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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Symptoms of "Tabernacles," continued
In that day you will say: "I will praise you, O LORD. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The LORD, the LORD, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. In that day you will say: "Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done, and proclaim his name is exalted. Sing to the LORD, for he has done glorious things; let this be known to all the world. Shout aloud and sing for joy, people of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you." (Isaiah 12:1-6—NIV)
Several symptoms of the "Tabernacles" experience are mentioned in the twelfth chapter of Isaiah (above)
The expression "in that day" is significant. That day is the day when the Lord alone is exalted in your life. In that day you will know Jesus is in His Father, and you are in Him, and He is in you.
One of the symptoms of the "Tabernacles" experience is that we become aware as never before that we are dwelling in Jesus in the Father. This is the rest of God. The Father becomes increasingly real to us and we learn to obey Him implicitly.
In that day we praise the Lord. We are not focused on what God can or will do for us but on God Himself. Just as Jacob, who forgot about the possibility of Esau harming Leah, Rachel, and the children (and himself) and sought to know the name of his Opponent, so it is that we become occupied with God Himself.
We are much too man-centered today!
As we enter the "Tabernacles" experience we find God is angry with us. We may have been "saved" for thirty years and now we discover God is not pleased with much of our personality. This may come as a tremendous shock to us.
God declares war against the worldliness, lust, and self-will in our personality. We are baptized with the fires of Divine judgment. We are imprisoned. Sometimes we are tempted and deceived. It seems Satan is bouncing us up and down like a ball. Has God forsaken us?
He is angry with us. These are strange ashes. We have had much in our flesh and soul that has not been part of Jesus Christ. These cannot stand the Divine scrutiny.
Stone altars are being carved in us, as portrayed in Ezekiel's Temple (a representation of the inner development of the future trees of life). We never thought we would face such hardness. The altars are stone and they are altars!
We receive double for our sins until our warfare is accomplished, our iniquity pardoned.
Some of what I am saying may conflict with your theology. It may, I don't know. But I will certify that this is what takes place.
Finally there comes a time when the baby has been born, so to speak. God's anger has turned away and He is comforting us. He wounds and then binds up. This is the way God works with us. It has to be this way if we are ever going to be clothed in glory and be part of the ruling priesthood.
To be continued.