A New Heart
Oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always, so that it might go well with them and their children forever!” (Deuteronomy 5:29). NIV
Let’s face the facts, we don’t want to do as we are told. Sometimes, it is just because He said we have to, that makes us not want to. The Apostle Paul spoke of this in Romans Chapter seven. There is a certain contrariness to our character. We might have done the things in the Law, if God had not told us to do them. What is wrong with us? We need a new heart! For all of the concern over coronary artery disease, maybe our physical symptoms are showing us a deeper problem. We have “heart disease” alright, only it is seated deep in our emotions. We need a new heart to serve God. A new heart so that we can treat our neighbor with love and respect. We need a deep seated, emotional willingness to obey the Law of God. God agrees with that assessment. He told the prophet Ezekiel that we need a new heart a very long time ago. “I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh. Then they will follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws. They will be my people, and
will be their God” (Ezekiel 11:19-20). We desperately need a new heart. A heart that will serve the God of Israel. One that will walk in the freedom of the Law of God. A heart that contains the Spirit of the Living God. We need a heart of flesh to replace our heart of stone. A heart that will actually love God. Most of this world, sadly including the Christians, has lived contrary to the Laws of God. That is why there is so much suffering in this world. God is real. And He governs by the Law that He gave to Moses. So when we break His Law, we receive the punishment. It is just that simple. Even Christians must bear the consequences of their rebellion to God. As Christians, we claim to have the heart of God because of the Spirit of God that is in us. But, then we go out and live like the heathen. What kind of witness is that? God’s Law is eternal, immutable, and alive. How can we claim that Messiah “did away” with the Law of God, when every prophecy about Messiah declared that He would magnify God’s Law? If we do not live by God’s Law, He says that we have no light in us. Didn’t Jesus tell us to walk in the light?
“To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of
dawn” (Isaiah 8:20).
This is how we need to demonstrate that we have the Spirit of God living in our hearts. We need “spiritual” heart surgery to change our minds toward the Law of God. We need that heart in us, so that we want to obey God, after all we are talking about God. The Spirit of God living in our person is the solution to our problem. The Spirit of God living in a person is how we can learn to obey God.
“The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God” (Romans 8:6-8).
It takes the Spirit of God living in a person to want to obey God’s Law. It can happen no other way. We are hostile to God by nature. Therefore, we need that nature changed. That change can only come about with the Spirit of God. We read that back in the quote from Ezekiel, we need that new Spirit. With out the Spirit of God we can not even submit to the Law of God. We need the freedom, we need the prosperity, and we need the health. We need God’s Law, so
we need His Spirit in order to live it. Jesus equated hostility to His Law with sin. He was very adamant that those who live a life of sin are slaves to sin.
“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”…“Jesus replied, ‘I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed’” (John 8:31-32 & 34-36). Freedom comes from living by the Torah. Jesus came to set us free from our rebellion to the Torah. He came so that we could live in the perfect freedom under His Law. And that requires the Spirit of God living in us in order to do it. The slavery talked about over and over again, in the New Testament, is slavery to sin. “Everyone who sins breaks the law; in fact, sin is lawlessness.” The Greek word for law is “nomos” which is always used by the New Testament writers for the Law of God. The Greek word for lawlessness is “anomia” which is used to describe transgressing the Torah. Torah-lessness is sin. Christ did not come to set us free from “the perfect law that gives freedom,” He came to give us the freedom that comes from living by His Law. We have talked about the Law being a covenant of love with our Creator. Yet, the fault is in the people who do not have the love necessary to love God. The Holy Spirit is where we get that love for God. “…because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us” (Romans 5:5). We need this love from God because it takes away the hostility toward His Law that comes with our flesh. We are rebellious by nature, even when it hurts us. His Spirit takes that away, and gives us the ability to love Him. It also gives us the ability to obey Him.
“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people” (Hebrews 8:10).
God writes His Laws on our hearts and in our minds by the power of His Spirit. When we receive the Holy Spirit, He begins this process in us. We need to embrace His Law so that this process can be made complete. Writing His Laws in our hearts and on our minds, is not abolishing them. It is focusing our minds to live by them. It is giving us the ability and the desire to live His Torah. We need to think about the rules in God’s Law. We need to attach our emotions to His Way of Life. It is a process that takes place because of His Spirit living in us. We need the Holy Spirit because it gives us that heart of flesh to love Him and obey Him. He gave Moses the Law on tables of stone. Today, He wants to write His Law on the tablet of your heart, so that you will become a living testimony to God Almighty.
