What does it mean to be set apart? This time is to be set apart. This is a time of a special thanksgiving to the Lord. This is why we eat out side to remember that our ancestors had no homes. It remembers God’s sukoth of Clouds and fire. America’s Pilgrim Fathers recognized this harvest festival, but it also recognizes how temporary life is. Prayer normally is started with thanking God for His many blessings. It should be noted that this Thanksgiving is after Yom Kippur, the time one gets right with God. It is bound to joy because it is proof of Grace, but Jonah is read on the great Day of Atonement but the last chapter of Zechariah which is a declaration of judgment is on Sukkoth. Both describe shalom.

The culmination of seeking the messianic rule is Sukkuth, four days after Yom Kippur. By the water ceremony, it is also called the Feast of Living Water. The last of Maimonides 13 articles of Faith states, “God will send a Messiah to bring freedom and peace. In His great mercy, God will grant life to the dead; praised be His glorious name forevermore.”John 3:16-17 says:

 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.KJV

 But, when Yeshua finally reviled his messiah-ship, the scribes demanded justice not mercy. They sought to destroy Him  the messiah responded by accusing them. “John 8:1-11They came with design to accuse him, but they were forced to accuse themselves. Christ owns it was fit the prisoner should be prosecuted, but appeals to their consciences whether they were fit to be the prosecutors.(from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible: New Modern Edition, Electronic Database. Copyright (c) 1991 by Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.)” After the accusers left her he told her “Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.” John 8:11KJV

This is never to be taken to question the horribleness of sin for Isaiah 53 graphically shows the penalty for sin that the Messiah offered on the Cross. The Major and Minor Prophets declared the adultery that Israel did to the One that brought her out of Egypt. God set His Sukkoth in Jesus to atone so that men may be the Sukkoth of HaShem. Rom 8:9 says “But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.KJV”