Today the Lord is bringing many saved people into the life lived in the Spirit. He also is drawing Pentecostal people into a fuller experience of Christ in us.

We can tell if this is happening to us because the demands being made on us are far greater than before. There may be a season of very difficult, very hard trials.

We may feel within ourselves that stone altars are being created in our inner being. Guardhouses are being established in us. There is a hardness we have not known previously. We are being faced with spiritual war, with Divine judgment, with the baptism with fire.

We are accustomed to the gentle Shepherd. Now the Lord of Hosts has come to us, the Lord strong and mighty in battle.

I do not say that all who are called to the walk of total faithfulness are going to respond as they should. We see people start and then slide back, start and then slide back.

Why is this? It is because they are struggling over the choice to save their life or lose it in Jesus. They are afraid there are some pleasures that will be lost to them, or some coveted ambition, or dream, or hope.

Sometimes a person feels like shaking the liver out of them and warning them that they are turning away from the fullness of joy, from the fullness of the inheritance. They are not going to inherit anywhere near that which would have been theirs had they trusted God and plunged ahead into the darkness of His will.

But we simply can't do it for them. We grieve, and then turn our attention to someone who will choose to go all the way with God.

What an opportunity is ours today! The drums of Hell are beating to the attack. The drums of El Shaddai are also beating to the attack. The battle lines are being formed. God against Satan. The Holy Spirit against the False Prophet. Christ against Antichrist. We human beings are but grains of dust and less than that. Our only hope of survival is to become part of Christ. To not become part of Christ is to default to Antichrist. Whoever does not gather with Christ scatters. There is no middle ground, no place of neutrality. We may desire a position of neutrality and hope for one but there absolutely is no place where we neither are of Christ or Satan. To not be of Christ is to be of Satan during the conflict at hand.

One symptom of "Tabernacles" is a certain discontent within yourself. All of a sudden your church services do not satisfy. You feel the need for something deeper. If you enter an assembly where judgment is being preached, sins are being confessed, where the talk is about taking up your cross and following Jesus, about presenting your body a living sacrifice, about the need for iron righteousness, fiery holiness, and stern obedience to God, you will sense that something deep within you is being fed.

To be continued.