This day as you read these words, God is calling to you. He is calling you to return to Him. He is calling you to live the way of life that will secure your liberty. He is calling you to a way of life that will bring you prosperity, health and blessing. A Way of life full of joy and happiness. A way of life that will free you from slavery to sin. God has held out His hands to many people over many years, calling to us all: “Live by My Law and be blessed, choose life and not death.” Listen to the Creator God, the Maker of Heaven and earth, and live by His Torah. Listen to your God, and ask Him for the new heart that can love Him.
Antiochus
Coming soon is the season of Hanukkah. This is a very powerful celebration in the Jewish calendar of Feast days. For years we did not Celebrate it, because it is not in the Torah. There are wonderful messages in Hanukkah about rededicating your life to Yeshua, the promise of the new Heavens and new earth, and
the ultimate fulfillment of the Word of God in the New Spirit Birth of all mankind. But, recently the Lord has given us a revelation of a prophetic fulfillment in this day, with a powerful message to you. In Hasmonean times, the Jewish people were ruled by Greek kingdom of the Seleucid’s. The tried to force the Jewish people to conform to pagan idolatry. One evil king in particular, Antiochus Epiphanes even went so far as to set up an image to Zeus in the Temple of God. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar of God, and forced the Jewish people to work on the Sabbath on pain of death. A band of Jewish freedom fighters finally drove Antiochus out of Judah, and set about restoring the worship of the true God. The Temple was totally defiled, and had to be thoroughly cleansed. When all was made ready, they found that they only had a one day supply of oil with which to light the sacred Menorah. They went ahead with restoring the Temple worship on faith in the God of Israel. The Menorah burned for eight days until a fresh supply of oil was produced and ready for Temple use. To commemorate this great miracle of God, the Jewish people celebrate for eight days the anniversary of God’s favor. It is clear from the Bible that Jesus kept the festival of Hanukkah. “Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade” (John 10:22-23). So if Jesus kept this celebration of God’s faithfulness and provision, then certainly it is well if we do also. It can be a time of dedication to the Bible. It can be a time to recognize that the Jewish people are the near kinfolks of the Lord. We need to stand with them in their time of need, and pledge to never again subject them to the kinds of persecution that has often come from the hands of “Christians.” The Jewish people are our friends, and because of them we have the Holy Bible. We need to recognize them for their faithfulness to the God of all Creation. That ancient spirit that has always tried to destroy the Jewish people and the Word of God that they preserve is alive and well. The devil really wants to stop Judaism. Why? Because through death and sacrifice, the Jewish people have faithfully preserved the Word of God. We owe them a staggering debt of gratitude. Pharaoh king of Egypt tried to destroy the ancient race of Israel. The Assyrians tried to destroy the ancient race of Israel, and inflicted such harm to them, that ten tribes were lost to history. The Romans, the Holy Romans, the Russians, the Germans, have all tried to kill, and wipe out the Sacred race of the family of Yeshua. Not to mention the story of Purim and the atrocity of Haman (purposely uncapitalized) in the Persian empire. They are lead by a new Haman in the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Why is all of this so very important to us today? Because the story of Hanukkah, is the story of Antiochus Epiphanes. The Selucid king who would make himself god. He is the fore-runner to the antichrist. He is the type of the antichrist to come. "At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before. Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant. His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people
Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered. When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them. Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time” (Daniel 11:29-35). Daniel was given this word hundreds of years before Antiochus was even born. That this took place exactly like the Lord said that it would is a powerful proof of the accuracy of the Holy Bible. But, you see, this is the type of what is going to happen. What this celebration represents is the victory of God over Zeus. And what this celebration is going to mean is the victory of Christ over antichrist. "So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand-- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again” (Matthew 24:15-22). There was an historic event that was the “abomination that makes desolate” and there will be a future event as well. The future event is the one that we are interested in because it is just ahead of us in time. The prophet Daniel gave us more clues to this coming time of trouble. “He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27). This is the abomination that Yeshua is referring to in Matthew 24. It is at the time of the end, and will encompass this world with wickedness. We watch the evil in America, but when the power of the United States has been broken, then these things will happen quickly. You are living in the last days, wakeup and realize the danger you are facing. America is Israel, and Israel is Judah, and together we are facing that ancient spirit that has tried to destroy us since the time of pharaoh. It wants to stop the plan of God, and to kill as many of us as possible along the way. There are so many clues coming into being. The picture is clear. Anything that attacks the Jews is going to attack you. Watch Iran, watch Germany, watch Russia, watch the whole earth come against us because we back Israel. We must watch out for the king who will arise to overthrow the United States. He will alert us to who he is, by the things that he will do. “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time” (Daniel 7:25). Who is trying to eliminate the Torah? Who wants to undo the Holy Days? Who wants to eliminate the Law of God in favor of the laws of men? The Roman system of the fourth beast! The northern kingdom of Daniel eight. Antiochus Epiphanes was the fore runner of the future antichrist. He tried to destroy the Jewish people. He desecrated the Holy Temple. He tried to force the Jewish people to worship Satan. The anti-Christ will do the same things to the Jews, and to Sabbath keeping Christians. Obeying the commandments includes the fourth commandment to keep the Sabbath holy. In fact, I will be so bold as to suggest, that you are not obeying the commandments, unless you obey the fourth.
