“So you shall keep His statutes and His commandments which I am giving you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may live long on the land which the LORD your God is giving you for all time.” -Deuteronomy 4:40
“Again the LORD spoke to Moses saying, ‘Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven days to the LORD…These are the appointed times of the LORD which you shall proclaim as Holy convocations’…You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.” -Leviticus 23:33-34, 37, 41.
“See I have taught you statutes and judgments just as the LORD my God commanded me, that you should do thus in the land where you are entering to possess it. So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all the statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'” -Deuteronomy 4:5-6
“You shall celebrate the Feast of Booths seven days after you have gathered in from your threshing floor and your wine vat; and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter and your male and female servants and the Levite and the stranger and the orphan and the widow who are in your towns. Seven days you shall celebrate a feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD chooses, because the LORD your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.” -Deuteronomy 16:13-15
“Jesus said to them, ‘I am the bread of life; he who comes to Me will not hunger, and he who believes in Me will never thirst’…’I am the bread of life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died. This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, so that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread that came down out of heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread also which I will give for the life of the world in My flesh.'” -John 6:35, 48-51
“After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews [unbelieving Jews that He was the Son and promised Messiah] were seeking to kill Him. Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near…So Jesus said to them, ‘My time is not yet here, but your time is always opportune. The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it, that its deeds are evil. Go up to the feast yourselves; I do not go up to this feast because My time has not yet fully come’…But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret…But when it was now the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and began to teach. The Jews then were astonished, saying, ‘How has this man become learned, having never been educated?’ So Jesus answered them and said, ‘My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself. He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him’…Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.’ But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.” -John 7:1, 2, 6-8, 10, 14-18, 37-39.
“And I heard a loud voice from the throne, saying, ‘Behold, the tabernacle of God is among them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself will be among them, and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying or pain; the first things have passed away.’ And He who sits on the throne said, ‘Behold, I am making all things new.’ And He said, ‘Write, for these words are faithful and true.’ Then He said to me, ‘It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.'” – Revelation 21:3-7 (italics added)
Thank You Abba for Your faithfulness to provide water, food, shelter, and guidance in the days of old as well as in modern wilderness experiences/seasons. We eagerly anticipate Your coming tabernacle and the fulfillment of prophecy as outlined in the Book of Revelation. May our lives honor You in word and deed, remembrance and observance, and in praise and worship until that day, and may You, Abba, receive ALL the glory! We celebrate and observe the appointed times You outlined in Scripture to bring glory and honor to You.
For further study see: Exodus 13, Exodus 15:22, Exodus 16:1, Exodus 17:1-7, Exodus 19, Exodus 23:20-33, Exodus 24, Deuteronomy 4, Numbers 14:14, Nehemiah 9:9-15, Psalm 40:5, Phillipians 4:6.
