Scriptures: John 7:37-39, Isaiah 12:3, Zechariah 12:10, 13:1, 1 Corinthians 10:1-4, Zechariah 14 In the last two lessons we learned how Jesus fulfills the first two fall festivals, the Festival of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. Today we look at the final fall festival God commanded the Jews to observe forever, the Festival of Shelters (also called Festival of Tabernacles, Booths, or Sukkot in Hebrew) which will be celebrated by the whole world when Jesus returns. In Leviticus 23 God commanded the Jews to live in special three-sided shelters for seven days to commemorate their time in the wilderness when they lived in temporary shelters while…
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Lesson 2: God is Our Shelter and Provider
In lesson one we learned about how Jesus fulfilled Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, as a sacrifice for our sin so that our sins could be removed from us. We all have turned away from God to go our own way, so God sent his Son, born of a virgin, to redeem us and give us a new beginning with him. Because God’s only Son voluntarily paid the penalty for our sin on the cross, our sin is nailed to the cross and our old self dies as we repent of sin and receive God’s forgiveness through the shed blood of Jesus. We are then reborn by the Holy…
