{"id":7205,"date":"2015-10-10T11:25:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T18:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2015-10-10T13:05:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-10T20:05:44","slug":"back-from-sukkot-nw-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoshanarabbah.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/10\/back-from-sukkot-nw-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Back from Sukkot NW 2015 with photos!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My family and I are\u00a0back home from Sukkot\/the Feast of Tabernacles 2015.<\/strong> This was my 48th Sukkot. What can I say about this year’s Feast without sounding trite, using cliches or relying on\u00a0overly superfluous words? Not sure. So I will just give the facts, let the Ruach inspire me with the words to say while I’m writing, and, beyond this, I invite any who were in attendance to offer up verbal word pictures of what happened and how they were touched by YHVH.<\/p>\n

Seventy-five plus people were in attendance at the Griffen Park Campground on the banks\u00a0of the wild and scenic Rogue River in Josephine County. Interesting, as redeemed believers, we’re largely descended from the tribes of Joseph and preparing to be the bride of Yeshua \u2014 hence, Josephine. Maybe this is all coincidental, but we trust that YHVH directs our steps and chooses to place his name where he wants us to meet \u00a0with him on his feast days. It’s not unusual \u00a0for him to give us confirming signs along the way. By the way, a griffen is another name for a cherubim. We rented the entire campground, thus preempting any outside influences from entering the camp. This created a much cleaner and more peaceful spiritual atmosphere thus giving us a more accurate prophetic foretaste of what life will be like during Yeshua’s 1000 year-long millennial reign on earth after his second coming.<\/p>\n

The weather was the best we have ever had! The lowest daytime temps were in the 70s and most of the time we had temps in the mid to high 80s and several days into the low 90s. Unlike last year, some of us got to go swimming in the river a few times. The seven\u00a0folks that were baptized in the river were happy about this as well.<\/p>\n

Sukkot attendees came from four western states, and our five speakers\/Bible teachers came from the three West Coast states. I’ll be uploading their teaching videos as I am able. Our youngest attendee was about three years of age and our oldest was 75 years old.<\/p>\n

Our theme was Revelation 18:4, “Come out of her my people” in reference to coming out of end times Babylon. The teaching revolved around this theme, as you will see when you watch the videos.<\/p>\n

Here are a few of the activities that occurred:<\/p>\n

We had live praise and worship every\u00a0morning\u00a0followed by\u00a0teachings\u00a0except on our free-day off. On the Sabbaths, we had two meetings \u2014 in the morning and afternoon. Additionally, we set up a prayer\/ministry tent where we held a prayer meeting every morning and where people got ministered to. We also a decorated sukkah inside of which\u00a0people spent time praying and communing with Elohim. Other activities included\u2026<\/p>\n