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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Fifty-two Kingdom Concepts, #25
That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so the world may believe you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me. (John 17:21-23—NIV)
The Throne of God is being established in you for eternity. Now you will be able to bring forth eternal Life to other people, and to do so is to experience the absolute fullness of love, joy, and peace.
No longer will you boast about your church or your religious attainments. God will be the focus of your attention. Christ will be lifted up in you and He will glorify the Father. You will urge others to give thanks to the Lord and to call on His name, just as you have done. You will exhort all who will hear you to proclaim to the nations the marvelous things God has performed and to exalt His name alone.
You will sing to the Lord continually because of the perfection of His wisdom and works, and the world will hear you. Because you have become one with Christ the world will believe Christ was sent by God Almighty; He did not come as a man seeking his own glory.
It is an occasion for shouting and singing by the people who are dwelling in the Person of God through Christ, and He in them. It is the Holy One of Israel who is in us and with us forever.
This is the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles. It is in order that we might enter such fullness of God that we are given the authority of the blood and the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit.
The Feasts of the Lord
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: "These are my appointed feasts, the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you are to proclaim as sacred assemblies." (Leviticus 23:2—NIV)
The seven feasts of the Lord are an illustration that can be used to describe the program of salvation.
The feasts and their symbolism are as follows:
Passover tells us of the blood of the Lamb that protects us when the destroyer executes the Divine judgment.
Unleavened bread shows that God wants us to repent of our sinful ways and to be baptized in water as a sign we are leaving the spirit of the world and are ready to walk in newness of life.
Firstfruits speaks of the born-again experience in which the firstfruits of our personality, our inward nature, comes alive and is brought up to abide in Christ at the right hand of God.
Pentecost symbolizes the outpouring of the Spirit of God on us. The two loaves of wheat baked with leaven remind us of the portion of the Spirit given on the Day of Pentecost, and then of the double portion of the Spirit that is to be poured out in the last days—the latter-rain outpouring.
This is as far as we have come in the Church Age. The last three feasts will be fulfilled spiritually during the period from now until the Lord returns.
To be continued.