Rebuild the Tabernacle of David

 Rebuild the Tabernacle of David

The New Testament church is the true Temple of God because we are His Body and Christ is the Head.

I CORINTHIANS 3:17 "If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are."

Each born-again Christian is a stone that is shaped to fit somewhere in the spiritual Temple.

II CORINTHIANS 6:16 "And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

I PETER 2:5 "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ."

Every born-again Christian is a Priest.

There is no elevated Priesthood of Pastors in the New Testament.

Every born-again Christian is a living stone, personally shaped and carved out by Jesus.

Do not copy another Christian.

Each Christian is shaped as a stone to fit into a special place in the spiritual Temple.

If you are a duplicate of another person, there will be no place for you once that person is in his or her place.

The Tabernacle was an Old Testament outline of a New Testament deeper pattern.

The Altar for burning the Sacrifice symbolizes Repentance.

The Laver for washing the Sacrifice symbolizes water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ.

The horizontal part is a tent, the Holy Place, for the 7 church ages (the 7 lamps on the candlestick) and also for the 144000 from the 12 Tribes of Israel in great Tribulation.

The Holy Place symbolizes the Holy Ghost Who guides us into the truth so that we can understand the written Word of God.

JOHN 16:13 "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:"

The evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism is our ability to understand the mysteries of Scripture.

ACTS 2:38 says Repent. Repent for the remission of sin as it is only the blood of Jesus that washes us from sin.

MATTHEW 26:28 "For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

Water baptism cannot provide remission of sin today.

Water baptism could remit sin in John the Baptist’s day because the blood had not been shed and the resurrection had not happened. So that was the best that they could do until Jesus died. Then Peter stopped John the Baptist’s baptism of remission on the Day of Pentecost.

MARK 1:4 "John did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins."

For John the Baptist, there was no shed blood to remit sin yet.

So, as a temporary measure, God accepted their water baptism as a repentance and remission of sin.

MATTHEW 3:11 "I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:"

John’s baptism unto repentance would cover their sins until Jesus died and shed His blood.

The shedding of blood is the only real remission of sin.

We believe that by faith when we repent.

REVELATION 1:5 "And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth.

Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,"

LUKE 24:47 "And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem."

First, we must repent for the remission of sin because Jesus shed His blood.

In the Old Testament, there was no real remission of sin. The blood of animals only covered sin until the real Sacrifice occurred at Calvary.

Then we must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ to take on His name as a member of His Bride.

Then you receive the Holy Ghost which reveals the deeper mysteries of God’s Word.

Understanding the revealed Word is the real evidence of the Holy Ghost baptism.

Understanding the revealed Word is what makes us the wise virgins who will meet the Bridegroom.

The Holy of Holies contained the Word. But the Word is God, as It tells us the thoughts of God.

When you understand the Word of God as it is written, then you know that you are in the Holiest of Holies.

David was the last king to use the Old Testament Tabernacle.

His Son Solomon built the Temple and then the Tabernacle fell into disuse.

But, when we understand the Bible mysteries, that is evidence that, spiritually speaking, we have listened to Peter and rebuilt the Tabernacle of David.

ACTS 15:16 "After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:"

Simply by being Scriptural and obeying ACTS 2:38 we have unknowingly been spiritual enough to start rebuilding the Tabernacle of David. We have unknowingly fulfilled a prophecy from Amos. Because we have obeyed the apostle’s doctrine.

ACTS 2:38 "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost."

AMOS 9:11 "In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:"

The true church followed this same pattern.

Repent. Means we focus on Calvary. The Altar of Sacrifice.

The Laver of water represents the water baptism.

The tent, with the 7 candlesticks of the 7 church ages and 12 loaves of shewbread representing the 144000 from the 12 tribes of Israel, represents the deeper mysteries of the Holy Ghost baptism.

 

In the Dark Ages the Roman Catholic Church reduced the Gospel truth to man-made ruins. Then Martin Luther in 1520 restored salvation by faith in the Reformation. Holiness and outreach built up the Missionary age of the 1800s. Pentecostal power revived in Los Angeles in America in 1906. Now we have to believe the revealed truth of the apostles who established the first church age.

We have to serve God in Spirit and in Truth.

JOHN 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

God says, "and I will build it as in the days of old:" We must be just like the New Testament church that the apostles established.

But the Bride or true church is His Body.

Thus, in Christ, we have built the spiritual Temple and rebuilt the Tabernacle when we understand His Word.

We have to be identified with the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus.

That is the only way that the Bride has to take on the name of her Husband.

The only woman that Jesus can catch up to meet Him in the air, so that He can take her to Heaven to live with Him, is the Bride that has taken on His name.

Jesus will change His name when He comes back in His glorified Body.

REVELATION 19:12 "His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns;

and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself."

The Bride, who are the Body of Christ, will then have to take on His new name.

If we were so fooled that we could not even take on the name of Jesus Christ in water baptism, then we will never be able to take on His new name.

Not being baptized in the name of Jesus Christ automatically disqualifies us from being ready for His Second Coming.

You cannot cherry-pick what suits you.

Churches think they can erase the facts, just by not talking about it.

None of us had the courage to stand up and reveal the depths of our ignorance.

Church-goers live in a state of denial by not daring to admit that they do not have a name for their Trinity God.

But they compensate by taking on the name of their church, which never happened in the New Testament.

" I am a Methodist". "I am a Roman Catholic". "I am in the Message".

These are all unscriptural statements that put the emphasis on humans and human systems.

Andrew was the only member of the 12 disciples who had been a disciple of John the Baptist, the forerunner of the First Coming.

JOHN 1:35 "Again the next day after John stood, and two of his disciples;"

:36 "And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!"

:37 "And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus."

JOHN 1:40 "One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother."

Then Andrew followed the Word, Jesus, after Johnthe Baptist had revealed the Word to him.