Jamboree!
What is the greatest camping party of all time?
When I was a Boy Scout I always wanted to go to the national Jamboree. There was something very appealing about camping with 25,000 or more campers for a week or more to someone who loves to go camping .
During Jamboree there were all kinds of scouting competitions like knot tying. I hoped to win the national knot tying competition. I could tie most of the knots faster than anyone I met. I used to tie the knots behind my back just to give other people a sporting chance at beating me. Even then I was rarely beat.
I thought the national Jamboree was the largest and greatest gathering of campers in the history of the world. I really wanted to be part of it but my troop did not go to it the one time that it occurred while I was a scout. It looked like I would never go to a Jamboree.
Then after I came into the House of Truth I learned of another gathering of campers that makes the national Boy Scout Jamboree look tiny. It is a Jamboree like no other.
This is the grandest of all Jamborees because the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) is the host of this eight day event of sleeping in tents for a week. He has selected a week that starts in the middle of the seventh month on His calendar (the middle of October give or take a couple of weeks) which is generally optimum camping weather (Leviticus 23:34). The first and last days of this eight day gathering are special Sabbaths when everyone congregates together (Leviticus 23:35-39). Of course, everyone has to set up camp on the first day so they have somewhere to sleep for the next seven nights (Leviticus 23:40). Then it is a week of fun and celebration with the Father of Truth (Leviticus 23:41).
This Jamboree is called the Feasts of Tabernacles (Sukkot) because of the tents that look like booths (Sukkot) that everyone sleeps in for seven nights. This Feast of Truth is the final act of The Greatest Play Ever that tells about The Aftermath of The Great War. Just like all of the Feasts of Truth (Moedim aka Feasts of the Father of Truth) this one has additional sacrifices commanded for each and every day that it lasts (Numbers 29:12-39).
Why does the Father of Truth host this Jamboree every year?
Before the Father of Truth set up this Jamboree there was a camping trip with His people in the wilderness (Exodus 13:20). That camping trip had more than 600,000 men that served in the army (twenty to sixty years of age) participate plus their wives, their children, the Levites (who were forbidden to be in the army) and the elderly (Numbers 11:21). The Father of Truth took care of their every need while they camped with Him for forty years (Deuteronomy 2:7). Now that was a camping trip!
So all of their descendants were to go camping together to remember how their ancestors went on a grand adventure with their Father after He delivered them from the slavery of Egypt (Leviticus 23:42-43). No one in their household nor the widow nor the orphan nor even the foreigner was to be left out of this week of camping and celebrating (Deuteronomy 16:13-14). Everyone was to bring something to this party to celebrate the goodness that the Father of Truth had shown them (Deuteronomy 16:15-17).
Just think about it! This Jamboree was a time when every family in Israel could get away from it all and have a grand reunion. Friends who grew up together and then went their separate ways could meet up again to create some new memories every year. People could meet other people with shared business interests to strike up new partnerships. Nobody would be left out and everyone would be able to strengthen their connections with other people.
This Jamboree was like a the greatest craft fair of all time when people could display and sell their goods on the four or five days that were not one of the Sabbaths. All during the week there would be people celebrating and playing music. There would be all kinds of games played during this time of rejoicing and all kinds of Fall decorations everywhere. This Jamboree was like Thanksgiving and everything else that makes Autumn so fun all rolled together into one week. The opportunities for His children to be blessed by spending a week with Him and each other seemed to be almost limitless.
This Jamboree was to occur in Jerusalem every year once the Father of Truth revealed that this was the place where He had chosen to put His name on (Deuteronomy 16:15). Every seventh year at this Feast of Truth everyone was to hear the reading of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) so that everyone in the Promised Land would know what He considered to be right and wrong (Deuteronomy 31:10-13). When Solomon set up the Temple in Jerusalem he resumed the sacrifices so everyone could celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles every year (2 Chronicles 8:12-13). Years later, Ezra did the same thing by having the altar rebuilt before the foundation of the second Temple was even laid (Ezra 3:2-6).
Sadly, most of the descendants of those who camped with the Father of Truth in the wilderness did not show up for His Jamboree all of the years from the time of Joshua (Yah'shua), when they first entered the Promised Land, until the time of Nehemiah, when they returned to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem around the second Temple after being exiled from the Promised Land (Nehemiah 8:17). The Father of Truth hosted the greatest party of the year every year and hardly nobody showed up until Nehemiah got everyone to go back to camping in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 8:14-18).
The Feast of Tabernacles was still being celebrated by the Jews when the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was on the Earth (John 7:2). He also went camping in Jerusalem at the appointed time (John 7:8-10). He taught everyone the doctrine of his Father during this Jamboree so they would know what He considered to be right and wrong (John 7:14-18). There was no way that the Man of Truth was going to miss any Jamboree that the Father of Truth was hosting.
