Understanding The Feast of Sukkoth
The Appointed Time to Tabernacle with Yahuah

Introduction

The Feast of Sukkoth also known as the Feast of Tabernacles, is the appointed time that Father Yahuah commands Yashar’el to keep His last feast of the year. The feast is to memorialize when Yahuah made the children of Yashar’el dwell in sukkahs (booths) when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim.

The Origins and Significance of Sukkoth

The Feast of Sukkoth is actually at least three feast combined into one and is first recorded in Shemoth (Exodus) 23:16 as The Feast of Ingathering (Chag Ha’Aciyf) which is in the end of the year when the harvest is gathered. It is referenced as the Feast of Ingathering again in Shemoth (Exodus) 34:22.

The Feast of Aciyf has been celebrated by people who choose to walk in the way of Father Yahuah and guard His commandments after the fall of A’dam and Chuah, when people lived in sukkahs and harvested their crops. Remember, these are not the feast of man but The Feast of Yahuah which are eternal.

The first time the Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkoth) is mentioned is in Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:34b and the appointed time in the year is given for Sukkoth. The sacrifices and offerings are given for Sukkoth in Bemidbar (Numbers) 29:12-40.

The sukkah is a tabernacle, which is the first of the manmade temples, built for Father Yahuah to dwell in so He could walk among His chosen people Yashar’el. Father Yahuah and His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach do not desire tabernacles or temples built by human hands but they desire to live in the tabernacle/temples that They created in Their image, us.

Sukkoth Throughout the Scriptures

The Feast of Sukkoth is mentioned throughout the bible and below are the places you can find it:

Torah:
Vayiqra (Leviticus) 23:33-44 – Yahuah first gives Mosheh the commandment to guard the Feast of Sukkoth along with the exact dates the feast is to be kept.

Bemidbar (Numbers) 29:12-40 – Nearly forty years later, Yahuah gives the commandment to guard the Feast of Sukkoth again and the sacrifices that are to be made each day are given.

Devariym (Deuteronomy) 16:13-17 – Yahuah gives Mosheh the commandments about the three feast that every male in Yashar’el appear before Yahuah Elohayka in the place He shall choose.

Devariym (Deuteronomy) 31:10 – After Mosheh wrote the Torah and gives it to the sons of Leviy he commands that the Torah be read every seven years, in the year of release, during the Feast of Sukkoth.

2^nd Hayamiym (Chronicles) 8:13 – Shalomah keeps the Feast of Sukkoth and offers the sacrifices commanded in Bemidbar.

Ezra v’Nechemyahu (Ezra) 3:4 – The children of Yashar’el guard the Feast Days after their return from Babylonian exile.

Zakaryahu (Zechariah) 14:16 – The prophet tells that the Feast of Sukkoth will be guarded during the day of Yahuah Tseva’oth in the future when all nations will have to come before Him on Sukkoth and those that don’t will receive no rain.

Yochanon (John) 7:2-53 – Yahusha Ha’Mashiach goes to the temple in Yerushalayim secretly to observe the Feast of Sukkoth and teaches the people that if any man thirst to let him come unto Him and He will give them living water pointing to the deeper and prophetic meaning of the Feast of Sukkoth.

The Connection Between Sukkoth, Mashiach Yahusha and the Return of Father Yahuah to be with Us

Sukkoth finds its ultimate fulfillment in Yahusha Ha’Mashiach who is the true Tabernacle of Yahuah Elohiym.

Yahusha reveals that He is the Temple/Tabernacle of Elohiym.

Yochanon (John) 2:19 – “Yahusha answered and said unto them, Destroy this Temple, and in three days I will raise it up.”

Yahuah promises to set His Tabernacle among men, to dwell with them and to be their Elohiym when He cut the covenant with Yashar’el in the wilderness and this is the same promise made for the future.

Vayiqra (Leviticus) 26:11-13 – ” And I will set My Tabernacle among you: and My soul shall not abhor you. And I will walk among you, and will be your Elohiym, and ye shall be My people. I am Yahuah Elohaykem, which brought you forth out of the land of Mitsrayim, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.”

Yahuah promises that His Tabernacle will be among men so that He can dwell with them to be their Elohiym in the future after the thousand year reign of Mashiach Yahusha.

