I wrote, “The Final Feast”, not to tell believers exactly how to become a Tabernacle Christian but rather to help those interested personally explore this undiscovered country. Learn about the spiritual fulfillment of the Feast of Tabernacles and Divine Love here…
I would like to encourage you today and tell you a simple truth: you have already won. That means, because you know and accept Jesus Christ as your savior, just as He has overcome death, you have overcome death and are granted eternal life.
What I am noticing is that some become discouraged by how things are going in their lives and fail to realize how great a gift they’ve been given. Furthermore, if you have salvation, nothing else really matters more than that. You already have the pearl of great price, and everything else that seems wrong in your life is transitory.
The good news is that Jesus has overcome the world and that through a relationship with Him, the second death, which is eternal damnation, has no power over you. Whatever happens to you in this life cannot compare to the glory that shall be revealed when you hear those words, “Well done, my good and faithful servant, enter thou into my rest.”
This is what Jesus taught us, and He proved it when He rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. Death had no power over Him, and if we believe that He is the Christ, death has no power over us, either.
You have already won
Yes, things are not so good here on earth sometimes, and for some, they are much worse than for others. However, realize that we have already won in Jesus, and we can rest in His promise of eternal life with Him. Consequently, we don’t have to struggle and fight anymore, but can turn our attention toward doing the will of our Father in heaven. We don’t have to struggle to accumulate things, impress people, gain fame, or do any of the things people do who are still struggling to succeed in this life. We already have success in the most meaningful way possible – we have eternal life and are promised to live forever in the New Heavens and New Earth.
This means that instead of trying to be successful in this world, we can relax and do God’s will while we wait to enter into His rest. We don’t have to concern ourselves with gaining things here because everything we could possibly want or need will be given to us in the world to come. It is time to disconnect from our daily struggles and fears and realize that all we really need to do is hear our Master’s voice and say yes to whatever He wants in this current moment. God will take care of the rest.
God will do the heavy lifting
Many of us are used to fighting and struggling. Our lives have been tough, and we know little else, believing that if we don’t push and make life give us what we need, we will lose out. This is what people who do not know Jesus Christ do, but we don’t have to. We are the children of God, and as a son or daughter of the Most High, all our needs will be met as we live in His will, loving him and receiving His love.
Let’s disengage from the struggle for existence and focus, rather, on the business at hand, which is living the will of our Father. Perhaps, instead of getting up this morning and doing our own thing, why not pray and ask God what He would like us to do for Him today? Since we are already winners and have eternal life through Jesus’s sacrifice, maybe we could give our Lord our attention and time today to say thank you by doing something He needs done.
The truth is that literally nothing we have on this earth will remain, for God says through Peter:
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.”
2 Peter 2:3
Since we will keep nothing from this world and we have already been promised salvation, isn’t the best use of our time to focus on whatever our Father wants? We already have everything that really matters, so why not just do His will and please Him with our remaining days on earth?
It’s okay now, you can stop fighting
What I notice about some is that they forget to stop fighting when they win. They are so used to the struggle that it’s their way of life, and even when they win, they can’t stop running. I get it, I really do. However, we can allow Jesus to train us to stop focusing on what’s wrong with our lives so that we can begin to let Him live through us and help others around us overcome death, too.
In the end, if we lose our own souls, we truly lose everything. If we focus on what is wrong and never leave the rat race, though we may appear to win it in earthly terms, we can end up losing everything that really matters eternally.
Time to help others
In conclusion, realize that in Jesus you have already won everything, and sit down at His feet like Mary, listen to what He says, and rest. We don’t have to fight for anything anymore; we already have all that matters in Him. Instead, work while it is yet day and help others around you rest from their endless labors, too. Accept the gift of the Holy Spirit and taste the powers of the world to come. Live now as you will live in the New Heavens and New Earth, and be a light to others who are still struggling in this present darkness. Above all, be happy and thankful in Him, and He will give you rest.