Even after the Man of Truth left this Earth, His Father continued to host this Jamboree in Jerusalem. The Ethiopian Eunuch came two thousand miles to camp with the Father of Truth in Jerusalem (Acts 8:26-28). [There are torrential rains around Meroe (the capital of ancient Ethiopia) and across ancient Ethiopia (modern Sudan, South Sudan and northern Ethiopia) from April through July every year making it almost impossible for the Ethiopian Eunuch to have attended any Feasts of Truth except those that occurred in the Fall.] Since the Ethiopian Eunuch had so honored the Father of Truth in this manner the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost
) sent Philip the Jew (Philip the Evangelist) to tell him the Good News about the Man of Truth (Acts 8:29-35). He came into the House of Truth because he had attended the great Jamboree in Jerusalem (Acts 8:36-38). Now that was something to celebrate!
The greatest Jamborees are still in front us. The day is coming when the Man of Truth will rule this Earth and make the Law of Truth the law of the whole world (Isaiah 2:2-4). It will be an era of peace across the globe so that everyone can travel safely to Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-8).
All of those whose ancestors camped with the Father of Truth in the wilderness will once again live in booths for this Feast of Truth (Hosea 12:9). Not only that, but every nation will have to send its men to camp in Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16). Any nation that does not show up to this Jamboree will get no rain until they come to next Jamboree (Zechariah 14:17-19). Everyone will show up for this party that the Father of Truth is hosting!
So the Jamboree was attended yearly when the Man of Truth walked the Earth and will be attended yearly again when he rules the Earth. But what about today?
Since the Temple is no longer standing in Jerusalem then we cannot keep the Feasts of Tabernacles exactly as spelled out in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) at this time. We cannot make the sacrifices without the Temple and the priests. At this time the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) cannot possibly all gather together every year in Jerusalem for a week. We must remember that we are Playing With Broken Toys.
However, even when the Temple was standing the Jewish Children of Truth who lived outside of the Promised Land had the exact same problem. Yet Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) did not teach the Jewish Children of Truth that lived outside of the Promised Land to stop celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles all together (Acts 21:19-21). In fact, he was also celebrating this Jamboree every year when he was outside of the Promised Land (Acts 21:22-24).
So we can do the same things they did. We can still camp together with the other Children of Truth in our local area for eight days. We can even do this in our cities. We can still build booths and decorate them with tree branches. (Some people even build their booths on the fire escapes to their tenements and then sleep there.) We can still have eight days of rejoicing before the Lord that we spend with family and friends. We can even barbeque some of the same kind of animals that were sacrificed at the Temple for this Feast of Truth to remind us of the sacrifices that will be made in the Temple when the Man of Truth rules this Earth for a thousand years. We can still eat all kinds of fun festive Fall foods like funnel cakes while avoiding eating things that the Father of Truth calls filth. (Since we are under the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) you may be wondering Does It Matter What I Eat?) We can still treat the first and last day of the Feast of Tabernacles as special Sabbaths that we put aside for doing the same king of things that keep us from being Bored On The Sabbath. So we can still meet with the Father of Truth and His Children at miniature local versions of His Jamboree!
Do we have to keep the Feast of Tabernacles today?
The Gentile Children of Truth are not required to keep any of the Feasts of Truth in order to come into the House of Truth (Acts 15:23-24). The Jewish Apostles of Truth gave no such commandment for them to observe the Feast of Tabernacles (Acts 21:25). What matters is keeping The Weightier Matters of The Law. Attending this Jamboree is definitely one of The Lessor Matters of The Law.
Still they are invited to do so just like the Ethiopian Eunuch did. Like him, they will also find themselves blessed for honoring their Father like this.
So even though we do not have to attend the Feast of Tabernacles at this current time we can still get great benefits from doing so. We can still have the great privilege of spending a week camping with the Father of Truth and His Children. We can still remember the great adventure that we are on with the Father of Truth now that we have been delivered from the bondage of sin. We can gain all the benefits of getting closer to Him and to each other. We can experience a little bit of what it will be like when the Man of Truth is ruling this Earth. Why would we not want to go to His Jamboree?
The important thing is for the Children of Truth to not condemn each other based on whether or not they attend His Jamboree because it is really only a means for coming to know the Man of Truth (Colossians 2:16-17).
It does not really matter if you attend His Jamboree unless you first come into the House of Truth (Acts 13:38-41). You can can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering to the one who will cause everyone to attend those future Jamborees because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-12). Attending His Jamboree is worthless if you never come into the House of Truth (Galatians 2:15-16).
Come into the House of Truth.
When I was a Boy Scout I always wanted to go to the national Jamboree. There was something very appealing about camping with 25,000 or more campers for a week or more to someone who loves to go camping .
