Vital Words to the Body of Christ
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As we study the Word, the Bible reveals God's plan for His
Adam Creation; "From a Tent to a Temple". The word for tent is
translated "tabernacle". The word "tabernacle" always refers to a
temporary dwelling place.
In the Old Testament, there were two tabernacles where God met
with man; Moses' Tabernacle and David's Tabernacle. Since the day
of Pentecost, God has met man in his fleshly tabernacle.
Peter related this in *** II Peter 1:14, "Shortly I must put
off this my tabernacle," referring to his earthly flesh.
Man dwells in a tabernacle of earthly flesh. But God's divine
plan is to inhabit a completed temple. The temple God will dwell
in for all eternity will be built of Living Stones. Peter spoke of
this temple,
"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual
sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." *** I
Peter 2:5
This Spiritual temple will be built of the living stones that
God is shaping and molding in the earth today.
God revealed many types and shadows in His dealing with
Israel. These types and shadows can be related to the church
today. In these types and shadows, God shows where the church is
and where the church is going. But even more importantly, these
types and shadows show the direction God desires the church to go.
As we review Israel's history, it discloses examples of God's
people in the earth today. At the time in Israel's history, when
they were in bondage in Egypt, Pharaoh had ordered all the male
children born to the Israelites to be killed by throwing them in
the Nile River. When Moses (God's deliverer) was born, he was hid
for three months before this order of Pharaoh was adhered to.
Moses' parents obeyed Pharaoh's word. They threw Moses in the
Nile, but they provided him a covering, an ark made of bulrushes.
This is a type of the covering God has placed around His people.
This covering is the Holy Spirit.
When Jesus was born, Herod had ordered all the children two
years and younger to be killed, trying to destroy the deliverer.
Thousands of babies were killed by Herod. But we are living in the
time when man is killing more babies than Pharaoh or Herod put
together. At the time of this writing, the United States has
legally slaughtered over 30 million of our unborn. The government
has allowed this killing of our innocent. This is not only allowed
by the U.S. Government, but by governments all over the earth. The
world today, as never before, truly needs a deliverer.
When Manasseh was king of Israel, he filled the streets of
Jerusalem with innocent blood. God spoke at that time,
"For the innocent blood that he (Manasseh) shed: for he
filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the Lord
would not pardon. *** II Kings 24:4
God will not forgive the shedding of innocent blood, not in
this nation, or any other.
God used Moses to deliver His people from the grip of Egypt.
Egypt represents the world. The Father sent Jesus to earth that we
might be delivered from the grip of the world through His Word.
Jesus related that He only spake what He heard the Father
speak and only did what He saw the Father do. Jesus submitted
totally to the authority of the Father, the anointing upon His
life. In this time of the coming Kingdom Age, God will again have
a people with whom He will speak to face to face.
As we continue to look at the examples of Israel's history, we
discover that, when Israel was in the wilderness, God came down on
a smoking mountain and laid out the ten commandments verbally for
Israel, but the people did not want God speaking to them directly;
likewise the people today refuse to hear God's voice and come into
His presence. They would rather follow man and man's law.
It has always been God's desire that He speak to His people
directly. So the Father sent Jesus to break down the middle wall
of partition (the law) that separated God from His creation. ***
Ephesians 2:14
"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off
are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
Having abolished in His flesh the enmity, (or the
division) the law of commandments..." *** Ephesians 2:13-15
Jesus abolished and removed this division between God and man.
"...To make, in Himself, of twain one "new man." ***
Ephesians 2:15
God is making that "new man" in this earth today. It is this
"new man" Jesus is coming back for.
God further reveals examples of types and shadows of His
redemption plan for His creation, man, in the building of the
tabernacle in the wilderness. God told Moses to build a
tabernacle; a temporary place for His people to worship. God
revealed to Moses, in exact detail, how to build the tabernacle.
He gave Moses the exact pattern for the Brazen Altar, Laver,
Candlestick, Table of Shewbread and the Altar of Incense. He laid
it out in every detail. The Mercy Seat, the Cherubim and the Ark
of the Covenant all reveal God's salvation plan for His Adam
Creation.
