TABERNACLES- GOD DWELLS WITH US Leviticus 23:33-43
Questions: - Where did the custom of waving palms on Palm Sunday come from?
Questions: - Where did the custom of waving palms on Palm Sunday come from? - What is the holiday of Thanksgiving modeled after?
Questions: - Where did the custom of waving palms on Palm Sunday come from? - What is the holiday of Thanksgiving modeled after? - When did Solomon dedicate his temple?
Questions: - Where did the custom of waving palms on Palm Sunday come from? - What is the holiday of Thanksgiving modeled after? - When did Solomon dedicate his temple? - When was Jesus likely born?
Questions: - Where did the custom of waving palms on Palm Sunday come from? - What is the holiday of Thanksgiving modeled after? - When did Solomon dedicate his temple? - When was Jesus likely born? - When did Columbus first set foot in the New World?
LEVITICUS 23:33-43 33 The LORD said to Moses, 34 Say to the Israelites: On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days. 35 The first day is a sacred assembly; do no regular work. 36 For seven days present food offerings to the LORD, and on the eighth day hold a sacred assembly and present a food offering to the LORD.
LEVITICUS 23:33-43 It is the closing special assembly; do no regular work. 37 ( These are the LORD s appointed festivals, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies for bringing food offerings to the LORD the burnt offerings and grain offerings, sacrifices and drink offerings required for each day.
LEVITICUS 23:33-43 38 These offerings are in addition to those for the LORD s Sabbaths and in addition to your gifts and whatever you have vowed and all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.) 39 So beginning with the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the crops of the land, celebrate the festival to the LORD for seven days; the first day is a day of sabbath rest,
LEVITICUS 23:33-43 and the eighth day also is a day of sabbath rest. 40 On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees from palms, willows and other leafy trees and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days. 41 Celebrate this as a festival to the LORD for seven days each year. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come; celebrate it in the seventh month.
LEVITICUS 23:33-43 42 Live in temporary shelters for seven days: All native-born Israelites are to live in such shelters 43 so your descendants will know that I had the Israelites live in temporary shelters when I brought them out of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 1. Life is transient, but God takes care of us
Deuteronomy 16:13-17 New International Version (NIV) The Festival of Tabernacles 13 Celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 Be joyful at your festival you, your sons and daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levites, the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns. 15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.
16 Three times a year all your men must appear before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed: 17 Each of you must bring a gift in proportion to the way the Lord your God has blessed you.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 1. Life is transient, but God takes care of us 2. The Kingdom is about joy- Romans 14:17 17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking, but of righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit,
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 3. Jesus is the living water- John 7:37-39, Psalms 118:25, Isaiah 12:2-3
John 7:37-39 37 On the last and greatest day of the festival, Jesus stood and said in a loud voice, Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink 38 Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them. 39 By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified.
Psalms 118:25 25 Lord, save us! Lord, grant us success! 26 Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. From the house of the Lord we bless you. Isaiah 12:2-3 2 Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD himself, is my strength and my defense; he has become my salvation. 3 With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 1. Life is transient, but God takes care of us 2. The Kingdom is about joy- Romans 14:17 3. Jesus is the living water- John 7:37-39, Psalms 118:25, Isaiah 12:2-3 4. Jesus is the light of the world- John 8:12 12 When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 5. Tabernacles points to a glorious future- Zechariah 14:9 9 The LORD will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one LORD, and his name the only name.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 5. Tabernacles points to a glorious future- Zechariah 14:16-17 16 Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles. 17 If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD Almighty, they will have no rain.
Six Lessons from Tabernacles 1. Life is transient, but God takes care of us 2. The Kingdom is about joy- Romans 14:17 3. Jesus is the living water- John 7:37-39, Psalms 118:25, Isaiah 12:2-3 4. Jesus is the light of the world- John 8:12 5. Tabernacles points to a glorious future- Zechariah 14:9, 16-17 6. God wants to dwell among us- 2 Chronicles 7:14, John 1:14
2 Chronicles 7:14 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
John 1:14 14 The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
I thank God He dwells in me and among us by faith in Christ