Now let’s continue on here in the book of Ecclesiastes, and let’s learn some lessons of life, of what it’s like if God is not the center of your life. That’s the whole lesson of the book of Ecclesiastes. Now you can go through and read the whole thing. We’re just going to cover a few more verses here. Ecclesiastes 1:14, he says, “I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.” Now you just look at all the social programs that men have designed to try and help and cure problems and try and make the world right. Is the world right? Are the problems solved? Has the crooked been made straight? Has all of those things that are wanting been taken care of? Of course not. So then he said, verse 16, “I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea [he says], my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.” (Ecc. 1:14-17). So he became a hippie for a while. Went out and experimented with everything.

Verse 18, “For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.” And that is true too. And the reason is, is because of the vanity of human nature. So he said, “Ok. I’m going to do this. I’m going to build that. I’m going to do the other thing. I’m going to look at everything.” And he found out that when he was done and it was finished, and he looked at it, guess what? He wasn’t satisfied. All was vanity. Because you see, the very greatest that man can do is a vain thing.

Let’s look at some of the other scriptures that we have here. Let’s come to Psalm 39. Now as we’re turning there, what we need to understand is this: is that the very greatest, most experienced man that there ever was in anything was Solomon. And what did he learn? It was all vanity and vexation of spirit, wasn’t it? You see, David also understood this, and David probably taught it to him.

Now let’s come here to Psalm 39, and let’s begin in verse 4. “LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.” And you know, that’s surely true, isn’t it? Now let’s just take, for example, all the football players. They get out there and they smash and they hit and they look almost invincible, don’t they? Well, I tell you what, you ought to see the other side of the story after they retire. And all the pain, and all the agony, and all the hurt, and they realize how frail that they really are. Verse 5, “Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreadth;...” So if you want to know what 70 or 80 years is like, you just hold up your hand, look at it, compared to God that’s what it is. “...And mine age is as nothing before Thee:...” Now notice, “...verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity” (Psa. 39:4-5). And that’s what man is. See, because it’s all temporary. And God made it that way. So that we wouldn’t set our hearts on the things of flesh, you see. So that we wouldn’t think that in the flesh we could live forever. That isn’t going to be.

Let’s come to Psalm 62. You see, just imagine what David understood and knew, and just go back and study about his life and all the things that he did in loving God, and serving Him, and fighting the enemy; in writing all of the psalms, and being there right before the Ark of the Covenant, and writing the psalms, and seeing God in the sanctuary as he did, you know. There’s…that’s quite a wonderful thing that David went through and experienced, you see. So he says this. Let’s come here to Psalm 62, and let’s begin in verse 5. He learned this one very important thing. “My soul, wait thou only upon God;...” Not on any other men, not in any other things, not in any other hope, not in any other plan, not in any other scheme. Because it’s all going to come to an end, isn’t it? And it’s all going to result in something that isn’t going to work out.

“...For my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock and my salvation: He is my defence; I shall not be moved” (Psa. 62:5-6). And that’s what we need to do. We need to have that relationship with God the Father and Jesus Christ in prayer and study, and to love Them with all our hearts, and minds, and soul, and being, and to fulfill the spiritual purpose in our life. And that’s why we have the physical body and the mind and everything that God has given us. That’s why He’s made us in His image, so that we can be in His family. So this temporary body that we have now is just like a temporary tabernacle. And we’ll see a little later that even the apostle Peter likens it unto a tabernacle, as well as the apostle Paul.

Now verse 7, “In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.” And always remember this: in time of trouble, flee to God. Go to God and say, “O God, help me! Help me to understand; give me of Your Spirit. Give me of Your mind that I may know.” Now notice verse 8, “Trust in Him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before Him: God is a refuge...” And God knows. He knows our downsitting, our uprising, as David said. He knows what’s in our mind; He realizes that we are weak. He realizes that we are flesh and has compassion and mercy upon us. And as we are going to see tomorrow, that’s why Christ came. Very profound. God’s plan is marvelous.