God gave Israel the Levitical Priesthood with all the ritual
worship and sacrificial offerings, but Israel came to the place
where the priesthood became very corrupt. The sacrifices became
only rituals, without repentance. When Israel sinned, they could
kill an innocent animal to atone for their sin. But there was no
repentance. Today, people sin using God's salvation plan as a
covering for their sin. God is looking for a people who have a
heart toward Him; a people who love Him and desire to be pleasing
in His sight.
God's desire, since the garden of Eden, has been to speak
directly to His people. Israel is our example of God's desire to
have a people for Himself. He gave Israel the Ark of the Covenant
where He would meet with the High Priest once a year on the day of
Atonement. On that day, not only would Israel's sin be forgiven,
but sin would be removed from their midst by the "escape goat".
But there came a time when Israel's sin became so gross that
God allowed the Ark of the Covenant to be removed. The Ark
represented 5 things: His presence, promise, protection, power and
provision. But Israel came to the place where His presence, power,
protection, promises, and provisions meant nothing to them; so God
allowed the Ark to be taken.
The removal of the Ark came when Eli was priest. Israel had
been defeated by the Philistines and God allowed the Philistines to
capture the Ark.
Eli had two sons, Hophni and Phinehas. Hophni means
"pugilist" or "strike with the fist". Phinehas means "mouth of
Brass" or "Mouth of Sin". Eli's sons were very wicked;
nevertheless, they were heirs to the priesthood.
Eli's physical condition is a picture of the church system
today. Eli was 98 years old and his eyes were dim or blind; and he
was old and heavy (or fat), *** I Samuel 4:15-18. The religious
system today is also old, fat and blind.
In the days of Eli, God was raising up another ministry and
that was Samuel. Samuel means "heard of God". Samuel heard God's
voice. The Lord called Samuel three times and Samuel ran back to
the "old religious system", Eli. Three times Samuel asked, "What
do you want me to do?" Each time Eli was asleep and Samuel had to
wake him. Each time, Eli would say, "There is no calling here for
you." Eli told Samuel to "Wait on the Lord", and hear what God
was saying. Many are still running back to the old system where
there is no calling, instead of heeding God's voice.
God was raising up Samuel to replace the "old religious
system". He began to speak to Samuel everything that He was going
to do to the old religious system. Today God is raising up new
ministries that hear His Voice. They realize there is no calling
for them in the "old religious system".
In His revelation to John, Jesus spoke of this church age as
the Laodicean age;
"Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with
goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that
thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,
and naked." *** Revelation 3:17
When God allowed the Ark to be captured by the Philistines,
they put the Ark in the house of Dagon, their god. The next day,
Dagon was on his face before the presence of God. They sat Dagon
back up. The next day he was on his face again, but, this time his
hands and his head were broken off.
The Philistine's god failed before the presence of God. The
world's gods will fail when His presence comes into His people.
The world cannot stand before the presence of God.
The Philistines sent the Ark back, but it would never again
sit in the tabernacle of Moses. It was taken to Abinadab's house.
Abinadab means "the father of a willing giver".
God removed His presence, protection, promises, power and
provision from Israel and gave it to "the father of a willing
giver". The Ark stayed at Abinadab's house for many years. All
this time, God was raising up Samuel.
In the time of Jesus, man had his religious service, but God
was raising up a new ministry, a new way to worship and praise God.
This new way was Jesus. Jesus' words to the woman at the well were,
"...The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this
mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him." ***
John 4:21-23
Jesus said,
"I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life: no man cometh
unto the Father, but by Me." *** John 14:6
He told them before the day of Pentecost,
"When He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you
into all Truth..." *** John 16:13
Jesus further stated that they would be endued with power from
on high, *** Luke 24:49. The Day of Pentecost was the time when
God's presence, power, protection, promise and provision returned
to His people. The Holy Spirit is our "Ark of the Covenant". (See
"Power From on High" by George Kirkpatrick)
Today, the old religious church system is old, blind and fat.
