After These Things I Will Return I Will Again Build the Tabernacle of David Which Has Fallen
ACTS 15:15] "And with this the words of the Prophets agree, just as it is written, [xvi] `Subsequently THESE THINGS I will return, AND I [God] WILL REBUILD THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID WHICH HAS FALLEN, AND I Volition REBUILD ITS RUINS, AND I Will RESTORE IT, [17] IN Lodge THAT THE Residual OF Mankind MAY SEEK THE LORD, AND ALL THE GENTILES WHO ARE Called BY MY Proper name,' [18] SAYS THE LORD, WHO MAKES THESE THINGS KNOWN FROM OF Erstwhile.
AMOS ix:eleven "In that mean solar day I will raise up the fallen booth of David, And wall up its breaches; I volition also enhance up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of former; [12] That they may possess the remnant of Edom And all the nations who are called past My name," Declares the LORD who does this.
This restoration of the Tabernacle of David is such a critical upshot considering God, Himself, has said that He will rebuild it every bit information technology was in the days of onetime. The reason is so that all the Gentiles and all the rest of flesh will seek the Lord.
The startling question is this; Why the Tabernacle of David rather than the Tabernacle of Moses or the Temple of Solomon? There is much more written almost these abode places of God than the Tabernacle of David. God provided the measurements, the order of worship, the sacrifices, the priesthood, and all the furniture and nearly every item of structure.
The Tabernacle of David was such a crude place of very humble construction and functioned against every law of God. In fact it is astonishing that anybody who ministered to the Lord there was not killed. However, this is the dwelling place that God has decided to restore or rebuild. Why was this God�s preferred house over all the other dwelling places of God? What is the purpose of such a prophesy and how does information technology touch on united states?
In the heart 1970's there was a great emphasis amid the Castilian churches about the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David. They interpreted it to mean to trip the light fantastic toe and rejoice in the presence of God. They devised elaborate trip the light fantastic routines with costumes for the leaders and the whole associates participated past jumping, shouting, dancing and waving the hands and arms. I attended some of these meetings at a Bible school in Chicago where I was sharing.
There was likewise bang-up emphasis placed upon the restoration of the Tabernacle of David in Australia and New Zealand in the 1970's. This was interpreted as a personal meet with God through the intimacy of the torn veil between the Holy and the Most Holy Place. Both �revivals� presently concluded.
David is mentioned in Hebrews 11 every bit a witness who was a man of faith. We may assume he is mentioned because he slew Goliath or possible because of another act of religion. However, of all the acts of David I tin think of no other act of faith that compares to the tremendous organized religion it required for David to build this small tent and to place the Ark of the Covenant in it with no veil separating the worshiper from God.
Since this whole episode of the Tabernacle of David is such a divergence from the style God designed His presence to dwell among men it is important to sympathise the history and what led up to this event. The Ark of God had been lost to the Philistines during the priesthood of Eli and his sons and fifty-fifty though the Philistines had sent it back to Israel it remained near the edge in the house of Abinadab.
2SA 6:1 At present David once more gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thou.
We should note that bringing the Ark of His Presence was Non the job for ane man just the entire congregation of 30,000. The Ark is brought to it�s rightful place by the corporate people of God. That doesn�t mean that every unmarried human woman and child had to exist in agreement. David�s ain wife had no revelation of the importance of the Ark of His Presence or any burden to bring the Ark upward. In fact she was offended by the whole procession.
2 SAM 6:2] And David arose and went with all the people who were with him to Baale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God which is called by the Proper name, the very name of the LORD of hosts who is enthroned above the cherubim. [3] And they placed the ark of God on a new cart that they might bring it from the house of Abinadab which was on the colina; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were leading the new cart. [4] So they brought it with the ark of God from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Ahio was walking ahead of the ark. [v] Meanwhile, David and all the business firm of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of fir wood, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, castanets and cymbals.
This dandy commemoration included David and the whole congregation and THEY put the Ark on a cart and THEY brought information technology upwardly. The point is that this was a corporate attempt.
