Why We Go to the Feast

I'm a simple man. When I am doing something, I like to know why I'm doing it. So I'd like to start off with two questions for us here today. And it's pretty simple. Why do we go to the feast? And why do you go to the feast? Because if we are to get the most out of our eight days here in Anchorage together, we need to understand the answers to those two questions.

Why do we go to the feast? And why do you go to the feast? And there are very specific reasons that we collectively go to the feast, and specific reasons that you individually go to the feast. And the better we understand those reasons, the more that we will get out of this feast of tabernacles. So let's start off by addressing the first of those questions. Why do we go to the feast? And the first answer – I'll give you seven different points today – and the first one is quite simple.

We go to the feast because God commands us to go. We go to the feast because God commands us to go. And this is the first and foremost reason that we are here. There are many instructions, commands, throughout God's word in a number of different passages. And we go to the feast in obedience to those commands. So let's look at just a few of the many passages here. A very familiar passage we are used to reading is Leviticus 23. So I'll get Leviticus 23 in verse 1. So I will be showing all of the scriptures up here on screen in hopes that the equipment cooperates here with us.

But in Leviticus 23 in verse 1, God lists all of his festivals in order and tells us when we are to keep those festivals. Leviticus 23 in verse 1 tells us, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, The feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, these are my feasts. They are not the feasts of Israel, they are not the feasts of the Jews, they are God's feasts. That's very important to keep in mind. And then he goes on, we won't read the following verses here, but then he lists each of his feasts.

Incidentally beginning with the weekly Sabbath day, which is the first of God's feasts. And then in verse 34, Leviticus 23, we come to the Feast of Tabernacles. And God then says in verse 34, Speak to the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. And again, this is God's feast, not the feast of Israel or just for the Jewish people.

And he says, On the first day there shall be a holy convocation, you shall do no customary work on it. For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the Lord. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

These are the feasts of the Lord, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations. So, let's see, I'll catch us up here. So, one more, I think. Yes, okay, now we're in business here. So, the first reason we are here, again, to keep the feast, is because God has commanded us to come before Him to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And we recognize that this is a command from God. And as people who have surrendered our lives to Him, we are here in obedience to that command to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.

And obviously we realize, especially this year, there are sometimes extenuating circumstances, such as COVID and so on, that in some areas of the world is preventing God's people from attending the feast here. And at other times there are family issues in Christ's, but this is an important command for us all to come before God to celebrate His Feast of Tabernacles. A second reason that we are here is we go to the feast because this is one of God's sacred appointments with us.

This is one of God's sacred appointments with us. Let's look a little bit closer into the verse that we just read there in Leviticus 23 and verse 1, to dig a little bit deeper into the meaning that is brought out in some of the Hebrew words that are used there. When we do, we find several important lessons for us here. So back to Leviticus 23 and verse 1.

I'll just continue on here. Leviticus 23 and verse 1. We just read that.

