(285) “Ways You Can Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles”

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0:45 We equip for that outpouring so that we may engage in that very outpouring. I'm Philip Buss. And I'm Sharon Buss. Welcome to the podcast today. We are going to talk about celebrating Sukkot and things that we can do, ways that we can do that go beyond the norm that you might be thinking about what to do for the Feast of Tabernacles. We have some fresh new ideas. Thank you so much for joining us today. We're looking forward to this podcast and sharing some things that God has put on our heart. But before we get started, we want to encourage you, if you haven't already done so, that you go to our website, globaloutpouring .net, and sign up for our email lists. We have several to choose from. Connect with us as much or as little as you want, but we want to stay connected with you if we possibly can. We feel like we are here to help you. That's what the Lord has put on our hearts, that we're here to help you to contend for the things that are going on in your life, contending for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on your life and your family and your region, your city, whatever, and your nation and the nations of the world, because God is going to pour out His Spirit in such an amazing way, and He's already doing it. He's already doing it, and we need to be well -equipped.

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3:45 civil calendar for Israel. for the Jewish people, starts at the new moon of the month that they call Tishrei. God calls it the seventh month. And, you know, it's kind of funny that you start your year in the seventh month rather than the first month, because God said when Moses was bringing the children of Israel out of Egypt, this will be the first of months for you. And it's spring. you know, it kind of makes sense to start in spring because it's the, like the beginning of your agricultural year too. But, you know, it's like we have school year in America, at least that begins in August or September.

4:26 And, you know, you have other kinds of ways of counting a year. You know, we kind of count our year from convention to convention. And I'll just remind you that we have convention coming up in 2026 over Memorial Day weekend, May 21st through 24th. I thought I'd throw that in, in St. Louis, Missouri. So put that on your calendar, start saving up because it's going to be a life changing experience. Anyway, back to Sukkot. So we've begun the year, so to speak, with Yom Teruah, which is the day of. trumpets or the day of shouting. That word can mean either shouting or blowing the shofars. And so it's a very special day. But the thing that's so cool about that one, it's the only one on God's calendar that doesn't start on a full moon. All of the rest of them. Well, I'm not sure actually that the Feast of Weeks, Shavuot, it starts 50 days after the Sabbath, after... Passover. So I'm not sure that that would end up being a full moon, but Passover and Sukkot start on the full moon. And so you have this one starting, it's the only one at least, that starts on the first day of the month. And the thing that's unique about that is that the first day of the month in biblical times was determined when Someone went out into the desert where it's nice and clear. Most likely you're going to have more clear skies out there.

5:57 Yeah. And you observe that little sliver of a moon. A toenail moon. Yeah, that's what I call it, a toenail moon. Probably got that from when we were kids. We called it a toenail moon. But it is in the process of setting. It's just as the sun is setting, the moon is also setting. And it's just visible for a few minutes over the horizon. You just see that little toenail moon. And then they would light a fire. And the people on the next mountaintop would light a fire. And the people on the next mountaintop would light a fire until the word got back to Jerusalem where they could blow the shofar and declare a new moon. New moon, yeah. Only this was the first one, the new moon that is showing the Feast of Trumpets. You know, I love the fact that it fits with what Jesus talked about, that his coming was going to be a time when no man knows the day or the hour. Oh, okay. So it fits with this feast. That's pretty good. Because you don't know. You don't know until you observe it. Is that what they call it? The Feast of the Hidden Moon? Yeah. Yeah. Yep, that's exactly what it is. You don't know. You don't know until you see it. So anyway, that's the first feast of Tishrei, the seventh month. And then that starts the 10 days of awe where you are like the whole month before it, a lot of people are

7:27 already repenting and searching their hearts. But these 10 days for sure, everybody that is observant at all is. walking on tiptoes to try and make sure that they have made right with everybody and they've made right with God. It's a very good practice. It's a wonderful practice. We really ought to do it every day. But if you haven't done it every day, there's a specific time on the calendar to make things right with people. And it's like starting over. So that's another good reason to call this the beginning of the year, because you're starting over with relationships. Yeah. Then that's on the 10th day of the month. And then on the 15th day of the month, you have the beginning of Sukkot.

