FIRST HOLY DAY EVENING SERVICE

The following verse shows us the true meaning of the feast of tabernacles.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

During the feast we remember that the Israelites wandered for 40 years and lived in temporary dwellings…..why?

To understand fully the journey to eternal life, we will show the parallel between the exodus from Egypt and the path to eternal life.

We must have a temporary booth erected on the first day of the Feast, so we can sit in it for a portion of each day.

Lev 23:39  'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  'And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

Reminder that we need to spend time in our booth each day during the feast, we don’t need to live in the booth, just dwell in it each day for a short time during the feast. It is ideal to sit in the booth with a family member or a friend and share a cup of coffee while you talk about the time the Israelites lived in booths, talk about how life is temporary, this physical life is short, it is the next life which is eternal.

Neh 8:17  So the whole assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and sat under the booths; for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun until that day the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great gladness.

We are going to repeat each day of the feast what the feast actually pictures, as this is new knowledge for us and needs to be learnt and understood. To repeat this knowledge every day is the best way to remember what the feast pictures.

The feast pictures the Israelites wandering for 40 years in the wilderness, dwelling in booths.

Lev 23:34  "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

Lev 23:35  'On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:36  'For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:37  'These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day;

Lev 23:38  'besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.

Lev 23:39  'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  'And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

Each day of the feast we will look at a different occurrence during that time to learn from the errors made along the journey which we must avoid if we want to attain what the Israelites did not do.... want the Promised Land and enter it.

Every day at the feast the book of the law is to be read, this should happen every seventh year. As we do not know which year we are in, we will read it every year. Why...because we love this book and we can learn a lot from it every feast.

Deu 31:10  And Moses commanded them, saying: "At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,

Deu 31:11  "when all Israel comes to appear before the LORD your God in the place which He chooses, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.

Starting tomorrow the first holy day we will read the first five chapters of the book of Deuteronomy.

Tonight we will look at the first subject knowing God the Father and Christ and keeping the Passover on the correct time.

God the Father and Christ.

This is new knowledge restored to this era of the church. We have not had a correct knowledge of the Father or Christ.

Do not read over this verse, read it and re read it, until the meaning of it sinks in. There is one true God and that is the Father.

Joh 17:3  "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

The Father is the only one who has existed for all eternity. He is the one True God.

Christ is the Son of the Father Christ was born before anything else existed.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

LET'S GET THESE FACTS CLEAR IN OUR MINDS, FIRST THERE WAS THE FATHER, HE EXISTED ON HIS OWN, THEN CHRIST WAS BORN TO HIM BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE EXISTED. If you want to know how this happened you will need to ask God, we do not know, but because it is in scripture, we are prepared to believe it.
How has God done any of His miracles, for example why does the sea stop at the shore, we don’t know how God did this, but we believe He has done it.

God the Father is above Christ He is not equal to Christ, in authority, and never has been, He is the Father, the self existing one. Christ is His Son and is second to Him in everything.

Joh 14:28  "You have heard Me say to you, 'I am going away and coming back to you.' If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, 'I am going to the Father,' for My Father is greater than I.

1Co 15:27  For "He has put all things under His feet." But when He says "all things are put under Him," it is evident that He who put all things under Him is excepted.

1Co 15:28  Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

Christ has not existed for eternity, He is from the beginning.

Christ is equal to the Father as a son is equal to his father.

Joh 5:18  Therefore the Jews sought all the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also said that God was His Father, making Himself equal with God.

Joh 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Joh 1:2  He was in the beginning with God.

Joh 1:3  All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

Joh 1:4  In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

The beginning is a point in time, look at Genesis 1 v 1 in the beginning God made…..now that was a particular time, before that time, the heaven and earth did not exist.
Now apply the same principal to Christ, before the point in time known as the beginning……Christ did not exist.

He was born to God before creation, the Father created all things through Christ.

Eph 3:9  and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ;

CHRIST WAS THE BORN SON OF GOD BEFORE CREATION.

We are not talking about the birth of Jesus out of Mary here. We are talking about a birth which happened before creation. We also want to state emphatically that we are not saying Christ was created.
CHRIST IS THE FIRST BORN OF ALL CREATION.

Secondly the Passover.

The Passover has been kept on the 13th of Nisan during the Philadelphian era of the church. Prepared 13th eaten 14th. This was the correct day for that era because they did not have the knowledge of eternal life which God has restored to the last era of His church. There are three points which must be known for eternal life in the keeping of the Passover. They are eating the body, drinking the blood and keeping it on the correct day. The Philadelphian era had only the blood and the body, they did not have the knowledge of the correct day. To have eternal life, which is now available, in the Laodicean era, we eat the bread, drink the blood, prepared on the 14th taken after sunset on the start of the 15th. This is the knowledge of eternal life, the bread the blood taken on the correct day.

Ancient Israel had the correct day and ate the body {when they sacrificed the lamb} but they did not drink the blood, they put it on the door posts.

Philadelphia era, accepted Christ's sacrifice, so we didn’t kill the lamb, they ate the meat on the correct night, {night to be much remembered} but not the blood, we actually kept two Passovers, the 13th {bread and blood but wrong date} and the 14th.
Bread but not blood {night to be much remembered.}

Laodicean era now has the knowledge of the bread, the blood, and the correct day.

It is one of the keys to the kingdom. We must understand the correct meaning of the Passover and keep it on the correct day to have eternal life.

We will not accept the knowledge of the correct day for the Passover until God opens our minds to the new knowledge which is required for Eternal life. This knowledge must be believed and loved in order to qualify for eternal life.

Act 13:48  Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

2Th 2:10  and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

To keep the Passover on the correct day is the second step to eternal life.

The Passover is on the 14th Nisan. This is the day that Christ died, this is the day that the lambs were killed.
Christ was the Passover lamb, He died for our sins.
The only way He could die on the Passover day, at the approximate same time as the lambs were killed, was to take the Passover service the night before with His disciples. HE KNEW HE WOULD BE DEAD THE NEXT NIGHT.
So just for this one special night He and the disciples had the Passover service one night early.

Today the correct time for the Passover service is after sunset at the start of the 15th.
The 14th is the Passover, it is the preparation day. This is the day we prepare to eat the Passover meal. On the Passover day the 14th, we make things ready for the service, which begins after sunset at the start of the 15th on the holy day, the 1st day of Unleavened Bread.

