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The Daily Word of Righteousness
I Will Come to You, #11
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD. (Leviticus 23:34)
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. (John 14:23)
The feast of Tabernacles portrays the permanent residence of the Father and the Son in us through the Holy Spirit. We become the eternal Temple of God in Christ, our will becoming merged with God's will. The experience of Tabernacles converts us from a self-centered individual into the house of God.
We know that basic salvation, the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Unleavened Bread, takes place in us today—before the Lord Jesus returns to earth in visible glory.
We know that the Spirit-filled life, the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Weeks (Pentecost), takes place in us today—before the Lord's glorious appearing.
It seems likely, therefore, that the tabernacling of God in Christ in the saints will take place in us today—before the second coming of the Lord to the earth.
Isn't this what Paul described in his own life?
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. (Galatians 2:20)
"Christ liveth in me"! Paul's first personality had been crucified through many sufferings. "Paul" is living no longer. Christ is living in the place of the first Adam. This is the spiritual fulfillment of the third feast, the feast of Tabernacles.
In the Father's house there are many dwelling places. God, Christ, and Paul are living together in one of these.
A third reason for believing that the personal coming of Christ to His disciples will occur before He returns in glory is the concept of the day star.
The day star is mentioned in Second Peter 1:19, in Revelation 2:28, and in Revelation 22:16. It is evident that the Holy Spirit intends for us to consider the concept of the day star.
The day star is a brightly shining planet which appears while it is yet dark, prior to the rising of the sun in the morning.
The Holy Spirit states in the Scriptures that Christ is the Day Star, that the Day Star will be given to the victorious saint, and that the Day Star arises in our heart. It is the manifestation of Christ in us.
The concept of the day star is that before the Lord Jesus returns to earth as the rising Sun of the morning of the Day of the Lord, He will arise in the hearts of the victorious saints as a day star, heralding the soon coming to earth of the Day of the Lord.
We have also a more sure word of prophecy [the Scriptures]; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star [Christ] arise in your hearts: (II Peter 1:19)
To be continued.