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with a sacred assembly, and after a week, was followed by a
second, sacred assembly.
The feast is a memorial for Israel, both pointing back to
Egypt and forward to their Millennial Rest; as the seventh day
of the week is a sabbath or rest. The seventh religious month
for Israel typifies a period of rest. At “the end,” this sacred as-
sembly begins fulfillment in a sabbatic rest. This sabbatic rest
will be the promised time of refreshing—the 1,000-year day
known as the Millennium. The second, sacred assembly on the
eighth day represents the time when the New Jerusalem will be
placed upon the earth. This will take place after a final cleans-
ing and purification of the earth; involving the “melting” and
reconstitution of the earth (2 Pet. 3:12-13). God will place His
tabernacle (the New Jerusalem) on the earth and will then
“tabernacle” (dwell) with man as He did during the first days of
Adam (the first man). Ezekiel also speaks of that future time
when God’s sanctuary (dwelling place or tabernacle) will be
among them forever (Ezek. 37:27-28). This will be fulfilled af-
ter the Millennium is over.
“I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out
of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for
her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying,
‘Now the dwelling [tabernacle] of God is with men, and he will
live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will
be with them and be their God’”
(Rev. 21:2-3).
Since God’s tabernacle doesn’t touch the earth until the fi-
nal cleansing after the Millennium, it must be suspended
somewhere above the earth until then, presumably while it is
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