Joh 19:14  Now it was the Preparation Day of the Passover, and about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

The actual service starts after sunset on the beginning of the 15th. THE PASSOVER SERVICE IS HELD IN THE HOLY DAY AT THE START OF THE FIRST DAY OF UNLEAVENED BREAD.

The following scriptures show Christ keeping the last Passover with His disciples, these scripture shows the Passover was prepared in the day and eaten after sunset the start of the following day.

Mat 26:19  So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them; and they prepared the Passover.

Mat 26:20  When evening had come, He sat down with the twelve.

Once you take the Passover service and eat unleavened bread, you do not go back to eating leaven for one day and then start unleavened bread again.

These days tie in with the exodus, the death angel passed over the Israelites home at midnight after the first day of unleavened bread had started, the Israelites left Egypt some 4 hours or so after this on the 15th, they did not wait in Egypt they were compelled to leave quickly by the Egyptians. They left Egypt in the early hours of the morning on the 15th which is the 1st day of unleavened bread.

Christ kept the Passover one day early with His disciples only on ONE OCCASION because He was the Passover lamb He had to die on the Passover day, so He would be dead at the correct time for keeping it today.

THIS POINT MUST BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE READER.

Notice in the following scripture that the Jews were going to take the Passover on the correct day. The day that Christ died was the preparation of the Passover, the Passover service was to be taken that night after sundown which would be the beginning of the fifteenth, the first day of unleavened bread. Notice these men were yet to take the Passover................

Joh 18:28  Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the Praetorium, and it was early morning. But they themselves did not go into the Praetorium, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

Let's notice the events of the Passover in Egypt and see how it is clearly shown when the events happened.

The lamb is to be killed around 3-5 pm before sunset on the 14th. This is the preparation day this is the Passover day.

Exo 12:6  'Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.

Put the blood on the door posts.

Exo 12:7  'And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

Eat a few hours later, after sunset, with unleavened bread, why……because it is now the first day of Unleavened Bread.

Exo 12:8  'Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

Exo 12:9  'Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire; its head with its legs and its entrails.

Exo 12:10  'You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

Look how they had to eat it, ready to leave, because if they ate it around 7 pm they were going to leave in approximately 6- 8 hours time. They would not have been dressed and ready to go if they were not going to leave for another 30-32 hours.

Exo 12:11  'And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.

Exo 12:12  'For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.

The following scripture clearly shows that the Israelites left Egypt on the first day of unleavened bread.

Exo 12:17  'So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

Now when did the Israelites keep the Passover? Some hours previously they prepared the Passover, after sunset the start of the 1st day of unleavened bread they ate it. Then some time after midnight still on the first day of unleavened bread they left Egypt as per Ex. 12 v 17.

Notice clearly that the Israelites kept the Passover, and left Egypt within a 6-8 hour period approximately. Ate Passover at approximately 7 pm left Egypt approximately 1 am.

At midnight the destroyer passed over and killed the first born Egyptians. Ex. 12 v 23 tells of the destroyer.

Exo 12:29  And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.

This event probably happened around 1-3 am. Notice it is still night.

Exo 12:30  So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Then Pharaoh called for Moses, but he did not go to the Pharaoh in accordance with Ex 10 v 29, therefore Moses must have received word from him to get out with haste as the next verses plainly show.

Exo 12:31  Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go, serve the LORD as you have said.

Exo 12:32  "Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also."

The Egyptians wanted them to get out urgently, lest they all should die.

Exo 12:33  And the Egyptians urged the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We shall all be dead."

The Israelites left in the night time, probably as early as 1 am to 3 am.

Deu 16:1  "Observe the month of Abib, and keep the Passover to the LORD your God, for in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

The Israelites had been instructed some time earlier to take the spoil with them, no doubt this was started as early as possible after midnight.

Exo 12:35  Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.

Notice that the Israelites were instructed about the spoil some time previously.

Exo 3:22  "But every woman shall ask of her neighbor, namely, of her who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing; and you shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians."

We have proved clearly that the Passover is the 14th the service is to be kept after sunset start of the 15th, which is the fist day of unleavened bread. This new knowledge must be believed and loved if we want eternal life.
Remember again the three points required for eternal life regarding the Passover.
Eat the body, Drink the blood, take these symbols on the correct night. This is the new knowledge restored to the Laodicean era of God's church.
Plus the fantastic knowledge of who God is and who Christ is.
These new truths must be loved, believed and obeyed if we want eternal life.

All the original Israelites over 20 years old died before crossing the Jordan and entering the Promised Land, because of unbelief.

Num 32:11  'Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Heb 3:17  Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

4TH  DAY OF THE FEAST 

Let's recap on what we have learned so far, the feast pictures the fact that the Israelites dwelt in booths for 40 years in the wilderness.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

Notice some of the reasons the Israelites dwelt in booths.

Deu 8:2  "And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

We saw that to get eternal life, we had to know the Father and Christ, this knowledge is being restored in the end time church.
We must know the correct date of the Passover, and keep it on that day.  We saw the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ.  We then learned about how the Israelites rejected the Father the fountain of living water, and the Holy Spirit.  Then yesterday we showed the difference between the attitudes of Joshua and Caleb and the Israelites, and parallel this with our attitudes today. 

Today we will look at what Christ preached about at the Feast. He pointed people to the Father, and obedience to Him.  Jesus told them they did not know the Father….we must know the Father.

Jesus preached in the midst of the Feast which would be today most probably, since today is the middle of the feast. 

Joh 7:14  Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Some of the new knowledge that is required for eternal life is to know the Father and Jesus Christ.

Joh 17:3  "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Let's notice the words of Christ during the feast as recorded in the book of John.

Jesus was in Galilee because the Jews wanted to kill Him.

Joh 7:1  After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.

Joh 7:2  Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

Joh 7:3  His brothers therefore said to Him, "Depart from here and go into Judea, that Your disciples also may see the works that You are doing.

Joh 7:4  "For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly. If You do these things, show Yourself to the world."

His own family did not believe Him.

Joh 7:5  For even His brothers did not believe in Him.

Joh 7:6  Then Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

The world loved His brothers because they were of the world.  Jesus was not. Jesus told the world of their evil ways.

Joh 7:7  "The world cannot hate you, but it hates Me because I testify of it that its works are evil.

Jesus went up secretly because of the plots on His life, He was not tempting God and did His best to keep Himself safe until the appointed time of His death.

Joh 7:8  "You go up to this feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not yet fully come."