2SAM 6:6 Merely when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it. [vii] And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God. [eight] And David became angry because of the LORD'S outburst against Uzzah, and that place is called Perez-uzzah to this day. [9] Then David was afraid of the LORD that day; and he said, "How can the ark of the LORD come to me?" [10] And David was unwilling to move the ark of the LORD into the metropolis of David with him; just David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. [eleven] Thus the ark of the LORD remained in the firm of Obed-edom the Gittite iii months, and the LORD blessed Obed-edom and all his household.
[This experience is seen again in 1Chron 13.]
1CHRON 15:one Now David built houses for himself in the city of David; and he prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched a tent for information technology. [ii] Then David said, "No one is to bear the ark of God but the Levites; for the LORD chose them to carry the ark of God, and to minister to Him forever." [3] And David assembled all Israel at Jerusalem, to bring upwards the ark of the LORD to its place, which he had prepared for it.[12] and said to them, "Y'all are the heads of the fathers' households of the Levites; consecrate yourselves both you and your relatives, that you may bring up the ark of the LORD God of State of israel, to the place that I take prepared for it. [13] "Because you did non carry it at the get-go, the LORD our God made an outburst on us, for we did not seek Him according to the ordinance." [14] And so the priests and the Levites consecrated themselves to bring up the ark of the LORD God of State of israel. [15] And the sons of the Levites carried the ark of God on their shoulders, with the poles thereon as Moses had allowable according to the word of the LORD.
It was considering the Levites didn�t acquit the Ark of God on their shoulders that God fabricated an outburst against Uzzah and David realized that they had not sought God after the ordinance given to Moses. It is an amazing thing that almost everything David did after they brought the Ark to Mt. Zion was not according to the ordinance either but God seemed to be pleased.
1CHRON xv:25 And then information technology was David, with the elders of Israel and the captains over thousands, who went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the firm of Obed-edom with joy. [26] And it came virtually because God was helping the Levites who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they sacrificed seven bulls and seven rams. [27] Now David was clothed with a robe of fine linen with all the Levites who were conveying the ark, and the singers and Chenaniah the leader of the singing with the singers. David also wore an ephod of linen. [28] Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the horn, with trumpets, with loud-sounding cymbals, with harps and lyres.
David was there when Uzzah stretched out his hand to steady the Ark of God and was immediately killed past the presence of God. Because of this catastrophe David had to go back to Jerusalem and search out the law and notice what they did incorrect. It this search he had to discover the separation that God required betwixt Himself and the priests and the farther separation betwixt God and the people. The law was very clear virtually the veils and the uncovering of the Ark every time the Tabernacle of Moses was gear up up. Fifty-fifty later the Temple of Solomon was congenital at that place was this required separation restored. To even bear upon the holy things meant disaster. It would appear that God is very jealous of His privacy and does not desire the fellowship of man. He required that incense comprehend His presence on the Day of Amende when man was permitted to come into His presence for a few minutes to sprinkle the blood on the Mercy Seat. A very heavy veil separated God�southward presence from the Holy Place life and ministry building and was a safeguard to protect the life of the priests.
Since David researched the law and the proper method of moving the Ark he had to be aware of the tremendous danger of deviating from these requirements. So we have to wonder what inspired David to even bring the Ark to Mt. Zion virtually his house instead returning it to the Tabernacle of Moses where it belonged. Not only that just David somehow had the faith to put the Ark in a little iii sided makeshift tent held up past poles. And then he had the tremendous faith to not install any veil at all and left the Ark exposed for all to see. In add-on to that David sat direct in front of the Ark and worshiped God and sang songs to Him. In addition to that he ordered all the Levites to stand before the Lord day and night and worship before the Lord continuously singing and playing their instruments. Prior to this fourth dimension the Levites could only exercise menial chores in the Outer Court and could never come near the holy things until they were properly covered over with several layers of skins or defunction..
1CH xvi:1 And they brought in the ark of God and placed information technology inside the tent which David had pitched for it, and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings earlier God.
