27.4 The First Day of the Feast
© 2017 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
I wrote an entire book titled The Feast of Tabernacles. In that text, I laid out the context of God’s final Feast by going through all the other feasts inside the journey of Israel. However, when I arrived at the actual Feast of Tabernacles itself, I presented only three short chapters on its fulfillment in our lives. That was right for that season, for we needed the larger picture. But I do not write what I cannot see.
Now, however, the fulfillment of that Third Feast in our lives on this earth is far more clear to me than I ever knew before. It is the first Day of that Feast that is the most important for us right now. I want to know what that first Day means.
God Does What He Says
You see, our confidence in God is the full expectation that God does what He says, that “love one another” MUST BE fulfilled among humans on this earth in all fullness.
In her vision, “The Wave of Pure Light,” what Annie saw regarding God’s final preparation of His elect “above the storm” is found entirely inside Tabernacles Day One. And the central essence of that entire Day for us is found in these three words – LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
It is the fulfillment of these three words inside of us together in all fullness and in all confidence in God through us that is the opening of the Doors of Tabernacles by which many are swept into the Kingdom – for these three words ARE Father just being Himself.
Defining Kingdom Again
It is the First Day of Tabernacles fulfilled now in us, God’s firstfruits, that gives us everything needed to see a victorious Church without spot or wrinkle alive upon this planet.
Here is another definition for the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is the full meaning of the Word God speaks in effect in the lives of Christians on this earth, that is, Tabernacles. We see even more clearly the great enemy of the Kingdom of God, the unbelief that the Word God speaks is known in fullness only by dead Christians in heaven. Yet, we find, at this completion of Kingdom, that we have little regard for the present powers of this world and of death. They are already gone and their appearance is now vanishing. The arising Kingdom dispels all the shadows that are not.
The First Day
Then we understand that the manifestation of the Kingdom follows the same three stages of God in the fulfillment of Tabernacles. In Day One, we who are the firstfruits of God are sealed into all the knowledge of God through us that we might then show God’s people His reality. Through the in-between days we do just that, we teach the Church to walk in all the reality of Christ. And on the Great Day the Kingdom is revealed, Father made known.
The experience coming now upon us, the First Day of Tabernacles, God Himself becoming all of our connections together, is the most important reality for us right now. We want to KNOW this Day.
Kingdom and Covenant
In the remainder of this lesson, I will re-iterate some of the points through this Kingdom course that speak of the reality of this Day of Tabernacles. But first, I want to restate the relationship between Kingdom and Covenant, a relationship that has become far more critical than anything I ever saw when I first penciled out these courses.
Kingdom turns us outwards; Covenant turns us inwards.
In Symmorphy I: Purpose, we were concerned with ourselves as individuals, that we, personally, might be established in God’s purpose, that we might be rooted and grounded in Love, and that we might walk as individuals in full confidence in God. Symmorphy II: Essence taught us the meanings of many things.
A Great Task
Then Symmorphy III: Kingdom has grabbed us by the shirt collars and forced us to look beyond ourselves at what God is doing and desires to do in His Church and upon this earth. Kingdom is the missions part of God’s symmorphy with us.
The problem with looking outward, however, is that, being limited humans, we so easily forget about our inward connection with God. But the problem with looking inwards is that, being limited humans, we so easily forget the passion of God through us out to all of His creation.
This look outward in Kingdom has presented us with a great TASK, a task so glorious and so immense and so UTTERLY beyond us.
The Depths of Covenant
Kingdom is something you and I simply cannot do. But Symmorphy with God in Covenant can do Kingdom.
We did see that progression in Symmorphy I: Purpose, for we went from confidence in God to the realization that God wants us to share Heart with Him, a Heart that extends itself towards God’s intention to set all creation free. That view outward left us so disconcerted that the Lord took us immediately back into John 14:20, You IN Me and I IN you, re-grounding us again in Christ Jesus now the only life we are.
It is the same now. This great TASK God is placing upon His sons right now requires the deepest levels of knowing Covenant that there are, levels we will measure very soon.
Our Connection Together
The guiding idea of this course is our connection together being entirely God, that is, Love. We find this reality ours forever inside the fulfillment of Tabernacles Day One. It is here, in Day One, that the Covenant becomes all our knowledge of God with us. Life is symmorphy; life is knowing God.
