The Feast Of Sukkot - Day 7

Sukkot - The Feast of Booths

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According to Jewish tradition, a wedding takes place in two stages. The first stage is where the Bridegroom comes and makes an agreement with her father and pay for his Bride. He then goes back to his father to go and prepare a home for her. He builds a house on his fathers land and his father see to it that it is good enough for her. She, on the other hand, awaits her fiancé’s arrival. He has a two-year period to come and collect his bride, if it takes longer, the wedding is off. She has to be ready, waiting on him with an oil lamp in her window. As soon as he is ready, he and his entourage comes in the middle of the night, blowing their trumpets or shofars, declaring his coming. When she hears this, she quickly lights the lamp in her window, showing him that she is ready and still his bride. If she is not at home or the oil in her lamp is finished, the wedding is off. He will come and take his bride without warning. He will take her to his new house that he prepared for her and they have a seven day wedding feast. This is a beautiful picture of Y’shua, our Bridegroom. He will come with the blast of the trumpet in the middle of the night, to come and collect His Bride (us, the believers), to take us to the place He has prepared for us. !"

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The lamps with oil, if you read it with Matt 7, reveals to us that it is the Torah. Oil is also a indication of the Holy Spirit (Ruach HaKodesh). Those who have “prepared” themselves were ready without spot or blemish. [Eph 5:26-27] Is your lamp trimmed and burning, or are you too busy with things of the world or too busy with you career or too busy with your family? To have the flame burning is to have a passion and zeal for the things of YHVH, actively learning and teaching others and living a lifestyle that reflects Him. Having enough oil is the perseverance in obeying YHVH’s Torah and keep on doing His will even if you get tired and grow weary. Look at your life two months back and ask yourself this question. Have I grown spiritually and do I feel more passionate about His Word? If the answer is yes, then your lamp is still burning. If the answer is no, your lamp has gone out and you are busy dying spiritually. We have seen in Ps 1 that man is compared to a tree. If a tree stops to grow, it is busy dying. The first place where “lamp” is used is where YHVH cut a covenant with Abraham. , & . &' #

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The word “lappid” means lamp, or “to shine”. The last part of the word is “pid” that means “ransom or redeem”. The lamp has to do with redemption as we have seen in Matt 25 where your lamp has to be ready for you to enter into the marriage Festival with Y’shua. He will only know you if you have oil in your lamp and this signifies a relationship with Him regarding the Torah and His Spirit. We also found two objects in the Holy Place (place of relationship), the Menorah signifying the Spirit and the Showbread, signifying the Scripture. The word “shines” is a verb and this means that intimacy with YHVH’s Word and Spirit needs to be an active part of your life. The “Lamed” on the right hand side means that you must “learn” about spiritual things which is found in the Scripture so that our lamps will be full of oil and ready to shine at all times. Oil also is the fuel of the lamp and also represents the anointing and the “Life” of His Spirit.

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YHVH’s Covenant with man The Lamp moved between the pieces of meat that Abraham prepared. Abraham had to split the animals in two, except for the pigeon and the dove and YHVH brought a deep sleep upon him and walked between the pieces. When covenants were made between two parties, both the parties had to walk in between the pieces to promise with their lives whatever they agreed on. If one of the two failed to uphold the conditions of the covenant, he must die. That is the symbolism of the animals that had to die. YHVH made a covenant with Himself because He was the only one who walked between the dead animals and this shows that He would die on behalf of Abraham (man) if man broke his part of the covenant. That is why Y’shua came to die for us because we broke our part of the Covenant but He chose to stand in for us taking the consequences upon Him self.

For today’s theme we will look at the life of David and we will start off with His genealogy. Boaz

(fleetness, rapidly, also the name of left

pillar in Solomon’s Temple) and Ruth

(friendship) begot Obed

(to carry out), and he begot Jesse and he was the father of David

(there is, existence),

(beloved, love).

If we read the “deeper meaning” into this it reads as follows: YHVH came rapidly, to restore friendship between Him and man and to carry out His Plan that existed before creation through His Beloved Son Y’shua. )

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Samuel (El or YHVH) anointed David as King with oil and he received YHVH’s Spirit from that day on. We have seen that the oil represents the Spirit. Y’shua was anointed as Messiah (King) by His Father by His Spirit (anointing oil). We should hear and listen what “El” or YHVH is saying through his anointed people. Anointed is the word “shawmane”

meaning, “robust, anointing, and rich”. If you add light

or “hey” to this word “oil” it gives the word “shem-o-neh”

meaning “the number eight or

new beginnings”. YHVH anointed David and then Y’shua to be “robust” and to lead the way into “new beginnings”. David was first Shepherd boy but later became a mighty king who conquered a lot of enemies. We see both words share the one of the “Names of YHVH”, which is “HaShem”. Everything comes from YHVH and everything will be subject to His Name and authority and if you bring Him into a situation, He will change it for the better. We can also see this in Hebrew words. There are letters that have a negative meaning; like “ayin”

that means eye and “resh”

that means human

reasoning. Man is attracted to fleshly things through the lust of the eye and human reasoning is the enemy of faith. If we look at a few other words with these letters added to “Shem”, we get interesting results:

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Adding a “Ajin” (eye)

to

we get the word “Shomah”

that means “news,

fame, obedient”. Obedience comes through not following the lust of the eye (left physical) but to focus on YHVH’s “good news"; Y’shua. Adding a “Resh” (human reasoning)

to “Shem” we get the word “Shawmar”

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means “to watch, keep guard, be sober”. We should guard our minds and our thoughts and be sober so that we will be ready when He comes again with His judgment;

David and Goliath The next thing David did, after being anointed, was to go up and fight Goliath. He took some bread to his brothers, Y’shua came to bring us the bread of life. ) . & = 0 %#

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means “to curse, to put under curse, to put under oath, to swear”.