The ordinances of God required that every sacrifice had to be administered by a priest and at the place that God chose. At this fourth dimension God had chosen the Tabernacle of Moses that was set at Gideon. Certainly not on Mt. Zion and certainly not directly earlier the Ark of the Covenant. The Levites were never authorized to offering sacrifices. We don�t even hear of whatsoever altar before the Tabernacle of David on which sacrifices could be offered. All these things add together to the perplexity of the Tabernacle of David.
1CH 16:4 And he appointed some of the Levites every bit ministers before the ark of the LORD, even to gloat and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel: [v] Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, so Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with musical instruments, harps, lyres; also Asaph played loud-sounding cymbals, [6] and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests blew trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God. [:seven] And so on that day David commencement assigned Asaph and his relatives to requite cheers to the LORD.
Meanwhile the Tabernacle of Moses was at Gibeon but without the Ark of the Covenant. 1CHRON 16:39] And he left Zadok the priest and his relatives the priests before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place which was at Gibeon, [40] to offering burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offering continually morning and evening, even according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which He allowable State of israel.
The law of cede was carried out in the Tabernacle of Moses at Gibeon only the presence of God had departed and His manifested presence resided on Mt. Zion in the Tabernacle of David. The priests after the order of Aaron still carried out the rituals in the Tabernacle of Moses but it was the Levites that ministered to the Lord at the Tabernacle of David. This would have been a serious mistake according to the Law of Moses.
Information technology appears that David broke every law of God given to Moses concerning the Ark of His Presence and the Shekinah glory of God�s presence. Nonetheless God did not break out confronting David or impale the Levites with His presence. Human being saturday directly in the presence of almighty God and lived to tell almost information technology. In fact the Bible description almost describes this as normal and matter of fact. God honored David�s faith and his passionate heart that was seeking God and God�s Presence came and dwelt betwixt the Cherubim.
David seemed to have the revelation that the true sacrifices of God were a cleaved and a contrite spirit and that the lifting up of the hands and worship were acceptable sacrifices. It appeared that David�south vision was supernatural and extended to across Calvary when the fauna and lecherous sacrifices were washed away with.
Nosotros may call back some other similar feel of the lxx elders along with Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu and Joshua who went upwards Mt Sinai in the presence of God, fifty-fifty afterwards sure parts of the police were given..
EXO 24:9 And so Moses went upwardly with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, [10] and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet in that location appeared to exist a pavement of sapphire, every bit clear as the sky itself. [11] Even so He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of State of israel; and they beheld God, and they ate and drank.
Just before this event God had invited all of Israel to come the mountain into His presence to hear His phonation so they could obey. In this style God was going to make all of Israel a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Of course when God did appear upon Mt. Sinai the people were full of fear and ran away.
From these two instances it is articulate that God�s desire is for His people to dwell in His presence and fellowship with Him, hear His vox and obey. Notwithstanding, some mechanical coming and going is not the revelation of the Tabernacle of David. It is not just hearing His vocalization and obeying! It is about a passionate heart seeking after God solitary.
The real question is this; Is God really going to rebuild and restore the Tabernacle of David in our solar day and at this time? The answer is YES! Still He has been restoring this Tabernacle in the hearts of those who diligently seek Him in past generations. In each generation there take been those who have pursued God with all their middle and passion. Therefore nosotros are not looking for God to restore a literal tabernacle similar David�s but the continual worship and praise before His manifest presence that is represented in the Tabernacle of David. That is the intimacy of coming into God�s manifest presence without a veil of separation between us.
The revealed purpose of God restoring this tabernacle is so that the whole earth will �seek the Lord�. Therefore, to share about the Tabernacle of David outside of continual worship and praise in the manifested presence of God is too shallow. The �Tabernacle of David� is non some new denomination or only a �spiritual experience� for some select few merely is designed for every nation to seek the Lord. Passionately seeking the Lord is the cardinal to this restoration.
Worship and praise continually before His presence and according to Psalm 150 is what is in view here. While the Tabernacle of Moses represented �silent and formal worship� the Tabernacle of David was loud and boisterous with dancing and singing and playing all the instruments. While �power� has been interpreted many ways, the Tabernacle of David represents �the Power of His Presence� open up to view to those who volition stand before the �Ark of God�south Presence� in total surrender of repentance, worship and praise. A new term has been introduced that I believe accurately represents the cardinal to this restoration. It is: The Worship of Repentance. Up until now we have not thought of repentance as �worship� but I believe a careful written report of scripture volition ostend this fact.
