Life in Christ Jesus Podcast

The Feast of Trumpets III - The Announcement of the Day

Numbers 10:1 "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. 3 And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." 
 
Here we see in the Book of Numbers that the Trumpets called the people TOGETHER (As One) to the Door of the Tabernacle.  Hear this.  We are called together, through the voice of the silver trumpets, the silver speaking of redemption, to the DOOR of the Congregation.  
 
Jesus declared of Himself, that He is the door.   Here is where we COME TOGETHER - At the DOOR, In Christ.  We come together as ONE in THE DOOR, who is Christ.  This is our coming together.  This is our oneness.  
 
All believers would most likely agree that the Trumpet Blast gathers us to the LORD.  No matter if you believe this from a natural or spiritual perspective, it is unto the Lord.  However, it is what The Trumpet is saying we must Hear.  "We are called to the fellowship of God's Dear Son."  Hear is the call!  Hear is the Union!  Glory to God in the Highest!

The Feasts of Trumpets - Called Unto the Fellowship of God’s Dear Son

The purpose of the Trumpet is to assemble unto the Lord.  In Revelation 1, John heard a voice as a Trumpet, and He turned to see the voice.  What did John see?  What was he gathered to?  John was gathered up unto the Lord.  This was the distinction of the voice he heard. 
 
In the Feast of Trumpets the children of Israel were gathered to the blowing of the Trumpet.  These Trumpets were made of silver, Numbers 10:2.  The silver speaks of redemption.  So, Israel was gathered at the door of the congregation of the Tabernacle unto the Lord in redemption.  This was the blowing of the Trumpets unto the Day of Atonement where God would meet with us unto the redeeming unto Himself. 
 
This is it.  God redeemed us to Himself.  Hear this by His Voice.  We are not redeemed to live our own lives, but that the life of Christ would flow through us.  Hear the distinction of the voice.  We are redeemed that God’s Life, who is Christ Jesus our Lord, would flow through us.   
 
All of this is made unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ.  Paul said we are called unto the Fellowship of God's dear Son in the book of 1 Corinthians.  We need to hear that distinct sound.  The voice of our calling and what it is we are called to in Him.  Glory to God!
 
1Corinthians 1:4 I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, 5 that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— 6 even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— 7 so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 8 who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1Co 1:9  God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
 

The Feasts of Trumpets - Hearing the Voice

When we look at the Feasts of Trumpets, what comes to mind?  Have we ever thought about it?  The Trumpet blast makes a powerful sound.  By the blast of the Trumpet, the walls of Jericho fell.  
 
When we consider Jericho, the only sound coming from the seven priests was the sound of the Trumpet.  The trumpets of RAMs horns, a male lamb.  We could and should consider this voice to be the voice of the Lamb.  When nothing comes out of the priesthood but the voice of the lamb walls crumble.  
 
This is the voice that the Priesthood must hear.  This is the voice that the Priesthood must declare.  It must go through the Lord's Body, the Voice of the Lamb.  What does the Lamb of God declare.  What is declared in you by His Voice.  Have you as John did, turned to see the Voice that is being declared?  This voice is our gathering to the Atonement.  This Voice is the Gathering to Feast of Tabernacles.  Let us turn to see the voice! Glory to God!

The Feast of Tabernacles II - The Trumpets, The Ingathering of Harvest

"That your fruit may remain."  These may be some of the most powerful words Jesus proclaimed as He walked upon the earth.  If we hear this, it can have an upmost impact to understanding the desire of God for our lives.  The fruit, remaining. 
 
Jesus declared that, "I AM the Vine, you are the branches."  The substance of the Vine flows through us the branches.  The substance of the Tree, produces the fruit.  The fruit remaining is that of Him.  That of Christ, which has been revealed in us, remaining or staying.  What does that mean?  I would say, becoming par of our very being.  The divine nature as our nature.  His expression through His branches.
 