To begin with, I believe that a trap has been carefully laid by the devil for those who are called to be the Bride of Christ. The reason that I speak about this subject is not to be sensational or even controversial, but rather out of an urgent desire to alert those who are seeking God with all their hearts to be forewarned of a very clever trap that has been laid for believers to stop the church from consummating their relationship with Jesus Christ.
The whole world, for that matter, has been set up to reject God’s intimate advances toward them in the coming days, through a misconception of what holy love is. In other words, physical intimacy has been so polluted by sinful behavior that when Holy Intimacy between Jesus and members of His body begins to manifest, instead of accepting it as God’s love, many will misjudge and reject it as something impure.
This topic, no matter how difficult it may be to talk about, is absolutely necessary to address, because many who long for a direct experience with God will, in fact, reject His advances due to their inability to separate what is Holy from what is sinful; because to their natural minds, they look very similar.
Since the Garden, we have gradually forgotten what it is like to live in perfection. Through sin, we became confused about good and evil, right and wrong, holy and profane.
Take, for example, a holy kiss. Most people, even if they allow for a holy kiss to take place, imagine it to be little more than an innocent peck on the cheek, kind of like a side hug that avoids any proximity of one’s private parts to another’s. After all, for those who wish to avoid the very appearance of evil, how could it be anything but that and still be called appropriate? Anything more passionate, deep, and physical would of course, be way too sexual to take place in a holy church setting, right?
Why do we feel uncomfortable?
I know for many, even discussing this topic makes them feel deeply uncomfortable. Moreover, when someone talks plainly about such things, one may even feel tempted to question the personal motives of those who speak about it. Many people, who are in fact judging themselves when they do, assume sinister or at least ulterior motives about those who speak about physical intimacy in a church context. It is simply not done, except perhaps in a closed-door seminar for married or soon-to-be-married adults. Let’s face it, the church believes that true holiness has nothing to do with physical affection, and if possible, we should not permit it in church at all.
However, let us admit that, in these latter days, we speak of the union of God and man in the context of a Bridegroom and a Bride. It is in the scriptures, quite a lot, and we cannot pretend it does not exist. Likewise, in earthly marriage, we assume that after the wedding (and even before to a certain degree), there will be physical intimacy between those who are in love. We have a word for it: “consummation.” The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as:
The act of making a marriage or romantic relationship complete by having sex.
This means that Christ is going to have sex with His bride and, by extension, being that He is God manifest in his flesh, our Creator is going to consummate His relationship with the Bride of Christ.
In the natural realm, no one is particularly bothered by the fact that when men and women marry, they have intercourse; however, very few people, having read what I just wrote, will feel comfortable realizing that the exact same thing, in a very real sense, will take place between believers and God in the coming days. While we all assume this is the natural course of a couple, our concept of holiness does not allow God to act in such a manner. However, in the greater spiritual sense, our natural unions here on the earth reflect a greater intimacy that will be shown between God and His Bride in a very physical sense as motivated by His Spirit. It is literally what everything in the Bible points to in our generation: Holy Consummation.
We were created male and female for this purpose. The act of marriage is a type or a picture of the greater relationship God desires with His creation. The physical, soulical and spiritual union of a man and a woman during consummation is the ultimate demonstration of what God desires for mankind: Total oneness in body, soul, and spirit.
We are body, soul, and spirit
However, the way in which God is about to show his love to His Bride is much different from what most Christians imagine. Many conceive of a spiritual love with little or no physicality. However, this is not the case; the truth is that during spiritual connections, the intimate expression of the Tabernacle Experience will be far different and much more intimate than most imagine.
Our father is a Spirit that fills heaven and earth. He is all-powerful, everywhere present, and all-knowing. How then does a supernatural being of such limitless presence interact with and show His love towards His finite creation in a personal and meaningful way? God loves us by possessing each of us with His Spirit, then moving through us unhindered, and loving us through one another intimately.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. He walked the earth in Jesus, as Christ allowed His Father to do and say whatever He desired at any given moment. Jesus said, “If you have seen me, you have seen the Father,” and “I and the Father are one.” Thus, when you looked at Jesus, you saw God looking back at you. When the Son of God touched you, it was His Father touching you. All the Godhead indwelt Him bodily, and there was no difference between Jesus and God. As the Body of Christ, it will be the same with all those who become perfected in Him.
