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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Two Current Issues, #4
He will not falter or be discouraged till he establishes justice on earth. In his law the islands will put their hope. (Isaiah 42:4—NIV)
We of the churches must understand that we are not as yet ready for the Lord to appear and bring justice to the nations. The great need of the hour is for the believers to grow. The Pentecostal experience is wonderful, but Pentecost is the fourth feast, not the final convocation. We have three more interventions of God to experience, and they have to do with our coming to maturity in Christ, and Christ and the Father dwelling in us.
Tradition tells us that the Jews arrived at Sinai fifty days after the Passover. Then the Law was given. From this the Jews and we believe that Sinai represents the giving of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the Law of the new covenant.
But what is next? The construction of the Tabernacle of the Congregation, the Old Testament representation of the Body of Christ.
Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them. (Exodus 25:8—NIV)
The Tabernacle was the repository for the Ark of the Covenant, for the chest within which was placed the Covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Then came the formation of the army.
The Israelites are to camp around the Tent of Meeting some distance from it, each man under his standard with the banners of his family. (Numbers 2:2—NIV)
The Israelite army was camped around the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, to protect it. The Covenant, the Ten Commandments, was kept inside the Ark of the Covenant in the Most Holy Place of the Tabernacle.
When Israel was on the march the Ark of the Covenant was carried by the Kohathite Levites, and then placed once again inside the Holy of Holies of the Tabernacle when the army made camp.
After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites are to come to do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the Tent of Meeting. (Numbers 4:15—NIV)
When the army marched, the Ark of the Covenant containing the Ten Commandments was marching toward the land of promise. So it is that the Body of Christ contains within itself the eternal moral law of God. It is written in our mind and heart. When we appear with the Lord Jesus Christ we will be bringing the eternal moral law of God into the world. Since the moral law of God has to do with right relationships with God and man, the Body of Christ will bring justice to the saved nations of the earth.
First the Body must be built to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Until the eternal law of God is inscribed in our mind and heart we are of little use for the purposes of Christ.
This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord. I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Hebrews 8:10—NIV)
To be continued.