8:10 So what is Sukkot? Well, that goes back when the children of Israel, actually before they left, wasn't it? It was before they left Egypt, wasn't it, that the Lord spoke that? No. Were they already out? Yeah. It's really commemorating the fact that they were in the wilderness. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It was given later. Yeah, that was when they would go out into the wilderness and they would build their tents. Yeah, so it's a remembrance of what it was like for the children of Israel. When they left Egypt and they're starting their journey of how many years? Forty years. It was only supposed to be days. But, yeah, they blew it. A lot of side trips. They blew it. And, oh, well, that's just what happened. And that's, you know. There's one thing about the Jewish people, about the people of Israel, that whatever all of us do, it's sort of like they are up there as an example of more so. You know what I mean?

9:18 Everything that they do, they do more so than the rest of the Gentiles. So anyway, so, well, let's see, about, I think it was 2013. Our founder, Sister Gwen Shaw, had passed away in January, and we were beginning this season of transition that has lasted much longer than we thought it ever would. But during that summer, from time to time, Philip would say, Honey, would you like to go camping? Wouldn't it be fun? Yeah, we haven't been camping for a long time. Long time, yeah. Yeah, we hadn't. It's true, we hadn't. But my answer was always, no, it's too much work. I don't want to do all that work. Camping's a lot of work. True. So, you know, two or three times during the summer, he said this to me, and I...

10:10 replied with that kind of a negative response. Yeah, this is tent camping. We don't have one of those. They call it glamping now, right? If you've got an RV, you know, you're undercover. Recreational vehicle. Recreational vehicle. But now we just put a tent up. Right. Of course, we have a nice queen -size mattress. Oh, yeah. You try to be as comfortable as you can. We're kind of glamping, actually, in a tent. Anyway, bottom line is, when it started to get to be, Around the time of the feasts, I was on my knees praying one morning, and, you know, we are not Jewish wannabes. In other words, we absolutely, 100 % love the Jewish people. We love Israel.

10:59 I just, sometimes I cry when I'm in a synagogue with my friends that are Jewish. Sometimes just looking at the Hebrew letters in the prayer book or in the Tanakh, I start to cry because I feel so connected to this people group. And, you know, we've gone there for years and years. I started going there in 1978. So it's a long, long, long time that I've been developing relationships with Israel. But I'm not a Jewish wannabe. In other words, I'm not trying to imitate everything that they do, particularly following rabbinic traditions. Because a lot of that has been added, and it doesn't have anything to do with the book.

11:42 It's what the rabbi said. It's what the rabbi said. For what the rabbi said how many hundreds of years ago. Right. And there's a tendency to follow what the rabbi says rather than following what the word says. So, you know, we absolutely want to be those that follow the word and not traditions. Okay. So we're not trying to do things according to what is told by the rabbinic sources. But we do want to do what the Lord is saying. So I was asking the Lord. How do you want us to celebrate your feast? Because it's his feast. It's not a Jewish feast. It's not a feast of Israel. It's a feast of the Lord. Feast of the Lord. So I was asking him, how do you want us to celebrate your feast? You know, years ago, we used to go to the Christian celebration during the Feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem that was sponsored by the Christian Embassy. And we participated and did lots of things with them. At that particular time in 2013, we weren't doing that. And so I was asking, what do we do? And the answer came immediately. This joy to go camping came up in my spirit. I knew it was God. It was. And through the years, we have worked. really hard to make it less work. Yeah, we kind of streamlined it.

13:08 We streamlined it. So we have a tent and I'm not suggesting this is something that you should do. I'm telling you that this is what the Lord showed us to do. Okay. So the things that I'm bringing today are suggestions. That I think you could incorporate it, and I sincerely want to incorporate some of these thoughts this year that we've never done before. And we do what Moses couldn't do, and we fish. Yeah, that's true. You couldn't fish much in the desert. Couldn't fish in the desert. Yeah, we parked by a— You have to fish in the Red Sea when you're walking through, and that was it. So anyway. As beautiful as some of the rabbinic traditions are, we don't have to keep them. But they have some beautiful traditions, and some of them actually are coming from the Scripture. So we'll cover some of that in these days here. So this new year on the Hebrew calendar is the year 5786. And the 8 is represented, now just so you know, In case you don't know, there are no numbers in Hebrew. They use letters to represent numbers. So the letter 8 for the 5, 7, 8, 6, it's represented by the letter pe, which is also a word. The word pe means mouth.

