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The festival of Sukkot is a special time of rejoicing (Lev. 23:40). One of the unique mitvos associated with this holiday is the mitzvah to dwell in a sukkah. The sukkah, a temporary dwelling used during the first seven days of Sukkot, is a reminder of the protective clouds of glory that HaShem surrounded the people of Israel with during their wilderness wanderings.
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Speak to the people of Israel, saying, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month and for seven days is the Feast of Booths to the Lord" Lev. 23:34.1
Sukkot, or the Feast of Tabernacles, is the last feast of the Hebrew year. According to Lev 23:40 and Deut. 16:14–15, this feast was to be joyful, in contrast to the Day of Atonement, which precedes it (Lev. 23:27).
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The apocalyptic vision pauses for a scene of adoration. It is the last liturgical scene of the Apocalypse.
For the first time, the book does not mention the temple and its objects. All of the atoning rites of the temple have been accomplished, and the temple has no more raison d'être. The judgment continues now outside its walls.
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The roof of the sukkah is made of branches and does not keep the light of the stars out. As we gaze at it, we realize that our roof is broken, and therefore our dwelling is temporary. It is then that we dream of another house where God above will be our host.
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The sequence of annual holy days described in Leviticus 23 is understood by Seventh-day Adventists to be a prophetic pre-enactment of the whole sweep of salvation history from the death of the Messiah to the time of the Age to Come.1Both the spring feasts of the Hebrew festival calendar and the fall high holy days of the seventh month, culminating in Yom Kippur, are seen to have been fulfilled right on time.2