Hello John and Doves,
Correction:
Just discovered my error on the date for the
start of Feast of Tabernacles - In my "The Next High Holy
Days" letter today I had the wrong Gregorian calendar start
date - caught the mistake when I was looking at the full
moon date - so sorry. (I cut the seven day feast short
three days!) The correct date this feast starts is October
11 sunset. So day one of Tabernacles is Oct 11
sunset to Oct 12 sunset. On the Torah
Calendar.
Full Moon:
Feast of Tabernacles/Sukkot falls on the full
moon of the Seventh Month.
"To the naked eye, the full moon lasts
about three days, but in reality, it is a full
moon for just an instant before it begins to wane."
How
Long Is Each Moon Phase?
So this moon will look full
on October 9, 10, 11.
Timeanddate.com shows the
full moon for Jerusalem on October 9, 2022 at
11:54pm. On the Torah Calendar, Sukkot starts sunset Oct 11. On the Chabad
Calendar, Sukkot starts on sunset October 9.
Sukkot in Jerusalem:
"Over 2,000 Christians to arrive to Jerusalem
for Feast of Tabernacles: The event, which is said to
be the largest solidarity mission to Israel this year, is
sponsored by the International Christian Embassy
Jerusalem. Over 2,000 Christians from 70 countries
will travel to Jerusalem between the 9th and 16th of October
to take part in the 43rd annual Feast of Tabernacles
celebration."
Over
2,000 Christians to arrive to Jerusalem for Feast of
Tabernacles - The Jerusalem Post
The Water Pouring Ceremony:
During this feast, each morning during these
seven days and on the eighth day, there was a ritual
performed called 'the water pouring ceremony'. It is
not known when this ceremony started, "What is known is that
this practice existed when Alexander Jannaeus served as High
Priest from 103 to 76 B.C."
"Alexander Jannaeus, a Sadducee, hated the
water pouring ceremony since it was based on tradition and
not found in the Law of Moses. On one occasion, while
carrying out this ritual, he refused to pour the water into
a proscribed basin that allowed it to be properly offered
through the temple's brazen altar. He instead, to show
his contempt for the practice, poured the liquid on the
ground. The people responded by rioting and
threatening his life. Sometime after Alexander's
actions, the libation ceremony was expanded by the Pharisees
(Rabbis) in their show of contempt toward the
Sadducees. The expansion caused the tradition to
become one of the high points of the two greatest Feast of
God."
"The Jews believed the
libation ceremony primarily represented the pouring our of
God's Holy Spirit."
"Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of
the wells of salvation." Isaiah 12:3
Jesus And The Water Pouring
Ceremony:
Jesus might have liked Alexander - who came
many years before Jesus lived.
"The Lord was among the crowd on the morning of
October 18 in 29 A.D. ("On the last and
greatest day of the festival (the eighth day - Shemini
Atzeret)) to witness the water pouring ceremony
carried out by the High Priest. When the liquid was
being offered at the alter (or possibly after it was
complete) Jesus, with a loud voice so all could hear, cried
the following:
"If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and
drink. The one who believes in Me, as the scripture
has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water." John 7:37, 38
This goes along with:
When Jesus met the Samaritan woman at the well,
He said, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is
that asks you for a drink, you would have asked Him and He
would have given you living water." Jesus told her
that everyone who drinks this water from the well will
thirst again, "but whoever drinks the water I give them will
never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will
become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal
life."
John 4:10, 14,
Gog And
Magog War on Sukkot:
Rabbi Glazerson said that according to the
tradition the war of Gog and Magog will take place on
Sukkot.
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"When Shabbat occurs during Sukkot,
rather than reading from the weekly Torah portion, there
is an ancient, yet unusual, Jewish tradition of reading
about the famous war of Gog and Magog from the
Book of Ezekiel in chapters 38 and 39....According
to Jewish tradition, the war of Gog and Magog will take
place in Tishrei, the month when Sukkot is celebrated...."
"The connection between the War of Gog and
Magog and Sukkot is made explicit in Zechariah 14:16, which
discusses the annual celebration in Jerusalem on Sukkot,
following the War of Gog and Magog."
"And it will come to pass that everyone left of
the nations who came against Jerusalem will go up from year
to year to prostate himself to the King, the Lord of Hosts,
and to celebrate the Festival of Tabernacles."
(Zechariah 14:16) "Some rabbis have pointed out that
according to certain Jewish sources, Gog and Magog
will be a process of three wars." "Rabbi
Yisroel Kagan..who passed away in 1933 stated that WWI was
the first stage, and that two more global conflicts would
complete the process of Gog and Magog."
",,,Rabbi Yechezkel Abramsky, a 20th century
Torah scholar...in Israel prior to his death in 1976, has
been widely quoted as saying, "We have a tradition from the
Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Shlomo Zalman who lived in the
18th century) that the war of Gog and Magog will last 12
minutes. A third of the world will die, a third will
suffer from plagues and a third will survive."
"Sukkot has always been a festival that is
meant to focus our attention on God's role in history.
Just like he protected the Jewish nation in the desert with
a pillar of fire and miraculous cloud, the God of Israel has
a plan for Israel at the end of history as well.
The mysterious reading of Ezekiel 38 and 39 on Sukkot
should force all of us to prepare by praying over our role
in any scenario that may come against Israel."
Back in 2015, Israel365news had an article,
"The Surprising Connections Between Sukkot and the War of
Gog and Magog." "There are signs, both in current
events and in Jewish tradition, that point to the
possibility that the War of Gog and Magog, prophesied in the
Books of Ezekiel and Zechariah, will happen this year on the
Jewish holiday of Sukkot (Festival of Tabernacles.)
Surprising
Connections Between Sukkot and War of Gog and Magog -
Israel News
https://www.israel365news.com/50054/surprising-connections-between-sukkot-war-gog-magog-jewish-world/
The "current events" point more to this year,
2022, than that year, 2015!!
Today, the world is closer than ever to
nuclear war.
Ukraine was warned. The U.S. was
warned. NATO was warned. What happens next will
be Putin's call.
https://www.dw.com/en/what-could-be-russias-response-to-the-explosion-at-the-crimea-bridge/av-63380047
Zechariah 14:16, to many, refers to the 1,000
years of peace - but, maybe it has a double meaning - the
Jewish rabbis see this happening after the Gog and Magog
war.
It's possible that WW3 is in our near future,
followed by the Gog and Magog War (or the Gog and Magog war
occurs with WW3?). The U.S. and other western
countries are not around to help Israel in this war...so
something happens to them. Did WW3 keep them
preoccupied with their own defense or did it take them out
of commission? This suggests that IF Gog is Russia,
then Russia survives WW3...and the West does not. ??
Sukkot will soon be here.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem!
Maranatha!
Chance