Good News 
September 1961 
Vol. X, Number 9 
 
 
   What New Members Should Know about the Feast of Tabernacles 
 
Was the Feast of Tabernacles a part of the "law of Moses"?  It is 
commanded in the New Testament?  Did the apostle Paul observe it 
after everything was "nailed to the cross?" 
 
                        by Herman L. Hoeh 
 
 
   You are now a part of the true NEW TESTAMENT Church of God, if 
you have been baptized and have received the Spirit of God.  You 
have become a follower of Christ -- and of the apostles in so far 
as they followed Christ. 
   What was Christ's example?  Did He observe the Feast of 
Tabernacles?  Was He merely following Old Testament practice, or 
did He come to set the New Testament example? 
 
New Testament Teaching 
 
   You have probably heard that Jesus merely followed the customs 
of Moses -- that He set only an Old Testament example.  That it 
was left to Paul to set up New Testament theology and practice. 
   Many today have accepted without question the idea that Paul, 
not Jesus, really founded New Testament teaching.  Yet nothing 
could be farther from the truth! 
   Consider!  MOSES set the true Old Testament example.  He was 
the one called of God to establish the practice of the Old 
Testament Church.  He gave the "law of Moses" to the Old 
Testament Church.  The Jews had MOSES' example for their church. 
   Jesus did not come in Moses' name, merely repeating the 
example of Moses.  Jesus brought a New Covenant message.  The 
gospel came by Jesus Christ!  Christ brought the New Testament 
promise of the Holy Spirit.  HE set the example for the New 
Testament Church.  Christ left us "an example, that ye should 
follow his steps" (I Peter 2:21). 
   Several times over Jesus had to declare: "You have heard it 
said by them of old time" -- that is the Old Testament message -- 
"BUT I SAY UNTO YOU ..." -- that is the New Testament message! 
Read it for yourself in Matthew 5:21 and 22; in 27 and 28 and in 
many other places. 
   The apostle John was inspired to write: "And hereby we do know 
that we know him, if we keep his commandments ... whoso keepeth 
his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: HEREBY know 
we that we are in him.  He that saith he abideth in him OUGHT 
HIMSELF ALSO TO WALK, EVEN AS HE (CHRIST) WALKED" (I John 2:4-6). 
   Notice!  We are to walk as CHRIST walked.  It doesn't say "as 
MOSES walked."  Christ not only died to pay for our sins -- He 
also LIVED so that we would know how to live. 
   How did Christ live?  What was His example?  What did He 
teach?  Did He set us the example of keeping the Feast of 
Tabernacles?  Did Paul follow Jesus' example and keep the Feast 
of Tabernacles LONG AFTER everything was "nailed to the cross"? 
Notice Paul's command to follow HIS example as HE followed 
Christ's: "BE ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ" (I 
Corinthians 11:1). 
   That is very plain.  Are we willing to follow Paul as he 
followed Christ?  How did he follow Christ? 
 
Nailed to the Cross? 
 