Christ remained in Galilee until His brethren had left.  Then He went to the feast in secret.  He did this so as not to tempt the Lord.

Mat 4:6  and said to Him, "If You are the Son of God, throw Yourself down. For it is written: 'He shall give His angels charge over you,' and, 'In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone.'"

Mat 4:7  Jesus said to him, "It is written again, 'You shall not tempt the LORD your God.'"

Jesus waited for His brothers to go to the feast, and then He left in secret. 

Joh 7:9  When He had said these things to them, He remained in Galilee.

Joh 7:10  But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret.

The Jews sought Him at the Feast, and no one spoke about Him openly for fear of the Jews.

It was obvious that it was Christ's custom to go to the Feast for its entirety, because the Jews were looking for Him there.  He was late going up this one time because of the plots on His life. 

Joh 7:11  Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, "Where is He?"

Joh 7:12  And there was much complaining among the people concerning Him. Some said, "He is good"; others said, "No, on the contrary, He deceives the people."

Joh 7:13  However, no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

Christ taught about the 4th day of the Feast, which was about the middle.

Joh 7:14  Now about the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

Jesus did not attend their colleges.

Joh 7:15  And the Jews marveled, saying, "How does this Man know letters, having never studied?"

Jesus said that He was teaching the doctrine of the Father.

Joh 7:16  Jesus answered them and said, "My doctrine is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

Jesus gave the glory to the Father, the words He was speaking were those of the Father.

If we obey God we will know the truth, if it is of God or man. Notice the key that Christ gives is obedience.  If we obey we will know the doctrine. 

Joh 7:17  "If anyone wants to do His will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

If we do not speak the truth, and the words of God, we seek our own glory.  But if we glorify God, we will be righteous.

Joh 7:18  "He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and no unrighteousness is in Him.

Joh 7:19  "Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?"

Because Christ said He was the Son of God they wanted to kill Him.

The Jews denied their plot to kill Christ.

Joh 7:20  The people answered and said, "You have a demon. Who is seeking to kill You?"

Joh 7:21  Jesus answered and said to them, "I did one work, and you all marvel.

Joh 7:22  "Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

Joh 7:23  "If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, so that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with Me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Joh 7:24  "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment."

Joh 7:25  Now some of them from Jerusalem said, "Is this not He whom they seek to kill?

Joh 7:26  "But look! He speaks boldly, and they say nothing to Him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is truly the Christ?

This idea of Christ appearing and disappearing was of Jewish thought and not biblical.

Joh 7:27  "However, we know where this Man is from; but when the Christ comes, no one knows where He is from."

They knew Christ's family and where He lived, but they did not know the Father.

They did not know the ONE TRUE GOD.

Joh 7:28  Then Jesus cried out, as He taught in the temple, saying, "You both know Me, and you know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.

Christ explained that He was from the Father.

Joh 7:29  "But I know Him, for I am from Him, and He sent Me."

Today we must know the new knowledge of Christ and the Father.  Christ has not always existed.  He was the firstborn of all creation.

Col 1:15  He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.

Christ is from the beginning.

1Jn 1:1  That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life;

The Father has existed for eternity He alone has existed for eternity.  He is the one true God.  That means that He is the only one who has existed for eternity.  The following scriptures prove that very fact.

Isa 57:15  For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

Isa 45:21  Tell and bring forth your case; Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has declared this from ancient time? Who has told it from that time? Have not I, the LORD? And there is no other God besides Me, A just God and a Savior; There is none besides Me.

Jer 10:10  But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

1Jn 5:20  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

1Ti 6:16  who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see, to whom be honor and everlasting power. Amen.

Mar 12:32  So the scribe said to Him, "Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He.

This is new knowledge for the end time church, it must be believed and loved, this is the knowledge that Christ will build His church on.  It is the rock of knowledge, or foundation on which the church will be built. 

Jesus was born of the Father before creation.

If we have a son does anyone call him our brother?  No.  Once he is born, he is then your son.  Christ was born of the Father before creation, He was the Son then and still is the Son now.

Mat 16:16  Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."

Mat 16:17  Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Back to what Christ taught at the Feast.
 

Joh 7:30  Therefore they sought to take Him; but no one laid a hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

Joh 7:31  And many of the people believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, will He do more signs than these which this Man has done?"

Joh 7:32  The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things concerning Him, and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take Him.

Jesus told them He would only be with them for a little while longer and then He would be resurrected and raised.

Joh 7:33  Then Jesus said to them, "I shall be with you a little while longer, and then I go to Him who sent Me.

Christ told them He could not be found.

Joh 7:34  "You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come."

The Jews had no idea of His resurrection and rising, and that He would sit on the right hand of the Father.

Joh 7:35  Then the Jews said among themselves, "Where does He intend to go that we shall not find Him? Does He intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

Joh 7:36  "What is this thing that He said, 'You will seek Me and not find Me, and where I am you cannot come'?"

Christ spoke about the Father during this day of the Feast, we must know Him and Christ if we are to gain eternal life.
We must love the truth and believe it.
There is only one true God and that is the Father.  He is the only one who has existed for all eternity.
Christ was born of the Father before creation. Christ has not always existed.

1Co 8:6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

1Co 8:7  However, there is not in everyone that knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol; and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.

Isa 46:9  Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,

Isa 45:5  I am the LORD, and there is no other; There is no God besides Me. I will gird you, though you have not known Me,

We must love the new knowledge of the Father and Christ, we have not known who they are before this.  That is because this knowledge is only being revealed in the end time church, it has not been available till now.  Let's love these new truths brethren, let's believe them, and obey them.

5TH DAY OF THE FEAST

Again let us recap on what we have learned, the Feast of tabernacles, pictures the time that God had the Israelites live in booths for 40 years in the wilderness.
We should be sitting in our booth for a period of time each day.
As we do this, we contemplate the temporary state of the booth, the temporary state of this physical life, why they lived like that, and how God must have felt about their constant rebellions and murmurings.  

Lev 23:34  "Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the LORD.

Lev 23:35  'On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:36  'For seven days you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a sacred assembly, and you shall do no customary work on it.

Lev 23:37  'These are the feasts of the LORD which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering and a grain offering, a sacrifice and drink offerings, everything on its day;

Lev 23:38  'besides the Sabbaths of the LORD, besides your gifts, besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings which you give to the LORD.

