The festival of Tabernacles (aka Booths) is one of three pilgrimage celebrations Heaven instructed Israel in the Torah to celebrate annually. Some of the hallmarks of the seven-day festival are building temporary shelters, decorating them with foliage from the fall harvest season in Israel and a daily water-pouring ceremony.

Rather being a memorial with a single theme, Sukkot like the others of God’s appointments is like a layer cake. Each annual “serving” has multiple levels of significance that build upon each other, rather than replacing the ones that came before.

These slices of Sukkot point to the ultimate goal of Heaven to once again dwell directly with mankind, something foretold via the Tabernacle/Temple, lived out through Yeshua haMashiakh (Jesus the Christ) and promised for the Day of the LORD.