{"id":30087,"date":"2011-11-07T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=30087"},"modified":"2021-01-10T20:38:56","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T02:38:56","slug":"was-there-a-prophecy-connecting-the-feast-of-the-tabernacles-to-jesus-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/was-there-a-prophecy-connecting-the-feast-of-the-tabernacles-to-jesus-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Was there a prophecy connecting the Feast of the Tabernacles to Jesus’ birth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Question:<\/h2>\n

I was just reading an article explaining the reasoning behind the belief that Jesus’s birth was the fulfillment of the prophecy associated with the Feast of Tabernacles, in the seventh Jewish month of Tishri. When would that be on our calendar? I don’t celebrate Christmas religiously, namely because if we were asked to celebrate it, we would have been told exactly when, and I’m sure Jesus would not have wanted us to celebrate His birthday by lavishing unnecessary gifts on everyone else, but I think that the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy is fascinating. To me, it is proof of God’s existence. Can you tell me what you think about this proposition, and when Jesus might have actually been born?<\/p>\n\t

Answer:<\/h2>\n

The Jewish calendar doesn’t precisely line up with our modern-day calendar because they used “leap-months” to keep it on track instead of the leap-days we use in our calendar. Thus the Jewish calendar roughly starts somewhere around mid-March to mid-April. The feast of the tabernacle would fall somewhere in the September to October time frame.<\/p>\n

However, there is no prophesy connecting Jesus’ birth to the Feast of the Tabernacles; thus, it cannot be evidence when it doesn’t exist.<\/p>\n

“Being a priest, Zacharias served two weeks out of each year in the temple, running from Sabbath day to Sabbath day. Thus each Sabbath had two divisions on duty at the same time, the one ending their turn and the one beginning their turn. Being of the division of Abijah, his division worked the eighth and thirty-second week of the year (I Chronicles 24:1-19). Josephus wrote that David “divided them also into courses; and when he had separated the priests from them, he found of these priest twenty-four courses, sixteen of their course of Eleazar, and eight of that of Ithamar; and he ordained that one course should minister to God eight days, from Sabbath to Sabbath. And thus were the courses distributed by lot, in the presence of David, and Zadok, and Abiathaar the high priests and of all the rulers” [Antiquites of the Jews<\/em>, VII.xiv.7]. [The Gospel Accounts: A Chronological History<\/a>].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Using the traditional time for when Zacharias would have been serving in his division you get either a spring or fall birth date for Jesus since Jesus was born 15 months after John was conceived. What I’ve noticed on many claims is that they skip over the fact that the priestly divisions served two times each year.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Question: I was just reading an article explaining the reasoning behind the belief that Jesus’s birth was the fulfillment of the prophecy associated with the Feast of Tabernacles, in the seventh Jewish month of Tishri. When would that be on our calendar? I don’t celebrate Christmas religiously, namely because if we were asked to celebrate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[73,169],"class_list":["post-30087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answer","tag-jesus","tag-prophecy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50234,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/jewish-feasts-and-festivals\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":0},"title":"Jewish Feasts and Festivals","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"March 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Kyle Campbell via\u00a0Truth Magazine In order to fully understand the Jewish religion and people, and to gain a greater perspective of a number of events in the New Testament, one needs to study the Jewish feasts and festivals. The Jewish feasts and festivals were scheduled at specific times in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25424,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/how-many-passovers-did-jesus-attend-during-his-ministry\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":1},"title":"How many Passovers did Jesus attend during his ministry?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 6, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Some say that Jesus attended three Passovers during his ministry and by that try to determine long He preached His gospel. I've heard that there may have been four Passovers, thus making His preaching career longer than 3 1\/2 years. The possible fourth Passover, I believe is in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40646,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/the-messiah-and-prophecy\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":2},"title":"The Messiah and Prophecy","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"December 13, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"by Jefferson David Tant God has not left himself without witnesses. In every age and in many ways, God has revealed his existence to man. Paul declares this in the words that followed the healing of the lame man in Acts 14:16-17: \"In the generations gone by He permitted all\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Article"","block_context":{"text":"Article","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/article\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2214,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/did-prophecy-have-an-immediate-application-or-only-a-future-fulfillment\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":3},"title":"Did prophecy have an immediate application or only a future fulfillment?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"January 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Good day, When a prophet was making a prophecy (e.g.\u00a0Isaiah 55:1, the invitation) did it have a solution or an answer for the listeners (Israel) at that time, or did they have to look at it only as something in the future? Answer: That would depend on what the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4103,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/is-ii-samuel-711-14-talking-about-christ-or-solomon\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":4},"title":"Is II Samuel 7:11-14 talking about Christ or Solomon?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hey Mr. Jeffrey, I'm having issues understanding II Samuel 7:14. Clearly, it is a reference to Jesus and the kingdom of God, but who is God talking about committing iniquity in this passage? Answer: \"The LORD also declares to you that the LORD will make a house for you.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Answer"","block_context":{"text":"Answer","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/answer\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1353,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/observing-holidays\/","url_meta":{"origin":30087,"position":5},"title":"Observing Holidays","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"April 1, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 I.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is that time of year when one holiday after another is observed: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and finally New Years. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Usually this time of year also brings up the question of how we, as Christians, treat these celebrations? \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0B.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Many denominations do special events for these days \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a01.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Christmas being the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Audio"","block_context":{"text":"Audio","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/category\/audio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}