Harvest-Time Sowing and Reaping - The Feast of Tabernacles Oct 2-9
Harvest-Time Sowing and Reaping - The Covenant and the Observance of the Feasts of the Lord
Deu 16:16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty: 17 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
In the Old Testament, though the tithe opened the windows of heaven and released the blessing of rain over the land, after the rains came and the harvests came up, there were three main times of giving in the Hebrew economy that the children of Israel were to bring special offerings unto the Lord. They were known as the Feasts of the Lord that were to be kept 3 times a year in the Hebrew economy; Feasts of Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles.
Just as there were 3 times a year that the children of Israel were to bring a special offering – Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles - there should be at least three special times of giving per calendar year in the body of Christ, in addition to our regular weekly tithes and offerings.
These special times of giving are what I call “HarvestTime Giving.” These are based on the three Feast celebrations, set around the three times of harvest seen in the agriculture calendar year; spring, summer, and fall. The males were to bring an offering from their harvests to Jerusalem. Deuteronomy 16:16.
Though the majority of the New Testament Church of this generation has failed to see the importance of understanding and keeping the feasts of the Lord, the New Testament saints of the early Church did keep the feasts because they understood it’s covenant significance.
I remember explaining this to my fiancé when my wife and I were engaged, and had little to work with to start our life together, let alone to have a big church wedding, but we purposed to get a significant seed of $1000 to sow for a release of a significant harvest of everything we needed to get married by Oct 21st – which was The end of the Feast of Tabernacles.
The first thing we wanted was this unique engagement ring she desired. Understandably, until she had the ring on her finger her family would not recognize our engagement. They were very skeptical about our getting married before we had a consistent income, a house, and all the things we needed to put in the house.
However God had promised us that if we asked Him for those things, and seeded for those things we would have everything we needed by the day of our wedding. So we ASKED for the ring, SOWED the significant seed in Passover season and waited to RECEIVE what we had asked for.
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A Passover Miracle
Not only did He release that ring, but He did it exceedingly and abundantly above everything SHE could’ve asked or thought. What God released totally silenced every doubter and skeptic in hers and my families. Soon after we sowed that supernatural seed during the Resurrection season of the feast of Passover a Church in Hawaii called to invite me to preach on the Island of Kauai. God was sending me on a mission’s trip to Hawaii, ALLELUIA!! It was on this trip that I was blessed with $2500 to purchase this unique Hawaiian heirloom engagement ring. It was truly a sign and a wonder for all those that needed a sign of the significance of God’s system of operation, as opposed to the worlds’ system. However, God was just getting started, as we still had Pentecost, and Tabernacles to go and we still need the car, house and the honeymoon before Oct 21st.
A Pentecost Miracle
In the season of Pentecost I was called by a ministry in British Columbia Canada to come and minister for a week of services. During this time of ministry God did many wonderful miracles and many people were blessed with prophetic words of edification, exhortation and comfort. After this time of ministry God sent me home with a Pentecost blessing that I had not room enough to receive. It was enough money to pay up my fiancée’s car note for the remainder of the year. This was pretty significant, since God had spoken to my fiancée to resign from her job in preparation to begin travelling with me to the nations of the world, once we were married. I was a little nervous about this decision because my fiancée’s car note was in her mother’s name, as the co-signor, and I didn’t want her parents to think I had pressured her into this decision to quit her job, 5 months before our wedding. Her Father threatening to refuse to pay for the wedding if she followed through with this decision.
Well, when I received this Pentecost harvest, I was all too willing to obey God’s directive to put this harvest towards my fiancée’s needs, and especially towards her car note. This was also an additional faith reinforcement to strengthen our faith in this new system of kingdom living that God was teaching us, concerning the release of God’s covenant provision and blessings in the seasons of the Feasts of the Lord. It also continued to help squelch the skepticism and criticism we were receiving for not waiting until we were better financially situated to be married. However, the best was yet to come. We still needed a place to live, the monies for the honeymoon and all the other things we needed for our megachurch wedding, complete with 12 bridesmaids, 12 groomsmen and a mega-church guest list. But the greatest feast of the year – Feast of Tabernacles was still to come.
