1997国殇节
总题:三个帐幕
总题:三个帐幕
Message Six The Consummation of the Tabernacle (2)
II. Being incorporated into the New Jerusalem, the ultimate consummation of the tabernacle of God:
A. By enjoying Christ as the Feast of Tabernacles:
1. The Feast of Passover signifying Christ as the initiation of God's redemption judicially and the Feast of Tabernacles signifying Christ as the consummation of God's full salvation organically—John 6:4; 7:2.
2. God ordaining the Feast of Tabernacles 90 that the children of Israel would remember how their forefathers had lived in tents (tabernacles) in their wandering in the wilderness, expecting to enter into the rest of the good land; the word Tabernacles implies the thought of remembrance—Deut. 16:13-15.
3. Their coming together for this feast to worship God and enjoy their produce from the good land being a real picture of blending.
4. The reality of the Feast of Tabernacles being a time of enjoyment in remembrance of how we experienced God and of how God lived with us.
5. Our enjoyment of Christ today as the Feast of Tabernacles, in our corporate coming together for blending to enjoy the riches of Christ as the produce of the good land, reminding us that we are still in the wilderness and need to enter into the rest of the New Jerusalem, which is the eternal tabernacle—Rev.21:2-3.
6. The New Jerusalem being called the tabernacle of God is for the overcomers in the first stage of the New Jerusalem to remember how they also dwelt in tents, living on the earth as strangers and sojourners and looking forward to the eternal tabernacle, the God-built city, the mutual habitation of God and man—Heb. 11:9-10, 13.
7. The Feast of Tabernacles being the enjoyment of the New Jerusalem, which will be consummated firstly to be the firstfruits in the millennial kingdom as a reward to the overcomers and then consummated finally to be in the new heaven and new earth as the full enjoyment of God's full salvation to all the perfected believers.
B. By enjoying Christ as the contents of the eternal tabernacle of God, the New Jerusalem:
1. Being under the headship and shepherding of the Lamb-God, the redeeming God, the One who has accomplished everything to redeem us judicially by offering Himself on the cross, the altar, in order to dispense Himself into us organically as the Spirit by the washing, the laver, of the water in the word to make us His glorious bride—Rev. 5:13; 7:17; 22:1; Eph. 5:26-27.
2. Enjoying Christ as the tree of life with the river of life, in which we see His face as the consummation of the bread of the Presence, the face-bread, for the priests' serving supply in the tabernacle—Rev. 22:5.
3. Walking in the jasper-like light, the light of life, of the New Jerusalem as the consummate lampstand withChrist the Lamb as the lamp, God within Him as the light, and the gold mountain as the stand—Rev. 21:11, 18; 22:1; 21:23.
4. Enjoying the New Jerusalem as the consummate Holy of Holies:
a. The length, breadth, and height of the New Jerusalem being equal, in the dimensions of a cube, indicating that the entire holy city is the Holy of Holies—Rev. 21:16; Exo. 26:2-8; 1 Kings 6:20.
b. Living out the New Jerusalem by living in the reality of the Holy of Holies, our spirit—Heb. 10:22; Rom. 8:4; 2 Cor. 2:13.
c. Working out the New Jerusalem by reconciling people to God, incorporating them into God, to make them beings in the New Jerusalem, beings in their spirit, the Holy of Holies—2 Cor. 5:19-20; 1 Cor. 2:15; 6:17.
d. Experiencing the all-extensive dimensions of Christ as a cube in our being blent together in the fellowship of the one Body to keep us in the Holy of Holies—Eph. 3:18; 1 Cor. 12:24.
e. Abiding in the Lord as the temple and the Lord abiding in us as the tabernacle for the universal, enlarged, divine-human, and consummate incorporation of the processed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated, transformed, and glorified tripartite man—Rev. 21:22; 21:3; Psa. 90:1; 27:4; 36:8-9; John 14:23, 21; 15:5.