Sukkot -- The Feast of Tabernacles 10/17 Thursday Thoughts

LEP'S FAITH QUOTES: Sukkot -- The Feast of Tabernacles 10/17 Thursday Thoughts Sukkot, or The Feast of Tabernacles, began at sundown Wednesday evening, Oct. 16, 2024, and continues for seven days. It is the seventh and final festival, in the seventh month, lasts seven days, and required 70 sacrifices. This festival commemorates the 40 years that the Hebrew people wandered in the wilderness and lived in booths (tabernacles), or flimsy temporary dwellings. During this festival Jewish families each build and decorate a sukkah outdoors and spend a lot of time in it. It is a joyful festival, and it is the only festival in which God commanded joy. For Christian believers today, it represents our earthly temporary home and the joyful anticipation of the spiritual rest in the heavenly Kingdom. It was during this festival (John 7:37), during the elaborate water-pouring ceremony, that Jesus announced that He is the Living Water (John 7:37-39) It was at this festival, with its nighttime illumination ceremony, that Jesus said that He is the Light of the World (John 8:12; 9:5) For those who study the Scriptures in the light of the Hebrew culture, there are several clues that Jesus may have been born during Sukkot. The Pilgrim fathers probably patterned the first Thanksgiving in part after the Feast of Tabernacles. Hag Shemach (Happy Holiday)!