Lev 23:39  'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  'And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

We have learned of the new knowledge about the Father and Christ, we have seen the correct day of the Passover, and have seen we must keep it on the correct day.
We have seen the parallel of the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ.
We saw that the Israelites rejected the fountain of living waters The Father and the Holy Spirit.
We saw how the Israelites rejected the Promised Land.
We learned of the attitudes of Joshua and Caleb and how they differed from the other leaders of the tribes.
We saw what Christ spoke about in the midst of the Feast, He spoke of the Father.

The time spent in slavery should be on our mind every Sabbath, it is a reminder of this time, we need to remember what we were before God so mercifully brought us out of the land of bondage.  Notice the following scripture and that we are to remember these days on the Sabbath.

Deu 5:14  but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Deu 5:15  And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Deut. 32 v 1-44 is the song of Moses it needs to be learned by modern day Israel in the end time. 

Today we will look at another spirit, why did Joshua and Caleb qualify to enter into the Promised Land.
What was the difference between them and the other leaders of Israel?
How can we be like them today?

Today let's look at having another spirit.

Num 14:24  "But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Deu 34:9  Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Num 32:11  'Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Num 32:12  'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

Num 14:6  But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;

They loved the Promised Land, they spoke highly of it.  It was exceedingly good.

Num 14:7  and they spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying: "The land we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.

Notice the confidence of Joshua and Caleb, they had no doubt that they could inhabit the land, if God delighted in them. God will bring us into this land, God will give it to us, notice that they gave all the credit to God.  It was never something they could have done on their own.  God was always in the picture with these two.
They could see that God wanted to give them the Promised Land.
It is the same today, God wants to give us eternal life.

Num 14:8  "If the LORD delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, 'a land which flows with milk and honey.'

Again Joshua and Caleb are not worried by the size or strength of the people of the land.  If God was for them, what was their worry?  Don’t rebel, don’t fear them, they are defenceless.  The Lord is with us, do not fear them.
Joshua and Caleb relied on God, they trusted Him, they believed Him, they loved the land.

This is how we must be today.  As we hear the new knowledge of eternal life, it may scare us.  We may be worried and scared to leave the old beliefs behind, but if we trust in God and believe Him, the clouds of doubt will soon blow away.  The new knowledge may appear too big for us to handle, too hard too difficult, but just like Joshua and Caleb, if we look past the obstacles, if we trust in God then we will be able to accept the truth.  We have to love the new truth, just as they loved the Promised Land.

Num 14:9  "Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them."

Because of Joshua’s obedience and love of the Promised Land, and his willingness to rely on God and believe God, he was given responsibilities of leading Israel.  Notice Joshua had the spirit.

Num 27:17  "who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd."

Num 27:18  And the LORD said to Moses: "Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;

Num 27:19  "set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight.

Num 27:20  "And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

Joshua and Caleb were the only ones out of all the Israelites over 20 years old, who entered the Promised Land……why?  They followed the Lord wholly.

Num 32:11  'Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

Num 32:12  'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.'

Here is a warning for us in the end time church.  We must be prepared to follow the Lord wholly.  Unfortunately the last era of God's church is only a half hearted bunch.  We see that we are lukewarm. 

Rev 3:16  "So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

If we are not diligent to be whole hearted, what will happen, the same as the Israelites, they did not enter the Promised Land……we will miss out on eternal life…..because Christ says He will spew us out of His mouth.

Don’t just sit back and think we will easily roll on into the kingdom from here.  Ok we have come through troubles in the church, and we chose to stick with God's laws, when the church was led into doing away with the Sabbath and the holy days.

We have now been able to see the new knowledge that leads to eternal life.  But if we think we can just cruise on in from here ……think again…. Satan roams around seeking those whom he may devour.  We must be on our guard, we must be whole hearted, we must put eternal life high on our priority list and God must be No. 1 and we must love this new truth, believe God, have faith and have courage.  The troubles ahead will make those which we have already endured look like a picnic.  Satan will be very upset with the end time church, he does not want them to succeed.

Let’s not under estimate our enemy, when the church brings forth the end time knowledge of God and Christ…..Satan is waiting to devour and do away with this knowledge.

Rev 12:4  His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth, to devour her Child as soon as it was born.

We must be very diligent to get rid of this lukewarm attitude if it is in us today.  We must love the truth, believe God, trust in God, be faithful, work hard on ourselves, and our attitudes, and rid ourselves of this half hearted approach to the truth, eternal life is at stake. 

Deu 1:38  'Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Notice the responsibility given to Joshua, he would cause Israel to inherit the Promised Land.  He was going to lead them in, he set the correct examples of following God with his whole heart. 

These are the same qualities we need today.  Are we capable of leading others to the truth, can we be strong and courageous enough in the face of huge difficulties.

Deu 31:7  Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall cause them to inherit it.

Deu 31:8  "And the LORD, He is the one who goes before you. He will be with you, He will not leave you nor forsake you; do not fear nor be dismayed."

Here we see Moses telling Joshua that he must be strong and of good courage.

Then we see the all important song of Moses which Israel must learn as a witness against them.

Notice that the children of Israel were to learn it.  The church must learn this song.

Deu 31:19  "Now therefore, write down this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel; put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for Me against the children of Israel.

Deu 31:20  "When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.

Deu 31:21  "Then it shall be, when many evils and troubles have come upon them, that this song will testify against them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten in the mouths of their descendants, for I know the inclination of their behavior today, even before I have brought them to the land of which I swore to give them."

Deu 31:22  Therefore Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the children of Israel.

Deu 31:23  Then He inaugurated Joshua the son of Nun, and said, "Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land of which I swore to them, and I will be with you."

Deu 31:24  So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished,

Deu 31:25  that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying:

Deu 31:26  "Take this Book of the Law, and put it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there as a witness against you;

Deu 31:27  "for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. If today, while I am yet alive with you, you have been rebellious against the LORD, then how much more after my death?

Deu 31:28  "Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Deu 31:29  "For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands."

Deu 31:30  Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song until they were ended:

THE SONG OF MOSES

Deu 32:1  "Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

Deu 32:2  Let my teaching drop as the rain, My speech distill as the dew, As raindrops on the tender herb, And as showers on the grass.

Deu 32:3  For I proclaim the name of the LORD: Ascribe greatness to our God.

Deu 32:4  He is the Rock, His work is perfect; For all His ways are justice, A God of truth and without injustice; Righteous and upright is He.

