Episode #30: Instalment 3 of the Jewish Calendar Series: Feast Of Tabernacles W/ Joshua Erickson

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Today is October 10th 2022.
It is the first day of the Feast

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of Tabernacles.
So on this episode, Joshua

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Erickson and I are continuing
our discussion on the feast and

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holy days of the Jewish
calendar.

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This is installment number three
of that series.

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Now again, I strongly recommend
that.

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If you haven't heard it, go back
and listen to episode number 15,

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that episode sets the table for
the entire series.

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Then listen to episodes number
27, and The reason for this is

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as I've had these conversations
with Joshua, I began to see that

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the Lord instituted these feast
and holy days to build on top of

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one another.
There's a certain Heavenly

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momentum that.
I feel like the Lord is trying

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to convey through the Jewish
calendar on this episode Joshua

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and I cover.
What the Feast of Tabernacles is

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what it is in memory of how it
was celebrated.

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Ancient lie.
How it is celebrated a day?

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And finally the lessons and
principles we can take away from

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the Feast of Tabernacles and
that's next, on this episode of

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All right.
Well, welcome back, man.

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Try to be here.
Thanks for having me.

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So last time we talked about Yom
Kippur and now we're on the

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Tabernacle.
That's right, the Feast of

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Tabernacles, what is it?
The Feast of Tabernacles is.

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It's probably the has the most
symbolism.

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And this is the, this is the
culmination of the feast cycle

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basically because it is.
Yeah, and it's the culmination

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of This Earth as well.
This is this is Millennial

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symbolism here.
Who's oh this is good stuff.

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So let me read, let me read what
Leviticus says just the end end

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of it this is this going to be
on the 15th 15th, day of the 7th

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month and it's lasts for seven
days, there's a week-long

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celebration, and then on the end
there's what's called The Eighth

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Day.
The Eighth Day of assembly in

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its kind of the it's It's
related to Tabernacles but it is

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a separate day and very
exciting.

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Getting the vibe that the
seventh month, there was a lot

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of work getting done in Israel.
Yeah, I, yeah, you might be

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right now, the when it comes to
the week of Tabernacles the

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first day, and this is
especially mirrors, there's

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actually a nice correlation
between the first month and the

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seventh month, okay?
The first, in the first Month.

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The first day of the first
month, the scriptures say is the

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new year.
Okay?

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And then in the first day of the
seventh month is the Feast of

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trumpets, which traditionally is
also understood to be a new year

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as well and for good reason.
Okay.

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And then and then we have the
tenth of the first month is when

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the lamb for Passover is
selected, okay?

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And then the tenth of the
seventh month, we have the day

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of atonement and then on the On
the, and then, the 14th is

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Passover.
And then, the 15th is a

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week-long celebration of
unleavened bread.

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The Feast of unleavened bread.
We'll talk more about all these

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later.
But, and then in the seventh

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month, then we have surgery on
the 15th.

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We have this eight Day
celebration as well, kind of in

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the middle there.
So end for the Feast of

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unleavened bread.
The first day is a Sabbath and

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the last days A Sabbath, and for
Tabernacles the first and the

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last days are also considered
statins.

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So, zero other names that
Tabernacles or the Feast of

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Tabernacles.
It is the it is the Feast of

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ingathering, okay?
That's the end.

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It's also called Tabernacles in
in Hebrew and be Sukkot, okay?

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Which in the English equivalent
that is Booth, sometimes called

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the Feast of booths and that's
referring to.

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These temporary dwellings, these
temporary shelters that they

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would make Commanded to make and
to kind of dwell in during this

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week, long celebration.
So you're kind of like leaving

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behind.
If I'm understanding your

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leaving behind kind of like your
plush existence so to speak,

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right?
Yeah, there's all kinds of

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Symbolism that we can draw from
this and one of them is yeah

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we're going to we're going to
set aside.

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Well yeah, we're going to set
aside.

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Yeah, exactly.
Our plush existence, and we're

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going to feel what it feels like
to be pilgrims.

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Okay, Wanderers.
May be strangers in a Strange

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Land.
Like our ancestors did.

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So let me read, let me read.
I was going to read in

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Leviticus.
And he shall keep it a feast

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unto the Lord.
Seven days in the year, it shall

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be a statute forever in your
Generations.

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You shall celebrate it in the
seventh month, you shall dwell

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in booths and he drew that Suka
or Sukkot.

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You should dwell in Sukkot seven
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All that our Israelite born
shall dwell in pseudocode that

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your Generations may know that I
made the children of Israel to

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dwell in booths.
When I brought them out of the

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land of Egypt, I am Jehovah.
Your God and Moses declared unto

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the children of Israel.
The Feast of the Lord.

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So right there were given one of
the reasons, right?

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Is so that you can remember that
I made.

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This is God speaking that I made
the children of Israel to dwell

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in booths.
Now, a lot of times when we

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think about the forty years in
the wilderness, we think about

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that as purse, right?
But that's a little bit

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misplaced because it's kind of
like the tablets, like the law

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was not the curse.
The curse was having the higher

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because it just could have had
more good had one which is

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interesting because that will
often be how it is.

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For some of us, get the final
judgment.

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We could have had so much more,
right?

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And so the wandering in the
wilderness This that also was

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not the curse.
The curse was not the promised

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land.
Right?

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You see.
They were blessed and women's

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tremendously Blessed.
Like if the if the what happened

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to them in the wilderness as a
curse than may, I be cursed

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similarly because they had the
pillar of fire and the shadow

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guiding them constantly.
There's right there.

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God's presence was with them.
It's like what a curse, you

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know, and you know and for
protection and for direction and

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they Had Manna From Heaven.
Yo, they're all their needs are

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taken care of the scriptures,
even say in Deuteronomy, it says

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even their shoes and their
clothes did not wear out 40

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years ago.
Like, everything was crazy.

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Everything was provided.
So that, that was not the curse

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that was a blessing, like God
was with them.

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And this is why, this is the
symbolism of Tabernacles is

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related to the Millennium when
as we switch, is it?

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10th article, Faith Christ near
the Earth, will be renewed and

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receive a priori in.
The Christ will reign

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personally.
Pump units, like the Lord is

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going to be with us again there.
And so, so that's the, that's

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the symbolism part of the
symbolism.

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Okay.
Now, what else, what else can we

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remember?
So one is the children of

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Israel.
Wandering in the wilderness as

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Mormons, we have other
wanderings in the wilderness

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that yeah.
Remember Her to write the Book

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of Mormon starts with family,
wandering in the wilderness,

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right?
Lehi and his family there, in

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the wilderness eight years
before they, which is a symbolic

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number, right?
It's eight years.

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And then they get in the water.
So, to enter the Promised Land,

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So that's cool.
The Jared is also wandered, and,

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of course, even more recently
than that, we have Pioneer.

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Mormon pioneers.
Yeah, right.

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And and that is often called
then your the Mormon, Exodus

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turn, right?
And for good reason, you know,

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and there's all kinds of I mean,
even to the place where we ended

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up.
Yeah.

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By A Salty Sea by a salty lake
connected by a river, which we

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named River.
Jordan, that can be a freshwater

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lake.
Yep.

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So yeah.
So it's that's that's one of the

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things we can remember what our
ancestors did.

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Another thing is we remember our
own wandering.

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So I'm going to go to look at
Hebrews here.

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Sorry, no, you're good.
Hebrews chapter 11.

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Starting with verse 8, this is
talking.

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Now this talking about all the
all those faithful people,

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there's a big list of faithful
people, and Abraham is one of

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them in verse, eight starts by
faith Abraham, when he was

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called to go out into a place,
which he should after receive

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for an inheritance, he obeyed.
And he went out, not knowing

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whether he went by faith, he
sojourned in the land of promise

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as in a strange country dwelling
in Tabernacles with Isaac and

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Jacob.
And heirs with him of the same

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promise for he looked for a city
which has foundations whose

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Builder and maker is God.
So, we'll keep it through faith.

