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The Feast of Sukkot:
is the seven day feast first celebrated during the Exodus (Leviticus 23:34). It is also referred to as The Festival of Booths (or Tabernacles). It is celebrated around the end of September thru the beginning of October.
The Feast became an ordinance of Yahuah to serve as a reminder to the Nation of Israel, of the wonderful work Yahuah did while freeing the people from their bondage in Egypt. During their sojourn in the wilderness, the Hebrews made temporary shelters (tabernacles) to live in as they traveled. These shelters are symbolic of the temporary dwelling we live in, which is our body made of flesh and bone.
In Yahuahshua’s time, the people living in crowded cities would build their booths on the rooftops, because there was no room on the ground. This important Festival is referred to a number of times in the New Testament.

The Birth of Yohanon the Baptist and Yahuahshua Ha Mashiyach:

I have seen a number of resources on the internet that cover this topic extensively so I will just summarize it here. The scriptures point to Christ (Mashiyach) being born at the beginning of the Feast of Sukkot (Booths, or Tabenacles) and Yohanan the Baptist being born six months earlier during the Feast of Unleavened Bread (and Passover).
If you look at Luke Chapter 1, you can trace the birth of Yohanan the Baptist by following Zacharias (his father’s) temple service
In 1 Chr 28:11-13 King David had divided the sons of Aaron into 24 groups (or courses) for temple service, and Abijah was of the 8th course. Zacharias was of the "course" of Abia, so this places Zacharias' administration in the Temple as beginning on the second Shabbat of the third month, Sivan (May-June) Having completed his Temple service on the third Shabbat of Sivan, Zacharias returned home and soon conceived his son John. According to Luke, Mashiyach was conceived in the sixth month of Elisabeth's pregnancy Working from the information about Yohanan's conception late in the third month, Sivan, and then advancing six months, we arrive late in the 9th month of Kislev (Nov-Dec) to obtain the time frame for the conception of HaMashiyach.

For Yohanan’s birth (based on a conception shortly after the third Shabbat of the month of Sivan) then projecting forward an average term of about 10 lunar months (40 weeks), we arrive in the month of Nisan (April). It would appear that Yohanan the Baptist may have been born in the middle of the month, which would coincide with Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

For Mashiyach’s birth, move six months farther down the Hebrew calender (from the 15th day of the 1st month, Nisan, go to the 15th day of the 7th month) to arrive at a likely date for the birth of Mashiyach, the festival of Tabernacles.

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