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Dates ....................................................................................................... 3
Function and observance ............................................................................ 4
Historical significance ................................................................................. 6
New Testament references connected to Tabernacles ................................... 12
Prophetic significance ............................................................................... 14
Common public readings for Tabernacles .................................................... 18
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Dates
The dates are from September 29 at sundown to October 6 at sundown,
2015. The first and last days are Sabbaths.
7th Month of the Biblical Calendar
15th
16th
17th
18th
Day
1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4
(Rest day)
Gregorian Date 2015
29 Sept
30
1 Oct 2 Oct
19th
Day 5
20th
Day 6
21st
Day 7
22nd
the Last Great
day (Rest day)
3 Oct
4 Oct
5 Oct
6 Oct
Leviticus 23 - Dates
Again Yehovah spoke to Moses, saying,
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Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth of this seventh month is
the Feast of Booths for seven days to Yehovah.
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On the first day is a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work of any
kind.
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For seven days you shall present an offering by fire to Yehovah. On the eighth
day you shall have a holy convocation and present an offering by fire to the
Yehovah; it is an assembly. You shall do no laborious work.
37
These are the appointed times of Yehovah which you shall proclaim as holy
convocations, to present offerings by fire to Yehovah burnt offerings and grain
offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings, each days matter on its own day
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besides those of the Sabbaths of Yehovah, and besides your gifts and besides
all your votive and freewill offerings, which you give to Yehovah.
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On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered
in the crops of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yehovah for seven days,
with a rest on the first day and a rest on the eighth day.
40
Now on the first day you shall take for yourselves the foliage of beautiful trees,
palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall
rejoice before Yehovah your God for seven days.
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You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yehovah for seven days in the year. It
shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in
the seventh month.
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You shall live in booths for seven days; all the native-born in Israel shall live
in booths,
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so that your generations may know that I had the sons of Israel live in booths
when I brought them out from the land of Egypt. I am the Yehovah your God.
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So Moses declared to the sons of Israel the appointed times of the Yehovah.
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At the end of every third year you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce
in that year, and shall deposit it in your town.
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The Levite, because he has no portion or inheritance among you, and the alien,
the orphan and the widow who are in your town, shall come and eat and be
satisfied, in order that Yehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your
hand which you do.
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Historical significance
Yehovah led Israel through the desert as they all (Israel and Yehovah) lived in
tents. Much later, the third king of Israel, Solomon, dedicated the new temple on
the holy days of Sukkot. The temple became the house where Yehovah lived
during the kingdom of Israel. Again much later, during the week of Sukkot, Yeshua
Messiah was born. On another occasion during Sukkot one year, Yeshua preached
about the kingdom of God, and the Spirit that would come. He even brought down
the kingdom temporarily for His disciples to see.
Exodus 40:33-38 Yehovah lived in the tabernacle and led Israel.
33
He erected the court all around the tabernacle and the altar, and hung up the
veil for the gateway of the court. Thus Moses finished the work.
34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of Yehovah filled the
tabernacle.
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Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud had settled
on it, and the glory of Yehovah filled the tabernacle.
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Throughout all their journeys whenever the cloud was taken up from over the
tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
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but if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out until the day when
it was taken up.
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For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of Yehovah was on the tabernacle
by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.
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For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark, so that the
cherubim made a covering over the ark and its poles.
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The poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in
front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and they are
there to this day.
10
There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at
Horeb, where Yehovah made a covenant with the sons of Israel, when they came
out of Egypt.
11
When the priests came forth from the holy place (for all the priests who were
present had sanctified themselves, without regard to divisions),
12
and all the Levitical singers, Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and
kinsmen, clothed in fine linen, with cymbals, harps and lyres, standing east of the
altar, and with them one hundred and twenty priests blowing trumpets
13
in unison when the trumpeters and the singers were to make themselves heard
with one voice to praise and to glorify Yehovah, and when they lifted up their voice
accompanied by trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and when they
praised Yehovah saying, He indeed is good for His loving kindness is everlasting,
then the house, the house of Yehovah, was filled with a cloud,
14
so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory
of Yehovah filled the house of God.
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2 Chronicles 6
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Then Solomon said, Yehovah has said that He would dwell in the thick cloud.
2
I have built You a lofty house, And a place for Your dwelling forever.
3
Then the king faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the
assembly of Israel was standing.
4
He said, Blessed be Yehovah, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to
my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying,
5
Since the day that I brought My people from the land of Egypt, I did not choose
a city out of all the tribes of Israel in which to build a house that My name might
be there, nor did I choose any man for a leader over My people Israel;
6
but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen
David to be over My people Israel.
