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FEAST OF TABERNACLES EXPLAINED page one

JUDGEMENT IN THE GATE P8 ** All page numbers are approximate.

HEART MATTERS

JeremiYah 17:9 ”The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: Who can know it?” 17:21 “Take heed to your selves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath Day, nor bring it in by the gates of Yerushalayim.” 17:29 “But if you will not hearken unto me to hallow the Sabbath Day, and not to bear a burden…then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Yerushalayim, and it shall not be quenched.”

We are saved by YHVH’s salvation through YaHVaHOSHA. If those good works, the commandments, statutes and judgments do not follow, then maybe our heart has been deceived. Those statutes and judgments, those Feast Days are not a curse, they are all a blessing. It is a matter whether the heart of man wants to please YaHVaH.

THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES EXPLAINED:

The seven-day Feast of Tabernacles pictures the 1,000 year reign of YaHVaHOSHA Messiah over the earth after His second coming. Rev 20:4

This Feast also reflects the "rest" symbolized by the weekly Shabbat, Heb 4:1-11, that celebrates the great harvest of humanity when all living people will learn YaHVaH's Ways. Humanity will at last be restored to a right relationship with YaHVaH. IsaiYah 11:9-10

The name of the Feast of Tabernacles derives from YaHVaH's command to the ancient Hebrews to build temporary "tabernacles," sometimes called "booths" to live in during this feast. (Hebrew: Sukkot) The Book of YaHVaH emphasizes that, as with the booths or temporary dwellings, our physical life is transitional.

2Co 5:1-2 "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of YaHVaH, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven."

Lev 23:34, "Speak unto the children of the Hebrews, saying, the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto YaHVaH,

Dt 16:13 "Thou shalt observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, after that thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine,

The Feast of Tabernacles or the festival of "Booths" occurs for seven days, from Tishrei 15-21. There is therefore a quick transition from the high Pure-days, with their somber mood of repentance and judgment, to a Feast of rejoicing and celebration, for which the people are commanded to build a hut and make it their home. The Book of YaHVaH identifies the booth with the temporary dwellings in which the Hebrews lived in the wilderness after they left Egypt on their way to the Promised Land, Lev 23:42.

YaHVaH desired that the tabernacle in the wilderness be built because He wanted to dwell with his people, Ex 29:44-45. Spiritually speaking, this physical tabernacle was given by YaHVaH to teach and instruct us that He desires to live and dwell with His people by means of the Rauch ha Kadosh, 1Co 6:19; 2 Co 6:16

[Editor note: The following is basic; the deeper concept is three pages below under "Spiritual Significance".]

UNDERSTANDING THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

The Feast of Tabernacles completes the righteous feasts of the seventh month. IN contrast to the somber tone of Trumpets and Yom Kippur, the third feast of Tishrei was a time of joy. The Hebrews had passed through the season of repentance and redemption.

The Feast of Tabernacles is called the "Season of Our Joy." One reason the Feast of Tabernacles was a time of joy was that after the season of repentance and the redemption of Yom Kippur, came the joy of knowing your sins were forgiven and the joy of walking with YaHVaH, knowing YaHVaH, and being obedient to YaHVaH. Historically, the Feast of Tabernacles commemorates the days in the wilderness of Sinai after coming out of Egypt. According to all natural laws, the Hebrews should have perished, but were instead sublimly protected by YaHVaH. Prophetically, the Feast of Tabernacles is the festival that teaches on the Messianic Kingdom and the joy of the Kingdom.

The word tabernacle refers to a temporary dwelling place, which is the purpose of the booth. The booth symbolizes man's need to depend upon YaHVaH for his provision of food, water, and shelter. This is true in the spiritual realm as well. The booth is the physical body, which is a temporary dwelling place for our souls and spirits, 1Co 6:19-20. We need the food that the Word of YaHVaH provides, Mt 6:11; 4:4; John 6:33-35, the cleansing, rinsing, and washing that the Word of YaHVaH brings to our lives, Eph 5:26, and the shelter of YaHVaH's protection over our lives from the evil one, Mt 6:13; Ps 91. Our physical needs will be provided by YaHVaH if we seek Him spiritually, Mt 6:31-33.

