If you'll turn over to Isaiah 2, I want to start off with a scripture that you've heard already once this evening.  This is a song that we always associate or a verse that we associate with the kingdom. It certainly does reflect that time that we all look forward to as we begin the Feast of Tabernacles here, a time when we look forward to the Kingdom of God and where everyone understands the law of God and understands His truth, just as you and I have the very tremendous blessing to do so today.

Isaiah 2:2  Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.

Verse 3:  Many people shall come and say, "Come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways and we shall walk in His paths."

A beautiful thought as we think of that time when people flow toward God, to look for His teaching, to learn to walk in His paths.  We lived those verses tonight.  We lived those verses in the last few weeks as we look forward to the Kingdom of God. Once we look forward to this Feast of Tabernacles, we said in our hearts, "Let's go up to where God has placed His name, let's go up there where He can teach us His ways, teach us and give us a vision of His kingdom, teach us to walk more in His paths."

As I look around this room I know that we have people that have come from the United States of America, many of the states. I know we have some people here from the Netherlands, we have some people from the Bahamas and Canada.  It's good to have you all with us.  You all made travel plans and somewhere in the past, you said those words in your heart:  Let's go up to the house of God, let's go up where He placed His name and let's keep the Feast of Tabernacles there and let's spend eight days with God and His people.  Let's learn of His ways, let's walk in His paths, let's live the life these eight days that God called us to live, the eight days in the year that we can be out of the world, the eight days that we can be with each other and we can assemble before God, eight days in a row.  It's a tremendous opportunity that we have here as we begin the Feast of Tabernacles.

Let's go back to Deuteronomy 16.  Some other verses that you heard just a few minutes ago.

Deuteronomy 16:13  "You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days when you have gathered in from your threshing floor and from your winepress;

Verse 14:  and you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your manservant and your maidservant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates.

Everyone rejoice, everyone, come before God, make it possible for everyone to have a good feast.  This isn't a feast for just a few that God calls, this is a feast for everyone that God calls, this is a feast where we can practice what you hear preached week in and week out at Sabbath services.  This is a feast where we can practice the words that we learn in the bible.  A time when we can practice love, a time when we can be all inclusive and make sure that each one of us has a wonderful feast as we're here in Jekyll Island, a very beautiful island, and a very beautiful center that we've been blessed to be able to keep this feast in.  Everyone come to the feast, everyone there.

Verse 15:  Seven days you shall keep a sacred 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 surely rejoice.

And while we keep the feast and when we make what some may say is a sacrifice to take the time off work, to make the sacrifice to take time away from school and sometime suffer the abuse that we do from some people who don't understand what we're doing, God surely blesses us.  He wants us to keep His feast, He wants us to make the effort to be before Him and when we do His will, He's sure to bless us and as you're here these eight days, you'll see just how God blesses us; with the time of rejoicing, the time of gladness, a time of happiness that will exceed any other week of the year that you live this time.

You know as we keep the Feast of Tabernacles, unfortunately, we've got rain outside and clouds in the sky, but if it was a clear night I hope you had the opportunity last night to see the moon, if you were here over the ocean or wherever you were, to look at the moon, to see God's marker in the sky because He appointed this time to be kept back at the time when He created the earth and He appointed time for His people to come before Him and to meet with Him and to be together and assemble together before Him.  We're here today as many of the people of God in the past have assembled.  The great names in the Bible, the people that we look to, the people that are listed in the faith chapter, many of them, they kept the same Feast of Tabernacles that we're keeping tonight on the very same day of God's year that we're keeping it now.

God gave Moses these holy days to remind Israel the days they should keep and they kept them with Moses while he was alive.  King David kept this Feast of Tabernacles and these days.  King Solomon kept the Feast of Tabernacles and as he completed the temple it was in the seventh month that the temple was completed and they kept the Feast there those seven days, honoring God, praising Him, a time of great gladness in Israel.  Ezra, Nehemiah, Jesus Christ kept this Feast of Tabernacles.  The apostles, the New Testament church and you and I are here today keeping alive what God had commanded all people to keep because it has a tremendous, tremendous picture for us of what God has planned because we all look, and we all have the hope and the kingdom that these days represent.

