Shabbat Shalom, everyone. Well, I would like you please to open your Bibles at this ministry meeting. The passage that I would like to read today found in more than one area from the Word of God. First of all, of course, we're going to turn to Leviticus chapter 23. The theme for this ministry is the Feast of Tabernacles, as we call it in our Hebrew language, Chag Sukkot. And we'd like to see what the Bible teaches us concerning Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles. I'd like us to read a few passages. One of them is the book of Leviticus chapter 23. And let me read from verse 33. And I begin with the reading.

And the Lord speak unto Moses, saying, speak unto the children of Israel, saying, the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord. On the first day shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein. Seventh day ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you. And ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. It is a solemn assembly. And ye shall do no servile work therein. Verse 39. Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days.

On the first day shall be a Shabbat. And on the eighth day shall be a Shabbat. And ye shall take you on the first day the bows of goodly tree, branches of palm trees, and the bows of thick trees, and the willows of the brook. And ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generation. Ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in Booth for seven days. All that are Israelis born shall dwell in Sukkot. That your generation may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in Booth when I brought them out of the land of Egypt.

I am the Lord your God. If you turn with me to the prophet Amos, please, I want to read just a couple of verses there in chapter 9 and verse 11. This is the prophet of Israel who had mentioned concerning the future restoration of the people of Israel. He said in that day will I raise up the tabernacles of David that is fallen and close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up his ruins and I will build it as in the days of old that they may possess the remnant of Edom and of all the heathen which are called by my name, saith the Lord, that doeth this.

Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treasure of grapes him that soweth seed. And the mountain shall drop sweet wine and all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel. And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them. And I will plant them upon their land. And they shall no more be pulled out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God. Now the Gospels.

Matthew chapter 6, please. Verses 9 and 10. The words of Yeshua HaMashiach when he was in Galil, in the Galilee, there in the Sermon on the Mount. He says, After this manner, therefore, pray. Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. And then one more verse in the book of Romans. Chapter 11, verse 11 and 12. Notice what we read there. I say then. Have they, namely Israel, stumbled that they should fall? God forbid. But rather, through their fall, salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the fall of them, namely Israel, be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them, namely Israel, the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness.

Notice verse 15. For if the casting away of them, namely Israel, be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead? Now I'm going to stop with the reading here in this passage in Romans chapter 11. But beloved brothers and sisters, we begin, of course, with the first passage that I've read found in Leviticus chapter 23. In a moment, we're going to get on the overhead, this slide that is a very important slide to look on, the slide of the seven feasts of the Lord. And I would like you just to look at that for a moment, and just for our general understanding of the passage that we are dealing with.

You notice that in the middle of that slide, you have seven feasts that God had given to our nation, the nation of Israel, 3,500 years ago. The Feast of Sukkot, or Tabernacles, or Booth, is the last feast. You notice right here at the end, the Feast of Tabernacles is the seventh and final feast that God had given to the people of Israel doing what you call the biblical yearly cycle. So every year, the people of Israel were called to celebrate those seven feasts. The word feasts in Hebrew, of course, it's not merely a holiday, it is Moadim. And Moadim, or Moed, means an appointed season. Every season had to be kept exactly in its right day in which God had given His own people Israel.

And therefore, if you notice those seven feasts, Pesach, Passover, Unleved Bread, Chag HaMatzot, the first food, Chag HaKatzir, the feast of Shavuot, the weeks is the fourth feast. The fifth feast is Trumpet, Yom Tu'ah, the sixth is Atonement, Yom HaKippurim, and the seventh feast is Sukkot, the feast of Tabernacles. We know very well that when God gave Israel those seven Moadim, or feasts, He didn't give it to them by accident or without any purpose. Every one of these seven feasts that God gave our people Israel, those are biblical feasts found in order specifically in one chapter, Neviticus chapter 23. And every one of them speaks so vividly and clearly about God's ways in dealing with His people Israel in connection with the coming of the Mashiach, the Messiah.

And you know it very well. We do it every year when we do our Pesach, our Passover. Everything began with Pesach. Because there, when our people Israel were in the land of Egypt, in order to be redeemed, God had to tell our people Israel to take the blood of the lamb, to place it on the doorposts and the lintel. And when He said, when I see the blood, I will pass over you. God had passed over the homes of the Jewish people when the blood was placed upon the doorposts and the lintel. And everything began from there for our people Israel. And everything began from redemption.

