Festival Of Booth

The Festival Booth

I. Rhythms of Work and Worship

Exodus :23:12 ““ ‘Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.”

Exodus : 23: 13 ““ ‘And you will be attentive to all that I have said to you, and you will not profess the name of other gods; it will not be heard in your mouth.”

Exodus :23 :14 ““ ‘Three times in the year you will hold a festival for me.”

Exodus :23:15 “You will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for seven days you will eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you at the appointed time, the month of Abib, because in it you came out from Egypt, and no one will appear before me empty-handed.”

Exodus :23 :16 “And you will keep the Feast of Harvest, with the firstfruits of your work, what you sow in the field. And you will keep the Feast of Harvest Gathering when the year goes out, when you gather your work from the field.”

Exodus :23 :17 “Three times in the year all your men will appear before the Lord Yahweh.”

II. First Bring Your Offering

Leviticus :23:9 “Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,”

Leviticus :23:10 ““Speak to the Israelites, and say to them, ‘When you come to the land that I am about to give to you and you reap its harvest, then you shall bring a sheaf of the firstfruit of your harvest to the priest.”

Leviticus :23:11 “And he shall wave the sheaf before Yahweh for your acceptance; the priest shall wave it on the day after the Sabbath.”

Leviticus : 23:12 “And on the day of your waving the sheaf you shall offer a yearling male lamb without defect as a burnt offering to Yahweh.”

Leviticus :23 :13 “And its grain offering shall be two-tenths of an ephah of finely milled flour mixed with oil, an offering made by fire for Yahweh, an appeasing fragrance; and its libation shall be a fourth of a hin of wine.”

Leviticus :23 :14 “And you shall not eat bread or roasted grain or ripe grain until this very same day, until you present your God’s offering. This must be a lasting statute for your generations in all your dwellings.”

III. Celebrating God”s Bounty To Us

Deuteronomy:26:1 ““And then when you come to the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you as an inheritance, and you take possession of it and you settle in it,”

Deuteronomy : 26:2 “then you shall take from the firstfruit of all the fruit of the ground that you harvest from your land that Yahweh your God is giving to you, and you shall put it in a basket, and you shall go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose to make his name to dwell there.”

IV. Fostering The Memory of God”s Deliverance.

Leviticus :23:33 “Then Yahweh spoke to Moses,,”

Leviticus :23:34 ““Speak to the Israelites, saying, ‘On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, this shall be the Feast of Booths for seven days for Yahweh.”

Leviticus :23 : 35 “On the first day there shall be a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.”

Leviticus ;23 :36 “For seven days you must present an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day it shall be a holy assembly for you, and you shall present an offering made by fire to Yahweh; it is a celebration; you must not do any regular work.”

V. Gather To Hear God”s Word.

Nehemiah :7 :73 “So the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, some of the people, the temple servants, and all Israel settled in their cities. When the seventh month came, the Israelites were in their cities.”

Nehemiah : 8:6 “Then Ezra blessed Yahweh the great God, and all of the people answered, “Amen! Amen!” while lifting their hands. Then they bowed down and worshiped Yahweh with their noses to the ground.”

Nehemiah : 8: 7 “And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the law while the people were in their places.”

VI. Responding To God”s Word . The Levites

. Nehemiah :8:7 “And Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites were teaching the people from the law while the people were in their places.”