Tabernacles as Messiah's Honeymoon and Moed

In fact, when we meditate and ponder upon the Feast of Tabernacles, we can think of it as a honeymoon. What I mean by this is, after the culmination of the 10 Days of Awe, which includes the wedding of the Messiah, five days later, we will be celebrating our honeymoon with Yahweh and all of the saints. What a glorious and joyful seven-day feast it will be. Remember, the Feast of Trumpets represents repentance. Yom Kippur signifies redemption, and Tabernacles symbolizes rejoicing. Every year, it is a seven-day feast of rejoicing, gathering, singing, dancing, and being merry. As we rehearse this joyous divine appointment, on one year, on the Feast of Tabernacles, we will experience a paradigm shift like none other before, as we step into and celebrate Messiah's millennial reign over the kingdom of Israel, as He sits on David's everlasting throne for 1,000 years. As mentioned, the Feast of Tabernacles is Yah's final feast written in Leviticus 23, and a third of the unfulfilled divine appointments that will occur in the late fall season.

It also is called the Feast of Nations, the Feast of the Ingathering, Harvest, Booths, Tents, or Sukkot. Previously, in the chapters of Trumpets and Yom Kippur, or the videos, we discovered the original intent and understanding of the Hebrew words in Leviticus 23, which are absolutely paramount. For the sake of redundancy, we will just recall the original word version. So, if you've been with us for the last couple of videos, Feast of Trumpets and also Feast of Yom Kippur, we've gone through Leviticus 23 and we've gone through the way that it's written. Now, I'm just going to go through what it's written in the Hebrew so we can have the right understanding and then we can go from there. So, in Leviticus 23, this is what the original Hebrew would say in English, speaking to the children of Israel and say unto them, concerning the feast of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.

So, just like we've discovered before, friends, the word for holy convocations is mikra, which is a dress rehearsal. And the word for feast is moed, which means a divine appointment. So, really, He's saying these are dress rehearsals for us to rehearse for the actual event. And then these are His feasts, His divine appointments. So, again, several times, or twice in this scripture, Leviticus 23, He says, "These are Mine. These are My feasts. My feasts, My feasts. These are not the Jewish people's feasts." He gave them to the Jewish people to celebrate, to give to all of us. But He says right here, "These are His days." Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them concerning the divine appointments of Yah, which you shall proclaim to be dress rehearsals. Even these are His feasts, My feasts, Yah's feasts. So, if you love God and if you love Jesus, these are your feasts to celebrate as well.

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.