In the seventh month, five days after the Day of Atonements, is the second to last Feast of YHWH, the holy convocation of Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles in English. As a seven-day festival, it mirrors the spring’s seven-day Feast of Unleavened Bread, with the days of the month being the same, fifteen through twenty-one. The Feast of Unleavened Bread has…

After Yom Teruah and Yom haKippurim, Sukkot is the third Shabbat Shabbaton of the seventh month. To grasp the significance of the Feast of Tabernacles in the last blog, we “zoomed out” to the cosmic view of creation week and then overlayed it onto the Pentateuch and Holyday timeline. Doing this revealed a perspective on Sukkot’s meaning. This blog digs…

In the last blog, I showed how YHWH divided Israel from among the nations and separated them into the wilderness on a journey with Him so that He might sanctify them. YHWH’s setting them apart from Egypt created space for them to become holy like He made space for life to flourish in creation days one through three. In the Pentateuch’s three…

The fourth book of the Pentateuch begins with YHWH speaking to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai in the Tabernacle of meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year after Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, telling him to take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families and by their father’s houses. YHWH’s speaking from…

Numbers 1-10 articulates YHWH’s construct of the Camp of Israel according to the three-tiered pattern He gave Moses on the Eden mountain. In the first four chapters, Moses took a census of Israel’s tribes and arranged them under their fathers, situating them in four cardinal directions. He set the priests and Levites (as a substitute for Israel’s…

Thus far, we have established that the Book of Numbers reflects Sukkot and that YHWH designed Israel’s community mirroring His heavenly hosts surrounding His enthronement upon the cherubim. YHWH’s cherubim throne sat upon the covenant tablets inside the Ark, and by it, YHWH led Israel through the wilderness. The whole movement to…

YHWH had arranged the Camp of Israel specifically patterned after His heavenly abode so Israel could dwell safely with Him ruling from His sanctuary throne in their midst. YHWH’s intense holiness was frightening and dangerous to exiled humans contaminated with death. The work of atonements managed Israel’s impurities, and yet…

The Tabernacle system was YHWH dwelling in the midst of Israel so that His life-giving relationship with them became the heartbeat of the Camp. The axis mundi of the Camp of Israel involved shedding the skin of decay through access to the Fountain of Life, thereby donning new garments of righteousness that their names be written in…

Revealing the primary themes for the Feast of Sukkot, the Book of Numbers prepares followers of Yeshua for eternity. YHWH arranged Israel’s Camp to reflect His celestial holy city. Through the sojourn to the Land, YHWH’s covenant was not thwarted by human nature’s rebellions. As the old generation died, giving rise to the new spiritual generation, the Creator King…