This to me is the hope of the Gospel.  The Living Christ, who is in me, being revealed and that of Him gathered up in our souls, minds and beings for expression.  I have seen what I can express of myself without Him, and I would say it is not very good.  I want to see that of Him gathered up into me, who now dwells in the vine, and produce that which He is.  Glory to God!!
 
 

The Feast of Tabernacles - That Your Fruit May Remain

Considering that all things are fulfilled in Christ, and gathered up in Him, as Ephesians 1 says, how then would we define Tabernacles?  How was it fulfilled and how does it apply to us today?  I sincerely believe this study will help you and I arrive to that understanding.
Looking back at the Feast of Tabernacles as it applied to the natural Israel, I want to bring to our attention that at this time the Israelites were gathering fruit up from the fields:
Lev 23:38 "besides the sabbath of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your free-will offerings which you give to Jehovah. 39 Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to Jehovah seven days. On the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath. 40 And you shall take the fruit of majestic trees for yourselves on the first day, branches of palm trees, and the boughs of thick trees, and willows of the valley. And you shall rejoice before Jehovah your God seven days. 41  And you shall keep it a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations. You shall keep it in the seventh month."
In John 15:16 as Jesus was speaking of his relationship of the Vine and the branches, he makes a statement, "Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain, that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in My name, He may give it to you."  Here in relationship to the vine, we are to bear His fruit, and His fruit is to be gathered up and remain. 
That of Christ that we have received, which has been revealed in us is to remain in us.  This is I believe Tabernacles.   When that we of Him is remaining, abiding in us, we are enjoying The Feast of Tabernacles.   May all of Him be gathered up into us!  Glory to God!
 

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost VII - Christ in the Midst

This is the reality of Pentecost that we must come to, CHRIST IN OUR MIDST!  I grew up in Church as a Pentecostal.  In the understanding I grew up with, I never connected Pentecost to the Feasts of the Lord, but to the Baptism of the Holy Spirit.  This was my connection to Pentecost, that we would be Baptized in the Spirit, speak in tongues, and do the works of Jesus.  While I believe this to be truth of Pentecost, I believe it goes much deeper.  The deepness of it is Christ in our midst.  Christ in you.
Jesus declared that when the Spirit comes we would KNOW!  KNOW WHAT?  "I am in my Father, you are in me, and I am in you."  By the coming of the Holy Spirit, we know that Christ is in us.  The Holy Spirit declares Him to us.  Shews Him to us.  Reveals the Living Christ, who is our very life to us.  To me this is the Feast of Pentecost, the Spiritual Reality of Christ Jesus Living in His People, and His People coming to this realization that He is in us and we are in Him.  Glory to God!

The Feast of the Lord - Pentecost VII

When we think on Pentecost, what was its ultimate purpose?   The Spirit would come.  This was the purpose of God in Pentecost.   He would pour out His Spirit and we would partake of it.  
 
Now what was the purpose of the Spirit?  When the Spirit would come, he would show us Christ.  "He shall take of mine and show it to us."  He shall speak of Christ.  Christ would be revealed in us.  That is the purpose of the Spirit of God.  Glory to God.  Christ revealed, dwelling in His people.  

The Feasts of the Lord - Pentecost - The Living Word II

We live by the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is our Life.  He is the Living Word.  At Mt. Sinai, a Covenant came that the children of Israel were to live by unto God.  This was all according to the flesh.  However, it was speaking of a GREATER WORD to come.  This GREATER WORD was a Person, who is our Lord Jesus Christ.
 
We are in Covenant with God in the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Word we live by.  Consider this closely.  Christ Jesus is a quickening, life giving Word that has the power to bring us out of death and into life.  The Old Covenant Word could not do that.  It pointed to the quickening power of Christ, but could not bring it forth. 
Christ has brought it forth.  If we can hear it, the Covenant we live in is as He is.  It pertains to His Work at Calvary, death, burial and resurrection.  It pertains to His Glorification.  This is the what or WHO we live unto God by.  Christ Jesus is our Covenant Word.  Glory to God.