Tabernacles

Greetings and blessings to all Doves.   OK, now it’s Tabernacles.   I have not much to add to those Doves’ recent postings on the Feast of Tabernacles all of which give us encouragement, and insights into the feast’s significance. In reading through them a couple small things did occur to me, which I will now pass along.    The first notion which occurred to me is that when Jesus took Peter, James and John up the mount to see His glory, there was mention made of the deciples’ wish to make tabernacles for Jesus, Moses and Elijah, so this may place our own observation of His glory in the time period of the feast of tabernacles.  Here it states this occurred “after six days”.  After six days, during the feast week of tabernacles, would be the seventh day of the feast.   In the larger sense, in Genesis God worked for six days, and He said it was “good”, and rested on the seventh day.  Perhaps this is why the deciples said, “it is GOOD that we are here”…….(because they knew that they were witnessing the “rest” of the seventh day?) Ola Ilori (Oct 5) suggested that it would be on the seventh day of the feast of tabernacles, and this would be “after six days” of the feast week, picturing the mercy of God in His creative work of six days, “perfect man” (Jesus, the second Adam) having been created on the sixth day, and this is the last (seventh) day of the feast where Jesus invites all to come to the living waters, of the day of rest, and that what is called the 8th day, following the week of tabernacles, pre-figures the great day of God, following the millennial rest.
        Secondly, Kelly mentioned that the fall feasts might actually fall in reverse order, beginning with the feast of tabernacles.   That intriguing thought got me thinking, and it occurred to me that the order of the spring feasts begins with Passover, and ends on Pentecost.  And Peggy’s suggestion that the rapture could occur on a “routine day”.  In the spring feasts, our Lord was taken from the deciples on the Mount of Olives described in the first book of Acts, on a routine day.  It was ten days before Pentecost, when He gave them the directions to “gather together” and await the day of Pentecost.  And the two angels told the deciples after He was gone, that He would return in the same way. I don’t have a perfect count of the number of days between Passover and Pentecost, but it is about 51 or 52 days.   Then, during the fall feasts, which start 30 days before the feast of trumpets, until the end of the feast of tabernacles week, there are also about 51 or 52 days, which seems a bit of a pattern of the spring feasts.
         Paul told the deciples to “gather together”, also, especially as they would see the day coming.   So I am just wondering if the pattern might be the same as the spring feasts; that is, that the Lord may return “in the same way”, ten days before the end of the feast of tabernacles, which would also be on a routine day.   The first two days of the tabernacles, it is forbidden to work, but throughout the rest of the week, work is allowed, which is perhaps why Jesus said that one would be at the mill, and in the field (working), when they would be “taken”.
 Then, Paul seems to be talking about our “temporary dwellings” or “tabernacles” here on earth, which will be made perfect on that day…………….perhaps the feast of tabernacles is that which the Lord promised when He said,,,,,,”I go to prepare a place (dwelling) for you, and if I go prepare a place for you, I return and take you unto myself”…………..for Paul speaks of these tabernacles as “temporary” until we receive the “clothed upon” building not made with hands:
2 Corinthians 5:1-11
1 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: 3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. 4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. 5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit.

 And now, I have to tend to all those things I put off until “after the feast of trumpets”,,,,,like dental / doctor appointments, that I didn’t think I would be here to suffer through………..      :---)
          Abundant blessings to all of you……….
                                    Your sister in Christ,,,,,,Arlene