Join us in this enlightening episode as we explore the significance of the Feast of Tabernacles, a divine appointed time designed to remind us that God tabernacles with us. Rabbi Schneider takes us on a spiritual journey through ancient scriptures and demonstrates how these holy days are relevant to our lives today. From recognizing God’s presence in everyday life to seeing His hand in nature and creation, this episode is a treasure trove of spiritual insights.
I am here to tell you, church, that God is tabernacling with you, beloved one, individually in your life today. We’re in a remarkable series that I’m calling The Prophetic Fulfillment of God’s Fall Holy Days. Notice as I cover these holy days that are listed for us in the 23rd chapter of the book of Leviticus that we call in Hebrew Vayikra, It doesn’t say that they’re the Jewish holidays or the Feast of Israel, but listen, that they’re God’s appointed days. Because you now have a relationship with the God of Israel through Yeshua, the King of the Jews, these holy days, beloved friends, have application for your life today. Now, I’m in the final of the Fall Holy Days that we’re going to be covering in this series called the Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot. We’ve already covered the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah. We’ve covered Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. And we’re continuing today our study in the Feast of Tabernacles. I simply laid the historical foundation for the Feast of Tabernacles, showing you its inception, bringing you back to the 23rd chapter of Leviticus, and giving some historical perspective. I’m going to launch right now into the application that I’m wanting to drive home today for each and every one of our lives. One of the main concepts that is carried to us through the Feast of Tabernacles, listen now, is that God is with us. Ancient Israel lived in booths called Sukkot. They were individual booths that we would say singularly a sukkah, plurally Sukkot. But in the center of all their booths, the Lord himself had a tabernacle. We read about it in the 25th chapter of the book of Exodus. And in the tabernacle was the Ark of the Covenant. It was in a chamber of the tabernacle called the Holy of Holies. And above the Ark of the Covenant were two golden angel statues, cherubim. And between the two cherubim, the visible presence of the Lord resided, and the high priest would go into that chamber once a year where the Ark of the Covenant was, and the Lord would speak to the high priest from between the two cherubim. Above the tabernacle for 40 years, the visible glory of God was manifest as a fire by night and a cloud by day. The point being that God made His presence, get it now, known amongst His people. For 40 years, every day, beloved church, they could see the manifest glory of God. He was tabernacling with them. I am here to tell you, church, that God is tabernacling with you, beloved one, individually in your life today. When Jesus was born, the scripture says, you shall call his name Emmanuel, meaning, get it now, God. God is with us. God is closer to you and I than we realize. He is here. He is now. He’s working through circumstances. He’s working through people. He’s working in ways that we’re not recognizing. And what the Lord is desiring is that we wake up to His presence so that we understand that a fuller way, a much fuller way, that He truly is tabernacling amongst us. I love David’s words in Psalm number 19, because what David says in Psalm 19 is that the Lord is always speaking and He uses creation itself to demonstrate that Father God is always speaking to His creatures, to His creation. But oftentimes, because we’re dull of hearing and dull of heart and dull of eyes, we don’t perceive that he’s speaking to us. So in Psalm 19, David uses creation to demonstrate the fact that God is here and he’s speaking. Listen to the word of God. He said the heavens are telling of the glory of God and their expanse is declaring glory. the work of his hands, day to day pours forth speech. Remember what Paul said in the book of Romans. In the book of Romans, Paul said, for that which is known about God, listen, is clearly seen through what he has made. In other words, we can know about God, We can know about his nature. We can even learn his ways, many of them, by simply looking at his creation, by paying attention to what he’s made. And so what David is declaring in Psalm 19 is that God is always speaking. The heavens declare for speech. Every night we look up and we see the stars. I mean, obviously we can’t see the stars every night if there’s clouds, but the point is that in general, we look up at night and we see the stars. And we see the stars and it’s as if God is speaking to us as they’re twinkling. David also uses the example of the sun in Psalm 19. I’m talking about the physical sun. And he says, no one escapes the sun’s heat. In other words, the rays of the sun are heating every human being. And in the same way, David says, God’s voice is pouring forth speech into the earth. God is speaking to you. But do you and I hear and do we realize he’s speaking? The Feast of Tabernacles is about the fact that God is here, that He lives amongst us, but because we’re spiritually dead, in other words, before we came into a born-again experience, before we came to faith in Jesus, we were dull of hearing. And the Bible says that we were actually born into this world, separated from God, dead in our transgressions and sins. So because of the fact that we were born into sin, and we’re in the process of being regenerated by the Holy Spirit, we need now to renew our minds so that we can hear God, so that we can wake up to Him, because we were born into the world alienated from Him. Now that we’ve come to Jesus, we’ve received God’s Spirit. So God is in the process of waking us up to His reality, to how close He is. Listen, to illustrate this point, why are there so many people in this world that claim to be atheists and agnostics? They claim there is no God or they claim they don’t know there’s a God because people are dead in their sins and they can’t perceive them. I’ll tell you an interesting scripture that illustrates this point. I want to read for you now John chapter 12, 27 through 29. Before Yeshua went to the cross, he prayed. Listen to what happened. Yeshua says to the father, now my soul has become troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour? But for this purpose, I came to this hour. And then Jesus said, Father, glorify your name. Then a voice came out of heaven. I have glorified it and will glorify it again. So the crowd of people who stood by and heard it were saying that it had thundered, that it thundered. So here Father God speaks from heaven saying to Jesus, I have glorified your name and will glorify it again. And the people hear the voice of God himself. But rather than recognizing that they’re hearing the voice of God, their response to hearing God’s voice is they give it a natural explanation. It thundered. I mean, I see this in my own life all the time. I saw, beloved ones, the most incredible, amazing miracle that I’ve ever witnessed in my entire life.