The word “Philistine” means “immigrant” and comes from the verbal root “palash” – to roll in ashes or dust. Dust is always a sign of death, so the Philistines was covered or clothed with death and they represented death. Death came into this world as an illegal immigrant and is not suppose to be part of this world. The name of Goliath comes from the root word “galah”

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means “to uncover, to reveal oneself”. “Death” was cursing YHVH and this is the curse that covered all of man. Sin and death is synonym because sin brings separation between YHVH and man and death means separation. Y’shua came to earth to face death, to uncover death’s plan and to destroy death, so that man can be free from death’s power and its covering (bondage of sin). What is interesting is that that word “galah” has a lot of positive meanings: “Gimmel” points to the work of the Spirit, and it is on the right side (spiritual). “Lamed” has to do with learning, and “Hey” shows us that there is “something that comes forth from” and it is His light. All this teaches us that through the power of His Spirit (Gimmel), and the knowledge of His Word (Lamed), you will receive His light (truth)where you can walk in it.

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Goliath Goliath was a Philistine and was covered in death. If you have a situation as big as Goliath that is in your way and you see only death, YHVH will use this situation to reveal Himself when He destroys your Goliath in your life. YHVH allows these Goliaths in your life so that His Character and His Glory and Power may be manifested so that you can see Who you serve and give Him the Glory.

Truth vs. Death Another interesting word that is related to this subject is the word “muth” “death”. The word that is very close to is the word truth, which is “emeth” by adding an “Aleph”

which means and is produced

, which represents YHVH. The “Aleph” was added when Y’shua, (YHVH in

the flesh), came to the earth to face death in Person and He took away “Death” (penalty for sin) and exchange it with the “Truth” that leads to Life. Later on David became King and ruled over Israel. After many years of ruling over Israel, his son Absalom wanted his Kingdom and this led to conflict between David and Absalom. Absalom perused his father David and tried to kill him so that he could take over the Kingdom. This is the picture of the “religious system” that wants to rule over the people of YHVH and this System is trying to kill the Messiah by presenting another messiah called the Antichrist of Antimessiah. The people will follow this system instead of following YHVH’s Word and the true Messiah. This religious system called the “Whore of Babylon” and is part of the “Beast” that is mentioned in the Book of Revelation.

Absalom – a picture of the Religious System Absalom -

and his name means “father of the

reward” or “father of peace” This is what the “Religious System” preach today; peace among all churches and to pursue love to break down the dividing walls of division. This is the agenda of the “One World Religion” that is driven by the New World Order. The head of the Religious System is the Catholic Church and the Pope is known as “Father” and he is promoting peach and unity across all denominations. In doing this you compromise the truth to gain unity through love and peace. )

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, that means “to put to death”

Terebinth is the word “elah” These two words share a “lamed”

that means “to curse”. and a “hey”

and the two letters that forms the difference is

the Which is the symbol of the Messiah. If you read the word “elah” from left to right, you get the meaning “to move far away”. Y’shua removed our sin and moved it as far as the East is from the West, far away from us. If you read the word “talah” from left to right, you get the word that means “profane” or “unholy” .

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All of these meanings support the description of the “Religious System” because they made the things, which are “Holy” unholy. They will be cursed and will be judged by plagues that YHVH prepared for Her and everyone that is part of this System will receive the same plagues. 7#A

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Absalom’s death also foretells the end and death of the Antichrist and the beast system. The word “stones” is “aben” (Father-Son), that will come and judge the earth as prophesised in the Book of Daniel where he describes the destruction of the world system, destroying the “Image” with the stone hitting it on its feet or foundation. <

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At this time every Israelite fled to his tent. The word tent here is “ohel”

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“tabernacle” or “to shine”. This confirms the verse in Matthew that states that we must leave the System when the Tribulation starts and Sukkot is the time to prepare for this time that is coming.

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“Ohel” is nearly the same word as “elah” or “terebinth tree”, the only difference is that the “hey” and “lamed” swapped places. He revealed Himself to us (hey) so that we can learn (lamed) the truth (hey) and through this, swapped His holiness for our ungodliness and exchanged our “death on the tree” with His “Life” so that we can “tabernacle” or dwell with Him forever and can shine.

Absalom – a Picture of Messiah We also see the positive side to this story; Absalom’s death foretold that the father or origin (prince) of peace was made a curse for us when He died, hanging on a tree. He is the “Aleph-Tav”, the beginning and the end, the real Messiah, who will judge the earth. Those who believe in Him and who follow Him, their sins will be removed from them and He will remember it no more.

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David was a Shepherd boy who looked after his father’s sheep in Bethlehem - Y’shua is the great Shepherd Who came from Bethlehem, and He looks after His Father’s sheep. David means “the Beloved” and Y’shua is our Beloved. David was king over Israel and Y’shua will be King over Israel and the whole world. David was pursued by his son and Y’shua was pursued by His people. David loved the Torah and Y’shua is the Torah (Word) When David ruled there was peace in Israel after their enemies were destroyed, Y’shua will destroy His enemies and there will be peace again in the New Jerusalem.

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Y’shua will come in His Glory to concur and to judge the world and He will reign with a rod of iron forever. He is the Word of YHVH and to know Him is to study Him and to love Him is to keep His instructions.

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We know Him when we know His Commandments because He is the Word made flesh. His character is hidden within His Word and we should search His Word so that we can find Him. Search the Scripture and learn His ways so that there will be oil in your lamp and listen and adhere to His Spirit so that His Light can shine though your life and from your Tabernacle.

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