Charles YTK
1st December 2002, 02:33 AM
The feast of tabernacles is the feast that will be required by all nations during the Millennial Kingdom. Any nation that does not take part in this feast will no longer have rain. (Zech 14:16)
This is the feast that we are to pay special attention to the fact that the Lord is King.It is the time when God dwells with His people, in the wilderness coming out from Egypt, when Messiah was born in Bethlehem, and when He reigns as King from Jerusalem.
During this feast in the days of the second temple there is a feature called the water pouring ceremony. A large group of priests go out to the valley of Motzah and cut 25 ft long whips, while another large group goes to the poor of Siloam to get living water (flowing fresh water). Then both groups would begin to march slowly toward the temple in Jerusalem. All the priests would step out on the left foot, and the ones with the long whips would whip them from one side to the other with each step creating a "whooshing" sould like a great wind. Wind in Hebrew is Ruach, and is symbolic of the Holy spirit, like the mighty wind of shavuot when the Holy spirit was poured out. Both groups would progress toward Jerusalem and meet there at the same time, and would then wait for the signal, (sounded by trumpets) and a special priest playing a flute would lead them in together. This priest was called "the pierced one", and was symbolic of Messiah. When the swooshing group reached the altar, they would circle it 7 times and then the living water was mixed with wine, and the two were poured out over the sacrifice. The wine represents blood. Now think of Messiah on the cross, and when his side was pierced, both water and blood poured out.
In the days of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, he finds a man who is blind from birth.
JN 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. [2] And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? [3] Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. [4] I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. [5] As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. [6] When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, [7] And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
A couple things are very interesting about this passage. Why did the Lord use clay to put in the mans eyes rather than just speaking the word to heal him, and why did he tell him to wash in the pool of Siloam? Well since this takes place during Tabernacles I think we know why, because the priests who would be collecting the living water, (symbolic of Gods life in us) for the water pouring ceremony would be there at that exact time. Yeshua makes clay from the dry ground, and puts it into the mans eyes. How could he put this clay into the mans eyeballs? I think we have missed something. The man had no eyes, he was born with no eyes. (The Greek may allow this) When God created man he did so by forming him from the clay from the dust of the earth. Now in this scene while the priests are seeking Gods blessings on the lands of Israel and on the people, here comes Yeshua and putting before their faces the fact that the creator was present among them. As Yeshua told the disciples, the man was born blind not because of sin, but so that the glorious works of God could be shown. Yeshua is the way the truth and the life. and here he is showing the nation of Israel that he is the giver of life and the creative hand, who formed Adam from the dust of the earth.
Another event that takes place during the feast of tabernacles is the transfiguration. Three are seen, Moshe (the Torah) Elijah (the prophets) and Yeshua (the livng word of God or the Living Torah).
We know it is Tabernacles, because the disciples remark"It is good for us to see this. Allow us to go an make three Tabernacles, one for each." This is exactly what would need to be done for this feast. In tabernacles (symbolic of the Millennial Kingdom) the law and the prophets are fulfilled in the Lordship of Messiah on the earth.
Charles YTK
This is the feast that we are to pay special attention to the fact that the Lord is King.It is the time when God dwells with His people, in the wilderness coming out from Egypt, when Messiah was born in Bethlehem, and when He reigns as King from Jerusalem.
During this feast in the days of the second temple there is a feature called the water pouring ceremony. A large group of priests go out to the valley of Motzah and cut 25 ft long whips, while another large group goes to the poor of Siloam to get living water (flowing fresh water). Then both groups would begin to march slowly toward the temple in Jerusalem. All the priests would step out on the left foot, and the ones with the long whips would whip them from one side to the other with each step creating a "whooshing" sould like a great wind. Wind in Hebrew is Ruach, and is symbolic of the Holy spirit, like the mighty wind of shavuot when the Holy spirit was poured out. Both groups would progress toward Jerusalem and meet there at the same time, and would then wait for the signal, (sounded by trumpets) and a special priest playing a flute would lead them in together. This priest was called "the pierced one", and was symbolic of Messiah. When the swooshing group reached the altar, they would circle it 7 times and then the living water was mixed with wine, and the two were poured out over the sacrifice. The wine represents blood. Now think of Messiah on the cross, and when his side was pierced, both water and blood poured out.
In the days of Yeshua during the feast of Tabernacles, he finds a man who is blind from birth.
JN 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. [2] And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? [3] Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. [4] I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. [5] As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. [6] When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, [7] And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
A couple things are very interesting about this passage. Why did the Lord use clay to put in the mans eyes rather than just speaking the word to heal him, and why did he tell him to wash in the pool of Siloam? Well since this takes place during Tabernacles I think we know why, because the priests who would be collecting the living water, (symbolic of Gods life in us) for the water pouring ceremony would be there at that exact time. Yeshua makes clay from the dry ground, and puts it into the mans eyes. How could he put this clay into the mans eyeballs? I think we have missed something. The man had no eyes, he was born with no eyes. (The Greek may allow this) When God created man he did so by forming him from the clay from the dust of the earth. Now in this scene while the priests are seeking Gods blessings on the lands of Israel and on the people, here comes Yeshua and putting before their faces the fact that the creator was present among them. As Yeshua told the disciples, the man was born blind not because of sin, but so that the glorious works of God could be shown. Yeshua is the way the truth and the life. and here he is showing the nation of Israel that he is the giver of life and the creative hand, who formed Adam from the dust of the earth.
Another event that takes place during the feast of tabernacles is the transfiguration. Three are seen, Moshe (the Torah) Elijah (the prophets) and Yeshua (the livng word of God or the Living Torah).
We know it is Tabernacles, because the disciples remark"It is good for us to see this. Allow us to go an make three Tabernacles, one for each." This is exactly what would need to be done for this feast. In tabernacles (symbolic of the Millennial Kingdom) the law and the prophets are fulfilled in the Lordship of Messiah on the earth.
Charles YTK