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Also, Sara herself herself,
received strength to conceive

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seed and was delivered of a
child when she was past age.

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Because she judged him faithful
who had promised their for

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spraying their even of one and
him as good as dead.

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So many as the stars of the sky
in multitude and the Sands,

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which are by the sea shore.
Innumerable these all died in

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faith, not having received the
promises but having seen them

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afar off and were persuaded of
them and embraced.

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Race them and confessed that
they were strangers and pilgrims

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on the earth, okay?
And it goes on.

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They were they were mindless.
I'm going to keep reading.

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So I'm going to read a couple
more for they, that say, such

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things declare plainly that they
seek a country and truly, if

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they had been mindful of that
country, from whence, they came

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out, they might have had
opportunity to have returned,

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but now they desire, a better
country.

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That is a Heavenly, wherefore
God is not ashamed to be called

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their God for you.
He hath prepared for them.

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A city.
So beautiful stuff there but

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says Abraham and his family.
They sojourned in Tabernacles in

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a strange country said they were
they were strangers and pilgrims

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on the earth.
Yeah, that is.

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That is our position to that.
We are.

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We are strangers here and this
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This is not our home.

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Ryan.
We're trying to like it says

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like we're trying to find like
Abraham was Promised Land.

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We're trying to find on a
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We're trying to find that
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what our sojourn here on the
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I want to talk about that a
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it's so important that we
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ultimate hope and goal as
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Earthly, state is to make Zion
to build Zion It all has to

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start personally first, right?
Yes, one of the reasons I named

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the podcast, what I did the
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it's been lost a little bit in
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real good job of explaining it.
Is that, I think, initially

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people think, well, he's not
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makes him a renegade and maybe
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else.
If you look at the pattern that

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God seems to use when you decide
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that you're ready to do that is
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Yeah.
Of wherever it is, you're

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comfortable.
And he you're going to have to

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go a little bit Renegade.
In order to find a Moses, didn't

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sit me earlier in, like, how can
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It was like, no, get up, get Out
me, right?

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And it's still the same charge
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Get out of Babylon and go
establish, something different.

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On a much more personal level.
We have to be willing to forsake

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some of those Babylonian
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to sojourn in a Wilderness.
Yes, where you basically look up

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in the heavens and you talk to
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because I hope so, because I'm
doing what it is.

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You're asking me to do Help me
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that it's a called back to this
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Tabernacles is a is a call back
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of making that Soldier and
wherever it is he's going to

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lead you.
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Now there's a I mean the whole
the whole Exodus is in a In one

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enormous Parable.
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And is it is beautiful.
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even if even if they had been a
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entering the promised land,
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period of dwelling in the
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between when they were freed
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the Promised Land Now, they
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the wilderness a little longer,
but still that, that

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intermediate place is, is
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That's the, that's the whole,
that's the difference between

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this justification and
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Right.
Justification is when our, you

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know, our sins are forgiven,
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And that happened with the
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From Egypt, and sin, and
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that.
But they were not Sanctified yet

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which means holy Justified.
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guilty and still not be wholly,
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So they needed it, there's a
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process of Refinement to become
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promised land.
So, it's a and the bigger, the

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bigger pair of the bigger
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Like we kind of, kind of read it
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interesting that Abraham started
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And then he ends up his well
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I mean it starts with Abraham
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father.
He is the father of the faithful

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and and then there's the three
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And we have this idea this
godhead, right?

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And then and then and then Jacob
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nation of Israel, right?
And then and then all of his Is

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scented stand up going to Egypt.
Like I started out.

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They were in the promised land.
This is just like us.

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This is our story.
We were in the promised land

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with our father, right?
And we all come down to the

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world which is Egypt and then
we're enslaved and there's all

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kinds of corruption and and
eventually there's we are

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redeemed and we start this
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land, but the promised land is
where we started, right?

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And we are and we are going back
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And then You know, we go
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We're baptized, you know.
Paul Paul says, in First

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Corinthians, let's see First
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Yeah, this is just how we are
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And we are when we think about
Tabernacles of remembering what

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it is, like to be an Israelite.
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would that ye Would not that you
should be ignorant how that our

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fathers were under the cloud and
all passed through the sea and

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all were baptized.
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the sea and all that, eat the
same spiritual meat and all the

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drink, the same spiritual drink
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spiritual rock, that followed
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So says right this the symbolism
of Israel leaving Egypt and

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going through the see that was
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That was there baptism as a
nation, right?

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But we individually, we do the
same thing like when we are

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baptized.
We are leaving Egypt behind,

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right?
And go and then we're going out

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into the The Wilderness where we
have, but it says that they had

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the cloud that followed them,
which is, which is in, in our

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case is a representation of the
spirit, right?

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Guiding us the fire and the
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That's that's where the Hebrew
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that guy just through the
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promised land.
And there's, there's this second

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water that we have to pass,
which was the Jordan that split

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as well, right?
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And it's, and it's Joshua.
Who is, who is Jesus, you know,

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takes us into the promised land.
And then, there were back where

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we started now.
There's work to do, they're

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still too, but, but the whole
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as the pentateuch and then the
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there and it's, it's a parable
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Earth and then our struggle to
return to the place of we came

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from So we so those are the
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that we remember.
I was going to read one other

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just talking about our own Our
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Yeah, Moroni 9:6.
And now my beloved Son,

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notwithstanding their hardness.
Let us labor diligently for.

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If we should cease to labor, we
should be brought under

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condemnation for we have a labor
to perform whilst in this

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Tabernacle of clay.
We may conquer the enemy of all

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righteousness and rest, our
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So we have these Tabernacles of
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And we are also strangers and
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mentioned is with Jacob and
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Esau, he goes out, right?
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sukkahs or Sukkot these
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And so, when we go, and we are
now dwelling in Sook has that is

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kind of also a reminder of our
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In other words, we are God's
flaw, right?

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Right.
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position to to remember that.
and, And it's, it's even more

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than that.
Another thing that we remember,

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is not only that we are in
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that the word was made flesh.
Right?

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That Jesus came down
condescended and tabernacled

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with us as well.
And the scriptures talk about

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that.
There's a number of Versus, and

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we'll go to those.
We all are familiar with that

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probably but Yeah.
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tabernacled with us right in the
form of Jesus and was a man

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among us and that and this goes
this ties into the millennial

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significance.
Again, is that we believe that

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you again, physically, there
will be God will be here on the

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earth and Jesus will be king
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So, so let me let me just make
sure that that we've got our

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heads wrapped around this fully
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So this is in remembrance of
Israel's Journey Through the

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Wilderness.
Yeah, it is a time to remember

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that.
Hey, we're all on this journey,

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spiritually.
And it's a way for us to harken

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back to to what it was Israel
had to go through and kind of

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see that through their eyes.
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a parable of the journey we're
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Coming from a Promised Land into
mortality and then ultimately

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our quest to get back home.
That's right.

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Okay, yep that's one that's one
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Another another aspect of it is
well let me let me I said this

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is this is this has Millennial
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So you know I read in Leviticus
chapter 23 and all the all the

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feasts have this language to.
It says do this forever forever

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throughout your Generations?
And Feast of Tabernacles is

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obviously no different.
All right, what scripture was at

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Josh Zechariah Chapter?
14 is where I'm going to be.

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Adding this is talking about.
There's the second coming of the

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Lord.
And in verse 4, talked about my

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speed standing on the Mount of
Olives, and the Mount of Olives

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splitting, we know about that
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But after all of that, Then
really interesting.

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Go to verse 16.
And I'll start there and it

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shall come to pass that every
one that is left of all the

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nations, which came against
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So after this big battle arm
again, right, there will be

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people left over.
I says of all the nations

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everyone that's left.
She'll go up from year to year

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to worship the king, the Lord of
hosts and to keep the Feast of

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Tabernacles, this is e, this is
into the Millennium here.

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Everyone needs to come up and it
shall be that who.

