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today we are in Sukkot. This is 2025 and we are
in the Feast of Sukkot and we've already had
a few feasts already at the beginning of the
civil calendar for Israel. for the Jewish people,
starts at the new moon of the month that they
call Tishrei. God calls it the seventh month.
And, you know, it's kind of funny that you start
your year in the seventh month rather than the
first month, because God said when Moses was
bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt,
this will be the first of months for you. And
it's spring. you know, it kind of makes sense
to start in spring because it's the, like the
beginning of your agricultural year too. But,
you know, it's like we have school year in America,
at least that begins in August or September.
And, you know, you have other kinds of ways of
counting a year. You know, we kind of count our
year from convention to convention. And I'll
just remind you that we have convention coming
up in 2026 over Memorial Day weekend, May 21st
through 24th. I thought I'd throw that in, in
St. Louis, Missouri. So put that on your calendar,
start saving up because it's going to be a life
changing experience. Anyway, back to Sukkot.
So we've begun the year, so to speak, with Yom
Teruah, which is the day of. trumpets or the
day of shouting. That word can mean either shouting
or blowing the shofars. And so it's a very special
day. But the thing that's so cool about that
one, it's the only one on God's calendar that
doesn't start on a full moon. All of the rest
of them. Well, I'm not sure actually that the
Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, it starts 50 days after
the Sabbath, after... Passover. So I'm not sure
that that would end up being a full moon, but
Passover and Sukkot start on the full moon. And
so you have this one starting, it's the only
one at least, that starts on the first day of
the month. And the thing that's unique about
that is that the first day of the month in biblical
times was determined when Someone went out into
the desert where it's nice and clear. Most likely
you're going to have more clear skies out there.
Yeah. And you observe that little sliver of a
moon. A toenail moon. Yeah, that's what I call
it, a toenail moon. Probably got that from when
we were kids. We called it a toenail moon. But
it is in the process of setting. It's just as
the sun is setting, the moon is also setting.
And it's just visible for a few minutes over
the horizon. You just see that little toenail
moon. And then they would light a fire. And the
people on the next mountaintop would light a
fire. And the people on the next mountaintop
would light a fire until the word got back to
Jerusalem where they could blow the shofar and
declare a new moon. New moon, yeah. Only this
was the first one, the new moon that is showing
the Feast of Trumpets. You know, I love the fact
that it fits with what Jesus talked about, that
his coming was going to be a time when no man
knows the day or the hour. Oh, okay. So it fits
with this feast. That's pretty good. Because
you don't know. You don't know until you observe
it. Is that what they call it? The Feast of the
Hidden Moon? Yeah. Yeah. Yep, that's exactly
what it is. You don't know. You don't know until
you see it. So anyway, that's the first feast
of Tishrei, the seventh month. And then that
starts the 10 days of awe where you are like
the whole month before it, a lot of people are
already repenting and searching their hearts.
But these 10 days for sure, everybody that is
observant at all is. walking on tiptoes to try
and make sure that they have made right with
everybody and they've made right with God. It's
a very good practice. It's a wonderful practice.
We really ought to do it every day. But if you
haven't done it every day, there's a specific
time on the calendar to make things right with
people. And it's like starting over. So that's
another good reason to call this the beginning
of the year, because you're starting over with
relationships. Yeah. Then that's on the 10th
day of the month. And then on the 15th day of
the month, you have the beginning of Sukkot.
So what is Sukkot? Well, that goes back when
the children of Israel, actually before they
left, wasn't it? It was before they left Egypt,
wasn't it, that the Lord spoke that? No. Were
they already out? Yeah. It's really commemorating
the fact that they were in the wilderness. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah. It was given later. Yeah, that was
when they would go out into the wilderness and
they would build their tents. Yeah, so it's a
remembrance of what it was like for the children
of Israel. When they left Egypt and they're starting
their journey of how many years? Forty years.
It was only supposed to be days. But, yeah, they
blew it. A lot of side trips. They blew it. And,
oh, well, that's just what happened. And that's,
you know. There's one thing about the Jewish
people, about the people of Israel, that whatever
all of us do, it's sort of like they are up there
as an example of more so. You know what I mean?
Everything that they do, they do more so than
the rest of the Gentiles. So anyway, so, well,
let's see, about, I think it was 2013. Our founder,
Sister Gwen Shaw, had passed away in January,
and we were beginning this season of transition
that has lasted much longer than we thought it
ever would. But during that summer, from time
to time, Philip would say, Honey, would you like
to go camping? Wouldn't it be fun? Yeah, we haven't
been camping for a long time. Long time, yeah.
