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CHAPTER 11; THE TABERNACLE OF
MOSES/DAVID.
One of the most
interesting studies I have ever done was on the tabernacle of David. When I
first heard of ‘the tabernacle of David’ I thought it was referring to Moses
tabernacle. I never knew that there were 2 tabernacles, and that both existed
at the same time! What a contrast between law and grace contained right in the
O.T. and we look right past it and don’t ‘see’ the significance of the pattern!
I am not going to give you all the references to where these tabernacles are
mentioned in scripture, because it would take too much time to look them up
right now, and being I don’t make a profit personally from our ministry [NO
SALARIES FOR ME BROTHER!] I’ll have you guys look the verses up for yourselves.
It will take an in depth study to ‘see’ everything I am about to show you.
During Moses time as a leader of Gods people,
God instituted the tabernacle system [the tabernacle of Moses]. This system of
worship and service was simply a way to show a type of Christ’s future ministry
and sacrifice on our behalf. The high priest and sacrificial system surrounding
this tabernacle showed how hard it was for sinful man to approach a holy God
without atonement and a priest to serve as a ‘stand in’ for man. Those of you
who know the bible are familiar with this. The 2 tablets of the 10 commandments
were contained in the ark [box] in the back room of this 2-room movable tent
structure. The reason the tabernacle was moveable as a tent that would be set
up and taken down as God led, was for a type of Gods progressive revelation for
the ages to come. God was showing whenever the cloud by day or fire by night
would move so like wise the people of God [a fluent group of followers as
opposed to a stagnant place/ ecclesia verses temple!] would be able to move and
follow the Spirits direction. The reason God wanted a MOBILE STRUCTURE AS
OPPOSED TO A TEMPLE WAS TO SHOW THE ORGANIC NATURE OF ECCLESIA AS OPPOSED TO A
STAGNANT TEMPLE CONCEPT!
Well later on in
Jewish history the people blew it over and over again [a type of the laws
inability to change mans nature] and eventually the ark of the covenant [the
box with the 10 commandments in it] was taken captive by Israel’s enemy and
what you had left was an empty tent, with structure and priest [pastor] and all
the ritual of ministry without God! The ark also represented Gods presence
because the law is simply a little glimpse of Gods character enclosed in an
earthly vessel [which is a type of the incarnation of Jesus too!]. Well as you
can imagine the system of ‘church’ continued to go on without a hitch. The fact
that God left their tent a long time ago didn’t stop these ministry focused
Jews one bit! They kept going strong for God even though He wasn’t in their
tent [church] anymore. They had too much riding on the tent system of church in
order to shut things down and seek God! After all the Levitical priests would
loose their salaries and the tithers would have no were to put their tithes on
Sabbath day!
Well as Israel managed to keep the tent
system alive [absent God] The Lord would eventually raise up a new king after
Gods own heart whose name was David. This king was different than all the
others. He would be a type of Christ for all future generations. This king rose
to power and wanted to know why the people were so willing to carry on church
[tent] without that ark! After all God was in that thing [or so they thought].
Well king David would have none of this and quickly devises a scheme to return
the ark back to Gods people. In his zeal he goes after the ark to recapture it
again, and well you know the story, the poor brother who was picked to go on
this ministry assignment accidentally touches the ark when it is about to fall
and the brother is slightly rebuked by the Lord [he gets killed!]. Well much to
David’s dismay the ark gets sidetracked at some brothers house for a while, and
low and behold the brother whose house the ark is at is so blessed that all his
neighbors think he hit the Texas lotto [its all right to joke a little, after
all 99% of Christendom is still stuck with the tent and no ark and yet God
hasn’t killed us yet].
So after David
sees this he goes back to the scripture and realizes that God only killed poor
brother so and so because he didn’t follow the right tent carrying procedure
that is supposed to be used when retrieving a captive ark from hostile
territory [wow, who would have known that there was a manual on that one!]. So
David calls the ministry team together again and explains to them that the
reason old brother so and so died was because he messed up on some little
technicality and David’s willing to give it another try! Well as you can
imagine the brothers weren’t fighting over this ministry opportunity. Hey send
me to the nursing home or something. Well lo and behold they get a team
together and go get that ark and no one gets slain in the Spirit.