The presence of God has left. They do not need God any more. They
are sufficient within themselves. This is the "Laodician Church"
System. But God is in the process of raising up His people that
are going to inherit and inhabit His kingdom.
After Moses, Joshua and Samuel, Israel cried out, "We want an
earthly king like the rest of the world."
God spoke, "I am your king". But they rejected Him as king
and demanded an earthly king. God told Samuel to anoint Saul as
king over Israel. When Pilate said to the Jews, "Shall I crucify
your King?", their reply was, "We have no King but Caesar," ***
John 19:15. Today, God's people are demanding an earthly king to
rule over them. That king is "government".
Saul was a very wicked king. The people cried out and God
delivered them. God was already raising up a man to be their king
in the wilderness. That man was David.
David means "beloved". The Bible says he was a man who was
after God's own heart. David is our example of one who sought God
with his whole heart. David was used mightily by God. David wrote
74 of the 150 Psalms. David put his whole trust and dependency on
God. When David made mistakes, he immediately cried out to God and
repented, asking God for forgiveness. David had a repentive heart.
Saul was the opposite. When Saul made a mistake, he justified
it. Many are justifying their sin today. We cannot justify sin
before God.
David was tried, tested and proven many times. David was a
man who knew God's power and direction. God anointed David king
over Israel and David knew that, what God had ordained, He would
bring to pass. The two times David could have become king by his
own hand, he stated, "I will not touch God's anointed (Saul)."
David knew God had made Saul king, and that God, alone, would
remove him from his kingship. He was not going to become king by
his own hand. He would become king by God's hand; and by His
anointing.
Today, people try to change the government. And yet God said
He would raise up kingdoms and throw down kingdoms...
"...To the intent that the living may know that the most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to
whomsoever He will, and setteth up over it the basest of
men." *** Daniel 4:17
There came a day when Saul and all but one of his sons were
killed. Then God raised up David as King of Israel, as He had
promised; not by David's hand, but by the will and direction of
God.
When David became King and all the time Saul was king, the old
religious system still operated in Moses' tabernacle. The Ark was
in the house of Abinadab. The presence, power, promises,
protection and provision had been removed from Moses' tabernacle,
but their form worship continued.
David desired to build God a permanent place, a temple where
the Ark could rest permanently. David could not build the temple
because he had bloody hands. Yet, God had put the desire in David
to return the presence, power, promise, protection and provision
back into the midst of Israel. David built another tabernacle for
the Ark in Jerusalem. This, too, was another temporary place for
God to dwell.
David's tabernacle would be a place of praise, singing and
worship. It differed from Moses' tabernacle in that there was no
form worship, no sacrifices or offering, but a constant praise
going up before the Ark.
David prepared to bring the Ark to Jerusalem. But he tried the
modern way. The old way surely had to be outmoded. He constructed
a new cart and brought a team of oxen. David had forgotten that
God had ordained for His power, protection, presence, promises and
provisions to be born on the shoulders of the priests.
The way that David ordained, failed; and it cost a man his
life. David repented and put the Ark on the shoulders of the
Levite priests. The Ark was brought to the temporary place David
had prepared.
David appointed Levites to minister before the Ark. In Moses'
tabernacle, only the High Priest could enter before the Ark one day
each year. Now, the priests ministered before the Ark continually.
The priests were to record, thank and praise the Lord God of
Israel. *** I Chronicles 16:4
The Hebrew Word for "record" is ZAKAR. Zakar means "to
meditate and be in prayer before the Lord". They were to thank the
Lord and praise the God of Israel. It was no longer the silent
form worship with all its rituals. The priests were to praise and
worship before the presence of God. Hallelujah!
There were now 2 tabernacles in Israel; Moses' Tabernacle
with the old form worship and David's Tabernacle with worship and
praise; both were in tents or temporary dwelling places.
There was a form of praise in Moses' tabernacle on the altar
of incense. Incense was offered up before God day and night. In
David's tabernacle, it was man who was praising before God day and
night.
In Moses' tabernacle, God's presence had departed. The outer
court and the Holy Place with all their rituals were there and the
Holy of Holies was still there; but it was empty. The High Priest
could no longer enter into the presence of God, not even once a
year, because the Ark was gone!
