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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Steps to the Rest of God, #10
Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the Lord your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month. (Joel 2:23)
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (James 5:7)
The end-time ministry of the two loaves of Pentecost is portrayed in the two witnesses of Revelation, Chapter 11. The two witnesses portray in symbolic form the Head and the Body of Christ bearing the Divine, latter-rain testimony of the last days.
In the time in which we live, Christ will appear to the members of His Body (John 14:18-23). Christ will do in and with His Body what the Christian churches have not been able to accomplish since the period of the Apostles. In a short time Christ working through and alongside the members of His Body will bear witness of the soon coming of the Kingdom of God to every nation on the earth (Matthew 24).
We have been discussing the personal fulfillments of the first four of the seven feasts of the Lord:
Passover—the work in our personality of the broken body and shed blood of Christ.
Unleavened Bread—death to the world and resurrection with Christ as signified by our sincere repentance and participation in water baptism.
Firstfruits—being born again and sealed by the Spirit to the day of redemption, to the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts.
Pentecost—the power of the Holy Spirit to enable us to lead a holy life, and to bear witness of the Lord Jesus and His Kingdom.
These four works of redemption are preparatory to our entering the Kingdom of God. From them we receive the authority, the power, the virtue, and the wisdom that we must have if we are to be able to press forward to the rest of God, to the land of promise, to the fullness of accomplishment and rulership that God has promised to man.
The personal fulfillments of the final three feasts are at hand. We must give our single-minded attention to following the Lord Jesus as through the Holy Spirit He brings us to victory in the Kingdom of God.
The Kingdom of God is God in Christ in the saints performing the will of God throughout the creation and bringing the Presence of God to all of God's creatures.
The last three feasts are as follows:
Trumpets—the coming of the King to drive His enemies from our personality and to discipline us as member of His army.
Day of Atonement—deliverance from God's enemies; our reconciliation to God; preparation of the Bride.
Tabernacles—God and Christ through the Holy Spirit settling down to eternal rest in us; the marriage of the Lamb.
If we do not press on past Pentecost we are as those who have been readied and equipped for a task but who then wander about aimlessly.
To be continued.