PORTION “PARASHA” OF THE WEEK SHEMINI ATZERET - EIGHTH DAY ASSEMBLY - 1 OF 7 Julie Parker - © Copyright 2003 – 2011 -Deuteronomy 14:22 to 16:17 - Numbers 29:35 to 30:1 - 1 Kings 8:54-66 - Revelation 21:1 to 22:21 Part Two: The Feast of Tabernacles Deuteronomy 16:15-17 “Seven days you shall keep a sacred feast [of Tabernacles] to Yahweh your God in the place which Yahweh chooses, because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you surely rejoice. Three times a year all your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which He chooses: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, at the Feast of Weeks [Shavuot/Pentecost], and at the Feast of Tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Yahweh empty-handed. Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of Yahweh your God which He has given you.” Leviticus 23:34-36 “The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to Yahweh. On the first day there shall be a holy convocation [High Holy Day/Sabbath]. You shall do no customary work on it. For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day [Shemini Atzeret] you shall have a holy convocation [High Holy Day/Sabbath], and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.” Following the seven day wedding reception (Sukkot), the eighth day/Shemini Atzeret, reveals the intimate relationship our heavenly Bridegroom has with His Bride. In His love He is saying to her, “Now that all the wedding guests (Nations) have returned home, let us (My Redeemed Bride from the twelve tribes of Israel) linger one extra day and savor our wedding and union together in our new home.” That one extra day is as a thousand years and is when the Bride enters the millennial kingdom/eternity with her King, Yeshua Ha Mashiach. It is a solemn Shabbat celebration of worship, thankfulness and intimacy just between the two of them (2 Peter 3:8). The whole of the New Testament/Brit Chadasha is framed through the lens of those who will inherit the intimacy of the eighth day/Shemini Atzeret. The Bride is the one who has separated herself from the nations, has endowed herself with extra oil as a response to her Bridegroom’s instructions and has chosen to walk in the footsteps of her husband to serve Him all the days of her life in His Tabernacle. She is the one who will be found honoring the Eighth Day. The wedding guests and Nations will not be found there. Shemini Atzeret is exclusive only to Yeshua’s Bride. This is the restoration of the Tabernacle of David. Leviticus 23:36 “For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. On the eighth day [Shemini Atzeret] you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.” Luke 2:36-37 [On the eighth day/Shemini Atzeret] “Now there was one, Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was of a great age, and had lived with a husband seven years from her virginity; and this woman was a widow of about eighty-four years, who did not depart from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.” Luke 10:41-42 “And Jesus/Yeshua answered and said to her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things. But one thing is needed, and Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.’” The Threshing Floor and the Winepress Deuteronomy 16:13-17 “Celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days after you have gathered the produce of your threshing floor and your winepress” Sukkot is the culmination of all that the Bride has embraced in Yahweh’s Vineyard (representing His Covenant, His Kingdom – the gospel, and the Land of Israel) as a response to His love for her throughout the year. Deuteronomy says that if we follow and respond to Yahweh, we will be His people and we will have an over abundance to bring to Him on this wonderful Feast of Ingathering for all Nations. Sukkot is also known as the wedding celebration (reception) after the wedding day (Yom Kippur). Those believers (unwise virgins), who had not been found with enough oil or walking in the holiness that Yahweh desires of His Bride and who were not part of the Bridal party, joined with the wedding guests from the nations (Matthew 25:1-11; Zechariah 14:16-21). “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that Yahweh your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of Yahweh your God: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country. Blessed shall be the fruit of your body, the produce of your ground and the increase of your herds, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of your flocks. Blessed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl. Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out. Yahweh will cause your enemies who rise against you to be defeated before your face; they shall come out against you one way and flee before you seven ways. Yahweh will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand, and He will bless you in the land which Yahweh your God is giving you. Yahweh will establish you as a holy people to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of Yahweh your God and walk in His ways. Then all peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Yahweh, and they shall be afraid of you. And Yahweh will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which Yahweh swore to your fathers to give you. Yahweh will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And Yahweh will make you the head and not the tail; you shall be above only, and not be beneath, if you heed the commandments of Yahweh your God, which I command you today, and are careful to observe them. So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them” (Deuteronomy 28:1-14). What is being produced from our threshing floor and our winepress? Isaiah chapter five is called The Song of the Vineyard. In verse seven it says, “The vineyard of Yahweh Almighty is the House of Israel [Ephraim], and the men of Judah [House of Judah] are the garden of His delight. And He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress” (Isaiah 5:7). The House of Israel and the House of Judah historically have not cared for, given a proper response to or respected Yahweh’s vineyard in the way that He asks us to govern and care for it. This chapter in Isaiah clearly describes how poorly Ephraim handled the vineyard and how poorly Judah handled the land. As a result both Houses were scattered to live among the nations. Yeshua used Isaiah chapter five as the basis for one of His parables, again bringing graphic understanding to the way His Vineyard has been handled by vinedressers (priests) with whom He left it in charge. This parable is about our hearts. Mark 12:1-10 “Then He began to speak to them in parables, ‘A man planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a place for the wine vat and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. Now at vintage-time he sent a servant to the vinedressers, that he might receive some of the fruit of the vineyard from the vinedressers. And they took him [the servant] and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. Again he sent them another servant, and at him they threw stones, wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully treated. And again he sent another, and him they killed; and many others, beating some and killing some. Therefore still having one son, his beloved, he also sent him to them last, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ But those vinedressers said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ So they took him and killed him and cast him out of the vineyard. Therefore what will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the vinedressers, and give the vineyard to others. Have you not even read this Scripture: ‘The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone’” (Matthew 21:33; Luke 20:9). When we hear Yeshua in the Spirit filled gospel written about in the Mosaic Covenant and respond to Him we will have abundant fruit. We are instructed to bring this produce from our threshing floor and winepress. Remember that Ruth found Boaz at the threshing floor guarding the newly harvested grain from the threshed sheaves (Ruth 3). What is special about this is that she entered into a marriage covenant with him right after. This is a prophetic picture of our relationship with our Bridegroom, Yeshua.
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