Yeah, we hadn't. It's true, we hadn't. But my
answer was always, no, it's too much work. I
don't want to do all that work. Camping's a lot
of work. True. So, you know, two or three times
during the summer, he said this to me, and I...
replied with that kind of a negative response.
Yeah, this is tent camping. We don't have one
of those. They call it glamping now, right? If
you've got an RV, you know, you're undercover.
Recreational vehicle. Recreational vehicle. But
now we just put a tent up. Right. Of course,
we have a nice queen -size mattress. Oh, yeah.
You try to be as comfortable as you can. We're
kind of glamping, actually, in a tent. Anyway,
bottom line is, when it started to get to be,
Around the time of the feasts, I was on my knees
praying one morning, and, you know, we are not
Jewish wannabes. In other words, we absolutely,
100 % love the Jewish people. We love Israel.
I just, sometimes I cry when I'm in a synagogue
with my friends that are Jewish. Sometimes just
looking at the Hebrew letters in the prayer book
or in the Tanakh, I start to cry because I feel
so connected to this people group. And, you know,
we've gone there for years and years. I started
going there in 1978. So it's a long, long, long
time that I've been developing relationships
with Israel. But I'm not a Jewish wannabe. In
other words, I'm not trying to imitate everything
that they do, particularly following rabbinic
traditions. Because a lot of that has been added,
and it doesn't have anything to do with the book.
It's what the rabbi said. It's what the rabbi
said. For what the rabbi said how many hundreds
of years ago. Right. And there's a tendency to
follow what the rabbi says rather than following
what the word says. So, you know, we absolutely
want to be those that follow the word and not
traditions. Okay. So we're not trying to do things
according to what is told by the rabbinic sources.
But we do want to do what the Lord is saying.
So I was asking the Lord. How do you want us
to celebrate your feast? Because it's his feast.
It's not a Jewish feast. It's not a feast of
Israel. It's a feast of the Lord. Feast of the
Lord. So I was asking him, how do you want us
to celebrate your feast? You know, years ago,
we used to go to the Christian celebration during
the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem that was
sponsored by the Christian Embassy. And we participated
and did lots of things with them. At that particular
time in 2013, we weren't doing that. And so I
was asking, what do we do? And the answer came
immediately. This joy to go camping came up in
my spirit. I knew it was God. It was. And through
the years, we have worked. really hard to make
it less work. Yeah, we kind of streamlined it.
We streamlined it. So we have a tent and I'm
not suggesting this is something that you should
do. I'm telling you that this is what the Lord
showed us to do. Okay. So the things that I'm
bringing today are suggestions. That I think
you could incorporate it, and I sincerely want
to incorporate some of these thoughts this year
that we've never done before. And we do what
Moses couldn't do, and we fish. Yeah, that's
true. You couldn't fish much in the desert. Couldn't
fish in the desert. Yeah, we parked by a— You
have to fish in the Red Sea when you're walking
through, and that was it. So anyway. As beautiful
as some of the rabbinic traditions are, we don't
have to keep them. But they have some beautiful
traditions, and some of them actually are coming
from the Scripture. So we'll cover some of that
in these days here. So this new year on the Hebrew
calendar is the year 5786. And the 8 is represented,
now just so you know, In case you don't know,
there are no numbers in Hebrew. They use letters
to represent numbers. So the letter 8 for the
5, 7, 8, 6, it's represented by the letter pe,
which is also a word. The word pe means mouth.
So for this entire decade, it's kind of like
a prophetic warning of watch what you're speaking.
Be careful what you say because you are... You're
either going to be giving help to the supernatural
good. The angels are standing around, according
to Psalm 103, verse 20, I believe it is, that
says that the angels are listening for the voice
of his word. So when we give voice to his word,
then they go to action. But I believe it's equally
true that the dark angels that fell, are also
listening for our words. And they will go to
work with negative things that we say. So we
have to be really careful what we say, right?
So the number six is represented by the letter
Vav. And it's kind of shaped like a railroad
spike, you know, if you know what that looks
like. And it usually means a nail or a hook.
