Sukkot NW 2015 — You’re Invited! Make Reservations NOW

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You’re invited to join the Hoshana Rabbah team, Congregation Elim of Portland, Oregon and our friends from the U.S. West Coast and beyond for our fourteenth annual Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) gathering in Southern Oregon near Grants Pass. We have reserved an entire campground on the wild and beautiful Rogue River.

For information, and to register, please go to SukkotNW.org.

With a month-and-a-half to go until Sukkot, the campground is almost filled up. But don’t despair, we have an overflow campground just down river. For those who don’t want to camp, hotels are available 20 to 30 minutes away in Grants Pass.

Our theme this year will be based on Revelation 18:4, “Come out of her my people.” Many of the speakers’ teaching subjects will be about what is Babylon the Great and how to come out of it.

Many exciting activities are planned for this year’s Sukkot. These include:

  • Mature and experienced Bible teachers from Oregon, Washington and California.
  • Prayer ministry and spiritual empowerment
  • Much live Hebraic praise and worship
  • Workshops on a variety of subjects including organic gardening, bushcraft/wilderness survival skills, entrepreneurship/how to start a small business, wild edible plants, the lost tribes of Israel in Japan, prayer techniques, woman’s Torah issues and more.
  • An erev Shabbat banquet
  • Youth and family activities.
  • A market place.
  • Fishing and swimming
  • Fun around the campfire

For an entertaining preview of what to expect this year at Sukkoth NW 2015, please enjoy this video of highlights from last year’s Sukkot

 

What Will the Millennium Be Like?

When Yeshua the Messiah returns to this earth, the Bible says that he will defeat all his enemies and together with the resurrected saints will rule over this earth for 1000 years. This is called the Millennium or the Messianic Age. What will this time be like? What will the saints be doing? What about the physical nations and people who will be alive on earth during this time? This video answers these questions and more.

 

The Feast of Tabernacles Begins Today — Chag Samaech!

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Have a joyous Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles and Shemini Atzeret/the Eighth Day 2014. My family and I will be celebrating these two biblical festivals for eight days in southern Oregon at our regional Sukkot NW 2014 gathering (see SukkotNW.org). Maybe next year you can join us!

In the mean time, here’s a link to my teaching article on Sukkot and Shemeni Atzeret to provide you with some spiritual edification to help you to both appreciate and celebrate these prophetic feasts. Enjoy and may Elohim bless you as you and your family love him by keeping his commandments not out of legalism, but with a true heart of love, faith and obedience desiring to draw closer to him in intimate relationship by walking out his paths of righteousness!

I invite you to go to http://hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/sukkot.pdf

Shalom aleichem!

 

 

Sukkot NW 2014 Registration Now Open

 

copy-sukkot-nw-2014-960x250cYou are invited to Sukkot NW 2014 Messianic Hebrew Roots Feast of Tabernacles celebration at Indian Mary Park on the Rogue River in southern Oregon! Sukkot is during prime salmon and steelhead fishing season, so you may be wise to make your camping reservations now.

 Registration for Sukkot Northwest 2014 is now open! Won’t you join us as we celebrate the season of our joy at Sukkot NW?

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You are cordially invited to join the Sukkot NW planning team, Congregation Elim of Tigard, Oregon and Hoshana Rabbah Biblical Discipleship Resources for our twelfth annual Sukkot Northwest regional gathering this fall in southern Oregon on the wild and scenic Rogue River.

This year, we will be celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles (or Chag Sukkot) in one of the most beautiful campgrounds in Oregon — on the banks of the Rogue River — where bald eagles will be flying overhead and sea-run salmon will be spawning in the river waters below against a backdrop of steep canyon cliffs and tree-covered mountains. Our meeting facility literally overlooks the river and will be under an arching cathedral-canopy of huge oak and maple trees festooned in their bright fall colors. For your comfort and pleasure, the campground has all the amenities necessary for tent campers and RVers, including hot showers, a playground, various sports facilities, and ice. Don’t camp? You can rent a travel trailer and have it dropped off at the campground, or you can stay in a nearby cabin or lodge or a hotel in Grants Pass just 20 minutes from the campground. There’s even a full-sized grocery store only five minutes from the campground. Because Sukkot is so “late” this year, we prayed and asked YHVH to direct us to a location where the weather would still be dry, warm and beautiful through mid to late October and that was also close to major routes. Indian Mary Campground, in gorgeous Josephine County about 20 minutes from Grants Pass, Oregon and just five minutes from the small hamlet of Merlin, is such a place. This campground is located in YHVH’s beautiful creation and is away from the rat race of the city, yet easily accessible (just fifteen minutes off of Interstate 5) within a short distance from a larger city for your shopping needs. We praise YHVH Elohim for his bountiful grace! Since Sukkot prophetically pictures the one-thousand-year-long reign of King Messiah Yeshua (called the Millennium or Messianic Age), we wanted an idyllic spot that would best reflect our spiritual hope as we prepare to reign with King Yeshua as his glorified kings and priests in his eternal kingdom. We wanted a spot where, on this most joyous of all of YHVH’s seven festivals, we could meet with him and our fellow redeemed Israelites from various states as he has commanded in his Scriptures. We believe he has led us to such a spot.

