Easter 2022: Homecoming

 

'You are to keep the Feast of Sukkot for seven days, after gathering in the produce from your threshing floor and winepress.' So you will rejoice in your feast—you, your son and daughter, slave and maid, Levite and outsider, orphan and widow within your gates. Seven days you will feast to Adonai your God in the place He chooses, because Adonai your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hand, and you will be completely filled with joy.

-Deuteronomy 16:14-16

With the cloud of the chuppah and the shadow of the sukkah, Israel will commune with their God.

-Rabbinic Saying

In my father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

-John 14:2-3

The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’

-Luke 15:12

He forgets his dignity, he forgets his robes, he forgets everybody that's watching, and he sees only the starving, aching, exhausted figure of the son he had given up for dead. Only now his son is coming back home, and the father takes off like Michael Jordan on a fast break.

-John Ortberg

‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

-Luke 15:22-24

After leaving Sukkoth they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night. Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people.

-Exodus 13:20-22

He is the Groom and we are His bride.

He is the Father who runs to embrace His sons and daughters as they turn their hearts toward Home.

Every event of your life is designed to get you to the greatest celebration of all time and eternity.

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. 'I have prepared my dinner: My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding banquet.'

-Matthew 22: 1-2, 4

'So go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.’ So the servants went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, the bad as well as the good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. But when the king came in to see the guests, he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes. He asked, ‘How did you get in here without wedding clothes, friend?’ The man was speechless. Then the king told the attendants, ‘Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’ For many are invited, but few are chosen.

-Matthew 22:9-14

I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

-Isaiah 61:10

R.S.V.P.

R=Repent

S=Say you are sorry

V=Verbalize your trust in Christ

P=Plunge your past - get baptized

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