It could mean a spear or a tent peg. So it has
the idea of securing things together. And when
they translate it, it's always at the beginning
of a word, but it's not part of the word. It
really literally means and. Sometimes it's translated
but or some other word so that you don't have
and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and all
through the word. But it also can represent like
a shoot. that's connecting a higher level to
a lower one. And the very first time you see
Vav in the scripture is in Genesis 1 .1. And
that, of course, says, in the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. And there's
your Vav. And the earth. So the very first place
you see Vav, which is the letter for this year,
the very first place you're seeing it is connecting
heaven with earth. Ooh. So that's something for
us to be meditating about and praying into because,
you know, Jesus taught his disciples to pray,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as
it is in heaven. And it's part of the Lord's
prayer that most churches, maybe not so many
these days, but most of the traditional churches
have always taught. the Lord's Prayer. And it's
part of the sort of ritual of the service that
you're going to pray the Lord's Prayer together.
And it's good to do that. It's really good. Yeah.
Except most people don't understand what they're
saying. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to do
something about that. But, you know, thy kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
So we're in a year of the connection between
heaven and earth. There's this Shoot. There's
an open tunnel. And we'll talk more about that
in a minute. Like a portal. Yes, exactly. And
we'll talk more about that in a few minutes.
So when the children of Israel escaped out of
Egypt, as we said earlier, they were in the wilderness
for 40 years because of their disobedience, because
of their murmuring, their complaining, their
rebellion when God said, go take the land. Ten
of the spies were saying, no, it's impossible.
We can't do that. There's giants in the land.
They're going to eat us for breakfast. But Caleb
said, they are meat for us. We can eat them.
Come on, we can do this. God's with us. We can
do this. And Joshua was standing with Caleb.
But because of their disobedience and because
they couldn't get the vision, they were stuck.
In the wilderness for 40 years. And so, you know,
that's why we celebrate Sukkot is to remember
we were in the wilderness. We were in the wilderness.
So God was saying, don't forget. Don't forget
what I did for my people. Don't forget. Don't
forget. Don't forget. And he still wants to do
miracles. You know, this whole idea of cessationism
where... People say, well, you know, God's not
doing those things anymore than he did during
the days of the apostles. When the apostles were
gone, they don't do that anymore. But yeah, it's
happening all the time. And God is pouring out
his spirit. And there's many, many signs and
wonders that are happening now. But God doesn't
want us to forget what he did. So let's just
talk about this harvest festival. Would you read
Deuteronomy 16, 13 through 15 from the New King
James? You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles
seven days when you have gathered from your threshing
floor and from your winepress. And you shall
rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your
daughter. So it's a family thing. Yeah, your
male servant and your female servant and the
Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the
widow who are within your gates. Seven days you
shall keep a sacred feast to the Lord your God
in the place which the Lord chooses. Because
the Lord your God will bless you in all your
produce and in all the work of your hands so
that you surely rejoice. Yes. And it's a joyful
feast. You know, we can be singing and dancing
and just enjoying, enjoying the presence of the
Lord. Because that is part of what happened in
the wilderness. God was there with them as a
cloud by day and a fire by night. It was his
presence. He was tabernacling with them. Hallelujah.
Here's another description of it in Leviticus,
chapter 23, verses 39 to 43. Also on the fifteenth
day of the seventh month, when you have gathered
in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the
feast of the Lord for seven days. On the first
day there shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth
day a Sabbath rest. And you shall take for yourselves
on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees,
branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees,
and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice
before the Lord your God for seven days. You
shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven
days in the year. It shall be a statute forever
in your generations. You shall celebrate it in
the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths
for seven days. All who are native Israelites
shall dwell in booths, that your generations
may know that I made the children of Israel dwell
in booths when I brought them out of the land
of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Amen. And I
know in the booths, too, they always have a plate.
It's not in the written word that we know of
here. Right, it's a tradition. But it's a tradition
that they keep a seat for Elijah. Yes, yes. And
I remember we had a book. And we used to, for
every, it was Friday night before we started
doing our Friday night live worship. Yes. And
we would read a book of Elijah tales. Yes. A
story of Elijah tales. It was fun. It was fascinating.
Yeah. You know, what happens when Elijah shows
up. Right, right. So when they're celebrating
this Feast of Tabernacles, the Sukkot, the word
for booth, that's translated here booth. or it
could be translated tabernacle. The word is sukkah.
