What you will need: A Bible or your Bible app, a notebook, pen, and highlighter. The verses highlighted below are linked so that you can easily access them during your study time.
Jump Start
1. What was the most memorable holiday, birthday, or celebration in your life? What made it so special?
2. Read Leviticus 23:33-34, 40-43, and Deuteronomy 16:13-15. Why did God tell Moses the children of Israel should celebrate this feast? Who else was to celebrate the feast? Name some of the purposes of the feast?
3. Read John 1:1-5, John 1:14 and Exodus 40:34. (Note the very literal translation of John 1:14.) The original Tabernacle was the temporary sanctuary for God in the wilderness. The “tabernacles” or booths in this feast were temporary dwellings to remind the Hebrews of that time. How did Jesus fulfill the promise and prophesy of the Feast? What evidence of God is given in both verses?
4. Read John 7:1-2, 37-38, and 8:1-2, 12, 20. How did Jesus celebrate the feast? Is it significant that He waited until “the great day,” the final day to make His declarations? What were they? How did they intersect with the festivities of the Feast of Tabernacles?
5. Read Revelation 22:13 and 7:9-10. How can we see this Feast as both a celebration for the Jews and an invitation to all people for all generations? How do these verses provide hope?
6. Final Thought: For seven days, write down what God has done for you. Post it on Facebook and tag The Cove Church so that we can follow along in your gratitude journey.
Deeper
The Feast of Tabernacles, also known as the Feast of Booths and Sukkot, is the seventh and last feast that the Lord commanded Israel to observe and one of the three feasts that Jews were to observe each year by going to “appear before the Lord your God in the place which He shall choose” (Deuteronomy 16:16).
7. Read Leviticus 23:42-43 and Hebrews 11:13-14. What are tabernacles, and what do they symbolize? Why does this still apply to believers today?
8. Read John 7:1-11. Why did Jesus Christ delay in going up to Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles?
9. Read Zechariah 14:16. Who will keep the Feast of Tabernacles in the future?