Looking Back

If we go to the Word of God in Deuteronomy 16:13 (NKJV), the Bible says:

“You shall observe the Feast of Tabernacles seven days, when you have gathered from your threshing floor and from your winepress.” 

The past is prologue, and the word prologue means an event or action leading to another. In other words, you must have a past in order to have a future.

Have you ever gone into a movie house in the middle of the movie? You don’t know what’s going on because you haven’t seen the beginning. As we are looking forward in the year 2022 to what the Lord has in store for us, it is always encouraging for us to look back, to see how the Lord has brought us through the previous year.

Hence the reason for the Feast of Tabernacles which takes place in Israel every single year, it is one of the highlights in my life. I have had the privilege of speaking at the Feast of Tabernacles conferences for many years, staged by the ICEJ (International Christian Embassy Jerusalem). It is a national holiday and the Israelis build sukkots in their gardens, in their flats, the sidewalks next to the restaurants and decorate them with palm leaves and branches of special trees. Then they adorn the inside with pomegranates, olives, grapes and figs and they go in every evening and sit with their families and tell them about how God has preserved them as a nation, starting with the opening of the Red Sea and delivering them from slavery in Egypt.

You and I need to spend time thanking God for what He has done in the past and then look forward for what He has for us in the future. In Hebrews 13:5 the Lord has promised us that He will never leave us nor forsake us and even as He has brought us through a turbulent year, we know that he will not desert us in the forthcoming year, which we believe is going to be a wonderful year. 

Jesus Bless You 
Angus and Jill Buchan