The observance of the Feast of Tabernacles described in Lev 23:40-41 can be seen in Nehemiah chapter 8. The temporary dwellings or booths are described as a part of the festival. This is in remembrance of when the children of the Hebrews dwelled in booths during their time in the wilderness Lev 23:43.

A tabernacle is a temporary dwelling place. In 1Ki 8:27 at the dedication of the Temple, Solomon asks, "Will YaHVaH indeed dwell on the earth?"

The Scriptures say that YaHVaHOSHA became flesh and dwelt (tabernacled) among us: Yohchanan/John 1:14. He came to earth at His first coming and temporarily dwelt among men. UNDERSTANDING THE MEANING OF BOOTHS OR TABERNACLES

The Hebrew word for tabernacle is "sukkah". It means "a booth, a hut, a covering, a pavilion or tent." The Greek word for tabernacle is "sk'en'e," which also means a "tent, hut, or habitation."

With this in mind, let's look at the context by which the word tabernacle is used in the Restored Covenant

1. YaHVaHOSHA tabernacled among us Yochanan 1:14

2. Kepha spoke about his body being a tabernacle 2Kepha 1:13-14.

3. The Apostle Paul told us that our earthly bodies were earthly houses or tabernacles 2 Co 5:1-5

4. The tabernacle of Moshe was a tent of habitation Ac 7:44; Heb 9:2-8.

5. Avraham, Isaac, and Yaccob lived in tabernacles (tents) Heb 11:8-9.

6. The tabernacle of David was a tent or dwelling place Ac 15:16; Amos 9:11. This tabernacle was the temple of Solomon IKi 5:2-5; 8:1-21.

7. YaHVaHOSHA entered the temple on the Feast of Tabernacles Yochanon 7:2,27-29

8. The Book of YaHVaH speaks of a heavenly tabernacle Heb 9:1-23; Rev 13:6; 15:5. This heavenly tabernacle will come to earth Rev 21:1-3.

9. YaHVaHOSHA was the true tabernacle of YaHVaH Heb 9:11

So, the booth or tabernacle was a temporary dwelling place.

Historically, it was to remind the people of their Exodus from Egypt as described in Lev 23:42-43. Prophetically, the tabernacle points toward the future to the Messianic age, the Millennium. Spiritually, a tabernacle is supposed to remind us that we are but strangers and pilgrims on the earth, this being a temporary dwelling place. So the believer in Messiah is but a stranger and pilgrim on this earth Heb 11:8-10,13-16; Ge 23:3-4; 47:9; 1Kepha 1:7; 2:11. The Feast of Tabernacles is the fall harvest festival. It begins on the fifteenth of the Hebrew month of Tishrei. Like the other pilgrimage Feasts, the Feast of Tabernacles has an agricultural element. It marks the time of the harvest, the final ingathering of produce before the oncoming winter. Hence, it is also called the Festival of ingathering. Ex 23:16 "And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out the field."

As just stated, the Feast of Tabernacles is called the Feast of Ingathering. YaHVaHOSHA told us that the harvest represents the end of the age. This is found in Mt 13:19; Rev 14:15; Yoyl/Joel (YoYaHVaH) 3:13. The harvest refers more specifically to people who choose to accept Messiah into their hearts and lives Mt 9:35-38; Lk 10:1-2; Yn 4:35-38; Rev 14:14-18.

SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES

One of the most outstanding truths of the Feast of Tabernacles involves the seasonal rains in the Promised Land. The prophet Yoyl tells us that the former and latter rain would come in first month Yoyl 2:23. This might be because Passover is the first month in the religious or righteous calendar, and the Feast of Tabernacles is the first month in the so-called civil calendar. The calendar that YaHVaH set up is in Ex 12:2.

Hosea 6:3 tells us that the coming of the Messiah will be as the former and latter rain on the earth. His second coming will also be in the Seventh Month (the first month of the so-called civil calendar, Tishrei.) YaHVaHOSHA will return to earth end of Scriptural summer, the beginning of winter. . Hallel Yah!

