From Darkness to Light

Hello Beloved,

If you have ever read any of this blog then you know that I suffered for many years with depression.
I heard a preacher on T.V. today talk about darkness and then light.  I want to tell you about my experience with darkness and light.
Before I fell in my bathtub in Oct. 2007, I had an experience that now as I look back on it had to be God.  The month before I fell in the bathtub I lived in a dark, dark place..  I would go to work each day but I felt like a zombie.. I don't think I preformed my job well, my home life was horrible, nothing seem to matter or make much sense. I had Thursdays off through the week.  I awoke one Thursday morning and laid in bed and was so cold.  I could not think at all, nothing.  I did not want to get up from that bed..... I wanted to just lay there and go to sleep never to wake again.... I can not even begin to describe how dark it was .  It was like I was wearing it and nothing could break through. I don't know how long I lay there but I just didn't want to be anywhere.. I was so cold.. coldest I have ever been in my whole life.. I got up and ran a hot bath and set in it to try and get warm, nothing seem to help.. I got up and put clothes on and sat in the living room just getting colder and colder... I said to myself, just stop breathing.. So I tried  that holding my breath.   Darkness just seemed to be getting darker and darker all the time as I grew colder and colder.. I set there for such  a long time... It was in the afternoon and something said to me " go to the store".  What?  " go to the store".  So I got up and went to the store.. I was really like a zombie walking... I went in the store and people spoke and I tried to be friendly back( I think, I hope) I started around the  corner to go into the second aisle and someone spoke to me;  " hi, how are you? fine, thanks."  I then moved on to the next aisle.. Same person, " Hi, how are you?'' again fine thanks". So I go to the third aisle and this same person comes up to me and says"  I need to pray for you." I look at them and think are they talking to me? I look around and it is just me and this person..  This woman, grabs my hand and starts praying right then and there in the 3 aisle of the store! I do not know this woman , never saw her before.. She just starts praying for me and over me and it starts to penetrate through me...  I had been living in the darkness so long...  She prayed and prayed and as others came into the aisle they laid a hand on me and prayed too!!  We stood in aisle 3 for how long?  I don't know..  I do know that when she was done praying over me and for me I felt like a weight had been removed..  I began to see light shinning around me..  It was not me that was shinning but it was the LOVE of Christ Jesus shinning from this woman.  I left this woman in aisle 3 and finished shopping with LOUD praises on my lips.
I went up to the front of the store and paid for my things and went outside to put things in my car. I saw this woman waiting by my car and she told me that GOD LOVES YOU.. and that was the last time I ever saw her.. I had never seen this woman before nor have I ever seen her again.  I only know that in  my darkness there came a light.... I still have moments of darkness but they don't last to long .. I have the Light of the world in me... JESUS CHRIST.
true story .  smile it is a free gift from God for you to share. love in Christ Jesus vickie

Feast of Tabernacle: Leviticus 23: 33-43

Good Morning Beloved,

Feast of Tabernacle . " The Lord spoke to Moses saying; 15th day of the 7th month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the Lord." ( Leviticus 23: 33-34)
The 7th month is Tishri on the Hebrew calendar.( for Gentiles it is mid Sept-Oct) The # 7 is perfection or complete.  Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord:  on the 8th day shall be a holy convocation unto you, ( convocation: an assembly; an  ecclesiastical or academic assembly)
The # 8 is new beginnings ( also on the 8th was the day of circumcision of every male born) 
These are just my thoughts in bold. Maybe I am wrong but then maybe not.  The number 7 is the # for perfection, right?  Well, we all know that only one was ever perfect.  Now for the number 8 , it is for new beginnings ,correct?  Well when do  we get that new beginning?  I believe it is when we are baptized.  We are circumcised at that time and grafted into the Vine.
This is when we become the sons of God .( 1 John 3:1-2)
Zechariah 6:12; " Behold the man whose name is The  BRANCH."  He will come from Israel and shall build the temple. Zechariah 14: 3-4 ,16-19. Please go and read right now....PLEASE go and read these passages. I use the King James Bible. I am waiting for you to finish reading.... Ready?
His feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives.  To do what?  KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES.  This has NOT happened yet.  2 Peter 1:14 " knowing shortly I must put off this my tabernacle. ( his body) v. 16; Peter is telling  you that it is not a fable , there were eyewitnesses  to Jesus majesty.  Now go to Mark 9: 1-5.  PLEASE, go and read this ... It is about the Transfiguration.
Could it be that Peter saw into the future about the feast of tabernacles? It was a time of celebration of GOD tabernacling  with His people. In John 8: 12, Jesus tells them at the Feast of Tabernacles that He is the Light of the world.  The songs they would sing during this feast were from Psalms 113- 118 and on the last day of the feast they would do the " Jericho" march around the alter 7 times .. Now, go and read John 7:2, 14,37-38.. Please  you must go and read... 
During this festival people would sing Isaiah 12:3.." Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out to the wells of salvation." Yeshua ( is the Hebrew word for salvation)  cried out  to the people to " come unto Him to drink. John 7: 37-38.
Now to show you in scripture how Jesus was born during the Feast of Tabernacles.  Lets start with John the Baptist. Go to Luke 1: 5,8-9.  Abia is the 8th course. Check out 1 Chronicles 24: 10. Now the religious year began at the 1st of Nisan; 2 weeks before Passover, ( about April) and Abia was the 8th ( about 2 months April 1 to June 1)  BUT ALL the Priests had to serve during Passover so that puts the 8th week to 9th week or 2 weeks of June and that would be the Feast of Shavot or Pentecost. Look at Luke 1: 10-11 So Zacharias served 2 weeks in a row.  First week at The Feast and then he served his 8th week at the Temple.  When he was finished serving Zacharias went home and his wife Elizabeth conceived . Luke 1: 23-24.   So when Zacharias went home till five months passed would have been mid June to mid November.  One month later an angel appeared to Mary ( Luke  1: 26,35-36.  So Yeshua is conceived during Chanukah ( the Jewish Festival of Lights).  Mary goes and stays with Elizabeth for 3 months.  This takes you to the time of Passover,  when John the Baptist is born.
So, Mary conceives in December and delivers in September at the time of The Feast of Tabernacles.
( Read Luke Chapter 2, it is about the birth of Jesus Christ)
Please remember :  Smile it is a free gift from God for you to share with all you meet... God Bless you today! Your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie