The 8th Day Shemini Atzeret: The Last Great Day

By Unknown Hebrew

Shemini Atzeret follows directly after Sukkot. Scripture teaches that Sukkot is seven days of celebration plus one additional day—a day set apart, a Sabbath of solemn rest. This unique "Eighth Day" points to a time that gives way to YAHUSHUA's everlasting Kingdom.

What makes this day so important?
2 Peter 3:8 reveals, "One day is with ELOHIM as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." Just as YAHUAH worked for six days and rested on the seventh, the earth will labor for 6,000 years before entering its 1,000-year rest during Messiah's Millennial reign. The Eighth Day is what comes next—eternal life and the New Creation.

In this book, you will uncover:

• Was YAHUSHUA born during Sukkot?
• How close we are to the Millennial reign and eternal Kingdom.
• The prophetic connection between the Fall Feasts and Messiah's second coming.
• How YAHUSHUA's second coming will fulfill the Fall Feasts, just as He fulfilled the Spring Feasts.

Very few teachers explain this unnamed Feast. What are you missing by not understanding its significance? If you want to unlock this prophetic mystery and see how it connects to your future, scroll up now and click before another Feast passes by without this revelation. 

Looking for more truth? Check out Millennium & Kingdom Reign Sukkot: Feast of Booths/Feast of Tabernacles.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Unknown Hebrew
• Release date: Mar 18, 2025
• ISBN: 9798227415103

Unknown Hebrew

I write under the name Unknown Hebrew as a devoted member of the Fourth Tribe of Israel, walking daily in faith and obedience to YAHUAH. My journey began within Christian doctrine, but a thirst for deeper truth led me back to the foundation of it all—the Hebrew Israelites. That spiritual homecoming rekindled my purpose: to study, to write, and to live by the ancient paths YAHUAH established for His chosen people. The name Unknown Hebrew reflects my core belief—to turn all attention away from myself and toward the glory of YAHUAH, our ELOHIM. Everything I create is for His purpose: to study and show ourselves approved, to walk in the ways of the Order of Melchizedek, to spread the gospel to Israelites scattered across the earth, and to await with faith the return of our King and High Priest, YAHUSHUA.

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THE CONSTANTINE CREED

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Below is a creed, purportedly formulated by the early Christian church against Hebrew practices.

I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads & sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspersions, purifications, sanctifications and propitiations and fasts, and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants and observances and Synagogues, and the food and drink of the Hebrews; in one word, I renounce everything Jewish, legalism, custom and rite; and above all he who is expected by all the Jews in the shape and dress of Christ, I renounce Anti-Christ, and join my self to the true Christ and God. And I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; the holy and consubstantial and individual Trinity; I profess the dispensation where one of the holy trinity, the Word of God took flesh and became man;... if I pretend to be a Christian and return to Jewish superstition, or shall be found eating with the Jews, or feasting with them, or secretly conversing and condemning the Christian religion instead of openly confuting them and condemning their vain faith, then let the trembling of Gehazi cleave to me, as well as the legal punishments to which I acknowledge myself liable. And may I be anathema in the world to come, and may my soul be set down with Satan and the devils.

Subsequently special creeds were drafted, to which the Christian would have to swear such as:

I accept all customs, rites, legalism, and feasts of the Romans, sacrifices. Prayers, purifications with water, sanctifications by Pontificus Maxmus (high priests of Rome), propitiations, and feasts, and the New Sabbath Sodei (day of the Sun,), all new chants and observances, and all the foods and drinks of the Romans. In other words, I absolutely accept everything Roman, every new law, rite and custom, of Rome, and the New Roman Religion.

INTRODUCTION

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Leviticus 9:1 tells us, "¹ And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel. Immediately we have something significant in the first verse. The phrase ¹...on the eighth day..." is noteworthy in the Hebrew Scriptures because the eighth day is meaningful. On the eighth day, we are to circumcise our sons. There is something that is cut; anytime something is cut in the Bible, which deals with blood, we are talking about a covenant. But what else do we find in the Scriptures about the eighth day? What does the number eight mean in Hebrew? Bear in mind that in Hebrew, numbers have meanings. For example, the number seven is the number of perfection; the number five is grace; the number eight is the number of new beginnings.

