Exploring the Jewish Roots of Sukkot

[Music] [Music] n Shalom Rabbi Kurt Landry here there has been a recent upsurge in the exploration of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith the question is why there are a number of reasons they're giving away to a deeper revelation of Faith through the word they provide biblical wisdom and insight into your life and to know how to prosper they create more intimate connection between the Believers in God the Father God the son and God the Holy Spirit and perhaps one of the most attention getting reactions is this that through the Feast of the Lord people are beginning to understand where we are on God's prophetic timeline and if there was ever a time to know what time it is in the Lord it would be right now there's a Great Awakening in the church to connect with our Roots as we Propel forward in the the corridor of time and into what the Bible calls the third day are you ready for solid food are you still drinking milk as it's written in 1 Corinthians 3:2 through these spiritual Awakenings he will always be knocking at the door inviting you to step in for more into his alignment his Revelation and with him you naturally begin to walk in the spirit and live blessed I say then walk in the spirit and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law it says in Galatians 5:16 through1 18 anytime we start going into the Jewish roots of the faith or anytime we're dealing with the feast a lot of Old Testament issues people are saying oh I don't want to be put under the law the law is the instruction the law is the leader Grace is the Fulfillment that Jesus brought us to to be able to not only walk and understand the law but to be free from it it's not legalistic to go to the Lord's table so the question is what does not under the law mean in simple terms it means that there can be nothing held against you being spirit-led gives you protection against the accusations of the enemy in the heaven Heavenly courts how to walk in the spirit walking in the spirit means you are not only living but moving in the spirit you are on a road to somewhere you are traveling through spiritual levels and in physical time as you move into a new level of Faith you must take him with you to remain walking in the spirit he wants to go before us beside us and in us he is bidding us right now he's bidding you to allow him to lead to guide to counsel he wants to take you in every way possible that multiplies your time task and activity your money your resources your health and your relationships for you yourself you know perfectly that the day of the Lord comes we read about it in the Bible like a thief in the night for when they say peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon them as they labor as the labor pains come upon a a pregnant woman and they shall not Escape but you Brethren are not in darkness so that this day should overtake you as a thief you are also Sons and Daughters of the light Sons and Daughters of the day we are not of the night nor of the Darkness therefore here's the key let us not sleep the scripture says as others do but let us watch and be sober 1 Thessalonians 5 2-6 you see God erects road signs in our life I love this there's road signs it's not GPS GPS is kind of like the holy spirit inside of us guiding but you need a witness from the Holy Spirit within to the signs that are on the outside and in this season of time in the really in the lives of a one new man believer meaning where Jew and Gentile come together according to Ephesians 2:15 as one new man we are journeying through this life in Endtime prophecy like never before and one of the major ways that he does this these road signs is through through the fall Feast of the Lord so let us pull up a seat to the father's table let us partake in the Harvest as we ask him to guide us where we should sew and grow in this next season of time the word sukot means booths in Hebrew the term refers to a temporary dwelling that the Israelites lived in in a memorial of their desert wandering following The Exodus of Egypt because sukko means booths the festival sometimes refers to as the Festival of booths Tabernacles are also referred to as Dwelling Places thus the name Feast of Tabernacles is used to reference this Festival sukko is one of the three Pilgrim feasts that in ancient Israel requires Jewish men to journey to Jerusalem with an offering to the Lord after G gathering in their harvest the other two Pilgrim feasts are Passover and chevolot which would be also around the time of the Feast of Pentecost it refers to the feast and the in gathering because of the Agricultural significance of the feast in Exodus 34:22 it says and you shall observe the Feast of Weeks of the first fruits of wheat Harvest and the Feast of the in gathering at the end of the year in Leviticus 23 and 39 also on the 15th day of the 7th month when you are have gathered in the fruit of the land you shall keep the Feast of the Lord for seven days on the first day there shall be a Sabbath's rest and on the Eighth Day a Sabbath rest as we've looked at the series of the Fall feast and of the Lord we've seen so far that Roshes Shana and Yong kipur take place during the Hebrew month of tishy sukko is no different sukko begins on the 15th day of tishy and is a week-long celebration like other fall feasts of the Lord this typically takes place in September or October in the Gregorian calendar what are the blessings and the prophetic significance of seot we commemorate God's Deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt and the ultimate Deliverance of our sin through the