And it shall come to pass, that everyone that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. 17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no Revelation 18:1 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
I beg the Reader to remark, somewhat more particularly, the honor put upon the least of tabernacles. This feast, if the Reader will consult Leviticus 23:34. he will discover, that it was intended evidently to typify the human nature of Christ. For as Israel then abode in a tabernacle, so God in our nature, in the person of Christ, would substantially dwell with us. Hebrews 8:2. Now, wherefore was this feast to be so eminently distinguished in this latter day dispensation, but in honor of Christ's tabernacling in our nature? Is not this a further confirmation, how much this concluding Chapter of the Prophet was looking into more distant times, than the first open manifestation of Christ? Revelation 21:3. And the contempt of it, having no influence of the Spirit, of which rain was a type and emblem, is very striking also.