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So will not come up of all the
families of the earth unto

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Jerusalem to worship.
The king, the Lord of hosts even

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upon them will be no rain and if
the family of Egypt going out up

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and come not that have no, that
have no rain there shall be a

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plague wherewith, the Lord will
Smite the Heat and that Up not

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to keep a tab.
In the Feast of Tabernacles,

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this shall be the punishment of
Egypt and the punishment of all

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the nations that come not up to
keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

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So, this one actually has a
penalty associated with it.

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If you will, if you don't keep
this, yeah, they all do no

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doubt.
This one is explicit, though,

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that at least one of the, one of
the penalties is no rain, right?

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So, this is another thing that
the piece of Tabernacles

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historically, and symbolically
like we just read has been

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connected with the coming of
rain and so This is actually

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kind of at the, the end of the
end of the dry season.

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Okay, in Jerusalem.
So Jerusalem, actually gets

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pretty, fair amount of rain, but
the problem is that, it all

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comes in one one rainy season.
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And so, if the rain doesn't
come, everything is dry and

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dying, right A Time.
The the rains come again.

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And so, one of the themes of
girls is this prayers for rain

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and and which is tied to life.
Yeah, their prosperity, the

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crops and all that.
So it is it is one of the it is

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one of the three pilgrimage
Feast.

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So three times a year.
Every all the males are supposed

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to come up to Jerusalem with
their offerings.

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One is the Feast of unleavened
bread.

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One is the Feast of Weeks and
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And these are basically these
are all Harvest parts parts of

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the Harvest cycle.
There's a during the Feast of

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unleavened bread is when The
Barley Harvest is happening.

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And then piece of weeks is when
the wheat Harvest is, and then

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Tabernacles is all the fruit,
the figs and the grapes, and the

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pomegranates, and olives, and
all those kind of things.

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So, so you bring some one of the
one of the Purpose is to bring

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your offering to the Lord when
your Harvest comes in.

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So, Let's see, so there's some
other things that that are done.

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Actually, I want to say one, one
of the thing about the things

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that we are looking forward to.
And that the symbolism is that

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this is the marriage Feast,
okay?

448
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,600
This is when the scriptures in
the New Testament and the

449
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:45,200
document covenants, and they all
talk about, The wedding Feast of

450
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:47,700
the Lamb of the bridegroom is
coming and all that.

451
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,800
Well, yeah, the bridegroom is
coming at trumpets and final.

452
00:28:51,800 --> 00:28:56,700
Judgment is wrapping up at Yom
Kippur and then and then we're

453
00:28:56,700 --> 00:29:01,000
going to have us a wedding or
whoever is left from you for the

454
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,500
righteous that are left over
right, a marriage and it's going

455
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:09,700
to be in Tabernacles, is it?
That's the, that's the wedding.

456
00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:11,400
Feast the wedding Feast.
Yeah.

457
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:18,300
So that's the symbolism to and
so, Anyone that's, of course,

458
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,700
obviously tied to the Millennium
and stuff.

459
00:29:21,100 --> 00:29:23,400
And there's interesting things,
you know, when they make these

460
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:30,800
sukkahs, These Tabernacles these
booths they'll make them out of

461
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,800
natural materials.
Like we have, you know, walls

462
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,100
and those can be made out of
anything, but it's traditional

463
00:29:37,100 --> 00:29:40,800
to have especially on the roof
tab, bunch of branches, you put

464
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:45,200
up their leafy leafy branches,
and that makes the this Shady

465
00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:48,900
covering for the for the
Tabernacle.

466
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,900
And also it's called it's common
thing to decorate them too.

467
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,400
And so one of the things that
people decorate them with is the

468
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,600
fruit from the Harvest.
So okay.

469
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,900
You just have like Nets or
whatever.

470
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,200
You know that has like apples.
And yeah, pomegranates and figs

471
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,100
and whatever.
And this actually is is this

472
00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:18,200
kind of imagery is referred to
in the scriptures and number of

473
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:22,200
places.
And as actually interesting it

474
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:27,300
was reading about George George
Washington.

475
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:34,400
It is There's this phrase, It's
repeated in the scriptures in a

476
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,900
number of places, says that
every man will dwell under his

477
00:30:38,900 --> 00:30:43,200
own Vine and his own fig tree
and that bill be peace

478
00:30:43,300 --> 00:30:48,500
throughout the land that's in
Micah 44 and First Kings for and

479
00:30:48,508 --> 00:30:51,600
in Zechariah 310.
So it's a repeated thing and I

480
00:30:51,608 --> 00:30:55,000
was reading about this, the
sprays under their Vine and

481
00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,700
under their fig tree.
As actually used by George

482
00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:05,200
Washington, like, in his
correspondence like 50 times or

483
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:07,400
something like that.
This phrase, he loved that idea.

484
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,900
But this is under the vine and
under the, every man under his

485
00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:15,400
own Vine and fig tree is, is
also tied to this idea of

486
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,300
Tabernacles.
When finally, all the nations

487
00:31:18,300 --> 00:31:23,700
have bowed and and the nation's
can, the people can rest too.

488
00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,500
And there's this time of Peace.
It's Millennium when we will be

489
00:31:27,500 --> 00:31:29,400
with the Lord.
You know, one of the things I

490
00:31:29,400 --> 00:31:32,400
would say, especially about the
Washington, quote there that you

491
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,900
just read.
Washington was a guy who

492
00:31:35,900 --> 00:31:42,300
understood his place in history,
uniquely perhaps more than most

493
00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:45,600
because he understood that
whatever he was doing was the

494
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:51,200
first, right?
And so he was very deliberate

495
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,600
and what he did.
So if that's something he says

496
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,500
many times and correspondences
and letters, think it's probably

497
00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:59,400
worthwhile.
That we make note of that and

498
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,600
explore that as individuals
because my guess is and we

499
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:08,500
talked about this during the
episode on Yom Kippur.

500
00:32:09,300 --> 00:32:13,000
He was very intentional when he
made his Covenant with God of

501
00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:16,000
Abraham Isaac and Jacob on
behalf of the country.

502
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:17,900
Yeah.
So there might be something

503
00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:24,300
worth exploring their yeah so
now another another thing that

504
00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:29,300
they'll decorate And the
traditional to decorate, the

505
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:34,500
soup is with is pictures of your
dead relatives.

506
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,500
Can your ancestors?
You would you'd basically put

507
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:40,500
them in the sukkah and you
basically invite your ancestors

508
00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:46,000
to celebrate this time with you.
And so, obviously, to Mormon

509
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,100
ears when we think about the
Millennium than your that has

510
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:53,300
some real significance to that,
of course, with the resurrection

511
00:32:53,300 --> 00:32:55,400
is going to be happening around
them too.

512
00:32:55,500 --> 00:32:58,300
But it's going to be a time
where families are reunited.

513
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,900
And, and that's part of the, If
part of a celebration to I think

514
00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:06,900
that's that's super fascinating
as well, because I think that's

515
00:33:06,900 --> 00:33:10,900
the one time and I guess it
depends on what your definition

516
00:33:10,900 --> 00:33:15,500
of Graven image would be.
But Jewish folks weren't

517
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:20,200
necessarily super excited about
any sort of image, right?

518
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:26,400
And so to make make this
exception is I think speaks

519
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,400
volumes to the point that the
Lord is trying to get across in

520
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,700
this celebration.
Yeah.

521
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,600
Now that, you know, that having
pictures, that's not it, that's

522
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,200
not a commanded thing.
That's a traditional thing but

523
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:46,100
it is very fitting, right?
And so okay, so what are some

524
00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:50,100
other things you know that we do
to celebrate this?

525
00:33:50,700 --> 00:33:55,000
Now I mentioned the the sukkah
being built with leaves on the

526
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,300
top, Top.
Right?

527
00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:58,100
And, you know, that comes from
Leviticus.

528
00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:01,100
There was some debate among
ancient Jews though.

529
00:34:01,100 --> 00:34:06,500
About what exactly the leafy
branches were for some the, the

530
00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:11,100
Sadducees said, and you groups,
who are associated with sadducee

531
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:15,500
ideas, they said that's for
building the masuka's and

532
00:34:15,500 --> 00:34:17,199
there's really good evidence for
that.