The fullness of this feast in the seventh month will be experienced at the coming of the Messiah when He will rule and reign on the earth during the Messianic age, the Millennium. This will be a time of joy for all believers in Messiah and will be the age of the Hebrew's majesty. THE SPIRITUAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FESTIVALS TO THE INDIVIDUAL BELIEVERS IN THE SAVIOR YAHVAHOSHA MESSIAH AND HOW THY RELATE TO HIS LIFE:

YaHVaH designed the agricultural and weather seasons in the Promised-Land to parallel the life of every believer in Messiah, who seeks to love Him and serve Him with all his heart. With this in mind, let us examine how this is true:

When a person receives the Savior YaHVaHOSHA as his own Savior, he spiritually experiences Passover. He is to flee Egypt, the world's evil system and ways, trust in YaHVaH, the Lamb of YaHVaH, and allow Messiah to be the doorpost of his heart. As believers, we are then to seek to live righteous lives before YaHVaH and experience Unleavened Bread. Just as YaHVaHOSHA rose from the dead, we are to consider our former ways dead to us and experience the newness of life in the Savior. Once we do this, we can be immersed (baptized) in the Rauch Ha Kadosh and have the power of YaHVaH (the anointing) in our lives. Spiritually, we have experienced the spring harvest of the Hebrews in our lives. When we accept YaHVaHOSHA into our hearts and lives, He begins to teach us the Word of YaHVaH and show us how much He loves us, and we begin to grow in the knowledge of Him.

At that time, YaHVaH will begin to take us on a spiritual journey through the wilderness of life. Spiritually, we will begin to experience the dry summer season of the Hebrews. Many things in our lives will not go the way we expect them to or how we trust YaHVaH for them to go. In the process of experiencing life's bitter disappointments and struggles, if we keep our eyes upon YaHVaH, He will take us from Passover to Pentecost. There He will reveal His ways and His Word, the Book of YaHVaH, in a deeper and more progressive way. By keeping our eyes on the Messiah through life's struggles, YaHVaH will not only reveal HIs Word, The Book of YaHVaH, to us in a greater way, but He also will refine our faith like fine flour, just as was done to the wheat during the counting to the Feast of Weeks. Meanwhile, if we put our entire trust in YaHVaHOSHA while on our spiritual journey in the wilderness of life as YaHVaH refines our faith and reveals Himself to us in a greater way, then our spiritual journey will not end in the wilderness of life. Instead YaHVaH will take us forward to spiritually experience the fall Feasts and our spiritual promised land.

It is when we spiritually experience the Fall Feast--especially the Feast of Tabernacles, and enter into our spiritual promise land that YaHVaH will anoint our lives for Him in an awesome way, as we live and serve Him, and we will then experience not only joy, but also dancing, praise, victory, shalom (peace) and the power of YaHVaH in our lives. Spiritually, we will be experiencing the Fall Harvest of the Hebrews. The rain in the Book of YaHVaH speaks of two things: the great outpouring of the Rauch Ha Kadosh and an in-depth understanding YaHVaHOSHA and his Word, the Book of YaHVaH, in our lives. Both the anointing of the Rauch Ha Kadosh and greater knowledge of spiritual truths will be present in our lives in order that we may accomplish the purpose YaHVaH has for our lives. Therefore, we have the anointing of YaHVaH upon our lives so we may help to do our part to build up the Body of Mashiach to full maturity and to establish the Kingdom YaHVaH on earth until we come to that day when we will rule and reign with YaHVaHOSHA Messiah, the King of kings the Sovereign of sovereigns on earth during the Messianic age, the Millennium, and for all eternity.

In His Service,

Dr. C.N. Turrell, ThD,DD,PhD

** JUDGEMENT IN THE GATE **

T'o brethern near, far, old, new, mighty or weak.

This will concern leadership, the believer’s walk, the Two-Houses of the Hebrews, your personal sins, and coming-out of sin.

Shalom On this Shabbat, let's encourage, exhort and inspire one another.. 1 Kepha 1:24 "For all flesh is as grass, and all the "glory" of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Eternal endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Great News is preached unto you".

Matthew 3:11 "I indeed immerse you with water unto repentance, but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; He shall immerse you with the Separated ha Kadosh, and with fire: 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather His wheat into the garner; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire." Be alert and sensitive to YHVH, the One with Whom we have to do. Messiah knows our secrets. Sometimes, humans also know our secrets. Embarrassing isn't it!