So the plural of sukkah is sukkot. So that's
why they call it sukkot. I mean, that's why they
call it Feast of Tabernacles. It's the feast
of the booths or the sukkahs that everybody goes
out and builds, and they typically use all of
these branches that were mentioned here. Now,
where we live, we don't have palm trees. Too
cold. Yeah. And we probably have willows. And
we have myrtles. So anyway, they also, by tradition,
take branches from some of these things and a
little etrog, they call it. It's kind of like
a large lemon. And they use those in their prayers.
And, you know, it's a reasonable tradition based
on Scripture. But here's the point I want to
get to is, so this is when you have gathered
in the fruit of the land. So what was the fruit?
of the land. Deuteronomy 8 .8 spells out what
to expect when you get to the promised land.
It's a land of wheat and barley, vines and fig
trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and
honey. Yes. So you're going to get the barley
harvest starting with the first fruits of the
barley harvest happens on the day after the Sabbath
after Passover. So that's when the priest goes
out into the fields and he gathers the one and
the next one, where you can tell that they're
mature already and they're ready to be picked
because the head bows down. And that's a sign
of maturity when we are able to humble ourselves
and put our head down and not, you know, it's
all about me, right? So that's the firstfruits,
and then they go into the full harvest, and that
full harvest comes in during the time in between
Passover and the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot or
Pentecost. So we have a land of wheat and barley.
We can have our sliced bread, maybe toasted.
We can have fig or pomegranate preserves and
have some olive oil with it and some honey. Right,
right. Yeah, that's nice. So the things that
are brought in, like the wheat comes in, the
first fruits of the wheat harvest come in during
Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. So they're harvesting
the wheat after that when it's ripe. Yeah. So
in between. These two feasts in between the Feast
of Weeks or Shavuot, Pentecost, and the Sukkot,
you're going to bring in all of your wheat and
you're going to put it in store. And the other
things that they bring in during this season
of the late summer, early fall is the grapes
that comes in primarily during August and September.
The figs primarily during August and September.
pomegranates, August all the way to March. So
you pick them when they're ripe, but they start
in August. So you're going to see some at the
Feast of Tabernacles. And then you have olives.
So olives typically are harvested in October,
November. So the Sukkot is usually late September,
early October, mid -October, somewhere like that.
And then dates. Now, when it says honey, Scholars
tell us it's referring to date honey. Date honey,
which is so good. Yeah. Oh, wow. Date honey is
awesome. Yeah. They make a honey out of dates.
So the dates come in in late summer, August through
fall, so October, November. So you'll have dates
that are ripe, and it depends on the variety
when they ripen. Some are early ripening, some
are later. And there's lots of different varieties.
So you're celebrating the fruit harvest. You're
celebrating the wheat harvest. So one thing that
we can do as we're celebrating this year, we
can celebrate the fruit of the Spirit. Yes. So
we can ask the Holy Spirit to work in us, Galatians
5, 22 to 26. Would you read that, please? But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
long -suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.
gentleness, self -control. Against such there
is no law, and those who are Christ's have crucified
the flesh with its passions and desires. If we
live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another,
envying one another. Amen. So when you're tabernacling
with the Lord, okay, remember this is a time
when the Pillar of fire was there by night, the
pillar of cloud by day. His presence was with
them on the whole journey, no matter how naughty
they were, no matter how rebellious, no matter
how much they murmured and complained. Now, he
did deal with it as things happened. But he stayed
there with them because of his faithfulness.
He's absolutely faithful to his covenant. And
he'll be faithful to his covenant with us too.
So that's something to meditate on and something
to ask the Holy Spirit brood over me and help
me to stay in your presence during this feast
as we set ourselves aside during this time that
we'll have an experience with God, that we'll
have an experience of his presence where, where
he can deal with us and draw out that fruit that
comes from his presence into our lives so that
we're going to walk in that love, that we're
going to walk in that joy, we're going to walk
in that peace, we're going to walk in that patience
and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and
gentleness and self -control. Let the Holy Spirit
work these things in us as we spend time in his
presence. So one of the things that happened
Every seven years at the Feast of Tabernacles.