   You have probably heard it said that the Feast of Tabernacles 
-- as also the other annual festivals -- were a part of the 
ceremonial law of Moses added "till the seed should come."  That 
the Holy Days of God were "nailed to the cross." 
   What most of you probably were not told is that after 
everything was nailed to the cross WE STILL FIND THE APOSTLES AND 
THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH OBSERVING THESE DAYS! 
   In I Corinthians 5:8 Paul commands Gentiles to observe the 
Feast of Unleavened Bread.  "Let us therefore keep the feast," he 
exhorts the Gentile converts at Corinth.  By becoming neglectful 
of the Feast, the Corinthians were allowing the leaven of sin to 
creep into their midst. 
   Notice what this means.  Either Paul was not the apostle of 
Jesus Christ and was trying to re-establish what was already 
abolished, or else the laws regulating the festivals were not 
abolished at the cross!  Isn't that plain?  Paul would have been 
without any authority whatsoever to command these Gentile 
converts to "keep the feast" unless it was STILL GOD'S LAW to 
keep the Holy Days. 
   Now notice the examples of Paul himself planning to KEEP an 
annual festival.  The first is found in Acts 20:16.  Paul is 
rushing by Ephesus in order to be at Jerusalem.  Why does Paul 
want to be at Jerusalem? -- in order to preach to the Jews?  Not 
at all!  Notice how this verse reads: "For Paul had determined to 
sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for 
he hasted, if it were possible, for him TO KEEP the day of 
Pentecost at Jerusalem." 
   Paul was determined to KEEP the day of Pentecost with the 
Headquarters Church before launching on a campaign into Spain. 
   Many translations obscure the real meaning of this verse.  The 
original, inspired Greek word here translated "to keep" is 
"genesthai," which is an infinitive form of "ginomai."  The King 
James and other versions incorrectly render it "to be."  The 
Greek word for "to be" is "einai," but Luke was inspired to use 
"genesthai" here in Acts 20:16 which can mean among other things 
"to keep, to celebrate, or to solemnize a festival" according to 
the "Analytical Greek Lexicon." 
   This same root word is used in Matthew 26:2, which ought to be 
translated: "Ye know that after two days the Passover IS 
CELEBRATED ..." 
   So here we have two important examples of Paul -- 1) 
commanding Gentiles to observe the Days of Unleavened Bread and 
2) planning to KEEP the day of Pentecost with the Headquarters 
Church at Jerusalem. 
   But what New Testament examples are there for keeping the 
Feast of Tabernacles? 
 
Christ's Example in the New Testament 
 
   The last autumn before He died, Jesus went up to Jerusalem to 
observe the Feast of Tabernacles! 
   The entire seventh chapter of the Gospel according to John is 
devoted to what Jesus said and did at that Festival.  Because of 
the Jews, Jesus did not go to Jerusalem with his family, but 
separated from them (verses 8 and 10).  He did not appear 
publicly to teach in the temple until the middle of the Feast of 
Tabernacles (verse 14).  John records parts of the special sermon 
of Christ delivered on the last great day of the Feast, beginning 
with verse 37. 
   Did Paul follow Jesus' example? 
 
Paul Kept Feast of Tabernacles 
 
   Paul obeyed Jesus Christ.  Paul kept the Holy Days Jesus 
commanded.  That included the Feast of Tabernacles.  Where, in 
Scripture, do we find Paul keeping this festival?  Turn to the 
book of Acts for the answer!  Notice the sequence of events.  God 
used Paul to reach the Gentiles with the Gospel.  In 50 A.D., 
Paul crossed over from Asia into Europe and began to preach the 
gospel at Philippi "on the day of weeks" -- Pentecost -- 
according to the inspired original Greek (Acts 16:13).  Pentecost 
is also called the "feast of weeks" in the old Testament (Deut. 
16:10). 
   Most versions render the Greek expression "on the sabbath 
day"; but the original inspired Greek is in the plural -- and 
means "the day of weeks."  This was exactly 19 years to the day 
since the Holy Spirit came on Pentecost in A.D. 31 (Acts 2). 
   After a few weeks at Philippi, Thessalonica (Acts 17:1), Berea 
(Acts 17:10) and at Athens (verse 16), Paul came to Corinth in 
the late summer of A.D. 50.  After spending several sabbaths 
teaching in the synagogue (Acts 18:4), Paul continued to hold 
meetings in the house of Titius Justus (verse 7) for "a year and 
six months" (verse 11).  This brings us to the spring of 52 A.D. 
   After a riot stirred up against the Apostle was quelled, we 
read the following about Paul: "And Paul after this tarried there 
A GOOD WHILE, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed 
thence into Syria" (Acts 18:18).  It was now well into the summer 
of A.D. 52.  The Days of Unleavened Bread and Pentecost -- the 
two festivals near the beginning and end of spring -- were now 
past. 
   To continue with Paul's journey.  On his way from Corinth to 
the port of Syria, "he came to Ephesus" and "entered into the 
synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.  When they desired him to 
tarry longer time with them, he consented not; but bade them 
farewell, saying, I MUST BY ALL MEANS KEEP THIS FEAST THAT COMETH 
IN JERUSALEM: but I will return again unto you, if God will.  And 
he sailed from Ephesus" (Acts 18:19-21). 
   Paul planning to keep the feast with the Headquarters Church 
at Jerusalem?  Indeed!  That is what the Scripture says! 
   Which Feast?  Obviously the Feast of Tabernacles! 
   The spring festivals were already past.  The two late summer 
or early autumn Holy Days, the festivals of Trumpets and 
Atonement, were held at any of the local congregations.  Yet here 
was a major festival being held at Jerusalem IN THE AUTUMN.  The 
only major festival that occurs in the autumn is the Feast of 
Tabernacles!  Paul told the Ephesians that he "MUST BY ALL MEANS 
KEEP THIS FEAST" with the Headquarters Church in Jerusalem.  Paul 
had just completed his first journey into Europe with the gospel. 
He felt he had to report the progress of the work to the 
Headquarters Church and the brethren in Palestine (verse 22). 
What better time than to do so while keeping the Feast of 
Tabernacles! 
   Here is the example of Paul the apostle to the Gentiles. 
After years in the New Testament ministry he is still KEEPING THE 
FEAST OF TABERNACLES. 
 