Read Leviticus 23:36, which tells us, "³⁶ Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YAHUAH: on the eighth day shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto YAHUAH: it is a solemn assembly; and ye shall do no servile work therein. Skip down to Leviticus 23:39, which reads, ³⁹ Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto YAHUAH seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. Nehemiah 8:17-18 reads, ¹⁷ And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Joshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness. ¹⁸ Also day by day, from the first day unto the last day, he read in the book of the law of ELOHIM. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly, according unto the manner. That assembly is the great assembly" which occurs on the eighth day.

The number seven, physically and spiritually, again means perfection or completion. If we were to look at the Sabbath week being seven days, which is perfect. We begin the following week with a new beginning on the eighth day. When we read Ezekiel 40:22, we are told about the temple; it states, ²² And their windows, and their arches, and their palm trees, were after the measure of the gate that looketh toward the east; and they went up unto it by seven steps; and the arches thereof were before them. Skip down to Ezekiel 40:26, which says, ²⁶ And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof. This is the inner court; go now to Ezekiel 40:31, which says, ³¹ And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps. Read Ezekiel 40:34; it states, ³⁴ And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. Jump down to Ezekiel 40:37, which says, ³⁷ And the posts thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps. Notice the eight steps from the utter (outer) court to the inner court.

We also see the number eight concerning King David; he was the eighth son of Jesse. Eight is the number of days we celebrate Hanukkah (see our book, When Did Hanukkah Begin?: The Maccabees & the Feast of Dedication). It is worth noting that the Tabernacle (Mishkan), where the Spirit of YAHUAH dwelt among His people, was located in seven different places (Sinai in the desert, Gilgal, Shiloh, Nov, Givon, the first temple Solomon built, and the second temple Zerubbabel and the returning Yahudites built, which later was rebuilt by King Herod. It only stood for a short period after YAHUSHUA’s death). The eighth place will be built during YAHUSHUA’s reign.

From Genesis to Revelations, we find references to the mysterious number eight. We must remember everything in the Scriptures is important; whatever it may be, it is there for a reason. In Genesis, after the seven-day creation, we have the Eighth Day new beginning. Again, we see the eighth-day circumcision instruction given to Abram (see our book, Abraham’s Beginnings: While He was Avram) in Genesis 17:12. It reads, ¹² And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed. Likewise, in Exodus 22:29-30, we are told, ²⁹ Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. ³⁰ Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me. The eighth day.

When we read Revelation 17:7-11, which tells us, ⁷ And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. ⁸ The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. ⁹ And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. ¹⁰ And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. ¹¹ And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. We can speculate all day about the meaning of this passage, but the one thing we know for sure is that the eighth will be destroyed.

Acts 17:11 tells us, ¹¹ These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. Let us examine the Scriptures to discover the many passages that convey the meaning of the eighth day, Shemini Atzeret, the last great day of the Feast.

​SHEMINI

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Shemini means the eighth; its root word, according to the Blue Letter Bible Dictionary, is "Shemen (sheh'-men) (H8081), it means olive oil or anoint. Here is what it looks like in the Hebrew: שֶׁמֶן. In Hebrew, every letter has a meaning; every number has a meaning, and every letter has a number. Because it was in pictograph format called Paleo Hebrew back in the day, you would be able to look at a letter or a word and know exactly what the meaning was, by what each letter represented. We have an interesting word, Shemen" again means olive oil or to anoint, so built inside the eighth day is anointing; to anoint with olive oil.

To take it a bit further, if you know a bit of Hebrew, in there is another Hebrew word built into this three-letter word, שֶׁמֶ, it means "Sem (shame) (H8034), means, name or the name. So, if we add the word Ha" (affirmed by the online dictionary Britannica is; When referring to YAHWEH, ELOHIM very often is accompanied by the article ha-, to mean, in combination, the God, and sometimes with a further identification ELOHIM ḥayyim, meaning the living God. Though ELOHIM is plural in form, it is understood in the singular sense.), in front of it, which means the and we put Ha in front of Shem; we have Hashem that is one of the most popular words in the Bible for YAHUSHUA.

We heard of Adonai; ELOHIM, however, many have not heard of