You have knowledge of The Word. You know it backwards and forwards, so this will be nothing new to you. May it bless your heart today as we read YahVah's Word.

Now here is a sobering thought! Amos 5:14-"Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Sovereign, the Most High of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. 15 Hate the evil, and love the great, and establish Judgment in the Gate: It may be that the Sovereign Most High of hosts will be merciful unto the remnant of Yoseph. 16 Therefore the Sovereign, the Most High of hosts, the Sovereign, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing. 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through thee, saith the Sovereign. 18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the Sovereign! To what end is it for you? The day of the Sovereign is darkness, and not light."

I don't know of your past personal lives, YahVah does. Some of us leaders need to be more accountable to YHVH, and to one another. 1 Kepha 5 "1 The elders which are among you, I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Mashiach, and also a partaker of the splendor that shall be revealed."

1 Kepha 5:5 "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for YHVH resisteth the proud, and giveth favor to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of YHVH, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant."

Does your life line-up? 1 Tim 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. 2 A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober.. 1 Kepha 1:7 For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of YHVH; not self-willed, not soon angry, not given to wine. And, so much for self-esteem and excesses!

How many are even qualified to be leaders!

How could a Bishop, if she were female, be the husband of one WIFE?

Those “rabbis” preaching Two-Houses need to read EVERY Word. Are you keeping His Statutes and encouraging others to do so? How often? By what Spirit?

NehemYah 1:7-9 "We have dealt very corruptly against thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the judgments, which thou commandedst thy servant Moses. Remember, I beseech thee, the Word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations: But if ye turn unto me, and keep my commandments, and do them; though there were of you cast out unto the uttermost part of the heaven, yet will I gather them from thence, and will bring them unto the place that I have chosen to set My Name there."

We need to confess our current sins to one another, NehemiYah 9:2 "And the seed of Yacov separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers. 3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the Sovereign their YHVH one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and praised the Sovereign, their YHVH."

Ezra 10:2 "We have trespassed against our YHVH, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in IsraeYah concerning this thing. 3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our YHVH to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my Sovereign, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our YHVH; and let it be done according to Torah." YHVH's burden is light, when we walk the Torah. It WAS easy!

We should be coming-out of Babylon, out of Romanized religion using His pure, non- Romanized Hebrew Name, "YHVH". The nations have perverted a pure tongue. However, learning Hebrew, or teaching it to our children (so perhaps we'll appear more intelligent than newcomers to the Hebraic movement) will not deliver us. We must first come to obedience made-up by a decision in our heart. From the article, WHY THE V IN YAHVAH, we see just five of TWENTY references that YHVH, using the correct letter, "V” is His Name. The entirety of the well-written article is available at this website. Here are some excerpts from “why the v in yahvah, not the w in Yahweh” website: **

5. The New Jewish Encyclopedia, Behrman, H.S.: “Tetragrammaton”.

"Jewish mystics were thought to have known how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton and how to make mysterious use of it. Christians erroneously pronounce “YahVah” as "Jehovah". The original pronunciation was "Yahveh". Note, NO "W"!

6. The 26 Letters, Oscar Ogg; pg 74 &106, "The three missing letters, J, U and W, were not used by the Romans at all. U and W developed FROM "V" about a thousand years ago, and J developed from the letter "I" about five hundred years ago.” (Thus, the W came in about 971 A.D.) Page 74 shows a chart of Hieratic, Phoenician letters, with no W, just a V, 1150 B.C.. Page 105 shows a Greek-Latin chart: No “W”, just a “V” at bottom right.

7. The Lost Languages, P.E. Cleaton; Page 21:

"The expansion of V into U and W (double U) and the differentiation of I and J were later

11.The Hebrew Student Manual “The Alphabet” on page 2. “Vav=V”.

12. Modern Hebrew, A First-Year Course, by Harry Blumberg, PhD, 1963. “The Alphabet”: This chart shows a “V” no “W”.

Repentance involves a complete wiping-out of all Torah breaking, this includes taking His Name in vain in all its' various implications.

Are you coming out of Babylon? Are you keeping His Covenant in your heart?