Let's go back to Acts 3:18.  What this Feast of Tabernacles represents and what it pictures for us is something that has been long, long prophesied.  The entire Bible, the angelic beings in heaven, God the Father, Jesus Christ have all looked forward to the fulfillment of what these days represent, the return of Jesus Christ and the establishment of His kingdom on earth.  As Peter is talking here and explaining to people that Jesus Christ is the Messiah that they had been waiting for, He says:

Acts 3:18  But those things which God foretold by the mouth of all His prophets, (All the Old Testament pointed toward Jesus Christ) that the Christ would suffer, He has thus fulfilled.

And he admonishes them:

Verse 19: Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord,

Verse 20:  and that He may send Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,

Verse 21:  whom heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, (I think the old King James says until the time of restitution of all things.  Restitution means restore it to its original condition. 

When God first created the earth, it was such a beautiful place that we can't even imagine it.   It's still a beautiful place today.  It's hard to imagine when you see some of the scenes from the United States and around the world how beautiful the earth is and this is after six thousand years of man not keeping God's land laws and agriculture laws.  When Christ returns, the land will be restored to the beauty that it had before, an in-light state.  You know the verses in Isaiah 35 that talks about the desert blossoming like the rose.  How the seas will be refreshed; the sea life will come back and there's beautiful pictures that are painted for us of what life will be like.  The nature of animals will be changed, no longer the violence between them will have the lion and the lamb that dwell together, the wolf, little children, a beautiful time that lies ahead of us and it only can happen because of Jesus Christ and Him returning to earth.  A time of restoration of all things and these days picture that time.  A time when Jesus Christ returns.  He establishes His government and He puts Satan away.  Once Satan is put away, then the time of restoration can begin and you and I will be part of that time of restoration.  We will be serving under Jesus Christ and as He directs the restitution of the earth, you and I will be there if we learn what He wants us to learn today; if we walk in all His paths, if we follow what He says and if we let Him write His laws and His way of life on our minds and in our hearts.  That's what we're here for.  That's why God called us and that's why we're here at this feast, to picture that time and to walk the way He wanted us to walk.) which God has spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the world began.

From the time of the beginning of the world, this time pictured by these Holy Days, is what the focus has been.  This is what the world has been waiting for and they don't know it.  This is what Jesus Christ is waiting to return to do.  This is what we read about the angels in heaven rejoicing where they think about the fulfillment of these days and as we're here today and as we're here for the next eight days, God wants us to rejoice before Him.  This is the time of great gladness, this is the time that we should be filled with the spirit of God and be glad that the world and the earth can be free from the bondage that it has been under.  Let's go back to Romans 8.  Paul speaks of this time in these verses when he says:

Romans 8:19  For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. Waiting until the time God completes His work in us, when Jesus Christ returns and His first fruits are with Him.

Verse 20:  For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope… Eve took of the forbidden fruit.  Eve subjected creation to futility.  The rest of us hope and our hope is in Christ who lived, died for our sins, resurrected to eternal like so that we have the hope of eternal life and He's coming back to do this, not willingly but because of Him who subjected it in hope.

Verse 21:  because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Waiting for the bondage to be lifted.  Waiting so we can blossom again and become what God wanted it to be.  Just like He will reveal the potential in us that He has in store for us that we would never recognize, never would have recognized if Jesus Christ didn't come and if He hadn't qualified and if He didn't return to be the king of the earth.

Verse 22:  For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now.

