simply because they are an annual cyclical sequence of reminders to aid the observers to keep moving forward on the straight and narrow WAY.
These times are much more than an opportunity to focus on the Hebraic roots of our faith and beliefs. They are more than simply days to think on the prophetic meanings without physical participation, even though they are essentially fulfilled through Jesus/Yeshua’s Life, death and resurrection.
These Moadiym/Moedim, offer great spiritual insight and give us a unique opportunity for being discipled by His Holy Spirit/Ruach haKodesh; as we walk in the WAY of His Son, ever moving towards realizing our full potential and servant-hood for our Heavenly Father.
As we spend time learning their meaning in light of Jesus/ Yeshua and then living out the fullness of each of the Moedim as it relates to a disciples lifestyle; believers in Messiah will draw closer to Him and in that personal and intimate relationship, will become that much more effective and victorious. (Living a life of victory for and in Yeshua/Jesus.)
Sukkot (Hebrew: סוכות or סֻכּוֹת Hebrew pronunciation: , sukkōt; traditional Ashkenazi spelling: Sukkos/Succos),
commonly called the Feast of Tabernacles or in some translations the Festival of Shelters, and known also as the
Feast of Ingathering
(חג האסיף, Chag HaAsif),
Sukkot at the Western (Wailing) Wall, Israel.
It is a biblical Jewish holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the seventh month, Tishrei (varies from late September to late October). (October 2-9, 2020) one of the three biblically based pilgrimage holidays (chaggim or regalim) of the year.
It is the time to give thanks and appreciate the shelters of our homes and bodies as Sukkot is a hut-like structure in which the children of Israels lived when they were traveling during 40 wilderness years.
While walking through the seasons and the corresponding Moedim each year, we must allow His spirit/ruach to sow into us the deep truths that each Moed is designed to help us remember, integrating the revelations into our understanding and spiritual perception.
The end goal being, that our Heavenly Father may gather in a great harvest through us, for His glory and to lift up His Name and the Name of His Son Jesus/Yeshua, our Savior and soon returning King.
Why observe and why bother with these old testament feasts?
One good reason is the root of the words disciple, which is discipline. Paul is the great example,
1Corinthians 9:24.
But what made him so effective? Discipline! And the fact that he was successful because he understood the importance of submission to the Lord.
We are well aware that discipline is the key to perseverance, yet many times we allow our flesh to determine our tolerance level. If we submit to fathers discipline as Yeshua/Jesus did…
..rather than what we think we are able to endure, it teaches us our true potential and everything becomes less of an overwhelming mountain. Then we can run the race, however if we refused to submit to the discipline of our heavenly father – the race makes us – So we need His discipline to become His disciples and run to win on the straight and narrow way; leaving the flesh in the dust that it was formed from and will one day return to.
Yom Kippur just past as an appointed time of meeting with God.
The day of atonement –
at one ment
– is not so much a feast day as others but rather a day of
repentance/teshuvah.
It is significant to all, not just for Israel.
Paul refers to it
Saying the fast had already gone by.
in Acts. 27:9
It is a time for thinking,
assessing,
keeping the flesh and its desires under.
We are not perfect and all of us are working out our salvation. Walking daily in repentance and forgiveness in newness of life dealing with daily sin as it becomes an issue, thoughts attitudes etc..
We need to vow each year to be better than the year just passed.
It is the one day a year the High Priest enters into the Holy of Holies where the ark is, to take the blood of the sacrifice and place it on the Mercy seat Kapporet/ lid of the ark, between the cherubim, where rested the presence of God/the throne of His presence.. Leviticus 23:26 – 32
This action was to atone for his and the people sins. The High Priest wore all the symbolic clothing and the light of God’s Shekinah filled the Holy of Holies where there was no other source of light. Hebrews 9:24 Jesus/Yeshua became our High Priest; Hebrews 6:20, when He presented Himself to the Father. He told Mary I have not yet ascended to My Father don’t touch Me. (This may have been because it would’ve caused uncleanness before He ascended?) The real ark/ mercy seat/ throne/ His presence – is in the heavenlies/ha shamayim. And Yeshua/Jesus’ blood paid the price for all time. Hebrews 3:1; 2:14; 4:14; 5:9; 9:7; 9:11.
