Richard Booker

The feast of tabernacles is a festival celebrated by Jewish people to remember how God took care of them during their time in the desert. It is a time of joy and rest, and during the festival, the people make little shelters to stay in for a week. The feast also includes rituals such as the pouring of water and the lighting of the temple. Jesus celebrated the feast and used it as an opportunity to teach about himself, saying that he is the reality that the rituals point to. He also healed a man who was born blind, demonstrating that he was the Messiah who could perform the four miracles that were believed to be too hard for anyone else to do.

In Hezekiah's time, he built a tunnel to bring water from Gihon springs to the city, which emptied into the pool of Siloam. Jesus healed a man born blind and told him to wash in the pool of Siloam, signifying that he was the one who brought living waters and salvation. Religious leaders resisted this and interrogated the healed man. The future holds a worldwide feast of tabernacles where all nations will come to Jerusalem to worship the King Messiah. This is our destiny in the messianic kingdom.

The blood covenant is the most important theme in the Bible. It is a binding agreement between two parties. In a blood covenant ritual, the first step is to exchange coats or robes, which represent the person. This exchange symbolizes giving one's life to the blood covenant partner. The second step is to exchange belts, which represent the person's ability to fight. By giving the person one's belt, one is promising to use all of one's strength to fight for the blood covenant partner. The third step is to cut the covenant, which involves killing an animal and splitting it in half. Each piece of the animal represents a person, and by walking around the animal, the people are saying they are giving up their own life to live for the benefit of their blood covenant partner. The fourth step is striking hands, which involves making a cut in the palm of the hand and bringing the palms together, intermingling the blood and symbolizing the two becoming one. The fifth step is exchanging names, where the two people take each other's last name and become name bearers, signifying that they are one. In the Bible, God exchanges His name with us, becoming a human being to identify with all our hurts and taking all of our sins into Himself. He puts His righteous nature inside of us, making us right with God through the blood of Jesus.

The speaker discusses the process of making a blood covenant, which involves making a promise and exchanging assets and liabilities with another person. In the case of God, He has only assets and no liabilities, and He offers to exchange our liabilities (sins, sicknesses, heartaches, discouragements) for His assets (forgiveness, cleansing, healing, salvation, redemption, hope, faith, joy, peace, courage). The covenant is sealed with a memorial meal and a tree stained with the blood of the sacrifice. The speaker encourages listeners to take the covenant meal as an opportunity to receive a miracle from God and to trust in Him for all their needs. The covenant is ultimately fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ, who came to fulfill and complete the covenants and symbols of the Old Testament.

Doctor Richard Booker speaks about serving God in the end times, using First Peter, chapter 4, verses 7 to 11 as a reference. He explains that Peter meant the present world order as we know it is coming to an end, and that we need to endure to the end, be sober and watchful, and pray seriously. He also talks about the Gospel of the Kingdom, which is different from the Gospel of Salvation, and that we will see dramatic changes in our world in the next few years. Doctor Booker prophesizes that the Lord is going to disturb the world, and that we need to be ready to serve Him as victorious believers. He concludes by talking about the four things we need to do while we are enduring: pray, love one another, be hospitable, and minister to one another.

In this sermon, the speaker talks about the importance of being serious, which means to have a sane, right-minded, and sober-minded approach to life. He also discusses the need to love others sincerely, without any selfish motives, and to practice hospitality without grumbling. Finally, he talks about how we are all God's prisms, reflecting His glory and love to the world. The sermon ends with a reminder that God is faithful and will fulfill His promises to us.