Now notice, continuing on, verse 9, “Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie:...” And we see that proved every day, don’t we? Yes indeed. “...To be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.” Just a breath and a wind that is gone. Verse 10, “Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.” See, because God is the one Who gives the power to get wealth. If they increase, don’t set your heart on them. And that’s what we’ve done in this generation, haven’t we? Look what’s happened to the stock market. Look what’s happened to the banks. Look what’s happened to all of these schemes of men to get rich. How many people are in the same position as the farmer who had great crops, remember that? Jesus said, and the man said to himself, he said, “Soul, what am I going to do with all these great riches and everything?” He says, “I know what I’m going to do. I’m going to tear down my barns and build greater ones. And I’m going to store all this, and I’m going to sit back and I’m going to say, ‘Soul, take your ease. For I have many things laid up for many years.’” And God said, “You fool. Tonight your soul is required of you” (Luke 12:16-21) paraphrased.

Now maybe it’s not required of everyone tonight. But you see, many of those people who did that and thought, “Boy. I’ve got all these stocks. I have all this money. I’m going to retire.” And now they can’t retire. A matter of fact, a lot of them are going to have to go back to work. Because they trusted in men of high degree who are vanity, rather than trusting in God. Verse 11, “God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.” And of course, what are the greatest riches? Well, that’s likened to building spiritual character of gold, silver, and precious stone. But too many people build on wood, hay, or stubble. And it all gets burned up. It’s all vanity, isn’t it? Yes. Verse 12, “Also unto Thee, O LORD, belongeth mercy: for Thou renderest to every man according to his work.” And that’s a true thing in life. And that happens all the time. And that’s, as we can say, just the way it is. My wife has a famous saying, which is, “That’s the way the mop flops, and the jelly rolls.” That’s just the way that it is.

Now let’s come to Psalm 90. Because, as I mentioned earlier, there is a generational change in the church. And there are many of us here who have gray hair. We’ve been around a while. And hopefully we have learned, and hopefully we have built character, and hopefully that we have been faithful and loyal to God, if we go day-by-day, thenwe have. Now let’s come over here to Psalm 90, and this was actually a prayer of Moses, the man of God, which then was preserved and David put it into the psalms here. Verse 9, “For all our days are passed away in Thy wrath; we spend our years as a tale that is told. The days of our years are threescore years and ten [80];...” God gave to Moses another 40. And he lived to be 120. “...And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years [there’s the 80, you see], yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away” (Psa. 90:9-10). In other words, we die. Our breath goes back to God; and that day our thoughts perish and we know nothing.

Now let’s come here to Psalm 71. But here’s a promise, you see. And here’s something we need to claim of God every day. Now there’s also an odd peculiarity that happens when we’re growing up. When we’re growing up and we’re kids, we look at old people and we don’t think one day we’ll be like them, because we don’t comprehend that one day, they were like the young people. But sooner or later it does happen, doesn’t it? Yes. God has a promise. And here is something we all need to claim. You see, God put it in us that we would get old. And God put it in us that we would die: as in Adam we all die. And so, time is going to come when that’s going to be a reality for a lot of us. And that’s going to be such a thing then, if we die before the end comes, then God has spared us from the time of tribulation at the end, and our place of safety is in the grave. So you see, that’s why it’s so important that we set our minds and our hearts on God, and not on the physical things.

Now here’s a promise, verse 9, “Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.” And that’s exactly what happens. You go back, it happened to Abraham; it happened to Isaac; it happened to Jacob. And it happened to Moses. It happened to all the men of God. It happened to David; it happened to Solomon; it happen to all of the apostles, didn’t it? It happened to all the Christians, didn’t it? And it’s happened to every person who has been born from the time of Adam and Eve, clear on down to the time of the last human being when we get to the Great White Throne judgment at the end of the millennium.

Now verse 17, “O God, Thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared Thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed Thy strength unto this generation, and Thy power to every one that is to come.” Now that means that he was able to finish the psalms and get those ready. And we have it, and that we are part of the generations to come where we can see the strength of God, the righteousness of God, and His power to every generation, right? “Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto Thee!” (vs. 17-19). And that’s whole, the whole thing that we need to understand. Even though we’re temporary, even though we’re made of the dust of the earth, even though we have, as it were, a tabernacle, which is temporary. Well, the Feast of Tabernacles shows us that there is hope beyond, there is life beyond vanity, there is life beyond this physical life.

