Feast of Tabernacles Introduction and Purpose

Shalom friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey. You have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, or what is known in the Hebrew as the festival of Sukkot. We will correlate it to Messiah's millennial kingdom and also His dwelling place, where He dwells with us for a thousand years on earth in Revelation chapter 20. Thank you very much for being with us tonight, everybody. We hope everyone's enjoyed the feast days so far. This is the last feast day of the cycle, from Passover all the way to the Feast of Tabernacles. If you've been with us or on this trajectory, then you know that this is the culmination of a journey that we started on Passover, all the way to the Feast of Tabernacles. This is the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles. It's a seven-day feast, then with an eighth day added to it called Shemini Atzeret. This is the culmination of the journey of what I call the spiritual purification journey on God's prophetic timeline.

If you're familiar with this, this is very redundant. So, please be patient with me in case someone doesn't know this. But if you don't know this, then this journey actually began at the top of the calendar on Nisan 1. This is the story of Exodus. You can go by the book of Exodus and go through this journey from Passover to the Feast of Tabernacles, believe it or not, from Exodus 12 to Exodus 34. They had to carry you on the trajectory from Nisan 1 all the way to the Feast of Tabernacles, and then even to Nisan 1 the following year when they set up the tabernacle. So, if one's not familiar with the journey, I'll try to explain it in summary. But these are the moedim of the Most High. This is very important for believers to understand this, for Jews and Christians to understand how important it is to be on God's calendar and to follow the calendar throughout the scriptures. The scriptures will anoint the calendar with anointings throughout the months.

So that's why it's important to recognize this from the Feast of Passover or the New Moon of Tabernacles, because it's a spiritual purification journey. We can get a lot out of the story of Exodus and understand the things that they were disobedient with, so that we don't fall into the same mistakes that they did individually. Ultimately, it is a national conversation with the story of Exodus, but it's also individual as well, when it goes into the crucifixion of the Messiah at the first coming events. So, it's really twofold, my friends. We get to understand history from the Exodus story on what God wanted the Israelites to purify from, but then also we take it individually as well, because Yeshua the Messiah was crucified on Passover as well. And then we go on the beautiful trajectory with them as well. So, it's really amazing when you look at the calendar and you follow with it. But we're in the culmination of the last festival that Yah told us to count with Him every single year.

You can find that in Leviticus 23, and we'll read that portion tonight with the Feast of Tabernacles. In summary, we began the journey on Nisan 1. This is Exodus 12. The new month started then, the month of Nisan they call it today. And then on the 14th day of the month, that's when they killed the Passover lamb. Well, that's the same exact time that Yeshua was crucified for our sins as well, because it's a prophecy for the future as well. And then they left Egypt on unleavened bread on Nisan 15. They left Egypt and then they went to the Red Sea on the seventh day of unleavened bread. They crossed over the Red Sea on Nisan 21. Then you go on this beautiful 50-day journey from the resurrection, the Feast of First Fruits with Yahweh and Yeshua. It's a commanded 50 days in Leviticus 23. Why is that? He says to count every day, or seven times seven weeks, with Him. So, He wants us to go through a journey with Him, a purification journey, just like Israel had to go through their purification journey from Egypt, out of bondage to liberty, which when they received the instructions of Yah at Mount Sinai.

So, these first three months were very heavily anointed with divine appointments and wanting to be purified of what He was showing them through the feast days or the calendar days. So, once we get to Shavuot after the 50-day count, or the counting of the Omer from the resurrection or the Feast of First Fruits to Shavuot, we then have a 40-day journey where, remember on Tammuz 17th, when Moses was getting the tablets of the commandments, that they built the golden calf. That was on Tammuz 17th in the fourth month, where they built the golden calf. Moses came down, and that's when 3,000 people died on Tammuz 17th, not Shavuot. Some people say on Shavuot, but that would be incorrect. It's on the 40 days after Shavuot when they built the golden calf, and then Moses came down. He broke the calf, made them drink it. 3,000 people died. He ascended back up to the mountain for forgiveness or repentance for the people.