The Holy of Holies was in David's tabernacle. It had God's
presence, power, promises, protection and provision. There were no
sin-sacrifices and the people continually ministered in the
presence of God.
Two systems, one of form worship and one of praise and worship
before God. These simultaneously existed in tents in Israel. The
permanent dwelling place of God could not be built in Israel.
Because of David's bloody hands, it was necessary to wait until God
raised up David's son, Solomon. Solomon's name means "peace".
The temple could not be built in a time of confusion and war.
The permanent dwelling place had to be built in a time of peace.
David knew he was not to build the temple; nevertheless, he
began to make plans and to store materials.
The Bible records these materials could not even be weighed
for their multitude. David gathered great amounts of wealth to
build the temple; yet David had to go by the way of the world.
God took David's life before one stone was cut or one shovel of
earth was moved at the temple site.
Solomon (peace), the all-wise son, would build the temple, the
permanent dwelling place of God. It took Solomon seven years to
complete the temple. When the temple was completed, the Ark of God
was moved into the temple. The Bible does not reveal what happened
to Moses' tabernacle. But we know what happened to David's
tabernacle. The Bible states that it has fallen down. *** Amos
9:11
The instruments of worship from Moses' tabernacle were brought
to the temple. We must assume they were stored, because they were
never used in Solomon's temple. When God's permanent dwelling
place was built, Moses' tabernacle ceased to exist. David's
tabernacle fell down. There was only one place to worship God and
that was Solomon's temple.
All the worship of God came together in Solomon's temple.
Today, all the worship of God is coming together in the temple that
God is building in the earth.
As the Word begins to reveal these types and shadows, we
begin to understand the signs of the times spoken of by Jesus when
He will return to redeem His people and restore His Kingdom in the
earth.
The earth is truly ripe for their Redeemer to return and take
out all things that offend. The Lord owns all, He has no title or
deed. He does not need them. Everything belongs to Him!
God had to give Israel laws because they would not hear His
voice. They hoped that through the purity of the keeping of the
law, God would accept them. But the law was so righteous no man
could keep the whole law.
When Jesus was on earth, the Sadducees were the legalists that
followed the law and became experts of the law. Today, we have
those who are given a way, or method, to worship God. They are
given rules and are told if they follow these rules, they will be
pleasing to God.
The Pharisees were Separatists. This separation still exists
in many churches today. They sincerely believe, with all their
hearts, they are the only ones that are serving God; and their
name and doctrine are the only ones God accepts. They can be
SINCERELY wrong.
The Zealots were the Purists; holy in their own sight. All
they talked about was how holy they were. This is the holiness
movement. Their Holiness toward God is being holy in the flesh; by
their actions and deeds.
The Herodians were tied to the government. There was no
separation between God and government. Today, those who have made
the government their god, try to placate the government so they may
have an easier way to worship God. They are trying to change the
world through a man-made government.
All the religious systems that were in the earth when Jesus
came the first time, are in the earth today. They are just called
by different names,
"Having a form of godliness, but denying the power (Holy
Spirit) thereof: from such turn away." *** II Timothy 3:5
In 1906, God moved and the Pentecostal Movement began on Azusa
Street in California. God began to move through His Spirit. In
1948, a new move came, but not like 1906. By this time, the
pentecostal movement simply had become another denomination because
man tried to contain it and bring it under his control.
In the late 1960's and early 70's, another great move of the
Spirit began. This was called the Charismatic movement and was
short lived. Many of the churches that began at that time still
exist, but their praise and worship have become form and based more
on emotion than Spirit.
The pentecostal and charismatic movements were the raising up
of David's tabernacle that had fallen down.
"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that
is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will
raise up his ruins and I will build it as in the days of
old." *** Amos 9:11
James quoted this at the council at Jerusalem in *** Acts
15:16-17.
God has raised up David's tabernacle in these last times that
we can come before the throne of God and worship and praise and
operate in the gifts.
Many, today, still worship our beloved Jesus in the flesh.
They have not yet come to a true Spiritual praise of God. When the
pentecostal and charismatic movements began, it was in True worship
and praise before the throne of God.
