The Festival of Booths

We have just completed the Day of Atonement on Saturday September 18TH at dusk. However, there is another Biblical feast we are to celebrate. Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) was on the Jewish calendar the 10TH of Tishri. Five days later, on the 15TH-21ST of Tishri, the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths is celebrated. Leviticus 23:33-43 reads: And the ADONAI said to Moses, Say to the people of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the feast of booths to the ADONAI. On the first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. Seven days you shall present offerings by fire to the ADONAI; on the eighth day you shall hold a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the ADONAI; it is a solemn assembly; you shall do no laborious work. These are the appointed feasts of the ADONAI, which you shall proclaim as times of holy convocation, for presenting to the ADONAI offerings by fire, burnt offerings and cereal offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each on its proper day; besides the Sabbaths of the ADONAI, and besides your gifts, and besides all your votive offerings, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to the ADONAI. On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall keep the feast of the ADONAI seven days; on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest. And you shall take on the first day the fruit of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the ADONAI your Elohim seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to the ADONAI seven days in the year; it is a statute for ever throughout your generations; you shall keep it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days; all that are native in Israel shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the people of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the ADONAI your Elohim." Yeshua would have participated in this feast, so why don't those churches that claim to worship Him also celebrate the same feast? This year it begins Wednesday, September 22ND at 6:44PM. Listen to the television preachers, radio ministers, and the local pastors to see if there is any mention of the Biblical feast. ADONAI commands His people to keep this holiday.

In Hebrew, the word is Sukkot and is pronounced Soo-KOTE. It is a week long celebration of the fall harvest and a time to build temporary shelters of branches. This is done to remember how the Hebrew people lived under Elohim's care during the forty years in the wilderness. Jews celebrate Sukkot by building and dwelling in temporary booths for eight days. It is one of the three pilgrimage feasts when all Jewish males were required to go to Jerusalem to "appear before ADONAI." (Deuteronomy 16:16)

Again, we are confronted with the disconnect between Christian practices and those of Yeshua. The tension is growing stronger. The time will come when a decision will be made. Will you follow the Bible and Yeshua, or a religion made by gentiles that did not know ADONAI in the 4TH Century?