Posted on 04/04/2003 12:03:05 PM PST by WhatNot
Khag Sukkot was the original name of the Hebrew celebration that means the Feast of Tabernacles. This was because during the Feast, every worshiper lived in a Sukkah, or Booth, or Hut, under the skies of Jerusalem. They all camped out, but the strange thing was they were home. They were in the Promised Land. You don't camp out when you're home. But God wanted them to remember their days when they journeyed in tents, and when they journeyed and camped out with them.
The Promised Land speaks of Heaven, and the wilderness of this present life. So the children of God must always remember that the wilderness is not the place to build their houses. We are not here to settle down or get weighed down. We're only camping out. There, in the Promised Land you'll settle down dwelling places that never pass away. When you look back at all your circumstances of joy and sorrow, you'll see them just as tents in which you slept the night. And you'll give thanks and say, "How lovely were your dwelling places" because God was there with you through your journeying, when you camped out with God in tents.
TODAY'S MISSION
Visit someone who is lonely or hurting today, comfort one who needs comfort.
Psalm 1435-6
5) I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. 6) I spread out my hands to You; My soul longs for You like a thirsty land.Selah
Bump for Sukkot 9/22/2010 at Sundown
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations who came up against Jerusalem, shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the God of Hosts, and to keep the holiday of Sukkot. And whoever does not come ... to Jerusalem ... upon them there will be no rain. (Zechariah 14:16)
Amen.
http://www.lttn.org/R5_Article4_Sukkot.htm
...During Sukkot in the time of the Holy Temple, a unique sacrifice was offered on the altar—with a unique intention.
In chapter 29 of the book of Numbers, the Bible outlines the sacrifices which are to be offered over the span of the holiday. Counting the number of bulls which are offered over the seven day period, we find that the total number was seventy. And in chapter 10 of the book of Genesis, there are seventy nations mentioned. These are the primordial nations, sometimes referred to as the “seventy languages,” which represent all humanity. The Talmud (BT Sukkah 55:B) teaches that the seventy bulls that were offered in the Holy Temple served as an atonement for the seventy nations of the world. Truly, as the rabbis observed, “if the nations of the world had only known how much they needed the Temple, they would have surrounded it with armed fortresses to protect it” (Bamidbar Rabbah 1, 3).
Here we can already sense that inherent within the very nature of the holiday, an inexorable bond—as expressed through its sacrificial requirements—links it to the earth’s peoples. Sukkot was mandated by the Creator Himself to be a holiday for all the world...
Thanks for the link.
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