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From Gibeon to Zion

Now, I know that it is taught in many Christian camps today that bodily glorification (full salvation) will soon be manifested by a remnant people. But to me this teaching seems to conflict with quite a few passages of Scripture, particularly those passages about "The Tabernacle of David." The Bible says that the Tabernacle of David is the way that God intends to bring "the remnant of Edom" and "the residue of men" to His feet in the coming (Kingdom) age, and as far as I can tell, this bespeaks of FLESH AND BLOOD people who know NO LIMIT of the Spirit. Let me try to explain...

The words of many prophets today seem to agree, in that there is a company of believers who are slated to come into something very awesome at the end of this Pentecostal age and this so that these believers can MANIFEST THE REALITY OF THE GLORY OF CHRIST IN A PEOPLE to an unbelieving church and world. This sure seems to me to be "the raising up of the Tabernacle of David," which as I said, is the tool that God shall use in the gathering of all nations unto Himself in AND ALL THROUGHOUT the coming age.

Acts 15:14-17 shows us pretty plainly the sequence in which God plans to carry out His program of reconciliation and redemption from Pentecost (the Church Age) on into (and through) Tabernacles (the Kingdom Age). Here is the sequence...

First, God visits the nations of the world and takes out of it a people for His Name. This has been the purpose for THE CHURCH AGE, for God to draw unto Himself a remnant people, election by grace, that these people MIGHT become the very expression of His Name (His nature and character) in the earth. BUT...

At the end of this age all who take the name of Christ to themselves DO NOT surrender to Him to the extent that they can become MATURE in Him (many of these buying into the lie of "the sweet-by-and-by" and therefore they are not very willing to suffer THE CROSS), SO, GOD TAKES OUT FROM AMONG THESE PEOPLE ANOTHER REMNANT, those whom He can raise up as "The Tabernacle of David." IT IS THEN THROUGH THESE people that He shall move IN POWER upon "the residue of men" (the church in general, and the rest of the world) and THROUGH THESE PEOPLE that He will cause all men to seek the Lord that "all the nations of the earth shall be blessed."

As far as I understand it, this that I am describing to you IS the ministry of the coming age, and IT IS that which shall not conclude until "the kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ." To hopefully bring some more clarity to this, I'm going to approach this now from a slightly different angle...

At the time when king David set up his Tabernacle (tent) in Zion, many people still worshipped in Moses' Tabernacle at Gibeon (1 Chronicles 21:29), but there was no Ark there in Gibeon. Sure, there was LOTS AND LOTS OF ACTIVITY and "ministry work" going on there (pretty good music too), but God did not DWELL there in power any longer. The power and the presence and the glory of God at that time (represented by the Ark of the Covenant) was moved by king David to a tent in Zion.

Beloved, David had essentially transferred the Holy of Holies to a single non-compartmentalized tent on Mount Zion, and to us (upon whom the end of the age has now come) this represents A MOVE AND A CHANGE FOR A REMNANT PEOPLE TO A HIGHER AND MORE POWERFUL PLACE IN GOD. Most people in David's day were not willing to move their worship to Zion though, even as most Christians today are not willing to move from what they have grown comfortable with. The sad fact of the matter, beloved, is that most Christians today crave comfort and security more than they crave God and His Kingdom. The sad fact is that most Christians today know that they should live by faith and as sacrifices for God and for people, BUT STILL, they do their best to calculate the odds, manage their risks, and hedge their bets, leaning mostly on their own understanding in much of what they do, and in this way, though feeling as though they are relatively "safe," they are IN REALITY being robbed of ETERNAL LIFE (which is to KNOW the Father). To move on from Gibeon to Zion requires RADICAL STEPS of faith and obedience unto God, beloved, even a surrender of what we might think to be reasonable and rational and safe to take risks that we might not ordinarily take (... "when you are mature another shall lead you to places where you do not want to go"- Jesus to Peter).

Along these lines, there are very many promises in Scripture for those who "overcome," these promises having a whole lot to do with the overcoming of mindsets and selfish ways which can keep us from moving on with God. The Father's chosen means for deliverance of the creation in the days ahead is A PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEIR GOD and who shall demonstrate this by way of their wholeheartedly devotion to Him and their willingness to be sacrificed for His purposes. This is a place where self can have no part, beloved. Obadiah described these people as "deliverers sent from Zion." The prophet Amos (and a disciple named James) described these people as the restored "Tabernacle of David." Whatever you want to call them, they are definitely SONS OF GOD brought into the glory of God (or I should say, the glory brought into them) in a way that has not been seen in and on a people before.

Now, I'm going to bring this letter to an end here, but I feel quite strongly to share on one more thing with you ...

If we read the story about king David bringing the Ark to the tent in Zion (representing the unlimited glory and power and presence of God being brought into FLESH AND BLOOD people), we will see that this did not happen until there was first a REVERENT AWE AND A GREAT FEAR OF GOD put into these people. I sense that this is going on now, don't you, this installation of "reverent fear" in some of us? This, beloved, is represented for us in the O.T. account of Uzzah touching the Ark of the Testimony (and of him dying for that act). I say this because that event seemed to change many hearts in A VERY BIG WAY back then, and this in preparation for the weighty glory that was coming to Zion.

Beloved. I've been meaning to write about REVIVAL lately because I know that we are on the brink of it. I'm getting a strong sense though that THIS revival shall be much different from what many Christians consider to be revival. It is being impressed on me now that this revival is one that must start with SACKCLOTH AND ASHES; a people who are BROKEN and who are DEEPLY REPENTANT and who desire WITH ALL OF THEIR HEARTS to get free from all defilement of flesh and of spirit. Many (if not most) of even God's elect today are still pretty full of themselves, beloved, and because of this they are still bound by some rather dark spiritual influences, influences that many of them are not yet willing to acknowledge and deal with, but they will SEE, and they will get free. It'll be a bit of a struggle though, for some, even a rather ferocious battle.