14:32 So for this entire decade, it's kind of like a prophetic warning of watch what you're speaking. Be careful what you say because you are... You're either going to be giving help to the supernatural good. The angels are standing around, according to Psalm 103, verse 20, I believe it is, that says that the angels are listening for the voice of his word. So when we give voice to his word, then they go to action. But I believe it's equally true that the dark angels that fell, are also listening for our words. And they will go to work with negative things that we say. So we have to be really careful what we say, right?

15:22 So the number six is represented by the letter Vav. And it's kind of shaped like a railroad spike, you know, if you know what that looks like. And it usually means a nail or a hook. It could mean a spear or a tent peg. So it has the idea of securing things together. And when they translate it, it's always at the beginning of a word, but it's not part of the word. It really literally means and. Sometimes it's translated but or some other word so that you don't have and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and, and all through the word. But it also can represent like a shoot. that's connecting a higher level to a lower one. And the very first time you see Vav in the scripture is in Genesis 1 .1. And that, of course, says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And there's your Vav. And the earth. So the very first place you see Vav, which is the letter for this year, the very first place you're seeing it is connecting heaven with earth. Ooh. So that's something for us to be meditating about and praying into because, you know, Jesus taught his disciples to pray, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as

16:54 it is in heaven. And it's part of the Lord's prayer that most churches, maybe not so many these days, but most of the traditional churches have always taught. the Lord's Prayer. And it's part of the sort of ritual of the service that you're going to pray the Lord's Prayer together. And it's good to do that. It's really good. Yeah. Except most people don't understand what they're saying. Yeah. Yeah. We're going to have to do something about that. But, you know, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So we're in a year of the connection between heaven and earth. There's this Shoot. There's an open tunnel. And we'll talk more about that in a minute. Like a portal. Yes, exactly. And we'll talk more about that in a few minutes.

17:48 So when the children of Israel escaped out of Egypt, as we said earlier, they were in the wilderness for 40 years because of their disobedience, because of their murmuring, their complaining, their rebellion when God said, go take the land. Ten of the spies were saying, no, it's impossible. We can't do that. There's giants in the land. They're going to eat us for breakfast. But Caleb said, they are meat for us. We can eat them. Come on, we can do this. God's with us. We can do this. And Joshua was standing with Caleb. But because of their disobedience and because they couldn't get the vision, they were stuck.

18:28 In the wilderness for 40 years. And so, you know, that's why we celebrate Sukkot is to remember we were in the wilderness. We were in the wilderness. So God was saying, don't forget. Don't forget what I did for my people. Don't forget. Don't forget. Don't forget. And he still wants to do miracles. You know, this whole idea of cessationism where... People say, well, you know, God's not doing those things anymore than he did during the days of the apostles. When the apostles were gone, they don't do that anymore. But yeah, it's happening all the time. And God is pouring out his spirit. And there's many, many signs and wonders that are happening now. But God doesn't want us to forget what he did. So let's just talk about this harvest festival. Would you read Deuteronomy 16, 13 through 15 from the New King James? You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress. And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter. So it's a family thing. Yeah, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow who are within your gates. 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. Yes. And it's a joyful

20:01 feast. You know, we can be singing and dancing and just enjoying, enjoying the presence of the Lord. Because that is part of what happened in the wilderness. God was there with them as a cloud by day and a fire by night. It was his presence. He was tabernacling with them. Hallelujah. Here's another description of it in Leviticus, chapter 23, verses 39 to 43. Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the Lord for seven days. On the first day there shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day a Sabbath rest. And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God for seven days. You shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths, that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Amen. And I know in the booths, too, they always have a plate.