The tabernacle of David had to be raised up before God could
build His permanent place of worship that will be built on Mt.
Moriah; Ornan's Threshing Floor.
At the time satan tempted David to number the people of
Israel, a plague had killed 70,000. The angel of God told David to
set up an altar on Ornan's Threshing Floor. After David had
purchased the threshing floor and made sacrifices before God, the
plague was stayed. *** I Chronicles 21
Ornan's Threshing Floor was the building site of Solomon's
temple, *** II Chronicles 3:1. This is the place of worship and
praise in the Spirit. All worship and praise comes together in
Solomon's Temple; the permanent dwelling place in God.
While Solomon's temple was being built, the old form worship
was still going on in Moses' tabernacle. Moses' tabernacle was at
Gibeon. Gibeon's name means "Little Hill".
Praise and worship was also continuing in David's tabernacle
which was on Mt. Zion. Mt. Zion means "Sunny Heights".
Solomon built the temple on Mt. Moriah on Ornan's Threshing
Floor.
David was the "Beloved" after God's heart. Jesus is the
"beloved" of the Father. Two times the Father proclaimed,
"This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." ***
Matthew 3:17 and *** Matthew 17:5
Jesus is the beloved of the Father; but He, as David, could
not build the temple, the permanent dwelling place for God. His
temple can only be built through the Spirit.
"In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation
of God through the Spirit." *** Ephesians 2:22
Jesus, as David, had to shed His blood and go by the way of
the world (flesh). But God's temple will be built in the earth
through the Spirit.
Today, God is building His temple, His permanent dwelling
place, that He will fill with His presence, power, promise,
protection and provision. He will also fill this temple with His
Glory.
It took Solomon seven years working on Ornan's threshing floor
to complete the temple. Today, God has a people on His threshing
floor, where He is perfecting HIS temple.
Meanwhile, the old form religion, which is old, fat and blind
is still holding their ritualistic worship services.
The Hophni's and Phinehas's, ("Pugilism" and "Mouth of Sin")
are constantly striking with their fists and their mouths to keep
God's people down and in bondage to their man-made doctrines and
rules. Their "mouth of sin" is proclaiming that the power of God,
the Holy Spirit, and the gifts were done away with at the time of
the apostles. They deny healing or any move of the Spirit. Many
deny the virgin birth, the resurrection and that God is masculine.
They are on Mt. Gibeon, "little Hill". You cannot see much
from a little hill. It is because God's presence, power,
protection, promises and provisions have departed. From Gibeon,
there is no vision. The Word says,
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." ***
Proverbs 29:18
While God is building His temple on Ornan's threshing floor,
the pentecostals and charismatics are still praising and
worshipping in Mt. Zion; the "sunny heights". They believe in the
presence, power, promises, protection and provisions of God, but
they are happy in David's tabernacle. They believe they have
arrived and desire nothing more. They are looking for nothing
more. Most are not aware of the activity going on at Ornan's
threshing floor because it is on another mountain, Mt. Moriah.
God is planning, building and erecting. The whole appearance
of the threshing floor is changing. The permanent temple is being
erected, not out of temporary materials (flesh); but built with
the "Living Stones" in the Spiritual realm.
"Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual
house..." *** I Peter 2:5
That Spiritual temple God is building to inhabit eternally is
a Spiritual temple.
At the time of the building of Solomon's temple, no sound of
steel could be heard. The stones were shaped at the quarry. The
reason no hammers could be heard, is to show, when God is building
up His Spiritual temple, there will not be anything to draw
attention to that temple. It is going to be a Spiritual erection,
not something that man would notice.
Meanwhile, the "tabernacle worship" in the flesh continues.
God was building on Ornan's threshing floor. Ornan means "the
light was perpetuated". Those who are perpetuating the Light of
the world right now, are on God's threshing floor.
"Ye are the Light of the world. A city that is set on an
hill cannot be hid." *** Matthew 5:14
The temple being built on Mt. Moriah, when complete, will
shine forth into all the world. It will be glorious!