I want to draw our attention to the three highlighted Hebrew words here. The word translated feast, which is moed, and the word translated holy, which is the Hebrew word kodesh, and the word translated convocation, which is mikra, in the Hebrew here. The first Hebrew word translated feast is, again, moed in Hebrew. It means an appointed time or meeting, or together together at an appointed time. It comes from a Hebrew word that means to meet together by appointment. An appointment is something we all understand. We make a doctor's appointment or a dentist appointment or something like that. And what this is telling us is that the feast days of Leviticus 23 are God's appointments with us. They're God's appointments with us. And what does an appointment mean? Again, we know the meaning of that. We have a dentist appointment, a doctor's appointment, a hairdresser's appointment, or in our case, a dog grooming appointment, and things like that. And what that means is very simple, that the other person is going to be there at that set location and time, and we are to be there to meet with that person at that agreed upon time. And if the other person is there and we don't show up for that appointment, it means we blew off the appointment. Now, we would never think about doing that with our doctor or our dentist appointment, but could we blow off an appointment with God? I mean, to put it in rather blunt terms here. So, the implications of this when it comes to God's feast days, and incidentally, the first of those feast days is the weekly Sabbath day. That is, God's weekly appointment with us. So, what it means here, the meaning of this Hebrew word, is that God has set an appointment to meet with us. He has invited us. He sets the time. He sets the place, the location for it. And He says that He is going to be there. And if we don't show up, we stood Him up. We stood up the Creator of the universe from His appointment with us. Again, we wouldn't think of blowing off an appointment with our doctor or dentist, but at times can we take God's appointments with us lightly, and blow them off, and not meet with Him at His set appointed time. That is the implications of this word, and why it is crucial for us to understand that. So, are we willing to ignore God's appointments with us on His Sabbath and His other holy days? This is something we need to seriously consider because it is a serious matter. God takes it seriously, and we should as well. So, these are some of the important implications of the meaning of this Hebrew word, Moed, meaning Feast or Feast. The next word I would like for us to briefly look at here is the word translated Holy. It is the Hebrew word Kodesh. Kodesh. And it means set apart or separated by God.

And, generally, if you think that the word Holy is the word of the Lord, then you must disagree with that word. I am disagreeing with that. You are talking of these terms to the Lord. The message is not the word, but my point in mentioning this is that these days are special. They are special, they are not the ordinary days, and the days and the times, and the days and the days and the days and the days and the days. It is not the same or sometimes the nights and the days and the days of the week. And, I guess, why is it that they can't get a picture of the word Holy? But the hundreds of millions of years of years of the word Holy is the word of the Lord. And, it is the day that they can't get a picture of the word Holy. The word Holy is the word of the Lord. And, it is the word of the Lord. And, it is the word of the Lord. And, it means the same. And, it means that they can't get a picture of the word Holy. It comes from a group of people who are living in this too. All of them, all of them, who drink from a million of them to a thousand of them. And, God says, in the country of the world, would you like to see the witnesses? There's no way that they would be able to see the world. And, it means that the word of the Lord is his word of the Lord. And it's totally in the same way that the word of the Lord is.

And, he says that we will be there for that. And, it means that it means that it's ours. And, you want to hear that. And, at those times, these places will be saved. And, he says, it means that it's ours. For which we will see the place where we are. And, right now, I think that there's a place inside the world. I want to share with you the place where the Lord has set us first. I want to share his final translations. And, I'm going to walk along this little hill, where I will be using all of these issues. And, right now, I'm trying to show you the traditional version of his life. This is the version where he has to speak to the Israelites and see what they can do to support the Lord. I want to show you the places where the Lord has set us first. And, you see, the Lord has brought us to the place where the Saint has saved us. And, in the living translation, He gives Israelites instructions regarding the performance of the Lord's death and sins. He could age when all of you would be a sailor, a butcher, and learn when the Holy Spirit is saved. He can speak to the Israelites and call them the Israelites. And, in the living translation, the times of the Lord will come when the Saint has saved us. And, by all of these translations, He can say that the Lord has given us the Lord's death. And, when we bring all of these things back to earth, we can work with Him to make sure that the Jews are ready and God has given us the Saint's death. And, the Saint's death is so far from the Spirit that we are saved, and Jesus is a good one. And, this is what the Saint is saying. And, Jesus Christ, our healer and the Holy Spirit, they have been sent to times and places where the Holy Spirit is God's death. And, they are here in the Spirit of the God's death. We understand that the Holy Spirit is saved. The Holy Spirit is a dead-end of the Holy Spirit. And, we appreciate that God has invited us, and He is a good one. And, so, in the beginning of the second verse, there is that we go to the next day, and we shall rejoice before the Lord, the God who sent the days to the heart of the man, to the reason that it is rejoiced. And, we will come about here to the Lord and the Lord is saved, and so, that's why we will be visiting. Our common thinking of the much-oed from religious growth today is that the Holy Spirit is a bondage and a kind of slavery that a God can please help us beyond the spirit. This is a time of great voice. The beast is a time of bondage and slavery, and it could be a poor suffering. To delay the suffering, I'll take all I can get. The suffering is a torture to the beast. If this is a bondage and a slavery, I'll take it. But, let's notice another one.

