What exactly is the Feast of Tabernacles?
So, Feast of Tabernacles, what exactly is the Feast of Tabernacles? It is one of the three great feasts in which the Jewish men were to go to Jerusalem to partake in. According to Josephus in the time of Christ, these were great feasts, and according to Josephus there would be large crowds, as many as two and a half million people would come to these feasts. It is described, the Feast of Tabernacles, in Leviticus chapter 23, it was a festive time, occurring about this time of year, the autumn, so the entire harvest would be brought in at this time, the harvest of corn and the wine and the oil, that would be brought in. But it was a feast of great joy. First of all, celebrating Israel’s wonderful deliverance out of Egypt, but also it looked forward to the kingdom of the Messiah [which in reality would begin shortly after the 2nd coming of Jesus Christ]. But is was also a reminder, especially looking back to the 40 years in the wilderness, that God, even though they had sinned and they l
