Read: John 7-8
John opens at the feast of tabernacles. This is the feast where Jesus will fulfill it by tabernacling in his people. It is the final harvest. In their day, it was the at the end of the harvest season. They were to rest from their labors and feast with great rejoicing. The people would sleep in booths during the feasts to represent the fact that this was not their home. They would gaze through the boughs of their make-shift roof and see the heavens and remember that that was their home. In the midst of this feast, Jesus stood before the people and dialoged that he was not from here and was going to a place they could not find him. He was revealing to them who he was and where he was from. Of course, they couldn’t receive it or understanding because their ears were full of false doctrine.
On the last day of the feast there is a ceremony they do where they bring water from the pool of Siloam into the city and pour it out. It was a symbol of the rain that was coming that would soften the ground for the plowing of the next season. They would pray for God’s salvation through the Messiah. Jesus stood up and explained that He was this water that all who thirst could come to and be filled. This water of his was living water that would flow out of their belly. This was the Holy Spirit that Jesus was going to send that would soften the hearts of the people so they could receive the seed of the Word of God.
We have just finished this season so we can look forward to the pouring out of the Holy Spirit to soften the hearts of the people to receive the Word of God.
Lord, may we tabernacle with you as you bring the rain of your Holy Spirit down upon our land. May it soften hearts that we can implant the Word of God in their dry ground.
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