THREE PHASES OF SALVATION

THREE PHASESOF SALVATION

                There were three Feasts of the Lord that were required by the Lord. The men of Israel were required to be in Jerusalem for these feasts. Passover corresponds to the outer court of the temple and to our justification. We are saved by the blood of the Lamb and we are born again in the outer court. Next in our walk with the Lord we enter into the Holy Place. This is represented by Pentecost when we are baptized in the Holy Spirit. In the Holy Place, we are set apart for service. We are sanctified by the word and by the Holy Spirits indwelling and by prayer. This is seen in the furniture of the Holy Place.

                The third compartment of the Tabernacle represents intimate fellowship with the Lord. It is a place of transformation where by beholding Him we are being changed from glory to glory. This is represented by our glorification as we are transformed into sons of God, by the power of His grace. His Law is written in our hearts and we move from the letter of the Law to the Spirit of the Law, because as sons, Our Messiah now dwells in us and we are being formed into His Image by the DNA of His Spiritual Seed which He has planted in our spirit.

                So these three feasts represent the three phases of our growing relationship with the Lord Being justified (Passover) and Sanctified (Pentecost) and next glorified. (Tabernacles) Indeed as Paul tells us, we have become tabernacles of God and He dwells in us and His spiritual DNA is causing us to grow up into His image.

                But there is yet another application of these three phases. Passover was that Phase that Israel lived in when they were delivered out of Egypt. So Passover represents in some way, an era of historic time.

                But Jesus came into the world to bring us into a new historical era and that is the era of Pentecost. In this historical era the church was born. His Law was written on our hearts instead of on stone; Jesus was now able to send His Holy Spirit to dwell in our mortal bodies and to transform us into His Image. We are now to bear the fruit of His Spirit.

                But now we are looking down the throat of the final historical era. It will be earth’s most difficult time, because everything is coming to a head. The great battle between Christ and Satan is reaching a fevered pitch in our day as he seeks to rule the world in the place of Christ.

                But in answer to this final phase God is not without a plan. His plan is to be revealed in His sons… to do the work of Christ in the world and even greater works… to manifest the glory of God to the world.

                The era in which this final phase will take place is called “Tabernacles.” In it God is going to suddenly come into His temple… to be revealed in His sons. And whereas Pentecost represents the early rain, Tabernacles represents the latter rain. It will be seven times more powerful and glorious than Pentecost, it will bring many sons to glory and they will defeat Satan and take back the kingdom that Adam lost in the fall. Jesus already won the victory and now He is going to take it through His sons and daughters. A man lost it and now man must win it back. We are being restored to the authority and dominion that Adam had before the fall.

                But in order to understand this particular era of time we must know what it is NOT. It is NOT the political/religious kingdom that mankind has tried to establish in the earth. It is not a political/religious kingdom such as the Vatican is trying to pull off. It is not of this world, nor is it a kingdom that can be brought on by the flesh or the good intentions of men.

                For this final Tabernacles phase, God is going to restore the tabernacle of David. It was offered at Pentecost, but as we can see from history, the church has not fully entered into this tabernacle of David. It is a tabernacle without walls or veils. It is a tabernacle in which Christ is being fully revealed in His people. Tabernacles is a very special time when the last days Remnant people of God are going to be transfigured. We are going to minister among men with transfigured bodies just Like Jesus revealed on the mount of transfiguration.

                Mt. 17:2 says: “And six days later Jesus took with Him Peter and James and John his brother and brought them up to a high mountain by themselves and He was transfigure before them…”

                In other words after 6000 years, Jesus took His Remnant people to a high place and He transfigured them. This event happened during Tabernacles and that is why Peter wanted to build Jesus and Moses and Elijah three tabernacles.