The Pressure leading up to this season was beyond our spiritual pay grade at that time. We were not prepared for the warfare and spiritual intensity that accompanied the resistance against us as this last feast season approached. It seemed as if everything was yelling at us to cancel the plans for this wedding and retreat to more rational common sense sight living, where everything is seen and on-hand before you make your plans. Don’t misunderstand me, this new kingdom living we were learning still required planning, it just required more prophetic forecasting and wisdom of God, that doesn’t make sense, much of the time, to the natural mind.
A Tabernacles Miracle
As we fought through all of the false atmospheres of this time, we resolved to go through with our plans, even though we had no money and no hint of where any more finances would come from. We had been denied by many Apartment complexes for lack of consistent income to substantiate our being able to make the lease payments monthly. And we still had no money for the honeymoon and no money for our limousine. This remained our state until three weeks before the wedding, when I received a call to Freeport Grand Bahamas to minister in a youth revival. It seemed like God would always release times of giving-out in ministry and service to others at the times we needed to receive the most. GOD ALWAYS ANSWERS A NEED WITH A SEED. GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE…(John 3:16).
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Is God’s Provision always Enough
When I returned from the Bahamas it didn’t seem like the Tabernacles provision and release was enough to meet our Tabernacles need. I needed a sizeable down payment to put down on an Apartment lease for us to live in, and though I had enough to put down on the place, it didn’t leave much for the limousine, and nothing for the Honeymoon. In addition to that the management office where my fiancé had decided she wanted to live had to get special approval to agree to lease to us, even with the sizeable monies towards the lease, because it was an upscale luxury living unit and they were not sure how we had made that much money to pay off the lease with no conventional job. So a week before the wedding we still had no place to live, no honeymoon, and just enough for a mid size, limousine. The stretch limousine we liked and wanted we didn’t have enough money to rent. So we settled for the size beneath that one.
To say that we were a little concerned and pressed in our emotions was a major understatement. We talked seriously about calling off the whole thing, feeling the pressure to crawl into a black hole of intimidation, fear and shame. However, at the point of giving up, we both sensed a supernatural gift of faith kick in. We both said at the same time, “WE WILL NOT DRAW BACK AND QUIT.” At that very moment a succession of miracles begin breaking forth, one right after another, that didn’t stop until after the ceremony, as we stood in the receiving line at the church.
A Succession of Miracles in a Supernatural Week
We were sitting in my Dads Church office when things finally began to break. I got a call from the Bahamas again. It was from the church I had preached at a week before. A sister in that Church called with a question. She began by saying that her and several other ladies were in prayer and one of the mothers of the church felt God speak to her that I was to come back to the Bahamas with my wife for our honeymoon. Another sister said to her, “It’s a week before the wedding, surely by now he already has the Honeymoon destination planned. Then the mother said, “I know what I heard.” So they said, “Well let’s call him and see.” So when this sister called, her question was, “DO YOU HAVE YOUR HONEYMOON DESTINATION PICKED OUT YET?” My answer was a resounding NO! At that point, she answered, “YOU DO NOW!” We’re going to bring you both to the Bahamas for a week, for your Honeymoon. I turned to my Fiancée’ and shared with her the good news, as we began to rejoice in the Lord. Five minutes later the phone rang again. It was the Apartment Complex calling to tell us that our application to their complex had been accepted and approved. “You guys can move in two weeks from today, which would be the very day we would return from our Honeymoon in the Bahamas. We rejoiced all week as we thanked God for our Tabernacles harvest, released the very week of the Feast of Tabernacles, days before our wedding.
If that would’ve been it, that would’ve been enough, but that wasn’t all. He’s a God of more than enough. After the ceremony, as we were heading out to the receiving line in the foyer of the church, we noticed the stretch limousine we wanted but couldn’t afford, parked out in front of the Church waiting for us. As we went to set up to receive our family and friends, the limousine driver walked up to us and said, “I apologize, but the limousine you ordered broke down, so we brought you this one instead.” It was the very one we wanted but couldn’t afford. IN THIS LAST HARVEST SEASON OF THE YEAR, CALLED THE RAINY SEASON, GOD DID EXCEEDING, ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL WE COULD ASK OR THINK.
Tabernacles would truly prove to be the greatest season of reaping of the year. And this year of 1995 would set us on course for a lifelong ride of supernaturally miracle provisions and breakthroughs in three miracles seasons of the year – Passover, Pentecost, and Tabernacles - that would characterize our life and ministry.
