THE RIVER OF LIFE
“In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying , If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water . (But this spake He of the Spirit, which they that believe on Him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)” (John 7:37-39). The feast that John was referring to in this verse is the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, or Sukkot, as it is called in the Hebrew language. It was a week-long celebration that occurred at the end of harvest to remind the Jews, among other things, of their sojourn in the wilderness when they dwelled in temporary structures before they entered their final resting place: the Promised Land. God instituted the Feast of Tabernacles when He said to Moses, “Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for s