When you and I have accepted Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah, we receive a new life. We became new creation. All things have passed away. All become new. So everything began with Passover. And as you look at those seven feasts, the culmination, of course, is right there at the end, which we call the feast of Tabernacle, Chag Sukkot. And Chag Sukkot, it really deals with the culmination. While everything began with Passover, everything will culminate, will end and will conclude. Not so much now with sufferings and all the things that happened in the beginning in Passover, but the culmination be a celebration, a rejoicing. And the Feast of Tabernacle, of course, speak of the future day when the Messianic Kingdom will be established by the Messiah.

Israel as a nation will be restored and he will reign as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. But you see, beloved brothers and sisters, in between those seven feasts, right in the middle, we live today in that Ekklesia days, the called out one. We live right in the middle. The first four feasts are past tense. Passover has ended. Unleavened bread has ended. First food, the resurrection of the Messiah has ended. The Feast of Pentecost of Shavuot have really ended in a sense that the body of Messiah has been built already. Jew and Gentile are united together in the body of Messiah. We are now anticipating the final days when the Messiah will come and call Israel back to himself.

Take the body of Messiah to be with him and establish the Messianic Kingdom in the future days. So we are still awaiting the four feasts of Jehovah that are yet to come. The shofar will be blown. Israel will be restored physically into the land. The day of atonement will come, which is speaking of the tribulation. And Israel is going to repent and will mourn over the fact that they have rejected the Messiah for so many years. But then the Lord will open their eyes. And as we read in the prophet Zechariah, that at that day, in those days, everyone will mourn among the people of Israel.

They shall look upon him whom they have pierced. And they will mourn. Everyone will repent on the day of atonement at the end of the tribulation. And finally, they will accept the Mashiach Yeshua. They shall look upon him whom they have rejected, have pierced for so many generations. Israel have neglected to accept the Messiah as a nation. Oh yes, there are many Jewish people, like some of us that are here, that have already come to faith in the Mashiach during these days of the church age. But there is coming a day in which all Israel shall be saved. As it is written that the Redeemer will come to Jacob and will turn ungodliness from Israel.

This is something that we should anticipate as believers today. But in the 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus, beloved brothers and sisters, look at the turn that we have here. Away from the day of atonement, Yom HaKippurim, when there is mourning, when there is weeping, when there is a cry, when there is repentance, when there is a seeking for forgiveness, when there is constant brokenness before God. Five days later, five days later, on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei, then things change completely. And now you find out there is a celebration. And I want you to notice the instruction that we have.

There are seven instructions that God gives Israel from verse 34 to verse 43 in Leviticus chapter 23. Look at this with me for a moment. First of all, you notice in verse 33 and 34, And the Lord spoke unto Moshe, and he said to him, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The 15th day of this seventh month shall be a feast of tabernacle for seven days unto the Lord. Immediately you notice that now God gave Israel a date. This date had to be kept because this is an appointment with God. It is an appointment with God. As I mentioned before, they couldn't begin it on the 14th day of the month of Tishrei, or the 13th day of the month of Tishrei.

It must be on the 15th day of the month of Tishrei. A new, you might say, a new period of time in Israel's yearly cycle had begun. Secondly, you notice that in this passage, verse 33 and 34, that Israel is to keep this celebration for seven days. It's not like the feast of trumpet for one day, the first day of the month of Tishrei. It's not like the Yom Kippur for one day on the 10th day of the month of Tishrei. But this particular period of Sukkot or tabernacle is to be kept for seven days. Now, I find it extremely interesting that this feast of tabernacle, it's the seven feasts that God has given to Israel.

And it was to be kept for seven days. It is so interesting because it shows us the number seven in the Bible or in Scripture, it oftentimes speaks of completeness, fullness. Israel is now in the yearly cycle arriving to a full season. They have already have covered the six feasts before, and now they have arrived to the final feast of culmination, where blessings is going to flow to the nation of Israel. So, in verse 33 and 34, number one, the feast to be kept on the 15th day, and number two, it is to be kept for seven long days. Thirdly, notice in verse 35, from the first day will be a holy convocation.