533
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:21,800
And the Pharisees said, no,
that's for that's for waving

534
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:26,400
when we say these prayers and we
Rejoice with These poor, we hold

535
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:30,699
these branches in our hands, and
so he kind of made a compromise,

536
00:34:30,699 --> 00:34:34,100
I guess.
And you juice today, do both.

537
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:38,400
They'll make the sukkahs with
leafy tops and they'll also take

538
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,699
this bundle of particular
branches.

539
00:34:41,699 --> 00:34:46,100
There's a palm and Anna Myrtle
and a willow branches and they

540
00:34:46,107 --> 00:34:50,000
hold them all together along
with a net road, which is a

541
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,699
fruit from like a citrus fruit.
Smells amazing.

542
00:34:53,100 --> 00:34:57,500
And they'll waive those Kind of
in in their rejoicing and in

543
00:34:57,500 --> 00:35:02,700
their prayers and there's
definitely your symbolism

544
00:35:02,700 --> 00:35:05,500
associated with that, especially
with the palm branches waving

545
00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,700
those to welcome the saying,
right?

546
00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:10,900
The Savior?
Yeah, that was done in his

547
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,000
triumphant entry, right?
And in the Book of Revelation,

548
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:18,100
it talks about in the future
when the saints surrounding the

549
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:22,300
throne and worshiping with palm
branches in their hands.

550
00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:25,300
So there's even in the New
Testament.

551
00:35:25,500 --> 00:35:29,800
Things that are.
Jewish traditions and not

552
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,600
necessarily commanded.
They still amazingly had like

553
00:35:33,700 --> 00:35:39,600
show up as something that is
Meaningful.

554
00:35:40,300 --> 00:35:42,900
Sure.
So okay, let me stop you for a

555
00:35:42,908 --> 00:35:45,100
second and I apologize because
I'm kind of slow.

556
00:35:45,100 --> 00:35:47,100
So, you'll have to walk me
through this.

557
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:54,400
I'm trying to understand how
this was observed, ancient lie,

558
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,000
right?
So we said it at one point that

559
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,700
this was a time for the
ingathering of the Harvest,

560
00:36:01,700 --> 00:36:03,800
Right?
When everyone would make this

561
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,500
pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
Is that correct?

562
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,700
Yeah.
The same time it sounds like

563
00:36:09,700 --> 00:36:11,800
you're making these booze or
whatever.

564
00:36:11,900 --> 00:36:15,300
Yeah.
So in making those Boos I could

565
00:36:15,300 --> 00:36:18,400
understand how those making the
pilgrimage to Israel would do

566
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,800
it, right?
Because chances are it's an

567
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,900
overnight trip.
It was just but what about the

568
00:36:23,900 --> 00:36:26,900
people living in Jerusalem and
they were they were they then

569
00:36:26,900 --> 00:36:29,900
exiting Jerusalem know.
Now this to make these booths

570
00:36:29,900 --> 00:36:33,300
just say there, they build this.
Basically you set up a tent in

571
00:36:33,300 --> 00:36:34,600
your backyard.
Okay.

572
00:36:34,700 --> 00:36:36,500
All right, I see idea.
Okay.

573
00:36:36,500 --> 00:36:43,700
And And you go and we like to we
like to we like to go camping.

574
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,400
Basically for this this time,
there's not, there's not a

575
00:36:47,408 --> 00:36:51,400
temple to bring the produce to
and stuff.

576
00:36:52,300 --> 00:36:56,200
Although this year, we are going
to go out to Missouri.

577
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:59,100
And now you go visit the temple,
La.

578
00:36:59,100 --> 00:37:02,700
They're so kind of do a little
pilgrimage there, but just, you

579
00:37:02,707 --> 00:37:05,300
know, living in a tent and
usually, we'll throw a couple of

580
00:37:05,300 --> 00:37:06,900
branches on top of the 10th, you
know, too.

581
00:37:07,500 --> 00:37:10,800
Right to keep the both the
spirit and the letter of the

582
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,100
law.
But yeah people who even people

583
00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:17,200
who live in Jerusalem Bill Bill
go out in their yard front yard

584
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,800
or backyard whatever and build a
little little Hut them to go out

585
00:37:20,800 --> 00:37:22,200
and sometimes I'll sleep out
there.

586
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,200
Sometimes they'll just they'll
eat out there that will have,

587
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:28,900
you know, take their meals out
there and it's just a place for

588
00:37:28,900 --> 00:37:32,100
the family to gather and talk
and they and they just have

589
00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:33,700
parties.
Like we actually it's

590
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:37,000
interesting like one of The
Commandments.

591
00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:41,800
It connected to Tabernacles is
to be happy.

592
00:37:42,300 --> 00:37:45,100
This is the really.
Yeah, that is a commandment.

593
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,800
Let's see.
Go back to Leviticus 23.

594
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:57,400
We just scan through here.
Oh yeah, verse 40 and he still

595
00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:02,300
take take you on the first day
boughs of goodly trees branches

596
00:38:02,300 --> 00:38:05,200
of palm trees and boughs of
thick trees and Willows of the

597
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:09,000
brook and you shall, you shall
rejoice before the Lord your God

598
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,500
Seven Days.
He's a commandment to rejoice

599
00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:17,800
and it was the it was the most
joyous of all the festivals and

600
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:19,400
the most joyous time of the
year.

601
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,800
One of the one of the ways that
they would celebrate ancient Lee

602
00:38:23,900 --> 00:38:28,900
is this is kind of connected
with their prayers for rain is

603
00:38:28,900 --> 00:38:32,400
they would, they would be this
procession that would start at

604
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:39,100
the gihon spring and the Siloam
and they would it would draw

605
00:38:39,100 --> 00:38:45,000
from the water from the well,
they're from the pool some water

606
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,600
and they would take it to the
Tabernacle and along with wine,

607
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:54,900
they would he would pour it out
and and this was according to

608
00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:58,800
Ancient people who observed,
this ceremony.

609
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,400
The water is hold the water
libation ceremony that they said

610
00:39:03,900 --> 00:39:08,200
any person who has not seen.
This does not know what Joy is

611
00:39:08,900 --> 00:39:14,400
like the, the atmosphere was so
charged with the spirit of the

612
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:19,800
season and the joyful
anticipation of all the, of all

613
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,200
the things that are to come and
the joyful, remembrance of all

614
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,900
the blessings of the past, just
kind of Compressed at this

615
00:39:25,900 --> 00:39:29,500
moment of time and it was
amazing.

616
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,400
According table those who
witnessed him in the past.

617
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:37,800
Now this is interesting though,
because this ties in with some

618
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:40,800
new testament stuff and what
Jesus did course because of

619
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,600
course all of these things are
pointing to Jesus and run away

620
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,500
or another.
He is, you know, these are all

621
00:39:46,500 --> 00:39:51,800
Shadows of things that he did
and shadows of things that are

622
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:57,200
still to come, no doubt.
But let's see.

623
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:07,300
In in John chapter 7, there's a
description of one of these

624
00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:20,800
beasts or Tabernacles.
Feast of Tabernacles was coming.

625
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:28,100
And he was there, and let's see
37 through 38.

626
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:37,700
So 37 starts up says, in the
last day that great day of the

627
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:40,600
feast, or what are we talking
about talking about in the last

628
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,400
day of Tabernacles?
Yep.

629
00:40:44,100 --> 00:40:46,800
Which means this is when they
were do that water pouring

630
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:50,000
ceremony.
And this is when the whole crowd

631
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:52,900
and everyone who's watching was
that, this like height of joy

632
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:58,900
and celebration.
And then says Jesus stood and

633
00:40:58,900 --> 00:41:03,100
cried out like this.
Voice, right interrupted this.