God will manifest in our flesh
Likewise, when it comes to the time of love with the Bride of Christ, God will be in each one of us, and we will act out, just as Jesus did, God’s will on earth. However, during the coming move of Divine Love, God’s desire will be to love His Bride through the many members of His body. He will kiss us with a Holy Kiss through His saints, hug and hold us through each other, manifesting His Spirit, and our bodies will react to His heavenly love as Adam and Eve’s bodies reacted to God loving them through each other in Eden. We will show physical love to one another, to the degree that the Holy Spirit leads us, without care or worry about social norms, convention, or even marital bounds. God will love us freely as He sees fit and to the extent that we need His affection at the time we need it through whomever He chooses to show it.
Can you see the difficulty here? In churches where even hugging the opposite sex is discouraged, what if God desires to kiss someone’s wife with a holy kiss through another brother who is not her spouse? What if you are holding someone in church, very close, looking deeply into their eyes as you connect with His Spirit in them? We have been conditioned, through legalism and fear of sexual sin, to imagine that such behavior cannot be holy. We are so conditioned by our fear of intimacy that we will be tempted to reject it out of hand, even if it is plainly of God.
This is what happened at Community Chapel & Bible Training Center. We prayed and asked God to come and show us His love, and when He did, He surprised us by moving through his saints who yielded to His Spirit. This offended our concept of purity, and our legalism could not imagine that what we had categorized as sin was, in fact, now being permitted and even led by His Spirit. Thus, many rejected what God was doing and called it of the devil when in fact, it was God loving us through one another as His Spirit desired.
The Holy Spirit is what makes an act holy
There is such a thing as holy intimacy, and what makes it holy is the presence of God leading the action. A deep and intimate holy kiss between a man and a woman who are yielding to His Spirit, as God expresses His love towards both of them, is holy because God motivates the action. In fact, when our Father leads, no expression of intimacy is forbidden, because He authors it and therefore the act is, by definition, holy.
The bottom line is that we, as the people of the Most High, are going to have to allow God to lead us out of our fear of intimacy into the light of the restoration of First Love of Eden – His Divine Love. Lust, which is selfish desire without care for another, is sin. But the same action, if led by God with similar physical contact, is not lust, but an expression of His love through a saint yielding his or her body to His will.
Therefore, it matters not the act, but the spirit and motivation behind it. Love does no harm, and God, if you allow Him to lead you, will not take advantage of an intimate setting to seek one’s selfish desires. However, if a man needs a sister to hold and comfort him, even caress and kiss him, if she is led by God’s Holy Spirit, her actions are right in the sight of the Most High, even though some who may look at their physical expression may assume differently.
We were created to be filled with God’s Spirit and to allow Him to live through us, being earthen vessels to show forth His glory. In the Garden, when Adam entered Eve, it was God loving Eve through Adam and God loving Adam through Eve. There was no separation, and God did not wait out in the other room while they made love, for He was right in their midst, creating life as their bodies mingled. Likewise, in the coming move of Tabernacles, one of the features that will be central to “God with us” will be the freedom for intimate, holy acts of love between saints led by His Spirit. This will be a common facet and a sign that we have returned to our pre-fallen, sinless state.
For some, this will be heaven on earth. For others, who cannot separate Holy Intimacy from fleshly sin, it will be hell. Natural-minded people, who reject God’s intimacy, will do everything in their power to stop it, thinking they are doing God a favor. However, in reality, they will be intruding on God loving His Bride and deeply offending their Heavenly Father.