The Hebrew word for holy convocation is mikra kodesh. Mikra means a calling. Kodesh means holy. It will be a calling of God for the nation of Israel to recognize that we begin a new period of time in the yearly cycle. I'm reading verse 35. On the first day it shall be a holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein. In other words, the people of Israel cannot do any many work on that particular first day. Why? Because they are to be occupied with God and His provision for them. They are to take the time to be occupied with the God of our nation of Israel who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they will be occupied with Him.

What He provided for them. What He has done for them. How He cared for the nation of Israel for many, many, many generations before when they went out of Egypt and how God had provided for His people Israel doing their journey. For us, by way of application, we also need to take the time and just reflect over the faithfulness of God. The goodness of God. The provision of God. And we need to do so for ourselves. A time we neglect to do so. But God says, listen, I'm giving you a time in which you are to keep to observe and you will take the time to reflect.

It is a Shabbat day. It is a Mikra, Kodesh. You are to be called by God to be awakened and alert to reflect over the faithfulness of the God of Israel. Now, fourthly, notice that beloved brothers and sisters, verse 36, 37, and 38. This is the fourth thing that God requested from our forefathers. And this is to offer sacrifices. Now, I mentioned that many, many, many times. In the feast of Yom Kippur, the sacrifice that is missing today among our people. We would go to the synagogue. We would cry to the Lord for mercy on the day of atonement. But something is missing. The blood that had to be shed of an innocent animal is missing today.

But in biblical time, it would not be missing. The tabernacle was still there in the wilderness. Israel was still walking along, following the tabernacle that was led with the tribe of Levi. The Shekinah glory, the cloud by day and the fire by night. The presence of the Lord was in the midst of our people of old. And they would follow that cloud. The tabernacle will be erected. And sacrifices had to be offered. Let me mention this in those next verses. 36, 37, and 38. Notice that. Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. On the eighth day shall be a holy convocation unto you.

And ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. It is a solemn assembly. And ye shall do no servile work therein. You notice, brothers and sisters, that every day they would have to offer sacrifices. Now you see how significant it is the sacrifice. In other words, this feast could never be properly celebrated without God to accept the nation to be with him. And he is in their midst if there is no blood atonement right there shed upon the altar. Notice what it says in verse 37. These are the feasts of the Lord which ye shall proclaim to be a holy convocation. It said to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Burnt offering. Meal offering as a sacrifice. Drink offering. Everything upon his day. Beside the Shabbats of the Lord. Beside your gift. Beside all your vows. And beside your free will offering which ye give unto the Lord. In other words, in addition to the daily and weekly sacrifices that Israel anyway had to offer. As it's mentioned here. A burnt offering. And a meal offering. And a drink offering. Now all these are really speaking to us of the necessity of an innocent animal to die. It's blood to be shed. And there to be placed upon the altar. And God will consume that sacrifice. And then the nation could be accepted by the Lord.

And you see how important because all those sacrifices that our forefathers have offered upon the altar were foreshadow of the coming of the Mashiach. Who would come in the fullness of time. And he will give over his life. Shed his own blood upon that altar, the tree, the cross. And he will make us acceptable in the beloved. God is accepting the nation on the basis of the sacrifice. We mention it almost every year in the Feast of Booth meeting. Notice in Numbers chapter 29. There is various amount of sacrifices that had to be offered on that Feast of Tabernacles. The book of Numbers in Hebrew Bamidbar chapter 29.

And notice I'm not going to read all the verses. But in chapter 29 and verse 12 we read. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation. Notice that, the fifteenth day of the seventh month, it is Chag Sukkot, the Feast of Booth. Ye shall do no servile work therein, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord for seven days. Notice verse 13. And ye shall offer a burnt offering, sacrifice made by fire of a sweet saviour unto the Lord. Now from here on, from verse 13 on, you will notice how many sacrifices Israel had to offer. Notice in verse 13B, it says 13 young bullocks, 2 rams, 14 lambs of the first year.

They shall be without blemish. Now can you imagine brothers and sisters, on the first day. They already had to offer 13 bullocks, 2 rams and 14 lambs. This is only on that particular day, on the fifteenth day of the month of Tishrei. Now look it over with me quickly. Verse 17. On the second day, there will be 12 young bullocks. Notice verse 20. On the third day, there will be 11 bullocks. Notice verse 23. On the fourth day, there will be 10 bullocks. Notice verse 26. On the fifth day, there will be 9 bullocks. Notice verse 29. On the sixth day, there will be 8 bullocks. And finally, on the seventh day, verse 32, there will be 7 bullocks. Notice 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8 and 7.

