Day of Atonement (or Yom Kippur) has past, and we as Yahuah’s people know we are atoned for with Yahusha’s blood! So, let us choose to walk as children of the light in righteousness! Because this walk is a choice. Choose to forgive that person that hurt you, choose to do that kind deed even if you’re exhausted, choose to drop a meaningless argument if it’s causing strife. And be ready for the marriage supper, for it is coming! Don’t you want to be invited? 🙃
Eight days of celebrating are just around the corner, days to spend time with people close to you, and of course Yahuah. Especially Yahuah, as He is our bridegroom, and He will come back soon and receive His Bride.
Imagine if you were newly married, and maybe you’ve been separated from this person for a little while and all you want to do is spend time with them? Now imagine Yahuah as our Bridegroom, and we have eight days to remember our covenant with Him and spend time with Him if we choose to obey, doesn’t that sound wonderful? So, let’s spend Sukkot not just playing and/or resting from our regular work, but let’s act as His Bride and spend time with Him.
But one quick question, who is His Bride?
Throughout the Old Testament it talks about the people of Yisra’el being the wife or bride of Yahuah. Here’s one example:
“Go and you shall cry in the hearing of Yerushalayim, saying, ‘Thus said יהוה, “I remember you, the loving-commitment of your youth, the love of your bride hood, when you went after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown, Yisra’el was set-apart to יהוה the first-fruits of His increase.”’” Jeremiah 2:2-3a
Even after all of Yahuah’s faithfulness, Yisra’el, walked away again and again from her bridegroom, by not walking in His ways, and going after other gods. For this reason blood has to be shed, but the blood of animals was not adequate enough, to cover the sins of the people forever. So our Creator came and gave up everything, comfort, wealth, pleasure, to save His adulterous Bride, with the hope that she would again remember and repent and return to the covenant He established with her, renewed with His own blood.
“Now, where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer a slaughter offering for sin. So, brothers, having boldness to enter into the Set-Apart Place by the blood of [Yahusha], by a new and living way which He instituted for us, through the veil, that is His flesh, and having a High Priest over the House of Elohim, let us draw near with a true heart in completeness of belief, having our hearts sprinkled from a wicked conscience and our bodies washed with clean water. Let us hold fast the confession of our expectation without yielding, for He who promised is trustworthy.” Hebrews 10:18-23
Yahusha came to offer His life for us, as well as to show us the True Way. To show us the fullness of the Torah; the Torah made flesh. Through His blood and our obedience to walk in the marriage covenant (the Torah), we are Yisra’el, His Bride.
So, I encourage you, to walk in His Ways, enjoy Sukkot this year, and spend time with Him. May He show you His love and His perfect appointed time as you seek Him.
Shalom!
JS
Psst… Check out these scripture passages about Sukkot:
Leviticus 23:34-36
Deuteronomy 16:13-15
Nehemiah 9:14-18