21:29 It's not in the written word that we know of here. Right, it's a tradition. But it's a tradition that they keep a seat for Elijah. Yes, yes. And I remember we had a book. And we used to, for every, it was Friday night before we started doing our Friday night live worship. Yes. And we would read a book of Elijah tales. Yes. A story of Elijah tales. It was fun. It was fascinating. Yeah. You know, what happens when Elijah shows up. Right, right. So when they're celebrating this Feast of Tabernacles, the Sukkot, the word for booth, that's translated here booth. or it could be translated tabernacle. The word is sukkah.

22:13 So the plural of sukkah is sukkot. So that's why they call it sukkot. I mean, that's why they call it Feast of Tabernacles. It's the feast of the booths or the sukkahs that everybody goes out and builds, and they typically use all of these branches that were mentioned here. Now, where we live, we don't have palm trees. Too cold. Yeah. And we probably have willows. And we have myrtles. So anyway, they also, by tradition, take branches from some of these things and a little etrog, they call it. It's kind of like a large lemon. And they use those in their prayers.

22:56 And, you know, it's a reasonable tradition based on Scripture. But here's the point I want to get to is, so this is when you have gathered in the fruit of the land. So what was the fruit? of the land. Deuteronomy 8 .8 spells out what to expect when you get to the promised land. It's a land of wheat and barley, vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive oil and honey. Yes. So you're going to get the barley harvest starting with the first fruits of the barley harvest happens on the day after the Sabbath after Passover. So that's when the priest goes out into the fields and he gathers the one and the next one, where you can tell that they're mature already and they're ready to be picked because the head bows down. And that's a sign of maturity when we are able to humble ourselves and put our head down and not, you know, it's all about me, right? So that's the firstfruits, and then they go into the full harvest, and that full harvest comes in during the time in between Passover and the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot or Pentecost. So we have a land of wheat and barley.

24:21 We can have our sliced bread, maybe toasted. We can have fig or pomegranate preserves and have some olive oil with it and some honey. Right, right. Yeah, that's nice. So the things that are brought in, like the wheat comes in, the first fruits of the wheat harvest come in during Feast of Weeks or Shavuot. So they're harvesting the wheat after that when it's ripe. Yeah. So in between. These two feasts in between the Feast of Weeks or Shavuot, Pentecost, and the Sukkot, you're going to bring in all of your wheat and you're going to put it in store. And the other things that they bring in during this season of the late summer, early fall is the grapes that comes in primarily during August and September.

25:09 The figs primarily during August and September. pomegranates, August all the way to March. So you pick them when they're ripe, but they start in August. So you're going to see some at the Feast of Tabernacles. And then you have olives. So olives typically are harvested in October, November. So the Sukkot is usually late September, early October, mid -October, somewhere like that. And then dates. Now, when it says honey, Scholars tell us it's referring to date honey. Date honey, which is so good. Yeah. Oh, wow. Date honey is awesome. Yeah. They make a honey out of dates. So the dates come in in late summer, August through fall, so October, November. So you'll have dates that are ripe, and it depends on the variety when they ripen. Some are early ripening, some are later. And there's lots of different varieties.

26:05 So you're celebrating the fruit harvest. You're celebrating the wheat harvest. So one thing that we can do as we're celebrating this year, we can celebrate the fruit of the Spirit. Yes. So we can ask the Holy Spirit to work in us, Galatians 5, 22 to 26. Would you read that, please? But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long -suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. gentleness, self -control. Against such there is no law, and those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

26:52 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another. Amen. So when you're tabernacling with the Lord, okay, remember this is a time when the Pillar of fire was there by night, the pillar of cloud by day. His presence was with them on the whole journey, no matter how naughty they were, no matter how rebellious, no matter how much they murmured and complained. Now, he did deal with it as things happened. But he stayed there with them because of his faithfulness. He's absolutely faithful to his covenant. And he'll be faithful to his covenant with us too.

27:33 So that's something to meditate on and something to ask the Holy Spirit brood over me and help me to stay in your presence during this feast as we set ourselves aside during this time that we'll have an experience with God, that we'll have an experience of his presence where, where he can deal with us and draw out that fruit that comes from his presence into our lives so that we're going to walk in that love, that we're going to walk in that joy, we're going to walk in that peace, we're going to walk in that patience and kindness and goodness and faithfulness and gentleness and self -control. Let the Holy Spirit work these things in us as we spend time in his presence. So one of the things that happened Every seven years at the Feast of Tabernacles.

