RTW 2024

On October 9 the family leaders of all the people, together with the priests and Levites, met with Ezra the scribe to go over the Law in greater detail. As they studied the Law, they discovered that the Lord had commanded through Moses that the Israelites should live in shelters during the festival to be held that month. He had said that a proclamation should be made throughout their towns and in Jerusalem, telling the people to go to the hills to get branches from olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees. They were to use these branches to make shelters in which they would live during the festival, as prescribed in the Law.

Nehemiah 8:13-15

Then the rest of the people—the priests, Levites, gatekeepers, singers, Temple servants, and all who had separated themselves from the pagan people of the land in order to obey the Law of God, together with their wives, sons, daughters, and all who were old enough to understand— joined their leaders and bound themselves with an oath. They swore a curse on themselves if they failed to obey the Law of God as issued by his servant Moses. They solemnly promised to carefully follow all the commands, regulations, and decrees of the LORD our Lord:
Nehemiah 10:28-29

• Feast of Tabernacles is the last fall feast of the Jewish festivals. 
• It is a time of thanksgiving. 
• It is a time of remembering the Presence, Provision, and Protection of God in the wilderness. 
• Sukkot 2024: evening of October 16-October 23
• https://www.oneforisrael.org/holidays/was-thanksgiving-based-on-sukkot-the-feast-of-tabernacles/
• Luke 1:24-26: Mary conceived Jesus in the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy with John the Baptist.
• Jesus was born 15 months after the angel Gabriel appeared to Elizabeth’s husband, Zacharias, and informed him that his wife would have a child. 
• Luke 1:5: Zechariah was a priest of the division of Abijah. 
• Luke 1:8: Gabriel appeared to Zechariah while he was serving as a priest in the Temple. 
• According to the Talmud and other sources, the division of Abijah served as priests during the second half of the fourth month of the Jewish calendar. 
• Fifteen months later would place the birth of Jesus in the seventh month of the Jewish calendar
• That would have been in the fall of the year, in either late September or October. 
• The seventh month of the Jewish calendar is the month of the Feast of Tabernacles. 
• John 1:14
• dwelt: to tabernacle
• God came to earth to tabernacle among men. 
• He timed His arrival. 
• Everything He does has a purpose. 
• He leaves us evidence to uncover. 
• We will continually be in awe of this wonderful, on-time God!

Be in awe of God. His timing is perfect.