There was no reassurance. He came back down on the 30th. He went back up on Elul 1, which is the last 40 days, and he came back down on Yom Kippur, which we discussed five days ago. So, this is a very important trajectory when you look at the book of Exodus. What I just mentioned is from Exodus 12 to Exodus 34, when he came back down with the new tablets. So, these are very important months. These spring, summer, to fall months are really a huge purification journey of the divine appointments of the Most High God. And we can get a great prophetic foreshadow through the book of Exodus. And then we apply it to our own personal lives, because we don't want our temples to be destroyed, just like both temples were destroyed on the ninth day of Av because of disobedience. So, there's a lot of historical, personal, but also prophetic understanding with these. That's the rewards that we get. Many of the rewards that we get is we get to understand what Yeshua is going to do at His second coming events when He returns.

From another viewpoint, it might make people like to look at it from different viewpoints. So, again, Passover, that's Exodus 12. You can go read that. That's really includes the new moon as well. Then Passover, and then obviously they left the next day, you can read it. And then they went through the Red Sea on the seventh day of unleavened bread, if you do your history work on that. And then they went to Shavuot, or Mount Sinai, Pentecost, and received the tablets of God. And then they went through the journey through the summer. So, you can look at that little section where there's nothing in it, kind of like the journey in the desert for three sets of 40 days. And then they were at Mount Sinai. Yom Kippur, He came down with the two tablets. That said, "All's forgiven." And then on the Feast of Tabernacles, Moses, they started building the tabernacle. They started bringing all of the things from the people, the materials, and everything to build the tabernacle.

So, the Exodus story goes along straightforward with what you're seeing on this graph. It's really amazing. But it's not just for the Israelites back then. It's for God's people now to stay purified and refined and to stay in alignment with Him on what Yeshua did. Because, just like I said, even though Israel did the Exodus 12 and all these things with the journey to Shavuot, Yeshua had to fulfill this as the Jewish Messiah. So, these are feast days, but they're really divine appointments. What does that mean? They're prophecies that Yeshua has to fulfill as the Jewish Messiah. That's so important for our Christian friends to really understand that these are prophecies that Jesus has to fulfill. He said, "At every jot and tittle, He was going to fulfill," right? So, if we can understand that from that perspective, that He has to do this as the Jewish Messiah, and thus He wants us to be on the journey with Him as His bride.

Remember, we're engaged to Him. We're going to marry Him. So, we want to be on the same trajectory as He is. We want to be on the same path as He is. Kind of like if you were engaged to be married, you don't want to be on a different page than your husband or wife, right? You want to be in alignment with them to get married. Well, it's the same thing here. He wants us to be in alignment with Him right now. And unfortunately, tonight, there are probably almost two billion Christians that are not in alignment with Him tonight on the Sabbath and also on the Feast of Tabernacles. How sad is that? It's really sad when you really think about it, that not too many Christians tonight are even celebrating the Sabbath or the Feast of Tabernacles, which is where He would dwell with us for a thousand years from Jerusalem. So, there's a lot of anointings into this. It's really important, and again, this is why we observe because it's commanded, but we also get the rewards of understanding the prophetic implications of these feast days when He returns for His second coming event.

And friends, we talk about it all the time, but it's super important to be in alignment with the Most High. Pick up our cross and follow Him. What does that mean? That means to follow what Jesus did. What did Jesus do? He did this. He did the Sabbath. He did Passover. He did Trumpets. He did Yom Kippur. He did Tabernacles. He did First Fruits. He did Pentecost. He did those days because if He did any other days, He would have been in sin and He would have been eliminated from being the Jewish Messiah and the Son of God. So, it's super important for people to really realize that He has prerequisites that He has to fulfill. He has to. And unfortunately, today, Christianity really does not understand that theology or eschatology, and thus the reason why it is so dangerous to be a part of, and also Judaism as well. So, my friends, we've got to really understand the scriptures themselves, not really any religion.

And then the gospel accounts are going to confirm everything that I just said about crucifixion on Passover, laid in the tomb, unleavened bread, resurrected on the Feast of First Fruits, poured out His Holy Spirit 50 days later because He had to, on the day of Shavuot or Pentecost in Acts 2. It's really one of the most phenomenal revelations one can receive in their lifetime. I probably wouldn't even be sitting up here talking to you right now if it wasn't for the calendar and the feast days and how much of an impact it made with me in my theology and my eschatology. It's really amazing that we are not told these things in the church, and really through the synagogue, through Yeshua the Messiah. So, both parties, if they could understand this, the eyeballs would be opened, the lenses would be opened, and the partial blindness would be dropped off of both parties because both parties would be more in alignment.

