The Feast of Tabernacles is the last of the seven ‘appointed times’ given to God’s people. In Hebrew, the Feast of Tabernacles is Sukkot meaning ‘shelters,’ sukkah is the singular ‘shelter.’ Sukkot is the eight-day fall Feast that follows the Day of Atonement. It is called the ‘season of our joy’ when everyone dances with lulavs and builds temporary shelters with roofs made from branches of trees. Like the other fall festivals, the Feast of Tabernacles has yet to be fulfilled by Yeshua.
Let’s Throw Stones – Tashlich
hose who have offended us whether it’s 490 times or 490,000 times. Confessing sins and asking forgiveness frees us to live with a clear conscience with our family, friends, and acquaintances. It also brings healing to our souls. As we throw stones into the body of water, we can ‘cast away’ all offenses that we may have committed and forgive those sins committed against us so we can be restored to one another in the Body of Messiah.
Feast of Trumpets – Yom Teruah
Yeshua used the same phrase when he told his disciples about the timing of His return: “No one knows the day or the hour except my Father in heaven” (Matthew 24:36). As a Jewish man, Yeshua understood ‘no one knows the day or the hour’ to be an idiom for Yom Teruah like we understand the Fourth of July as Independence Day. While living in the flesh as the son of man, he could not know the year for the prophetic fulfillment of Feast of Trumpets, but he did know on what ‘appointed time’ it would occur. Paul did too.
Feast of Unleavened Bread – Matzah
enerations to remember Israel’s hasty exodus from the land of Egypt. The ‘appointed time’ of matzah was fulfilled by the burial of Yeshua, the unleavened bread from heaven, ‘the coming one.’ Paul tells the Corinthians that followers of Messiah are to remove the ‘soured dough’ lump of false teachings and celebrate the Feasts of Unleavened Bread and Passover, not with the puffed up bread of wickedness and evil, but with the matzah of purity and sincerity in the truth of God’s Word.