Feast Of Tabernacles And Christ's birth ?

[Scott Hutchinson]

Could Jesus Christ have been born around the time of the Feast Of Tabernacles ?
If Jesus was crucified on Passover day,could we count six months from that day and arrive at His birthday ?
Does not the harvert -time feast begin on the 15 th day of the 7th month,exactly six months after passover ?
Wasn't the Feast Of Tabernacles on OCT.10 this year ?

Of course this will vary from year to year of course.
I understand that The Feast Of Tabernacles will always occur on the 15th day of the 7th biblical month.

[Sister Alvear]

More than likely he was...just am overwhelmed with joy that one day the long awaited savior came...

[Trouvere]

Something I noticed when studying the time of Jesus' birth that maybe would interest you Brother Scott is that when we count the time that the course of Abia
Luk 1:5 There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

was to be in the temple we have to remember that the courses were numbered less than
in the first account due to some not coming out of Babylon. David I think is is renumbered them. I cannot remember the exact number but it can put the date off if you are not aware.

[Trouvere]

Here is some info I found:
There were 24 such courses and that of Abijah was the eighth (1Ch_24:10; 2Ch_8:14). Only four of these courses (Jedaiah, Immer, Pashur, Harim) returned from Babylon, but these four were divided into twenty-four with the old names. Each of these courses did duty for eight days, sabbath to sabbath, twice a year. On sabbaths the whole course did duty. At the feast of tabernacles all twenty-four courses were present.

[Scott Hutchinson]

If I understand correctly the feast of John 7:37 is the feast of Tabernacles,and also of Luke 2:21.

[Trouvere]

Mary conceived in Elizabeth's six month.
Luk 1:24 And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying,
Luk 1:25 Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.
Luk 1:26 And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

[Trouvere]

More scriptural texts on the time of conception:

Luk 1:36 And, behold, thy cousin Elisabeth, she hath also conceived a son in her old age: and this is the sixth month with her, who was called barren.

[Trouvere]

Scott if you find out which month that Zacharias was in the course of administration
then look forward six months you can estimate around which month that Jesus
was born. You cannot pin it down exact but close. Then decide if Tabernacle fits the bill.
From the studies I have done and things read I think its more closer to the date of
conception than birth though I could be wrong but its an interesting study.

[Scott Hutchinson]

It is interesting.

[Sam]

I've read stuff showing when the different "courses" of priests ministered and the timing was that Elizabeth probably got pregnant right afterward, then 6 months later Mary was impregnated by the Holy Spirit, and that would put the birth of Jesus around the time of the Feast of Tabernacles. This could be appropriate since His death coincided with Passover (1 Corinthians 5:7), His burial with unleavened bread, his resurrection with First Fruits (1 Corinthians 15:23), and His pouring out the Promise of the Father with Pentecost or Harvest. Some who teach this also believe that His second coming will be at Trumpets (the trump of God in 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 and Revelation 4:1)