“Welcome to God’s Feast of Tabernacles!”

If you’ve kept “the Feast” for few or many years you immediately understand the meaning of that joyful, truth-filled, opening night greeting.

If you’re new to God’s annual holy days, then you too may soon comprehend the sense of purpose, the historical mission, and the marvel of prophetic detail that God built into His plan of salvation and true way of life!

Savor the following rich visuals in this prophecy about the “the wonderful world tomorrow,” as the true Church of God in the 20^th century often described Jesus Christ’s anticipated, literal rule of all the nations during the millennial age beginning with His second coming:

“The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.” (Isaiah 11:6).

Even the most urbanized individuals recognize the dramatic, predator vs. prey contrast in that prophecy. In our world today wolves and large felines routinely kill and eat lambs and other herbivore prey that may happen by. That change of animal (especially in carnivore) nature will be a reflection of a far more important change in the nature of mankind.

Clearly, it isn’t the animals that God is in the process of saving! It’s people…all the humans made in His image from Adam and Eve on into the deep future.

The dramatic predator-prey contrast illustrates the greatness of God’s plan of salvation for humanity. It captures your imagination!

Of all God’s creation human beings are the ones given that incredible destiny to choose life and live through spiritual conversion and later resurrection to eternal life in the Kingdom of God!

That incredible, spiritual potential for humanity includes those whom God calls to choose His way of life now. But eternal life will also be offered to future humanity who live into the one thousand years of Christ-governed peace, and then, after that, to historical humanity through a second resurrection to physical life, and a first opportunity to genuinely know the true God.

Savor these eight days, and all the deep prophetic and spiritual meaning. That’s what the Feast of Tabernacles is all about!

– Commentary by Randy Stiver

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