During Jamboree there were all kinds of scouting competitions like knot tying. I hoped to win the national knot tying competition. I could tie most of the knots faster than anyone I met. I used to tie the knots behind my back just to give other people a sporting chance at beating me. Even then I was rarely beat.
I thought the national Jamboree was the largest and greatest gathering of campers in the history of the world. I really wanted to be part of it but my troop did not go to it the one time that it occurred while I was a scout. It looked like I would never go to a Jamboree.
Then after I came into the House of Truth I learned of another gathering of campers that makes the national Boy Scout Jamboree look tiny. It is a Jamboree like no other.
This is the grandest of all Jamborees because the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) is the host of this eight day event of sleeping in tents for a week. He has selected a week that starts in the middle of the seventh month on His calendar (the middle of October give or take a couple of weeks) which is generally optimum camping weather (Leviticus 23:34). The first and last days of this eight day gathering are special Sabbaths when everyone congregates together (Leviticus 23:35-39). Of course, everyone has to set up camp on the first day so they have somewhere to sleep for the next seven nights (Leviticus 23:40). Then it is a week of fun and celebration with the Father of Truth (Leviticus 23:41).
This Jamboree is called the Feasts of Tabernacles (Sukkot) because of the tents that look like booths (Sukkot) that everyone sleeps in for seven nights. This Feast of Truth is the final act of The Greatest Play Ever that tells about The Aftermath of The Great War. Just like all of the Feasts of Truth (Moedim aka Feasts of the Father of Truth) this one has additional sacrifices commanded for each and every day that it lasts (Numbers 29:12-39).
Why does the Father of Truth host this Jamboree every year?
Before the Father of Truth set up this Jamboree there was a camping trip with His people in the wilderness (Exodus 13:20). That camping trip had more than 600,000 men that served in the army (twenty to sixty years of age) participate plus their wives, their children, the Levites (who were forbidden to be in the army) and the elderly (Numbers 11:21). The Father of Truth took care of their every need while they camped with Him for forty years (Deuteronomy 2:7). Now that was a camping trip!
So all of their descendants were to go camping together to remember how their ancestors went on a grand adventure with their Father after He delivered them from the slavery of Egypt (Leviticus 23:42-43). No one in their household nor the widow nor the orphan nor even the foreigner was to be left out of this week of camping and celebrating (Deuteronomy 16:13-14). Everyone was to bring something to this party to celebrate the goodness that the Father of Truth had shown them (Deuteronomy 16:15-17).
Just think about it! This Jamboree was a time when every family in Israel could get away from it all and have a grand reunion. Friends who grew up together and then went their separate ways could meet up again to create some new memories every year. People could meet other people with shared business interests to strike up new partnerships. Nobody would be left out and everyone would be able to strengthen their connections with other people.
This Jamboree was like a the greatest craft fair of all time when people could display and sell their goods on the four or five days that were not one of the Sabbaths. All during the week there would be people celebrating and playing music. There would be all kinds of games played during this time of rejoicing and all kinds of Fall decorations everywhere. This Jamboree was like Thanksgiving and everything else that makes Autumn so fun all rolled together into one week. The opportunities for His children to be blessed by spending a week with Him and each other seemed to be almost limitless.
This Jamboree was to occur in Jerusalem every year once the Father of Truth revealed that this was the place where He had chosen to put His name on (Deuteronomy 16:15). Every seventh year at this Feast of Truth everyone was to hear the reading of the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) so that everyone in the Promised Land would know what He considered to be right and wrong (Deuteronomy 31:10-13). When Solomon set up the Temple in Jerusalem he resumed the sacrifices so everyone could celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles every year (2 Chronicles 8:12-13). Years later, Ezra did the same thing by having the altar rebuilt before the foundation of the second Temple was even laid (Ezra 3:2-6).
Sadly, most of the descendants of those who camped with the Father of Truth in the wilderness did not show up for His Jamboree all of the years from the time of Joshua (Yah'shua), when they first entered the Promised Land, until the time of Nehemiah, when they returned to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem around the second Temple after being exiled from the Promised Land (Nehemiah 8:17). The Father of Truth hosted the greatest party of the year every year and hardly nobody showed up until Nehemiah got everyone to go back to camping in Jerusalem (Nehemiah 8:14-18).
The Feast of Tabernacles was still being celebrated by the Jews when the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) was on the Earth (John 7:2). He also went camping in Jerusalem at the appointed time (John 7:8-10). He taught everyone the doctrine of his Father during this Jamboree so they would know what He considered to be right and wrong (John 7:14-18). There was no way that the Man of Truth was going to miss any Jamboree that the Father of Truth was hosting.