What is the number in total? 70. You ask the leaderships of our people Israel, the rabbis. They will say that that's representing the 17 nations that existed in those days when God took our forefathers out of the land of Egypt. I was looking to find out how many nations today find themselves in the United Nations today. There are 196 nations. Here we have 70 bullocks that are representing the 70 nations that existed in the book of Genesis 9 and 10 there. The tables of the nations that came out of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Yephet, his sons. There were 70 nations. In other words, beloved brothers and sisters, when God gave instruction to our forefathers to offer those bullocks upon the altar, seven days, 70 bullocks on the seven feasts of the Lord, representing the full number that God had intended, that speaks about the future day when God, he sees all the nations of the world recognizing him, and ultimately acknowledging him as the king of the universe, as the God of this world.

And so Israel had to offer sacrifices, and that tells us the necessity of blood to be shed upon an altar. And what is missing today among our own people, they will sit in a sukkah, they will sing the song, they will celebrate, they will gather with their family, but one thing will be missing, just the same like in the day of atonement, Yom Kippur, there is no offering to be brought before the Lord. And remember, beloved brothers and sisters, Leviticus 17, 11, the Lord said to Israel, "It is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul." Hebrews chapter 9 teaches us, "Without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins." And therefore it was necessary, always, to be drawn near to God on the basis of the shed blood of that innocent animal, the tikafai, the Mashiach Yeshua, that would come in the fullness of time, and he will be the one that will take away the sin of this world.

And how wonderful for us today, to realize afresh that the Lord wants us to enjoy His presence, but it's always on the basis of the finished work of the Mashiach. Because without Him, we do not have any ground upon which we can draw near to the Lord. You see, in the world in which we live in, people sing many songs. People are celebrating many holidays. But one thing, beloved brothers and sisters, we can never celebrate in a true sense of the word, without to be able to be accepted by God. And that's why we as believers in Yeshua the Messiah can draw near, can be refreshed and encouraged, because we have been accepted by the sacrifice that was offered once and for all by our blessed Lord, Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, for which we are to be very, very thankful, beloved brothers and sisters.

Now notice, as we continue in our ministry today, we move on from the next thing. In verses 39 and verse 40, it is a feast that is called the feast of thanksgiving. Notice that, verse 39 and verse 40. And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord for seven days. On the first day shall be a Shabbat, on the eighth day shall be a Shabbat. And now notice that in verse 40. Ye shall take you on the first day boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of thick trees, and the willows of the brook, and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days.

Now you will notice on this overhead once again, the four species that God has expected from Israel to bring and to present before him. You notice we have here the boughs of good trees. We have the palm trees. We have the thick trees. And we have the willows of the brook. In Hebrew we call it Pri etz hadar. E kapot tmarim. Anaf etz avot. And aravei nachal. You notice that you have the Hebrew there. We have the lulav, the etrog, the aravot, and the hadasim. They're mentioned in our slide today. And this is a representation of the provision of the Lord. You see, it is the fall season.

All what have been gathered from the field now have been brought into the barn. Israel had been provided a very good year. There is a lot of crop that came out of the ground, out of the land. The barns are filled. And now Israel is coming before the Lord and they're presenting the fruit. The goodly trees. The palm trees. The thick trees. The willows of the brooks. And they are presenting this before the Lord with joy in their hearts. They have joy in their hearts. Notice the command of the Lord here in verse 40. Ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. For seven days.

Those of us that have grown up in a Jewish home know very well what a days those were. When we were sitting in the sukkah. With our mothers and our fathers and our grandparents and our brothers and our sisters. And the table is filled with food. The sukkah was decorated beautiful with all kind of fruit and so on upon the sukkah. And we had this covering there with some flimsy branches covering the sukkah. And we will rejoice and sing together with our families. Rejoice because God had provided so much for the people of Israel. Notice the command beloved brothers and sisters. This will be the sixth point.

