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With the coming of Shmini Azteret (Convocation of the Eight Day), Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) is over. Prophetically, it will happen one time and will never happen again. We stop waving the lulav (four tree species symbols of Sukkot) and parading the Torah around the camp, because the Eighth Day represents a time when all people who have been called and heeded the call will know God.
Texts: Revelation 21-22; Isa. 55:1-2, 6-8, 12; Jer. 31:31-34
The Eighth Day is truly a new beginning, when we will live with the Eternal One. It’s rarely spoken of in Scripture on its face, but it’s actually spoken about frequently under a different name.
We are the one scattered on the highways and byways, called out at the last minute to come to the Wedding Feast.
Sometimes we focus on our sins, transgressions and iniquities but this day represents a different picture. We don’t think of ourselves as holy, but what Yeshua calls holy is holy. The past is gone.
You are chosen not because you are righteous but because you were called and responded. God will bless us so much that He will live among us and we’ll see Him face to face at that day.
We long for that day, but we don’t know what we are longing for. Revelation 21-22 tells us what we are longing for.
This inheritance is for the “overcomers.” How do we overcome? God gives us the power to overcome. Some of us are called to endure our work. Some of us are called to endure unemployment. We are called to endure the ups and downs of the economy. We have to remember we are just temporary dwellers on this earth. We are enduring this world, which will perish, so that we will be fit to live in the world that will never perish.
The Bride of the Lamb is the New Jerusalem. Much of the imagery of the city of New Jerusalem is similar to what we find in Numbers 10. The New Jerusalem is pattered on the Tabernacle template revealed to Moses.
There’s one building conspicuously lacking in the New Jerusalem. There is no temple as a center of worship. There is no need for a temple when God Himself is dwelling there.
We are called to seek God while He may be found? Is there a time when God will not be there? Revelation 21 tells us He will not be there for the coward and the murderer at that last day. The evil did not respond so He will not be there.
God’s thoughts are different from our thoughts. His justice differs from ours. For example, we are more like Cain than Abel. God did not punish Cain with death when he killed Abel. In our thinking God is unjust because He did not kill Cain but God is actually more just than we are.
How does God undo the briars and thistles that He cursed Adam and Eve? He cuts them off and their disappearance is a memorial to God.
Yeshua said, “Fear not for I have overcame the world.” Yeshua overcame the world in His death. He did not lose anything but gained everything. He counted on God’s promises and so do we.
When God called you to live a Messianic lifestyle, keeping the Sabbath and the Feasts, did you have an easy road? Probably not, but God did not say the road would be easy but we took this road anyway. God will reward that perseverance.
We are called to set aside our petty disagreements with our fellow believers. There’s coming a day when all will know the Lord and the world with its petty disagreements will pass away.
All this does not cost us a dime but it cost God the life of His son Yeshua.
Speaker: Richard Agee. Summary: Tammy.