Even after the Man of Truth left this Earth, His Father continued to host this Jamboree in Jerusalem. The Ethiopian Eunuch came two thousand miles to camp with the Father of Truth in Jerusalem (Acts 8:26-28). [There are torrential rains around Meroe (the capital of ancient Ethiopia) and across ancient Ethiopia (modern Sudan, South Sudan and northern Ethiopia) from April through July every year making it almost impossible for the Ethiopian Eunuch to have attended any Feasts of Truth except those that occurred in the Fall.] Since the Ethiopian Eunuch had so honored the Father of Truth in this manner the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost
) sent Philip the Jew (Philip the Evangelist) to tell him the Good News about the Man of Truth (Acts 8:29-35). He came into the House of Truth because he had attended the great Jamboree in Jerusalem (Acts 8:36-38). Now that was something to celebrate!
The greatest Jamborees are still in front us. The day is coming when the Man of Truth will rule this Earth and make the Law of Truth the law of the whole world (Isaiah 2:2-4). It will be an era of peace across the globe so that everyone can travel safely to Jerusalem (Micah 4:1-8).
All of those whose ancestors camped with the Father of Truth in the wilderness will once again live in booths for this Feast of Truth (Hosea 12:9). Not only that, but every nation will have to send its men to camp in Jerusalem during the Feast of Tabernacles (Zechariah 14:16). Any nation that does not show up to this Jamboree will get no rain until they come to next Jamboree (Zechariah 14:17-19). Everyone will show up for this party that the Father of Truth is hosting!
So the Jamboree was attended yearly when the Man of Truth walked the Earth and will be attended yearly again when he rules the Earth. But what about today?
Since the Temple is no longer standing in Jerusalem then we cannot keep the Feasts of Tabernacles exactly as spelled out in the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law) at this time. We cannot make the sacrifices without the Temple and the priests. At this time the Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) cannot possibly all gather together every year in Jerusalem for a week. We must remember that we are Playing With Broken Toys.
However, even when the Temple was standing the Jewish Children of Truth who lived outside of the Promised Land had the exact same problem. Yet Paul the Jew (Shaul aka Saul aka The Apostle Paul) did not teach the Jewish Children of Truth that lived outside of the Promised Land to stop celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles all together (Acts 21:19-21). In fact, he was also celebrating this Jamboree every year when he was outside of the Promised Land (Acts 21:22-24).
So we can do the same things they did. We can still camp together with the other Children of Truth in our local area for eight days. We can even do this in our cities. We can still build booths and decorate them with tree branches. (Some people even build their booths on the fire escapes to their tenements and then sleep there.) We can still have eight days of rejoicing before the Lord that we spend with family and friends. We can even barbeque some of the same kind of animals that were sacrificed at the Temple for this Feast of Truth to remind us of the sacrifices that will be made in the Temple when the Man of Truth rules this Earth for a thousand years. We can still eat all kinds of fun festive Fall foods like funnel cakes while avoiding eating things that the Father of Truth calls filth. (Since we are under the Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) you may be wondering Does It Matter What I Eat?) We can still treat the first and last day of the Feast of Tabernacles as special Sabbaths that we put aside for doing the same king of things that keep us from being Bored On The Sabbath. So we can still meet with the Father of Truth and His Children at miniature local versions of His Jamboree!
Do we have to keep the Feast of Tabernacles today?
The Gentile Children of Truth are not required to keep any of the Feasts of Truth in order to come into the House of Truth (Acts 15:23-24). The Jewish Apostles of Truth gave no such commandment for them to observe the Feast of Tabernacles (Acts 21:25). What matters is keeping The Weightier Matters of The Law. Attending this Jamboree is definitely one of The Lessor Matters of The Law.
Still they are invited to do so just like the Ethiopian Eunuch did. Like him, they will also find themselves blessed for honoring their Father like this.
So even though we do not have to attend the Feast of Tabernacles at this current time we can still get great benefits from doing so. We can still have the great privilege of spending a week camping with the Father of Truth and His Children. We can still remember the great adventure that we are on with the Father of Truth now that we have been delivered from the bondage of sin. We can gain all the benefits of getting closer to Him and to each other. We can experience a little bit of what it will be like when the Man of Truth is ruling this Earth. Why would we not want to go to His Jamboree?
The important thing is for the Children of Truth to not condemn each other based on whether or not they attend His Jamboree because it is really only a means for coming to know the Man of Truth (Colossians 2:16-17).
It does not really matter if you attend His Jamboree unless you first come into the House of Truth (Acts 13:38-41). You can can only come into the House of Truth by surrendering to the one who will cause everyone to attend those future Jamborees because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:8-12). Attending His Jamboree is worthless if you never come into the House of Truth (Galatians 2:15-16).
Come into the House of Truth.
Labels: Camping, Feast of Tabernacles, Jamboree, Sukkot
posted by The House Of Truth @ October 10, 2014
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