A bigger question: How many transgressions of Torah does it take for you to put Him on the tree? One! Are you impaling Mashiach afresh by your actions, or lack of? Let me put 1 Cor 13 into today's terminology: "Though I practice my prayer language, and my whole synagogue speaks somewhat in Hebrew, I believe in the Two-House theory, eat foods "koshered" by a rabbi, celebrate Jewish holidays, travel to Yerushalayim, perform professional choreography before our congregation, "dance in the Spirit", surf all the Messianic websites and software programs, but have not love, I am becoming as sounding brass or clanging cymbal.

Remember, love means "Keeping all of Torah" by the power of Ruach!

Hanukah and Purim are not commanded in Scripture. They can help us to love the Messiah more. Other websites address these other Jewish feast days.

1 John 5:2 from The Scriptures by the Institute of Scripture Research: “By this we know that we love the children of YHVH, when we love YHVH and guard His commands.”

Oh, won't you pray with me that all True Believers will get out of Babylon? Let us do no more fudging on the Shabbat (Sabbath): to wit, washing dishes, vacuuming a (pagan or any) church building after meetings, playing games, watching TV, opening packages of hardware and software, observing only Shabbat services a few weeks out of the month, not properly keeping New Moons or Beginning of Months. Nu/Bemidbar 28:11 and 10:10, "Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the offerings of your peace offerings, that they may be to you for a memorial before your Creator: I am YHVH, The Eternal." Let’s walk in YHVH’s kingdom and be praying, studying, and assembling on the New Moon.

Hebrew terminology on Feasts: Let's all keep His moedim, YHVH’s appointed times, set-apart convocations; mikra kodesh/meeting for the called- out; hag/festival or solemn feast day; hagag/pilgrimages; chag/feast; chuqah/appointed, ordinances, everlasting statutes, judgments. Do the proper study and have a great understanding of Feast-Day-Timing.

We shall praise YHVH and attend Passover/Pesach, Firstfruits/Shavout, Feast of Trumpets/Yom-Terrurah, Day of Atonement/Yom Kippur, Tabernacles/Sukkoth, That Last Great Day (a festival/hag), New Moons and Seventh Day Sabbaths/Shabbat!

COLOSSIANS 2:14

Did YaHVaHosha Messiah blot out the certificate of indebtedness? Was that the Ten Decrees? Then did Messiah leave only the Sabbath and feast days, the decree of clean and unclean still up on the Tree at Calvary? Is it too much trouble to study, and too Jewish? Is that anti-Jewish prejudice or what?

To show proper understanding of the Colossians 2 passage, study and we might go to www.GiveShare.Org. I do not believe (as some believe) that in Acts, Paul attempted to make Jews believe he was still “one of them” when he met on the Seventh Day Sabbath. Here was his golden opportunity to correct their “legalism” and point out that “Sunday was the new Sabbath” nor is there any “transitional- period”. Our Savior does not appreciate delayed obedience such as that.

1 Corinthians 9:21 “To them that are without law, as without law, but under the law to YaHVaHOSHA.” Some take that further. “To the thieves, I am a thief. To male prostitutes, animal molesters, etc. I am one of them.” Surely Shaul did not intend to condone ANY lawlessness.

2 Corinthians 3 “..Written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living YHVH; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.” Hebrews 8 or 10, Jer. 31:33 “But THIS shall be the Covenant that I WILL make with (us) the Northern Ten Tribes: After those days, saith YHVH I will put my Torah in their inward parts and write it in their hearts..” Did YHVH say He will do away with Torah? No.

Peter, in Acts 10, never did eat an unclean animal or midnight snack.

Imagine Peter’s midnight prayer, “Dear YaHVaH, if you can cleanse these unclean animals which you cursed and called abominations, and make this pork pure, separated and clean, then please bless this unclean, abominable animal”!

Studying: Paul says to prove all things. Sometimes we live in the middle of a question. He did not wish to place us in a Grecian gray area. If we learn the Torah first, then we will have Paul’s understanding when he wrote the letters. Some point is never fully proven. There awaits more study, more proof. Great learned scholars on both sides have been arguing and studying these doctrines for thousands of years. But for me and my house, it is clear we will serve YaHVaH.

Our prayer is that in our life, may YaHVaHOSHA Messiah be magnified, today.

Shalom! See you here or in New Yerushalayim!