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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Areas of Reconciliation, #2
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: (Malachi 3:2)
The next three passages speak of the personal fulfillment of the Day of Atonement:
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning. (Isaiah 4:4)
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is more powerful than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: (Matthew 3:11)
For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God? (I Peter 4:17)
The feast of Tabernacles is fulfilled personally when the Father and the Son come and make Their abode in the saint for eternity.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them. (Psalms 68:18)
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)
In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:22)
We understand, therefore, that Trumpets prepares us for the battle. The Day of Atonement is the battle itself. Tabernacles is the peace, the victory, the rest, that follows the battle.
In this paper we will emphasize the personal fulfillment in the believer of the Day of Atonement, of the warfare. The term atonement may be defined as "reconciliation." There are at least seven areas of his personality and behavior in which the saint must be reconciled to God through spiritual warfare. Each of these dimensions must be reconciled to God before it is possible for God in Christ to settle down to rest in the believer in fulfillment of the last feast, the feast of Tabernacles.
Turning now to the second and third chapters of the Book of Revelation we find the Lord Jesus appeared to each of the seven churches in a different manner, gave varying praise and rebukes to the seven, and held out different rewards to each of them.
In the Jewish calendar the feast of Trumpets is observed just before the Day of Atonement. The appearing of Christ to each of the churches is in fulfillment of the memorial of blowing of Trumpets, preparing the believers for the experience of the Day of Atonement.
As we examine the concerns and rewards pertaining to each of the seven churches we notice how the last three feast are involved: first Trumpets; then the Day of Atonement; finally the feast of Tabernacles, which speaks of the rest of God, the land of promise.
Notice how the blowing of a trumpet precedes the messages of the Lord to the seven churches of Asia:
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (Revelation 1:10)
The coming of the Lord is always announced by a trumpet.
To be continued.