The Future Feast

October 14-16, 2013 Future Feast of Tabernacles – Manna by Dorothy Callies

Zechariah 14:16 “All of those left alive of the people who came to fight Jerusalem will come back to Jerusalem year after year to worship the King, the Lord All-Powerful, and to celebrate the Feast of Shelters” (NCV).

The Feast of Shelters is the same as the “Feast of Booths” or “Feast of Tents”; reminded the Israelites of how God had taken care of them when they left Egypt and lived in tents in the wilderness. (Ref. Ex.23:16; Deut.16:13-17)

“And it come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles (Zech.14:16 KJV). This is a prophecy that foretells the future plan after Christ’s return to earth. After the destruction of antichrist and his armies, all the nations of the earth that survived the Great Tribulation will come together to worship the Lord in Jerusalem during the Feast.

 At the future Feast of Tabernacles, people will celebrate for joy, liberty and victory because the redeemed people have gone through “the wilderness experience of life” and they will experience the new glorious provision of God. That glorious provision is living eternally and worshipping and serving God through the universe. The Feast is a foreshadow of the Lords’ sheltering Presence over Israel during a thousand years of peace. There will be no more oppression of the ungodly nations of the world.

The whole point of the Feast was that the people thank God for the rains that brought forth fruits of the ground as the “Day of Ingathering” of the harvest. Interesting part was that God commanded that all nations come and to keep the feast of tabernacles annually to worship the King which is Jesus Himself. Why? It was to remind them that God is the One that provides the rains and if any nations refused to come to the Feast, God will withhold the rains upon their nations (Zech.14:17-19).

There are three things that impress me about the Feast. One: thanking God for the rains for the fruits to grow and to meet our daily needs. Second: Jesus provides the water of life for our thirsty souls. Third: a time of rejoicing, liberty and victory that God is our provider and He delivered us from Satan’s oppression.

This calls for faith when we go through the “wilderness experience,” we could have “The Holy Ghost Feast” in us, a time of rain, a time of rejoicing, a time of victory, a time of deliverance, and a time of healing waters flows into us. Hallelujah!!!

Let God be praised for open His Word to us about the Feast!