Covenant has two parts, God together with each one of us and God connecting us all together as one. I am looking for both of those qualities to come upon me in fullness suddenly and at the same time. And when I say, “God,” I mean Love. Me, sealed incorruptibly into all knowledge of LOVE and seeing immediately that fullness of LOVE between me and you tangibly.
Knowing Symmorphy
The core essence of what we will KNOW is our fellowship together with Father and Son and each other INSIDE the perfect Symmorphy of a Personal God. We know from Romans 8:30 that this perfect symmorphy is already our only reality. Our first job is always to discover the next measure of our symmorphy with God and each other so that we might reveal to others that next aspect of Father as He wishes.
It is in the First Day of Tabernacles that we come to know this symmorphy in all that we are, just as Jesus knew it, but not just as members, rather utterly together. This fullness of fellowship together is something we have never experienced.
Confidence and Name
The trigger, the catalyst, the mechanism by which all this works is our absolute confidence, our FAITH, that we are KEPT by Father and sanctified by Jesus, even while we walk inside a world in which we have no part. The CONFIDENCE that we are KEPT is outer, however. Our inner core in that FIRST DAY will be far more meaningful.
Jesus speaks Father into us; that is, Father loves us with the same love with which He loved Jesus when Jesus walked this earth. Father Love IN us – together with Jesus. It is this speaking of Jesus, speaking Father into us, speaking into us the NAME of Father, that Father loves us as He loves Jesus, it is this fulfillment that is Day One of Tabernacles.
Sharing Heart with God
The heart of the body is formed first. Thus the most important thing coming out from Jesus speaking Father’s name into us is the FULL meaning of our sharing heart with God.
We walk, right now, AS IF we are this very heart of God extended over His body, this care of God flowing out through us to each member of this great body, each of whom belongs utterly to Jesus, to Father, and to us. We “practice” now being the Mercy Seat of God, the throne of heaven, drawing all things into love and setting each other free, but in Day ONE, we will BE that Mercy Seat in all reality.
– It’s all about life laid down and love poured out, bearing all for all, believing all for all, Father’s heart, revealed.
A Path for God
Our task is to make a path for God, to clear out all the debris, to make the crooked places straight, to raise up the low and to bring down the high. Tabernacles Day One is the moment when that Path is completed in us. And the One who comes speeding down that completed Highway is an overflowing Father, hyper-hyper abundance.
God’s path is from full symmorphy with us to full symmorphy with His church. And Tabernacles Day One is when God Himself hits the gas pedal. Yet this work flowing out of us from Day One remains hidden from the world.
Working with God
We are the ones whom the woman has brought forth in her pain – and we turn and cause all of it to be for her sake. We venture through the mighty cherubs and the flaming sword to eat of the fruit of life, and we then turn and give of the fruit of that tree to God’s woman.
It is that moment of winning the fruit of that tree, our teeth piercing its skin – LIFE – full symmorphy with God, that is our experience in the First Day of Tabernacles. Together with God we turn everything meant for evil into unending goodness, but beginning out from Day One into the lives of millions of Spirit-filled believers in Jesus.
Do you see why we wait on God together for this DAY?
Full Victory
We ourselves know full victory first, beginning with the First Day of Tabernacles. We can show a victorious Church her own self ONLY as we know all victory. No consciousness of sins, no thought of death, no seeing of “power in this world.” No regard for the accuser, nothing but forgiveness towards wicked men and women, no knowing of offense. No thought of curse, but only Christ speaking all things good.
Though we wait together for that Day, we do not “wait” for that Day, but we call all things as they ARE right now. It is that FAITH through which this FIRST DAY comes, our FAITH that God speaks the truth.
Love Full Grown
The final session of this course is a look at the Kingdom of God as it is in all fullness, with no thought of sin and death, and with all creation having been restored back to the Father, God all in all – a Kingdom of Love.
Thus this session is actually the conclusion of our study of the Kingdom now arising in this world. Thus we close our study with the most important verse in the Bible regarding the Kingdom, Revelation 12:10-11, Now is come the Kingdom, and the most important word in that verse – FOR.
And as we look beyond the “for” that rules this arising Kingdom we see ourselves, having been very Much-Afraid, stumbling and falling at every step – the ones whom God has chosen. Looking inside our hearts, we see the Seed of Love full grown and with wondrous faith, we fling the Doors wide open.