Just waiting, just like that time before birth with all the hope and expectation.  But it's tough at times now and it will be tougher in times ahead until Christ returns and the kingdom is set up.  Not only that but

Verse 23:  And not only they, but we also who have the firstfruits of the spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. Groaning, waiting for God to return, waiting and with all our hearts wanting Him to return and set up His kingdom, the kingdom that we picture as we live this Feast of Tabernacles.  They kept it in the Old Testament time, they moved out of their homes into a temporary place.  They may not of all understood what they were picturing.  Today we do know what we're picturing as we leave our homes, as we leave the world behind us and as we come to Jekyll Island and the other places around the world where God has placed His name.  As we come here to celebrate His feast and we know what we're looking toward and we know what God wants us to look for.  As long as there's a heaven and earth, people will be keeping God's holy days and this Feast of Tabernacles.

 Let's go back of Zachariah, chapter 14, verse 16.  I'm sure we all think of when we think of the Feast of Tabernacles, talking about the time after Jesus Christ returns and in the millennium people will be keeping the Feast of Tabernacles, they'll be living in that time then but they'll still commemorate the time that this represents.

Zachariah 14:16  And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which come against Jerusalem (In that climatic battle that we talked about at the Feast of Trumpets that resulted in Jesus Christ coming and saving the world and saving from destroying all flesh on the earth) shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

A long history of people who have kept it, a preview of the many millions and billions who will keep it in the future when all the world comes before God, all the world comes to worship Him at the Feast of Tabernacles, the very great opportunity that we have today.

You know when Israel kept the Feast of Tabernacles, when they kept it the way God wanted them to, there was great rejoicing.  Yesterday if you were at Sabbath services here, we talked about some of those times that Israel kept the Feast of Tabernacles and every time when we read about it and when they devoted themselves to God and when God was the center of their feast, it says that there was great gladness in the feast, great gladness among the people.  It was a contagion that they had but a good contagion.  They rejoiced, they were glad and in a few places, they kept the feast another seven days because it was just so good because they liked the opportunity to be together.  They liked the spirit that they felt with one another; to feel the Spirit of God, the love that we feel while in this room with God's people that we don't feel when we're in the world and is something that we all become very addicted to by the end of the eight days, so that when we leave here and go home, I hope we say that we are going home with great, great gladness.  I hope that we yearn for the time that every day will be like the eight days that you spend here with people who believe, people who are bond by the same spirit, people who are exhibiting and living the way of love that God has called us to.

Let's go back to Nehemiah 8 for just a second.  Those of you who were here yesterday, don't worry, I'm not going to read it all.  I just want to highlight a few things of what happened.  I want verse 8, as they were meeting in the seventh month, it says in verse 8:

Nehemiah 8:8  So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense and helped them to understand the reading. And as you go on you see down in verse 13 they were reading from the word of the law again.  As you go through those verses, you see that there was great gladness among the people.  When they read the words of the law of God, they did those things.  Now when they did those things, great gladness resulted.  But the center of their celebration was God, a very important part of their celebration and the center of it was the word of God and reading it daily during the feast when those times that they were together.

You'll find other examples in the bible when people center on the word of God, joy results, it has to, it's one of the fruits of the spirit.  If we've living by God's spirit, joy will result.  During this Feast of Tabernacles, we have a unique opportunity.  Eight days, nine if you count today.  Nine days in a row we have an opportunity to come and hear God's law spoken, to read in the bible, to be together with one another, just like they were in this time and when they went, with that as their focus, there was great rejoicing.

Over In II Chronicles when Solomon and the people of Israel kept the feast at the time the temple was dedicated, they experienced the same thing.  They, of course, had God living among them at that point where they consecrated the temple during that time.  But in II Chronicles 5, verse 12 during that time we see that they came before God and part of what demonstrated their joy and happiness we find:

II Chronicles 5:12  The Levites who were the singers, all those of Asaph and Herman and Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, stood at the east end of the altar, clothed in white linen, having cymbals, stringed instruments and harps, and with them one hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets;

Verse 13:  indeed it came to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord, and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying:  "For He is good, For His mercy endures forever," that the house, the house of the Lord, was filled with a cloud.