Verse Left Out in Corrupted Manuscripts 
 
   Acts 18:21 appears correctly in the King James Version of the 
Bible.  But numerous modern translations leave out that portion 
of the verse which tells of Paul's intention to keep the Feast. 
   This verse, in its entirety, BELONGS IN THE BIBLE.  It has 
always been 100% a part of the Greek "Received Text" -- which is 
the inspired text handed down to the Greek speaking world by the 
original true Church of God.  The overwhelming majority of Greek 
Manuscripts (95%) have this verse in it.  The only manuscripts 
which leave it out are those 5% copied in Egypt and in the 
Latin-speaking portions of the Roman Empire. 
   There would have been no reason to add this verse to the Bible 
if it were not there originally.  BUT THERE IS EVERY REASON WHY 
MEN WOULD LIKE TO REMOVE IT FROM THE INSPIRED TEXT!  The Catholic 
version of the Bible leaves it out as do almost all modern 
Protestant translations of the Bible.  These are just the 
churches who do NOT want to keep this feast! 
   Here, brethren, is proof from the New Testament -- from 
Christ's teaching and example, and the apostle Paul's example -- 
that the New Testament Church is commanded to keep the Feast of 
Tabernacles.  How plain the Scripture is when we are willing to 
believe and practice what it reveals! 
 
Began Before the Old Covenant 
 
   Many people assume that the command to keep the Feast of 
Tabernacles was a part of the Old Covenant -- and since the Old 
Covenant is no longer in force it is no longer necessary to keep 
the Feast.  This idea is false.  Here is why! 
   The Old Covenant was a marriage agreement (Jeremiah 31:32). 
If a marriage agreement is broken, THAT DOES NOT ABOLISH THE LAWS 
THAT REGULATE MARRIAGES.  The laws incorporated in the Old 
Covenant are like the laws which regulate a marriage covenant. 
They exist before a marriage agreement and regulate it.  Israel's 
breaking of the Old Covenant did not abolish the laws to which 
Israel agreed. 
   This brings us to another fact!  THE OLD COVENANT DID NOT 
INSTITUTE THE HOLY DAYS! 
   The statutes which regulate the annual festivals existed PRIOR 
to the Old Covenant.  What the Old Covenant did not institute it 
cannot abolish.  The Old Covenant was merely a marriage agreement 
between the Eternal (the Husband) and Israel (the wife) in which 
the wife agreed TO OBEY the Husband's laws WHICH WERE ALREADY IN 
FORCE.  In return for obedience, Israel was physically blessed 
and provided for above all other nations. 
   The statutes which instituted the Holy Days were required to 
be kept BEFORE the Old Covenant was made! 
   Turn to Exodus 15:26: "If you will diligently hearken unto the 
voice of the Lord your God, and will do that which is right in 
His sight, and will give ear unto His commandments, AND KEEP ALL 
HIS STATUTES, I will put none of these diseases upon you that 
afflict the Egyptians." 
   Here is the Lord Jesus Christ commanding His people to keep 
ALL His statutes BEFORE the Old Covenant.  These statutes could 
not have been instituted by the Old Covenant because the Old 
Covenant was not completed until Exodus 24. 
   These statutes, which God was revealing to Moses and the 
people before Sinai, were LATER incorporated into the Old 
Covenant -- just as was the weekly Sabbath (Exodus 20).  But the 
Old Covenant did not begin then.  The Old Covenant merely 
required obedience to what already was in full force and effect. 
   Among all the statutes which were IN FORCE BEFORE SINAI and 
later incorporated into the Old Covenant ARE THE REQUIREMENTS TO 
OBSERVE THE ANNUAL FESTIVALS -- including the Feast of 
Tabernacles (Exodus 23:14-17).  If the annual festivals had not 
already been God's laws they could not have been included in the 
Old Covenant. 
 
