Dear Brethren,

Excitement is building as many of you, as well as your brethren around the world, are making plans to observe God's Fall Festivals: The Feast of Trumpets, The Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles and 8th Day! These days depict nothing less than the direct intervention of Almighty God Himself in the affairs of mankind!

This is an exciting time as we rehearse what God is planning for all mankind ... salvation to those who will turn to God with their whole heart and mind and to love Him and keep His commandments. We will gather to worship our Creator, to learn about His awesome plan and we will gather to learn to obey and fear Him.

As we prepare for these annual Fall Festivals it takes planning ahead of time to arrange time off from work, school and the many other daily and weekly responsibilities you have. There are reservations that must be made for your journey to the Feast of Tabernacles. But you have done even more. You have carefully and faithfully planned for God's festivals all year long by setting aside your festival tithe.

What a blessing this is. To set aside 10% of your income in order to rejoice before the Lord your God in the place He has chosen for you to come! And come you do. It's unbelievable that we all go, in faith, to worship our God. To sit before Him and to learn of His plan of salvation and wonderful future in store for us and for all mankind.

We come for many reasons. We come to "rehearse" the meaning of these days. We come so that we will "remember" and never forget God's plan. We come so we may learn and teach our children and our children's children about God's glorious Kingdom coming to this earth. We come because we want to learn to seek first His Kingdom. We come to be stirred up with an excitement, zeal and vision of a new world in which peace will prevail and we will co-rule with Jesus Christ as Kings and Priests on earth. We come humbly and obediently before our God to rejoice! What a blessing you and I have to appear before Him.

As you finalize your feast planning, the Feast Sites around the world are also finalizing plans. Please pray for God's blessings on all aspects of the Feast at each feast site in every country, and that God's people may come safely and in peace to serve God and one another.

I pray the coming Fall Festivals will be meaningful and inspiring for you and your family.

Have a blessed Sabbath and Feast of Trumpets,

Dave

Scriptures to read:

Speak to the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. Leviticus 23:24

Then the seventh angel sounded: And there were loud voices in heaven, saying, " The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever!" Revelation 11:15