God was very pleased with those people who were praising Him, worshiping Him and lifting up their voices in song to Him showing their thanks, showing their worship, showing how happy they were to be with God.

In every service, we have the opportunity to sing before God.  We know music is a stirring thing.  Those of you who went to college and even high school, they have fight songs, right?  In the beginning of every sporting event they play the fight song to get the crowd all stirred up, they like to hear that music.  At solemn times there's music that's played that put us in those moods.  Recently I was reading, I explained, someone was telling me about a study they read that even when someone is in the hospital and you play music in their room and if they're unconscious that they hear that and they can begin to respond to that and as they did that they were telling me a story about how their loved one who was laying in a coma after a few days of music playing around the clock, began to move again.  It can have a tremendous affect on us and there's a place in God's worship and the worship of Him for music.  Let's go over to Isaiah 30.  There's a verse there that fits all of us who are in this room tonight. 

Isaiah 30:29  You shall have a song as in the night when the holy festival is kept, and gladness of heart as when one goes with a flute, to come into the mountain of the Lord, to the Mighty One of Israel.

You shall have a song in the night you keep your festival.  You shall have a song when you come into the mountain of God and into His presence.  God wants us to sing praises to Him.  God wants us to participate fully and raise our voices to Him just as diligently as we read His word when we come to services.  We have an opportunity to praise and thank Him for that and in the Bible, there's some Psalms, a lot of Psalms actually, one hundred fifty that were written so that by David and many others that were songs of praise to God.  You can see in those Psalms times of gladness, times of sorrow as they yielded themselves to God and as they looked for Him to lead and guide them.  There are fifteen Psalms, from Psalm 120 to Psalm 134 that are called the Songs of the Ascents.  No one knows for sure, but most of the  commentaries agree that those Psalms of the Ascents were sung by people, the Israelites as they went up to Jerusalem or wherever God placed His name to worship Him in the three times a year that they took a pilgrimage up to Jerusalem; at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles.  When those Psalms were written, as you read through them, commonly they're looked at in groups of three, five groups of three.  The first Psalm it will talk about a time of trouble, some trouble that Israel is experiencing.  The second part you begin to see the trust that they have in God as they faced the trouble that they have and they know they need to look to God to deliver them.  The third Psalm is a Psalm of triumph that they recognized that it's God who delivers them.  Let's look at a few of these Psalms here as we begin this Feast.  As we look at a few of these, if the commentators are right, that Israel sang these songs as they went to the Feast of Tabernacles, then people like Jesus Christ would have sung these songs as He went up to the Feast with His parents and then as He was older and went up with His disciples.  Look at Psalm 20, the first of the Psalms of the Ascents.

Psalm 120: 1 In my distress I cried to the Lord, and He heard me.

Verse 2:  Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips and from a deceitful tongue.

Verse 3:  And what shall be given to you, or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

Verse 4:  Sharp arrows of the warrior, with coals of the broom tree!

Israel, as they began their journey from their homes up to go to where God had ordained them to keep the Feast.  They looked at the world around them and saw that it was not a place that God would have them dwell.  There were lying tongues, deceitful people all around them and it was in that world they lived and they were looking forward to going to a place where that was no longer what was being pictured.  We can identify with Israel, we can identify with the Psalm because as we come out of the world we look at the world around us, the places that we work, the places we go to school, the places that we do business, we know that it's defined by lying lips and deceit in a world that has lost its way.

Verse 5:  Woe is me, that I sojourn in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar! Places that are renown for not being good places to live.  People that don't live the way God wanted them to live.  Just like the lands that we live in today that no longer follow God's principals, no longer follow His way and as each year passes it seems like the world and this nation we live in, just gets farther and farther away from God and leaves Him more and more out of the picture as they follow their own paths and their own desires.

Verse 6:  My soul has dwelt too long with one who hates peace.

