“Glory to the Precious name of our Lord Jesus Christ”

Hebrews 9: 11, 12 But Christ came as High Priest of the good things to come, with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands, that is, not of this creation. 

Not with the blood of goats and calves, but with His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place once for all, having obtained eternal redemption.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen

Hallelujah 

We, the bride, the church should change and become as Christ’s camp

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that for us, the bride, the church God is our eternal possession.

But next what we are going to meditate upon is Numbers 2: 1 – 3 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: 

“Every one of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, beside the emblems of his father’s house; they shall camp some distance from the tabernacle of meeting. 

On the east side, toward the rising of the sun, those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies; and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be the leader of the children of Judah.”

The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying: Every one of the children of Israel shall camp by his own standard, they camped some distance from the tabernacle of meeting. The meaning of this is that to worship God they put camp in their own land. They put their camp in this manner and camped some distance from the tabernacle of meeting. God is saying this along with a pattern. If we have our own land, we must give that to God and we must make ourselves as a tabernacle and we must worship God. 

But those of the standard of the forces with Judah shall camp according to their armies on the east side, toward the rising of the sun. What that signifies is that the Sun of Righteousness is our Lord Jesus Christ. Also, Judah means it is written that he is a Jew who is one inwardly. That is, in Romans 2: 28, 29 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 

but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

These words, our Lord Jesus Christ’s blood delivers us from sin, death. Those who are being delivered in this manner on their heads the Sun of Righteousness arises. Their soul will receive the name of Jew. They will camp under the shadow of Christ (gathering of church) and worship God. Therefore, first we must become the inheritance of Christ. After that, the other tribes each tribe one by one camped in each place and God is telling them to worship. When everyone were doing in this manner, the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel. 

Thus, the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses; so, they camped by their standards and so they broke camp, each one by his family, according to their fathers’ houses. That is, in the journey of faith while going to Canaan, when we praise and glorify God as a church, our grace will increase and for this God is using the Israelites and showing us as a pattern. That is, God told to put the camp because all God’s secret work is above the camp only. The camp shows the body of Christ. We must hide and live within the body of Christ and should be safe guarded by grace and for this God is commanding the Israelites to put the camp.

Also, when we meditate upon this the camp signifies the bridegroom and worshipping shows the bride, the church. Also, how God made the twelve tribes to gather together and worship God is that in Zechariah 14: 1 – 9 Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, and your spoil will be divided in your midst.

For I will gather all the nations to battle against Jerusalem; The city shall be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations, as He fights in the day of battle.

And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley; half of the mountain shall move toward the north and half of it toward the south.

Then you shall flee through My mountain valley, for the mountain valley shall reach to Azal. Yes, you shall flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Thus the Lord my God will come, and all the saints with You.

It shall come to pass in that day that there will be no light; The lights will diminish.

It shall be one day which is known to the Lord— neither day nor night. But at evening time it shall happen that it will be light.

And in that day it shall be that living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, half of them toward the eastern sea and half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur.

And the Lord shall be King over all the earth. In that day it shall be— “The Lord is one,” and His name one.

When we meditate upon this, to gather everyone together our Lord Jesus is being beaten and it shows us that his blood gathers everyone together. Also, God is telling regarding Christ celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles. Regarding that, in Zechariah 14: 16 – 21 And it shall come to pass that everyone who is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 

And it shall be that whichever of the families of the earth do not come up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, on them there will be no rain. 

If the family of Egypt will not come up and enter in, they shall have no rain; they shall receive the plague with which the Lord strikes the nations who do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. 

This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all the nations that do not come up to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

In that day “HOLINESS TO THE LORD” shall be engraved on the bells of the horses. The pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar. 

Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness to the Lord of hosts. Everyone who sacrifices shall come and take them and cook in them. In that day there shall no longer be a Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.

When we meditate upon the above-mentioned verses, let us submit ourselves so that our body becomes the body of Christ, the camp filled with grace so that we may worship God.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly.

- To be continued