The Holy Spirit has distributed ministries and gifts throughout the Body of Christ so that each member has a contribution to make to the Body. The six branches of the Lampstand were lighted when the Holy Spirit fell on the first Christian Pentecost.

The Altar of Incense symbolizes the next step after Pentecost. It represents Holy Spirit-empowered prayer—prayer that carries with it the fragrance of Christ. It is at the Altar of Incense that we bow in death to self-love, giving ourselves in total obedience to the Father. As our soul experiences the crucifixion of death to self the fragrance of Christ arises before the Father. Only as we humble ourselves in the death of perfect obedience can we pass through the Veil into the fullness of the Glory of God.

It is the Holy Spirit who operates in the Church of Christ until the Church begins to communicate with God at the level of authority and power required to move the hand of God against His enemies—the destroyers of the creation. Included in the communication is supplication, travail of spirit, intercession, battle against evil forces, petition, praise, adoration, giving of thanks, love, faith, and hope.

If we cooperate, the power of the Holy Spirit will increase in our lives until our whole personality, spirit, soul and body, is crying to God night and day. When we give ourselves to God without reservation we will be heard!

The Ark of the Covenant typifies our Lord Jesus Christ. It reveals also the character of the overcoming saint. The Ark was wood (humanity) covered with gold (Divinity). It is the will of Christ that we press forward in Him until we become so much a part of Him we reflect the attributes and working of the Ark of the Covenant.

The victorious saints, according to Revelation, Chapters Two and Three, are those persons in the churches who will give themselves over totally to serving the Lord Jesus. If anyone will do this his reward in Christ will be great and he will rule with Christ over the nations of the earth.

The Mercy Seat (Atonement Cover) is the Glory of God. If we will allow Christ to work fully in our lives, the fullness of the Glory of God will come to us and we will find our rest in the rest of God. The glory that God gave to Christ is to be given to us that we may be one in the Father and in the Son, according to the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John. God loves each one of His elect with a very great love.

The seven furnishings of the Tabernacle of the Congregation reveal that redemption is a progressive work commencing at a definite point—the crucifixion of Christ and our acceptance of that atonement; and is brought to fullness at a definite point—our being received completely into the Life of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

To be continued.