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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Filled With the Fullness, #9
Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him." (John 14:23—NIV)
In my opinion the verse above is the clearest expression in the New Testament of the spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles.
Again, the "Tabernacles" experience is based on our obeying the teachings of Christ; not on merely believing about Him but doing what He commanded us.
Just think of it! If we obey the teachings of Jesus Christ, God, His Father, will love us. Then They, the Father and the Son, will come to us, just as in John 14:3: "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am."
Where is Christ? He is in the very Center of God's Person.
Where shall we be if we obey His commandments?
In the very Center of God's Person through Christ.
Paul prayed for all of us who have been saved and filled with God's Spirit that we may be filled with the fullness of God.
And to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. (Ephesians 3:19—NIV)
It is not just for ourselves that we desire to be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. It is for the benefit of God Himself, and then for the benefit of the people whom God can govern and bless through us.
Being filled with the fullness of the Father and the Son through the fullness of the Spirit is the goal of our redemption. It is why we were created.
For untold eons of time God's family in Heaven consisted of angels. Then some of the angels rebelled against Him.
God's response to the rebellion is to create a company of sons, of whom the Lord Jesus is to be the great Head and elder Brother. God is bringing many sons to glory.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8:28,29—NIV)
God created each of His sons with a throne room within his personality, we might say, a throne room designed to be occupied by the Lord. As soon as His sons have been delivered from sin, and Christ has been formed in them, God and Christ will take Their lawful place on these prepared thrones. This is the next move of God after Pentecost, as I understand it, and shall occur during the spiritually dark period just prior to the Lord's return from Heaven.
From this vantage point within His sons, God will govern and bless His creation in love, the role of the angels now being to assist the sons as they become the eternal Throne of God.
This is the Kingdom of God. It is to attain this "rest of God" that we have been saved, filled with the Spirit, and then chastened and otherwise dealt with until we are in the moral image of Jesus Christ and dwelling in untroubled rest in the Father. (from Filled With the Fullness)