Curtis Loftin - Beit Yeshua
Shalom Y'all,
Just a reminder that Beit Yeshua has several meetings in the upcoming weeks - three in a row - for the three Fall Festivals.
Friday, September 6th - 7:00 pm - YOM TERUAH / Feast of Trumpets - Chuck & Janice Anthony's home
Friday, September 13th - 7:00 pm - YOM KIPPUR / Day of Atonement - Chuck & Janice Anthony's home (NO FOOD AT YOM KIPPUR)
Friday, September 20th - 7:00 pm - SUKKOT / Feast of Tabernacles - Family Life Center at Covenant Bible Church - Warren Marcus guest speaker
Warren Marcus - One New Man leader
Charlotte, NC
I hope you'll make plans to join us at one - or all three - of the Fall Festivals. Time 7:00 to 9:30 (with food & fellowship afterwards - except Yom Kippur)
Chuck & Janice Anthony's Home
2121 Gastonia Hwy, Lincolnton, NC 28092
2121 Gastonia Hwy, Lincolnton, NC 28092
Covenant Bible Church
2168 Gastonia Hwy, Lincolnton, NC 28092
2168 Gastonia Hwy, Lincolnton, NC 28092
Bring a kosher snack & come join us.
Shavuah Tov, (Have a Good Week),
Curtis
curtisloftin
Shofarot blowing
Machol dance team
Check this out:
"The Feast of Booths"
"The Feast of Tabernacles"
"THE Feast"
Tishri 15 - 21
Sukkot (pronounced “sue-coat”) is a Hebrew word that means “booths” and refers to the temporary dwelling the Jews lived in on their forty year journey from Egypt to the promised land. This feast is the seventh and final feast of the Lord.
Sukkot (which can also be spelled Succoth) was one of the three Pilgrimage Festivals when all males were required to go to Jerusalem to worship the LORD. The Jewish people built booth-like structures and lived in them during the feast as a reminder of the temporary dwellings the Israelites lived in while traveling from Egypt to the Promised Land. Today many Jewish and Messianic Believers build open-roofed three-sided huts for this festival and decorate them with tree branches, fruit, flags, and many other personal items.
Leviticus 23:34, 39
34 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, the fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a Sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a Sabbath.
The Feast of Sukkot occurs on the Jewish Calendar from Tishri 15th to the 21st - coinciding with September or October.
Our Discovery of Sukkot
Sukkot was the first Festival of the Lord that Carolyn and I had the opportunity to experience back in the 1980s. We had gone to Resurrection Lutheran Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, for a Feast of Tabernacle celebration, not really knowing what it was, or what to expect. At the time, I was serving as Minister of Music in Catawba County and we had actually gone for the praise, worship and dance opportunities, but the Lord had other ideas.
Imagine walking into a church and there in the foyer was a wooden structure with leafy tree branches on the top and fruit hanging everywhere. It was wonderful, like nothing I'd ever seen before. I wondered why, if the Festivals of the Lord were mentioned in scripture, the church had failed to incorporate them into our yearly worship cycle.
Thus began our own personal journey to better understand the Hebrew roots of our Christian faith.
Curtis Loftin
