What does the feast of the tabernacle have to do with fasting for healing?

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I have been fasting for a healing and God has led me to passages in The Bible that include the Feast of the Tabernacle. Does anyone have any info. concerning this feast.

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God commands fasting on the annual Day of Atonement [Lev.16]. Any other fasting we do is "voluntary."

The Feast of Tabernacles [Lev.23], on the other hand, pictures Jesus' thousand year rule over the nations of the earth after He returns to establish the Kingdom of God upon it.

This is not a time for fasting... but of REJOICING!!!

Man's vile governments will be gone... smashed... removed... blown away upon His return. God calls it the "good news [gospel] of the Kingdom of God."

I call it, the best news this world will ever hear.

God's Government will be ruling on earth -- not men -- and the healing of the world [sickness and diseases], the replanting of the earth [the waste places and prosperity will be rebuilt] and the feeding of the nations [both their bellies and their spirits] will begin in earnest as Christ and His saints [His appointed co-rulers; officials, kings, priests and leaders of His Government] take over global authority over the nations and begin to heal them and teach them God's ways.

"...he that overcometh, and keepeth My works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron..." (Rev.2:26-27).

Fasting is not in the cards for the thousand year rule of Christ on earth. There will finally be True PEACE and Justice on earth. That's nothing to be sorry for... to fast over. That's a thousand year occasion to praise His Holy Name... and jump for joy... and shout and sing with delightful abandon.

That will be the time to set the banquet table for the returning Bridegroom's Feast. It's the time for FEASTING... not fasting.

The Feast of Tabernacles is presently what can be construed as a "commanded seven-day vacation" every year for His people to celebrate the growth and prosperity He brought to them over the past year. God commands them to live in "booths" [temporary dwellings: tents, campers, hotels, motels, etc] - Lev.23:42]

It's a happy time of fellowshipping, spending a week together rejoicing in His Name, His Hope, His Salvation... and for further growing in the nourishment of the preaching of His Word.

Fasting is a time of repentance and crying out to God for deliverance from this wicked world. It's perfectly in keeping to seek God's relief through fasting now.

But the Feast of Tabernacles is not a time of fasting. It pictures the long-awaited return of the King of kings, and Lord of lords to rule the earth.

"...the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee... And it shall be in that Day, that Living Waters shall go out from Jerusalem [both the Holy Spirit for all the healing of the nations; as well as evidence of literal water in the form of an Artesian Well springing forth and flowing out from Jerusalem to heal the polluted Mediterranean and Dead Seas and the earth]; half of them toward the former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea... And THE LORD SHALL BE KING OVER ALL THE EARTH: in that Day shall there be One Lord, and His Name One." (Zech.14:5-9).

The Feast of Tabernacles has nothing to do with "fasting for healing." It pictures the time of God's full-blown beginnings of global salvation. When the True healing shall begin.