Feast of Tabernacles / The Great Wonderful Day of the Lord’s Harvest
The feast of
Tabernacles is the seventh feast of the year, lasting seven days, and has many prophetic
meanings. A significant feast, last feast - 7th feast, of the when you have gathered in the produce of the land. The feast of Tabernacles,
for the Jews, is a time for Israel's remembrance of God's provision in the
desert for 40 years in booths. For Christians, it is a time of rest (the first 1,000 years after The Return of Christ - marriage supper). It is the most joyous of God's Holy Feast. Present
and future, celebrating the gathering of the last harvest of the year.
There is the 8th day! The 8th year is the first year of a new sabbatical cycle.
The ceremony
was to thank God for His bounty and to ask Him to provide rain for the crops in
the coming year.
On the last day of the Feast, the Great Day [i.e., the eighth day], Jesus stood up and proclaimed,,
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).
Since it is
the last harvest, the future of souls, it also signifies the previous fall harvest
of the grape and olive oil. The gathering.
Grape represents the wrath of the unsaved. The Lord will protect His own in booths
during the great wrath of God. God’s
people in the booths (seven days – seven years ) during the wrath of God.
The grapes,
the gathering of the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. The
winepress crushes the grapes. God's wrath crushes the unsaved. Deut 16:13-15.
Olives during Jesus' time, heavy stone slabs were lowered onto olives that had already
been crushed in an olive crusher. The oil was collected in clay jars.
Biblical
meaning, the clay jars go through the fire. God's people represent the clay
jars. God’s people have gone through the fire.
We are like
potter’s vessels, waiting to be broken into millions of tiny pieces (Psalm
31:12, Isaiah 30:14). We are weak. We get tired and weary. We grow old and
frail.
2 Corinthians
10:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the
power may be of God, not of us.
Our physical
“jars of clay” will be resurrected one day to become glorified, eternal bodies.
Olive oil
represents the Holy Spirit.
Jesus, full
of the Holy Spirit, taking on the weight of the world's sin, was pressed down on him.
After his
death was Pentecost, the Holy Spirit filled the clay jars and people with the
Holy Spirit with power and authority for the works of God.
During the
feast of booths, the ‘joy’ was at the ingathering at the end of the harvest
season: ‘Sukkot [Tabernacles] is the time when the produce of the field,
orchard and vineyard is gathered in. The granaries, threshing floors, wine, and olive presses are full. Weeks and months of toil and sweat put
into the soil have finally been amply rewarded - rejoicing!
The Jewish calendar is God's calendar of events yet to come.
It is time to examine ourselves (Yom Kipper) and prepare for the great harvest of people on earth. Revival first starts with us. Then, on fire, igniting others. It is
time to press in and prepare for the Harvest, the great harvest of the Lord.
