How Many Parties Does G-d Want You to Have?
Celebration, enjoyment, rest, pleasure, these are commands of G-d!
Have you ever attended a wedding that was just a blast from front to back? Everyone had a great time, the food was delectable and you had your fill, the wine was superb, that band killed and the joy was palpable in the air? Between the champaign toasts and twirling dresses, everyone in the room had a moment of gratitude that the bride and groom were such incredible people and that the wedding invitation had found its way to their own doorstep. As the sun set on the inevitable perfect view from the top of the mountain, the deeper meaning of marriage and wholeness settled in as well. The party lingered well into the night and nobody wanted to leave.
I’ve played a lot of weddings in my life, very few landed each one of these moments, but I imagine the wedding feast of the Church Bride and the Lamb, Yeshua, will be better than these perfect imaginations can convey. The prophetic wedding feast in Scripture is called Sukkot, the Feast of Tabernacles, or the Feast of Booths. G-d tells us this is the ultimate celebration, a party like no other, the biggest and the best.
Yeshua may have had this feast in mind when he told his mother it was, “not yet my time” at a wedding party that had run out of wine. Mary had requested that Yeshua refresh the wine that had run out at a wedding they were attending. Yeshua did give in to her request and blessed the party with the best wine of the night. But for Yeshua, it was not yet His time to reveal that He is the groom, the ultimate provider of the wine (blood) and the living water. He would eventually reveal to all mankind His position of Messiah and groom, fulfilling the legal requirement of death to remarry His bride.
Someday, on Yom Teruah, Yeshua will return to gather His bride and go into the wedding feast, Sukkot. And this is what we will be celebrating from Sept 29th in the evening through Oct. 6.
This year I’m sending you Monte Judah’s most recent teaching on this Holiday because he conveys a heavy focus on how wonderful this celebration is and how much G-d enjoys to commune with us at these times. Please listen and glean what you can and consider camping, eating outside and/or finding a congregation of Believers to join during this year’s Sukkot celebration.
For some references regarding the command, past Sukkots and the future prophecy of Sukkot celebrations: Leviticus 23:33 - 34, Exodisu 34:22 - 23, Ezra 3:4, John 7:2-3, Zechariah 14:16-19,
John 1:14 - “And the Word was made flesh, and TABERNACLED among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”