Now, let’s come to Romans 8 and let’s see that. Now God knows what He’s doing. And He did this in such a way for hope. So that in spite of all the weakness that men have, in spite of the law of sin and death that is within us, in spite of the vanity of our minds and our lives and the things that we do, and the futility as Solomon saw, that everything is frustration and vexation of spirit and vanity, we were made subject to vanity. And the whole creation was. But God has His plan, doesn’t He? And God is going to rescue the whole creation from this vanity. And so the whole lesson that we can learn through the Feast of Tabernacles is this: is that if we grow and change and overcome, and if we attain to the kingdom of God, if we overcome the vanity, if we overcome the human nature through the Spirit of God in us, and we develop the mind of Christ as we are to do, then we have a part in helping the world overcome their vanity and the futility of their lives.

Now let’s read it here. And this gives us an inheritance, as we covered part of this the other day. Verse 16, “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may be also glorified together.” So here is the hope. And here is what Paul always knew and understood: “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” And you go back and you read in the book of Acts what the apostle Paul went through. And how he suffered, and how he was persecuted, and how he was chased from place to place, and all the things there in 2 Corinthians 11 that he enumerated. That he was beaten with rods; he was left for shipwrecked. He was stoned; he was a day and a night in the deep; he was in hungering and fasting and watching and painfulness, and all of this. And he said, “ Look, all of this is not comparable to what God has for us.” Now verse 19. And he understood that the whole world was this way. And in it there is an expectation of the creation. “For the earnest expectation of the creature [creation] waiteth [waits, is waiting] for the manifestation of the sons of God” (Rom. 8:16-19).

And so, brethren, God has called us to be part of the solution. God has called us to overcome our problems, to overcome our difficulties, to live as God wants us to live, and to do the things that God wants us to do, you see. And the world is waiting for the manifestation of the sons of God. Notice, “For the creature [creation] was made subject to vanity, not willingly,...” No one went up to God and said, “God, I think it would be a great idea if You made me a vain fool.” [Laughs] You see? No. We are that by nature, you see. But there is hope. “...But by reason of Him Who hath subjected the same in hope,…” Because there is a way out. And there is a plan out. And there is a means by which God is going to correct all these things and make them right. And we have a part in it. “Because the creature [creation] itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (vs. 20-21).

So we’re going to bring the freedom. We’re going to bring the liberty. We’re going to teach people the way of God. So you see, there’s hope in all of this vanity and all the things that men have gone through. And that we’re going to be able to show them and teach them and help them and lead them as kings and priests. Isn’t that going to be a wonderful thing? And God has called every one of us to have a part in it. Now this is also in the hope of the resurrection, you see. Because Job said - Job said what? “If I die shall I live again?” He said, “All the days I am in the grave I will await until You call. And I will hear Your voice and I will answer Your call and come out of the grave” (Job 14:14-15) paraphrased. And that, brethren, is the hope.

Let’s come here to 1 Peter 1. And before we go to 1 Peter, let’s just come down here in Romans 8, and let’s cover just one verse here: verse 28. And this is what we have to understand. And this is a lesson of life. This is something that Solomon never really grasped. Though he was wiser than any man, and richer than any man, had all of the things that you want to say, that Solomon had to make him a great man, he died in vain. We don’t even have a record of his repentance, if he did. And he went against everything that his father instructed him, as we read yesterday, when he was about to take over the kingdom and build the house of God. But here is a lesson for us. Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good...” Now all things, regardless of what they are. Even some of the most disastrous things that can happen, some of the most vain and futile and frustrating things that can take place. All work together for good, if.… Now, there is a big if. It says, “...to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.” Then they will work together for good.

Now let’s come to 1 Peter 1, and let’s read a few verses in the first chapter, here, and let’s just understand what a great and marvelous thing that God has done. You see, and isn’t that something? That God can take us, who are filled with human nature and vanity and self will, convert us, give us His Spirit, change our nature, build in us the mind of Christ. And ultimately, then, give us a new body and a new mind. In other words, a new tabernacle. Isn’t that something?

Now he starts out here, let’s just begin in 1 Peter 1:1 (AT). “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia;...” I’m reading from the coming new translation on this. “Who have been chosen according to the predetermined knowledge of God the Father, by sanctification through the Spirit, unto the obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you” (1 Peter 1:1-2, AT). And that’s what’s important. That you have God’s grace, you have God’s peace, and let the peace of Christ rule in your mind. In spite of what’s going on in your life and around you. Always stay close to God. Don’t let anything come in and destroy that relationship.