To be a propitiation means to be the agent through whom forgiveness and atonement can be achieved.
Yom Ha Kipuriym – Day of the Atonements.
יום הכיפורים
It is the holiest day on Israel’s calendar perhaps even surpassing the 7th day Shabbat.. Like the 7th day, Yom Ha Kipuriym is designated a Shabbat Shabbaton. This means it is a day to stop from all kinds of work and to rest completely once a year and begins the evening before at sundown.
Not primarily a feast because it is a day to deny self or afflict ones soul. As the High Priest performs the atonement for himself, the altar, the Tabernacle and the whole community of Israel; the people participate through their non participation! Not only are they not to come near the Holy place on this day but are to deny their own existence. They are in essence – to: stop being. By not even giving in to themselves for basic needs such as food and water.
Like Passover/Pesach, many scholars agree that Yom Ha Kipuriym find it’s clear fulfillment in Jesus/Yeshua as He is both High Priest and our sacrifice. He atoned for us once and for all and is continually making intercession for us before the Father
Intercession is more than prayer:
It is entering in and making a difference in someone’s life.
In Greek it is ENTUGCHANO, meaning to petition or to intercede.
The act of intervening or mediating between differing parties; particularly the act of praying to God on behalf of another person.
In Hebrew: PAGA – פָגַע. – paw-gah’.
A primitive root; to impinge, by accident or violence, or (figuratively) by importunity — come (betwixt), cause to entreat, fall (upon), make intercession, intercessor, to meet, encounter, reach.
Intercession is prayer that pleads with God for your needs and the needs of others. But it is also much more than that. Intercession involves taking hold of God’s will and refusing to let go until His will comes to pass. Intercession is warfare fighting the good fight of FAITH– the key to God’s battle plan for our lives.
He does not need to make sacrifices for Himself and for us year after year in order to atone for our sins.
It is already been accomplished forever.
Our self denial on this day therefore does not cause, aid or enhance our atonement but allows us to become acutely aware of our own mortality, our sin, our need for atonement and our desire for life. At the same time it causes us to appreciate on some very tiny level the sacrifice Messiah made on our half as He denied His own life. The sanctity and holiness of this day cannot be overstated.
Though we may find great joy in our eternal atonement in Messiah Yeshua, this is a day for remembering that atonement (at one ment) in such a way that will be very hard to forget. We ought to be completive, repentant, humble and dead/ die to self. We are to remember that we live and breathe only because the Father chooses. And that by His choice, He has the power to take it away as well.
These are the themes to think on, that without Messiah, we are truly hopeless, without hope, truly dead,
but
through His atoning blood and intercession
we are truly alive forevermore.
Five days after Yom Ha Kipuriym on the 15th day Office seventh month for seven days is the feast of the tabernacles Chag ha Sukot .(Leviticus 23:33-36, 39; 40-43)
Also called Chag ha Asif – feast of the ingathering….
Why?
Because it occurs at the outgoing of the year when you gather in the fruit of your labor from the field. Lev.23:16
Like the feast of Matzah (unleavened bread), Sukot (Sukkot) lasts for seven days and is a time of great celebration. It is different to Matzah in the way that only the first day of Sukot is a holy convocation. On this day Israel is commanded to do no regular work and to rest.
The main focus is the SUKAH – booth or tabernacle, constructed from various trees and flora from around Jerusalem. This is to remind the Israelites that brought them out of Egypt.
The spiritual significance is of
divine protection,
deliverance and
provision.
