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| A Time of Great Sacrifice |
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Summary: Bill Onisick, reflecting upon the anticipation and joy of the Feast of Tabernacles, suggests it is a time of joy and sacrifice. In the book of Numbers we find a pattern of sacrifice and offerings. Many metaphorical spiritual parallels are found in th... |
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| Amos 5 and the Feast of Tabernacles |
Subject: Properly Keeping the Feast |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh warns that it is possible to have an enjoyable feast, but not keep the feast properly, failing to derive any spiritual profit. God expects the Feast of Tabernacles to be the spiritual high of the year. Paradoxically, if we go to the F... |
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| Deception, Idolatry and the Feast of Tabernacles |
Subject: Feast of Tabernacles |
Summary: In this sermon on Deception, Idolatry, and the Feast of Tabernacles, John Ritenbaugh asserts that keeping the Feast of Tabernacles in a central location enables us to realize that we are involved in something larger than our own salvation- part of a ... |
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| Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 1) |
Subject: The Purpose of the Feast of Tabernacles |
Summary: In this first of a series on Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles, John Ritenbaugh, focusing upon a generally pessimistic treatise, read in the annual cyclical Jewish tradition, during the Feast of Tabernacles, illustrates the disillusionment th... |
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| Ecclesiastes and the Feast of Tabernacles (Part 2) |
Subject: Why God Does Things The Way He Does |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh stresses that God emphasizes the rather pessimistic theme of Ecclesiastes during the Feast of Tabernacles to show the consequences of doing whatever our hearts (without God's Spirit) has led us to do. Without incorporating God's purpo... |
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| Extreme Happiness |
Subject: Sharing the Feast With Our Spiritual Family |
Summary: Mike Ford, focusing on Leviticus 23, asserts that the command to rejoice at the Feast of Tabernacles appears seven times--extreme or consummate happiness. This command appears also in Deuteronomy 16 and Deuteronomy 14. A physical rejoicing can take p... |
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| Fall Feast Lessons |
Subject: What are We Supposed to Learn? |
Summary: In this sermon focused on the meaning of the Fall Feast, John Ritenbaugh affirms that the world will learn that God judges- that He has had perpetual hands on contact with His creation, having the ultimate decision over everything. After Satan is bou... |
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| Fearing God at the Feast |
Subject: Celebrating God's Faithfulness |
Summary: David Grabbe, continuing on the theme of necessity to fear God in order not to fear man, ties the theme of fearing God to the proper observance of Feast of Tabernacles. Fear of God appears in: (1) the practice of tithing (depending upon the faithfuln... |
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| Feast of Tabernacles Basics |
Subject: The Fundamentals of Why We Are Here |
Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh affirms that in spiritual matters, as in athletics, those who have mastered the fundamental skills are the best. The fundamentals of the Feast of Tabernacles consists of a harvest image, depicting a massive number of people coming ... |
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| From Rubble to Utopia |
Subject: The Work of Millennium |
Summary: In this preview of the Millennium, Richard Ritenbaugh cautions that the Wonderful World Tomorrow is not something that is going to happen because of an instantaneous miracle. God takes His time to produce both physical and spiritual changes. Because ... |
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| God's Rest and the Millennium |
Subject: The Millennium Pictures a Cessation and a Beginning |
Summary: In this message on God's Millennial rest, Richard Ritenbaugh points out that both the Hebrew word shabbat and the Greek translation of the word katapausis denote cessation or stoppage rather than repose or sleep. It represents a cessati... |
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| His Own Vine and Fig Tree |
Subject: Property Rights and the Kingdom of God |
Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh, focusing on Micah 4:1-4, emphasizes that during the Millennium, inhabitants will own their own property. Mankind at the beginning of Creation had dominion or ownership of the earth. God charged mankind with the responsibility of t... |
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| Knowing God: Formality and Customs (Part 2) |
Subject: Coming Before God |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh admonishes that we must continually upgrade our decorum and formality in our approach to God, striving to emulate Him in all that we do. Our culture (paralleling the second law of thermo-dynamics) has seriously degenerated in decorum ... |
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| Learn to Fear God |
Subject: An Instrument of Construction or Destruction |
Summary: John Reid asserts that without the fear of God, there is no wisdom. If we divorce God from knowledge, it will become an instrument of destruction. Fearing God is equated with obeying or complying with God's instructions, voluntarily measuring all our... |
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| New Heavens and New Earth |
Subject: The Futures of Physical and Spiritual Israel |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh marvels about the scope of God's mind, His patience and meticulous planning, having taken place before the foundation of the world, perhaps more than 10 billion years ago (allowing for mankind's limited tenure of nearly 6,000 years.) ... |
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| Not Just a Better America |
Subject: The Millenium will not be patterned after the U.S. |
Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh, after pointing to some recent miraculous interventions of God on behalf of America, warns people not to conclude that God tacitly approves or condones the American way of doing things. God does not endorse the American system any ... |
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| Our Awesome Destiny |
Subject: Becoming Children of God Through Faith |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh observes that without our special calling and the gift of God's Holy Spirit, we would be about as clueless as to the purpose of our life as Solomon was throughout Ecclesiastes. Understanding is totally different from knowledge. Some p... |
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| The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 23) |
Subject: Colossians (D) |
Summary: In this twenty-third installment of the Covenants, Law and Grace series, John Ritenbaugh focuses upon two sets of verses (Colossians 2:16-18 and Galatians 4:9-10) which certain Protestant theologians have blasphemously charged that Paul was referring... |
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| The Covenants, Grace and Law (Part 5) |
Subject: Justification and Obligation |
Summary: In this fifth installment of the Covenants, Grace and Law series, John Ritenbaugh reminds us that under both the Old and New Covenants, refusal to keep to keep God's Law severs our relationship with Him. Like loving parents who give rules to their ch... |
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| The Feast of Ingathering |
Subject: Sermonette: God Is Gathering His Family! |
Summary: Using an analogy of the annual gathering of the Scottish clans celebrating their Scottish heritage, John Plunkett draws a comparison to the multiple in-gatherings depicted in the annual holy days. Every holy day depicts a gathering or a harvest: from... |
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| The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades |
Subject: What We Have to Look Forward To |
Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh focuses on the critical need for the Millennium and the means by which God will bring it about. The Millennium will come about because Christ is faithful to rescue mankind from its own stupidity, putting an end to sin and rebellion... |
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| The Government of God |
Subject: The Solution to Mankind's Problems |
Summary: Mike Ford, reflecting on the myriad failed forms of governmental systems on the face of the earth (including 26 defunct world empires), focuses upon Israel's unfortunate and flawed choice of a monarchy in I Samuel 8, burdening the people with confisc... |
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| The Millennium |
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Summary: Taking a cue from an old country doctor, Herbert W. Armstrong observes that virtually everything God has created, mankind has misused and perverted. Though mankind boastfully prognosticates technological progress and a glorious future, it will not co... |
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| The 'Rest' of Hebrews 4 |
Subject: Our Rest Is Yet Unfulfilled |
Summary: John Ritenbaugh, focusing upon the promise of rest alluded to in Hebrews 4;9, emphasizes the need to endure, persevere, overcoming doubts and unbelief- something many of our forebears (described in Hebrews 3 and 4) did not successfully attain. When w... |
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| What We Can Learn from Booths |
Subject: A Yearly Reminder of Our Pilgrim Status |
Summary: Richard Ritenbaugh reflects on the various nuances of the word booth (from old Norse), tabernacle (Latin), and sukkoth (Hebrew), all connoting temporary dwellings. God intends for us to learn daily lessons from living in booths d... |
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