Verse 3 (AT), “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His abundant mercy, has begotten us again unto a living hope...” And that’s what we have, brethren. A living hope. “...Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; unto an inheritance incorruptible...” Vanity and frustration will be all over. “...Undefiled [it won’t corrupt], and unfading [because you have the glory of God], reserved in heaven for us,...” And we will see in a little bit that God is going to bring that to us and give it to us. “...Who are being safeguarded by the power of God through faith, for salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you yourselves greatly rejoice; though for the present, if it be needed, you are in distress for a little while by various trials;…” (vs. 3-6, AT).

Now here’s why they come: “In order that the proving of your faith, which is much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is being tested by fire, may be found unto praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ; [in] Whom, having not seen, you love; in Whom, though at the present time you do not see Him, you believe, and are rejoicing with unspeakable joy, and filled with glory, and are receiving the end of your faith - even the salvation of your souls;…” (vs. 7-9, AT). And so that’s the hope that God wants us to have, when we look around and see all of the vanity and everything that human life is, and all the difficulties that confront us. You know, never focus in on the difficulties. Come to God and look for the solution. Always. God will provide it.

Now let’s come to 2 Peter 1, and let’s see where Peter likens this body to a tabernacle, and what He promised to do. Now 2 Peter 1:12, “Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be [have been] established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet [or proper], as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me” (vs. 12-14). Now then, Paul shows that when we put off this tabernacle we are looking for the new one. We are looking for the fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles in our lives, to be living as God, with God, dwelling with Him.

Now let’s come to 2 Corinthians 4. Now this is really something here. Now let’s pick it up here in verse 14. “Knowing that He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.” Now you see, the one thing that the apostles always did, brethren, and this is what we need to do, we need to look to the conclusion of the matter: the resurrection. Just like David said. David said, “O Lord! I will be satisfied when I shall be like You” (Psalm 17:15) paraphrased. And that needs to be the goal and the satisfaction that we need to look for.

So Paul says here, verse 15, “For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” And all of this is the grace of God, isn’t it? “For which cause we faint not;...” No, we should not be weak and faint and give up and fall by the wayside, you see. “... But though our outward man perish,...” That is, we are perishing in getting older. “...Yet the inward man is renewed day-by-day.” And that’s the whole purpose of it. And especially, especially for those of us who are getting toward the end of life. Now, we don’t know how many years we will live. So, but day-by-day, we need to take the time to be renewed in Spirit, in mind, in heart, and in love. Verse 17, “For our light affliction,...” So even though all the trials that Paul had, he says, “It’s a light affliction compared to what God is going to do.” “...Which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen,...” Because, you see, that’s the whole problem and difficulty that people do. They look just at the circumstances and get focused in on the physical things, rather than come to the word of God and focus on the spiritual things, and keep your mind on the hope of God, and keep your mind on the purpose of God, you see. He said we don’t look on these things, because “...the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (vs. 15-18).

Now going right on in chapter 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved,...” And that’s what happens when you die. You corrupt and your body dissolves. “...We have a building of God, an house not made with hands [not by human beings], eternal in the heavens.” Now we have two houses. We have a new body, and we have New Jerusalem. Both apply here in this particular case. Now, to the physical body becoming spiritual: “For in this [reason] we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven; if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we [know that we] that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened:...” (2 Cor. 5:1-4). It’s like the whole creation - groaning and trevailing in pain. So are we to overcome human nature.

“...Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life” (vs. 4). So here then, our bodies are likened to a temporary tabernacle. Wonderful thing. And God is going to give us a new body, as we’re going to see here in a minute. Remember what Jesus said. Jesus said that, at the end, that He is going to send out His angels to gather all of those who are His, and then shall the righteous shine as the stars of heaven. That is the glory that God is going to give us. And we’re going to have a glorious job, and a glorious work. And being with Jesus Christ and God the Father forever and ever and ever, and brethren, that’s what this Feast of Tabernacles pictures. Dwelling with God. Living with Him. And in spite of all that men have done, beginning with Adam and Eve to say, “God, we don’t want You in our lives,” God is still going to work it out. And through all the experience and frustration of human life, and all the pain, and agony, and death, and sorrow that humans have experienced, He’s going to bring them to understand that, yes, they want to live with God. Yes, they want to dwell with God. Yes, they want to be the children of God. So that’s something. And that’s what it is with us now, brethren.