Coming soon is the season of Hanukkah. This is a very powerful celebration in the Jewish calendar of Feast days. For years we did not Celebrate it, because it is not in the Torah. There are wonderful messages in Hanukkah about rededicating your life to Yeshua, the promise of the new Heavens and new earth, and
the ultimate fulfillment of the Word of God in the New Spirit Birth of all mankind. But, recently the Lord has given us a revelation of a prophetic fulfillment in this day, with a powerful message to you. In Hasmonean times, the Jewish people were ruled by Greek kingdom of the Seleucid’s. The tried to force the Jewish people to conform to pagan idolatry. One evil king in particular, Antiochus Epiphanes even went so far as to set up an image to Zeus in the Temple of God. He also sacrificed a pig on the altar of God, and forced the Jewish people to work on the Sabbath on pain of death. A band of Jewish freedom fighters finally drove Antiochus out of Judah, and set about restoring the worship of the true God. The Temple was totally defiled, and had to be thoroughly cleansed. When all was made ready, they found that they only had a one day supply of oil with which to light the sacred Menorah. They went ahead with restoring the Temple worship on faith in the God of Israel. The Menorah burned for eight days until a fresh supply of oil was produced and ready for Temple use. To commemorate this great miracle of God, the Jewish people celebrate for eight days the anniversary of God’s favor. It is clear from the Bible that Jesus kept the festival of Hanukkah. “Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade” (John 10:22-23). So if Jesus kept this celebration of God’s faithfulness and provision, then certainly it is well if we do also. It can be a time of dedication to the Bible. It can be a time to recognize that the Jewish people are the near kinfolks of the Lord. We need to stand with them in their time of need, and pledge to never again subject them to the kinds of persecution that has often come from the hands of “Christians.” The Jewish people are our friends, and because of them we have the Holy Bible. We need to recognize them for their faithfulness to the God of all Creation. That ancient spirit that has always tried to destroy the Jewish people and the Word of God that they preserve is alive and well. The devil really wants to stop Judaism. Why? Because through death and sacrifice, the Jewish people have faithfully preserved the Word of God. We owe them a staggering debt of gratitude. Pharaoh king of Egypt tried to destroy the ancient race of Israel. The Assyrians tried to destroy the ancient race of Israel, and inflicted such harm to them, that ten tribes were lost to history. The Romans, the Holy Romans, the Russians, the Germans, have all tried to kill, and wipe out the Sacred race of the family of Yeshua. Not to mention the story of Purim and the atrocity of Haman (purposely uncapitalized) in the Persian empire. They are lead by a new Haman in the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Why is all of this so very important to us today? Because the story of Hanukkah, is the story of Antiochus Epiphanes. The Selucid king who would make himself god. He is the fore-runner to the antichrist. He is the type of the antichrist to come. "At the appointed time he will invade the South again, but this time the outcome will be different from what it was before. Ships of the western coastlands will oppose him, and he will lose heart. Then he will turn back and vent his fury against the holy covenant. He will return and show favor to those who forsake the holy covenant. His armed forces will rise up to desecrate the temple fortress and will abolish the daily sacrifice. Then they will set up the abomination that causes desolation. With flattery he will corrupt those who have violated the covenant, but the people
Those who are wise will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by the sword or be burned or captured or plundered. When they fall, they will receive a little help, and many who are not sincere will join them. Some of the wise will stumble, so that they may be refined, purified and made spotless until the time of the end, for it will still come at the appointed time” (Daniel 11:29-35). Daniel was given this word hundreds of years before Antiochus was even born. That this took place exactly like the Lord said that it would is a powerful proof of the accuracy of the Holy Bible. But, you see, this is the type of what is going to happen. What this celebration represents is the victory of God over Zeus. And what this celebration is going to mean is the victory of Christ over antichrist. "So when you see standing in the holy place the abomination that causes desolation, spoken of through the prophet Daniel--let the reader understand-- then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. Let no one on the roof of his house go down to take anything out of the house. Let no one in the field go back to get his cloak. How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! Pray