The Dwelling
Our dwelling place is a habitation of God depicted in the Feast of
Tabernacles. Both individually and collectively the Israelites lived with God.
Today it can be a continuous “feast” for those who enter into this truth. Your
address is about to change and so is the limited understanding of your union
with God.
For example, Psalm 91 speaks of “those who
dwell in the shelter of the Most High” will now take this to mean, not your
natural dwelling, your house, which God protects, but God Himself being that
Dwelling. Your natural home will be a safe haven but that is because you have
chosen God to be your spiritual dwelling. You will be enjoying the Feast of
Tabernacles.
Moses says in vs. 9 “if you make the Most
High your dwelling…. then” and what follows are
blessings and promises. Of course the
first eight verses of promises are yours too. But all of course is contingent
upon making the Lord, the Dwelling.
The Feast of Tabernacles is upon us as a present
truth. We “enter it”. We do this by faith. When we do, all of a sudden many
of the truths you have read and believed for years are going to take on the
fuller depth of meaning that was intended all along.
To get to these fuller experiences you pass through all the feasts of
The major factor is what I will call spiritual distance. Whereas you
have seen God “there” and you “here”, you will now experience “together”.
Previously, even though many knew God was dwelling within in the person of the
Holy Spirit, the distance matter was still an issue. It was as if God’s throne
and resources were all “there” and you were waiting for your requests to come
here. Your prayers were a long distance issue. Our God is omnipresent, both
here and there.
Now communication is more direct to the God with whom you dwell and who
dwells with you. You see it was His plan to dwell with you first! It has
been our reluctance to the whole idea. Like the Israelites, we would rather
send someone to the mountain top to do our business, than go there and face Him
face to face or be in His presence. But that has been changing.
It is changing because we see our need and we feel bankrupt without the
God of the promises being our satisfaction. We have much of the blessings and
maybe not enough in some cases, but our hunger has grown beyond these blessings
whether we received them as yet or not.
David was our forerunner in understanding. He loved the little tent that
was pitched in
In the same way God prepared you for the blessing of Passover, to
receive the Lamb of God as your salvation, and the same way God prepared you to
receive Pentecost, the promise of the Spirit, is the same way God is preparing
you to enter into Tabernacles. He puts a longing in you. It is deep calling to
deep. The wooing power of the Holy Spirit is amazing.
With cords of love God draws us to Him. He is irresistible. We want
what He wants. His desire to dwell with us is equaled by our longing for Him.
The match is made. We move from first day to second day to DWELLING, a
third day experience. The spiritual distance is closed. A union is being
consummated. Promises are not there, they are here in the One who
dwells within us.
Moses had a taste of it and spoke of it. David had an expression of it
and reveled in it. We now have a revelation of it and can enter into it in
fullness. How blessed we are.
Blessings In Christ,
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