Verse 7:  I am for peace; but when I speak, they are for war. They left where they were dwelling, the people who sang the song to come up to Jerusalem.  Jerusalem was a place of rest for them, an oasis if you will where they could leave the problems of the world and the way of life that they had to deal with everywhere or every day behind them. 

A few days ago, maybe even this morning, you left behind the world that you lived in the other 357 or 356 days of the year.  We all have to go back to it, we'll have to go back and deal with the same things that we dealt with before.  But when God told us to come to the Feast of Tabernacles and He commanded us to come to the Feast of Tabernacles, He told us to leave the world behind, leave it behind you.  I would say if we really want to have a Feast that's filled with gladness if we want to have a Feast onto God, leave the world behind, leave it behind.  We live in a world that is so connected today that's it's mind-boggling to me, that I can go anywhere in the world and find out anything I want to find in a moments notice.  There are times I want to take my cell phone and just pitch it in the nearest lake, but I know I can't do that.  But you know during these eight days we don't have to be so connected.  God didn't tell us to come to the feast to stay connected to everything behind you.  He said come out of the world, live the way of the life of the kingdom, get a foretaste of it, feel what it's like to be among people who have the same spirit, who have the same goals, who have the same interests, who are unified the way you should be unified.  Come out and do that, try not to keep your ties in the world, leave it behind, just the way the Israelites did, just as we did back when we kept the feast twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years ago.  Do it that way, let God and His Spirit being the thing that fills this feast.  Leave the world behind, just as the people in ancient times left Meshech, left Kedar, and focused on God, made Him the center of the feast, made the word of God the center of their feast, made being together with God's people in this time and place their feast.  Do that and let God fill your heart with gladness. 

Let's turn to II Corinthians 6, verse 17.  A verse we read in general about our coming out of the world.  I want to repeat it again tonight.  I read this yesterday at Sabbath services, a verse we all know very well.

II Corinthians 6:17  Therefore, "Come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord."  We apply that to our lives, we do live our lives separate from the world around us, motivated by a different spirit, led by a different spirit.  But let's look at that verse at this feast, in this time and every feast you keep from here on out, come out as God said from the world.  Be separate, He's put us on a beautiful island here, a beautiful retreat place that's a gorgeous place to be, a unique place among many feast sites that we have. An opportunity to be together and to just have the opportunity to share time, activities, services and fun with each other, in a place that's uncluttered by all the things that mark the rest of the world and all the glitter and glamour someone might say.  This is a good place to keep the feast, a little island where five or six hundred of us come together to keep God's feast for the next eight days.  He says here in the rest of Verse 17:  Don't even touch the thing that is unclean, don't even touch it.

Live the feast for God and keep the feast for God.

Let's go back to Psalms again.  This time Psalm 121.  As the people were coming out of Meshech and Kedar and the places that they lived  and they were bemoaning the fact that they had to live in that type of environment day in and day out, they looked to Jerusalem, the place that they were going and they said:

Psalm 121:1  I will lift up my eyes to the hills - from whence comes my help? They knew where their help came from, they were going to Jerusalem where God's temple was and He dwelt with His people there.  Today God dwells with us.  Today He's right here in this room, He's right here on this island because He placed His name here and He asked all of us, commanded all of us to come to a feast and we came to Jekyll Island.  We look, not to Jekyll Island as the place of the feast but we look to God and we look to His kingdom and we look to God and Jesus Christ as the source of our help.  He wouldn't allow your foot to be moved as it says in verse 3.

Verse 3:  He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber.  Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. God is always there.  God was there when Solomon and the people of Israel filled that temple with praise, and He filled it with a cloud.  He's here right here with us today and He's waiting to see how we respond to Him.  How will we worship Him, how will we keep this feast before Him?  We didn't come here to do the kayaking and the horseback riding and the other things that we will do this feast.  Those are all good and we should do them and enjoy them and God wants us to.  We came here to worship God and that's the primary reason that we're here.  God never slumbers, God never sleeps.

