The Fall Festivals
Tabernacles (Sukkot)
The Feast of Booths, Celebration of the Final Harvest
Description
For seven days beginning on the fifteenth of the seventh month, Israel dwelt in temporary shelters, commemorating their wilderness wanderings. This joyous feast, coinciding with the final harvest, anticipated the millennial rest when Messiah would tabernacle among His people.Tabernacles' themes—dwelling in booths, water-drawing ceremonies, great illumination of the temple courts—provide context for Christ's declarations: 'If any man thirst, let him come unto me' and 'I am the light of the world' (John 7:37, 8:12). Zechariah 14:16 prophesies that surviving nations will celebrate this feast during the Millennium.
Key Verses
Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths:
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.