The seventh feast of the Lord is Tabernacles. The seventh furnishing of the Tabernacle was the solid-gold Mercy Seat. The seventh day of creation is God's rest. The seventh stage of Israel's journey was rest in the land of promise.

The three great symbols of Judaism are the Altar of blood sacrifice, the Lampstand, and the Booth.

The Altar of blood sacrifice tells us that God will meet man only through the blood of the cross of Jesus.

The Lampstand informs us that it is God's will that every saved individual think, speak, and act in God's Spirit.

The Booth portrays the eternal purpose of God—that man become the eternal dwelling place of God. We were brought into existence that God might have a living temple through which He can relate to His creation. Man is the eternal throne of God, the chariot of God.

Every human personality contains a throne room. When we come to Christ King Self is on that throne. But Christ, and God in Him, wants to sit on the throne of our life.

Much pain is required for most of us before we can get King Self off the throne. But it is of the essence of the Kingdom of God that God sit on the throne. There is only one legitimate will in the universe—God's will.

After God in Christ has been established firmly and eternally on the throne of our personality we are invited to sit with Them in Their throne. This is the rest of God, the goal of redemption.

The feast of Tabernacles portrays the rest of God. Man was created to enjoy God forever in the booth of his own person. When we open the door to the knocking Christ we sit down at the table and eat His flesh and drink His blood. This is how we marry the Lamb. This is how we are raised from the dead.

The Mercy Seat of the Tabernacle of the Congregation is the end of our quest. Jesus is not the way to Heaven but to the Father. To go to Heaven would satisfy no one. (It didn't satisfy Satan or his followers!) Only God Himself finally can satisfy the longing of each soul. Human fulfillment is possible only in the Person of God.

On the seventh day God rested. There were no evening and morning because the rest of God is eternal.

The people of God did not attain perfection when Joshua brought Israel into the land of Canaan. There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

The Jewish Sabbath is a portrayal of the eternal rest into which the Christian is called, the rest where we do not think our own thoughts, speak our own words, practice our own behavior. We are to think, speak, and act in the Person of God through His Spirit. This is how Jesus lives. This is how we are to live for eternity. This is the transcendent fulfillment of the Sabbath.

A mark has been set before you. The mark is that you be in Christ's image, body, soul, and spirit and abide forever in untroubled rest in God through Christ.

Is this what you truly want?

It is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.