28:24 Now, there was a time called the release. And so we see that in Deuteronomy 15, 1 and 2. Would you like to read that? At the end of every seven years, you shall grant a release of debts. And this is the form of the release. Every creditor who has lent anything to his neighbor shall release it. He shall not require it of his neighbor or his brother. Because it is called the Lord's release. Amen. Isn't that beautiful? And I'm not sure about it, but I'm thinking maybe there's also the release of the Israelite slaves. They enslaved themselves for six years, and they're released on the seventh year. So it could be that that's related to that. I don't have real clarity on it. But during that time, during that seventh year, so you can celebrate freedom. You can celebrate freedom this time. I don't know how many years we've been doing this, but I'm sure we can celebrate freedom, right? So you can also celebrate the Word, because Deuteronomy 31, 9 -13 gives us another clue of something that's done every seven years. So Moses wrote this law and delivered it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

29:45 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time of the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles, when all Israel comes to appear before the Lord, your God, in the place which he chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing. Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates. that they may hear and that they may learn to fear the Lord your God and carefully observe all the words of this law, and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear the Lord your God as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess. So every seventh year, they would have a reading of the Torah. They would read it together. They'd stand there all through these seven days and... Just learn what the law says, because God wants us to know him through his word. So, you know, you can celebrate the word when you're celebrating this feast.

30:51 So there's a prophecy in Zechariah 14, 16 through 21, that our founder, Sister Gwen, used to always refer to when she was encouraging us to go up to the feast when we were doing tours. back then. So would you read that for us, please? And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain. They shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

31:47 This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. In that day, holiness to the Lord, and that's in caps, shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts. Amen. So, you know, this is a promise. This is a millennium, yes. But, you know, God began to put it on the hearts of... This group of Christians that were praying together in Jerusalem, they were living there, and they began to pray together, and God put it on their hearts to start doing a celebration, a Christian celebration, during the Feast of Tabernacles. And that was about 1980, I think, was the first one. Yeah.

32:48 So it goes back a while, and I think I was there for at least part of... one of those services. Ziggy Oblander was asked to speak there. And so I got to be part of it. And that was before I ever knew you, darling. So anyway, so for lots and lots of years, we took tour groups. I'm sure it was at least 20 years more, probably more than 20 years. And so we went there and there was one time that I remember that an Orthodox rabbi came. and asked if he could speak. So he recognized, and I think he was speaking for others, that they were recognizing that the fact that these goyim, these Christians, these people from the nations, these Gentiles, were coming to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles, they went back to this scripture and recognized that, oh, there's something significant going on here. The Messiah should be coming soon. Yeah, because you would get 4 ,000 to 6 ,000 Christians from over 70 different nations would come to this feast. Yeah. And that was just, and when they do the roll call of the nations. Oh, it was amazing. It was astounding who got there and how they got there. Yeah, very, very amazing. But this, I remember so significantly that this rabbi said, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai, which means blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. And so that's a very significant

34:20 statement. And I immediately thought, oh, Jesus said to the, I don't know, the Pharisees, I suppose, he said, you'll not see me again until you say, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Wow. When you think about that. It was almost shocking to me. I thought, oh, this is an end time sign. Something's going on here. And that was already, I'm sure, 20 years ago or more. I don't remember just how long ago, but it's been a long time. And so it makes me think about what Dean Braxton said, that these end time things that we're expecting to see, and we're seeing signs of it, but it's not. come to a completion.

35:05 He said that it's not going to be completed until everyone who is inclined to get saved gets saved. You know, it's still a choice of your heart. Everybody has that choice. And God is waiting for every last one. He's not going to shut the door of the ark until everybody's in that's supposed to be in, you know, that's willing to come in, willing to bow the knee, basically. a crowd that was hailing Jesus on what we call Palm Sunday, as he was coming down the Mount of Olives on the back of a donkey, fulfilling another prophecy of Zechariah. And so, then the multitudes who went before and those who followed cried out, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. Now, Hosanna. Some people think it's equivalent to hallelujah. But it really means save us. So they're saying, come on, bring the kingdom now. Set us free from Rome. That's what they were really saying. It wasn't like praise God. It was help us, save us. We recognize you as Messiah is what they were really saying.

