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What does the number 8 mean in the Bible? Some believe it means infinity or eternity. Some believe it means a new start of righteousness on earth.
There is a lot about the Eighth Day that the Father has seen fit not to reveal to us. When we become the “bride of Christ,” we should want to know everything about Him. The best way to know everything about Yeshua is to read about Him.
John 7 tells us about the beginning of the last Feast of Tabernacles Yeshua kept on earth. Yeshua missed the first day of the Tabernacles. He didn’t go there for the first day to bring the proscribed offerings. He didn’t even go to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles until the fourth day. His brothers wanted him to go to Tabernacles to be seen but Yeshua came to Tabernacles unseen.
When He showed up to the Temple to begin teaching, the Jewish leadership there were amazed at his teaching because he was “unlearned.” He didn’t graduate from their yeshivas and didn’t have a Ph.D.
Yeshua said in John 7:16-18:
“So Jesus answered them and said, ‘My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.”
This is a direct rebuke to His brothers who wanted Him to draw attention to Himself. Yeshua wanted to draw attention to the Father and to know the Father’s will, which is shown in the first chapter of Genesis.
We can’t be with the Father unless we are true to Him. The Father’s will is that we all live with Him forever.
The Jewish authorities didn’t understand Yeshua to the point that they wanted to kill Him. Yeshua didn’t wait until the fourth day to attend Tabernacles because of fear. He wasn’t afraid to die. He knew when His time was and this was not His final time.
The Torah was written for us, not for Him. God did not have to say, “Thou shall not commit adultery” for His sake, but for ours. The law is righteous and man should live by His word.
When the Pharisee sent out the police to arrest Yeshua, how did Yeshua escape them?
Yeshua gave a special teaching on the “last day of the feast, the great day…” which is the Eighth Day. Yeshua stood up and said, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, ‘From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’”
After this, Nicodemus and the Sanhedrin argued with each other about whether Yeshua was the Messiah or a prophet and they were divided over Him.
It would appear that this Eighth Day is more important than the first day of Tabernacles.
After the Eighth Day, everyone else when home, but Yeshua went to the Mount of Olives. He did not go home to Galilee.
John 8 starts with Yeshua going back to the Temple to teach again and the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman before Him who had been caught in adultery. They told Him that Moses’ commands that such a woman was to be stoned. He responded by writing on the ground. John would have seen what Yeshua wrote but he doesn’t reveal it to us because that wasn’t the point. The point is that Yeshua’s righteous judgement.
He told the scribes and Pharisees, “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.” They all left and it was only Yeshua and the woman there. Yeshua then said, “I do not condemn you, either. Go. From now on sin no more.”
It is not God’s will to kill everybody.
The Eighth Day pictures a just God beyond human understanding. His goal is that all of mankind be with Him. We are His most precious creation. Even “that woman.” Yeshua said that the Pharisees judged on the outward part, Yeshua judges righteously from the heart. He saw that the woman’s heart was broken and contrite.
After the woman left, Yeshua continued speaking of His own witness and explained how He judges matters. Yeshua says He didn’t come to judge, but if He is called upon to judge a matter, He judges through the heart, not the outside appearance. The Father was Yeshua’s second witness.
This exchange did not change the Pharisee’s hearts, they still wanted Yeshua dead.
The book of Revelation gives us a picture of what will happen in the last days, but that’s for eternity. When that time comes, everything that comes from our mouths will be truth. There will be no more lies.
Yeshua never centered His life around Himself but around His father. John 7-10 gives us example after example of how Yeshua rendered righteous judgement. If we are to judge angels one day, we need to understand Yeshua’s judgement too.
Speaker: Richard. Summary: Tammy.