We could summerize what we accept been hearing in these last months as �Rivers, Restoration, Revival, Repentance, Presence, Praise and Worship�. In some ways nosotros could say this is the restoration of the Tabernacle of David. Even so, I have a feeling that we should exist prepared for something altogether new or revolutionary and dissimilar from what we have seen in the past. The manifested presence of God has not come up to fulness in all His glory every bit withal. We have not yet seen �all the Gentiles� seeking God�south confront and His presence. If this literally happens we will encounter a peachy end time revival and the concluding harvest coming in.
If the Tabernacle of David is an inward feel rather than an objective, outward feel then we may participate at any fourth dimension we gear up our hearts to seek the Lord for Himself lone. In the Toronto Conference nosotros heard the term �The Audience of One�. This was a reference to the Tabernacle of David and the priests and Levites worshiping before the Lord which is that �Audience of One�. In other words we are not worshiping to exist seen of men but nosotros worship to the �Audience of One� and Him, alone. This has nil to do with performance or amusement or even singing professionally but worshiping God alone with unleashed passion.
ACTS 3:19] "Repent therefore and return, that your sins may be wiped away, in lodge that times of refreshing may come up from the presence of the Lord; [20] and that He may ship Jesus, the Christ appointed for yous, [21] whom heaven must receive until the menstruation of restoration of all things nearly which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from aboriginal time.
This �restoration� begins with repentance and the wiping abroad of sins before the times of refreshing come up from the presence of the Lord. It is and so that the manifested presence of Jesus becomes a reality,
The Tabernacle of David must be included in the restoration of all things before the second coming of Christ. Nosotros surely haven�t experienced the fulness of that restoration withal. While nosotros take seen the �ancestry� of these things in the Charismatic Restoration I doubt that nosotros take seen the fulness or the heavens would take released Jesus to come once more. Restoration means to make whole or complete and nosotros notwithstanding run into a lot of fragmentation in the church and in worship and praise and in the manifested Presence. Common cold ceremonial is still very mutual amongst believers, even in Charismatic and Pentecostal churches. �Cold formalism� has no place in the Tabernacle of David. We should ask ourselves if we have even been restored to the power and presence of the early church building in the Book of Acts. His manifested presence and miraculous power in the Book of Acts is strange to the stereotype church we see today. Was this �the church� as information technology was meant to be?
In Eli�southward day the �Ark of His presence� was lost because of the backslidden condition of the nation and the priesthood. David�s Tabernacle marked the restoration of His presence within the nation, within the city and specifically on Mt. Zion. . What we are seeing today in the various ministries is the Restoration of God�south Presence. Then we could enquire � When did the Tabernacle of David autumn downward?� Information technology had to be when the Presence of God departed and went to dwell in the Temple of Solomon. Information technology was there that the priests could not stand up to minister because of the manifested presence of God.
While many are prophesying almost a physical temple being rebuilt in Israel, I believe that God is much more interested in doing a spiritual work inside each heart and life and create a temple in which He can dwell and manifest Himself today. I am not satisfied that the scriptures clearly teach that �God will rebuild the temple in Jerusalem� just I am sure that He said He would rebuild the Tabernacle of David. At least some of what we are seeing today has to do with that rebuilding process.
In David�s time the Glory of God and the ability and Presence of God had been lost to the nation but was evident in Obed-edom�due south house. God was blessing his business firm. David understood that it was time to bring the Glory and Presence of God back to the nation. The government of the nation was established on Mt. Zion where the throne was and that is where David wanted to bring the Ark of His Presence. Many of the conditions present then are repeated today. The church in general has lost the Glory and Intimate and Manifested Presence of God.
