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Feast of Tabernacles

Typological treatment in the corpus

The Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot), the third and last of the three great Israelite feasts, is identified by Warnock, Jones, and Noordzij as the type of eschatological completion: the full outpouring of the Spirit, the manifestation of the sons of God, and the inauguration of the Kingdom. Where Passover and Pentecost have already been fulfilled, the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles remains outstanding for all three authors.

Biblical anchoring

ReferenceContext
Lev. 23:34-44Ordinance of the Feast of Tabernacles: seven plus one day, build booths, sacred assembly
Ex. 23:16”The Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year”
John 7:37-38Jesus calls on the last day of the feast: “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink”
Rom. 8:23Redemption of the body as the ultimate fulfillment
1Cor. 15:52Bodily resurrection at the last trumpet

Typological interpretation by author

Warnock

Warnock’s entire work The Feast of Tabernacles is devoted to the typological interpretation of this feast. His central thesis is that the three annual feasts typify the entire history of the church:

“Two of the three annual Feasts of Israel’s worship have already been fulfilled in Christ and His Church… we are now on the verge of the fulfillment of the last annual Feast of the Lord.”1

The Feast of Tabernacles is for Warnock the Sabbath-rest of church history:

“Just as the weekly sabbath was the end of Israel’s week of toil and labor — so the Feast of Tabernacles is the end of the Church’s week of strife and turmoil: the Feast of all Feasts, the Sabbath of all Sabbaths.”2

The feast is prophetically oriented toward all nations:

“The Feast of Ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labors out of the field (Ex. 23:16).”3

The eighth day speaks of the completion of God’s purposes and the beginning of a new day:

“The eighth day would speak, no doubt, of the completion of God’s purposes in the Church, and the beginning of a new day.”4

Jones

Jones analyses the Feast of Tabernacles in Secrets of Time as the culmination of the redemptive-historical feast system. Through the image of the three doves Noah released:

“Finally, the Feast of Tabernacles correlates with Noah’s third dove. It is the last anointing, for it represents the fullness of the Spirit poured out, wherein we see the redemption of the body (Rom. 8:23). At this outpouring, you receive the true inheritance that was lost in Adam: the glorified body.”5

Jones locates the current church history at the threshold of the Tabernacles Age:

“We stand today at the threshold of the Tabernacles Age. The Passover Age began with Israel’s Exodus from Egypt on the day of Passover and ended at the Cross. The Pentecost Age began in the 2nd chapter of Acts and ended 40 Jubilees later on the day of Pentecost, May 30, 1993. We are now in the transition into the great Tabernacles Age, which will last a thousand years. It is the great Rest Year, the Sabbath Millennium.”6

In The Laws of the Second Coming Jones connects the water-pouring ceremony to the outpouring of the Spirit:

“Overcomers will receive their tabernacle, which is from heaven and not made with human hands (2 Cor. 5:1).”7

“The pouring out of water at the Feast of Tabernacles was meant to picture the outpouring of the Spirit of God, as prophesied by Joel 2:23 and 28.”8

Jones also emphasizes the universal scope of the feast: the seventy bulls offered at the feast represent the seventy nations of the earth (Gen. 10) — the Feast of Tabernacles is eschatologically oriented toward the ingathering of all nations.9

Noordzij

Noordzij connects the Feast of Tabernacles implicitly to his teaching on the Jubilee as the restoration of all things. In The Ark of Noah he describes:

“The Jubilee year bears witness to the restoration (apokatastasis) of all things (Acts 3:21). Everything that was rightfully someone’s came back into their possession. Liberty was proclaimed throughout the land for all its inhabitants.”10

This eschatological restoration corresponds for Noordzij to the period that Jones calls the Tabernacles Age: perfect rest and joy as the ultimate goal of God’s redemptive plan.

  • Connected: day-of-atonement (Day of Atonement precedes the Feast of Tabernacles as cleansing phase)
  • Connected: jubilee (Jubilee as the legal structure of the Tabernacles fulfillment)
  • Via number symbolism: 50 (number of the Spirit and the Jubilee, inseparably linked to Tabernacles)
  • Via number symbolism: 8 (eighth day of the feast as type of the new beginning)

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Warnock, b1 (The Feast of Tabernacles, 1951), ch. 1. ↩

  2. Warnock, b1 (The Feast of Tabernacles, 1951), ch. 11. ↩

  3. Warnock, b1 (The Feast of Tabernacles, 1951), ch. 10 (on Ex. 23:16). ↩

  4. Warnock, b1 (The Feast of Tabernacles, 1951), ch. 11. ↩

  5. Jones, b3 (Secrets of Time, 1996), ch. 3 — the third dove and the Tabernacles Age. ↩

  6. Jones, b3 (Secrets of Time, 1996), foreword. ↩

  7. Jones, b4 (The Laws of the Second Coming), ch. 7. ↩

  8. Jones, b4 (The Laws of the Second Coming), ch. 7. ↩

  9. Jones, b1 (Creation’s Jubilee), ch. 10 — seventy bulls and the seventy nations. ↩

  10. Noordzij, b2 (The Ark of Noah), section “The Jubilee year”. ↩

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