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🛖 Sukkot – Feast of Tabernacles Fact Sheet

📜 Biblical Name & Timing

• Hebrew Name: Sukkot (סֻכּוֹת) – “Booths” or “Tabernacles”

• Duration: 8 days total

• 7 days dwelling in booths

• 1 final day of assembly (Shemini Atzeret)

• Date: Begins on the 15th day of the 7th biblical month (Ethanim)

• 2025: On the calendar we use from Zadok Way, this falls on October 8-15 beginning at sunrise each day. [Watch When Does the Bible Day Begin? Series]. If you are using a different calendar that is fine as none are perfect. Keep the Feast!

• Scriptural References:

• Leviticus 23:33–44

• Deuteronomy 16:13–15

• Nehemiah 8:14–18

• John 7 (Messiah at Sukkot)

🗓️ Structure of the Feast

• Day 1: Feast Sabbath. No work, sacred gathering, cooking/serving allowed (Ex. 12:16).

• Days 1–7: Dwell in booths/tents. Eat, sleep, and rejoice in temporary shelters.

• Day 8: Closing Assembly (Shemini Atzeret). Feast Sabbath, solemn gathering, cooking/serving allowed (Lev. 23:36).
  

🛖 Commanded Observance

• Dwell in sukkot (booths) for 7 days and nights (Leviticus 23:42)

• Traditionally done with tents, temporary shelters, or natural materials

• Eat meals in booths

• Rejoice before Yahuah

• Gather on 1st and 8th days for sacred assembly (Lev. 23:35–36)

• These are Feast Sabbaths: no regular work, but cooking and food prep allowed (Exodus 12:16)

🧠 Purpose: To remember Israel’s time in the wilderness, Abraham’s entry into Canaan and to celebrate Yah’s provision and presence.

📖 Historical Origins in Jubilees

📘Book of Jubilees 16:20–31; 32:27–30

• Abraham was the first to keep Sukkot:

• He kept it for 7 days, rejoicing after the promise of Isaac was fulfilled.

• Jacob added the 8th day:

• After mistakenly believing Joseph had died, he mourned, then added an extra day of rest and reflection. This was written on the Heavenly Tablets.

• From this origin, the Feast became an 8-day observance in honor of both joy and remembrance.

📖 Yahusha and the Feast of Tabernacles

• In the last year of His earthly ministry, Yahusha kept Sukkot fully and publicly:

• John 7 — He went up to the Feast “in secret,” then began teaching midway, staying until the 8th day.

• On the last great day (Shemini Atzeret), He declared:

“If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink...” (John 7:37–38)

• This ties Sukkot directly to Messiah’s mission and the outpouring of the Spirit. It was a Feast Sabbath just as He also represented the same paradigm in Matthew 11:28-12:1 regarding the Weekly Sabbath offering His rest and comfort to believers. These are not rests/Sabbaths after we die but references to a Weekly and Annual Rest/Sabbath in His Presence where He can refuel us regularly.

🗝️ Yahusha’s full 8-day teaching during Sukkot confirmed His participation and endorsement of the Feast as a prophetic and instructional season. His keeping it just months before His death and resurrection fully endorse a practice that would continue and not be abolished which He said could not happen in Matthew 5:17-20. The doctrine of abolishing the Biblical Feasts is a Catholic assault on the Bible and our Messiah and never belonged in the ekklesia. The first ekklesia did not keep Christmas, Easter, All Saints Day, etc. which all have occult origins and operated as counterfeit replacements for His Feasts.

✨ Prophetic Fulfillment of Sukkot

“And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of Elohim is with man.’” — Revelation 21:3

Sukkot prophetically points to:

1. The Eternal Reign of Messiah – Yahusha tabernacling with His people (Zechariah 14:16–19)

2. New Jerusalem descending (Revelation 21:1–4)

3. The giving of glorified, eternal bodies – our new "tabernacles" (2 Corinthians 5:1–4)

4. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb – a time of rejoicing, harvest, and eternal union (Revelation 19:7–9)

🗣️ Spiritual Themes

Dwelling: Yah desires to dwell among His people

Joy: Sukkot is a feast of rejoicing (Deut. 16:15)

Temporary vs Eternal: Earthly bodies/tents vs glorified bodies & New Jerusalem

Harvest: Final ingathering of souls — a picture of the end-time harvest (Matthew 13:39)

🧭 Practical Application Today

• On the 1st day, have a opening service or assembly and Feast Sabbath

• Set up tents or temporary structures for 7 days

• Sleep and eat outside (as weather allows)

• Rejoice in Yah’s provision

• Share food and fellowship — this is a celebration

• On the 8th day, have a closing service or assembly Feast Sabbath

⚠️ Unlike the weekly Sabbath (no cooking), Feast Sabbaths allow food prep (Exodus 12:16) — make it joyful and communal! This is far more fun than Christmas!

📌 Summary

Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) is:

• An 8-day commanded feast of rejoicing and remembrance

• A time to dwell in temporary shelters, recalling our journey and dependence on Yah

• First kept by Abraham, expanded by Jacob

• Fully honored and taught by Yahusha during His earthly ministry

• A picture of the coming Kingdom, New Jerusalem, and eternal dwelling with our Elohim

“Celebrate the festival to Yahuah for seven days... and you shall be altogether joyful.” — Deuteronomy 16:15

📅 Quick Reference: Fall Feast Timeline (2025 Example)

Yom Teruah. 2025: Sept 24 (Sunrise to Sunrise): The King is Coming

Yom Kippur. 2025: Oct 2-3 (Evening to Evening):  Day of Judgment

Sukkot (Days 1–8). 2025: Oct 8–15 (Sunrise to Sunrise): Dwelling with Yah

Keep the Feasts!

If you follow another calendar, that is fine—we have yet to find a perfect one. But as Paul affirmed in Acts 18:21:

"I must by all means keep this feast."

We will continue notifying the community of the calendar dates we follow throughout the year. However, we still have not released our own calendar.

Enjoy the Feasts this year, teach others, and keep seeking truth!
Yah Bless! 🙌

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