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Sukkot: Camping Out with God

Five days after the Day of Atonement, the Festival of Tabernacles begins. It is seven days long. The first day is a special Sabbath. The Hebrew name of the festival is sukkot (סוכות), a word that means "shelters, stables or huts." The same word is often translated into English as "tabernacles" or "booths." The name is derived from the commandment for all Jews to dwell in temporary shelters for the seven days of the festival as a reminder of the post-exodus years when Israel lived in huts and booths, following God in the wilderness:

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appointed times, booths, Emor, fall festivals, Feast of Tabernacles, festival, harvest, sukkah, sukkot

A Tabernacle of Glory over Jerusalem

Sukkot is to the other festivals what the Sabbath is to the other six days of the week. It foreshadows that great celebration of creation when the entire world will live in peace and brotherhood under the reign and rule of the righteous Messiah King. Just as the weekly Sabbath foreshadows the kingdom, Sukkot looks forward to that great age, a shadow of what is to come.

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Emor, Fall Festivals, Kingdom, Messianic Era, Sukkah, Sukkot

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