Began with the Church 
 
   The weekly Sabbath began with man.  It was made at creation 
(Genesis 2).  But the annual festivals God gave first to the 
Church when the Church began.  The twelve tribes of Israel were 
first formed into a Church just before the Exodus from Egypt. 
The FIRST function of that Congregation or Assembly was TO KEEP 
THE ANNUAL HOLY DAYS.  The first time the word Congregation is 
used for the tribes of Israel is in Exodus 12:3, where the annual 
festivals are first introduced! 
   Just as the Sabbath keeps MAN in a right relationship with his 
Creator, so the annual Holy Days keep THE CHURCH in a right 
knowledge of the Plan of God.  Any group which refuses to keep 
holy these days God made holy is not in a right relationship with 
God.  Such a group is spiritually like the Egyptians who scoffed 
at God's festivals! 
   When the Congregation of Israel -- the Church in Old Testament 
times -- began to sin (began to be in a wrong relationship with 
God) and to break these laws, God TEMPORARILY ADDED -- AFTER the 
making of the Old Covenant -- various physical rituals and 
sacrifices which were imposed ON EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR until the 
coming of Jesus Christ to shed His own blood for our sins 
(Hebrews 9:10 and Galatians 3:19).  These temporary, physical 
laws did not exist prior to the Old Covenant (Jeremiah 7:22-23). 
They were given only to the Old Testament Church for a limited 
duration.  JESUS NEVER PRACTICED THESE RITUALISTIC LAWS.  You 
cannot find one place in the New Testament where He sets us any 
example to keep them.  But He did keep the Feast of Tabernacles 
as an example for us -- and He commanded those who love Him to 
keep His words, which included the observance of the annual 
festivals. 
 