Mt. Moriah means "The chosen of God". Other meanings are:
"seen of God" and "taught of God". Those who are being built into
His Holy temple are chosen, seen and taught of God.
Those on Mt. Gibeon have their eyes on what God has approved
in the past. They are maintaining this system.
The pentecostals and charismatics are still on Mt. Zion,
worshipping and praising before the presence of God.
But God has called us to Mt. Moriah, to Ornan's threshing
floor, to build us into His permanent temple. He is teaching His
true worship and praise, but He desires that we go on. He has
another step, something more He is going to do in us.
Many like what is going on in their tent worship. They have
no vision and are afraid of change. We need to fix our eyes on the
permanent dwelling place of God.
"Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the
Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" *** I Corinthians 3:16
We are that temple God is building; the place where He will
dwell permanently.
Is this written to those on Gibeon or Zion? No. They are
still in their tabernacles. When Solomon's temple was complete,
the Ark was moved into the temple. When God completes His temple,
His power protection, presence, provision and promises will inhabit
that temple forever.
"If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God
destroy..." *** I Corinthians 3:17
This is a promise of God.
As was said before, all the stones for Solomon's temple were
cut at the quarry. No shaping was done at the temple site
whatsoever! If a stone did not fit when it was brought to the
temple, it was rejected and destroyed.
We are the Living Stones that God will use to build His
permanent dwelling place. He is shaping us to fit into that temple
which is His Body; where He will dwell permanently.
Those stones that refuse to be shaped and molded into the
image of the Father will not fit into the Body when the Kingdom
comes. What will He do? These stones that do not fit will be
REJECTED and DESTROYED!
"What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the
Holy Ghost in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not
your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in
your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." *** I
Corinthians 6:19-20
You accepted that full price and you belong to God. If this
is true, glorify God in your body and also in your SPIRIT. These
are God's. They belong to Him.
"What agreement hath the temple of God with Idols?..."
*** II Corinthians 6:16
Paul is talking to those on the threshing floor who are being
shaped into "Living Stones". These are they who have destroyed the
idols in their life.
These will be built into the temple of the living God. They
will have no idols in their lives. God said,
"I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be
their God, and they shall be My people." *** II
Corinthians 6:16
"He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will
be his God, and he shall be My son." *** Revelation 21:7
We are being "fitly framed together"; all His stones have
been shaped to fit in His temple. When God is shaping His stones,
it sometimes seems so hard. These Living Stones must fit together
into His Holy temple. *** Ephesians 2:21
We are built together for a permanent dwelling place of God
through the Holy Spirit, *** Ephesians 2:22. His permanent place
for His presence, power, promises, protection and provision will no
longer be in a tent, but in a temple from which God is going to
reign; "From a Tent to a Temple"; which God is building through
the Holy Spirit. Praise God!
You wonder why you do not belong at Gibeon and have even gone
beyond Zion? You wonder why there is no fellowship with those at
Gibeon and Zion? It is because you are on another mountain! God
has raised up David's tabernacle in these last days. But that is
not the ultimate. The ultimate was planned by our Beloved. His
Word was financed by the Beloved and paid for by His Blood. The
design and even the purchase of the land was by our Beloved. He
prepared all the material to do the job because He knew us before
He laid the foundations of the world. *** Ephesians 1:4
Right now you ask, "Why aren't things happening faster? Why
doesn't He come back now? Why isn't He doing the things we desire
to see Him do?" It is because He is still doing a big job at the
quarry. He is waiting for His Living Stones to be shaped. And
when they are...God will build His temple.
The permanent temple could not be built in Jesus. He is the
Corner Stone. He is the Beloved. The temple could not be built
without the Corner Stone, but the Temple will be built by and
through the Spirit of God.
The stones will be ready when the flesh is carved away. When
the Spirit takes complete control of our being, we will then be
usable stones in the building of His temple.
It takes a real craftsman to cut stone. There are many
different kinds of stone and they all cut differently. Sandstone
cuts very easily and has straight, cleavage planes. Whereas,
Marble is very hard and has no cleavage planes. The hardest of all
stones are diamonds. Diamonds can only be cut by specialists.