Let’s come to 1 John 3. And this then, brethren, helps us to have the understanding, the vision, the knowledge, the love of God, and to give us strength, and to give us inspiration to grow and to overcome. That’s what God wants this to be. That’s why we have the Feast of Tabernacles, and we come together for this concentrated time of learning, and growing, and overcoming, and understanding, and drawing close to God, fellowshipping with each other, spending time together with each other. And remember this: 1 John 3:1, “Behold, what manner of love...” And that means behold, what glorious love. “...The Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God:...” Or, the children of God. And it’s a phenomenal thing. And if we’re just walking down the street, you know, other people they look at us, they don’t know that walking before them is a future son of God, or future daughter of God. They don’t understand that. That’s why it says, “…Therefore the world doesn’t know us, because it didn’t know Him” (vs. 1) paraphrased. “Beloved, now are we the sons [or children] of God,...” The Greek there is a teknon, which means His own begotten children; His own offspring. “...And it doth not yet appear what we shall be:...” Now we don’t know what it’s going to be like to live in glory. We don’t know what it’s going to be like to have clothes made of Spirit that are going to be given to us that we can wear in glory and splendor. No. “...But we know…” Now here’s one thing that we understand. “…That, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is” (1 John 3:1-2).

Now what is this to do for us? Brethren, this is to inspire us. This is to give us the strength, and the motivation, and the determination, and the yieldedness to God to grow and overcome through the grace of God. Now notice verse 3. “And every [one] man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure” (vs. 3). Coming to God to take away the vanity, and the futility, and the frustration, and the aches, and the pains, and the mistakes, and things of human nature that come so that we can, then, receive of the glory of God. So that we will live now, not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. We will live now, not with the things that afflict us, but with perfect life. With perfect spiritual character. With perfect understanding in the things of God. Isn’t that going to be something? And we are going to have a life through all eternity that will be filling and satisfying and loving and accomplishing. Because, you see, God created the universe for His family. And we’re going to be a part of that. Remember, we are the church of the firstborn, as we learned during Pentecost. And we are going to love this world, and serve this world, and we’re going to follow Christ, and reveal the way of God, and teach all human beings that way. But you see, before that happens we have to have a change. We’re not going to do it in the flesh. We’re not going to do it the way that we are. We are going to do it with a new mind and a new body.

Let’s come to Philippians 3, and let’s see what we need to do, brethren. Let’s see how we need to follow after God’s way. Look at the apostle Paul here. Philippians 3:8. Now, because, you see, all human life is vexation and frustration of spirit, don’t look at that and be despaired. Look at the plan of God. Look at the calling of God. Look at the things that God has given, and God has granted and imparted to you, and what He has in store for you. Then you look at all the physical things around and all the problems and difficulty, and you can do as the apostle Paul said here in verse 8. “Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for Whom I have suffered the loss of all things,...” Everything physical doesn’t count. “...And do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness,...” You see, because you can’t accomplish this by your own goodness and morality. It has to be by the Spirit of God and the love of God, you see.

“...Mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.” Now then, he says, “I haven’t arrived there yet.” “Not as though I had already attained [neither] either were already perfect: but I follow after,...” And brethren, this is what we need to do. “...But I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind,...” Forgetting all the problems and frustrations and vexations, and all of the futility and all of the vanity. Forgetting those things which are behind, “...and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God [which is] in Christ Jesus” (vs. 8-14).

That’s what we need to do. And he gives a wonderful promise here in verse 15, because God wants us to do that. Because God wants us in His kingdom. Because God wants us to be clothed from on high with a new body, with a new tabernacle. He says here, verse 15, “Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded:...” If you have this mind and attitude, then you are in perfect standing before God in doing the things that please Him. Now here’s another promise: “...And if in any [other] thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.” That you may what? Repentand overcome. Now verse 16, “Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.” And then he says, “Be followers together of me…” (vs. 15-17).

Now verse 20. We’ll finish right here. “For our conversation [conduct; ‘conversation’, as it says here] is in heaven;...” Yes, our conduct is regulated by the Spirit of God from heaven. “...From whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body,…” He’s going to change the physical tabernacle we are living in, to give us a spiritual tabernacle, as Paul said there in 2 Corinthians, to be clothed upon from on high. “...Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself” (vs. 20-21). And that, brethren, is the personal meaning of the Feast of Tabernacles for every one of the sons of God.