Chazon (Revelation) 21:3-4 – “And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the Tabernacle of Elohiym is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and Elohiym Himself shall be with them, and be their Elohiym. And Elohiym shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

The future of the Tabernacle of Elohiym being with men is echoed in Yechezq’el.

Yechezq’el (Ezekiel) 37:26-28 – “Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set My Sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My Tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their Elohiym, and they shall be My people. And the heathen shall know that I Yahuah do sanctify Yashar’el, when My Sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.”

Observance of Sukkoth for Today’s Believer

There is no place that Yahuah has placed His name so that we can meet Him there today to celebrate the Feast of Sukkoth properly but we can meet Yahuah in our tabernacle, our own tent of meeting that He has given us, and celebrate His Feast of Sukkoth. The Feast of Sukkoth was commanded to be celebrated in a sukkah which is a temporary portable place to live in and represented Yashar’el’s total dependence on Father Yahuah during their journey in the desert. To dwell in a sukkah is to remind us to be humble in our sojourn here.

Many people build sukkah for Sukkoth, live in them for the time of the feast and that is a very good thing to practice if that is what Father Yahuah leads you to do. I would actually encourage you to live in a temporary structure if it helps humble you and gives your more humility in your walk with Mashiach Yahusha.

Many people build elaborate sukkah and use them as symbols of pride and status. If this is the case for you, I would discourage you from building one.

I have been led by Ruach Elohiym to continue the effort to get the tabernacle Father Yahuah has given me ready for Him and His Son to come in and sup with me.

1^st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 3:16-17 – “Know ye not that ye are the temple of Elohiym, and that the Ruach Elohiym dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of Elohiym, him shall Elohiym destroy; for the temple of Elohiym is set-apart, which temple ye are.”

The Ruach Elohiym and the Ruach Mashiach desire to tabernacle inside of us.

2^nd Qorintiym (Corinthians) 6:16 – “And what agreement hath the temple of Elohiym with idols? for ye are the temple of the living Elohiym; as Elohiym hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their Elohiym, and they shall be my people.”

Romaiym (Romans) 8:9-11 – “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Ruach, if so be that the Ruach Elohiym dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Ruach Mashiach, he is none of His. And if Mashiach be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Ruach is life because of righteousness. But if the Ruach of Him that raised up Yahusha from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Mashiach from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Ruach that dwelleth in you.”

I would encourage all to focus more on ensuring that their ruach is tabernacling correctly with Ruach Elohiym and Ruach Mashiach and everything else will fall into place.

Romaiym (Romans) 8:9-11 – “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Ruach, if so be that the Ruach Elohiym dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Ruach Mashiach, he is none of His. And if Mashiach be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Ruach is life because of righteousness. But if the Ruach of Him that raised up Yahusha from the dead dwell in you, He that raised up Mashiach from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by His Ruach that dwelleth in you.”

Yochanon (John) 14:20 – “At that day ye shall know that I am in My Father, and ye in Me, and I in you. He that hath My commandments, and guards them, he it is that loveth Me: and he that loveth Me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest Myself to him. “

Conclusion

The Feast of Sukkoth is a beautiful eight day celebration of the fact that Father Yahuah has blessed us abundantly physically and spiritually. He commands us to tabernacle with Him and also that we allow Him and His Son to tabernacle with us.

It is the last feast of Yahuah for the year and it comes after Yom Teruah, the day of the shofar to announce Father Yahuah and rejoice in Him and after Yom Kippuriym, the day our High Priest makes atonement for our sins so that we can tabernacle with Father Yahuah and His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach on the Feast of Sukkoth and throughout the rest of the year until the feast at the beginning of the year.

The Feast of Yahuah are all shadows of things to come, dress rehearsals of what will come for us all one day soon, being in the presence of Mashiach Yahusha who will prepare us for the eternal Feast of Sukkoth when we will tabernacle with Father Yahuah face to face as no flesh has ever done nor will ever do!

May we continually seek the eternal Truth of Yahuah’s Torah, walking in The Way of our Shepherd Yahusha Ha’Mashiach during our sojourn here, continuing to have our tabernacle ready for Ruach Elohiym and Ruach Mashiach here so that we may one day have the eternal blessing of tabernacling with Father Yahuah and His Son Mashiach Yahusha.