Over in Psalm 125 another one of the Psalms of the Ascent it says:

Psalm 125:1  Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever. When we trust in Him, when we look to Him, when we give our lives to Him, we can't be moved when we're led by His Spirit.  Mount Zion abides forever as verses were read as we began this feast.

Verse 2:  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people from this time forth and forever. He's with us, He guides us, He protects us, He'll take us into His kingdom if we yield, if we do His way if we follow the principles that He puts in our heart.

Let's go back to I Kings 8.  As Solomon and the people dedicated the temple, Solomon gave a long prayer of dedication for the temple, a beautiful prayer that he gave to God and God responded to him and in verse 56 he said some words as he blessed the people of Israel and as we read these words, I hope that we feel this blessing that he said and that we're motivated and moved by these words, just like the people in Solomon's time were.

I Kings 8:56 "Blessed be the Lord, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He promised.  There has not failed one word of all His good promise which He promised through His servant Moses.

Verse 57: May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our fathers.  May He not leave us nor forsake us,

Verse 58: that He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments which He commanded our fathers.

Verse 59:  And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before the Lord, be near the Lord our God day and night, that He may maintain the cause of His servant and the cause of His people Israel, as each day may require,

Verse 60:  that all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God, there is no other.

Verse 61:  Let your heart, therefore, be loyal to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and keep His commandments, as at this day."

Let those words guide you through this feast.  Keep those words in the fronts of your mind, purpose in your mind and heart that you're going to follow God and that you're going to be led by His spirit and keep His way.  You'll go forth from this feast saying it's the best feast ever.  Let's go back and look at another Psalm in the Psalms of Ascent, Psalm 122.  This is when they were coming into Jerusalem, the place of the feast, just as you and I came into Jekyll Island here in the last day or so.  When we saw the place we knew that this was the place we're going to keep the feast where God has placed His name here.  David writes:

Psalm 122:1  I was glad when they said to me, "Let us go into the house of the Lord."

Verse 2:  Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem! They were there, they were happy to be there.  The feast was about to begin.

Verse 3:  Jerusalem is built as a city that is compact together,

Verse 4:  where the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to the testimony of Israel, to give thanks to the name of the Lord. They all went forth to Jerusalem and they went to keep those feasts to give thanks to God, to be fed by His word and be motivated by His spirit, to let Him put the energy, the vitality and the zeal in us for His work and for what He has called us to that came from keeping His feasts with His people and they were very, very thankful.  God's feasts should always be marked by thanks to Him.

Let's look at Psalm 95.  David of course in many of the Psalms, that's his theme, thanking God and of all people on earth, we should have more thanks in our heart to God than anyone.  Regardless of our station in life, the fact that we live in a country that God has so richly blessed is enough cause to be thankful, but what He's given us, no amount of money and no value can be placed on it.  What He's given us is absolutely priceless.

Psalm 95:1   Oh come, let us sing to the Lord!  Let us shout joyfully to the Rock of our salvation.

Verse 2:  Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms.

Verse 3:  For the Lord is the great God and the great King above all gods. That's who we've come to worship – the God who made heaven and earth.  The God who formulated a plan and even when mankind disappointed Him and sinned and rejected Him, that He would put into motion a plan that would reconcile man to Himself and restore the earth and come down and reconcile Himself to man.

 Be very, very thankful during this feast. Take the time to thank God personally and together every day that we're here at this feast. 

One more Psalm – 133.  God is happy and pleased when we do those things we talked about.

Psalm 133:1  Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

To be of one accord in one place, one mind, one body joined together by one spirit.  Singing in unison to God, keeping the feast in unison to God, working with one another, caring for one another, making sure and watching out for one another, that all of us have a good feast and all being very, very thankful to God, our great, great God who has given us hope, who has given us a future and who has given us this Feast of Tabernacles that we can enjoy and that we can learn and motivate us and direct us and energize us for these next eight days and for the rest of the year.  Enjoy these days in Jekyll Island.  Get out of them what God wants you to get out of them and have a very, very good Feast.