The "sixth day," the thousand-year Jubilee, has to do with redemption and reconciliation, with our entering total union with Christ. This is the marriage of the Lamb.

We have been saved through the blood. We have been filled with God's Holy Spirit. Now it is time for us to press forward into the last great assembly.

The blowing of Trumpets, the first of the three subfeasts of the annual observance of Tabernacles, brings us into spiritual resurrection, and into warfare against the devil—driving Satan out of our personality and finally out of the entire creation of God.

The Day of Atonement, the second subfeast, works in our whole personality perfect reconciliation to God—the image of the Lord Jesus Christ and undisturbed union and rest in Christ in God.

The feast of Tabernacles proper, from which the third annual gathering derives its name, is the climax of salvation, the fruition and harvesting to God of all the aspects of the redemption that are in Christ. The spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles is the "rest" of God of which the Book of Hebrews speaks.

The God of Heaven is seeking a house, an eternal resting place. That house, that resting place, is the personality of the member of the Body of Christ. In the Father's house there are many dwelling places. Christ went to the cross, and then into Heaven with His own blood, in order to prepare a place for each of us in the eternal house of God—which is Christ Himself.

There can be no rest for the Father in a "house" filled with lust, the love of the world, the spirit of Satan, and self-seeking. Therefore there must be a work of reconciliation before there can be the rest that flows from perfect marriage, perfect union with Christ.

In the beginning God gave to mankind a glorious inheritance. God made man in God's image. God made man male and female, that is to say, with the need and capacity for love and union. God assigned to man the ability to multiply the image of God, and rulership over all the works of God's hands.

The inheritance was lost because of rebellion against God's will. But the conquering saints, through the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, are regaining their lost inheritance now. The overcomers are pressing into the moral image of Christ, into undisturbed union with Christ, into fruitfulness, and into authority and power in the spirit realm.

The victorious saints, the overcomers, are discovering there cannot be perfect union until there is perfect image. Every part of our personality that is not in Christ's image, not transformed by His glory, cannot find complete rest in the Father. The image of Christ must be attained before perfect union can take place, although Christ brings us into limited union with Himself in order to bring about image. The more that the image is perfected the more that union is possible, and increased union brings increased image.

To be continued.