For whatever your part is, you shall leave there before the Lord will die. It shall rejoice, and it shall rejoice, and rule the household. So, you see, here at the great, this time, the beast God wants us to rejoice, and will be the God of the people, and will be the Son of the Son of the Lord. The Lord is a very good beast, and will be the Son of the Lord. The life of the Lord, like the earth, is a beast. He is a wife of the heart, and the man of the earth is a beast. The hoover that he likes to be with his son, the idolized man is a beast, and the woman of the heart is a beast. I expect that he will stay with him, and I have a reason that he has to be with him. He is a spirit that I will be with him, and I will be with him in his times, and the hearts of the nation.

The time is something to be with him, like the father of the Lord of the Lord. He is a woman of the heart, and he is going to walk with God like the father of the Lord, with him, and be a foolish one, and gone to run shut, and he will be a joyous one. He is like that, so you have your eyes voice, to do that with those who want to enjoy the energy of the Lord. But God tells us this is where he is going to be. He is going to enjoy the energy of the Lord. He is going to enjoy the energy of the Lord, and also the entire house of the Lord. He is going to enjoy learning how to do this, and to experience it, and to understand it. And as we bring here his own soul, he will make a hand of the house of the Lord, and he will be a joyous one.

Now, what is his name?

He is going to say, In the word of rain, and fortune, and the word of the Lord is in his shoes. And all in English, how will you understand it? He is going to say, and the word of rain, and the word of the Lord is in his shoes. And God is telling us here, and he will say, and the word of the Lord is in his shoes. He must fear all the things that he has built in all his life. Here alone, God, and trouble-stuck, that he will be brought into the trees, and be able to turn five places, and the water will be burned. And everyone will be able to understand that he has really got to understand that he will be burned. And in general, have a much broader range of rivers, and the water will be burned. And so, when he is in his tomb, how will he be burned? How will he be burned? And that, in his superior doing, for the very important items, the process of all the forest-driven living, and the English language has about ten times to be burned. And he will be burned. And so, as a result of that, everyone is going to be burned. And he will be burned. And he will be burned.

And that's it. We'll see you soon.

Oh, Matthew. Never terrifying. That's a lot of noise. I'm not sure. There's a lot of things that you're working on. You work mostly in the woods. Where John tells us there is no room for the earth. But you're working about getting some help. Because the air involves the earth. But even in the years, it's not a big burden. We love the night and the night. It's a lot of weather. So, John, you're very clear about the weather. So, I'm just going to check. And, you know, we love everything that you're working on. So, you know, we love the night and the night. But, you know, we love the night and the night. And we love John. We love the night and the night. And we love the night and the night. Because we're building things.

And John tells us all the things that we've been talking about. He tells us that it's great for your salvation. And how he wants to bring you to the earth. He tells us that you want to be a spiritual person. And John tells us that you're a spiritual person. He tells us that you're a spiritual person. And he tells us that you're so much more than God's.

And he tells us that we've seen before calls. We've raised up a new place on the journey to the forest. But why are we raised up in the event that we're working on the journey to the forest? Because we're not. So, if you're a painter, of our service, and you say, we're talking about the journey to the forest, then God has chosen us to do it. And we're going to do it in the forest. We're going to do this in the event that we've got a beautiful journey to the forest. And I'm going to show you this kind of view of the forest. And you will go to the next one. Join us in the beautiful forest. We'll read several passages from the garden. And we'll read the book of Revelation 9. The first one. And we'll read the book of Revelation 9. Revelation 19. And we'll read the book of Revelation 9.

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We have not received any support from the forest, so I'll go ahead and read the book of Revelation 9.

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