The Feast of Tabernacles - The King Reigns for 1,000 years from Jerusalem

Shabbat, friends. My name is Chadwick Harvey, and you have reached Faithful Performance. Thank you so much for joining us tonight as we celebrate and proclaim the Feast of Tabernacles, which concludes the fall feast season and also concludes the journey from Nissan, where the spring feast days fall, to the fall feast days here in the month of Tishri.

For those who are joining us for the first time, we will go through a quick summary so you can understand the trajectory that Yah is on during his feast season — what it means for our personal spiritual purification, refinement, and cleansing as we prepare ourselves for the Day of the Lord, and for the millennial kingdom, which will begin on this feast day, the Feast of Tabernacles.

Nissan One is the beginning of the biblical calendar — think of it as roughly April 1. In the spring, we have the feast season beginning with Passover on Nissan 14, when Yeshua was crucified. He was laid in the tomb on Unleavened Bread, and then resurrected on the Feast of Firstfruits. These all fall within the month of Nissan. From the Feast of Firstfruits, we begin a 50-day journey — the counting of the Omer — leading to Shavuot, which falls on Sivan 6. This is a 50-day divine appointment; Yah wants us to count every day and every week with him, remaining intimate with him throughout that journey. It spans the month of Iyar, bridging from Nissan to Sivan.

Forty days after Shavuot, we arrive at Tammuz 17, the day Israel worshiped the golden calf. It became a fast day, referred to in Zechariah 8 as the fast of the fourth month. From Tammuz 17 to the Ninth of Av is a period known as the Three Weeks of Sorrow. The Ninth of Av is when the ten spies brought back the bad report, and that became a fast day as well — the fast of the fifth month. These are days of calamity, but they will be turned into feast days during the millennial kingdom, which begins on the Feast of Tabernacles.

Continuing forward, we come to Tu B'Av — the Hebrew equivalent of a day of love, without the paganism. This falls in the middle of the month of Av. Two weeks later we enter the month of Elul, the month of repentance. This is when Moses ascended Mount Sinai for the last forty days to intercede for the people after the golden calf incident. He came back down on Tishri 10, Yom Kippur, and the people were forgiven. Immediately after, they began building the Tabernacle, completing it by Nissan One the following year.

All of these months, from Nissan One through the seventh month of Tishri, are prophetically significant. They encompass all of the feast days and map directly onto the second coming events. For instance, the month of Elul will be the month of repentance for all people on the earth just before Yeshua returns on the Feast of Trumpets on Tishri 1. At the Feast of Trumpets, he pours out his wrath and fury for ten days — this is Isaiah 63, the ten days of awe. Then on Yom Kippur, those ten days conclude with the event described in Revelation 19:11–16, where Yeshua and his people are clothed in white on white horses. The High Priest wore white only once a year, on Yom Kippur — that is why they appear in white. Yeshua, however, has blood on his garments, because he has been waging this ten-day war, pouring out his wrath as described in Isaiah 63. His people join him for the final victory at Yom Kippur.

In the five days between Yom Kippur and the Feast of Tabernacles, it is my belief that he judges the nations, as described in Matthew 25 and Joel 3 — those who treated the Jewish people badly and divided the land during the last days. Then we arrive at the Feast of Tabernacles, the seventh and final feast, the concluding feast that Yeshua will fulfill at his second coming. This is the capstone of everything he began at Passover — from crucifixion all the way to the millennial kingdom.

Our Father has given us all of these understandings so that we are not caught off guard like a thief in the night. We can watch, we can understand what is happening with biblical prophecy in the Middle East, and we can track with him. This is where Yeshua is. This is where the Father is. This is where the blessed Holy Spirit is leading every set-apart believer — into the understanding of God's ways, his calendar, and his feast days, both prophetically and personally.

It is unfortunate that mainstream Christianity's doctrine does not include these things, and therefore cannot show believers the trajectory of the second coming events. Most people do not realize there is a ten-day war when he returns — it is not a magic wand. He is coming down as a king to do battle. He wages a ten-day war, redeems Israel on Yom Kippur, and then five days later we enter the millennial kingdom: the thousand-year reign of Yeshua the Messiah.

The believing Jews and the believing Gentiles will finally be one new body, one new man, as the King of Israel, Yeshua HaMashiach, rules for a thousand years from Jerusalem. He will fulfill every jot and tittle of the Torah just as he said, along with the Prophets and the Psalms. He will send his Father's Torah out to the nations — that is Isaiah 2 and Micah 4. His main prerequisites as the Jewish Messiah are to be the seed of David and the seed of Abraham, to fulfill the everlasting covenants, and to send out the Torah to the nations so that everyone can understand the Father's everlasting ways. These are not optional — they are prophecies he must and will fulfill at the second coming.

The Feast of Tabernacles is a seven-day feast, a week-long celebration of rejoicing. Why? Because it is a prelude — a foreshadow — of what life will be like in the millennial kingdom. Imagine standing in that kingdom with the King on David's everlasting throne in Jerusalem, ruling over the Promised Land of the Abrahamic covenant. This is precisely why Matthew opens by calling Yeshua "son of David, son of Abraham" — a prophetic declaration that he will fulfill the Abrahamic and Davidic covenants. We are living in the new covenant now, saved by the blood of the Lamb and sealed by the Holy Spirit, as Paul writes in Ephesians 1, until the purchased possession is redeemed. On Yom Kippur, when the Jewish people receive Yeshua as their Savior and say "Baruch HaBa B'Shem Adonai," the believing Jews and believing Gentiles will at last be one, forever. After the thousand years, we face the White Throne Judgment, and then we enter eternity — what is called Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of the assembly, meaning new beginnings and new life. But we will cover that in full on that eighth day.

Tonight, my friends, we are going through the Feast of Tabernacles itself. It is a beautiful feast, and we find it in the New Testament as well, in John 7. There is much to understand about how important this feast day is — to Yah, to Yeshua, and to the power of the Holy Spirit in leading all set-apart believers into its fullness.