Deu 32:5  "They have corrupted themselves; They are not His children, Because of their blemish: A perverse and crooked generation.

Deu 32:6  Do you thus deal with the LORD, O foolish and unwise people? Is He not your Father, who bought you? Has He not made you and established you?

Deu 32:7  "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you:

Deu 32:8  When the Most High divided their inheritance to the nations, When He separated the sons of Adam, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.

Deu 32:9  For the Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the place of His inheritance.

Deu 32:10  "He found him in a desert land And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the apple of His eye.

Deu 32:11  As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreading out its wings, taking them up, Carrying them on its wings,

Deu 32:12  So the LORD alone led him, And there was no foreign god with him.

Deu 32:13  "He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock;

Deu 32:14  Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.

Deu 32:15  "But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Deu 32:16  They provoked Him to jealousy with foreign gods; With abominations they provoked Him to anger.

Deu 32:17  They sacrificed to demons, not to God, To gods they did not know, To new gods, new arrivals That your fathers did not fear.

Deu 32:18  Of the Rock who begot you, you are unmindful, And have forgotten the God who fathered you.

Deu 32:19  "And when the LORD saw it, He spurned them, Because of the provocation of His sons and His daughters.

Deu 32:20  And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.

Deu 32:21  They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

Deu 32:22  For a fire is kindled by my anger, And shall burn to the lowest hell; It shall consume the earth with her increase, And set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

Deu 32:23  'I will heap disasters on them; I will spend My arrows on them.

Deu 32:24  They shall be wasted with hunger, Devoured by pestilence and bitter destruction; I will also send against them the teeth of beasts, With the poison of serpents of the dust.

Deu 32:25  The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within For the young man and virgin, The nursing child with the man of gray hairs.

Deu 32:26  I would have said, "I will dash them in pieces, I will make the memory of them to cease from among men,"

Deu 32:27  Had I not feared the wrath of the enemy, Lest their adversaries should misunderstand, Lest they should say, "Our hand is high; And it is not the LORD who has done all this."'

Deu 32:28  "For they are a nation void of counsel, Nor is there any understanding in them.

Deu 32:29  Oh, that they were wise, that they understood this, That they would consider their latter end!

Deu 32:30  How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD had surrendered them?

Deu 32:31  For their rock is not like our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.

Deu 32:32  For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.

Deu 32:33  Their wine is the poison of serpents, And the cruel venom of cobras.

Deu 32:34  'Is this not laid up in store with Me, Sealed up among My treasures?

Deu 32:35  Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.'

Deu 32:36  "For the LORD will judge His people And have compassion on His servants, When He sees that their power is gone, And there is no one remaining, bond or free.

Deu 32:37  He will say: 'Where are their gods, The rock in which they sought refuge?

Deu 32:38  Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise and help you, And be your refuge.

Deu 32:39  'Now see that I, even I, am He, And there is no God besides Me; I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal; Nor is there any who can deliver from My hand.

Deu 32:40  For I raise My hand to heaven, And say, "As I live forever,

Deu 32:41  If I whet My glittering sword, And My hand takes hold on judgment, I will render vengeance to My enemies, And repay those who hate Me.

Deu 32:42  I will make My arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh, With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the heads of the leaders of the enemy."'

Deu 32:43  "Rejoice, O Gentiles, with His people; For He will avenge the blood of His servants, And render vengeance to His adversaries; He will provide atonement for His land and His people."

Deu 32:44  So Moses came with Joshua the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Joshua was full of the spirit.

Deu 34:9  Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

 
Notice they had another spirit.

Num 14:24  "But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Joshua and Caleb had another spirit to the other leaders, they were obedient to God, loved the Promised Land, believed God, relied on God, had faith and trust in Him, they knew they could easily take the Promised Land if God was with them.

Let's go forward a little in our account to just before the time of the death of Joshua to recap on the type of man he was. This was 25 years after they entered the Promised Land and Joshua was 110 years old.

Jos 23:6  "Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

Jos 23:7  "and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them,

Jos 23:8  "but you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

 
When God was with Israel they were very strong, the same with us, if we rely on God we can do whatever God wants of us.

Jos 23:9  "For the LORD has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.

Jos 23:10  "One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.

Notice Joshua reminds them to love God.

Jos 23:11  "Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

 
God kept His promises.

Jos 23:14  "Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

Get rid of foreign gods and serve God.

Jos 24:14  "Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!

Jos 24:15  "And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."

God will not let the rebellious go unpunished. 

Jos 24:20  "If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good."

Jos 24:24  And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!"

Jos 24:25  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Jos 24:26  Then Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

Jos 24:27  And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God."

Jos 24:28  So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.

Jos 24:29  Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

Jos 24:30  And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.

Jos 24:31  Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had known all the works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.

Caleb was 40 when he spied out the Promised Land.

Jos 14:7  "I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart.

Caleb was given the land.

Deu 1:36  'except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him and his children I am giving the land on which he walked, because he wholly followed the LORD.'

Caleb was given Hebron.

Jos 14:12  "Now therefore, give me this mountain of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were great and fortified. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said."

Jos 14:13  And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

Jos 14:14  Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

Jos 14:15  And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim). Then the land had rest from war.

6TH DAY OF THE FEAST 

Once again we will recap and remind ourselves of what these days picture.  The feast is a reminder of the time the Israelites dwelt in booths during their time in the wilderness.

Lev 23:40  'And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

We have learned that the Father is the one true God, and Christ is His Son born before creation.  We have seen that the Passover must be kept on the correct day, we have seen the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ. We saw Israel’s rejection of the Father the fountain of living waters and the Holy Spirit, we saw what Christ spoke about during the feast, we saw Joshua and Caleb had another spirit. 
 

Today we look at the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness and how it is a parallel to the time when we are given the earnest of the Spirit and also learn new knowledge about the Holy Spirit of truth, which is a parallel to crossing the Jordan River and entering the Promised Land.

We are given the earnest of the Spirit at baptism, if we repent and meet God's requirements.

Once we have the earnest of the Spirit, we can begin to understand, obey, believe, and grow in knowledge and overcome ourselves.

2Pe 3:18  but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.

1Pe 1:21  who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.

Eph 3:4  by which, when you read, you may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ,

Eph 3:5  which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to His holy apostles and prophets:

Act 5:32  "And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who obey Him."

How well we do these things depends on how much we want to please God, how much we want to be different to the world, how much time and effort we are prepared to put in.

