40. Creation Set Free
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The Tabernacle Pattern brings us to the final completion of God’s story, and that is all creation set free into the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
In considering the setting of creation free, one person at a time, each in their season, however, we do not want to wander out away from the Tabernacle. In complete contrast, setting creation free is entirely the work of the Ark of the Covenant going forth, many sons of God walking together as one.
For that reason, we will use this topic of setting creation free to bring in the conclusion of this study.
Paul’s Gospel RULES! Paul’s gospel RULES the conclusion of God’s story; John’s cryptic and non-understood vision does NOT.
Now, when He [Father God] shall have placed all under Him [Christ Jesus], then also the Son Himself will be placed under the One having placed all under Him, so that God may be all inside of all (1 Corinthians 15:28).
That inside of the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, every heavenly knee, every earthly knee, and every under-earthly knee and every tongue should speak the same thing, that is, the Lord Jesus Christ penetrating into the glory of God the Father (Philippians 2:10-11).
The Larger Picture. And finally, the larger picture. – For the eager anticipation of the creation awaits intently for the unveiling, that is, the removal of that which hides the sons of God. For the creation was made subject to purposelessness, not willingly, but through being subjected on the basis of the hope that creation itself will also be made free from the slavery of decay into the freedom of the glory of the children birthed out from God (Romans 8:19-21).
We have the final what – God all inside of all; the how – inside the name of Jesus, meaning – giving thanks for every moment of one’s life; and the who – into the freedom of the glory of the children birthed out from God.
A False Goal. Now, the goal of the believer is set, in Nicene Christianity, as living in heaven without an earth body, that is, as a dead human. Being dead is equated with being “alive.”
Certainly, dead Christians continue inside of Christ their only life; that is, they are alive inside of Jesus. But that’s not age-unfolding life.
What good has it done any Christian to be alive inside of Jesus when they do NOT KNOW it? And they do not know it because they do not believe it. The Word has not entered through their faith to become Jesus Himself in all confident joy.
The True Goal. Age-unfolding life, the goal of every believer and every created entity is to KNOW God and to KNOW Jesus Sent.
And so those who teach the reconciliation of all are not teaching much differently than those who teach eternal damnation, for they leave out the true goal and that is knowing God now through knowing Jesus Sent into us. Existing in heaven-only is not any human’s goal. Heaven cannot change anyone or anything.
Here is my point for this concluding lesson. Learning to be a child birthed out from God is little different from learning to be an accountant. It requires an educational curriculum.
Everyone Goes to School. Paul’s clear declaration of the end of all things must happen for each individual entity. God is Personal and all entrance into His knowledge must be personal and must pass through knowing Jesus Sent.
For that reason, “God all inside of all,” in its full and final expression, requires every individual human, having entered into self-awareness, to pass through the “emergency rescue,” as depicted by the Tabernacle, into the knowledge of the Holy.
The work is and has always been already done, but they do not know it, thus the Tabernacle is everyone’s school.
A Life of Blessing and Goodness. Let me suggest this, however, that for the majority of humans, their learning program comes to its completion with their entrance into the Holiest, into an initial, though complete knowing of their personal union with Christ.
That is, they will know themselves coming out from God through the good-speaking of Jesus, sustaining them in every moment, as in every tongue speaking Christ.
And thus, many humans who have never had any desire or interest in living inside of Father’s Heart, will come to know a life of blessing and goodness inside of the glorious liberty maintained by those firstfruits who do share Hheart with God.
Differing Levels of Knowing. And no one will teach each their neighbor and each their brother saying, ‘Know the Lord’; because all will be aware of Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them (Hebrews 8:11).
All humans and angels will be fully aware of God among us, but only God’s chosen ones will be the full expression of God-Revealed.
One glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of stars; for star differs from star in glory. The resurrection of the dead is the same (1 Corinthians 15:41-42). This is a clear teaching of the New Testament.
Humans and Angels. The full meaning, then, of going forth as the Holiest, of walking together as members of one another, and of being the Heart of God inside of creation, is not necessarily for all humans and angels. But the essence of the Tabernacle curriculum is, at least for humans.