Commanded FOREVER 
 
   Nowhere in the Bible was the "law of Moses" commanded forever. 
But the annual festivals are commanded to be kept by the people 
forever! 
   It is time we opened our Bibles to see what the Scriptures 
actually say.  Notice the many texts which declare the festivals 
are to be "observed by a statute FOREVER." 
   "And this day" -- the Passover -- "shall be unto you for a 
MEMORIAL; and ye shall keep it a feast [the word "festival" is a 
better translation] to the Lord throughout your generations; ye 
shall keep it a feast by a statute ["ordinance" is not the 
correct translation] FOR EVER" (Ex. 12:14). 
   "And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in 
this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of 
Egypt: therefore [as a MEMORIAL] shall ye observe this day in 
your generations by a statute ["ordinance" is not correct] FOR 
EVER" (Ex. 12:17).  In this chapter, verse 24, the passover is 
again referred to: "And ye shall observe this for a statute to 
thee and to thy sons FOR EVER"! 
   In Exodus 13:10 the Feast of Unleavened Bread is commanded to 
be observed in his season from year to year."  As long as a new 
year occurs this festival is to be observed! 
   Notice what the Bible states about the Day of Atonement: "And 
this shall be a statute FOR EVER unto YOU: that in the seventh 
month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your 
souls, and do no work" (Lev. 16:29).  And verse 31: "It shall be 
a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a 
statute FOR EVER." 
   Concerning the Feast of Pentecost: "And ye shall proclaim on 
the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you, ye 
shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute FOR EVER 
in all your dwellings throughout your generations" (Lev. 23:21). 
Israel's generations ate still continuing.  Most of YOU are of 
Israel! 
   Again, "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the 
seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a 
sabbath, a MEMORIAL of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation 
[verse 24].  ALSO on the tenth day of this seventh month there 
shall be a day of atonement [verse 27].  Ye shall do no manner of 
work: it shall be a statute FOR EVER throughout your generations 
in all your dwellings" (Lev. 23:31). 
   The Feast of Tabernacles is mentioned in verse 41 of this same 
chapter: "And ye shall keep it a feast unto the Lord seven days 
in the year.  It shall be a statute FOR EVER in your 
generations." 
   Notice!  Here are God's annual festivals COMMANDED FOREVER -- 
throughout the generations of Israel.  Israel's generations are 
still continuing.  THE MANNER OF OBSERVING THE DAYS IS DIFFERENT 
NOW THAN UNDER THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD, BUT THE DAYS ARE STILL 
TO BE OBSERVED -- STILL TO BE KEPT HOLY -- NO SERVILE WORK TO BE 
DONE IN THEM! 
   These verses mean what they say! 
   In every one of these scriptures GOD MEANS EXACTLY WHAT HE 
INSPIRED THE WRITERS OF THE BIBLE TO RECORD FOR US!  When He 
declares a law to be everlasting HE MEANS IT! 
   NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE WERE PHYSICAL SACRIFICES COMMANDED TO BE 
PERFORMED BY THE PEOPLE FOREVER!  People have merely taken for 
granted that the Bible says so!  But it is not true! 
   No stronger proof than these nine verses can be given that the 
Church of God must keep holy these days God made holy!  Yet in 
not one of these places is any mention made of physical 
sacrifices being commanded forever. 
   As final proof we have the New Testament example of Christ and 
of Paul and the inspired New Testament Church.  They kept holy 
these days God made holy.  The true New Testament Church has 
continued to keep holy these days.  Together with the sabbath 
they constitute the very SIGN by which we are known as the PEOPLE 
of God! 
 
A COLLECTIVE Duty 
 
   It is a COLLECTIVE duty of the New Testament Church of God to 
observe the Feast of Tabernacles.  It is not an individual 
matter.  It is MOST vital that all members understand this! 
   YOU, as an individual member, are not responsible for 
determining where or when the WHOLE Church shall assemble.  If 
you were, then God would be using you as His direct instrument 
for determining WHERE all other members should assemble.  God 
would be ruling the Church through you! 
   God has not left it for the individual member to decide WHEN 
the Church shall assemble.  God Himself has set aside His Holy 
Sabbath, sanctified and hallowed the seventh day of every week. 
   Is it permissible for YOU, as an individual member, to decide 
that the WHOLE CHURCH shall meet on Tuesdays or Sundays?  Of 
course NOT.  Put that way it seems ridiculous.  To keep any 
different day and profane GOD'S day which HE appointed is a basic 
SIN! 
   God sets the TIME for the annual festivals.  In like manner 
GOD sets the PLACE! 
   Only GOD can sanctify -- set apart -- a place to which all His 
people are to assemble.  GOD determines where we are to assemble! 
But how can the Church know which is the place God has chosen for 
the Feast of Tabernacles? 
   HOW and TO WHOM does He reveal it? 
   Since observing the Feast is a collective matter, WHO HAS THE 
AUTHORITY TO BIND GOD'S CHOICE OF A PLACE ON THE WHOLE CHURCH? 
Is the individual member given the power to bind all other 
members -- the power to rule the Church -- in this matter? 
   What is the New Testament way by which GOD RULES His Church, 
by which GOD KEEPS UNITY among the members so that all may 
collectively assemble in harmony at the locations He has chosen 
for the Feast of Tabernacles? 
 
