"Rejoice...Be Wholly Happy", Says the Bible on Sukkot - Tonight

Arutz Sheva ^ | 10-8-14 | Arutz Sheva Staff

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Wednesday evening at sundown is the start of the seven-day holiday of Sukkot (Tabernacles), one of the three major festivals (shlosha regalim) of the Jewish calendar in which, in Temple days, the Jewish people were enjoined to "go up to Jerusalem."

Sukkot, coming immediately after the solemn month of Elul and the High Holy Days, is the holiday on which the Bible encourages all of us to "be wholly happy".

In recognition of that joy, the entire Hallel (praise) prayer is said each day of the holiday.

In Biblical times as today, it was a harvest holiday for summer crops and grapes, a water holiday that included prayers for winter rains, gratitude for the land of milk and honey, and a

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Happy Sukkot everyone! Chag Sameach!

[LearsFool]

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah— not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord. For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. None of them shall teach his neighbor, and none his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”

In that He says, “A new covenant,” He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

- Hebrews 8:7-13

Look to Jesus the Messiah, my FRiend, who delivered unto man the new covenant.

[Tzfat]

Chag Sukkot Samech!

[Tzfat]

Read the Gospels. Jesus kept all the feasts. Zechariah 14 says clearly that all nations will keep Sukkot in the Messianic Age.

[combat_boots]

Chag Sukkot Samech!

Indeed. God bless Israel and all who defend and protect her.

[LearsFool]

Yes, of course Jesus kept the feasts. After all, He lived under the old covenant. The new covenant could not take effect without His death:

"And for this reason He is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that those who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance. For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives." - Hebrews 9:15-17

[BipolarBob]

There was nothing wrong with the first covenant (other than our inability to keep our end of the bargain as it was meant to be). That said, this one’s a better deal.

[LearsFool]

Indeed, God knew that man wouldn’t keep the first covenant perfectly. And so He planned - from the beginning - to put into effect a second covenant. Whereas the first required a never-ending succession of sacrifice, in the second He provided a perfect sacrifice to end the need for further sacrifices.

(There are, of course, other deficiencies in the first covenant: the fact that it had only a shadow or copy of the heavenly things, for instance. This, too, was part of God’s design...Hebrews 9 again, and in fact the greater part of that book.)

[BipolarBob]

Agreed. The whole idea of the sacrificial system was to clarify our indebtedness to God and his worthiness to be worshiped. The idea of bloodletting an innocent animal to cover Adams sin must have been horrifying to him. All of it to point the way to the Better Covenant.

[LearsFool]

Yes, well put!

I guess that’s why the offerer was to place his hands on the animal before it was killed (as the priest would do on the scapegoat) as if to say, “This animal is to pay the penalty that would otherwise fall on me.”

Yes, I’m glad to be a citizen of the spiritual Israel, by Jesus bearing my sins upon Himself and paying the penalty that would otherwise have fallen on me!

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Read Zechariah 14...it says in the end of days all nations will be keeping Sukkot—or else they get no rain—God’s feasts are not just for the past.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Hope you have a great Sukkot my FRiend! :-) *hugs*

Me and my sis were out tonight jamming in the Sukkah (her on the pennywhistle, me on the uke) and having a good time. I hope you had a good first night of Sukkot too. :-)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

I agree.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Ok its offical now—we must be happy and bless God! For the next 13 days we will be upbeat and worship all we have that is good—Then can we get some rain out her in California?

[LearsFool]

Me and my sis were out tonight jamming in the Sukkah...

Are y'all in Jerusalem?

[Tzfat]

Joyous times here too!

[Tzfat]

So, you chose to NOT do what your master did, because you tradition has overturned the commandments of G-d. Read John 13-15 and tell me what kind of disciple that would make you.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Actually, we live in Virginia. :-)

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

Where’s the “like” button???