7
Now it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of
Yehovah, the God of Israel.
8
But Yehovah said to my father David, Because it was in your heart to build a
house for My name, you did well that it was in your heart.
9
Nevertheless you shall not build the house, but your son who will be born to
you, he shall build the house for My name.
10
Now Yehovah has fulfilled His word which He spoke; for I have risen in the
place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel, as Yehovah promised,
and have built the house for the name of Yehovah, the God of Israel.
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There I have set the ark in which is the covenant of Yehovah, which He made
with the sons of Israel.
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Then he stood before the altar of Yehovah in the presence of all the assembly
of Israel and spread out his hands.
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Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and
three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt
on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands
toward heaven.
14
He said, O Yehovah, the God of Israel, there is no god like You in heaven or on
earth, keeping covenant and showing loving kindness to Your servants who walk
before You with all their heart;
15
who has kept with Your servant David, my father, that which You have promised
him; indeed You have spoken with Your mouth and have fulfilled it with Your hand,
as it is this day.
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Now therefore, O Yehovah, the God of Israel, keep with Your servant David,
my father, that which You have promised him, saying, You shall not lack a man
to sit on the throne of Israel, if only your sons take heed to their way, to walk in
My law as you have walked before Me.
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Now therefore, O Yehovah, the God of Israel, let Your word be confirmed which
You have spoken to Your servant David.
18
But will God indeed dwell with mankind on the earth? Behold, heaven and the
highest heaven cannot contain You; how much less this house which I have built.
19
Yet have regard to the prayer of Your servant and to his supplication, O
Yehovah my God, to listen to the cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays
before You;
20
that Your eye may be open toward this house day and night, toward the place
of which You have said that You would put Your name there, to listen to the prayer
which Your servant shall pray toward this place.
21
Listen to the supplications of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they
pray toward this place; hear from Your dwelling place, from heaven; hear and
forgive.
22
If a man sins against his neighbor and is made to take an oath, and he comes
and takes an oath before Your altar in this house,
23
then hear from heaven and act and judge Your servants, punishing the wicked
by bringing his way on his own head and justifying the righteous by giving him
according to his righteousness.
24
If Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned
against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, and pray and make
supplication before You in this house,
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then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them
back to the land which You have given to them and to their fathers.
26
When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned
against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn
from their sin when You afflict them;
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then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants and Your people Israel,
indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And send rain on
Your land which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.
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2 Chronicles 7
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Now when Solomon had finished praying, fire came down from heaven and
consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of Yehovah filled the
house.
2
The priests could not enter into the house of Yehovah because the glory of
Yehovah filled Yehovahs house.
3
All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of Yehovah upon
the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they
worshiped and gave praise to Yehovah, saying, Truly He is good, truly His loving
kindness is everlasting.
4
Then the king and all the people offered sacrifice before Yehovah.
5
King Solomon offered a sacrifice of 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. Thus the
king and all the people dedicated the house of God.
6
The priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the instruments of
music to Yehovah, which King David had made for giving praise to Yehovah for
His loving kindness is everlasting whenever he gave praise by their means,
while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel was standing.
7
Then Solomon consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of
Yehovah, for there he offered the burnt offerings and the fat of the peace offerings
because the bronze altar which Solomon had made was not able to contain the
burnt offering, the grain offering and the fat.
8
So Solomon observed the feast at that time for seven days, and all Israel with
him, a very great assembly who came from the entrance of Hamath to the brook
of Egypt.
9
On the eighth day they held a solemn assembly, for the dedication of the altar
they observed seven days and the feast seven days.
10
Then on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their
tents, rejoicing and happy of heart because of the goodness that Yehovah had
shown to David and to Solomon and to His people Israel.
11
Thus Solomon finished the house of Yehovah and the kings palace, and
successfully completed all that he had planned on doing in the house of Yehovah
and in his palace.
12
Then Yehovah appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, I have heard
your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
13
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to
devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,
14
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and
seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will
forgive their sin and will heal their land.
15
Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this
place.
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For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there
forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.
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As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do
according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My
ordinances,
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then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David,
saying, You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel.
19
But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I
have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
20
then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house
which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make
it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
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As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be
astonished and say, Why has Yehovah done thus to this land and to this house?
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And they will say, Because they forsook Yehovah, the God of their fathers who
brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped
them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them.
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So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He said
this; and they believed the Scripture and the word which Yeshua had spoken.
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Prophetic significance
Yehovah will live on the earth and His Messiah Yeshua will reign for 1,000 years,
pictured by the 1 week of Sukkot. During the future kingdom, everyone must go
to Jerusalem to give offerings every year at the time of Sukkot. At the end of the
1,000 years, Yehovah will judge all the nations and annihilate the unbelievers
(lawless ones). This one day of judgment is pictured by the Last Great Day at the
end of the week of Sukkot.
