God gave Moses instructions on how the Israelites were to celebrate everything he had done for them. They were to bring him the first fruits of their harvests. They were to celebrate the Feast of Weeks, the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. The latter was to be celebrated after the crops were brought in. The children of Israel were told to live in booths or tents for seven days. They were to celebrate in this way for generations to come so their descendants would have an understanding of what God had done when he brought the people out of Egypt and turned them into a great nation. The future generations needed to know that their ancestors started out with nothing. They moved from place to place at God's command, with only what they could carry, and out of that obedience a great nation was born.
It is the same for most of us if we look at our past. Most of us are descended from immigrants who came with only the few possessions they could carry to a new land. Most of our descendants were thankful to God for what they had been given. While we give lip service annually with our Thanksgiving feast, are we still as thankful today, or do we need to go back to living in a tent to understand this great gift we have been given?
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