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There was a woman that had been blind from Lira, Uganda for 15 years. She heard about the crusade. She started telling people that she wanted to go to the crusade. Now get it, the woman was totally blind. They had a leader every day to sit and beg because she couldn’t see anything and had no way of earning an income. So they said to a woman, old woman they called her, what are you going to go for the crusade for? What are you going to do? How are you going to get around there? You can’t see. But she had such faith in her heart and such passion, like the woman with the hemorrhage that pressed through the crowd to touch Jesus. She had that kind of a faith that we read about in the Gospels. She said, no, I’m going. So she got somebody to bring her to the crusade. The crusade started on Thursday. It went Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. She said, Thursday, I came to the crusade. She said, I didn’t get my healing. She said, Friday, I came to the crusade. I didn’t get my healing. She said, Saturday, I didn’t get my healing. But she said, on Sunday, I got my healing. What happened was I blew the shofar And I said, in the name of Yeshua, in the name of Jesus, blind eyes be open. The woman said that when that happened, she felt a cool breeze go through her eyes and she knew she was healed. They brought her up to the platform. I said, open your eyes. You could see it. She was opening her eyes, the pain that she was in. You could see tears coming out of her eyes. You could see how painful it was that light was coming in. But I commanded her, open your eyes. And then the woman was seeing and everyone was going crazy. I had then my team go and interview this lady weeks later. You wouldn’t believe the difference in the way the lady looked. Her eyes were like as clear as an ocean, as an ocean blue. I mean, amazing beauty on her. Her body was stronger because she was walking around now. She was completely and totally healed. I mean, it was undeniable. We have witnesses. We verified it. We looked into it after the fact. She told us that before the healing, she said she couldn’t see the crowd. She couldn’t even see me standing right in front of her. In fact, if you search under YouTube, look under my name, Rabbi Schneider, put Lyra in there, and then put the title of the YouTube, I was blind, but now I see, and you’ll find it. It’s only about three minutes long. You’ll see the woman said she couldn’t see a thing, and now she completely sees. And yet people have all the evidence right in front of them and they try to pass it off as not a miracle. They try to say, you know, some other explanation. This is the way people that are dead in their sin are. And we, even though we’re born again, even though we know Jesus now, we still have to break off of us spirits that cause us to doubt and make us dull of hearing so that we’re ascribing to the natural in our life what is actually supernatural. And so we have to recognize that God is with us and He’s operating in our lives, beloved children of His, even through the common and even through the mundane. We have to wake up and realizing that He is with us. But we have to be looking. We have to be paying attention. We have to be watching. We have to be expecting. And we have to realize once again that oftentimes Father speaks to us not just in the dramatic and not just in the spectacular, although He does speak at times in those ways, but oftentimes God is speaking to you and I, beloved, listen, through the ordinary, through friends, through nature. We read in Scripture, God spoke through rainbows. He spoke through prophets that were disguised. He spoke to people through individuals that were speaking to somebody else on behalf of the Lord. And the ones that were speaking to someone else on behalf of the Lord didn’t even realize that it was God that was speaking through them. God spoke through a donkey, right? Balaam’s ass. God speaks through the common. And we have to be looking for him in everything and understand that even when we’re not experiencing something dramatic or spectacular, God is still always here, present with us, working underneath the surface. And if we’ll take stock every day and continue to affirm each day, Father God, you’re with me. You’re tabernacling with me. Your presence surrounds me. Even if I can’t feel you right now, even if I can’t sense you right now in my senses, I believe by faith, and faith is a thing. We’re not making something up. It’s real. I believe by faith that you’re here with me, Father, that your presence surrounds me, and that you’re doing something in my life every day through everything that I walk through. The scripture says God causes all things to work together for good to those that love him and are called according to his purpose. And what God is using all things for is to conform us to the image of his son. And every day, not only do we affirm this truth in our head as we’re walking throughout the day, by faith, Father, thank you that you’re with me. Thank you that your presence surrounds me. Thank you that you’re working in my life today. Even through all these things that seem like they’re just routine and mundane, you’re working through all these things. Not only do we affirm this fact throughout the day, but we should also be asking ourself each day, what did the Lord teach me yesterday? Because sometimes it’s not just God doing something miraculous in a circumstance. Sometimes what’s happening is God is working underneath the surface of circumstances to train us. to give us better discernment, to teach us the right way to walk. In other words, sometimes what happens is we’re paying attention, we do things in life, and if we pay attention, God begins to show us, listen, the way you’re doing this is not working. You’re beating your head against a wall. If we’re paying attention and