nature of Jesus Christ Yeshua the Messiah we also remember his continual Pro protection and provision over his people past present and the future we are in the third day the Bible says and we can step into the blessings of of fully claiming our Jewish Heritage by learning about the hebraic roots of the Christian faith or we can choose to remain separated and without Rich understanding of who we are truly called to be in God's glory God's allows us to choose but he also promises us great blessings when we align with his appointed time according to Psalms 374 and six the scripture says delight yourself also in the Lord and He Shall give you the desires of your heart commit your ways to the Lord trust also in him and he shall bring it to path pass he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the Noonday sukko is the last of the Feast of the Lord and it commemorates the ingathering of a heart Harvest at a Year's end it's a truly a family and a Biblical celebration it was a season of great joy celebration over God's abundance the prophetic fulfillment of the feast is the millennial of 1,000 year reign with Jesus Christ on the earth each Feast offering comes with a promise from God I love this and when you understand the promises at each one of the feasts then you can anticipate it intentionally the promise of sukko is the gift of rain boy if you're a farmer or if you're an agricultural you know how important the rain is which symbolic of ultimately provision in Zechariah 14:16 And1 17 it says and it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the king the Lord of hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles and it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth that do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king the Lord of hosts on them there will be no rain so there is truly blessing rain is symbolic too of every blessing that you can imagine in your life Co the prophetic end time significance following y kipor the most sobering time of the year is a time of harvest and ultimate celebration suo is the symbol of restoration and the great wedding that will take place between the bridegroom and his bride in studying the Feast of suo through God's prophetic timeline you'll find that it's it represent representation of Christ's return and Reign here on Earth but let's talk to you about personal revelation the personal revelation for you is very rich in all these feasts but in the Feast of su Co this is the final part of the Fall Feast of the Lord where we are awakened by the chofar blast at Roshes we enter into a time of Godly sorrow and repentance at Yong kipor and now it's suit Co we transition from a period of sober reflection to one of boundless joy and celebration as the Lord we love the fact that we need to prepare you for a release and an increase in every area of your life both spiritually and physically that's what I love about the feast is It prepares you for the glory and the blessings to come with great anticipation it resets you and positions you for those blessings that are coming entering into the new year also ushers in new revelation protection and anointing pray for these blessings to manifest in your life ask the spirit to guide you in New Paths that will shape your character as you fulfill the promises for this coming year suo is a time to honor God by reconnecting with him through a covenant relationship that we do under what we call the Hoopa that three-sided Booth can also become like a wedding canopy just as a husband and a wife needs to celebrate their relationship honoring one another and in their commitment they need they you know we really need to honor our anniversaries and our commit ments with our spouses but we also need to do it with God they we must make a connection with Yeshua and a connection with the Holy Spirit and a connection with the heavenly father during the Feast of sukot remembering the price that he paid giving his son and the son who paid and the spirit who brings us into remembrance that we are his bride and we need to renew the price of that commitment during this feast of SEO Kingdom Revelation is Rich during this week of SEO just as we are to assemble and offer our first fruits to the Lord during suo God is gathering his chosen people back to their ancestrial land since the late 1800s until Israel's statehood in 1948 there has been great shifts and God's alignment of God's will for his people waves of Israeli immigrants began moving back into the Homeland these numerous waves of immigration to the promised land are called Aliah the word Aliah means to arise so when you see that in Isaiah 60 and it says arise and shine actually translates out arise or lift up or go up or return and we have watched that you have watched that in your life it's happening right now during these years many nations opposed their move and it led to horrific persecution of the Jewish people but we can't deny that despite the ongoing hurdles set before his people God's promises have prevailed and they're prevailing now even in the midst of these times the Fulfillment of prophecy Israel's establishing statehood should awaken our spiritual and physical senses of what is to come ask the Lord to import wisdom to your assignments for his kingdom during this moed this Divine appointment symbols and observation of s suo are rich in the symbolism of Covenant promises that God made to Abraham Isaac and Jacob one of the obvious symbols of sukko is the construction of a temporary dwelling similar to what our spiritual ancestors did in the wilderness during this Feast these booths are daily reminders of God's