36:19 But what they were doing was quoting from Psalm 118, verse 26. that says, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. But if you read that in context, it is so amazing. Psalm 118, 19 through 26. Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will go through them and I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous shall enter. I will praise you for you have answered me. and have become my salvation. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. This was the Lord's doing.

37:00 It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day the Lord hath made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Saved now, I pray, O Lord, O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you from the house of the Lord. So in context, you see that there's messianic prophecy here. So they are recognizing Jesus as the Messiah in this. But let's just look at some of these words. Open to me the gates of righteousness. When I read that, putting together these notes for this podcast, I thought, wait a minute. Jesus said, I'm the door. open to me the gates of righteousness.

37:47 I will go through them and I will praise the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord. This is the door. Here's the door. Here's this connector between heaven and earth. This vav, okay? We're in this time. We're in this season. I don't know how long it's going to last. I'm not into setting dates or anything like that, but you can tell that we're in the season. This is the gate of the Lord through which the righteous shall enter. I will praise you for you have answered me and have become my Yeshua. That's the word. I looked it up in Hebrew. It is the word Yeshua. You have become my Yeshua. Wow. Wow. The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone.

38:37 And we see that in another scripture that it's referring to Jesus is the stone that the builders rejected. This was the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. This is the day that the Lord has made. You know, years ago, we used to sing this little chorus and we sang it so much that it got to be almost... Unpleasant. It must be. This is the day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is the day that the Lord has made. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. We oversang it. We overdid it. Yeah. But put it in context with this. This is the day. This is the day of the Lord. This is the day that this is the season that God is doing something amazing in the earth. And we are seeing it. Yeah.

39:22 He is the gate. Yeah, there's one scripture I wanted to add here, and that was Matthew 21, verse 15. And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, referring to Jesus, and the children crying in the temple and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David, they were sore displeased. Oh, yeah. They were upset. Upset. And, you know, that contributed because it was just days later that Jesus was crucified. So they, you know, they put together a plan pretty quickly because he was the stone that the builders rejected. So this word for gates, where it says, open to me the gates of righteousness, and this is the gate of the Lord. This word gate is the Hebrew word sha 'ar. And the Strong's definition is an opening, a door or gate, a city door, gate, or port. And then Jesus said in John 10, 9, and I mentioned it already, I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. So, you know, the New Testament is done in Greek. At least that's what we see. I'm sure it was written originally in Hebrew, but there are some manuscripts out there that are showing that. So this is Strong's number 2374, Thura, and it's apparently a primary word.

40:58 You can compare door. It's a portal or entrance, the opening or the closure, literally or figuratively, a door or a gate. A portal. Mm -hmm. And then the outline of biblical usage that we see in the Blue Letter Bible, which is the app that I use the most. It's a door. It's the vestibule, which is kind of like just inside the door. Used of any opening like a door, an entrance, a way, or passage into. Think about this shoot between heaven and earth that, you know, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And here's this Vav right in the middle of it. Jacob's ladder.

41:41 Right. That's what it was. So it's used of any opening, like a door and entrance way or passage into, into something, a parable or a metaphor where Jesus is talking about the door through which the sheep go in and out the name of him who brings salvation to those who follow his guidance. An open door is used of the opportunity of doing something. The door of the kingdom of heaven, like into a palace, denotes the conditions which must be complied with in order to be received into the kingdom of heaven. So the thing that I found was so cool is this word thura, or thira, thura, is used to translate three different Hebrew words for door or gate. And one of them is this sha 'ar. Sure. So, you know, he is the door of salvation. He's the door to righteousness. He's the door to our Father. He's the door that connects us with heaven. Hallelujah. So there's a lot that we can do also during Sukkot in prayer.

