Looking
back
The first step of seeing Sukkoth in our time is
to look back to “a beginning” as commanded.
Our fathers were called out of Mitsraym (Egypt) or, the world,
and given a covenant. Then we dwelt in booths for forty years before
the next generation entered into the promised land. Each year as
we camp out for this week, we live symbolically what Yahweh did
then. In the performance of Sukkoth we experience
a taste of what was, and this "look back" brings the past
into our “present”.
In the “here and now”
In bringing the past into the present, we identify with our fathers
more closely. This gives us identity. At Deut.
31:10-11 Yahweh commands that we read the covenant
in the year of release at Sukkoth. In addition
to the festival showing us who we are, it also shows how we are
to act. As we act better, it makes people want to know who we are,
which points to Yahweh. These things work together to bring benefit
to our life in the present. Will it benefit us in the future as
the experiences of our fathers benefit us now?
Looking forward
RR brought a peculiar passage to my attention, and I share: Eze
20:33-44. This passage is apparently referring
to a future “exodus”. Could we be “practicing”
for what is coming? The passage reflects us as we are right now, doesn’t
it? Tie that with: Jer.
23:7 and see if Yahweh might be telling us to
get ready, and the “first” exodus is a picture of what
we will DO, just like Pasach (Passover) was a picture of Yahshua.
What all the physical pictures may be showing.
The festivals show the pattern that Yahweh uses in the “harvest
of the earth”, which of course, is the birthing of permanent
(spirit) children of Yahweh. A short rundown is:
- Pesach (Passover): covering for the firstborn
till the bringing out of Yisra’el into...
- Days of Unleavened Bread: where we dwell in
booths under rule of law. (1+7 = family) The “Wave Sheaf”
is offerred up during this time and begins the count of seven
completed Sabbaths plus one and the giving of the spirit of the
law
- Shavuot (Weeks): This deeper understanding
of the law brings forth the spirit of EliYah (Elijah) and our
return to the “ways of our fathers” and gives us strength
to make it to...
- Trumpets: Yahshua is shown to be Sovereign
and he calls forth the two early harvests. Us Christians call
this the “rapture” wherever you place it in time.
After we are awakened, we go to...
- Yome Kippurim (Day of Atonement): the coronation
of Yahshua, where he raises the “coverings for the nations”
or twelve tribes of Yisra’el. We become, or work under,
these coverings and harvest ALL of Yisra’el in the fall
harvest (seventh day). Here is one of the keys to seeing the festival’s
more complete picture. Yome Kippurim brings us to...
- Sukkoth (booths/tabernacles): to me, this
means or represents the seven thousand years that we as a nation
have lived, are currently living, and will live in physical bodies
under rule of the physical law. We die in this state, exactly
like the first picture of us coming out of Mitsrayim (Egypt),
and the next generation inherits the promise. In other words,
we die in the wilderness to be raised up to receive the real “promised
land”, the promise to our mother, Hawwah (Eve). At the end
of the seventh day, ALL of Yisra’el is born as a completed
(spirit) nation, which is then used to harvest the whole earth
(all the other families/nations) on the eighth day.
- The Last Great Day (the 8th day): Harvest of
the whole earth.
1 (Pasach) + 7 (unleavened bread) = family
= 7 (Sukkoth) + 1 (last great day)
Pesach and Unleavened bread brings forth the first family who work
for seven days, plus one, to bring forth the whole family.
Nice, neat, orderly, and that from the mind of a madman...
I remain,
Eric
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