That word rejoice is mentioned here beloved brothers and sisters. In verse 40. The necessity for the people of Israel to be joyful as they approach the Lord. Notice in verse 41. Ye shall celebrate that seventh month. It's a matter of celebration. And rejoicing before the Lord for what he has done for us. Again I want to apply this for us today. Can we say today that we rejoice in what the Lord has done for us? Can we say today individually inside of our own hearts. Lord I am so thankful for your provision for me. You take care in many many ways. You take care of myself. You provide for me.

You take care of me. Lord I want to thank you for what you have done for me. Look at the psalms for a moment with me. Turn to Psalm 103. Look what the psalmist of Israel said. This is David, Melech Israel, the sweet psalmist of Israel. He said in Psalm 103 those words. I'm reading verse 1. Bless the Lord O my soul. Bless the Lord O my soul. And O that is within me. Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord O my soul. And forget not all his benefits. Who forgives thine iniquities. Who healeth all thy diseases. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. Who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies.

Who satisfy thy mouth with good things. So that thy use is renewed like the eagle. You see David says bless the Lord O my soul. His soul was so thankful for what the Lord had provided. He forgave our sins. He heals our diseases. He redeemed our life from destruction. He crowns us with loving kindness. Beloved brothers and sisters when we think of all the things that the Lord had provided for us. Think about just the fact that David began here. He forgives all our iniquities. How many sins that we have committed in our lives before we became a believer. And even during the time that we belong to the Lord.

And all those sins have been paid by the precious, precious blood of Yeshua the Messiah. He forgave our sins. We just last week have been occupied with Yom Kippur. And we read the passage as far as the east is from the west. So far he removed our transgression from before us. Isaiah said that he had cast our sins behind his back. Micah, Micha said that he had placed our sins in the depth of the sea. Think about what Yeshua had done for us. And it should give us a reason to be thankful. To rejoice and rejoice does not mean that we are kind of always giggling.

But rejoice means it's a condition of the heart. Recognizing afresh the love of God. Recognizing in our hearts even though we go sometimes through trials and tribulation. But recognizing that God loves us. He cares for us. He wants good for us. He provided so much for us. And yet for us as believers we have such a great future. With all the mess that is going on in the world in which we live in. We have a day in which we are going to be with our blessed Lord Yeshua the Messiah. Never anymore to go through the trial that we are experiencing here and now here in this world.

What a future is awaiting the people of God. But we have to apply this to our hearts. Apply this to our conscience. And appropriate daily as we walk here with the Lord. And that's what we learn here from that wonderful feast of tabernacle. Notice in Psalm 116. Just a couple of pages further. The psalmist again is so precious. He says in these verse 12. Look at this. He says what shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me. You know brothers and sisters. So many benefits the Lord have given us. In so many ways he had blessed us. And the psalmist of Israel said what am I going to give back to the Lord.

For all what he has done for me. And notice what he says in response. I will take the cup of salvation. And I will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord. In the presence of his people. You notice that he is responsive to the call of God. To be thankful. And God demanded this from his people Israel. 3500 years ago when he gave the feast of Sukkot to our forefathers. He says listen. You will take the goodly trees. The palm trees. The thick trees. The willows of the brooks. And you will present them before me. If you will ever be in a synagogue.

You will notice that. Where we are going to have the lulav. And the etrog. In our hands. And the people of Israel are to look in four directions. And to wave it as it were before the Lord. An expression of thanksgiving. And along with it. They have to rejoice before the Lord. Because the Lord have instructed his people to do so. Now notice one more thing in verse 42 and verse 43. That it was also important for Israel to do on that special day. Notice these last verses here. Just towards the end. Verse 42 and verse 43. That is the final command that is linked or connect with the feast of tabernacle.

Notice that we read. Israel is to sit in a sukkah for seven days. Notice I'm reading. It says that ye shall dwell in Booth for seven days. All that are Israel is born shall dwell in Booth. That your generation may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in Booth. When I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Now notice that the command was also to sit in Booth. Now can you imagine? I often marvel when everybody else in the world going to their homes turn the heating on in September, October. Those Jewish people going out from their homes.

Sitting in a flimsy booth which had no proper covering, no heating. Sitting outside. And why is it? Well notice that. God said you shall dwell in your Booth in Sukkot for seven days. And then he tell them in verse 43. Here is the reason Israel why you should do so. That your generation may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in Sukkot when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. And so as we sit in the Sukkot and we reflect and we look back and we see the faithfulness of God. How he took us out of the land of Egypt on the basis of the precious blood of the land.