provision so in Leviticus 23 and 40 it instructs us it says and you shall take for yourself on the first day of the fruit of beautiful trees branches from a palm tree the broad leaves of a tree the willow of a brook and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for s 7 days so what this really means is I'll just share with you what we do at my house at my house we have a very small courtyard in the front of the house and um our house is actually Arkansas Stone it's these really big rocks the house was built oh gosh I think about 40 years ago and um it's it's a unique style house but it's very strong it has really big beams and big rocks so when we bring our grandchild to our house we will set up a booth with these branches H over the top of it and it's decorated it has three sides we take our outside uh patio table and we'll put it out on the side and outside and what we'll do is we'll have several meals we'll eat dinner out there and then we actually will take one of the children's books from Kurt Landry Ministries about sukot and uh we'll read the book but we'll explain because our grandchildren are running from Age 2 4 and 8 but what we'll do is we will discuss with them the main message of living in the booth is we tell the story that from the time that our people were rescued from slavery out of Egypt they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years and the booth is to remember to make peace that the Lord kept his promise even in the wandering times even in a Wilderness that the Lord has provisioned because it's easy for the children to for that concept and the conception of it because they're sitting out with basically made out of tree branches and it's very fragile and chrisy and Sandy osal decorate it and they put you know twinkle lights and and it it's very festive we're rejoicing they the kids love it but when we tell the story we'll say you know what you're next to Saban's house which is kind of like in the Three Little Pig story it's the house of brick it's very firm but what we share with them that the real protection of the Stonehouse the real protection of you as the temples of the Holy Spirit and the real protection of uh inside this booth the Suka that we're in is this is that God's protection is not contingent upon any man's construction ability or self- protection that it's a sovereign protection that God sees through the holes in the ceiling of this he knows all the hair of his on your heads he knows every need before you even ask but he wants you to know that there is a Wilderness time the whole Feast of sukot is really about Lord you protected US during the Wilderness you protect us when we were slaves and you protect us when we're in the promised land but one thing and one thing alone we're going to bring an offering from the Harvest of what we've received and we're going to bless you abundantly and we are going to remain grateful thankful and humble and we we take this week to Rejoice that we can abide in you one of the scriptures that we always read during the Feast of sukko is Psalms 91 that he who dwells in the secret place of the most high and that we abide under the shelter of his wing and we pray and we Proclaim that out so I want to pray for you right now father God we thank you we bless CTN for allowing us to have this time to bring the fall Feast to you and Lord during this fall Feast time May the revelation of the Awakening blast of roshes Shana that that trumpet that soon there will be that big Trump and we want to keep our hearts right for the return of the Lord second Lord we thank you for the blood of Jesus the blood of Yeshua who has brought us Redemption and expunged our sins so that Lord number three we can abide in this week of Tabernacles that we are the Tabernacles of the most high God that the Holy Spirit abides and lives in us and father God we just thank you for this beautiful season of sukot so we celebrate with you and we bless you and we say to you Lord shatova happy holidays and TOA to Yeshua Yeshua the Messiah thank you so much and God bless you and have a great holiday season well I hope that inspires hope Revelation and peace the fall Feast of the Lord the takeaway and where we're going from here is this number one remember and rejoice in God's ultimate protection and provision through Jesus Christ Yeshua the Messiah through the celebration of these fall feasts of the lord we can outwardly act on an inward faith and experience his love and Glory of his word even deeper observing this Feast is not about legalism but it's about a glorious Grace that we have in the Lord we can see his sacrificial power and his magnificent hand orchestrating events from the past present and even into the future it's an exciting time to be alive as we go through preparation in these end times it is God's desire for us his people to unite together as one new man Jew and Gentile according to Ephesians 2 and take dominion and Authority being his ambassadors here on Earth in Ephesians 2:14 and6 it says for he himself is our peace who has made us both one as he's broken down the middle Wall of Separation having abolished in his flesh the enity that is the law of The Commandments contained in the ordinances so as to create in himself one new man from the two thus making peace and that he might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross thereby putting to death the emnity Shalom Rabbi Kurt Landry here I have so enjoyed sharing with you about the fall Feast here on CTN I have a special gift for you and it's free it's the ultimate guide to the fall 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