The feast of Tabernacles
The feast of Tabernacles is the seventh and last convocation. We are associating this last and greatest of the feasts of the Lord with the new heaven and earth reign of Christ.
Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. And ye shall take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the brook; and ye shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven days. And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month. Ye shall dwell in booths seven days; all that are Israelites born shall dwell in booths: (Leviticus 23:39,42)
The feast of Tabernacles, being the seventh of the feasts of the Lord, typifies the completion and perfection of all that God has purposed concerning the redemption and reconciliation of mankind. The twenty-first and twenty-second chapters of the Book of Revelation describe that perfection, the glorious beauty which is the spiritual fulfilment of the Levitical feast of Tabernacles.
Eight concepts common to both the feast of Tabernacles and the new heaven and earth reign of Christ are as follows:
1. The dawning of a new age.
2. The completion of God’s purpose. .
3. The dwelling of God in His elect among the nations. .
4. A time for rejoicing. .
5. Holiness, righteousness, and obedience to God. .
6. God’s Israel is the light of the world. .
7. Rivers of living water. .
8. The separated royal priesthood. .