How as we journey through the wilderness how God have cared for our forefathers. How he provided the manna during the time when Israel was hungry. How he provided the water out of the rock when Israel was thirsty. The shoes was not consumed. The garments did not consume. They continued on for 40 years through the wilderness journey. And the provision of God was throughout this journey. Were they complaining? Oh yes. Many times. Were they grumbling? Oh yes. We find it throughout the whole history of the journey of the wilderness. That's why beloved brothers and sisters the old generation that came out of the land of Egypt did not enter into the promised land.

Because of the complaining and the grumbling and the lack of appreciation. And that reminds us. That journey of 40 years for Israel our people is symbolically speak of the period of time when you and I. Since you and I became believers in Yeshua the Messiah. Until the day when the Lord is going to take us out of this world to glory. It is a representation of the walk of the believer through these days of journey as we are walking in this world in a wilderness. Do you and I grumble? We sure do. Do you and I complain and dissatisfied many times with what the Lord allow in our life?

Every one of us who is honest before the Lord can say Lord how many times I have complained and grumbled. And I was not appreciative of what you provided for me. But the purpose of sitting in a booth is to remind us afresh. To bring us back into realization that really we are in the hands of the Lord. And everything that happened to us in our life is for the good of God's people. Whom the Lord loves his chasteness. And he scourges every son that he receives. Son or daughter. His love for us will never fail though our love for him often time is very shallow.

And that's how forefathers would dwell in the sukkah. They will reflect. They will look at the sky above. You see because the branches were not totally covered. They could see the stars up. They could see the moon. There's no shelter there because if the rain is going to come it's going to drop right in. But they will realize the faithfulness of God. The goodness of God. Brothers and sisters. God is so faithful. God is so good. We fail him. The Lord Yeshua the Messiah never changes. He said and you remember what he said. I never change. He said to our people Israel through the prophet.

The writer to the Hebrews said Yeshua HaMashiach the same yesterday, today and forever. He changes not. He knows your trials. He knows mine. He knows mine. He loves you not less today than he loved you when he first saved you. He loved me as well. He loves his people. And that's a beautiful thing to realize. God in his goodness and in his wisdom said to the people of Israel. Israel you will sit in a sukkah and you will refresh before your heart the faithfulness of God towards you. Look at this and I'm repeating that verse again. That your generations may know. They need to know.

How I made the children of Israel to dwell in Booth when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. He is still the God of Israel. He is the one that had brought his people outside of the land of Egypt and intending to bring them into the promised land when he gave them these instructions. This is so precious you know. We can read a passage from the Tanakh that to the natural man is rather dry. But for the believer in Yeshua the Messiah it speaks vividly of the faithfulness of God to his people Israel. Now you notice that I read also the prophet Amos.

And if you turn with me for a second to Amos now. And I just want to point the thing about Amos. You see the feast of tabernacles is not only to look upon from an historical point of view. Look at this slide once again. The seven feasts of the Lord that is given to our people Israel. You notice in the bottom line we have here the dwelling in Booth. And if you look above the feast of Jehovah you notice at the top there. It really representing also the culmination the kingdom age. You see this miserable world is full of trouble everywhere. Everyone try to be elected to say I'm going to fix the problems here.

But yet rejecting the one who can solve all our problems. Namely rejecting the Mashiach the Messiah Yeshua. And yet God promised that one day he is going to establish a time when he will set a man here in this world. To deal with the problem that exists here in this world. There is coming a day where God is going to restore to himself the nation of Israel and the world which have gone astray. And so Amos received the word of the Lord and he is speaking now to the people of Israel in about 780 BC. He made promise. Even before 722 when the remnant of Israel the 10 tribes were carried to Assyria.

Even before 605 where the tribe of Judah was carried to Babylon. God gave a promise to our forefathers and he says listen. You have gone astray for me. You have failed me. You have gone away. Instead of following me and listening to me you have done your own thing. But I promise you not for your sake but for my sake. I am going to restore you Israel back to the land. And I am going to establish one day that Messianic kingdom. And so notice what we read in Amos chapter 9 and verse 11. In that day will I raise up the tabernacle. Notice he used the word tabernacle.