looking for God in everything, then what’s going to happen is God is going to use everything that we’re walking through to teach us wisdom and to teach us, beloved church, how to walk and to remain in him. God wants to dwell with you. Listen again, Exodus 12, verse 8. Let them construct a sanctuary for me that I might dwell among them. I want you to open your heart right now. Let’s just pray together. Father God, in Jesus’ name, I surrender to you. And I say yes, that what Rabbi Schneider is proclaiming right now, it’s truth, it’s you. You are here, but oftentimes, Father, I am guilty. I don’t recognize you’re here. And my mind wanders. And sometimes I get negative and critical in my thinking. Father, I ask you to forgive me and cleanse me of this spirit and wake me up to your divine reality, that your presence surrounds my life, that you are tabernacling amongst me. even in a greater way than you did with ancient Israel. Because with them, you tabernacled visibly above the tabernacle. But now you tabernacle with me, Father Yahweh, by living inside me in Jesus’ name. You know, when you and I really get a hold of this, when we really come to trust in the fact that God is with us, you know what’s going to happen? Not only will you have more joy in your life, but listen, you will also break off fear, and have confidence. Listen to what happened to Joshua. The Lord said to Joshua in Joshua 1, 9 this. He said, be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God, get it now, is with you wherever you go. How was it that Joshua was supposed to be strong and courageous? He was supposed to enter into courage and confidence by realizing, listen now, that his God was with him. I want you to know, if you belong to Jesus, God is with you. It’s just that simple. He’ll never leave you. He’ll never forsake you. He is always, always, always with you. You see, oftentimes we think that the main message of the Bible is that when we die, we’re going to go to heaven. But I want you to know, Perhaps the most primary message of the Bible is not just that when we die, we’re going to go to heaven. But the primary theme of Scripture, listen, is that God is with us now. When Jesus came to earth, beloved, He opened up the door for you and I to receive Him so that God could be with us right now. That’s again why we read in the Scriptures that we shall call His name Jesus, Matthew 1, verse 23, the Virgin shall be with child and we shall call His name Emmanuel, meaning God, listen now, is with us. The primary theme of Scripture is that God now is with you. That because Jesus died for your sin, purchased you with His blood to bring you into a relationship with God, to become His bride, to become a child of the Father, God is with you now. Like He was with Adam in the cool of the day. Like He was with Moses at the burning bush. like he was with Abraham, whom he called his friends, like he was with Peter, James and John when he brought them on top of the mountain and was transfigured before them. So, too, listen, he is with you today, right now. I want to ask you once again, if you’re able to, I want you to just kneel with me before the presence of the Lord. If you’re not able to do that, just do it wherever you’re at. We’re going to just ask Father once again to forgive us. to wake us up by his power, by the power of the Ruach HaKadosh, the Holy Spirit. Father God, let’s just say it together. Father God, I believe you. I believe this is truth. You are with me. And I ask, Father, right now that you’ll wake me up. I repent for not knowing that you’re with me. You’re here, but I’ve been too dull of mind to perceive. So, Father, right now, I bow to you and I commit myself to you to grow in my awareness of your love for me and your presence with me for the rest of my days and forevermore in Jesus’ name. I’ve always liked a very simple approach to ministry in both my preaching and, beloved ones, in helping God’s people understand why it’s important to support ministry with our finances. I’m reading a very simple portion of scripture I’ve referred to before, but I love it because it’s so simple and so authentic. Listen to what John says in the book of 3 John, verse seven and eight. Speaking of those that are sent out to preach the gospel, he says this, for they went out for the sake of the name And then he continues in the eighth verse by saying this, therefore, we ought to support such men so that we may be fellow workers with the truth. You see, not everybody’s called to do what I do. Not everyone’s called to travel to Africa, Israel, et cetera. But you can have a part in the lives that are being changed through my ministry, beloved ones, by supporting this ministry. I want to ask you, if you believe in the word that I’m preaching, If you believe in me, if you believe that there is authentic fruit, and if you’re being helped, I want to ask you to support this ministry financially. You’re going to be blessed and have a reward for the lives that are being saved and changed.
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The words from the Aaronic Blessing in the book of Numbers, chapter 6, verses 22 through 27, helps us to realize how good God is to you and I personally. So receive his blessing into your life, and then, beloved one, go bless somebody else in Jesus’ name today.
The Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face shine on you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift you up with His countenance. And the Lord give you, beloved one, His peace. God bless you and shalom.
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This program is produced and sponsored by Discovering the Jewish Jesus. And I’m your host, Dustin Roberts. Be sure to join us again next time when Rabbi Schneider explains how to fight against unbelief and to exercise our faith knowing that God is always with us. That’s Wednesday on Discovering the Jewish Jesus.