David now builds a brand new tent to put this
ark in. I never saw this before. This tent [Davids tabernacle] is set up by
David and is a complete violation of the entire system regulating
tent-etiquette! You would think they would have learned not to stray from that
rule anymore! But bless God this new tent system is greater than the old mosaic
one by 1000 %! David sets up his worshippers and praisers who even start their
own worship ministry, writing famous music and all [where did you think psalms
came from!]. This tent [church] is way better than old Moses tent [church]. All
the people in town cant wait to go to David’s tent, and he even picks up some
members from Moses tent and as you can imagine there is a little tension between
David’s ministry and the tent Moses started way before this David ever came on
the seen [who does David think he is starting this new tent in town, doesn’t he
know that the Moses tent people were here long before him!].
Well David goes ahead anyway and has the most
successful tent ministry in the region. He has the coveted ark, no formal
worship service, just free flowing access to the ark! No 2-room system anymore
brother, and the praise and worship service, well you cant beat it with a stick
[or should we be scriptural and say rod]. Well this new tent is so daring that
David even thinks he’s a priest. He has the nerve to put on an ephod! This is
something only priests can do! [That’s if your under law, but in this new tent
all are priests, and after all David is a type of Jesus and if I remember I
think he has something to do with being a priest and king, doesn’t He?]. Well
this new tent is so good people started calling it a mega-tent. It’s definitely
the tent to be at. If they had Christian TV back then you would be able to pick
this tent service up 7 days a week. Things are going so good David’s not about
to change things now. WRONG! David is so excited about the great success he’s
finding in ministry that he comes up with this great idea. Lets build a temple
for God. Surely God would like this permanent structure, after all I’m doing it
to glorify Him. Well just to be sure let me call old brother Nathan [he has a
great prophetic ministry you know! Very accurate]. Well old Nathan finds time
in his very active ministry schedule to meet with David. David floats his plan,
and lo and behold Nathan prophesies some great sounding words and the deal is
done! Surely a prophet as accurate as Nathan cant go wrong?
Well Nathan goes
back to his international ministry headquarters and God tells him he was wrong!
What, I’m a national level prophet! I can’t go back on what I said, it will
ruin my ministry! Old David already went and told everyone about my great
sounding prophetic word and this will utterly ruin my income! I must prosper so
I can finance my prophetic ministry or else I wont be able to keep up with the
big boys! Nevertheless Nathan does God this one favor and tells David he was
wrong. The Lord actually tells David that He never wanted a temple in the first
place! Could it be that the tent David was ruling over was a better picture of
the NEW TESTAMENT community of believers who were yet to come [I think so!].
Could it be that David’s rule as a king and priest over Gods prophetic
community would have been fulfilled better if they stuck with the moveable
[organic] tent system than a permanent building? Well the rest is history. Let
me get a little serious here. I am not saying your church building is wrong. I
am saying God is more concerned with the organic nature and growth of ecclesia
than he is with your church building program!
CONCLUSION.
The church
continually is in a state of reform and restoration until we all come into the
unity of the faith and maturity in Christ. During each generation of church
history God had people and groups of believers who were flowing in greater
truth than those around them. This is not to say they were a special or elite
class, but simply a remnant who were moving ahead of the status quoi! God will
only allow the church to recover so much truth and experience as much change as
she can handle in any one generation. This principle is found in the story of
the children of Israel
only being able to take so much land at a time as they were entering their
inheritance [Deut;7:22 ].
God told them if they took too much at one time the wild animals would overtake
the land faster than the children of Israel could settle in it.
So likewise the Lord allows certain amounts of
truth and restoration to take hold in each generation of church history. The
reformation of the 15th/16th century restored the lost
truth of justification, but Luther didn’t deal with the truth of ecclesia being
a community as opposed to a place of meeting. The Lord allowed Luther to go so
far and then stop. You can see this pattern in all areas of Gods restoration of
truth in every generation of believers. The Protestants moved into truth
concerning justification by faith, but they simply replaced the concept of the
catholic priest with the role of pastor. They never dealt with the ‘way’ we do
church, but only with certain doctrines concerning church. The old tradition of
a priest/pastor mentality never changed. This mentality is not found in the
book of acts or the gospels, but was introduced sometime around the 4th
century when the emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. The
well-meaning emperor wanted stability for his realm and slowly introduced the
‘church’ building concept with the role of the ‘priest/pastor’ as the person in
charge who is ‘hired’ to perform certain functions for the people whom he works
for. The pagan concept of funerals and weddings and so forth were now the
responsibility of this new office instituted by Constantine .