If we want to win the race we have to be fit to compete.

God let the Israelites wander for 40 years to test them to see what was in their hearts.

Deu 8:2  "And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

Once we receive the earnest of the Spirit we then have to be proved, without any doubt we will lack humility, before we come to the Promised Land we, like the Israelites, are taken on a long and arduous journey, God wants to be absolutely sure we are ready before He gives us the Holy Spirit of power, which is eternal life inherent.
The same as the Israelites they did not enter the Promised Land until God was satisfied with them.

There is no turning back from eternal life, remember only those under 20 survived the 40 years in the wilderness, which made the oldest of them 60 at the time they entered the Promised Land.  They had 40 years of testing, many of us have not been in the church that long.

2Co 1:22  who also has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.

2Co 5:5  Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

Notice that we receive the earnest of the Spirit when we believe God.
Then it could take many years before we are ready for the Spirit of power.
So once we receive the truth, we accept the truth, we act and try to change, we have a desire to learn, and grow, and change and become like God, and we believe God then God will give us the earnest of the Spirit.

Even though the Israelites witnessed many miracles, they did not believe or love God. 

The earnest of the Spirit is a down payment of what is yet to come.

Eph 1:13  In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

Eph 1:14  who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.

Once the earnest of the Holy Spirit is given then we can grow and overcome and understand much more, without the earnest of the Spirit our understanding is shallow, we need the earnest of the Spirit to have a deeper understanding of God's word.  We can begin our Christian walk, we can understand the bible as God opens our mind to understand.  We can obey, we have belief, we have faith, love, and we should show the fruits of the spirit.

Gal 5:22  But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Gal 5:23  gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

This growth can take many years until God offers the knowledge of eternal life.
But we must accept the new knowledge, love it, believe it, love the truth, and obey, if we do not then we simply won’t receive the Holy Spirit of power.
Remember the Israelites rejected the Holy Spirit and God.
This knowledge can only be understood when God opens our minds to hear it and believe it and understand it.
Let's look at the example of the disciples.
They were given the earnest of the Spirit.  Notice that they were given the spirit at the beginning.  This enabled them to understand some things. 

Act 11:15  "And as I began to speak, the Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning.

The disciples were given the earnest of the Spirit early up, at the beginning of their calling, Christ later promised that they would receive the Holy Spirit of power, in the book of John.

Joh 20:22  And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

They did not receive the Holy Spirit of power, at this time, but they had qualified at this time, else Christ would not have told them that they were going to get it.  They already had the earnest of the Spirit as shown in Acts 11 v 15, so there is no doubt that Christ was talking about the Spirit of power.
They then went on and received the Holy Spirit of power at Pentecost.

Before receiving the Holy Spirit of Power the knowledge of eternal life was a mystery to them, they could not understand these things.
The disciples did not know that Christ was going to die for the sins of mankind.  What Christ's death meant, and why He had to die was a mystery to them.

It just wasn’t the time to understand some things, the Holy Spirit would bring things to mind after Christ's death.

Joh 14:26  "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Mar 9:31  For He taught His disciples and said to them, "The Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of men, and they will kill Him. And after He is killed, He will rise the third day."

Mar 9:32  But they did not understand this saying, and were afraid to ask Him.

Notice that the understanding was hidden from them, they did not have the Holy Spirit of power and therefore could not understand. Christ told them to remember these sayings and later when they received the Holy Spirit of power, these things would be brought to their remembrance.

Joh 14:26  "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Notice again how Christ explained to them to let these things be remembered and the understanding would come later.

Luk 9:43  And they were all amazed at the majesty of God. But while everyone marveled at all the things which Jesus did, He said to His disciples,

Luk 9:44  "Let these words sink down into your ears, for the Son of Man is about to be betrayed into the hands of men."

Luk 9:45  But they did not understand this saying, and it was hidden from them so that they did not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask Him about this saying.

They were unaware of His resurrection and being raised from the dead.

Joh 16:18  They said therefore, "What is this that He says, 'A little while'? We do not know what He is saying."

Joh 16:19  Now Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, "Are you inquiring among yourselves about what I said, 'A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me'?

Once the disciples received the Holy Spirit of Power, the spirit brought to remembrance the things Christ taught them.

Joh 12:16  His disciples did not understand these things at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

It could be quite a puzzle to understand why the disciples had the earnest of the Spirit and yet did not understand.

As we explained earlier, with the earnest of the Spirit we can understand a good deal, but for the knowledge of eternal life, requires a further step, God must open our minds to greater understanding.  This happens when God shows us the scriptures, if we have a desire to understand, grow, and believe what God shows us, then God opens our mind to greater understanding.

If we love the truth, if we believe the truth, obey, and desire to learn, we must accept that what we once held as the truth is now replaced with new knowledge of eternal life, which is being restored in the end time.  Then God will open our eyes and ears.  

Luk 24:44  Then He said to them, "These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me."

Luk 24:45  And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.

Once God opens our understanding to the scriptures, then there is a period of time until we receive the Holy Spirit of power, in the case of the disciples it was the period from when God opened their minds to understanding, till Pentecost.

Firstly the Holy Spirit of power is with us and then is in us.

Joh 14:16  "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever;

Joh 14:17  "the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

In the case of the disciples, Christ was with them for 40 days teaching them, and showing them about the kingdom.
In our case it is the same, God teaches us and shows us many things until we receive the Holy Spirit of power.

For the Israelites it was the time they crossed the Jordan River and entered into the Promised Land which was a type of us receiving the Holy Spirit of power.

That is why so many did not want it, it was all too hard, many are called, few are chosen.

The giving of the Holy Spirit of power is a very serious time in our spiritual life, and God takes the giving of His spirit very seriously.  When we receive it we have eternal life inherent.

There is a great deal more expected of us once we receive the Holy Spirit of power.

Luk 12:48  "But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

The two phases of the spirit are very different, the first, the earnest of the Spirit, is the down payment, of eternal life, it is a deposit of greater things yet to come.

The Holy Spirit of power once it is given is eternal life inherent, great power is given with this Holy Spirit it is called the Spirit of power, or truth.

The comparison is during the 40 years of wandering is the time of getting the earnest of the Spirit, entering into the Promised Land is the getting of the Holy Spirit of power.

Act 1:8  "But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."

Many readers might think that the disciples first received the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, but the following verse shows that they already had the Holy Spirit and were to receive another comforter. 