634
00:41:03,100 --> 00:41:07,500
Ceremony and said, If any man
thirst let him come unto me and

635
00:41:07,500 --> 00:41:12,700
drink.
Wow, he that believeth on me as

636
00:41:12,700 --> 00:41:16,000
the scripture has said out of
his belly shall flow rivers of

637
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:24,500
Living Water.
Okay, and this was this was like

638
00:41:24,700 --> 00:41:29,800
super shocking because he just
interrupts this whole procession

639
00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:33,400
and basically says you see all
this stuff you're doing like

640
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:38,500
that's because of me.
And so she doesn't make people

641
00:41:38,500 --> 00:41:41,700
very happy verse 43.
There's a division among the

642
00:41:41,700 --> 00:41:45,100
people because of him, and some
of them would have taken him,

643
00:41:45,100 --> 00:41:48,300
but no, man, laid his hands on
him.

644
00:41:49,300 --> 00:41:51,100
Everyone was just shocked.
Then.

645
00:41:51,100 --> 00:41:54,300
In verse 45 says, the officers
of the chief priests and the

646
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:58,700
Pharisees, they said to, you
know, the guards, there's you

647
00:41:58,700 --> 00:42:00,100
know, there's soldiers there,
right?

648
00:42:00,100 --> 00:42:02,500
Who are pretty border.
I said, why have you not brought

649
00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:06,200
him?
The officer said, Never never

650
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:07,700
did man.
Speak like this man.

651
00:42:08,100 --> 00:42:10,500
Like we were just young were
riveted.

652
00:42:10,500 --> 00:42:13,300
We were dumbfounded by what he
was saying, it couldn't believe

653
00:42:13,300 --> 00:42:16,100
our ears and our eyes.
So, like what do you like?

654
00:42:16,100 --> 00:42:19,500
Sorry, we didn't get him, but we
just, we write, we didn't even

655
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,600
think about that.
We were just so amazed at what

656
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,200
was happening.
So, anyway, a part of the part

657
00:42:26,200 --> 00:42:30,500
of the ancient celebration to
was was these lights and they

658
00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:34,000
would, there was the menorah the
like the lampstand, the

659
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,700
seven-branched Right?
That's that was in the Holy

660
00:42:36,700 --> 00:42:41,500
place, which was, which was a
symbol of the tree of life being

661
00:42:41,500 --> 00:42:43,500
guarded by the angel with a
flaming sort.

662
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:47,100
But, and most of the normal
people wouldn't go in there.

663
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:52,400
But out in the courtyard of the
temple, they had like four giant

664
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:55,600
replicas, right?
That you like you have to like

665
00:42:55,600 --> 00:42:58,100
climb up on a ladder to light
and they would they have these

666
00:42:58,100 --> 00:43:02,700
big fire lighting ceremonies as
part of the Feast of Tabernacles

667
00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:11,400
to and so and then in then in
John chapter 8 like probably

668
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,300
Jesus interrupts this again or
at least it's around this time

669
00:43:15,300 --> 00:43:18,400
and Jesus says I am the light of
the world.

670
00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:21,600
Yeah, you're doing this all
began because of me.

671
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:28,700
So the savior's very much using
well, he used Passover as well.

672
00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:31,500
Yeah, right.
And now, you know, he's using

673
00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:34,400
these feasts to illustrate the
point.

674
00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:38,000
Look, look at me.
Look, not not in a prideful way

675
00:43:38,000 --> 00:43:41,300
but here, look look here in an
honest way.

676
00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,400
And you know, honestly isn't
honestly, right, this is a

677
00:43:44,408 --> 00:43:46,900
fulfillment of the things.
Yeah.

678
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:54,400
So there's so much so much there
with the wedding feast And

679
00:43:54,500 --> 00:43:58,600
millennium.
And you know, the work of Jesus

680
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:03,800
him being the light him being
water, Waters of Life, on good

681
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,800
stuff, all good things to think
about.

682
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,400
And of course, think about our
ancestors, ancient, Israel, and

683
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:12,900
our Pioneer ancestors.
And to think about our you are

684
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:16,500
that, that we will be with those
ancestors again, right on the

685
00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:19,500
Millennium comes.
And so that's all tied up in

686
00:44:19,500 --> 00:44:24,000
this in this symbolism.
So so the Feast of Tabernacles

687
00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:27,700
is a lot of things.
So we mentioned I mentioned it.

688
00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:29,900
Is this in gathering?
It's called The Feast of

689
00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:31,800
ingathering.
So part of it is this Harvest

690
00:44:31,800 --> 00:44:35,900
Festival and so I want to say
something interesting about the

691
00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:39,600
I know we kind of talked about,
we talked about our founding

692
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,100
fathers and the pilgrims who
came here, like they all had

693
00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:48,400
this sense of we are doing
Israelites stuff.

694
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,000
Like this is a new promised land
and we are this continuation of

695
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,000
Israel, right?
The pilgrims have a definite

696
00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,700
sense of And the very first
Thanksgiving was a piece of

697
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:04,900
Tabernacles, and I don't know if
you heard that before I have

698
00:45:04,900 --> 00:45:06,600
fun.
Yeah, it definitely different

699
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,800
was.
Now, we're actually not sure

700
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:15,000
when that first right, was, yep.
From the historical records from

701
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,900
what I read, like we can narrow
it down to somewhere between

702
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:25,100
September 21st and November 11.
Yep, of 16.

703
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,800
T1, and that's funny.
You should bring that up because

704
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,500
I made some notes here, that
that Tabernacle sounded awfully

705
00:45:33,500 --> 00:45:36,000
lot.
What a lot like our

706
00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:41,300
Thanksgiving, right?
I mean, it's remarkable to see

707
00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:43,500
that end.
And as I've mentioned before

708
00:45:43,500 --> 00:45:47,000
that, those who came across,
especially the pilgrims had a

709
00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:53,300
very definite sense that this
was a continuation of the

710
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:57,800
Israelites story that just Was
was the Latter-Day part right

711
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,800
down to Winthrop saying, in the
god of Israel shall dwell

712
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,400
amongst us.
It's good stuff.

713
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:08,500
You know, I, your comment you
made a while ago, he was in the

714
00:46:08,500 --> 00:46:11,700
last podcast about 10, where is
America?

715
00:46:11,700 --> 00:46:14,700
You know, in the right
scriptures and I think you're

716
00:46:14,700 --> 00:46:19,300
right, A lot of it is like we
have kind of plug yourself into

717
00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:24,400
Israel and we are Like that's
where America is in the

718
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,200
scriptures is every time is
talking about Israel and I

719
00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,300
believe there are some other
references to, but I think

720
00:46:29,300 --> 00:46:32,200
that's a good kind of
interpretive tool.

721
00:46:34,100 --> 00:46:37,700
I one thing I didn't mention
back on the Feast of trumpets,

722
00:46:37,900 --> 00:46:39,300
but we talked about the Feast of
trumpets.

723
00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:42,400
Being this new beginnings, one
that I forgot to mention.

724
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:47,100
But that I usually talk about
with my family is that the

725
00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:49,000
Constitution of the United
States?

726
00:46:49,100 --> 00:46:55,000
Yep, was Rosh Hashanah Is when
take so, where is this new the

727
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,500
birth of the new nation?
It's true.

728
00:46:56,500 --> 00:47:00,700
We had the Declaration, but when
we went America, finally gets

729
00:47:00,700 --> 00:47:03,100
into the form that it's
basically in.

730
00:47:03,100 --> 00:47:07,400
Now that was another Rosh
Hashanah thing with that.

731
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,600
So anyway, so that's another
thing to think, did you ever

732
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:15,900
hear the story about Adams and
Jefferson about They're later

733
00:47:16,100 --> 00:47:18,600
wife.
I know they died on the same

734
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,100
day, right?
We it goes a little, a little

735
00:47:21,100 --> 00:47:25,800
deeper than that and I find this
very telling First off you got

736
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:29,700
to kind of understand
Deuteronomy and I'm sure I'm I

737
00:47:29,900 --> 00:47:33,900
know less about Deuteronomy than
you do, Josh but Deuteronomy

738
00:47:33,900 --> 00:47:36,800
really is the Lord telling
Israel.

