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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Revealing of the Sons of God, continued
Count off fifty days up to the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. (Leviticus 23:16—NIV)
Say to the Israelites: "On the fifteenth day of the seventh month the LORD's Feast of Tabernacles begins, and it lasts for seven days." (Leviticus 23:34—NIV)
Pentecost and Tabernacles. We are passing now from the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Pentecost to the spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles. Let us explain what we mean by this.
There are seven feasts of the Lord. The seven are set forth in the twenty-third chapter of the Book of Leviticus.
The fourth feast, Pentecost (Jewish "feast of Weeks"), is known to us in that we have given this name to the experience of being filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit first was given to the Church on the day of the Jewish observance of the feast of Weeks.
The seventh feast, Tabernacles, is not as well known. Perhaps it will be better known in the days to come because in the present hour the Spirit of God is moving us from the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Pentecost to the spiritual fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Tabernacles.
The feast of Pentecost typifies the pouring of the Spirit of God on the flesh of man.
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: (Joel 2:28)
The Apostle Peter referred to Joel's prophecy.
But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel; And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: (Acts 2:16,17)
However, unlike the feast of Pentecost, the feast of Tabernacles speaks of the Holy Spirit coming from within the believer.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7:38)
The Lord Jesus spoke these words during the eighth day of the feast of Tabernacles, not during Pentecost but during Tabernacles.
In the last day, that great day of the feast [of Tabernacles], Jesus stood and cried, saying, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." (John 7:37)
Pentecost is the water of the Spirit falling from Heaven on the flesh of the blood-washed believer.
Tabernacles is the water of the Spirit coming from within the personality of the believer. The location of the source of the water of life is a principal difference between the spiritual fulfillments of the two feasts.
If we are to be in the future (and in the present to a limited extent) a source of eternal life for the nations of the earth, then we must pass from the position where the only anointing of the Spirit we have is that which comes from above as a partial, temporary blessing, to the position where there is an eternal fountain of life within us.
To be continued.