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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One in Christ in God
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place that he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks [Pentecost], and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty: (Deuteronomy 16:16)
When we first received the baptism of the Spirit, in 1948, the Lord gave us a burden for the work of Divine grace that comes after the Pentecostal experience.
The term Pentecostal is derived from the Jewish feast of Pentecost. The Holy Spirit was sent from Heaven on the day of the Jewish feast of Pentecost (feast of Weeks—Deuteronomy 16:16).
Pentecost is number four in a series of seven feasts. The seven feasts were grouped into the three major convocations of Deuteronomy 16:16. The blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles are the final three feasts (Leviticus, Chapter 23), and appear in Deuteronomy 16:16 as the feast of Tabernacles.
The burden that the Lord gave in those days came to us in terms of the seven feasts of the Lord, and also through the design and furnishings of the Tabernacle of the Congregation.
The central concept was—and continues to be—Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Years passed, occupied mostly by work in public-school education. The "vision," if we would want to term it that, deepened and enlarged. A picture began to form of the scope of the plan of redemption as symbolized by the types and shadows of the Old Testament.
It wasn't until 1967, however, that the motivation to write came. The words seemed to flow, perhaps having been formulated unconsciously over the years.
How does one approach the varied aspects of the New Testament fulfillment of the three feasts that follow the feast of Pentecost?
We have grouped the final three feasts together as constituting the feast of Tabernacles, and view their fulfillment as one of the three major aspects of the Christian redemption.
The feast of Tabernacles includes the blowing of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, and the feast of Tabernacles itself—all coming in the first month of the Jewish year Tishri.
The three major aspects of the Christian redemption are as follows:
Passover (salvation through the blood of the Lord Jesus).
Pentecost (the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church).
Tabernacles (the coming of the Father and the Son to dwell forever in Their eternal temple).
In describing the Pacific Ocean, one might wonder whether to start with its geography, the marine animals and plants, the chemicals found in the water, or its role in the development of California. Like the Pacific Ocean, the feast of Tabernacles is an awesome topic.
Because of our burden and concern we have, during the last thirty years, written a number of books and booklets on topics associated with the work of grace that follows the new-covenant observance of the feast of Pentecost.
To be continued.