This is not to
say that weddings and funerals are wrong, the bible contains stories dealing
with weddings and funerals, but to simply show how the church began to loose
the community mentality and digressed into a professional clergy/laity mindset.
Over the generations the Lord has been in the process of restoring us back to a
family mentality as opposed to an institutional mindset. All the things I’ve
dealt with in this book are open and free for anyone to see while reading
through the New Testament, but we overlooked them because of the grid that we
all view scripture through. We all approach scripture with certain preconceived
mindsets that cause us to read the word in order to justify our own
preconceived prejudices!
We have a tendency to read past the story and
find the ‘jots and tittles’ of truth to fit into our mindsets of church and
ministry. We unconsciously read verses on ‘how to behave ourselves in the house
of God’ and apply that to how we act in the ‘church building’ on Sunday! We
look right past the family mindset. We don’t realize it really means ‘how to
behave ourselves in Gods family’. We see church as a place we go on Sunday and
this mindset unconsciously interprets everything we read in scripture! We cant
‘see’ church as a family of people who live in our city. We see church as the
‘church’ we attend on Sunday. Then those around us who don’t fit into our
mindset are looked upon as in rebellion. We see church as a place where our
‘pastor’ preaches to us every Sunday forever, world without end. We don’t
realize what a co-dependency we developed in the church.
No New Testament
minister was ever supposed to be the ‘life-long’ minister of a ‘congregation’.
They were all to speak and share and love in an atmosphere of community. No
paid ministers, no hired pastors, no church buildings, no co-dependant
Christians who vote on who they will hire to perform religious functions on
their behalf! Radical isn’t it! Can you handle truth! We often think we can
until it challenges us to our core. There is always a cost involved in true
reformation. To some you will have to go back to your bibles and do some real
soul-searching, it will cost you prestige, a salary, respect amongst fellow
clergy and many other unforeseen 'costs’ involved with going on with new truth.
To others you are now released into the reality of being and doing all that
father has called you to.
The apostles and
prophets can go and function in their callings today! Go and be witnesses, if
father has called you your free to do his will! To the evangelists, pastors and
teachers you are now released to bless and build the body around you. You mean
John that we don’t have to raise a lot of money and rent a building and go to
college and get ordained and marry and bury and visit the nursing home and
everything else associated with professional ministry? You got it brother,
that’s EXACTLY what I mean! You are all free to fulfill father’s call where you
are at right now. Don’t live up to the expectations of men. Simply please
father and find contentment in his will. You will know the truth and it will
set you free! God bless you guys and may I meet you one day in the simple set
VERSES-
So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
2nd Sam 5:9
6 Again,
David gathered together all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.
2 And
David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of
Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name
of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the
cherubims.
3 And
they set the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of
Abinadab that was in Gibeah: and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drave
the new cart.
4 And
they brought it out of the house of Abinadab which was at Gibeah, accompanying
the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.
5 And
David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir
wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on
cymbals.
6 And
when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark
of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.
7 And the
anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote
him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
8 And
David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called
the name of the place Perezuzzah to this day.
9 And
David was afraid of the Lord that day, and said, How shall the ark of the Lord come to me?
10 So
David would not remove the ark of the Lord unto him into the city of David: but David
carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
11 And the
ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the
Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.
12 And it
was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all
that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought
up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with
gladness.
13 And it
was so, that when they that bare the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and
fatlings.
14 And
David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded
with a linen ephod.
15 So
David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with
the sound of the trumpet.
16 And as
the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul's
daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before
the Lord; and
she despised him in her heart.
17 And
they brought in the ark of the Lord, and set it in his
place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David
offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord.
2nd Sam. 6
20 And
there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
21 The
same came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired
him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.
22 Philip
cometh and telleth Andrew: and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.
23 And
Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be
glorified.
24 Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it
abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
25 He that
loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall
keep it unto life eternal.
26 If any
man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant
be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
Jn. 12
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