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

Psalms 84: 1 How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

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

Hallelujah 

We, the bride, the church are becoming the tabernacle of God.

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated that if we, the bride, the church want to receive the blessing of God we must become holy.

Next, what we are meditating is that Numbers 23: 13 – 30 Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from which you may see them; you shall see only the outer part of them and shall not see them all; curse them for me from there.” 

So he brought him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

And he said to Balak, “Stand here by your burnt offering while I meet the Lord over there.”

Then the Lord met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, “Go back to Balak, and thus you shall speak.” 

So he came to him, and there he was, standing by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab were with him. And Balak said to him, “What has the Lord spoken?”

Then he took up his oracle and said: “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, son of Zippor!

“God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.

“He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a King is among them.

God brings them out of Egypt; he has strength like a wild ox.

“For there is no sorcery against Jacob, nor any divination against Israel. It now must be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘Oh, what God has done!’

Look, a people rises like a lioness, and lifts itself up like a lion; It shall not lie down until it devours the prey, and drinks the blood of the slain.”

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Neither curse them at all, nor bless them at all!”

So Balaam answered and said to Balak, “Did I not tell you, saying, ‘All that the Lord speaks, that I must do’?”

Then Balak said to Balaam, “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” 

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland. 

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” 

And Balak did as Balaam had said and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.

When we meditate on the above-mentioned verses, Balak to curse the Israelites for the second time he takes him to the top of the mountain of Pisgah. But when he saw that the Lord blessed Israel more, Balak said to him “Please come, I will take you to another place; perhaps it will please God that you may curse them for me from there.” So he took him to the top of Peor, that overlooks the wasteland. There Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me here seven altars, and prepare for me here seven bulls and seven rams.” And Balak did as Balaam had said and offered a bull and a ram on every altar.

That is, he is telling to build seven altars. The reason is that in our life the altar of Christ with seven deeds is included in one altar, which is the teaching of Christ. When these seven things are fulfilled, it becomes the reason for the fullness of grace. That is, repentance, forgiveness of sin, baptism, anointing of the Holy Spirit, gathering in unity, breaking of bread, praying: these seven as the deeds of one altar we must submit our whole soul and God is showing this as a pattern.

Now when Balaam saw that it pleased the Lord to bless Israel, he did not go as at other times, to seek to use sorcery, but he set his face toward the wilderness and raised his eyes, and saw Israel encamped according to their tribes; and the Spirit of God came upon him. Then Balaam is saying the man whose eyes are opened and, in this manner, he is uttering himself. The reason is that his eyes were closed in the beginning. But later to see God his eyes were opened. After his eyes were opened, the Spirit of God came upon him. Then he sees the camp of Israel.

Then he is saying Numbers 24: 5 – 7 “How lovely are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!

Like valleys that stretch out, like gardens by the riverside, like aloes planted by the Lord, like cedars beside the waters.

He shall pour water from his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters. “His king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

When we meditate upon the above-mentioned verses, how lovely are your tents, O Jacob and your dwellings O Israel. In this manner, we can read that he is filled with the Spirit of God and talking regarding our Lord Jesus Christ. God is showing as a pattern regarding how his kingdom will be exalted in our soul. Not only that, in the blessings of the three days, the blessing that God gave on the third day was the resurrection of Christ, and that he is dwelling within us and that God is changing us into his dwelling place and that the anointing of the Holy Spirit is raising us up as the bride, the church and if our life is in this manner then our life will be sweet due to Christ.

If it is in this manner, Psalms 84: 1 – 7 How lovely is Your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts!

My soul longs, yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord; My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young—Even Your altars, O Lord of  hosts, my King and my God.

Blessed are those who dwell in Your house; they will still be praising You. Selah

Blessed is the man whose strength is in You, whose heart is set on pilgrimage.

As they pass through the Valley of Baca, they make it a spring; The rain also covers it with pools.

They go from strength to strength; each one appears before God in Zion.

By the above-mentioned verses, more than everything God is being manifested as great. Let us submit ourselves so that we are blessed in this manner.

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

- To be continued