{25} Then said some of them of Jerusalem,
Is not this he, whom they seek to kill? {26} But, lo, he speaks
boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed
that this is the very Messiah? {27} However we know where this man
comes from: but when the Messiah comes, no man knows where he
comes from. {28} Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught,
saying, You both know me, and you know where I come from: and I am
not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know
not. {29} But I know him: for I am from him, and he has sent me.
{30} Then they sought to take him: but no man laid hands on him,
because his hour was not yet come. {31} And many of the people
believed on him, and said, When Messiah comes, will he do more
miracles than these which this man has done?
{32} The Pharisees heard that the people
murmured such things concerning him; and the Pharisees and the
chief priests sent officers to take him. {33} Then said Jesus to
them, Yet a little while am I with you, and then I go unto him
that sent me. {34} You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and
where I am, there you cannot come. {35} Then said the Jews among
themselves, Where will he go, that we shall not find him? will he
go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?
{36} What manner of saying is this that he said, You shall seek
me, and shall not find me: and where I am, there you cannot come?
John 7:25-36
"Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh
month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you 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. And you shall
take you on the first day the boughs of goodly trees, branches of
palm trees and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the
brook; and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God seven
days...that your generations may know that I made the children of
Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God." .. Leviticus 23
Tabernacles or Sukkot is a popular and joyful festival: (Passover
celebrates the first spring harvest of barley; Shavuot or
Pentecost celebrates wheat harvest), fifty days later. Sukkot or
the Feast of Ingathering occurs at the time of the major harvest
of crops. ... In Jesus day, Sukkot was a glorious pageantry of
white-robed priests, musical instruments. Levitical choirs
accompanied the musicians with their string, wind, and percussion
instruments during the chanting of the Hallel ( Messianic) Psalms
113 to 118. The shofars sounded frequently to give special
emphases.The great brazen altar received more sacrificed animals
than on any other festival; 70 bulls, 14 rams, 98 lambs and 7
goats. (Numbers 29:12-34) Jesus, and His family, camped out in a
shelter made of limbs and branches called Booths commemorating the
experience of Israel in the wilderness.
September 30, 1980, one thousand Christians from 23 nations formed
themselves into "THE INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN EMBASSY. JERUSALEM."
As Mayor Teddy Kollek said this was "a great day for Jerusalem."
Every year they join with Israel in their celebration of the Feast
of Tabernacles. "It shall come to pass that every one that is left
of all nations that came against Jerusalem, shall go up from year
to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, to keep the Feast
of Tabernacles." (Zechariah 14:16-21)