The rest of the scriptures in Amos 9 shows not one fourth dimension harvest but many harvests accompanying the rebuilding of the Tabernacle of David. AMOS nine:thirteen "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "When the plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the mountains volition drip sweet vino, And all the hills will be dissolved. [14] "Also I will restore the captivity of My people Israel, And they volition rebuild the ruined cities and alive in them, They will also plant vineyards and beverage their wine, And brand gardens and eat their fruit. [xv] "I will also establish them on their land, And they volition non once more be rooted out from their land Which I have given them," Says the LORD your God.
Already God has restored State of israel to their land and this is a literal upshot. However, the harvest and the planting and the hills being dissolved must have a spiritual application with a spiritual fulfillment. There has to exist time between the plowman and the one who harvests in the natural. It is not applied to tread the grapes before the vines are planted. Sweet vino doesn�t drip off the mountains either. Many things that before were barren and unfruitful will overflow with God�south blessings. This is evident in Obed-edom�s house and state.
In Republic of guatemala at that place is evidence that God pouring out His blessing upon the natural harvest of fruit and vegetables and carrots as large as a man�due south arm is reported. Harvest time for carrots is down from 45 days to 28 days. This is accompanying a spiritual harvest of souls where whole cities are being converted.
At that place has been a glut of building elaborate and grandiose buildings for the presence of God but God�s bodily presence is seldom there. The Tabernacle of David was such a simple tent with goose egg grandiose to recommend it as the place of God�s presence but that is where God desired to dwell. The �temple� on Azusa Street was just a stable with the evidence and aroma and flies still around only that is where God chose to visit His people. Information technology is not �the place� that is of import to God but the open up hearts of His people that are diligently seeking Him with a passion for Him lonely. Or nosotros could say that �the identify� that God seeks to manifest Himself is non concrete simply spiritual.
From God�southward point of view He could sit down enthroned between the Cherubim and higher up the mercy seat and right in the presence of His people with no veil of separation between Him and His people. His goal obviously was intimacy with His people.
ii COR 3:14] Just their minds were hardened; for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the aforementioned veil remains unlifted, considering it is removed in Christ. [15] But to this twenty-four hour period whenever Moses is read, a veil lies over their middle; [16] but whenever a man turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. [17] Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. [xviii] But we all, with unveiled face beholding equally in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are existence transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.
The immediate presence of the Lord is transforming and is the fundamental to being changed into His image and likeness and from glory to glory. All the substitute programs that man has devised accept failed to achieve this transformation that only takes place in the manifested presence of God. How dissimilar this is from having another �really good church service� with �really proficient singing� or �really skillful preaching� followed by �actually expert fellowship�. Really good is non good enough to substitute for the manifested presence of God. What tin nosotros devise to accept the place of the SHEKINAH Glory OF GOD in our midst? Zilch!
Tommy Tenny , who wrote �The God Chasers�, interprets the Shekinah as �the blue
flame of God�south presence�. David�s question was �How can I bring the Ark of God to me?� and that is or should be our prevailing question today. How can we recover the manifested Presence of God in our midst? What is the cost of intimacy with God and am I willing to pay it? Are we desperate enough for God, Himself, to seek Him with all our heart at whatever cost to our comfort and self-satisfaction? The unrenewed listen can give a hundred excuses and reasons why that is not convenient at this time but nosotros will surely give it our full attention after.
To put this in perspective we should await at it from God�southward viewpoint. LUKE thirteen:34] "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those sent to her! How ofttimes I wanted to get together your children together, but as a hen gathers her breed under her wings, and you would not have it! [35] "Behold, your firm is left to yous desolate;
One of the things that God desires, far across all that we suspect, is that He longs to gather His children to Himself for very close human relationship and fellowship. He desires that intimate communion, our worship and His Fatherly relationship with each of His children. His desire is far greater than ours and He has to generate that desire within the states before we even are aware of information technology or seek after information technology.
The �normal Christian life� seems to be to seek human fellowship but ignore God and His desire for communion and intimacy with the states. That intimacy with God has become secondary and human intimacy has become master. The church has go the place we come to meet with each other.
The Tabernacle of David puts all this in proper perspective and is near a face to face intimacy, worship, communion and relationship with God with no veil present. As nosotros worship with all our centre we take �an audience of 1�! The goal of the Tabernacle of David is to bring joy to God�southward center and to come across His need.
