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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One New Man, #10
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. (Revelation 3:20,21)
7. What does the feast of Tabernacles have to do with establishing Christ on the Throne of David in Jerusalem?
The establishing of Christ on the Throne of David in Jerusalem is the outer aspect of the Kingdom of God. This will take place when the Lord returns in the clouds of glory.
Of greater importance by far is the inner kingdom, the establishing of Christ on the throne of the hearts of men, especially on the throne of the hearts of the Israel of God.
Establishing Christ on the throne of the hearts of men is the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. It is God in Christ dwelling eternally in His tabernacle. God's tabernacle is the new born-again creation in the personalities of the saints, and ultimately in the new born-again creation in the personalities of all the saved of mankind.
It is important for us to understand that the Father dwells only in Christ. Christ (with the Father) never dwells in our adamic nature but only in the new born-again creation in our personality. The new creation is of the Substance and virtue of Christ, having been born of God (John 1:13; I John 3:9).
If the inner aspect of the Kingdom of God were not of supreme importance, Christ would have established the outer aspect of His Kingdom in the first century. The reason for the tribulation-filled two thousand years of the Christian Era is that the inner aspect of the Kingdom may be developed in God's royal priesthood.
When the inner aspect has been perfected in the priesthood, Christ and His priesthood will appear and establish the outer aspect of the Kingdom on the Throne of David in Jerusalem. Then the Law will go forth from Zion and the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Dwelling in booths for seven days (during the feast of Tabernacles) portrays the Kingdom of God, which is God in Christ in the saints entering the earth and bringing eternal Life to all who are saved until there is one new Man.
The Kingdom of God has both an inner realm and an outer realm. As we have said, the inner realm is of supreme importance.
The Lord God of Heaven could, if He so desired, set up His throne on the earth and rule people by His power, using the army of angels to put down all resistance to His will.
Instead, God has chosen to place the Life of His Son in each member of the Kingdom so that the rule of God will come from within the personalities of those who are of the nobility of the Kingdom, and ultimately from within every member of the nations of saved peoples of the earth.
It is obvious that only those people who themselves have come under total obedience to the Life of God in them are fit to rule in the Divine Kingdom, a Kingdom that in its ultimate form operates by the power of love.
To be continued.