The Feast of Tabernacles Revealed
Main Verses: Leviticus 23:33–44, John 7:37–39, John 8:12, Deuteronomy 16:16–17
I. Introduction
A. The Council of Jerusalem in 49 AD.
B. What makes you celebrate?
C. God wants us to have times of ______________, especially over things He has ______________ for us, and that is what the Feast of Tabernacles is all about.
D. The Feast of Tabernacles symbolized a ______________ from God.
E. It was also called the Feast of ______________, for the Jews lived in booths. It was to remember how God had provided for them in their wilderness and how He brought them to Canaan.
F. The Feast of Tabernacles was tied to the 7th-year ______________ cancellation and freedom from ______________.
II. A Look at the Text
A. Deuteronomy 16:16–17 – We are not to come before the Lord ____________________________. The Feast of Tabernacles is a special time for ______________.
B. John 7:37–39 – Jesus is at the Feast of Tabernacles being celebrated in Jerusalem.
Jesus fulfills the Feast of Tabernacles by redefining the ____________________________.
Each day of the festival, a priest would go down to the Pool of Siloam and get a quart of water in a golden pitcher.
The priest would carry it back through the Water Gate while the people recited Isaiah 12:3, and he would pour the water out before the altar as an offering to God.
Jesus calls to those who are spiritually thirsty, for He alone can satisfy a thirsty soul.
He promises that to those who believe in Him, streams of living water—symbolic of the Holy Spirit—will be in them.
a. He refers to Isaiah 58:11.
b. He refers to Ezekiel 47, the river from the temple.
c. Jesus is the ______________ that water flowed from in the wilderness (1 Corinthians 10:4).
C. John 8:12 – Jesus defines Himself as the ______________ of the world, the light of ______________.
Four great ______________ were lit for the Feast of Tabernacles.
Light is tied to ______________.
Jesus is light, revealing God to fallen mankind.
Jesus is the light that gives mankind ______________.
We must ______________ after Jesus, giving ourselves completely to Him.
III. God is Speaking to Us
A. A ______________ offering was given along with prescribed sacrifices.
It was a declaration of ______________, for God is going to ______________ me in the future.
It is an act of ______________, for God has intervened time and time again on our behalf.
It is looking forward to a time when we will be ______________ and free of every ______________.
God will break a spirit of ______________ off our lives and families.
B. We celebrate that the Holy Spirit is ______________ us and ______________ us to do the works of Jesus in the world, personally refreshing us and allowing us to ______________ others.
C. In light of how this festival is fulfilled in Christ, we are called to reflect His ______________ in the world.
IV. Conclusion