that your flight will not take place in winter or on the Sabbath. For then there will be great distress, unequaled from the beginning of the world until now--and never to be equaled again” (Matthew 24:15-22). There was an historic event that was the “abomination that makes desolate” and there will be a future event as well. The future event is the one that we are interested in because it is just ahead of us in time. The prophet Daniel gave us more clues to this coming time of trouble. “He will confirm a covenant with many for one seven. In the middle of the seven he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on a wing of the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him” (Daniel 9:27). This is the abomination that Yeshua is referring to in Matthew 24. It is at the time of the end, and will encompass this world with wickedness. We watch the evil in America, but when the power of the United States has been broken, then these things will happen quickly. You are living in the last days, wakeup and realize the danger you are facing. America is Israel, and Israel is Judah, and together we are facing that ancient spirit that has tried to destroy us since the time of pharaoh. It wants to stop the plan of God, and to kill as many of us as possible along the way. There are so many clues coming into being. The picture is clear. Anything that attacks the Jews is going to attack you. Watch Iran, watch Germany, watch Russia, watch the whole earth come against us because we back Israel. We must watch out for the king who will arise to overthrow the United States. He will alert us to who he is, by the things that he will do. “He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time” (Daniel 7:25). Who is trying to eliminate the Torah? Who wants to undo the Holy Days? Who wants to eliminate the Law of God in favor of the laws of men? The Roman system of the fourth beast! The northern kingdom of Daniel eight. Antiochus Epiphanes was the fore runner of the future antichrist. He tried to destroy the Jewish people. He desecrated the Holy Temple. He tried to force the Jewish people to worship Satan. The anti-Christ will do the same things to the Jews, and to Sabbath keeping Christians. Obeying the commandments includes the fourth commandment to keep the Sabbath holy. In fact, I will be so bold as to suggest, that you are not obeying the commandments, unless you obey the fourth.
Examples From the Past by Bill Shults
This article is an excerpt from Chapter One of our new Book Come Away With Me. This book is about the coming Rescue of the Saints by Jesus Christ. This book deals with the importance of the romantic relationship that Jesus desires to have with those He will rescue. Because of that “romantic” relationship, certain of the saints desire to attain a higher walk with Him. We start by examining some examples of rescue in the ancient past. The examples all have clues as to the nature of the lives we must live in order to be rescued along with all of the saints..
The life of the prophet Elijah has many important parallels to the coming Rescue of the Saints. Elijah had to make a life or death stand for the God of Israel in the face of syncretism in Israel. Syncretism is the mixing of the true religion of the only God with the paganism from the surrounding nations. Israel, that is, the Northern Kingdom, had mixed the true worship of the Creator with idolatry to Baal. Similarly, we live in a time where we have mixed true worship of the Creator with customs from paganism. God has overlooked our transgressions for sometime, but now, in these last days, He expects us to change. “In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.” (Acts 17:30-31) We have mixed our precious Christianity with all of the trappings and traditions of paganism, but God has set a time of judgment for our transgressions. Consequently, this mixing of Christianity and paganism will not continue much longer. We must make a stand to live the Way God commands us in His Holy Bible. Elijah took that stand, and if we desire Rescue from the Tribulation we will also take that stand. After Elijah took that strong stand on Mount Carmel (1 Kings 18), Ahab’s wife, Queen Jezebel, promised to kill Elijah: “So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, ‘May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them’ ” (1 Kings 19:2). Elijah had prayed to the God of Israel and God had sent down fire from Heaven to consume the sacrifice. The Northern Kingdom had returned to their God. After Israel proclaimed that YHVH is the true God, (YHVH is known as the tetragrammaton, and is the true sacred name of God) this pagan queen decided to murder Elijah for turning the people away from Baal. A similar attack comes against the True Remnant church just prior to the Rescue of the Saints. “When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child. The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the desert, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s
reach” (Revelation 12:13-14).