15th
Day 1
(Rest
day)
16th
Day 2
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1,000 year kingdom of God (one week)
22nd
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Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering
to Yehovah, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy
mountain Jerusalem, says Yehovah, just as the sons of Israel bring their grain
offering in a clean vessel to the house of Yehovah.
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I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, says Yehovah.
22
For just as the new heavens and the new earth which I make will endure
before Me, declares Yehovah, So your offspring and your name will endure.
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And it shall be from new moon to new moon and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all
mankind will come to bow down before Me, says Yehovah.
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Then they will go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have
transgressed against Me. For their worm will not die and their fire will not be
quenched; and they will be an abhorrence to all mankind.
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My righteousness is near, My salvation has gone forth, and My arms will judge
the peoples; the coastlands will wait for Me, and for My arm they will wait
expectantly.
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Lift up your eyes to the sky, then look to the earth beneath; for the sky will
vanish like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants
will die in like manner; but My salvation will be forever, and My righteousness will
not wane.
7
Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, a people in whose heart is My law;
do not fear the reproach of man, nor be dismayed at their revilings.
8
For the moth will eat them like a garment, and the grub will eat them like wool.
But My righteousness will be forever, and My salvation to all generations.
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the dead were judged from the things which were written in the books, according
to their deeds.
13
And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and Hades gave up
the dead which were in them; and they were judged, every one of them according
to their deeds.
14
Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second
death, the lake of fire.
15
And if anyones name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown
into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21 - Judgment Day
1
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth
passed away, and there is no longer any sea.
2
And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,
made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.
3
And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God
is among men, and He will dwell among them, and they shall be His people, and
God Himself will be among them,
4
and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be
any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things
have passed away.
5
And He who sits on the throne said, Behold, I am making all things new. And
He said, Write, for these words are faithful and true.
6
Then He said to me, It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning
and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life
without cost.
7
He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be
My son.
8
But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and
immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
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The heavens are the heavens of Yehovah, but the earth He has given to the
sons of men.
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The dead do not praise Yehovah, nor do any who go down into silence;
18
But as for us, we will bless Yehovah from this time forth and forever. Praise
Yehovah!
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Psalm 116
1
I love Yehovah, because He hears my voice and my supplications.
2
Because He has inclined His ear to me, therefore I shall call upon Him as long as
I live.
3
The cords of death encompassed me and the terrors of Sheol came upon me; I
found distress and sorrow.
4
Then I called upon the name of Yehovah: O Yehovah, I beseech You, save my
life!
5
Gracious is Yehovah, and righteous; tes, our God is compassionate.
6
Yehovah preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.
7
Return to your rest, O my soul, for Yehovah has dealt bountifully with you.
8
For You have rescued my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from
stumbling.
9
I shall walk before Yehovah In the land of the living.
10
I believed when I said, I am greatly afflicted.
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I said in my alarm, All men are liars.
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What shall I render to Yehovah for all His benefits toward me?
13
I shall lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of Yehovah.
14
I shall pay my vows to Yehovah, oh may it be in the presence of all His people.
15
Precious in the sight of Yehovah is the death of His godly ones.
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O Yehovah, surely I am Your servant, I am Your servant, the son of Your
handmaid, You have loosed my bonds.
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To You I shall offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and call upon the name of
Yehovah.
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I shall pay my vows to Yehovah, oh may it be in the presence of all His people,
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In the courts of Yehovahs house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise
Yehovah!
Psalm 117
1
Praise Yehovah, all nations; laud Him, all peoples!
2
For His loving kindness is great toward us, and the truth of Yehovah is
everlasting. Praise Yehovah!
Psalm 118
1
Give thanks to Yehovah, for He is good; For His loving kindness is everlasting.
2
Oh let Israel say, His loving kindness is everlasting.
3
Oh let the house of Aaron say, His loving kindness is everlasting.
4
Oh let those who fear Yehovah say, His loving kindness is everlasting.
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Isaiah 12
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Then you will say on that day, I will give thanks to You, O Yehovah; for although
You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.
2
Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; for Yah Yehovah is
my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.
3
Therefore you will joyously draw water from the springs of salvation.
4
And in that day you will say, Give thanks to Yehovah, call on His name. Make
known His deeds among the peoples; make them remember that His name is
exalted.
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Praise Yehovah in song, for He has done excellent things; let this be known
throughout the earth.
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Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion, for great in your midst is the
Holy One of Israel.
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