God�s great want is revealed in the first volume of the Bible. GEN three:8 And they heard
the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the mean solar day, and the man and
his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amidst the trees of the
garden. [nine] So the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?" [10] And he said, "I heard the sound of Thee in the garden, and I was agape considering I was naked; and then I hid myself."
God created homo to exist a companion of God and to walk and talk with God. God used to come in the cool of the day to seek out fellowship with the persons He had created. This reveals the heart of God. Man has his ain calendar and wants to practice his own matter and his fellowship with God is secondary to his ain pleasure. This reveals the heart of human being.
The Tabernacle of David is virtually returning to fulfill the desire of God�s heart which was to bring David to that intimate identify of relationship and fellowship to meet God�s need for fellowship. This is the day that God wants to rebuild the Tabernacle of David considering it has fallen down merely because man has been likewise busy to maintain the intimacy of personal relationship and uninhibited worship and praise of God every bit the foremost priority.
Since God speaks from betwixt the Cherubim and above the mercy seat information technology is obvious why the revelation of the Tabernacle of David is for this day. Those whose greatest desire is to hear His voice are longing for the Tabernacle of David to be restored in personal experience. This is the key to hearing His voice and maintaining an intimate relationship with Him. The fact is we are not waiting for God to act, He is waiting for us to human activity. He has revealed His center and His desire and He has revealed in the Tabernacle of David how nosotros are to respond to that which pleases God�south want.
Since the Tabernacle of David was such a crude and common construction that amounted to little more than a canvas stretched upward on some poles we should understand it was not the structure itself that God was interested. His involvement had to be the unrestrained and passionate worship that accompanied His Presence at that place. Nosotros could coin a phrase here; �The Fellowship of Worship�. Moses Tabernacle had various posts or pillars at the entrance to the Holy Place and also at the entrance to the Most Holy Place. They speak of access or lack of it along with the veils.
Since the Tabernacle of David had no pillars or veils it had to be the worshipers themselves that became both the pillars and the veils. God is in the procedure of rebuilding this Tabernacle of David. The revelation that is necessary is this : The chief elements that are needed are �The Worshipers�. � For such the Father seeks�. WHY? Because He cannot rebuild the Tabernacle of David without them.
It is the worshipers that replace the defunction that create a buffer zone betwixt the sinners and the terrible Presence and Fire of God. The Loftier Priest could but enter the Most Holy Place once a year on the Day of Atonement. He must commencement take coals and put them into an censor of aureate and then place a handful of sugariness smelling incense on the carmine hot coals. This created a smoke or vapor that arose up to shield the High Priest from the Fire of His Celebrity. This is only a type of the reality. The reality is that true worship is every bit the incense that shields usa from the manifest Fire and Glory of God�s Presence. Worship provides that cloud that lets God�s Glory filter through to us. It is in beholding His Celebrity in that measure out that causes us to exist transformed into the aforementioned image. Equally we are changed we tin can suffer more than of His glory that volition transform u.s.a. more and more from celebrity to celebrity.
From this we should see that what impresses men is much unlike than what impresses God. We are non told who it was that tore down the Tabernacle of David and fabricated it into a ruin merely information technology is quite evident that it was not God considering His longing desire is for information technology to be congenital up once more. David�s Tabernacle was sustained and protected by the continual worship and passionate praise that arose before God day and night. When that passion failed the Tabernacle could only autumn downwardly because there was nothing to sustain it. If God rebuilds information technology again then it volition be �the true worship�through �the true worshipers� that volition sustain information technology. That is why God is diligently seeking for those true worshipers. His goal is to rebuild the Tabernacle of David and the main element He needs are true worshipers. Everything else is irrelevant if He tin can�t detect the true worshipers.
While we all accept been busy and peculiarly concerned with building an advisable building for God�due south Presence, He is just concerned with assembling truthful worshipers. The building itself is irrelevant. No thing how thou information technology is, without worshipers it is just a pile of material. The thing that impresses God is not buildings simply worshipers.