God’s path for angels is not inside our present “need-to know,” and thus is not mentioned in the Bible except that we, as sons of God, will judge angels.
And I don’t think that the serpent of the garden will be the last to bow to Jesus in the full surrender of giving thanks; I think the last will include the most arrogant of humans.
God’s Educational Pattern. And so, truly, Philippians 2 gives us the important “HOW” that we need for this lesson. – Every knee shall bow in giving thanks, and every tongue shall speak Christ.
This line clearly delineates the curriculum path God has pictured for us by the Tabernacle of Moses. “You will make ALL THINGS according to the pattern that was shown you in the mountain” (Hebrews 8:5).
And we assume, from God’s scattering of the many forms of aeon (age – ages) throughout the New Testament, without any accompanying explanation, that this educational process will fill at least two, if not more, future ages of time.
The Age of Tabernacles. But let’s look no further than that future age that is immanent to us right now, “into the age,” and that is the Age of Tabernacles.
There is nothing more exciting to me than considering this Age of Tabernacles coming upon us now, an Age unfolding right out of our bellies. We will not lead the larger “creation” into our glorious liberty until we have learned ourselves the full depths of being teachers inside the present heaven-earth.
And that is the purpose of the Age of Tabernacles, you and I being the shepherds of God among humans inside the present “seven days” given to mankind.
Learn of Me. The Age of Tabernacles is the “seventh day,” the Sabbath rest of God inside the present human sphere.
And this is where the Word that establishes our curriculum of instruction fits. – Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and LEARN OF ME, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light (Matthew 11:28-30).
There is only one way any individual human will ever learn of Jesus, and that is by God’s Tabernacle path.
Our Students. Yet that Tabernacle path will be embodied in us as the revelation of Jesus Christ to all. And that is the full meaning of the final completion of this path in us, marked by our bodies swallowed up by life.
And so, specifically, our “students” will be all humans alive on this earth through the next ten centuries of time.
We show them life laid-down and love poured-out at the very beginning of their entrance into first grade. We show them the initial meaning of placing the Lord Jesus Christ upon themselves in their first surrender to Him.
Teachers of the Bible. Isaiah, in 65:20, gives us a piece of understanding. He suggests that a person one hundred years old, in the Age of Tabernacles, will still be considered as a “child.”
And then he says this. (And my rendition is more accurate to the Hebrew than the typical Calvinist translation.) But the one who messes up or gets it wrong, even at one hundred years of age, will be considered slight or superficial.
God is very clearly referencing His educational curriculum through us as His teachers of the knowledge of God. And so we teach them the Bible, in mind and in heart.
Learning Heavenly Reality. Now, all through this learning experience undertaken by all humans alive on this earth through the Age of Tabernacles, their practical outward experience will be ordered by the New Heart, the New Spirit, and the New Word coming out from us.
BUT – we are speaking here of each one’s own entrance into knowing Jesus Sent into them. And so each one must yield to Jesus as the Door into the knowledge of the Spirit, into discovering that, as humans, they are as much heavenly beings as they are earthly beings.
And we will teach them the demonstration and power of the Holy Spirit in their everyday lives.
Giving Thanks and Speaking Christ. The final grade level in the Holy Place, then, is the most important for all in this path. It is the full practice of “every knee bowing,” and that is, giving thanks in and for all things, in every circumstance and moment of their lives.
The truth is it will take some people a few centuries to learn this one. And some, as suggested by Revelation 20, will throw it all away at the end of that age.
But the final course to be learned is to place the Lord Jesus upon one’s flesh, and to speak Christ my only life. This is the entrance into the full knowledge of God.
Father’s Heart Forever. All will turn around regarding themselves, yes, that is, all will come to know that they are coming out from God every moment and that all the expressions of their hearts are God’s intention through them. The majority of humans will then continue forever in whatever expression of Father’s delights and joys that He created them to be.
But for us who know Him now, through this valley of travail, we will live forever inside of a place that few others will know anything about.
We will live inside Father’s Heart forever, sharing Hheart with God.