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Appointments With God The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day — the choice of life or death

How is the lesson of new beginnings wrapped up in the symbolic use of the number eight in the Bible shown in Yeshua’s appearance in the temple during Sukkot in John 7-10?

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Appointments With God Tabernacles The Eighth Day

Why does Hallel celebrate a ‘wedding feast’ at the end of the Feast of Tabernacles?

The day after the seven days of Sukkot (Tabernacles) is a mysterious festival. However, eight in the Bible symbolizes new beginnings and fits with the teaching of God dwelling with mankind as Messiah and then forever.

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

John 7:37 — living water & Sukkot

What did Messiah Yeshua mean when He said “blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness” (Matt. 5:6) and during Sukkot “if anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink” (John 7:37)? That’s one of the lessons of the festival.

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot — What is the Truth?

Day 5 — “I will walk in Your truth” (Psa. 86:11). One of the teachings of Sukkot is that the Truth tabernacled with mankind so show us how to really live, how to walk in truth.

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot — from temporary shack to temple of glory

What lessons from the biblical festival of Sukkot (Tabernacles) are there for those around us? How does the temporary dwelling teach us about the most important part of daily life? How did ancient Israel have “the gospel”?

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot — Solomon dedicates the temple and foreshadows his fall and that of the temple

Day 2 — Solomon’s life mirrors my own to a certain extent, minus the world-inspiring wisdom and riches plus hundreds of nuptials of geopolitical convenience.

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Appointments With God Tabernacles

Sukkot — dedication of the first temple

Day 2 — King Solomon’s dedication of the first temple of Israel, described in 1st Kings 8, gives us a picture of some of what God is teaching through the Feast of Tabernacles, which points to Messiah as “God with us.”