Now, there was a time called the release. And
so we see that in Deuteronomy 15, 1 and 2. Would
you like to read that? At the end of every seven
years, you shall grant a release of debts. And
this is the form of the release. Every creditor
who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release
it. He shall not require it of his neighbor or
his brother. Because it is called the Lord's
release. Amen. Isn't that beautiful? And I'm
not sure about it, but I'm thinking maybe there's
also the release of the Israelite slaves. They
enslaved themselves for six years, and they're
released on the seventh year. So it could be
that that's related to that. I don't have real
clarity on it. But during that time, during that
seventh year, so you can celebrate freedom. You
can celebrate freedom this time. I don't know
how many years we've been doing this, but I'm
sure we can celebrate freedom, right? So you
can also celebrate the Word, because Deuteronomy
31, 9 -13 gives us another clue of something
that's done every seven years. So Moses wrote
this law and delivered it to the priests, the
sons of Levi, who bore the Ark of the Covenant
of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.
And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end
of every seven years, at the appointed time of
the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,
when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord,
your God, in the place which he chooses, you
shall read this law before all Israel in their
hearing. Gather the people together, men and
women and little ones, and the stranger who is
within your gates. that they may hear and that
they may learn to fear the Lord your God and
carefully observe all the words of this law,
and that their children, who have not known it,
may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God
as long as you live in the land which you cross
the Jordan to possess. So every seventh year,
they would have a reading of the Torah. They
would read it together. They'd stand there all
through these seven days and... Just learn what
the law says, because God wants us to know him
through his word. So, you know, you can celebrate
the word when you're celebrating this feast.
So there's a prophecy in Zechariah 14, 16 through
21, that our founder, Sister Gwen, used to always
refer to when she was encouraging us to go up
to the feast when we were doing tours. back then.
So would you read that for us, please? And it
shall come to pass that everyone who is left
of all the nations which came against Jerusalem
shall go up from year to year to worship the
King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast
of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whichever
of the families of the earth do not come up to
Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts,
on them there will be no rain. If the family
of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they
shall have no rain. They shall receive the plague
with which the Lord strikes the nations who do
not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.
This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the
punishment of all the nations that do not come
up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In that
day, holiness to the Lord, and that's in caps,
shall be engraved on the bells of the horses.
The pots in the Lord's house shall be like the
bowls before the altar. Yes, every pot in Jerusalem
and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts.
Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them
and cook in them. In that day there shall no
longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord
of hosts. Amen. So, you know, this is a promise.
This is a millennium, yes. But, you know, God
began to put it on the hearts of... This group
of Christians that were praying together in Jerusalem,
they were living there, and they began to pray
together, and God put it on their hearts to start
doing a celebration, a Christian celebration,
during the Feast of Tabernacles. And that was
about 1980, I think, was the first one. Yeah.
So it goes back a while, and I think I was there
for at least part of... one of those services.
Ziggy Oblander was asked to speak there. And
so I got to be part of it. And that was before
I ever knew you, darling. So anyway, so for lots
and lots of years, we took tour groups. I'm sure
it was at least 20 years more, probably more
than 20 years. And so we went there and there
was one time that I remember that an Orthodox
rabbi came. and asked if he could speak. So he
recognized, and I think he was speaking for others,
that they were recognizing that the fact that
these goyim, these Christians, these people from
the nations, these Gentiles, were coming to celebrate
the Feast of Tabernacles, they went back to this
scripture and recognized that, oh, there's something
significant going on here. The Messiah should
be coming soon. Yeah, because you would get 4
,000 to 6 ,000 Christians from over 70 different
nations would come to this feast. Yeah. And that
was just, and when they do the roll call of the
nations. Oh, it was amazing. It was astounding
who got there and how they got there. Yeah, very,
very amazing. But this, I remember so significantly
that this rabbi said, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai,
which means blessed is he who comes in the name
of the Lord. And so that's a very significant
statement. And I immediately thought, oh, Jesus
said to the, I don't know, the Pharisees, I suppose,
he said, you'll not see me again until you say,
blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.
Wow. When you think about that. It was almost
shocking to me. I thought, oh, this is an end
time sign. Something's going on here. And that
was already, I'm sure, 20 years ago or more.
I don't remember just how long ago, but it's
been a long time. And so it makes me think about
what Dean Braxton said, that these end time things
that we're expecting to see, and we're seeing
signs of it, but it's not. come to a completion.
He said that it's not going to be completed until
everyone who is inclined to get saved gets saved.
You know, it's still a choice of your heart.
