Dear Doves,
      We are approaching the days of the third and final pilgrimage festival of Tabernacles/Tents. There are other names for this Feast of the Lord: Season of Our Joy, Harvest, and Ingathering. As of the first day of this event all of the 7 crops or species of the land of Israel had grown to maturity and been harvested or ingathered. In the Scriptures we know that 7 is a number of completion. Some olives, the last of the 7, had begun to be harvested. A tithe of olives could have been offered at The Temple for sacrifice on day 1. Thanksgiving was abundant for the success of the total harvest. A major motif of the remaining days was  prayer for rain for the crops of the next year when The Feasts of The Former Rain, with the barley and then the wheat, would begin anew.
      If there is a spiritual link to maturity and harvest of the dead and living followers of The Messiah/ Christ, it can point to the time between Yom Kippur ending and day 1 of the celebration in great joy of the harvest home, the fullness of the 7. The olives represent The Messiah, called the Branch or The Righteous Branch.
      Rowina has informed us that according to the method of sighting the crescent of the new moon adding 10 days, that Yom Kippur starts 9-29 and ends on 9-30 for Israel. This ending of a three day period combines the conjunction and sighting method dates for the new moon of the 7th month for Israel. As the midnight hour/midnight watch happens for Israel gone to 10-1, will that be the time for The Blessed Hope? Or is the period of the next few days a possible summing up onto harvest phase of the fullness of the gentiles ingrafted onto the olive tree, the eternal bride? Come Quickly, Lord...

With Love and Shalom,
Jean