739
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:39,900
This is how you're going to
govern as a nation, right?

740
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:42,000
That's where they talk about the
Lord.

741
00:47:42,000 --> 00:47:44,400
Tells them don't.
Don't be a debtor Nation.

742
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,200
Don't go into debt.
All these other things?

743
00:47:48,300 --> 00:47:52,000
There's a falling out now fast
forward to the founding fathers,

744
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:55,200
Jefferson and Adams, there's a
falling out.

745
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:57,600
A significant following out,
they were good friends.

746
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:00,200
Then there was this falling out
and they didn't talk for years.

747
00:48:00,500 --> 00:48:03,300
And then later in life, they
come back together and they

748
00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:12,000
start exchanging letters.
And as is Adams kind of

749
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:15,300
personality.
He's a little pessimistic and he

750
00:48:15,300 --> 00:48:18,700
writes to Jefferson.
He says, you know, we We screwed

751
00:48:18,700 --> 00:48:20,900
this up.
We should have put more

752
00:48:20,900 --> 00:48:25,200
Deuteronomy into the
Constitution and Jefferson

753
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,900
writes back and he says
something very profound.

754
00:48:27,900 --> 00:48:33,600
He says Don't worry and I'm
paraphrasing at some point.

755
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:35,900
They're going to see what we
were trying to do.

756
00:48:37,100 --> 00:48:40,400
And they will make it right.
Meaning, they being later.

757
00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:42,700
They being us.
Yes, you Ami de?

758
00:48:42,700 --> 00:48:44,000
Yep.
Absolutely.

759
00:48:44,100 --> 00:48:46,500
They'll understand what it is.
We were trying to do.

760
00:48:47,200 --> 00:48:49,500
Keep in mind.
Jefferson also has a prophecy,

761
00:48:49,500 --> 00:48:53,600
just a couple months before his
death and you can find this in

762
00:48:53,600 --> 00:48:55,500
scallions book about Joseph
Smith.

763
00:48:55,500 --> 00:49:01,600
It's a two volume Series where
Jefferson makes basically has a

764
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:06,100
dream, or he has a premonition
that somebody from America will

765
00:49:06,100 --> 00:49:10,100
come up and receive Store
Christianity's, true principle.

766
00:49:11,900 --> 00:49:15,600
So you have this the founders
felt it, right?

767
00:49:15,600 --> 00:49:21,000
That that that we very much are
continuing this story.

768
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:25,700
And I had one college professor
who was very profound, who made

769
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:30,600
the assertion that we are
really, we tend to especially in

770
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:35,200
academic circles.
Hang our hats on this idea of we

771
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:41,400
are simply Continuing the story
of Greece and of Rome, while

772
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:45,600
certainly, there are those
strands he made the case, where

773
00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,200
a lot more, like, ancient
Israel, than what we are.

774
00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:51,700
Those are those Hellenistic
societies.

775
00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:55,400
And, and I think when, when you
start seeing the founders in

776
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:57,200
that, and you start seeing some
of the parallels, like,

777
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:02,000
Tabernacles and Thanksgiving.
You start to see that happen

778
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:04,000
again?
Now, that's there's there.

779
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:09,900
Is there is a cultural struggle.
Between Israelite and Greek

780
00:50:10,500 --> 00:50:11,700
ideas.
Yep.

781
00:50:12,000 --> 00:50:16,800
And so we are.
We do America is unique because

782
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,200
we do.
There is this tension between

783
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:23,000
the Hellenistic and the Hebrew?
Yeah, there is absolutely

784
00:50:23,900 --> 00:50:25,600
amazing.
Yeah.

785
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:31,500
So anyway, there's uncertainty
about the dates, but, you know,

786
00:50:31,508 --> 00:50:34,800
some historians feel like the
most likely date was September

787
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:41,300
29th. 1821, which if you look on
the calendar for that year, that

788
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:43,800
was the first day of the Feast
of Tabernacles.

789
00:50:43,900 --> 00:50:46,600
That's crazy.
And I don't know if they knew

790
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:53,900
that necessarily but they
certainly based there.

791
00:50:54,300 --> 00:50:56,800
Maybe they did not know, but
they certainly based their

792
00:50:57,500 --> 00:51:00,400
Festival.
Their Thanksgiving Festival, was

793
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:03,400
based on what it says in
Leviticus and what it says in

794
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:08,300
Deuteronomy about having this
when you it says, when you do

795
00:51:08,300 --> 00:51:16,900
read in Deuteronomy 26, The Lord
brought us forth out of Egypt

796
00:51:17,300 --> 00:51:20,100
with a mighty hand with an
outstretched arm and with great

797
00:51:20,100 --> 00:51:22,500
terribleness and with signs and
wonders.

798
00:51:22,500 --> 00:51:25,500
And he brought us into this
place and has given us this

799
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:27,500
land.
Even a land that flows with milk

800
00:51:27,500 --> 00:51:30,900
and honey, honey.
And there was certainly Miracles

801
00:51:31,300 --> 00:51:35,900
that right attended.
Those first pilgrims Landing

802
00:51:35,900 --> 00:51:42,200
there, right in my Bluemont.
So, And going on.

803
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:45,200
And now behold I have brought
the first fruits of the land,

804
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,000
which thou, oh, Lord has given
me and thou shalt set it before

805
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,600
the Lord thy God and worship.
Before the Lord, thy God, and

806
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:54,700
thou shalt rejoice in every good
thing, which the Lord thy God

807
00:51:54,700 --> 00:51:57,500
hath, given unto thee and unto
thine house, and under the

808
00:51:57,500 --> 00:52:01,200
levite and the stranger who is
Among The Strangers who are

809
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:03,500
among a, you're supposed to
invite them to this piece to.

810
00:52:03,500 --> 00:52:09,600
So they invited the new, the
Wampanoag tried, right?

811
00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:14,200
And he had a big head, a big
Feast last four days.

812
00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:16,900
And so this was another
question.

813
00:52:16,900 --> 00:52:22,600
I was going to ask you.
How did how did Israel respond

814
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:27,600
when there were pilgrims in the
land during that that Feast?

815
00:52:28,400 --> 00:52:31,300
Yeah, they should, if they were
keeping the Commandments which

816
00:52:31,300 --> 00:52:33,800
Israel didn't always said, yeah.
They should have every time

817
00:52:33,800 --> 00:52:36,400
there's a feast they're supposed
to invite.

818
00:52:38,000 --> 00:52:45,200
The strangers and because, you
know, God said, you must, you

819
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:50,600
must remember and be kind to the
stranger because you were

820
00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:53,600
strangers in Egypt.
And so don't forget what it was

821
00:52:53,600 --> 00:52:58,100
like to be a foreigner and and,
and we don't want you don't want

822
00:52:58,100 --> 00:53:01,000
to be like Egyptians were to
you.

823
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:05,200
So nice.
The Golden Rule do unto others.

824
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,400
I'm doing to you.
You know, I think that's so, so

825
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:13,100
fascinating, and I think it I
think it shows God's love in a

826
00:53:13,107 --> 00:53:18,500
lot of ways like look
understand, you're blessed in

827
00:53:18,500 --> 00:53:23,800
your station, right?
But I expect you to bless the

828
00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:28,800
lives of those around you, even
those who might not necessarily

829
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:33,200
be of you, right?
I am expecting something more

830
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:37,600
from you and we can, we can look
at this and there's all sorts of

831
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:43,200
ways of looking at it, you know?
I'm, I'm Without getting too

832
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,800
political.
I'm Pro immigration legal

833
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,100
immigration, right?
We gotta secure that thing.

834
00:53:48,100 --> 00:53:51,400
But but that's that's I think
that's part of our divine

835
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,500
mandate and I think it's part of
the Divine mandate.

836
00:53:53,500 --> 00:53:56,800
Clear.
Back to ancient Israel, right?