Very interesting. Sukkot David we say in Hebrew. Same word for Sukkot. The tabernacle of David which is fallen. He says listen. I will raise it up in a future day. And I will close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up his ruin. And I will build it as in the days of all. You see what happened. Everything began very nice at the beginning. But it doesn't take too long that men have gone astray. Same thing with the church age. Two thousand years ago everything began very well. We read in Acts chapter 1 and 2. They all began with one accord. They were in one place.

They all began very well. And look where the professing Christendom today is. Broken to pieces. Unfaithful to the Lord. And then including us. We are part of it. But God has a plan. He has a program. You see. He set those feasts in accordance with his plan. His program. It is his desire. Those called the feasts of the Lord. His appointed season. And so he says. I will build again the tabernacle of David which is fallen. I will close the breaches thereof. I will raise up his ruins. And I will build it as it was in the days of all. Notice verse 13. Behold the days come.

It's a messianic promise. Says the Lord. That the plowman shall overtake the reaper. You know it is unimaginable. The plowman will take over the reaper. Then he continues. He says. The treader of the grapes. Him that sowed the seed. Well how can you. Tread the grape before you sowed the seed. Notice he can tell you. And the mountain shall drop sweet wine. Wine in scripture speaks of joy. And all the hills shall melt. And I will bring again the captivity. And I would like you to notice this beloved brothers and sisters. I will bring again the captivity of my people Yisrael. The people of Israel called in the word of God.

My people by God himself. When they are obedient. And when they are disobedient. God called them my people. They shall build the waste cities. They shall inhabit those cities. They shall plant vineyards. They shall drink of the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens. And eat of the fruit of them. I will plant them upon their land. And I want to pause here for a moment. Sometimes people say that you know. The land of Canaan belonged to Israel only when they are obedient to the Lord. Well listen. By the time Amos was writing to the people of Israel. The condition of Israel was rather poor.

And God was ready to take Israel by the Assyrian. And to take later on Judah by the Babylonian. And to send them outside of this land. But as far as God is concerned. It is their land. Not because they are faithful. It's because he gave it. To the people of Israel. Imagine for example. Where God is going to say to you. You see. I am going to take you to heaven. Only when you always obey me. And then you and I will say. Wait a minute. Heaven is our home. Well but yesterday I was very angry. And I didn't behave. Oh and the day before I coveted.

And I didn't obey. Oh and the day before I remember. I was shouting. And I was angry. And the day before. And we can say. Well is heaven is given to the believers. Only when we are obedient. Obedient. No. Heaven is belong to us. Because we have accepted the fact. That we have sinned before God. And that the Mashiach have died for us. And paid a penalty for our sins. Yes we should obey. Yes we should submit to the Lord. But when we don't. We don't lose the promises of God. God will speak to us. Will convict us. And will restore us back to himself.

But what belongs to us. It's only on the basis of the promises of God. God. Verse 15 said. They will plant them. Upon their land. They shall no more be pulled out of their land. And then he said. Which I have given them. Sayeth the Lord thy God. And so what we really learn. Beloved brothers and sisters. That the feast of Sukkot. Is also symbolically speaking to us. About the future. Restoration. And regathering. Of our people. Israel. Back to the land. And when Israel will finally dwell. In the promised land. That God. Have promised unto them. Now please turn with me. To the gospel. Of Matthew.

And let me just one more time. Read Matthew chapter 6. Verses 9 and 10. You see. That even before Yeshua died on the tree. Before he was ascended to heaven. Before the spirit of God came. On the feast of Shavuot. The feast of Pentacles. Yeshua spoke to his disciples. They anticipated the restoration of Israel. And so he told them. How to pray. How are you going to pray. Now. In anticipation. Of what God had promised. To you Israel. And so he said. In verse 9. After this manner. You should pray. Our father. Which are in heaven. Hello be thy name. Thy. Kingdom. Come. You see. Yeshua the Mashiach. Had taught his disciples.

To pray in such a way. With anticipation. That the kingdom will come. His kingdom. That the feast of Sukkot. The feast of culmination. Will come to pass. And the messianic age. Will become part of that. Blessing to the nations of the world. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. On earth. As it is in heaven. You see. The condition. That existing today. In this earth. Is nothing. In comparison. To the condition. To the condition. That exists. In the presence of God. In heaven. In this world. In which we live in. There is chaos. The world. Have turned away. From the living God. Everyone. Have invented.

