The Feast of Tabernacles and Redemption

The Feast of Tabernacles is a celebration. Look at how these feasts were observed historically — Tabernacles is a party for eight days, a full eight days of rejoicing. Think about the journey that brings you there: you have come through repentance at the Feast of Trumpets, through the redemptive solemnity of Yom Kippur, and now it is time to rejoice with the Lord. The commandment itself forbids mourning and anxiety during that feast — no depression, no crying, only rejoicing.

On the relationship between Passover and Yom Kippur: they are closely connected because both are about redemption, but at different levels. Passover is about individual salvation through the atoning work of Messiah. Yom Kippur speaks to the corporate, national salvation of Israel at His second coming. They work together — the individual and the national, the first coming and the second. The Feast of Tabernacles is the final feast yet to be fulfilled, the honeymoon of the second coming events.