Joh 14:16  "And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever;

There is a huge difference in the spiritual understanding we receive with the earnest of the Spirit compared to the Holy Spirit of power.

The Holy Spirit of power or truth enables us to understand the things pertaining to eternal life.

IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW THESE TRUTHS WITHOUT GOD FIRST OPENING OUR MINDS TO UNDERSTANDING THE THINGS OF ETERNAL LIFE, AND AFTER WE ACCEPT THE TRUTH AND BELIEVE THE TRUTH WE ARE GIVEN THE HOLY SPIRIT OF POWER.

When we receive the Holy Spirit of power is entirely up to God.

The Israelites simply did not accept the truth and believe the truth, they just were not ready until they crossed the Jordan.  The 40 years was to sift their hearts.  It is no different for us today.

Notice how God gives us understanding. 

1Jn 5:20  And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

2Ti 2:7  Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

 
We must come to the knowledge of the truth.

1Ti 2:4  who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

We must have a desire to learn, believe, and obey, then we will find the knowledge of God.

Pro 2:3  Yes, if you cry out for discernment, And lift up your voice for understanding,

Pro 2:4  If you seek her as silver, And search for her as for hidden treasures;

Pro 2:5  Then you will understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.

When we receive the truth we must also believe it.

1Th 2:13  For this reason we also thank God without ceasing, because when you received the word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which also effectively works in you who believe.

2Th 2:13  But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth,

We receive power when we have the Holy Spirit of power.

Mic 3:8  But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.

2Ti 1:7  For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Let's look at some of the things that are opened to our minds once we have the Spirit of power.

Unless we love this knowledge, accept it and believe it, we will not receive the Spirit of power, just as the Israelites were not ready to cross the Jordan until they were willing to obey neither will we cross into eternal life inherent.

Jos 24:31  Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had known all the works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.

THE FATHER IS THE ONE TRUE GOD.

The knowledge of the Father and the Son is eternal life, we must know that there is one true God and that is the Father, He is the only one who has existed for all eternity.  He is the self existent one, Jehovah.  Jesus Christ has not always existed, He is from the beginning, He was born before creation. He is the firstborn Son of God.  He is God but He has not existed for eternity.  He is second in charge to the Father.

Joh 17:3  "And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

Jer 10:10  But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and the everlasting King. At His wrath the earth will tremble, And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

Mar 12:32  So the scribe said to Him, "Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but He.

1Co 8:6  yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.

1Ti 2:5  For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus,

Once we learn these truths God will show us many more things, like the correct day of the Passover, the correct meaning of the holy days and much much more.

The prophets and righteous men would not have been given certain knowledge because it was to be revealed to the disciples, until then it was not known. 

Mat 13:17  "for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

This knowledge is to be restored in the end time church……all things will be restored.  This knowledge will eventually fill the whole earth.  It was known by the disciples, but lost since then, to be restored in the end time.
 
Mat 17:11  Jesus answered and said to them, "Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things.

The 40 years of wandering in the wilderness is a type of when we receive the earnest of the Spirit it is the time that God tests our hearts.
When the Israelites eventually entered the Promised Land is a type of receiving the Holy Spirit of power, when we receive this we prove to God that we love Him, love the truth, obey the truth and believe Him.

7TH DAY OF THE FEAST

Again for the last time we will recap what we have learned during this feast. We have seen that the feast pictures the time the Israelites lived in booths, for 40 years.  

Lev 23:39  'Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD for seven days; on the first day there shall be a sabbath-rest, and on the eighth day a sabbath-rest.

Lev 23:40  'And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches of palm trees, the boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

Lev 23:43  'that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the LORD your God.'"

Lev 23:44  So Moses declared to the children of Israel the feasts of the LORD.

We learned the new knowledge about the Father and Christ, we have seen the correct date of the Passover.  We have seen the parallel between the crossing of the Red Sea and the raising of Christ.  We have learned how the Israelites rejected the fountain of living waters God the Father and the Holy Spirit.  We have seen how the Israelites rejected the Promised Land.  We have seen the difference between the heart of Joshua and Caleb and the other leaders of the Israelite Tribes, and the other Israelites.  We looked at what Christ himself spoke about during the feast.
We looked at why Joshua and Caleb had another spirit. Then yesterday we looked at the parallel of the 40 years of wandering and how it is a type of the period of time when we receive the earnest of the Spirit until we finally qualify to receive the Spirit of power which is eternal life inherent.   So the 40 years is a type of the time we have the earnest of the Spirit.

Now today is the last day of the feast.  This means that we will take down our booths, before sunset, before the start of the holy day for the Last Great Day.  We are only required to sit in our booths for 7 days.

Lev 23:41  'You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD for seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

Lev 23:42  'You shall dwell in booths for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booths,

The parallel for us today pictures our temporary physical state once we are called and are given the earnest of the Spirit until we finally qualify to receive the Holy Spirit of power and have eternal life inherent.  Again to have the Holy Spirit of power we must love the truth, believe it, obey it, and fear God.

Perhaps some of you are thinking we have repeated what we have learned over and over, this is so that it will help you to remember the new truths we are learning  WE HAVE NOT KNOWN WHAT THE HOLY DAYS PICTURE ……THIS IS NEW KNOWLEDGE BEING RESTORED IN THE LAST DAYS, if it were not important we would not teach it, it is vitally important that you understand these new teachings, if you don’t or you have any questions about anything we are teaching you, please come and ask us, and we will do our very best to answer your questions from the bible. 

Today we will look at why the Israelites rejected the Holy Spirit and God twice during this time.  Firstly at Marah and secondly when they brought back an evil report of the Promised Land.

Today we will look at why the Israelites failed.  What were their attitudes?  What was in their hearts and minds?

Today we will hopefully learn from their mistakes to insure that we do not have the same attitudes, the same hearts and the same actions as the Israelites.

REMEMBER THIS IS A PARALLEL FOR US TODAY.

REMEMBER THEY FAILED AND ALL PERISHED THEY DID NOT ENTER THE PROMISED LAND.  Only those under 20 years of age, at the time the scouts spied out the Promised Land, entered in. 

Notice the following account only a short time after the crossing of the Red Sea.

The people complained about a lack of food, we need to look at ourselves, do we complain or murmur or grumble about things, so did the Israelites. 

Exo 16:2  Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Exo 16:3  And the children of Israel said to them, "Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

They complained about water.  In fact they complained about many things, so we must guard against this in our lives. 