The temporary and flimsy construction of the SUKAH reminds us of our own weakness, fragile and temporary condition of our physical bodies that we dwell in on earth.
It is also symbolic of how Adonai
cares for us,
shades us, and
hides us from the elements that focus on our destruction.
(Those that would seek to steal, kill & destroy, prince of the power of the air)
At the time of the final ingathering we are to celebrate with overwhelming joyfulness that:
1. He has delivered us.
2. Watched over us.
3. Will soon be taking us to dwell permanently with Him in the SUKAH that will have no end.
The seventh day became known as
Hashanna Rabba
and was celebrated with a huge water libation ceremony to ask for abundant rain over the coming season.
In the scriptures: Leviticus 23: 36, 40. Nehemiah 8:14.
it is written that this is to be observed
On the 22nd day of the seventh month.
The 7 day Sukot is the last moed of the year.
Yom HaShmiyniy Atzaret – The 8th day assembly.
The commands for this day are simply:
do no regular work, rest and assemble together.
It is a time to say goodbye to Sukot and the past years moedim/moadiym.
It is time to rest and reflect
but also a time to look forward to the future
because in six months time,
the cycle of life and annual rehearsal for the ultimate wedding of all time begins again.
Though this moed is often deemed insignificant or instead celebrated as Simchat Torah (Joy of the Torah) which is an extra biblical Jewish holiday; it can also be very meaningful as we look back at the journey along the WAY that we have just completed.
The cycle of life that has come full circle and also to look forward to the new one that lies ahead.
Messiah fulfilled an intermediate fulfillment of all three Fall Feasts at His first coming:
1.) Announcement: Yom Teruw’ah, ushering in the King.
2.) Circumcision: Yom Kippur, removal of the veil (foreskin) called “face-to-face.”
3.) Dwelling with us: Sukkot; dwelt with us in a corruptible body.
John 1:14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among & we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth.
If Jesus/Yeshua was born on the 1st day of Sukkot, the 15th day of the 7th month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord? Lev.23:34,
Then He would have been circumcised on the eighth great day – a festival following sukkot,
Shemini Atsaret – Eighth Day of Solemn Assembly
is a festival observed immediately after Sukkot Tabernacles,
i.e. on 22nd Tishrei (the seventh month) Luke 9:23
Messiah will fulfill all three Fall Feasts at His second coming:
1.) Husband Ushering in the Bride: Yom Teruw’ah.
2.) Husband removes veil from the bride’s face: Yom Kippur.
3.) Husband consummates the marriage with the 4th cup: Sukkot; Dwells with bride for 1,000 years of Sabbath rest.
Coming very soon – so let’s keep looking up!
Shalom shalom
‘Mishpachah’
‘Family/Tribe’
משפחה
Mish-pa-KHa,
friends, visitors and every reader…
And spread over us the sukkah (shelter) of Your peace. Blessed are You, HaShem, Who spreads the SukkatShalom upon us, upon all of His people and upon Jerusalem.
Please don’t leave this page before making certain Jesus is your Redeemer, Savior, Lord and soon returning King and that you have a personal relationship with Him.
You are greatly loved and precious in His sight.
Its all about Life and Relationship, not Religion.
NOT SURE? YOU CAN BE..
SAY THE FOLLOWING FROM YOUR HEART RIGHT NOW…
Heavenly Father I come to you in the Name of Jesus asking for forgiveness of my sins for which I am truly sorry. I repent of them all and turn away from my past.
I believe with my heart and confess with my mouth that Jesus is your Son and that He died on the cross at calvary to pay the price for my sin, so that I might be forgiven and have eternal life in the kingdom of Heaven. Father I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and I ask you to come into my life right now and be my personal Savior and Lord and I will worship you all the days of my life. Because your word is truth I say that I am now forgiven and born again and by faith I am washed clean with the blood of Jesus. Thank you that you have accepted me into your family in Jesus’ name. Amen.
The Eighth Day assembly.
