Messiah Tabernacling and Light of the World

It's a different way, and we've got to be in the true ways of Yahweh. Amen and amen and amen. All right. Very important. Go read Matthew 19, also Luke 19 as well on how important it is to follow the Father's commandments and what the Master himself said at Luke 19 and also in Matthew 19 as well. So the question is, will we understand the time of our visitation at His second coming events? Because the Feast of Tabernacles is when Messiah will begin to tabernacle among mankind on earth for a thousand years. Amen. Amen and amen. It is written during Messiah's earthly ministry, at His first coming events, He became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory of the One and Only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Amen. Yahweh Himself became flesh and dwelt with us to offer Himself as the ultimate sin offering, sacrifice, and atonement so that we could dwell in tabernacle with Him forevermore.

Hallelujah. In the Gospel account of Matthew chapter 16 and 17, Messiah told His disciples that some of them would not die until they saw the kingdom of God. Six days later, Messiah took Peter, James, and John up on a high mountain and was transfigured before them. And His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. And Moses and Elijah appeared to them talking with Him. This incredible event occurred on the Feast of Tabernacles. Why do we know that? Because in Matthew 17 verse 4, it says, "Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, 'Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, let us make here three tabernacles, one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.'" Why is that? Because Peter was following the commandment to build a sukkah. Native Israelites to build a sukkah. So he was just doing what the commandment would have told him to do. So that's why we know that this was on the Feast of Tabernacles is when this event happened.

Totally phenomenal. The transfiguration, Moses and Elijah. Think about that with Yeshua. And then we all know at the end of the age that Elijah will be here for sure. A lot of people think Moses or whoever else, Enoch, but those two men will come and pour out the witnesses of the testimony of Yeshua and the word of God during the three and a half years they're on the earth. Okay, so now let's look at some more tie-ins with the Feast of Tabernacles. That's pretty cool. During Messiah's first coming, we find another awesome event that occurred on the Feast of Tabernacles. In the Talmud, it records that during this feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, there were four gigantic candlesticks about 75 feet high with four golden bowls at the top of the women's court of the temple. The golden bowls were filled with tremendous amounts of oil to last for the 7-day feast. The Talmud records that once the four gigantic candlesticks were lit, there was not a courtyard in all of Jerusalem that did not shine with the light emanating from the celebration in the temple courtyard.

Thus, during the Feast of Tabernacles, Jerusalem was known as the light of the world. This is the exact appointed time when Messiah stood up and proclaimed that He is the light of the world. It is written, "Then Yeshua spoke to them again, saying, 'I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.'" So, my friends, that's written in John 8. How do we know it's the Feast of Tabernacles event? It's the chapter before that. John 7 is the last great day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives that night, spent the night, came back the next day, which is the eighth day of the feast. The book in Shemini Atzeret is read. That's when he ran into the lady with committed adultery. He drew the line in the sand, etc. So, if we understand the trajectory, we understand when he said these things. But again, we have to understand the calendar.

We've got to understand the feast days, the feast season, and understand the trajectory of the scriptures. So he spoke and said, "I'm the light of the world," at the closing of the festival, the eighth day, when he was in Jerusalem on Shemini Atzeret, which is pretty remarkable because guess what? That's what that feast day means. The eighth day means it's the eighth day. What's the eighth day? That's eternal life. Revelation 21:22. So he's saying that he is eternal life is through him. The eighth day, eternal life. Very beautiful. If we understand the feast days, my friends, and tie them into Yeshua, my Jewish and Christian friends, man, the light bulbs go off. All things start to make better sense. The scriptures come together in perfect alliance. We're not violating any scriptures at all. They fall into perfect alignment when you put Yeshua with the feast days. It's really one of the most remarkable things.

And I wish some of our missionaries, if you will, would talk to the Jewish people through those, because that's what they understand, or Isaiah 53, or whatever. But really, the feast days, people need to really go in depth with the Jewish people about, which I'm sure some of them do know these things. They just don't believe it. But it's recorded all of it. And it goes so deep with the feast days of the trajectory of Yeshua. It truly is phenomenal for a Jew or a Christian to really open their eyes to that and get the paradigm shift that we must have. Okay, now we'll talk about another ceremony, the water libation ceremony that was done during the Feast of Tabernacles. During the Feast of Tabernacles, a group of priests would conduct what is known as the water libation ceremony, which symbolically represents, you know, who the Messiah Yeshua. The priests who conducted this ceremony would go through the Water Gate and down to the Pool of Siloam because it held what was known as the living water.