Everybody has that choice. And God is waiting
for every last one. He's not going to shut the
door of the ark until everybody's in that's supposed
to be in, you know, that's willing to come in,
willing to bow the knee, basically. a crowd that
was hailing Jesus on what we call Palm Sunday,
as he was coming down the Mount of Olives on
the back of a donkey, fulfilling another prophecy
of Zechariah. And so, then the multitudes who
went before and those who followed cried out,
saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed
is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna
in the highest. Now, Hosanna. Some people think
it's equivalent to hallelujah. But it really
means save us. So they're saying, come on, bring
the kingdom now. Set us free from Rome. That's
what they were really saying. It wasn't like
praise God. It was help us, save us. We recognize
you as Messiah is what they were really saying.
But what they were doing was quoting from Psalm
118, verse 26. that says, blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you
from the house of the Lord. But if you read that
in context, it is so amazing. Psalm 118, 19 through
26. Open to me the gates of righteousness. I
will go through them and I will praise the Lord.
This is the gate of the Lord through which the
righteous shall enter. I will praise you for
you have answered me. and have become my salvation.
The stone which the builders rejected has become
the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing.
It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day
the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad
in it. Saved now, I pray, O Lord, O Lord, I pray,
send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you
from the house of the Lord. So in context, you
see that there's messianic prophecy here. So
they are recognizing Jesus as the Messiah in
this. But let's just look at some of these words.
Open to me the gates of righteousness. When I
read that, putting together these notes for this
podcast, I thought, wait a minute. Jesus said,
I'm the door. open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will go through them and I will praise the
Lord. This is the gate of the Lord. This is the
door. Here's the door. Here's this connector
between heaven and earth. This vav, okay? We're
in this time. We're in this season. I don't know
how long it's going to last. I'm not into setting
dates or anything like that, but you can tell
that we're in the season. This is the gate of
the Lord through which the righteous shall enter.
I will praise you for you have answered me and
have become my Yeshua. That's the word. I looked
it up in Hebrew. It is the word Yeshua. You have
become my Yeshua. Wow. Wow. The stone which the
builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.
And we see that in another scripture that it's
referring to Jesus is the stone that the builders
rejected. This was the Lord's doing. It is marvelous
in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has
made. You know, years ago, we used to sing this
little chorus and we sang it so much that it
got to be almost... Unpleasant. It must be. This
is the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the day
that the Lord has made. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
We oversang it. We overdid it. Yeah. But put
it in context with this. This is the day. This
is the day of the Lord. This is the day that
this is the season that God is doing something
amazing in the earth. And we are seeing it. Yeah.
He is the gate. Yeah, there's one scripture I
wanted to add here, and that was Matthew 21,
verse 15. And when the chief priests and scribes
saw the wonderful things that he did, referring
to Jesus, and the children crying in the temple
and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they
were sore displeased. Oh, yeah. They were upset.
Upset. And, you know, that contributed because
it was just days later that Jesus was crucified.
So they, you know, they put together a plan pretty
quickly because he was the stone that the builders
rejected. So this word for gates, where it says,
open to me the gates of righteousness, and this
is the gate of the Lord. This word gate is the
Hebrew word sha 'ar. And the Strong's definition
is an opening, a door or gate, a city door, gate,
or port. And then Jesus said in John 10, 9, and
I mentioned it already, I am the door. If anyone
enters by me, he will be saved and will go in
and out and find pasture. So, you know, the New
Testament is done in Greek. At least that's what
we see. I'm sure it was written originally in
Hebrew, but there are some manuscripts out there
that are showing that. So this is Strong's number
2374, Thura, and it's apparently a primary word.
You can compare door. It's a portal or entrance,
the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively,
a door or a gate. A portal. Mm -hmm. And then
the outline of biblical usage that we see in
the Blue Letter Bible, which is the app that
I use the most. It's a door. It's the vestibule,
which is kind of like just inside the door. Used
of any opening like a door, an entrance, a way,
or passage into. Think about this shoot between
heaven and earth that, you know, in the beginning,
God created the heavens and the earth. And here's
this Vav right in the middle of it. Jacob's ladder.
Right. That's what it was. So it's used of any
opening, like a door and entrance way or passage
into, into something, a parable or a metaphor
where Jesus is talking about the door through
which the sheep go in and out the name of him
who brings salvation to those who follow his
guidance. An open door is used of the opportunity
of doing something. The door of the kingdom of
heaven, like into a palace, denotes the conditions
which must be complied with in order to be received
into the kingdom of heaven. So the thing that
I found was so cool is this word thura, or thira,
thura, is used to translate three different Hebrew
words for door or gate. And one of them is this
sha 'ar. Sure. So, you know, he is the door of
salvation. He's the door to righteousness. He's
the door to our Father. He's the door that connects
us with heaven. Hallelujah. So there's a lot
that we can do also during Sukkot in prayer.
