Book Excerpt - The Hijacked Elephant

The Duality of the Autumn Harvest Feast, The Hijacked Elephant

There are a total of seven high holy days throughout the year. Three of them take place during the sacred year beginning in the first month, which is Nisan. [Our March-April]. The final four take place in the seventh month of the sacred year, Tishri, our autumn, September-October. Christ’s return to Earth is the first day of the seventh month, which also is the first day of the civil year, the feast of Trumpets. It is no accident that these seven days were given to the children of Israel for observance as they outline God’s plan, both in the Old and New Testaments. Contained in all of them is the duality of the physical observance by Israel, and Christ’s spiritual fulfillment of them as he said. [See the Feature article, The Relevance Of The Holy Days In The Plan Of God In The Last Days].

“You shall observe the feast of Tabernacles¹ [Heb. cukkah, temporary dwellings made of interwoven branches and leaves] seven days, after you have gathered in your corn and your wine: And you shall rejoice in your feast, you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite [Israel’s priesthood], the stranger and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within your gates. Seven days shall you keep a solemn feast unto the LORD your God in the place, which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice. And you shall rejoice in your feast.” [Deu. 16:13-15; see the Feature article, What Days Christians Must Observe?].

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Christ’s fulfilling of the feast day, the high holy day of Tabernacles will usher in a period of a thousand years of peace, free from the bondage of sin and evil in the world. It begins just after Babylon the Great is destroyed. Satan is bound for a thousand years, the first fruits are gathered at the first resurrection, and Christ is the bridegroom of Israel. Both the Houses of Israel and Judah will have entered into a new covenant, a new and harmonious marriage arrangement. It is a “honeymoon” for all the children of Israel.

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“And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse [Christ], which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the nations [of Israel] seek: and his rest [the millennial thousand years of peace] shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time [see the Feature article, Our Corrupted Compass; also Eze. 24:13, 14] to recover the remnant of his people [after the sixth seal], which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of [the House of] Israel, and gather together the dispersed of [the House of] Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim [the House of Israel] shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah [the House of Judah] shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.” [Isa.11:6-13; see chapter six, The Blind Man’s Elephant, p.185ff, for details regarding Ephraim and Judah].

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In the Preface of the book we talked about how all the world’s a stage, a point made by Shakespeare. And just like the temporary stage that many Shakespearean plays are presented upon, our Earth, this blue globe that we call home, it too is a temporary stage in the theatre of life. Nothing lasts forever as it is said. And the thousand years of peace that we just read about is temporary in nature.

The original feast of Tabernacles as delivered to the children of Israel was made to commemorate their leaving Egypt. And as they wandered in the wilderness for forty years, they lived in temporary dwellings the entire time. But they had peace and their every need was taken care of by the spiritual Rock they drank from, Christ, as Paul told us. [See 1Cor. 10:1-4]. “And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan. And the House of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.” [Exd. 16:35, 31].

The point here is that the daily needs of the children of Israel were provided for by our LORD Christ. However, the wandering in the wilderness and living in temporary dwellings was just that, temporary. And so too the time marked by the fulfillment of the coming feast of Tabernacles, one thousand years, will be temporary, though there will be peace on Earth as there never has been up to that time.

And we will come to realize, this Earth was made to be a temporary dwelling as were our mortal bodies. We are the spiritual experiencing the physical. And it is so not only for Israel, but for everyone living on the Earth during that period of thousand years. As we’ll discover, it is not the final circumstance of Israel or mankind. These events are represented on the eighth day [seven days for the feast of Tabernacles and on the eighth day or the day following the feast of Tabernacles] the final holy day is given to Israel by Moses. [It is the seventh and final high holy day]. Our story that began in Genesis is coming to its final chapter in the book of Revelation. All our characters are still here.

The feast of Tabernacles was observed physically for the seven days by living in temporary booths. The fulfillment on the eighth day, or the last high holy day of the year will take place at the end of the one thousand years. This eighth day’s fulfillment will signal the end of the thousand years of peace on Earth. And it will result in a dramatic change in circumstances will culminate in the second resurrection, the resurrection of all those who have lived upon Earth for it signals the coming of the great day of judgment. [See the Feature article concerning the resurrections, Heaven Can Wait; for more information about the relevancy of all the holy days in Christianity, see The Hijacked Elephant; also see the Sneakers article, On What Ground Are We Sowing?].


¹ The feast of Tabernacles or Booths begins at sunset 29 September and ends at sunset October 6 in 2023 according to the Jewish calendar.

The above is excerpted from chapter seven, The Duality Of The Autumn Harvest Feast, The Hijacked Elephant. References to Feature and Sneakers articles are not in the book.


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