All stones are different, just as we are all different in the
sight of God. We are Living Stones and God is very gently shaping
us to fit into His permanent temple that He is building in the
earth.
Sometimes, this cutting and shaping process in our lives seems
to be very hard. But this is when God is cutting the finest facets
in our lives.
Some stones crumble very easily; the least amount of pressure
will cause them to fall apart. This is so like many people who are
called by His Name. They are "professers" as long as no pressure
is applied.
Many have left the old form worship on Mt. Gibeon. Many have
come to Mt. Zion in their worship and praise, but refuse the work
that must be done on Ornan's threshing floor or at the quarry, to
prepare this vessel for use in the permanent temple. There are no
sounds being heard on Ornan's threshing floor, no sound of steel to
draw attention to what God is doing in the earth; but the change is
taking place in the heart of God's people who desire to be
delivered from this body of death. *** Romans 7:24
God is moving from the tent to a temple and those whose desire
is to remain in the tent (flesh), will not be a part of that
permanent temple God is building in the earth from His Living
Stones.
God is looking for Living Stones that are willing to be shaped
and molded and will not crumble at the slightest pressure; those
who will allow themselves to be shaped into a stone God can build
into His beautiful temple; the permanent temple He will inhabit
for all eternity.
"The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of
the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place
will I give peace, saith the Lord of Hosts." *** Haggai0
2:9
Questions
1. The word tent means _____________________ .
2. The word tabernacle means a _____________________________.
3. In the Old Testament, in what two tabernacles did God meet with
man?
4. Man dwells in a tabernacle of ______________________.
5. What is God's divine plan according to Ephesians 2:21-22?
6. What materials will God's temple be made of, I Peter 2:5?
7. The ark of bulrushes Moses was placed in is a type of the
of the _______________________.
8. What abomination will God never pardon?
9. What does Egypt represent?
10. Many in our day refuse to .
11. God is looking for a people who desire what three things?
12. What 5 things does the Ark of the Covenant represent in our
lives?
13. What is our Ark of the Covenant?
14. Who is our example of a man who sought God with his whole
heart?
15. David had a __________________ heart.
16. What did David desire to build?
17. Moses' Tabernacle is a type of __________________.
David's Tabernacle is a type of __________________.
18. The Ark of God is to be born on the ________________ of the
__________________________ .
19. What happened to David's Tabernacle, Amos 9:11.
20. Solomon is a type of the _____________________who will build the
_______________________of God.
Answer Key
1. The word tent means ___________________________ .
tabernacle
2. The word tabernacle means a _________________________________. .
temporary dwelling place
3. In the Old Testament, in what two tabernacles did God meet with
man?
Moses' Tabernacle and David's Tabernacle
4. Man dwells in a tabernacle of ___________________________ .
earthly flesh
5. What is God's divine plan according to Ephesians 2:21-22?
to inhabit the Spiritual temple made up of living stones
6. What materials will God's temple be made of, I Peter 2:5?
living stones
7. The ark of bulrushes Moses was placed in is a type of the
of the ______________________________________ .
covering of the Holy Spirit
8. What abomination will God never pardon?
the shedding of innocent blood
9. What does Egypt represent?
the world
10. Many in our day refuse to ______________________________ .
hear God's voice
11. God is looking for a people who desire what three things?
heart toward Him; who love Him;
and to be pleasing in His sight
12. What 5 things does the Ark of the Covenant represent in our
lives?
presence; promise; protection;
power; provision
13. What is our Ark of the Covenant?
The Holy Spirit
14. Who is our example of a man who sought God with his whole
heart?
David
15. David had a ___________________ heart.
repentive
16. What did David desire to build?
a permanent temple for God
17. Moses' Tabernacle is a type of ________________________ .
form worship
David's Tabernacle is a type of ________________________ .
praise worship
18. The Ark of God is to be born on the ____________________ of the
__________________ .
shoulders; priests
19. What happened to David's Tabernacle, Amos 9:11?
it fell down
20. Solomon is a type of the ___________________ who will build the
___________________________________________ of God.
all wise son; permanent dwelling place
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