Be an intercessor during these seven days, even
if you don't go camping. Go spend some time interceding
for souls. Because, you know, God spoke to me
the same time, around the same time, when he
gave us this name of global outpouring. And he
said, don't ask me for the outpouring. Ask me
for my heart for the outpouring. And I believe
the Lord is showing me that his heart for the
outpouring is really his heart for lost souls.
Lost souls, yeah. So we can be interceding for
souls who need to see that Jesus or Yeshua is
their salvation, the stone that the builders
rejected, and the door to the Father. He is all
of that. Now, the other thing is that Psalm 106
also refers to the Feast of Tabernacles. And
you have the ESV here, and that is the, what
version is that? That's the English Standard
Version. It begins, I won't read the whole thing,
but I have the Amplified Classic as well to introduce
this. Praise the Lord, hallelujah. Oh, give thanks
to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy and
loving kindness endure forever. Who can put into
words and tell the mighty deeds of the Lord?
Who can show forth all the praise that is due
him? And it goes on talking about our fathers
in Egypt understood not nor appreciated your
miracles. This is verse 7. They did not earnestly
remember the multitude of your mercies nor imprint
your loving kindness on their hearts. But they
were rebellious and provoked the Lord at the
sea, even the Red Sea. And it goes on talking
about what happened in the wilderness. So I'm
not going to read that whole thing. But would
you read the verses 42 through 48 from the English
Standard Version? Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their
power. Many times he delivered them, but they
were rebellious in their purposes and were brought
low through their iniquity. Nevertheless, he
looked upon their distress when he heard their
cry. Yes. For their sake he remembered his covenant
and relented according to the abundance of his
steadfast love. He caused them to be pitied by
all those who held them captive. Save us, O Lord
our God, and gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name and
glory in your praise. Blessed be the Lord, the
God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the
Lord. Amen. Amen. So we see here this picture
of, I think of like the book of Judges. where
over and over the children of Israel would disobey
God, and then God would let their enemies overtake
them until they cried out to the Lord, and he
would relent, and he would give them mercy, and
he would help them and send a deliverer. And
then as long as the deliverer lived, they would
watch their P's and Q's, so to speak. They would
be obedient until that person died, and then...
they wound up going the wrong direction again.
It happened over and over in the book of Judges.
But what I love here is that as soon as people
cry out to him, he remembers his covenant. He's
faithful to his covenant. He's going to bring
his loving kindness and tender mercies every
time we cry. And so I remember what Daniel did.
when he realized that it was time based on the
prophecy of Jeremiah, he was reading Jeremiah
and he saw that after 70 years, the children
of Israel would go back to Israel. And he humbled
himself and he fasted and he prayed in intercession
for the children of Israel. And he said, I and
my fathers have sinned. And he was the... least
likely because he was such a godly man. He really
was not this picture of a sinner that he was
presenting as he was asking God for mercy. But
he was stepping up on behalf of his people. So
that's another thing that we can do. during this
time of Sukkot, we can become intercessors for
the children of Israel, for the Muslims that
have been attacking them. I'm talking about the
jihadists, the Islamists that are interpreting
the Quran that way that seems to be what the
Quran says. And there are moderate people who
say, no, that's not what it means, but they are
set to bring destruction and genocide to the
Jews. So it's amazing to me that they're saying
that the Jews are doing genocide to them, but
it's like they're projecting their plan on the
Jews and they're not committing genocide. Anyway,
we'll tackle that on another podcast, but we
can intercede. We can intercede for those who
are not yet. born again. They're not yet saved.
They have not yet made Jesus the Yeshua, the
salvation, the Lord of their lives. And so, Father,
we just ask you right now to put a seed of intercession
into all of us during this time, Lord, that even
while we are in this time of tabernacling with
you, whether we're camping or whether we're not,
whether we're doing something according to Jewish
tradition or not, whatever it is we're doing.
Lord, help us to hear your heart about what we
can do during this time to celebrate your feast
and participate in what you're doing in the earth
in these days. In the name of the Lord Jesus
Christ, amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast,
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