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

Zechariah 2: 5 For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’”

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

Hallelujah

The way God safeguards the bride, the church in the journey of faith

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, in the portion of the Bible that we meditated upon in the past days, we meditated regarding how God using Moses showed us the dwelling place of the tabernacle as a pattern and how the glorious bride, the church which is the Holy Spirit is being glorified in our soul. For Moses to do these things and complete them it becomes exactly one year. This is for our soul to be corrected properly and come and it is very difficult for all the evil deeds in our soul to change completely in one day or two days. But in one day we can accept Christ as our Saviour in one day itself. But if the Holy Spirit has to be glorified in our soul, we must listen to God’s voice daily, obey and only if we walk according to it, The Holy Spirit will do God’s will in our soul.

Exodus 40: 18 – 21 So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars. 

And he spread out the tent over the tabernacle and put the covering of the tent on top of it, as the Lord had commanded Moses. 

He took the Testimony and put it into the ark, inserted the poles through the rings of the ark, and put the mercy seat on top of the ark. 

And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, hung up the veil of the covering, and partitioned off the ark of the Testimony, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

When we meditate on the above-mentioned verses, God is hiding us in the shadow of his tabernacle and is showing as a pattern that he is hiding us under his wings. Also, according to what God had commanded Moses he put the table in the tabernacle of meeting, on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil; and he set the bread in order upon it. My dear people, the tabernacle and the tabernacle of meeting in it God is telling Moses to set it up for him to dwell in the midst of the people. At that time, Moses was a prophet. Then in the tribe of Levi he anointed Aaron and his sons using Moses as a priest and he made the holy garments for worship and is making them wear it. Then till Joshua the priesthood ministry was continuing to take place. 

After that, he ordained judges. But the people did not listen what the judges told and served other gods and played the harlot. Therefore, in Judges 2: 16 – 23 Nevertheless, the Lord raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them. 

Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. 

And when the Lord raised up judges for them, the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them. 

And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.

Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice, 

I also will no longer drive out before them any of the nations which Joshua left when he died, 

so that through them I may test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.” 

Therefore, the Lord left those nations, without driving them out immediately; nor did He deliver them into the hand of Joshua.

Then, the people asked prophet Samuel that we want a king. But because the thing displeased the sight of Samuel he prayed to the Lord. But the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. But 1 Samuel 8: 9 Now therefore, heed their voice. However, you shall solemnly forewarn them, and show them the behaviour of the king who will reign over them.”

In this manner, even though he told all the things that the Lord had told because they did not listen, he ordained kings to rule them. In this manner when the kings were reigning, when David was ruling over Israel, God told David that one temple should be built for me to walk around. But not you, but your offspring Solomon will build that temple he said. In this manner, God used Solomon and finished building the temple. Then because the temple was filled with abominations, our Lord Jesus Christ says “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.” We see that he is telling about his body. Also, he tells that I will not dwell anymore in the temple made with the hands of men, with stones and mud and for those who believe in Christ for them to live forever he is rising in our soul as a temple. Therefore, all the works of the tabernacle and tabernacle of meeting is taking place in our soul. 

Also, when we see bread on the table in the presence of the Lord is set in order upon it means bread is the word of God, table means Christ as a pattern. That is why, Jesus Christ is telling, I am the bread of life. In this manner, the things which God commanded and the things which he showed as a pattern we must obey and correct ourselves and if we will put our trust only on God Exodus 40: 34 – 38 Then the cloud covered the tabernacle of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 

And Moses was not able to enter the tabernacle of meeting, because the cloud rested above it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 

Whenever the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle, the children of Israel would go onward in all their journeys. 

But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not journey till the day that it was taken up. 

For the cloud of the Lord was above the tabernacle by day, and fire was over it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.

According to the above-mentioned words of God, he will hide us in his cloud and in his fire such that no enemy touches us, he delivers us and saves us from the hands of the enemy and blesses us with his glory so that we can run our race of faith victoriously and he will give his grace so that we will receive the prize that God has kept for us. In this manner, we will possess the blessing. Let us submit ourselves.

Let us pray. May the Lord bless you all abundantly

- To be continued