I mean, this is totally phenomenal when we look at it. So, friends, this is a beautiful trajectory, if we receive it. This is from the Most High. Yes, it is a Jewish thing, but it's a God thing. First and foremost, it's a God thing. He's the one who created the sun and the moon and the calendar and the days to give to the Jewish people, to give to all of us. It's really a beautiful thing. It's really called God's plan of salvation when you look at it. But if we don't understand these things, my friends, then we're not going to understand how to worship correctly, or also what's going on at the end of the age for the second coming events. So, I hope that makes sense. For someone who might not understand the calendar, very summary, I go into much detail on other videos. You can probably check out the Yom Kippur video five days ago or the Feast of Trumpets video 15 days ago to look at more information on that.

But tonight, my friends, we're going to celebrate the Sabbath. Shabbat Shalom, everybody out there. This is another double anointing evening that we've had during the feast days. I know we had a triple anointing on the Feast of Trumpets and Rosh Chodesh and also the Sabbath. And now we have another double anointing tonight. And then we have another double anointing next week as well, as the Feast of Tabernacles culminates into Shemini Atzeret, which is a divine appointment. It is a fast day as well. So, we'll be having another double Sabbath next week as well. So, we hope you guys join us for that as well. But tonight, we open up the Festival of Tabernacles with the first day. We just got finished with Yom Kippur five days ago. In my personal opinion, I believe that during these five days between the Feast of Atonement, the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles, there are five days that separate those.

And I believe that's when He will judge the nations, in Matthew 25 and also Joel 3. Those are the same kind of chapters. And I just believe that's when He will judge it, because Yom Kippur, He comes for the final victory. Revelation 19, Isaiah 63, He comes up on that King's Highway, if you know what I'm talking about, in the Middle East, from Mount Sinai to Jerusalem, the King's Highway, and then He puts His feet on the Mount of Olives. So, I believe it's just logical that He'll start judging the nations then, the sheep nations and the goat nations. And then five days after that, the Feast of Tabernacles will be celebrating. Some people call it the wedding, some people call it the honeymoon. Whatever it may be, it will begin the thousand-year reign that's mentioned in Revelation 20, which is the millennial kingdom of Yeshua the Messiah. And then a thousand years after that will be the New Jerusalem, will be the heaven from the tabernacle from heaven, which we'll go through tonight as well.

So, this festival is a huge festival to understand historically right now, but also prophetically speaking. We've got some marvelous things ahead of us as believers with the Feast of Trumpets, with the 10 Days of Awe, which you want to be hidden in that day, and then also the Feast of Yom Kippur, where we all come down with Him for the final victory, and then the five days where He's going to judge the nations. Totally amazing. We're going to witness that. And then the Feast of Tabernacles, 1,000 years. Have you ever been on a honeymoon for a thousand years with the Messiah? Well, we're going to be on one with Him for a thousand years. He's going to reign from Jerusalem, and we're going to get into those things as well. And then after that, that's when the new tabernacle from heaven will fall upon all of us forever and ever and ever. Amen. Amen and amen. So, friends, we'll pick it off there.

But again, if you know the trajectory of these things, you've seen some amazing things in the scriptures on what they tell us that we have some marvelous things to look forward to after these events: the Feast of Trumpets, Yom Kippur, and then the Feast of Tabernacles, which is when all things He comes to fulfill all things and puts death under His feet, and all of these beautiful things that we will read here. So, with that being said, my friends, we'll get started. Please forgive me. This is obviously not 2023, it's 2026, but it's the last time I redid the slides. So, we will begin with the Feast of Tabernacles. In the Hebrew, as we all know, it's called Sukkot. So, you'll hear it called Sukkot. You'll hear it called the Feast of Tabernacles, the Feast of Booths, Feast of Tents, the Feast of the Ingathering. You know, it has a lot of different names, and we're going to go through those and what those mean here.