His own religious system. And there are all sort of. Religious groups. That are popping up. Everywhere. And everyone. With his views. And God's kingdom. Is still. Is yet to be in the future. When he's going to have his rights. When he's going to rule. As king of kings. And lord of lords. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done. In earth. As it is. In heaven. And this is the prayer. That you and I. Should pray. As we anticipate. The future. Day. And so finally. Brothers and sisters. Let's just read. Romans chapter 11. Chapter 11. Let me make a remark. There from Romans. Chapter 11. Verse 11 and 12. And then verse 15.

Look at this. This is also a very important passage. That Pastor Paul now is writing. And notice how the word of God is really connected. First of all. Moshe wrote Leviticus 23. Then Amos wrote his prophecy. Then David wrote in the Psalms. What shall I render unto the Lord. For all his benefit. That he had given unto me. Then later on. The Mashiach himself. Yeshua. Have taught the disciples. In Matthew chapter 6. Concerning the future day. And finally. The Apostle Paul. In Romans chapter 11. Look at the words of the Apostle. Especially. In connection with our Jewish people. The people of Israel. The world in which we live in today.

Think that Israel have no future. Paul is teaching very much. The opposite. He says listen. Israel has a future. And the world will never enjoy blessing. Until Israel has come to full recognition. Of who Yeshua the Messiah is. So verse 11 of Romans 11 says. I say then. He is speaking to the Christians at Rome. The believers at Rome. He says. I say then. Have Israel stumble. That they should fall. God forbid. But rather that through their fall. Salvation is come unto you. The Gentiles. The goyim. And why is it given to the Gentiles. This great salvation. So the goyim. The nations of the world. Will provoke Israel to jealousy.

Notice it says. To provoke them to jealousy. To speak to their hearts. And the conscience. That our Jewish people will see. What you and I have today. In a Messiah. And they are going to say. We would like to have this. Knowledge of salvation. Knowledge of redemption. Notice what it says in verse 12. If the fall of them. Israel. Is richest to the world today. Through the grace. Through the salvation of the message. Look at this. What it says at the end. And the diminishing of them. Was the richest of the Gentiles. How much even more. Their fullness be. If Israel's rejection of the Mashiach. And the door was open.

To the nations of the world. In this present period of time. In which we live in. Can you imagine. What's going to happen. When Israel. Will come to faith. In a Messiah. Notice verse 15. Brothers and sisters. I read it. If the casting away of Israel. Of them. Be the reconciling of the world. What shall be the receiving. Of them. But life. From. The dead. Verse 25 says. I would not brethren. That you should be ignorant. Of this mystery. Lest you should be wise. In your own concise. That blindness in part. Happened to Israel. Until. The fullness of the Gentiles. Become in. And so. All Israel. Shall be saved.

As it is written. Where it was written. Where it was written. Well. The prophet Isaiah says. They shall come out. Of Zion. The deliverer. And shall turn. Away. Ungodliness. From Jacob. And this. Is my covenant. Verse 27. Unto them. When I. Shall take. Away. Their sins. And so. Beloved brothers. And sisters. The feast of Sukkot. Is not merely. A feast. That we just sit around. Inside a booth. And have a good meal. Together. That's very nice. To have. And it's very enjoyable. But there is. A biblical instruction. It speaks. Of a time. Where the believer. Is to rejoice. In the Lord. To be thankful. For what the Lord.

Have done. For us. For the believer. And also. To look forward. When the Mashiach Yeshua. Will come. Israel restored. The world. Will be. In such a condition. That will be. A blessing. To this world. No longer. Refugees problem. No longer. Election problem. And fighting. One over another. No longer. Wars. And conflict. No more. Terrorism. And hatred. That exists. In this world. Distribution. Between people. Any longer. All. In these days. When the Messiah. Will come. Will enjoy. The presence. Of the Lord. And he. Yeshua. Will receive. The portion. That belongs. To him. Every knee. Shall bow. Every time. Will confess. That Yeshua. HaMashiach. Is Lord. To the glory.

Of God. The Father. Can you say. Amen to that. Amen.