837
00:53:56,800 --> 00:54:03,300
You understand where you come
from understand it was but you

838
00:54:03,308 --> 00:54:07,200
know God speaking to the country
to the nation's understand, it

839
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,200
was my Providence that brought
you forth out of obscurity T

840
00:54:11,300 --> 00:54:15,700
against the the power of the
time, whether that was Egypt or

841
00:54:15,707 --> 00:54:20,000
Britain and understand that.
Yes, I have blessed you but I

842
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,100
expect you to bless the lives of
others.

843
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,700
Yeah.
Yeah, that's beautiful.

844
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,600
And everyone was, I mean,
everyone was expecting, it is

845
00:54:29,607 --> 00:54:31,200
strangers.
You don't have to be.

846
00:54:33,100 --> 00:54:36,100
I mean you can you can become
Israelite, you can be grafted in

847
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,700
sure, but even if you don't, you
still everyone keep the loss,

848
00:54:39,700 --> 00:54:43,500
the sample, this is the same.
Is over and over is one law for

849
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,900
Israelites and the stranger
who's among you.

850
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,600
And, and then we can just live
in harmony.

851
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:55,700
So now get stuff.
Now, we're going to read a verse

852
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:59,100
from Doctrine Cummins. 136 this
goes.

853
00:54:59,100 --> 00:55:02,000
So I'm going to kind of tie this
into restoration to.

854
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,700
There's a lot of ancient things,
but we have good reasons, as

855
00:55:05,700 --> 00:55:08,500
Mormons as Latter-Day Saints to
celebrate these things too.

856
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:16,100
One where Israel to it's in our
more recent Heritage to so

857
00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:21,000
documents, 136 verse 37 is of
course Revelation from Brigham

858
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:24,000
Young there for Marvel.
Not at these things for you are

859
00:55:24,000 --> 00:55:26,700
not yet.
Pure you cannot yet bear my

860
00:55:26,700 --> 00:55:30,900
glory But You Shall Behold it if
you're faithful in keeping all

861
00:55:30,900 --> 00:55:35,100
my words that I have given to
you from the days of Adam to

862
00:55:35,100 --> 00:55:39,600
Abraham from Abraham to Moses
from Moses to Jesus and his

863
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:42,700
apostles.
Jesus, and his Apostles to

864
00:55:42,700 --> 00:55:46,100
Joseph Smith, whom I did call
upon, by my angels, my

865
00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:49,500
ministering servants, and by my
own voice out of the Heavens to

866
00:55:49,500 --> 00:55:53,700
bring forth my work, so I think
that's powerful screaming that

867
00:55:53,700 --> 00:55:55,700
are powerful, then that's what
I'm trying to do.

868
00:55:56,000 --> 00:56:01,800
Is say look all these, all the
words, From Adam to Abraham from

869
00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:05,700
Abraham and Moses, from Moses to
Jesus and Jesus to Joseph, those

870
00:56:05,700 --> 00:56:08,800
are all all God's words still
and he hasn't retracted any of

871
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,900
them.
So the you know, keeping with

872
00:56:12,900 --> 00:56:15,100
this kind of Thanksgiving
Harvest Festival thing.

873
00:56:15,100 --> 00:56:21,000
Now that first Thanksgiving was
actually it did fall out at the

874
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:26,300
Feast of Tabernacles but you
know, now we do it in November

875
00:56:26,300 --> 00:56:29,800
which is later than that, but I
still find that still keeping in

876
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:34,400
the spirit of it and those those
first Saints who came into the

877
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:37,000
valley Salt Lake Valley, they
had a hard time.

878
00:56:37,300 --> 00:56:41,100
Yeah getting a foothold.
There was There was a drought

879
00:56:41,100 --> 00:56:43,300
that year and then of course,
there's a whole thing with the

880
00:56:43,300 --> 00:56:46,600
Crickets things.
But they actually, but they

881
00:56:46,900 --> 00:56:52,200
despite all that they still
succeeded, which is incredible,

882
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,900
because I can even you
modern-day people, I'm a

883
00:56:55,900 --> 00:56:59,000
modern-day person and I am a
weakling, you know, you don't

884
00:56:59,000 --> 00:57:01,200
even imagine a soft is the right
word.

885
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:06,100
I can't can't even imagine going
to like a salty Valley and Trina

886
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,600
eke out an existence like you
better start plowing.

887
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:13,300
Dude.
I would have been the biggest

888
00:57:13,300 --> 00:57:16,700
whiner on that thing.
Like first off Brigham would

889
00:57:16,700 --> 00:57:19,200
have been like okay we're
leaving Nabu and I'm like but we

890
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,200
just built it.
We just built.

891
00:57:22,200 --> 00:57:24,700
Okay, fine.
I think he could have got me

892
00:57:24,700 --> 00:57:28,200
onto the onto the wagon wagon,
right?

893
00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:31,400
I don't complain the whole way
over the mountains, all the way

894
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:34,300
across Wyoming and then when he
would have got here, I'd have

895
00:57:34,300 --> 00:57:36,900
been like Look, I know you
talked with Gods but as a

896
00:57:36,908 --> 00:57:40,600
possible, the line was Fuzzy
because I know if we just keep

897
00:57:40,600 --> 00:57:43,000
going west, there's this place
called California.

898
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,400
Have we thought this through?
I, there's no way I could have

899
00:57:46,400 --> 00:57:49,100
done that.
Josh, that's crazy.

900
00:57:49,100 --> 00:57:52,400
I'm going to read.
I'm going to read some a little

901
00:57:52,600 --> 00:57:57,000
excerpt from the Lord's, Holy
Days by when they had indeed.

902
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:58,200
Okay.
He's actually should actually

903
00:57:58,200 --> 00:58:03,300
quoting from the autobiography
of parley Pratt.

904
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:05,100
He actually records this.
Okay.

905
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:09,000
Tommy recorded in other places
too but but that's the reference

906
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:14,400
for this.
So when they, when the saints

907
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:17,900
had their first real Harvest and
it was pretty good.

908
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,000
It was especially considering
all the hardships they went

909
00:58:21,000 --> 00:58:25,600
through.
It says they made a Bowery of

910
00:58:26,100 --> 00:58:30,000
out of branches or a booth.
Yeah and they covered it with

911
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,800
Willow branches.
That's exactly right and Okay, I

912
00:58:35,808 --> 00:58:38,800
mean I'm just going to read here
first.

913
00:58:38,900 --> 00:58:41,800
Let's see.
First, they constructed a Bowery

914
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,900
of poles covered with Willow
branches.

915
00:58:44,300 --> 00:58:46,900
Ancient Israel had been
commanded to make similar booths

916
00:58:46,900 --> 00:58:48,700
for their final Harvest
Festival.

917
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:51,300
And then she quotes from
Leviticus and you shall take the

918
00:58:51,300 --> 00:58:54,200
bowels of goodly trees, will the
brook and construct boots?

919
00:58:55,300 --> 00:58:58,300
The fact that this shelter was
constructed right over the site,

920
00:58:58,300 --> 00:59:01,100
erected for the temple, would
indicate that it had spiritual

921
00:59:01,100 --> 00:59:03,800
significance.
Then they decorated the Bowery

922
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,000
with fruits of the Harvest as
was done them done among the

923
00:59:07,000 --> 00:59:10,400
Israelites, then they decorated
a poll on, which was hung a

924
00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:12,800
white flag.
And it was symbolic in early

925
00:59:12,800 --> 00:59:16,700
America of freedom and had been
used by the Saints earlier such

926
00:59:16,700 --> 00:59:18,000
as a Council.
Bluffs, Iowa.

927
00:59:18,500 --> 00:59:21,400
It is significant.
It signified their escape from

928
00:59:21,400 --> 00:59:23,600
oppression into Freedom.
They saw it.

929
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:27,100
Now as representing there,
Success as Latter-Day Israel in

930
00:59:27,107 --> 00:59:30,700
obtaining the place God has
prepared for them but is also

931
00:59:30,700 --> 00:59:34,000
reminiscent of the banners.
The ancient tribes of Israel

932
00:59:34,000 --> 00:59:36,600
bore as they came out from
Egypt, both were free and

933
00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:39,500
inheritors of a new Promised
Land below.

