well, what's the promise? The promise is the Abrahamic covenant. So, if you're a seed of Christ, you are a seed of Abraham. Well, my friends, if you're a seed of Abraham, you're a seed of Isaac. You're a seed of Jacob, whose name was Israel. So, seed of Israel. So, Christians, you are a seed of Israel. You just have to understand what Paul is saying here. And that means to get into alignment, not out of alignment, in alignment with Him. We've got to understand what Paul is saying, because we've got too many believers out there thinking that they don't have to worship the right way, because they think Paul said something that he never did.

And we've got to take Paul for what he says, or don't read him at all, because like Peter says, they twist the scriptures, like they do Paul, to their own destruction, is what Peter says in 2 Peter chapter 3. So, I would take Peter and understand what Peter was warning, especially the Christians about. Quit twisting Paul like a pretzel, and go and like you do the other scriptures, and go read the Torah, the prophets, the Psalms, Moses, the prophets, Yeshua. Go read Paul and get in alignment. Get into alignment with the Most High instead of trying to rebel, because that's what our Christian friends are doing. They're worshiping Him in vain, and they are in rebellion. I mean, that's what Yeshua says in the prophet Samuel as well, in 1 Samuel 15. And Yeshua says it all over the Gospels. Mark 7, Matthew 13, Matthew 5, Matthew 23, John 14, 15. He says, Matthew 19, "Keep the commandments to inherit eternal life," is what the Messiah said Himself.