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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Seven Steps to the Rest of God, #30
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. (Leviticus 23:2)
Then there are the personal fulfillments of the seven feasts and it is these that we have been studying. The personal fulfillments are to take place in our lives today as we press forward to the promised-land rest of God. It is only as we experience the personal fulfillments that the historical fulfillments are of benefit to us.
We already have described the personal fulfillments of the first six of the feasts:
Passover—the work of the body and blood of Christ in our personality.
Unleavened Bread—our repentance and water baptism; our entrance by faith into the death and into the resurrection of Christ; our crucifixion to the world and our ascension in the Spirit to the right hand of God in Christ; all to be followed by a life of cross-carrying obedience through the wilderness of the present world.
Firstfruits—our new birth and our sealing by the Spirit to the day of redemption, that is, to the spiritual fulfillment of the last three feasts.
Pentecost—the power of the Holy Spirit given to us so we may become holy, and bear witness of the Lord Jesus, His atonement and His Kingdom.
Trumpets—the coming of the King to us to establish His Kingdom in us and the disciplining of us as a soldier in His army.
Day of Atonement—our reconciliation to God; the preparing of the Bride.
These six experiences provide the foundation for our entrance into the seventh and last feast, the feast of Tabernacles. The feast of Tabernacles is the promised-land rest of God. It is the omega, the goal of the Divine redemption. It is salvation in the fullest sense. It is entering the Kingdom in the fullest sense. We are not to come short of this goal but to press forward in Christ until we enter the rest of God.
The Feast of Tabernacles
The feast of Tabernacles portrays the Omega, the fullness of the Christian redemption. The fourteenth and seventeenth chapters of the Gospel of John describe the personal spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles.
It is our marriage to the Lamb, the bringing of us into perfect, complete, restful union with God through Christ. God finds rest in us and we find rest in God. This is the rest, the land of promise promised to the saints. Everything of benefit to God and to us flows from our union with Christ.
In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. (John 14:2)
The House of God is Christ. We Christians are being made rooms in the House of God, rooms in Christ. We represent an enlargement of the House of God. If we were not to become the dwelling place of God, as Jesus is, Jesus would have told us so.
The building of the House of God, the Temple of God, is one of the principal topics of the Scriptures. Heaven is God's throne and the earth is His footstool. The Lord God, who is a Spirit, desires a house for Himself.
To be continued.