True worshipers are those who pursue God�southward Presence and cannot residue until God�s manifest Presence is a reality. The Tabernacle of David is the testimony of David�s passion for God�s Presence. The existent truth revealed in David�s Tabernacle is that God is very pleased with a �no veil relationship� and that He really does want to dwell in our presence and He wants united states of america to dwell in His presence. David�s Tabernacle shouts out �No Distance between Me and you�. JOHN 17:21] that they may all be one; fifty-fifty every bit Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may exist in The states; that the world may believe that Thou didst send Me. [22] "And the celebrity which Chiliad hast given Me I have given to them; that they may be one, just every bit We are 1; [23] I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be perfected in unity----,
I hope that we can all encounter that the Tabernacle of David was a miracle to man but was the normal for God and in type is what satisfied the very heart of God. How David gained the courage to stand direct before the manifested Shekinah Glory of God is a mystery that is non revealed in scripture. Nonetheless, we can run across that God was pleased with David and welcomed his presence into the presence of God. God obviously longs for an intimate relationship with human being and wants to reveal His Glory to human being. Then the cognition of that Glory will cover the earth equally the waters embrace the sea.
GEN 33:18] Then Moses said, "I pray Thee, prove me Thy glory!" [19] And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass earlier you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD earlier you; and I will exist gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will testify compassion on whom I will prove compassion." [20] Merely He said, "You cannot see My confront, for no man tin see Me and live!"
Seeing the Glory of God and seeing the Face up of God is regarded by God to be the same matter. Death is still the result. Feeling the Divine Presence and seeing the Divine Presence and the Face of God are two different things.
For the church building to even consider that the primary experiences of the �outer courtroom� is sufficient or satisfies God�s middle is gross darkness. The redeemed in the very Presence of God is what brings joy to God�s middle. This is revealed in Revelation 3:20] `Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My vox and opens the door, I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with Me. [21] `He who overcomes, I volition grant to him to sit down with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and saturday down with My Father on His throne.
Nosotros may wonder why the door to the church was locked to Jesus and He had to pound on the door to effort to proceeds entrance. What was His great desire? For intimacy of eating and drinking together which indicates intimate fellowship. If we can�t fellowship hither in intimacy how tin can we sit together on of the Throne of God? Jesus wasn�t even sure if they even heard His vocalisation because they were likewise involved with other things to listen. Of course if they couldn�t hear His vocalisation they would not know to open the door and would accept missed the day of their visitation. Jesus would take just passed on by even so looking for true worshipers. The unenlightened will still think that Jesus will force the door open by His sovereignty if He really wants to come up in.
The doors to the dorsum of our church building have no latches on the outside. When someone wants to come in they have to knock or yell. Since the latch is on the inside someone has to hear the vocalization or the knock and open. This is obviously how it was in the church building at Laodicea.
Since the church has lagged behind in high praise and farthermost worship nosotros must repent, change our mind then change our direction and restore what we take lost. This is what is called � The Worship of Repentance�.
THE ARK OF THE COVENANT AND THE MERCY SEAT
In that location is great mystery concerning this combination of the Ark of the Covenant and the Mercy Seat. There is a lot written concerning this mysterious piece of furniture but very picayune explained. Whatsoever accurate interpretation tin can be received must be past revelation and non by unproblematic logic. Guessing the meanings are of no value but seems to exist quite common practice.
The fact is that God has given usa much data concerning these pieces designed exclusively for the Almost Holy Place. However, the exact application and what they mean to united states is withheld. First to proceeds an understanding we must associates all the facts that are provided. Only those who are willing to seek will find. God will normally speak something from the assembled facts that volition encounter our need for the moment.
Nosotros are seeking revelation of the Ark and the Mercy Seat because that was the only pregnant thing in the whole Tabernacle of David. The tent itself was insignificant only the Tent along with the Ark and the Mercy Seat is what God has promised to rebuild and restore. The nigh confusing and too the thing of great significance was that there was no veil of separation between the Ark of His Presence and the worshipers. The get-go understanding we receive is that obviously God did not want any separation between Himself and the worshipers. If that was true of the Tabernacle of David and so it must likewise be true of present twenty-four hour period worshipers.