Exo 17:3  And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, "Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

The people were not righteous, they were stiffnecked.  Their behaviour did not allow them to enter the Promised Land.  They could not enter because of disbelief.

Heb 3:17  Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose corpses fell in the wilderness?

Heb 3:18  And to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey?

Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

We can’t earn eternal life either, unless we believe God, we must also love God, and the truth, obey and fear God if we want eternal life.  If the bible differs from our thoughts we must change to believe the bible.

Deu 9:6  "Therefore understand that the LORD your God is not giving you this good land to possess because of your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Rom 6:23  For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The entire time from Egypt until they entered the Promised Land, the Israelites were rebellious. 

Deu 9:7  "Remember Do not forget how you provoked the LORD your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that you departed from the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the LORD.

So we must be careful that we are not rebellious.

Korah and others challenged the leadership of Moses.  Let's make sure we do not do that today.  God decides who will be in charge of the church on the earth, not man.  If we disagree with who God picks for certain leadership roles, then we are not in agreement with the Mighty One of Israel. 

Mr. Armstrong was the God appointed leader of the Philadelphian era of the church, many disagreed with his leadership and followed other leaders back to Egypt and back to slavery where they were quite happy to do away with God's laws, Sabbath and Holy days.

Let's be very careful of our attitudes towards the leaders.  God puts them in charge, if He wanted someone else then God would have chosen them.  So be mindful of how we treat those in leadership roles.

Num 14:4  So they said to one another, "Let us select a leader and return to Egypt."

Act 7:36  "He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Act 7:37  "This is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, 'The LORD your God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall hear.'

Act 7:38  "This is he who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the Angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers, the one who received the living oracles to give to us,

Act 7:39  "whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

People join churches that suit them, not the only church on earth that has the truth of God.  There are now hundreds of churches that claim to be God's church, this is a fallacy, there is ONE CHURCH that has the truth of God.  Notice the following scripture Christ will build His church, not churches.

Mat 16:18  "And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

It didn’t take the Israelites long to turn from God and to worship a false god of molten image.

We must guard against false gods. 

Deu 9:12  "Then the LORD said to me, 'Arise, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them; they have made themselves a molded image.'

Notice the list of sins they committed.

1Co 10:5  But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Do not lust after evil.

1Co 10:6  Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted.

Don’t be idolaters.

1Co 10:7  And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play."

Don’t commit fornication.

1Co 10:8  Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell;

Don’t tempt Christ.

1Co 10:9  nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

Don’t complain.

1Co 10:10  nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.

These are for examples for us in these last days.

1Co 10:11  Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.

Don’t harden our hearts.

Heb 3:8  Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, In the day of trial in the wilderness,

Heb 3:9  Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me, And saw My works forty years.

We must know God's ways.

Heb 3:10  Therefore I was angry with that generation, And said, 'They always go astray in their heart, And they have not known My ways.'

We must have a believing honest heart.

God's rest is the Promised Land. 

Heb 3:11  So I swore in My wrath, 'They shall not enter My rest.'"

Heb 3:12  Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;

Belief, we must believe the new truth, we must love it and believe it.

We must believe God, we will not get eternal life if we do not believe God.

Num 14:11  Then the LORD said to Moses: "How long will these people reject Me? And how long will they not believe Me, with all the signs which I have performed among them?

Keep away from evil and do not do it.  Notice this is for the latter days.

Deu 31:29  "For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands."

Keep away from wickedness and do not be wicked.

Deu 9:18  "And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty nights; I neither ate bread nor drank water, because of all your sin which you committed in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.

Do not have a lack of faith.

Deu 32:20  And He said: 'I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be, For they are a perverse generation, Children in whom is no faith.

Do not have vanity in our lives, again this is a warning for the end time.

Deu 32:21  They have provoked Me to jealousy by what is not God; They have moved Me to anger by their foolish idols. But I will provoke them to jealousy by those who are not a nation; I will move them to anger by a foolish nation.

Let's look at some of the things they did to God.  They tempted Him 10 times.

Num 14:22  "because all these men who have seen My glory and the signs which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have put Me to the test now these ten times, and have not heeded My voice,

Firstly they complained about bread.

Exo 16:2  Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

Exo 16:3  And the children of Israel said to them, "Oh, that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the pots of meat and when we ate bread to the full! For you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger."

Then they complained about water.

Exo 17:2  Therefore the people contended with Moses, and said, "Give us water, that we may drink." And Moses said to them, "Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the LORD?"

Only a short time after leaving Egypt the Israelites doubted God was with them.

Exo 17:7  So he called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contention of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

Then they built a golden calf which they claimed brought them out of Egypt.

Exo 32:8  "They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and worshiped it and sacrificed to it, and said, 'This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!'"

Then they complained about the manna, and lusted after flesh.

Psa 78:18  And they tested God in their heart By asking for the food of their fancy.

Num 11:4  Now the mixed multitude who were among them yielded to intense craving; so the children of Israel also wept again and said: "Who will give us meat to eat?

Then they rejected the Promised Land, bringing back an evil report of the fabulous land.

Num 13:32  And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.

They insulted God and wanted to turn back to Egypt, they did not want God.

Psa 78:41  Yes, again and again they tempted God, And limited the Holy One of Israel.

Act 7:39  "whom our fathers would not obey, but rejected. And in their hearts they turned back to Egypt,

I have not listed 10 things here, as when I looked into it, I felt there could be 110 times that the Israelites tempted God and provoked Him.  The worst being the rejection of God the Father and the Holy Spirit at Marah, followed by the rejection of the Promised Land.  What an ungrateful bunch of complaining people.  No wonder God wanted to destroy them.
 

This account is only a summary of the many things the Israelites did that displeased God.  Moses was constantly under attack by them, and God wanted to wipe them all out and start again with Moses sons. 

This account is for us for an example so that we do not foolishly follow their bad examples.  The time in the wilderness for us spiritually is a testing time to see what is in our hearts and minds.  How do we come up?  What does God think of us?   We are in this testing time now so be diligent, believe God, love the truth, believe the truth, obey it and have a healthy fear of God.

Surely we want to cross the Jordan and enter the Promised Land, which is for us the receiving of the Holy Spirit of Power, eternal life inherent. 

A reminder that we take down our booth before sunset as that will be the end of the feast.  We do not sit in our booth on the Last Great Day, only during the feast.