In both cases the devil is pursuing those who take a strong stand for the True God. Elijah was fleeing from Jezebel for his very life, and the woman in Revelation (the true church) is fleeing from the devil. Elijah flees to Mount Horeb in Arabia to speak with God. Elijah is given a subsequent assignment to anoint the next generation of leaders (1 Kings 19:15-18). This has important parallels with the function of the true, on fire for God, remnant church today. The Lord Jesus said that the “on fire” would be together with the “lukewarm” in the last days. “Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left” (Matthew 24:40-41). We are to teach the Truth to those within our churches who may not currently have the ‘fire’ to get red hot for Jesus. Our work with those who just can’t quite make a stand will enable them to respond to the future work of Elijah in the last days. In the same way that Elijah was to anoint the next generation for the work of God, we are to work diligently among those who may be “left.” It may very well take the work of Elijah to demonstrate to others the need to get on fire for God in the last days. Elijah was on fire for God, and so we must also be on fire for God. Elijah was even rescued by God in a chariot of fire. Elijah the prophet was a true follower of the God of Israel, meaning that he lived by the Torah, or the Law of God. But, as the foremost prophet of Israel, Elijah also walked by the Spirit of the Lord. For those of us in this modern generation who seek rescue by the Lord, we need to follow Elijah's example of living a Torah observant, Spirit filled life. If you read 1st and 2nd Kings, the Spiritual events are astounding! The open contact with the real God of the Universe, the miracles, and the move of God that is recorded in these books should make all of us envious. God is no respecter of persons, so if we will get as red-hot for Him today as they were then by living by His Torah and walking in His Spirit, then He will do the same miracles for us. If we expect to see Rescue by our Lord, then we need to live a Torah observant and Spirit filled life.
The Prophet Elijah was a very special servant of the Lord because he was used to re-establish true worship during a period of idolatry. Jesus words concerning this prophet of long ago are very interesting. “To be sure, Elijah comes and will restore all things” (Matthew 17:11). Elijah lived a very long time ago, so how can he come and restore all things? And what are the “all things” that Jesus is referring to? In the past Elijah was used by God to restore the true worship of the God of Israel to a nation engulfed in idolatry. I believe that a time of idolatry is beginning that will lead to an idolatrous crisis at the close of this age. Elijah will return to perform his ancient role of confronting the leadership of this world with true worship of the God of Israel. In fact, I agree with many other people that Elijah is one of the two witnesses spoken of in Revelation 11. In Malachi, we read that Elijah comes before the “great and terrible Day of the Lord.” That would place Elijah’s return during the Tribulation, before the judgment of mankind. It is my earnest belief that the Rescue of the Saints takes place before the Tribulation. Those who are left behind are those whose hearts Elijah is sent to turn back to God. These are the people who will not get hot for God. These are the people who have made too many compromises with the non-believers around them. This was Elijah’s first mission during the reign of King Ahab, when King Ahab had introduced Baal worship into the Northern Kingdom of Israel. The people of the Northern Kingdom, from the days of Solomon’s son Rehoboam until King Ahab, had mixed the worship of the true God with the idolatry of paganism. I believe that it will take a forceful character like Elijah to turn lukewarm believers back to God during the Tribulation. I would like to encourage every believer who reads these words to get red hot in love with the God of Israel, right now. One way to get your love affair with Jesus Christ “red ho” is to worship Him by the Spirit of God. We need to join the pursuit of thousands, each of us, yearning for an encounter with our Living Christ. That is the focus of this magazine, and the focus of Hungry Hearts Ministries. Come join us for the adventure of your life. Come and join us as we pursue of Loving, Affectionate, and Holy God. - Bill Shults
The Feast of Sukkot
The Feast of Tabernacles, also known as Sukkot, is an eight day festival that is celebrated in the fall of each year. This feast is also known as the messianic feast because it symbolizes the coming rule of Messiah on earth. Sukkot is an important festival for Christians to observe because it symbolizes our heart’s desire, the rule of Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven. Jesus came proclaiming the gospel of the coming Kingdom of God. This Feast celebrates that Kingdom with Him as King.
In Leviticus 23 the Lord told the Israelites to celebrate this festival by living in “booths” or sukkah, for seven days. This was done to commemorate the Children of Israel living in booths in the Wilderness for forty years. He instructs them to “re-live” their history of deliverance by God from slavery. He also tells them to celebrate before Him with great joy. So, the Feast of Tabernacles is known as the festival of joy. As Christians, we have been delivered by God from our slavery to sin. So, we should celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles before Jesus with great joy. The Children of Israel were only saved from Pharaoh; we have been saved from the devil and should celebrate with even greater joy.
In the nation of Israel, the feast of Sukkot is observed by everyone. On the other Feast Days, the Jewish people celebrate by themselves. But, they openly acknowledge the Feast of Sukkot as the rule of Messiah on earth, so they keep it openly in the streets with everyone who shows up, Gentiles included. This fits with the chronology of Revelation 19 & 20. After the return of Jesus Christ, He will rule the earth for one thousand years. This will be a time of peace and plenty worldwide.
The lame will dance, the blind will see, and the deaf will hear.