BIBLE STUDY: GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER (7) SEVEN

JESUS GOES TO THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES (OR INGATHERING OR BOOTHS OR DWELLING).

• WHY DID JESUS STAY IN GALILEE AWAY FROM JUDEA? JOHN 7:1
• WHY DID JESUS’S BROTHERS WANT HIM TO GO TO JUDEA? JOHN 7:3-4
• DID JESUS’S BROTHERS BELIEVE IN HIM? WHY DO YOU THINK THIS? JOHN 7:5 (SEE ALSO MATT. 12:46-50 AND MARK 3:21)
• WHY DID JESUS’S BROTHERS THINK HE HAD DISCPLES IN JUDEA? JOHN 6:66-67
• WHY DID JESUS SAY "THE RIGHT TIME" FOR HIM HAD NOT COME? JOHN 2:4; 7:30, JOHN 8:20 ( SEE ALSO JOHN 17: 1-5)
• WHY DID THE WORLD HATE JESUS? JOHN 7:7 (SEE ALSO JOHN 3:19-21 AND JOHN 15:18-21)
• WHY DID JESUS GO UP TO THE FEAST IN SECRET? (JOHN 7:1)
• WHY DO YOU THINK JOHN SAYS A "JEWISH FEAST"? (JOHN 7:1-2)

NOTE: THIS FEAST OF TABERNACLES THAT THE SCRIPTURES REFER TO AS THE "JEWISH FEAST" CAN BE FOUND IN LEV.23: 33 – 43 and DEUT. 16:13-15 AND PROPHESIED ABOUT IN ZECH.14: 16-19.

• COMMEMORATED THE PHYSICAL NATION OF ISRAEL JOURNEY FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN (THE PROMISE LAND) - THE FESTIVAL REMINDED ISRAEL THAT GOD MADE THEM LIVE IN TEMPORARY DWELLINGS (TENTS IN THE DESERT FOR 40 YEARS).

• THE FEAST FORESHADOWS JESUS’S 1000 YEAR REIGN WHICH BEGINS ON HIS RETURN. WE AS CHRISTAINS, THE FIRSTFRUITS WILL DWELL AND REIGN WITH JESUS DURING THIS TIME ON EARTH (REV. 20:4-6).
• THE FEAST COMMEMORATES OUR JOURNEY OUT OF SIN TO THE PROMISE OF GOD (ETERNAL LIFE) - WHERE GOD THE FATHER AND JESUS’S SPIRIT MADE THEIR HOME (DWELLING IN US) - REMINDING US THAT WE STILL LIVE IN OUR TEMPORARY TENTS (BODIES) WHILE AWAITING OUR CHANGE.
• THE FEAST ALSO POINTS US TOWARDS THE AGE TO COME WHEN WE WILL PUT OFF THIS TEMPORARY TENT (BODY) AND TAKE ON PERMENANT SPIRITUAL BODIES (RECEIVING A SPIRITUAL BODY LIKE OUR SAVIOR’S).
• THE FINAL FULFILMENT OF THIS FEAST IS SEEN WHEN GOD THE FATHER NOT ONLY TABERNACLE IN US THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, BUT WILL COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO TABERNACLE OR DWELL WITH US FOREVER AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEAR REIGN WITH JESUS THE CHRIST (REV.21: 1- 6).

Evangelist Ron Davis of the Kush Edifying Ministries gave this short Bible study of John 7 to a home study group. This studies similar to this one maybe heard on WLG 1370AM coming out of Glen Burnie / Baltimore, Maryland area. Send your comments to Evangelist Ron Davis, at the Kush Edifying Ministries,