The Fall Feasts Are Coming: Sukkot Part 2

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Hello, and welcome back to my sukkah!  If you are just arriving, please go back and read through Sukkot Part 1, as you will need the context.  Don't worry...I will be here waiting for you when you get back.  

If you read through Part 1, you know that I became interested in learning about Sukkot during my first time reading through the Bible, cover to cover.  Let me just stop here for a little commercial break:  If you have not read the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, why not?  


I was 40 years old the first time I did.  I know why I had not done it earlier.  I was distracted. If you are also being distracted from reading The Word, let me just encourage you right now that you CAN do it!  It takes less than 20 minutes a day.  If you're like me, you waste that much time on social media (ouch Debbie!)  If you skip the morning check-in, you won't even have to get up any earlier.  If not, just setting your alarm a few minutes early is all it takes.  I know you're tired.  I am, too.  But would you be willing to lose a little sleep or social media time to please The Creator of the Universe?  ...To learn more about the amazing and saving ministry of Messiah Yeshua?  ...And how He gave His EVERYTHING to seek and to save the lost sheep of Israel?...The people that Paul says in the book of Romans that believers have been grafted into?  

If you are also being distracted from reading The Word, let me just encourage you right now that you CAN do it! 

Okay, commercial break over.  On to Sukkot!


We shall begin with Leviticus 23:39-43 where we learn that YHVH commanded Israel to keep the feast of Sukkot.  As you read this passage of scripture, keep in mind that the seventh month is not speaking of our "July" but of the seventh month on the Hebrew calendar.  Sukkot comes in the Fall either in September or October on our calendar.  

We learn from this passage:
  • That the feast lasts for 7 days with one addition day added at the end;
  • That the first and last days are days of rest;
  • That fruit tree branches are to be used to rejoice before YHVH;
  • That participants are to live in sukkot for 7 days;
  • That Israel is to participate in order to remember that the Sons of Israel had to dwell in sukkot when YHVH brought them out of the land of Egypt.

But Debbie, We are Americans!  Isn't this for the Jews?  -- I get this, I really do.  We have been taught to think this way by some very well-meaning people.  But believers in Yeshua are more than citizens of the nations that we live in.  We are followers of the God, Messiah, and Holy Spirit of Israel.  We are grafted into the family tree.  Please go see what the apostle Paul has to say about our identity in Messiah.  We have not replaced Israel, but we have certainly joined her.  This is not a point that I will argue.  I will not tell you that The Father will or will not excuse you from His feasts based on your nationality.  What I will say is this:  They are YHVH's feasts.  We are His people.  He has given us His Word.  The feasts all point to Yeshua.  

Why would we NOT want to celebrate them?  

Now let us move on to Deuteronomy 16:15 where we learn that during Sukkot, participants are to be completely filled with JOY!

JOY -- it's a command!  Isn't that wonderful!

But Debbie, it's been a rough year...who could possibly be joyful?

And here it is friends -- This is an opportunity for us to take off our "2020 glasses" and look up to YHVH in complete faith.  When we look around these days, there is so much fear and lack of joy in our world.  But during this week of Sukkot, The Father gives us the opportunity to remember that He is mightier than anything that this world can throw at us.  We can turn off our cell phones, go out into our yards (or camp grounds, or back porches) and unplug from the fear of the world and reconnect to the JOY that comes from true faith in The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.  

Does that sound nice?  

If so, you are really going to love celebrating this special feast.

You can start today.  

Go outside...and spend time in The Word with The Father.  

Begin the study of a lifetime.  

Begin in Genesis. (For a great Bible reading plan and study notes that begin in Genesis and go through Revelation, visit my friend Christy Jordan at Seeking Scripture).

By this time next year, you may be ready to build your own sukkah in your own space.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.  

What about Yeshua?  Did He celebrate Sukkot?

I'm so glad you asked.  I will share some "Yeshua sightings" that took place during Sukkot soon, and when I do, I hope you will...

Come Seek With Me!

Ready to Move On?







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