Entering into the Rest of the Good Land

Let's Pray:
Lord, do visit us, and anoint every attendant. Anoint the hearts, the minds, and the spirits. Lord, meet every need. Lord, even meet Your need through the speaking.

Hymn: 1113

Today's Verses and Footnotes: John 7:1-24

Key Verse:

John 7:2 Now the Jew's Feast of Tabernacles was near.

John 7:3 His brothers therefore said to Him, Depart from here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may behold Your works which You are doing.

Filling the Blanks:
God ordained the Feast of Tabernacles so that the children of Israel would remember how their fathers, while wandering in the wilderness, had lived in ( ) (Lev. 23:39-43), expecting to enter into the ( ) of the good land. Hence, this feast is a reminder that today people are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the ( ), which is the eternal ( ) (Rev. 21:2-3). Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob also lived in tents and looked forward to this ( ) tabernacle (Heb. 11:9-10), in which there will be a river of water of ( ) proceeding out of the ( ) of God and of the Lamb to ( ) man's thirst.(See John 7:2 note 1 paragraph 3)