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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One in Christ in God, #58
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)
The last three of the seven feasts of the Lord are as follows:
The blowing of Trumpets (Leviticus 23:24).
The Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:27).
The feast of Tabernacles (Leviticus 23:34).
The blowing of Trumpets, coming just after Pentecost, announces the coming of the King to raise us from the dead. Being raised from the dead brings us into judgment and spiritual warfare. As the Christian believer learns to enter the Holy Spirit, he is raised from the dead in the spiritual sense, and will be raised physically at the return of Christ.
Our being raised spiritually from the dead brings us, as we have said, into judgment and spiritual warfare. The more we are raised, the more clearly we can see our sins of the flesh and disobedience to God's will. When we see our sins and disobedience, we are to confess our sin and rebellion, turn away from such behavior, resist the devil, and submit to God. This is our personal experience of the Day of Atonement, which follows the blowing of Trumpets.
Confession and repentance cleanse our personality, making room in our heart for a further growth of Christ in us. Christ in is the fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles.
As we receive more of Christ in us we are raised yet further from the dead, spiritually speaking. We continue coming to know the "power of his resurrection." The increased resurrection life causes us to become conscious of the sins and disobedience remaining in our life. We then proceed to confess, repent, and turn to God with increased diligence. Increased repentance and submission make way for an even greater growth of Christ—the Resurrection—in us.
It is the will of the Lord that this process continue until Christ has been developed fully in us, making us eligible to be filled with all the fullness of God.
The Pentecostal experience, along with salvation, is being proclaimed widely throughout the earth today. We must never let up on the task of bringing the Gospel of the Kingdom of God to every man, woman, boy, and girl on the face of the earth.
In addition, it appears the Holy Spirit is ready now to bring believers who have come as far as Pentecost forward to the fulfillment of the remaining three feasts of the Lord. The Holy Spirit will not cease working with the Church until the Church is without spot or wrinkle.
The Lord Jesus through the Spirit will continue to perfect the Church until His coming in the clouds of glory. The process of perfecting the Church will take place throughout the darkest hours of earth's history—the days of the fullness of sin which even now are destroying the earth's inhabitants.
The Lord Jesus is coming in His external kingdom and every eye shall see Him. But the issue of the present hour, as far as the Church is concerned, is the perfecting of the internal kingdom. As soon as we are under His blood the Lord is able to have fellowship with us, provided we continue to walk in the light of His will. But the feast of Tabernacles points toward the Lord's Presence in us.
To be continued.