Sukkot
This Hebrew word, meaning "booths," is both the name of the fall festival and the plural of "sukkah."
What is Sukkot?
This man, exiled on the island of Patmos, wrote down the visions that make up the book of Revelation.
Who is John?
According to Micah's prophecy and the Gospel of Luke, Yeshua was born in this town of Judea.
What is Bethlehem?
In Exodus 34:6, God proclaims His own name and describes Himself as "merciful and gracious," slow to this.
What is anger?
Yeshua was baptized in this river — the same one Israel crossed to enter the Promised Land under Joshua
What is the Jordan River?
Leviticus 23 places the start of this festival on the 15th day of the seventh month, lasting seven days plus a holy eighth day.
What is Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles)?
Revelation opens with letters addressed to this number of churches in the province of Asia.
What is seven?
This relative of Yeshua baptized him in the Jordan River before beginning his own ministry.
Who is John (the Baptist)?
This name of God, revealed to Moses at the burning bush, comes from the Hebrew verb "to be" — better understood not as a static, present-tense "I AM," but as the One who was, and is, and is to come.
What is YHWH — the Eternal One (Exodus 3:14, echoed in Revelation 1:4, 8 and 4:8)?
This empire, ruled by Nebuchadnezzar, conquered Jerusalem and destroyed Solomon's Temple in 586 BC.
What is Babylon?
God commanded Israel to dwell in booths during this festival so future generations would remember this event from their history.
What is the Exodus — Israel dwelling in booths in the wilderness after leaving Egypt?
In Revelation 5, this creature — looking as if it had been slain, yet standing — alone is worthy to open the sealed scroll.
What is the Lamb, representing Yeshua?
At a wedding in this town of Galilee, Yeshua turned water into wine — his first recorded sign.
What is Cana?
In three words, 1 John 4:8 sums up God's very nature: "God is ___."
What is love?
Discovered in 1947 in caves near the Dead Sea, these ancient scrolls confirmed the remarkable accuracy of the Hebrew Scriptures as they'd been copied for over a thousand years.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
Leviticus 23:40 names things to take on the first day, including palm branches, boughs of leafy trees, and branches of this tree found "by the brook."
What are willows?
Revelation 6 lists four horsemen riding horses of these colors, in order: white, red, black, and this final one.
What is pale?
In John 7, Yeshua went up to Jerusalem "as it were in secret" to teach during this seven-day fall feast.
What is Sukkot (the Feast of Tabernacles)?
Psalm 139 asks, "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?" — describing this attribute of God.
What is omnipresence — God being present everywhere at once?
This mountain in the Sinai Peninsula is traditionally identified as the place where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
Numbers 29 prescribes a decreasing number of bulls offered on each of the seven days of this feast, starting at 13 on the first day and dropping by one daily. This is the total number of bulls offered when all seven days are added together.
What is seventy (70)?
Revelation 7 lists twelve tribes sealed with 12,000 each — but conspicuously leaves out this son of Jacob, while Manasseh is named alongside his father Joseph instead.
Who is Dan?
Matthew traces Yeshua's genealogy back only to Abraham, but Luke's genealogy goes back much further, all the way to this first man.
Who is Adam?
Exodus 34:7 follows God's declaration of mercy and forgiveness with a warning: He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to this specific generation.
What is the third and fourth generation?
This Assyrian king's own inscribed prism boasts that he shut up King Hezekiah "like a caged bird" in Jerusalem during the siege recorded in 2 Kings 18-19 — though the inscription notably never claims he captured the city.
Who is Sennacherib?
On the feast's last, great day, Yeshua stood in Jerusalem and cried out that this would flow like rivers from within all who believe in him — the very image of water poured out and flowing that fills the Prophets' picture of Jerusalem in the age to come, in the same chapter that says all nations will one day keep this feast.
What is living water (the Spirit)?
Revelation 11:6 says the two witnesses are given power to shut up the sky so that no rain falls, and power to turn the waters to blood — signs that recall two specific accounts elsewhere in Scripture, from the days of a king in 1 Kings and a pharaoh in Exodus.
What are the drought Elijah called down in 1 Kings 17, and the first plague Moses brought on Egypt's waters in Exodus 7?
Soldiers broke the legs of the two men crucified beside Yeshua to hasten their deaths, but did not break his, since he was already dead — unknowingly fulfilling a specific Torah instruction concerning the Passover lamb, a fulfillment John's Gospel names directly.
What is "not a bone of it shall be broken" (Exodus 12:46 / Numbers 9:12, fulfilled in John 19)?
This attribute of God is stated so emphatically that Exodus 34:14 calls it His very name, the Ten Words themselves warn Israel of it in Exodus 20, and Deuteronomy 4:24 pairs it with God being "a consuming fire."
What is jealousy (a jealous God)?
This specific number of years was first given as a prophecy in Jeremiah, explicitly recalculated by Daniel while reading Jeremiah's scroll, and cited again in both 2 Chronicles and Ezra as the reason God stirred up Cyrus to send the exiles home.
What is seventy (70) years?