Christ the LIVING RULER of His Church 
 
   God RULES His Church -- the Church of God -- through Jesus 
Christ.  Jesus is the Head of the Church, not some man!  Jesus 
rules from Heaven! 
   But how does Jesus reveal His decisions to the Church on 
earth? 
   Where, in the Bible, do we find HOW Jesus governs His Church? 
What is the instrumentality by which Jesus, who is in Heaven, 
carries out His will on earth?  Notice the Bible answer: 
   God "hath set some in the Church, first apostles, secondarily 
prophets, thirdly teachers ..." (I Cor. 12:28) -- or, as in 
Ephesians 4:11-14, some are "apostles; and some, prophets; and 
some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers, for the 
perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry ... till 
we all come in the unity of the faith" -- that is, unity in 
doctrine or belief -- "that we henceforth be no more children, 
tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine 
has chosen as His ministers and His instruments for administering 
HIS AUTHORITY, for the very purpose of preventing false doctrine 
creeping in to divide and to destroy the flock -- for the very 
purpose of keeping UNITY in the Church. 
   It is to the ministry of God's Church that Christ said: 
"Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven ..." 
(Matt. 18:18).  It is not through individual members, but through 
His ministry, that GOD reveals where He wants us to assemble.  It 
is through the ministry that He BINDS HIS CHOICE of the place on 
the whole Church. 
   Thus God reveals through His ministers the place He sets apart 
to which HIS WHOLE CHURCH IS TO ASSEMBLE!  When individual 
members attempt to determine and to decide for themselves which 
place God has chosen they make themselves competitors and enemies 
of God's Church and of God's government in it.  They stir up 
dissension, cause division, and thus put themselves out of the 
Church. 
   The individual must first determine for himself -- must 
satisfy himself -- as to which is the one true Church of God, and 
then he must be subject to the government of God in His Church. 
This he must voluntarily submit to.  He ought, however, to know 
HOW God's Church is led to recognize the place God has chosen for 
the Feast of Tabernacles. 
 
Not Jerusalem Today 
 
   Notice the Book of Zechariah.  The one feast in the Millennium 
which all will be required to attend in one place at first is the 
Feast of Tabernacles! "And it shall come to pass that every one 
that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem" -- 
and all nations will come against Jerusalem -- "shall even go up 
from year to year ... to keep the Feast of Tabernacles" (Zech. 
14:16). 
   In the Millennium even the Gentiles will be required to 
assemble at Jerusalem to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 
   But JERUSALEM is NOT NOW the place which God has chosen. 
Jesus said: "The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this 
mountain (where the false Samaritan worship was centered), nor 
yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father" (John 4:21).  God rejected 
Jerusalem after 69 A.D.  He withdrew His name from it.  It is at 
the second coming of Jesus Christ that "the Lord ... shall choose 
Jerusalem AGAIN" (Zech. 2:12). 
 
Jesus Leads Our Church Today 
 
   All our older brethren have learned from past issues of "The 
Good News" how GOD chose areas near Gladewater, Texas, and near 
London, England, and led His Church to assemble there for the 
Feast of Tabernacles.  NO OTHER PLACES IN THE UNITED STATES OR 
ENGLAND WERE CHOSEN for the Feast of Tabernacles -- NOT EVEN 
PASADENA, the Headquarters Church. 
   For years there was ONE place in the United States and Canada! 
   Jesus leads His Church -- this Church.  We are the Church of 
God.  Since Jesus never changes, we find Him leading the Church 
today in exactly the same manner as He did in apostolic times. 
He is leading His ministers today to know where the festivals of 
God ought to be held, just as He led the apostles and ministers 
in old times to know where God's people should meet. 
   God provided in His law for us to save the SECOND TITHE so 
that we all could journey to a central place for the Feast of 
Tabernacles. 
   For years Gladewater was centrally located from east to west. 
Economically it was centrally located from north to south, for 
the majority of our brethren who had low incomes lived in the 
region of the Southern states. 
   Certainly God is the all-wise God, and Jesus is the living 
Head of His Church today! 
   But the Church of God has grown so in the past year that now 
Jesus has had to open up to His true Church ANOTHER place for the 
Feast of Tabernacles -- at Squaw Valley, California.  The 
brethren simply COULD NOT ANY LONGER AFFORD to build all the 
needed facilities near Gladewater.  It became apparent to the 
Church this year that for the first time we all could not 
continue assembling at Gladewater and that a new area in addition 
to Gladewater -- just as we had London and Sydney -- was needed. 
JESUS CHRIST MADE THE CHOICE.  He revealed it.  We now must do 
what He commands through His servants -- His Ministry. 
   Brethren, let's all be at the Feast of Tabernacles this autumn 
wherever held.