The Feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:22-42)
10th to the 18th October 2019 This Feast was celebrated by the Jews as a remembrance of their redemption from slavery in Egypt and sojourn in the wilderness for 40 years when they lived in temporary Sukkots or booths or tabernacles. Today, they build these temporary Sukkots with fresh leafy branches, fruits and flowers. They spend 7 days with family and friends, reminding themselves of how God redeemed them from slavery and lived among them in a Tabernacle and protected, fed and watered them, that their clothes and shoes did not wear out. Sadly, only Caleb and Joshua, out of the 601,730 men who had crossed the Red sea, also crossed the Jordan. Numbers 26:51 Many believe that Yeshua was born in the Sukkot (Tabernacle) sometime in September, on the first day of the Sukkot and circumcised on the last day of the Feast. We have romanticized the cowshed and the manger with cows and donkeys, but every farmer knows that by morning the place becomes filthy and stinky. More likely, he was bo