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Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hattie There, friends and faithful listeners, welcome to

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Speaker 1: the Bible Explain podcasts. On this lovely, lovely morning, the

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Speaker 1: weather has just been so pristine these past few days.

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Speaker 1: I am absolutely loving it. It's nice and toasty outside,

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Speaker 1: didn't have air conditioning. But my husband was like, I

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Speaker 1: hate this. It was also a ridiculously hot summer the

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Speaker 1: So my husband was dying all summer long, and so

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Speaker 1: I very much love it. So tell me. I'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear about your guys tolerance to the weather. Do

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Speaker 1: are you somewhere in the middle. I'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: about all of that. You can contact me via the

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Speaker 1: email address listed in the description of this episode. Tell

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Speaker 1: me what kind of weather you normally get and also

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Speaker 1: your tolerance to it. Now, today we are in the

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Speaker 1: Book of Nehemiah. It is Niamiah chapter seven or I'm

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Speaker 1: sorry eight, and we're gonna finish out the rest of

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Speaker 1: this chapter today talking about the feast of booths, and

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some information on what the feast

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Speaker 1: of booths was historically, but also how Jesus fulfilled the

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Speaker 1: feast of booths. So we will be talking about this

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Speaker 1: portion in just one moment, but before that, please listen

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Speaker 1: listening to that advertisement. And let's go ahead now and

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Speaker 1: turn to Namiah chapter eight thirteen through eighteen. Faithful listeners,

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Speaker 1: I'll be reading as I usually do from the web

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Speaker 1: or the World English Bible. Let's give reverence to God's

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Speaker 1: word together. On the second day, the heads of the

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Speaker 1: Father's households of all the people, the priests, and the

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Speaker 1: the words of the law. They found written in the

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Speaker 1: law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children

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Speaker 1: of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of

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Speaker 1: the seventh month, and that they should publish and proclaim

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Speaker 1: in all their cities and in Jerusalem, saying, go out

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Speaker 1: to the mountain and get all of branches, branches of

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Speaker 1: wild olive, myrtle branches, palm branches, and branches of thick trees,

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Speaker 1: to make temporary shelters. As it is written, So the

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Speaker 1: people went out and brought them and made themselves temporary shelters.

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Speaker 1: Everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts,

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Speaker 1: Ephrium's gate. All the assembly of those who had come

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Speaker 1: back out of the captivity made temporary shelters and lived

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Speaker 1: in the temporary shelters. For since the days of Joshua,

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Speaker 1: the son of Nune to that day, the children of

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Speaker 1: Israel had not done. So there was very great gladness. Also,

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Speaker 1: day by day from the first day to the last day,

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Speaker 1: he read in the book of the Law of God.

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Speaker 1: They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth

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Speaker 1: in the Jewish calendar, and this was called the Feast

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Speaker 1: got a lot of names for the same feast, but

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Speaker 1: this was one of the more joyous feasts in the

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Speaker 1: Jewish calendar. It was a longer feast as well. It

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Speaker 1: So same thing goes with Passover. And that was true

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Speaker 1: keep the feast of Booths for seven days. After you

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Speaker 1: you shall altogether be joyful. And I'm going to stop

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Speaker 1: right there, but you can see that this was a

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Speaker 1: joyous occasion. In fact, at two times Moses commands the

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Speaker 1: a solemn celebration. And so now in Nehemiah chapter eight,

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Speaker 1: feast of the seventh Month. It sounds kind of like

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Speaker 1: joyous of all of the feasts. No one celebrated it.

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Speaker 1: In fact, if you go to life audio dot com

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Speaker 1: you'll find dozens of other faith centered podcasts in their network.

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Speaker 1: They've got shows about prayer, Bible study, parenting, and more.

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