1st Day — High Shabbath — The Beginning
4th-Day Eythaniym (Month 7) 15th
Wednesday October 8th, 2025
Introduction to The Eight Days of Sukkoth
Greetings and blessings to all of my family in Father Yahuah! Just finished blowing the shofar and announcing the start of the Feast of Sukkoth! I pray that this post finds you and your family in the grace and peace of Father Yahuah through His Son Mashiach Yahusha, walking in Their set-apart way and celebrating Their Feast of Sukkoth.
The Feast of Sukkoth is an eight day long celebration to memorialize the fact that Yahuah made the children of Yashar’el dwell in sukkahs when He brought them out of the land of Mitsrayim. The original plan Yahuah had for leading the children of Yashar’el our of Mitsrayim did not include forty years of wandering in the desert but because of their whoredoms, hardheartedness and stiff necks, they were made to wander in the desert for those forty years living in sukkahs.
The first time the feast is mentioned it is called the Feast of Aciyf or the Feast of Ingathering to celebrate the end of the harvest season and was only called Sukkoth later. So why the change and what is the deeper meaning to the last Feast of Yahuah for the year?
Purpose of The Eight Days of Sukkoth
Father Yahuah has led me to explore the deeper meaning behind this last feast of His for the year and to examine it’s significance, both physically and spiritually. It is my hope that by the end of the feast we all will have a better understanding of what this feast is and it’s profound significance in the past, present and the future.
Background
The Scriptures record that we are the temple of Elohiym and that He desires to dwell inside of us and not inside of temples made with hands.
1st Qorintiym (Corinthians) 3:16 –“Know ye not that ye are the temple of Elohiym, and that the Ruach Elohiym dwelleth in you?
The Scriptures also record that Mashiach Yahusha is the temple that was torn down, rebuilt in three days and in essence replaced the temple built by human hands for Ruach Yahuah to inhabit all human sukkahs again.
Yochanon (John) 2:19-21 – “ Yahusha answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Yahudiym, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? But He spake of the temple of His body.”
The Scriptures record that Elohiym desires to dwell inside of us and not inside of temples made with hands.
Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 66:1-2 – “Thus saith Yahuah, The heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that ye build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest? For all those things hath Mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith Yahuah: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at My word.”
Ma’asiym (Acts) 7:49-51 – “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool: what house will ye build Me? saith Yahuah: or what is the place of My rest? Hath not My hand made all these things? Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist Ruach HaQodesh: as your fathers did, so do ye.”
We see from these two verses that it was never Yahuah’s plan to dwell in a tabernacle or temple made with human hands.
The Scriptures confirm that when this earthly tabernacle is gone we will have a building of Elohiym not made with hands.
2nd Qorintiym (Corinthians) 5:1-2 –“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of Elohiym, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:”
The Scriptures then tells us the joyous news that Mashiach is gone to prepare a place for us so that we can be where He is.
Yochanon (John) 14:2-3 –“In My Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto Myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”
If the Scriptures tell us that Yahuah doesn’t desire for us to build Him a tabernacle to dwell in made with our hands, the Scriptures also tell us that we are the true tabernacle/temple that Yahuah desires to dwell in then what is the real meaning behind this Feast of Aciyf, or the Feast of Ingathering or better yet the Feast of Harvest Time and Tabernacles?
It is my personal belief that The Feast of Yahuah are all dress rehearsals for us while we are here to prepare us for that great day when Father Yahuah Himself will dwell among us and every day will be as it was truly designed to be from the beginning, we will have constant fellowship with Father Yahuah through His Son Yahusha Ha’Mashiach in the place He is preparing for us as we celebrate today.
The Beginning: The Way It Was Supposed to Be and The Way It Will Be
The first tabernacle was created:
Bere’shiyth (Genesis) 1:26 & 2:7-“And Elohiym said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. – 2:7 And Yahuah Elohiym formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
Yahuah Elohiym had created the perfect temple to place His Ruach in so that He could dwell among us and we could dwell with Him. A’dam didn’t have need of a dwelling place made by his hands because he was in the garden of Elohiym. The creation and everything in it was beheld by Elohiym as being very good, it was the way it was supposed to be and the way it will be once we get to that eighth day of the true Feast of Sukkoth when we will no longer have to dwell in tents made with our hands..
Summary
The Feast of Sukkoth is a very meaningful and joyous celebration! During this beautiful eight day feast we will look at how the tabernacles that we occupy have changed and how this has deeply affected our relationship with Father Yahuah, the loving measures that both Father and Son have taken to get us back to the place we fell from and the steps that we must take to ensure that we are the tabernacle that both Father Yahuah and His Son Yahusha can occupy.
I pray that you have a blessed first day of Sukkoth with Yahuah revealing Himself even more to you during the feast and that Father Yahuah continues to be a shield of protection around you and your loved ones!
Shalom,
Minister Morrow