                There is another place where Jesus made His will known to us. It was the Feast of Tabernacles when Jesus’ brothers wanted Him to go up to Jerusalem to manifest His power to the people, but Jesus sent His brethren ahead to the feast and then it says: But when His brothers had gone up to the feast then HE Himself also went up, not publicly but as it were in secret. The Jews therefore were seeking Him at the Feast and were saying, “Where is He.” John 7:10, 11

                The message for our time is that Jesus wants to be manifested in His people first and then He will come FOR His people and the midst of the Feast.

                There is yet another scenario in which Jesus sent His disciples across the lake, and it was later, in the midst of the storm that He came to them on the water. He calmed the storm and then they were taken immediately and instantaneously to the other shore. He came in the midst of the storm… not before and not after.

                We should not let these things pass us by unnoticed. There are no coincidences in God’s Word. Every word is a revelation and we need to ask the Holy Spirit to make us sensitive to these things.

                When Jesus was transfigured, He was transfigured as a man. We too will be transfigured and we too will be surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and especially the Two Witnesses that stood on either side of Jesus on that day. In everything Jesus did, He was demonstrating to us exactly what He is planning for the sons of God to become. We are made in His image. We are being transformed into His image. Jesus is demonstrating for us the phases we will go through in becoming like Him.

                We are that Tabernacle of David that must stand in this final generation with no veils between us and the Lord. The veils represent our flesh, and that is why we must now die to our flesh. We must remove everything, every sin, every false belief, every excuse, and every hindering attitude… everything that stands as a veil between us and God so that He can transform us into sons of God.

                Many Christians are still in the outer court. They want the tasty parts of Jesus, but they are unwilling to eat all of Him with bitter herbs and so they promises each other lives free from tribulation and testing and instead of giving all upon the altar they hold back, living with one foot in and one foot out.

                Others are in the Holy Place being sanctified by the Word and the Holy Spirit and prayer. Even here many lose their first love and grow cold because they are not actively engaged.

                Only a few are pressing in to spend intimate time with the Lord within the veil, but it is only in this place of intimacy that we can fully reflect His image and live by His Spirit and His Word for they are now written in our hearts and we are living more and more like sons. We are growing up into His DNA with the faith and hope that we shall be like Him when He comes.

                It was at midnight that the Bridegroom came for the wedding party and only half of them had oil in their lamps. They may be saved, but they will never be a part of the Bride who will reign with Him.

                As Christians we live with far too many presumptions. It is not that Jesus’ salvation package is incomplete in some way. The big problem is that we are not entering fully into it. We don’t really eat His flesh and drink His blood. We don’t really come out of Egypt. We don’t really die to our flesh or take up our cross and follow Him. We have conditions. We want the glory, but not the pain. We want to sit on either side of Him, but we are not willing to drink from His cup. We want to be His Bride, but we don’t want to stop dating other suiters.

                This is perhaps why god is restoring the Feasts of Israel. He wants us to know that our Gospel has become anemic and empty. Little by little all of the essential elements are being removed so that sons are no longer being produced… at least not among those who have no stomach for the full Gospel.

                God is restoring the tabernacle of David in our day. He wants to have intimate fellowship with us that is unhindered by all of the veils in our flesh that stand between us and Him. Those who understand these things are pressing in to know Him. It is not what we are doing for God that qualifies us… it is what we are becoming. Many will come in that day and say Lord, lord didn’t we do this and that? And He will say to them… I never knew you. I don’t see My DNA in you. We were never really betrothed. In the end I had to say: “Have it your way.”

                The good news is that we ARE pressing in and we ARE trusting in Him and we ARE eating His flesh and drinking His blood and we ARE being transformed into His image, by His power and by His love.

                “Behold, God is my salvation. (Yeshua) I will trust and not be afraid; for the Lord is my strength and my song and He has become my salvation. (Yeshua) Therefore I will draw joyously from the springs of salvation. (Yeshua) Isaiah 12:2-3. Yeshua is the Hebrew word for salvation and it is also the Hebrew name for Jesus. Have a blessed day in Him.