  • Photo of the Rogue River taken from Indian Mary Park with white water rafters and bridge in the distance
    Rafters on Rogue River at Indian Mary Park
  • Photo of the Rogue River taken from Indian Mary Park
    Rogue River at Indian Mary Park
  • Photo of Sim Picnic Shelter at Indian Mary Park
    Sim Picnic Shelter at Indian Mary Park
  • Photo of the picnic shelter at Indian Mary Park showing the playground behind it.
    Sims Shelter at Indian Mary Park
  • Photo of the Rogue River taken from Indian Mary Park with bridge in the distance
    The Rogue River at Indian Mary Park
  • Photo of trees turning fall colors at Indian Mary Park.
    Fall colors at Indian Mary Park Campground

As is our tradition, Sukkot NW will be a blend of Hebraic (or Jewish) and Christian elements and will include plenty of teachings from well-studied and experienced Bible teachers, plenty of live Spirit-led and filled praise and worship, Davidic dance, and ample opportunities for discussions on biblical subjects. Additionally, there will be much food and fellowship around the community campfire and at our community sukkah, as well as a formal erev Shabbat dinner, and games and activities for the youth. For those who want to join us, we’ll be facilitating awhite water rafting trip on the Rogue River and a trip to the Oregon Caves National Monument. For those who are not only fishers of men, but also fishers of fish, bring your steelhead and salmon fishing gear. The coho or silver salmon and steelheads will be running at this time, and you can literally bank fish from the campground. Those of us who will be fishing intend to grill our fish over wood fires and share our catch with the others. The world famous Rogue River is one of the three best salmon fishing rivers on the West Coast of America.

As always, in the midst of our playing, vacationing and fellowship we want to keep our spiritual focus sharp. We come to Sukkot primarily to meet with our Heavenly King and to keep him at the center of everything. Our biblical teachers will be sharing and leading discussions on a variety of subjects as the Holy Spirit leads them. However, a major theme for this year will be the regathering and reuniting of the two houses Israel as the one new man in preparation for the second coming of Yeshua. We will be teaching about the historical and prophetic implications of this and how it affects your spiritual journey here and now. This is your formal invitation to join us (along with all of your other wild branch Israelite brothers and sisters) for Sukkot NW 2014 on the wild and scenic Rogue River in Southern Oregon.

 

New Video: Sukkot Northwest (Feast of Tabernacles) 2013 Highlights

This short video contains highlights from Sukkot Northwest’s 2013 eight-day long Feast of Tabernacles & Shemini Atzeret celebration — a rustic encampment in the intermountain wilderness of Central Oregon, USA. Never been to one? Watch the video, get the flavor, catch the vision and join us next year!

 

New Video: The Feast of Tabernacles

The fall biblical festival called the Feast of Tabernacles (in Hebrew, Sukkot) is a prophetic picture of the millennium when Yeshua the Messiah, along with the saints, will be reigning over this earth. In this video, Dr. Joseph Dombek explains the past, present and future implication of this festival and how it relates to the redeemed believer.

We invite you to watch this video at:

 

Gone on Vacation: Happy Sukkot!

Shalom Everyone,

It’s that time of year again — time to head out into the wilderness to celebrate Sukkot (the biblical Feast of Tabernacles). This year, it starts on the evening of Sept. 21 and ends on Shemeni Atzeret on Sept. 29.

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My family and I will be loading up our personal gear as well as well as the ministry stuff (sound equipment, etc.) into our vehicles and trailers and heading over the mountains into the intermountain region of Central Oregon. There, we will be joined by others from several states and Canada for eight days of celebration, teachings, fellowship and group activities. You can read all about it on our Sukkot Northwest website at http://sukkotnw.org.

This all means that I won’t be posting anything on this blog for a while. I will I be out of cell service most of the time, but if I find a wi-fi hot spot somewhere, I’ll upload some photos of our event as I did last year.

To learn more about the biblical Feast of Tabernacles, I invite you to read my teaching on the  subject at http://www.hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/sukkot.pdf.

Maybe next year some of you can join us if not in Jerusalem, then here!

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