The Tabernacles Experience.

There are three major feasts of the Lord: Passover, Pentecost (Weeks), and Tabernacles. They refer respectively to basic salvation, the baptism with the Holy Spirit, and the coming of the Father and the Son to dwell in us.

The program of redemption is that of removing from us all that is of Satan's personality and filling us with all that is of God's Personality. The three feasts of the Lord portray the fact that salvation has a specific beginning, a specific process, and a specific conclusion. There is an alpha and an omega, a beginning and a conclusion. All of this is wrought by the Lord with our faith and obedience.

(2/11/2007) God is seeking a dwelling place, a resting place, an eternal temple. For this purpose He has created the Church, the Body of Christ. He calls out from the world people whom He has chosen to be His dwelling place. Then God brings them to Christ that they may become rooms in the great house of God.

The mystery of the Gospel is Christ in us. There are two phases to the dwelling of Christ in us. The first is the forming of Christ in us, which results in a new creation composed of the integration of Christ's Personality and our personality. Then the Father and the Son will come and dwell in that new creation that has been formed in us.

Many of us have been forgiven through the blood atonement and also have been filled with God's Spirit. Now we must look to Christ, for it is time to press forward to the concluding acts of the program of redemption.

At this point in time we are facing the coming of Christ to confront the enemy that dwells in our personality. As the Holy Spirit points out to us the several areas of darkness in us we are to confess them specifically, renounce them, turn away from them, and receive more of the Life of Christ in their place. This is in preparation for the Father and the Son to come and make Their eternal abode in us. We may be more acquainted with Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit than we are with the Father. Now it is time for us to move forward until Christ makes the Father known to us in a greater way. Christ is the Way to the Father.

Heaven is the throne of God, as Isaiah proclaimed. The question is raised by Stephen as to what house we will build for God. The Apostle Paul gives the answer, in the second chapter of the Book of Ephesians: it is the Christian Church that is the eternal house of God, the place of God's rest.

It seems likely that at one time God had a temple in Heaven, in the spirit world. Apparently God wants to build a new temple for Himself. Each faithful disciple is a living stone in the new house of God, and the place of God's throne. In a manner of speaking, this makes the disciples "heaven," that is the place from which God governs.

The Lord Jesus told us that in God's house there are many rooms. God's House always is the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we are being fashioned as members of the Body of Christ, who Himself is the chief Cornerstone of the eternal Tabernacle of God

On the eighth day of the Feast of Tabernacles, the priests were pouring water from the Pool of Siloam on the Altar of Burnt Offering. Jesus, speaking prophetically, cried out that if we believe in Him we will become the source of living water, that is, the throne of God.

In that day the Spirit and the Bride will invite mankind to come and drink of the water of eternal life that will be issuing from the Bride, from the Church, from the new Jerusalem.

The blood of the cross gives us the authority to press into the fullness of the Kingdom of God, that is, into the Tabernacles experience. The Holy Spirit gives us the wisdom and power necessary if we are to enter the Tabernacles experience. Now it is up to us to follow Christ to the fullness of redemption.

The Lord gave two commands to our church this Sunday. First, we are to totally forgive everyone who has offended us. Second, we are to cease endeavoring and striving to accomplish our projects. We are to look to Him in every aspect of life and follow and obey Him as He accomplishes His projects.

As we were gathered together as an assembly Christ told us if we would do these two things He would do a mighty work among us. Perhaps the same will be true of your assembly.