Offset nosotros must detect all the different names associated with this Ark. It is chosen (1) the Ark of the Covenant (2) the Ark of the Testimony (iii) The Ark of God (iv) the Ark of the Lord (five) The Ark of the Covenant of God (half-dozen) The Ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth. (7) the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God. (eight) "The Ark of the God of Israel The Ark directly relates us to the Eternal God and to His covenant with man. The Ark of the Covenant is the identify of the God of Heaven�southward footstool hither on earth. 1 CHRON 28:2] Then King David rose to his feet and said, "Listen to me, my brethren and my people; I had intended to build a permanent dwelling house for the ark of the covenant of the LORD and for the footstool of our God. So I had made preparations to build it.
Since we cannot look directly at the Glory or the Face of God "and alive� in that location must be some alternative for united states to behold God�s Glory and still alive! EXO 33:21] Then the LORD said, "Behold, there is a place by Me, and you lot shall stand at that place on the rock; [22] and it will come about, while My glory is passing past, that I volition put you in the crack of the stone and cover you with My hand until I have passed by. [23] "Then I will take My hand away and you shall meet My back, but My face shall not be seen.
JN 1:14 And the Give-and-take became flesh, and dwelt amidst united states, and we beheld His glory, celebrity as of the merely begotten from the Male parent, full of grace and truth. [16] For of His fulness we have all received, and grace upon grace. [17] For the Constabulary was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. [18] No man has seen God at whatever fourth dimension; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him.
HEB i:two] in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom likewise He made the earth. [3] And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His ability.
God, the Father, has made Himself known and visible in the Person of Jesus Christ. In Christ we can come across His Glory and withal live. Jesus Christ, Himself, is the Ark of God, the Presence of God and the Glory of God. This is confirmed (at to the lowest degree to me) in REV xi:nineteen And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. This indicates (at least to me) that the Ark of His Covenant is The Person that appears in HIS temple and not just an object made out of natural gilded topped with a mercy seat with Cherubim attached.
If this is true that the Ark was a blazon and shadow of Jesus Christ Who is the Presence and Glory of God and through Whom God at present speaks to His people, and so the Tabernacle of David was prophetic of the time that God would appear on earth without a veil. If this is truthful then the Tabernacle of David makes perfect sense. We are not just speaking of the historic Tabernacle of David simply the Spiritual Tabernacle of the Son of David.
While both the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon speak to us of �underground worship� behind veils, walls and boards the Tabernacle of David speaks to us of �open worship�. This is not inbound into your closet to worship just the more open it is and the more expressive the worship is the better it is in the optics of God. While �secret worship� is acceptable to God what He is rebuilding is open up, uninhibited worship. In that location is very little incertitude that Jesus Christ is God�southward Mercy Seat for united states of america in this dispensation of grace and truth.
HEB 4:xiv Since then we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let the states concur fast our confession. [xv] For we do not take a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all things as nosotros are, yet without sin. [16] Let us therefore describe about with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may notice grace to help in time of demand.
I of the pictures that are presented to us in the Tabernacle of David is that prayer, praise and worship are far superior to the sacrifice of bulls and goats. Still, David didn�t neglect the sacrifice of bulls and goats because of that impunity but he clearly prophesied of a fourth dimension ahead when the ameliorate sacrifices would exist accepted in identify of the animal sacrifices.
ISA sixteen:v] A throne volition even exist established in loving-kindness, And a judge will sit on information technology in faithfulness in the tent of David; Moreover, he will seek justice And be prompt in righteousness.
This scripture is manifestly speaking about Jesus Christ but in that location is no reference to Jesus ever sitting in the �Tent of David�. Still, God said that He would raise up the tent or Tabernacle of David and rebuild it�due south ruins. Jesus is now seated on the right hand of God in the Temple not fabricated with hands and in the truthful Tabernacle in Heaven. The throne of God, the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle of David seems to be speaking of the same matter.
In another study we will relate the Tabernacle of David to the Most Holy Place, the New Jerusalem, the throne of God and the helpmate of Christ, the perfected church building.
Source: http://eternalvisionministries.org/writings/general/10419_tabernacle-of-david_rebuilding_unformatted.html
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