PORTION “PARASHA” OF THE WEEK Sukkot Day One 5 OF 7 The Wedding Supper of the Lamb Julie Parker - © Copyright 2003 – 2011 - Leviticus 22:26 to 23:44 - Numbers 29:12-16 - Zechariah 14:1-21 - 1 Kings 8:2-21 - Matthew 6:1-34 Sukkot Offerings The book of Numbers lists the sacrifices to be offered before Yahweh during the Feast of Sukkot and is the largest in count (Numbers 29:12-39). The daily offerings are was as follows: Thirteen bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs and one goat for the sin offering along with the grain and wine offerings on the first day. All during the week the offerings stayed the same except for the bull offerings, which descended one per day until the seventh day. The seventh day offerings were seven bulls, two rams, fourteen sheep and one goat with the grain and wine offerings and one goat for the sin offering. The total week’s offerings amounted to seventy bulls (reference to the ingathering/harvest of all the nations at the feast of Sukkot), fifteen rams, ninety-eight lambs and seven goats, besides the other offerings that people brought. Today, we do not offer animals but offer from the increase after our tithe has been given. During the Feast Days we are not to come empty handed but are to present our offerings before Him in honor, respect and thankfulness for His provision in our lives. These offerings are for the widow, orphans, Levites and poor among us. The amount is based on what Yahweh has placed on your heart to offer (Numbers 28). The Feast of Sukkot is a seven-day feast with an eighth day, Shemini Atzeret, a day of rest at the end. On this last day the offerings were one bull, one ram and seven lambs with grain and wine offerings plus one goat for a sin offering. They only offered one ram, a type of Yeshua. Not only is Yeshua the sacrificial lamb that took away the sins of the world, but He is the ram offering at Sukkot that purifies us. He is the Beginning and the End, the Aleph and the Tav. Zechariah 14:16-19 “Then the survivors from all the nations that have attacked Jerusalem will go up year after year to worship the King, Yahweh Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. If any of the peoples of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship [with their offerings to] the King, Yahweh Almighty, they will have no rain. If the Egyptian people do not go up and take part, they will have no rain. Yahweh will bring on them the plague he inflicts on the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. This will be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles.” The Birth of Yeshua The timing of Yeshua’s birth is recorded in the Book of Luke starting in chapter one verse five which reveals that the priest Zechariah served in the priestly division of Abijah in the Temple during the feast of Shavuot/Pentecost. Why is Zechariah’s working schedule so important? Zechariah’s Temple duties reveal Yeshua’s time of birth to us. King David instituted the rotation of the priestly duties and in 1 Chronicles 24:10 it records Abijah’s tour as the eighth out of 24 divisions. Zechariah’s wife Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin, conceived once Zechariah fulfilled his priestly duties after the Feast of Pentecost in the Hebrew month of Sivan (June/July), which sets the timing of Yeshua’s birth in Sukkot – the Feast of Tabernacles – not December 25th. With the help of Zechariah’s work schedule, Luke 1:26 records that in Elizabeth’s sixth month her cousin Mary had a divine visit from the angel Gabriel. Mary was a virgin pledged to marry, who conceived a child by the Holy Spirit. This places the timing of Yeshua’s conception during the ninth month on the Hebrew calendar called Kislev (November/December on the Gregorian calendar). Shortly after this, Mary went to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who was six months pregnant at the time, to rejoice in the good news they both shared. Scripture tells us that Mary stayed with Elizabeth three months before returning home at John’s birth during Passover. At this time Mary would have been three months pregnant. Yeshua was born six months later during the Fall Feast of Sukkot. He came to dwell or tabernacle/sukkah among man (Isaiah 9:6-7; Luke 1:5-56).
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