934
00:59:39,500 --> 00:59:42,900
The white Banner was lifted up
and hung a bundle of each of the

935
00:59:42,900 --> 00:59:46,900
harvested grains wheat, barley
oats and a single ear of green

936
00:59:46,900 --> 00:59:48,900
corn.
This too was biblical and

937
00:59:48,900 --> 00:59:52,300
harvest related and pertain to
the offering of first fruits.

938
00:59:53,300 --> 00:59:55,700
And then she quotes from the
Medicus as well.

939
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,600
When you come on when you come
into the land, which I give unto

940
00:59:58,600 --> 01:00:01,500
you and shall reap the Harvest
their up, then you shall bring a

941
01:00:01,500 --> 01:00:04,400
Sheaf of the first fruits of
your Harvest under the priest,

942
01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:07,500
and he shall wave, or lift up
the sheath before the Lord to be

943
01:00:07,500 --> 01:00:11,100
accepted for you.
So, they had entered the land,

944
01:00:11,200 --> 01:00:13,400
given to them by the Lord.
Where were these?

945
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,700
Not the sheaves of the Harvest.
That's it up in gratitude and

946
01:00:15,700 --> 01:00:21,200
Thanksgiving to him. so anyway,
says the fire, the Cannons

947
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:26,900
people cheered, they gave a
Hosanna shout and this is part

948
01:00:26,900 --> 01:00:31,900
of the Tabernacle symbolism of
Jesus coming the other Temple as

949
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:37,000
well.
So anyway, according to Pratt,

950
01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:40,500
it was a great day with the
people of these valleys and long

951
01:00:40,500 --> 01:00:42,400
to be remembered by those who
had suffered in waited.

952
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:45,900
Anxiously for the results of a
first effort to redeem, the

953
01:00:45,900 --> 01:00:48,900
interior deserts of America and
to make her hitherto unknown

954
01:00:48,900 --> 01:00:54,600
solitudes Blossom as the rose.
So anyway, beautiful stuff.

955
01:00:54,600 --> 01:01:00,300
There with our ancestors of all.
Sorts and that's what

956
01:01:01,300 --> 01:01:03,600
Tabernacles is about.
It will say, so.

957
01:01:03,700 --> 01:01:05,600
So how do we, how do we
celebrate it?

958
01:01:05,700 --> 01:01:08,000
There's a couple of things that
we like to do.

959
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:13,200
One is we will make Asuka, we
used to make out of PVC, okay,

960
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:17,000
PVC pipes, we set up a little
little thing and we put a bit of

961
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:21,100
tarp around the walls and then
we put branches on the on the

962
01:01:21,100 --> 01:01:25,600
top or, or sometimes we'll just
use a tenth, we'll just go will

963
01:01:25,600 --> 01:01:28,100
camping even if we don't go
camping.

964
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:31,900
Though, sometimes we just, you
just set up to Asuka in our

965
01:01:31,900 --> 01:01:33,900
backyard or a tent in our
backyard.

966
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:37,800
Some, some years will actually,
even just will take the

967
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,900
trampoline and will like Drake
blankets.

968
01:01:41,300 --> 01:01:44,600
Nice over the trampoline all the
way around, and we'll put some

969
01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,700
branches on the top and, like,
the whole family was like, sleep

970
01:01:47,700 --> 01:01:50,900
out underneath the trampoline
eyes board, and it's just a

971
01:01:50,908 --> 01:01:55,000
really fun activity.
It's also traditional to read

972
01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:58,600
please, yes, please.
Okay, the Book of Ecclesiastes

973
01:01:58,600 --> 01:02:02,800
is really beautiful.
It's one of the wisdom writer,

974
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,100
right?
And Ecclesiastes is kind of all

975
01:02:05,100 --> 01:02:10,500
about ephemeral things like
talks about how like temporary

976
01:02:10,900 --> 01:02:15,500
this life is and but we need to
seek to keep Commandments and

977
01:02:15,500 --> 01:02:18,900
have joy in our labors even
though things are temporary.

978
01:02:19,300 --> 01:02:20,900
And so it's, you know, very
fitting.

979
01:02:20,900 --> 01:02:23,700
A lot of the themes in
Ecclesiastes are fit, right in

980
01:02:23,700 --> 01:02:30,300
with Tabernacles another, We do,
as we will have, we will have

981
01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:33,900
the sacrament every single day
was have it as, like, part of

982
01:02:33,900 --> 01:02:39,700
our, okay?
And just as a reminder of Jesus,

983
01:02:39,700 --> 01:02:42,200
definitely like in John 6,
definitely makes this connection

984
01:02:42,200 --> 01:02:47,700
between the manna that they ate
and, and his flesh from your,

985
01:02:47,700 --> 01:02:50,400
which is right.
He is the bread from heaven,

986
01:02:50,900 --> 01:02:52,500
right?
The man is pointed the men,

987
01:02:52,500 --> 01:02:54,200
right?
A point up toward so, so we'll

988
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:57,700
have the sacrament, every day
during the Feast of Tabernacles

989
01:02:57,800 --> 01:03:01,300
as a reminder of Everything that
I am having Nina.

990
01:03:03,700 --> 01:03:05,700
And it's just a good a good
time.

991
01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:10,800
So that's that's pretty much it.
We do you take away when you do

992
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:15,300
that against like all the cycle
that my answer to this question

993
01:03:15,300 --> 01:03:19,400
is the same all the time.
It's just always get to have a

994
01:03:19,408 --> 01:03:22,900
Time To Remember.
All those things that we talked

995
01:03:22,900 --> 01:03:28,200
about, remember my ancestors and
to remember my own position here

996
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:33,200
as strangers on the air.
And remember, the blessings that

997
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,200
God has given me.
I'm on time, in the wilderness,

998
01:03:35,200 --> 01:03:36,800
we are in.
We are all in the wilderness

999
01:03:36,800 --> 01:03:40,500
right now, so to speak.
And hopefully we're being led by

1000
01:03:41,100 --> 01:03:44,600
the pillar and the cloud.
And eventually we're looking

1001
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:49,000
forward to obtaining that that
holy city, that Promised Land

1002
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,600
And that's, you know, we just
have to keep that in mind, put

1003
01:03:53,600 --> 01:03:57,600
our trust in God and be thankful
for all the blessings along the

1004
01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,500
way and are on this journey
through the Wilderness that

1005
01:04:00,500 --> 01:04:03,000
we're all on dude.
I think that's awesome.

1006
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:08,200
And I think it's good.
I love how it in some ways.

1007
01:04:08,200 --> 01:04:12,600
Tabernacles Forces us to look
outward as well.

1008
01:04:12,700 --> 01:04:16,200
Remember the pilgrim you were
once a pilgrim?

1009
01:04:16,700 --> 01:04:22,000
And I think that, that is just
one more quiver, we can have.

1010
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:25,500
I mean, one more Arrow.
We can have in our quiver to

1011
01:04:25,800 --> 01:04:28,100
help us sharpen.
Our discipleship.

1012
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:32,200
Remember those?
Look outside yourself a little

1013
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:34,000
bit.
Yeah, and remember what it was

1014
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:39,700
like, so good stuff, dude.
As always, you're awesome.

1015
01:04:39,900 --> 01:04:42,000
I love you.
I love talking with you by being

1016
01:04:42,000 --> 01:04:43,400
here.
What's our next one?

1017
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:48,200
It's going to be okay Hanukkah.
Nice, which I'll give you a

1018
01:04:48,207 --> 01:04:51,600
little preview.
Okay, Hanukkah is the piece of

1019
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:55,300
Tabernacles, really Anthony.
It is awesome.

1020
01:04:55,300 --> 01:04:57,100
We'll talk about that next time.
Can't wait.

1021
01:04:57,300 --> 01:04:58,100
Bye everybody.