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…
A good deal of the stories we read in the Bible are about men and women of faith who literally put their lives on the line. They withheld nothing from our Lord. If He did not show up as promised, they would have surely met their end. The price of God moving is simply utter obedience to His Spirit without a safety net. We must remember that we read all these wonderful stories in hindsight, knowing the outcome. However, each one of these men and women faced impossible situations not knowing nothing except by faith.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
Here are five truths:
In the first century God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself.
Jesus went to heaven and is with God
Some days later, because Jesus went to heaven, the same Holy Spirit that was in Jesus filled the first 120 saints in the upper room on the day of Pentecost.
Now, God is in the Body of Christ finishing the job of reconciling the world to Himself.
Until Jesus comes again you, and all those who name Jesus as their savior, are the manifestation of Jesus (YHWH saves) on the earth.
To begin with, trust implies vulnerability or putting yourself in someone’s hands, believing that they will deal carefully, compassionately, and kindly with your body, heart, soul, and feelings. People who trust another with something very important to them, demonstrate faith that the person they put their trust in will do them no harm. Likewise, those who trust in God expressed through His son, Jesus Christ, will find that they are loved, cherished, protected, and ultimately saved from their sins.
The Tabernacle move of God’s Spirit is about the love relationship between Jesus (YHWH saves) and the Bride of Christ (the Body of Christ composed of many members). It is about love expressed through each one of those members to the other parts of His body.
We must be allowed to love as God leads
Right now, due to shame and doctrine, the Body of Christ is not allowed to love as God leads. We have been put in a straightjacket of earthly propriety that denies our Heavenly Bridegroom the expression of love He so desires.
We are given an example of what God wants through the picture we see of love here on earth. When a man and woman love each other they hold hands, they sit near one another, they talk face to face, they snuggle, kiss, and make love. Love desires to merge and be one and we instinctively understand this to be the natural and proper course of true love. It is God’s design.
So too, it is the same with God and His body uniting spiritually in both heaven and earth. God, who is an unseen Spirit fills us. What is unseen becomes manifest or revealed in our flesh, just like God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. As such, what we do as we are moved by His Spirit expressed through our words, our eyes, our lips, and our bodies is a divine expression of God Himself, and thus holy.
We have been told for so long that physical expression of love between people, especially men and women, is inherently dangerous because it can so easily lead to sexual sin. Thus, we are admonished to avoid closeness at all costs, except in highly regulated situations. We have been taught to fear the intimacy that we desperately need. In effect, the Bride of Christ is being monitored by a fearful clergy that will not let us be intimate with our Bridegroom in the ways He longs for.
Whatever God does through your body is holy
A Holy Kiss is holy because it is God flowing through your lips to express His love to another. When a brother, led by the Spirit, holds a sister, married or not, because the Holy Spirit in him desires to love her, it is holy and safe. If a sister, led by the Spirit, sits closely and talks of intimate things with a brother, married or not, it is God ministering to that man. As we enter into these latter days, the move of the Spirit will be one of intimacy beyond anything that we can imagine. God will have His Bride in the way He desires, and no one will gainsay or resist his love.
When you make love, you do not analyze the feelings, you simply move as your heart desires. You open yourself up to receive love or give it, holding nothing back. Likewise, when loving our Lord, should we not yield our body, soul, and spirits to His desires, becoming whatever he wants or needs? Frankly, if you are going to be the Bride of Christ, and share His bed for eternity, is there anything you would not do for and to Him now?
Those who love as God leads, do not commit sin.
Our bodies are not sinful if we allow God’s Holy Spirit to take us over and flow through us. If we love someone as He desires to love them, all we do by His Spirit is pure and good. Moreover, we don’t need to understand why to say yes and let Him live through us; we simply need to trust.
I have both seen and personally experienced Divine Love, and it is a revelation. It is like seeing for the first time after being blind from birth. All those people who fear love and its holy expression are simply wrong – wrong like a blind man describing the colors of a rainbow. The absolute purity of it feels like the Garden of Eden, like a home we knew existed, but couldn’t find our way back.
It is not the act of expressing love to another, but how and why you do it. If God is leading you to hold someone who is hurting, male or female, married or not, it is God in you who is doing it. You are simply agreeing with your Lord’s heart and allowing Him to use your body to express His compassion.
Lastly, many Christians believe that even if God asked them to die as a martyr, rather than deny Him as Lord, it is His right. How much more (and far less unpleasant) is it God’s right to lead you to kiss another saint to show them, most intimately, that God loves them?
The Heavenly Music that God is about to play through the Body of Christ is only heard if each key yields to His touch and sounds its unique note.