42:51 Be an intercessor during these seven days, even if you don't go camping. Go spend some time interceding for souls. Because, you know, God spoke to me the same time, around the same time, when he gave us this name of global outpouring. And he said, don't ask me for the outpouring. Ask me for my heart for the outpouring. And I believe the Lord is showing me that his heart for the outpouring is really his heart for lost souls. Lost souls, yeah. So we can be interceding for souls who need to see that Jesus or Yeshua is their salvation, the stone that the builders rejected, and the door to the Father. He is all of that. Now, the other thing is that Psalm 106 also refers to the Feast of Tabernacles. And you have the ESV here, and that is the, what version is that? That's the English Standard Version. It begins, I won't read the whole thing, but I have the Amplified Classic as well to introduce this. Praise the Lord, hallelujah. Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy and loving kindness endure forever. Who can put into words and tell the mighty deeds of the Lord?

44:10 Who can show forth all the praise that is due him? And it goes on talking about our fathers in Egypt understood not nor appreciated your miracles. This is verse 7. They did not earnestly remember the multitude of your mercies nor imprint your loving kindness on their hearts. But they were rebellious and provoked the Lord at the sea, even the Red Sea. And it goes on talking about what happened in the wilderness. So I'm not going to read that whole thing. But would you read the verses 42 through 48 from the English Standard Version? Their enemies oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their power. Many times he delivered them, but they were rebellious in their purposes and were brought low through their iniquity. Nevertheless, he looked upon their distress when he heard their cry. Yes. For their sake he remembered his covenant and relented according to the abundance of his steadfast love. He caused them to be pitied by all those who held them captive. Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the nations, that we may give thanks to your holy name and glory in your praise. Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

45:28 And let all the people say, Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Amen. So we see here this picture of, I think of like the book of Judges. where over and over the children of Israel would disobey God, and then God would let their enemies overtake them until they cried out to the Lord, and he would relent, and he would give them mercy, and he would help them and send a deliverer. And then as long as the deliverer lived, they would watch their P's and Q's, so to speak. They would be obedient until that person died, and then...

46:09 they wound up going the wrong direction again. It happened over and over in the book of Judges. But what I love here is that as soon as people cry out to him, he remembers his covenant. He's faithful to his covenant. He's going to bring his loving kindness and tender mercies every time we cry. And so I remember what Daniel did. when he realized that it was time based on the prophecy of Jeremiah, he was reading Jeremiah and he saw that after 70 years, the children of Israel would go back to Israel. And he humbled himself and he fasted and he prayed in intercession for the children of Israel. And he said, I and my fathers have sinned. And he was the... least likely because he was such a godly man. He really was not this picture of a sinner that he was presenting as he was asking God for mercy. But he was stepping up on behalf of his people. So that's another thing that we can do. during this time of Sukkot, we can become intercessors for the children of Israel, for the Muslims that have been attacking them. I'm talking about the jihadists, the Islamists that are interpreting the Quran that way that seems to be what the Quran says. And there are moderate people who say, no, that's not what it means, but they are

47:40 set to bring destruction and genocide to the Jews. So it's amazing to me that they're saying that the Jews are doing genocide to them, but it's like they're projecting their plan on the Jews and they're not committing genocide. Anyway, we'll tackle that on another podcast, but we can intercede. We can intercede for those who are not yet. born again. They're not yet saved. They have not yet made Jesus the Yeshua, the salvation, the Lord of their lives. And so, Father, we just ask you right now to put a seed of intercession into all of us during this time, Lord, that even while we are in this time of tabernacling with you, whether we're camping or whether we're not, whether we're doing something according to Jewish tradition or not, whatever it is we're doing.

48:39 Lord, help us to hear your heart about what we can do during this time to celebrate your feast and participate in what you're doing in the earth in these days. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. If you enjoyed today's podcast, Please subscribe, rate, and review this podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts. Your review helps the podcasting platform suggest this podcast to other listeners who are also looking for a great move of the Holy Spirit. Check out our website at globaloutpouring .org to find out more information, read our blogs, connect with us, and donate. You can also browse our web store for life -changing anointed books.

49:29 Until next time, this is Sharon Buss. And I'm Philip Puss. God bless you with his overwhelming loving presence.