Leviticus 23:33–44
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a time when many Christians think of their religion as something that happens indoors, in hushed and solemn tones. Piety, for many, has become synonymous with a kind of sterile decorum, a quiet and respectable affair. But when we come to the liturgical calendar that God Himself designed for His people, we find something altogether different. We find loud shouts, trumpet blasts, feasting, and here, in the culmination of the entire festival year, we find a week-long, nationwide camping trip. The Feast of Booths, or Tabernacles, was a mandatory national celebration. He is the Lord of Hosts, who commands His people to rejoice. This feast was the grand finale of the Israelite year. It came in the seventh month, the sabbatical month, after the grain and fruit harvests were complete. You cannot truly rejoice before a holy God until the sin problem has been dealt with.