Divine Love is about meeting another’s needs, as God directs, unselfishly
We can agree that without the Holy Spirit leading and guiding, natural-minded people simply devolve into mere animal lust and debauchery. Sexual sin is all about selfish desires. In God, though, we love one another and meet each other’s needs in ways that really minister to them – whether they need food, a place to stay, clothes, or a holy kiss. In a true love feast, as led by the Holy Spirit, people do not seek their own desires or fulfillment; instead, they focus on meeting the needs of others to the extent and in the real way that the other person needs God expressed at the moment. This can take a multitude of forms, from a kind word to a loving look, to a hug, to a kiss, to holding them while Christ speaks words of comfort and revelation through your lips. God loving one another through us is the most intimate expression of the Holy Spirit and what the people of the world really need: to feel God’s love and see Him in our actions. In that moment, God is with them, inhabiting the person holding their hand, looking into their eyes, expressing His love and concern for them through kind words and, if needed, through holy kissing as He touches their soul so deeply they feel connected to eternity.
It is little wonder that the devil works overtime to muddy these waters by trying to make us believe most physical touch is immoral behavior or at least implies impure motives. Today, hardly any Christian can imagine kissing a woman or a man in anything other than a sexual way, if it is not done in a strictly controlled manner approved by church theology and polite society. Thus, many lonely women who simply need to feel God close to them can’t because if a brother sat too near, with his arm around them, an usher (translation: intimacy police) would most likely separate them for fear of what it looks like to others, regardless of what the sister needs. Many people in church are desperately lonely, and the way God wants to touch them is through physical contact with another, Spirit-led saint who is willing to let his body be used to express God’s will.
I testify to you that Satan is deathly afraid of the healing touch of God through His saints and will do practically anything, including murder (think martyrdom), to prevent people from receiving God’s Spiritual love through physical touch and Holy Intimacy.
The Holy Spirit is our safety rails and our guide
What people, who are naturally minded, get wrong about physical expression is that when saints are led by His Spirit, they never do anything that is inappropriate or selfish. The only boundary that really matters is the line drawn by the Holy Spirit when He is loving another through those who are moved by His Holy Spirit. Such Spirit-led people simply do not go further or do anything more than God is leading them to do. Thus, the sin that people fear might happen does not, because God is in complete control.
Unfortunately, for many, our natural minds and learned legalism dictate what we are allowed to perceive as decent and in order. In fact, because we are not our own and we are bought with a price, our Creator believes that our bodies are His to do with whatever He needs to accomplish His goals. Thus, while under the power of the Holy Spirit, women can have divine orgasms akin to what Eve experienced in the Garden of Eden. If a man is down and needs to be encouraged by a woman who hugs and holds him tightly, even with her breasts pushed up against him, God feels that is perfectly okay. There is nothing inherently sinful in physical expression if the motivation behind it is His Spirit. In fact, literally anything that our Father feels needs to be done to meet the needs of His Bride, to please her and allow her to feel loved, is perfectly okay and holy in His sight.
Be forewarned, you may be walking into a trap
In the end, our laws and social customs converge into legalism, which demands that we reject almost all physical intimacy between believers. Therefore, a trap has been laid by the devil that will ensnare those who only look at what God is about to do through natural eyes. For many, dismissing God’s love will simply be a preconditioned response instilled in them from a lifetime of assuming anything physical between men and women is inherently sexual and fleshly and therefore unholy. We, plainly speaking, have been set up to reject the very love of God we constantly pray for.
Some, if they have read this far, may feel like screaming at these words and object to them on the grounds of what surely must go wrong and how things might be perceived by others. Honestly, God does not care; this is between His Bride and Him, and you who stand on the outside and judge His ways with His woman are simply invading His privacy. I counsel you to get out of God’s bedroom and refrain from criticizing what the Judge of the Whole Earth does with those He loves. Unless God is calling you to participate, it is really none of your business.
Embrace God in one another
Understand, or at least consider, that when God loves you, either individually or through another saint, it will feel pure and holy, because it is. It will be deep and satisfying beyond anything you can imagine. You will literally touch the first love of Eden as your body shakes and trembles under the power of His Holy Spirit. Embrace Him and allow Him to enter your holy of holies, possessing the most intimate places of your heart, body, and soul. Be one with Him in every and any way He desires. Give yourself freely to him as He loves you through another saint and return His affection freely, as led by that same Spirit, with every ounce of strength and passion you can muster.
