It’s time for another celebration!
For those of you that don’t know, Sukkot is one of the three pilgrimage ‘Holy Days’ referenced in the Bible. It’s also known as Feast of Booths or Tabernacles.
A sukkot is a hut-like structure that the Israelites lived in during their 40 years of wandering through the wilderness, after their exodus from Egypt. Sukkot simply means ‘temporary dwelling’.
We celebrate by constructing our own sukkot. The festival lasts for seven days. During which we spend much of our time outside in our sukkot. We try to cook our meals and eat them in our sukkot during the weeklong event.
We use this celebration as another way to educate our children and reflect on the time when God lead His people through the wilderness. Talk about a History lesson!
This joyous celebration is a reminder of God’s deliverance, protection, provision, and faithfulness.
This is important not only for Jews but for Christians as well. Jesus not only celebrated the Feast of Tabernacles, He used it as the occasion to reveal His nature and His mission.
…And the Word became flesh and dwelt (tabernacled) among us… (John 1:14 NKJV)
In celebrating the Biblical feasts like Jesus and His disciples did, we as Christians can get a better understanding of the Jewish life that Jesus lived while he was here on Earth as man.
In the New Testament, Jesus attended the Feast of Tabernacles and spoke these words on the last day of the Feast: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”(John 7:37-38 NKJV)
The next morning while the torches were still burning Jesus said, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”(John 8:12 NKJV)
Sukkot points to the truth that our lives rest on the redemption which is in
Jesus Christ and His forgiveness of our sin.
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