God rested from His works. That means they are completed. And that is what the Sabbath is all about. This Sabbath rest of God is expressed in the coming feasts of the fall season. They are windows of opportunity to enter God’s rest by rejoicing in, proclaiming, and appropriating God’s completed provisions.

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On the seventh day God rested from all His works that He had completed. Then He set apart the seventh day as the Sabbath, a day when we recognize that God has completed all His works for us. They exist now, and therefore we look forward to appropriating everything that He has made available to us. And the upcoming fall feasts are a perfect time for us to do that. We should approach these times with a drive in our hearts to appropriate God’s provisions and see them manifested.

The fall feasts begin with Yom Truah, the Day of Trumpets. According to the meaning of truah, Yom Truah is a day of blowing the trumpet, shouting, or crying aloud before the Lord. This reminds us that while we have many promises in the Word of God, we should be shouting and proclaiming them. We find this command throughout the Scriptures that we are to shout, rejoice, and worship God in what He has spoken. His great provisions are available for us now, and we proclaim them into the earth.

The Sabbath rest of God means that we are not waiting for the promises of the feasts to be fulfilled in the future. We rejoice in our total salvation on the Day of Atonement and in God’s presence with us at Tabernacles. These are already created in God, finished, and available to us. These days of the biblical feasts are more than just observances. They are a time to reach in for that which has been completed for us by God. We celebrate these feasts by entering God’s rest, by worshipping Him, by rejoicing in what He has provided, and by appropriating His provisions into our experience.

Key Verses:

• Genesis 2:2–3. “God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work.”
• Psalm 98:4–9. “Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth.”
• Isaiah 54:1–3. “Break forth into joyful shouting and cry aloud.”
• Jeremiah 31:7–9. “Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob, and shout.”
• Jeremiah 29:11–14. “You will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.”
• Deuteronomy 4:29–35. “From there you will seek the LORD your God, and you will find Him.”
• Ezekiel 36:24–28. “I will cleanse you from all your filthiness.”
• Zechariah 2:10–13. “Sing for joy and be glad.”
• Leviticus 26:11–12. “I will make My dwelling among you.”
• Exodus 29:45–46. “I will dwell among the sons of Israel.”
• Psalm 118:21–29. “Let us rejoice and be glad.”
• John 7:37–38. “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.”

Quotes:

• “I don’t want to wait for some day in the future. If I wait too long, I’m not going to be here to enjoy it. I want the Kingdom to come in my time. I want these things to manifest because Christ said, ‘It is finished.’”
• “We want to appropriate the open door that exists right now for God’s people to return to the land in a time of great blessing, upon a straight path which the Lord will make so that there is no stumbling.”
• “We don’t wait for Him to fulfill the promises and then feel thankful, then feel glad, then feel rejoicing. We feel it now. It is completed now. It exists now. It’s available now.”

Takeaways:

1. In looking at the Sabbath rest of God, we realize that God has finished the provisions that He made for us. The things that He has made available for us are ours to appropriate. They exist now.
2. The feasts are windows of time that God has made available. So we should approach these celebrations with a determination to find out what God has provided in them and be driven to receive all that He has for us.
3. The feasts are times to shout and declare God’s promises, to worship Him and rejoice in their completion and our appropriation of them today.
4. We live in a day when the nations are coming against Israel and the Jewish people. But that is the opposite of what God has provided. God has provided for many nations to join themselves to the Lord and to Israel and become His people. Then He will dwell in our midst. Let us celebrate this as a reality now at this time of Tabernacles.