What Makes for a Good Feast of Tabernacles?

God commands us to dwell in temporary booths for seven days. As the green leaves change colors, celebrants cannot help but reflect on the brevity of life.

Amos 5 and the Feast of Tabernacles

If we go to the Feast with the goal of physically enjoying, we may lose out on both the spiritual and physical benefits. 'Going through the motions' defiles it.

Fearing God at the Feast (Part One)

What we learn and experience at the Feast of Tabernacles should keep us in the proper fear of God for the rest of the year. Here's how to approach the Feast.

The Feast Is Coming!

What should we have on our minds as we prepare to go to the Feast of Tabernacles this year? What overall message does keeping this festival teach us?

Feast: Command of God?

Keeping God's annual Sabbaths are just as much a mandate on God's people as keeping the Ten Commandments.

Fearing God at the Feast (Part Three)

The Feast is not a celebration just for the sake of having a good time. Our festivities should focus on God's faithfulness, rejoicing in all He did during the year.

Make This the Best Feast Yet

We need to strive to have the 'best Feast ever' attitude as we approach the Feast. The quality of the Feast increases as we serve others.

How to Have a Great Feast

The Feasts of God are not vacations, but are holy convocations when God assembles His family for the purpose of enabling us to learn to fear and honor Him.

Rejoice in God's Feast

God can take satisfaction that He is doing the right thing, and thus His rejoicing can even come from painful judgments. Sacrificing and rejoicing are linked.

Sharing Our Lives at the Feast

The Feast of Tabernacles is a wonderful gift God has given us to spend time with each other, really sharing of ourselves. Here is how this can be done.

Teachings from Tabernacles

Teachings From Tabernacles (2021)

If we neglect our cultivation of spiritual fruit during the year, the harvest will reflect that. The fruit of one's labors will be evident at harvest time.

Jesus and the Feast (Part Two): Belief in the Spirit

On the last day of the Feast, Jesus proclaimed Himself as the One who will dispense God's Spirit, amplifying the promise He had made to the woman at the well.

As He Is Holy (Part Two)

Do we truly believe that what God has made holy is sacred to Him? When we ignore or trample on His holy things, how close are we to Nadab or Ananias?

Rejoice and Serve!

Consuming second tithe (not within our gates) is understood to be for foodstuffs, for entertaining spiritual siblings, and making them happy and joyful.

Whatsoever Your Heart Desires

We must not construe the term, "whatever our heart desires," as a pass to sin, but we should use every occasion to grow in thinking and acting like God.

Looking Back to the Future

The dwelling in booths and the sacrifices were the context for rejoicing at the Feast of Tabernacles. The booths depict our current lives as pilgrims.

The Handwriting Is on the Wall (2021)

When comparing the Jewish Disneyland Succoth Extravaganza with the Holy Days kept by Israel, it is obvious that the veil still bars their understanding.

Radiating the Glory of God

We have been allowed the privilege of knowing God now. We need to radiate the glory of God as Moses radiated the glory of God by having been in His presence.

The Sacred Assemblies

Very little detail is given about the Eighth Day in Leviticus 23 except that is has been called a "sacred assembly" rather than a "sacred convocation" applied only to two of the seven holy says, namely following the seven Days of Unleavened Bread and following the seven days of the Feast of Tabernacles. These assemblies require …

Knowing God: Formality and Customs (Part Two)

We must continually upgrade our decorum and formality in our approach to God. What is practiced on the outside reinforces what is on the inside.