Corporate Worship
There is a false teaching in the church that reduces the Tabernacle of David to the personal experience of the presence of God. The personal experience of God's presence is vital, but it isn't David's Tabernacle.
David's Tabernacle isn't about God coming to you, it is about you coming to God. Coming in to the corporate place of His presence.
A ton of verses, Old Testament and New Testament, express this. Here are a couple:
Amos 9:11 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
In the "days of old", David spent the vast majority of his time and money establishing a community center for coming together to prophetically worship God. The point is the community aspect of it. This is the Spirit of Elijah...turning the hearts of children to fathers and fathers to children lest you be destroyed by the curse of judgment. We have to learn to get along prophetically.
A second from the New Testament:
Hebrews 10:19-27 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, (20) by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, (21) and having a High Priest over the house of God, (22) let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (23) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. (24) And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, (25) not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
The entire end time Bride will spend her time in the Tabernacle of David. Shepherds after His own heart will gather them together:
Jeremiah 3:14-17 "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the LORD, "that they will say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. (17) "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
Don't settle for theology that takes the grand promises and reduces them to your personal experience of God because this sort of thinking will cost you the wedding. You aren't the Bride by yourself...and can't be. The Bride is a family....a cloud of witnesses. One, yet many.
It is costly to stay in personal and present relationships with people, but we have to learn how to do it at cost. Heaven won't make people get along. Those who dwell there spent themselves learning that on earth.
Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (15) But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Revelation 21:23-27 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. (24) And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. (25) Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). (26) And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. (27) But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
David's Tabernacle isn't about God coming to you, it is about you coming to God. Coming in to the corporate place of His presence.
A ton of verses, Old Testament and New Testament, express this. Here are a couple:
Amos 9:11 "On that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
In the "days of old", David spent the vast majority of his time and money establishing a community center for coming together to prophetically worship God. The point is the community aspect of it. This is the Spirit of Elijah...turning the hearts of children to fathers and fathers to children lest you be destroyed by the curse of judgment. We have to learn to get along prophetically.
A second from the New Testament:
Hebrews 10:19-27 Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the Holiest by the blood of Jesus, (20) by a new and living way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh, (21) and having a High Priest over the house of God, (22) let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. (23) Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. (24) And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, (25) not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching. (26) For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, (27) but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.
The entire end time Bride will spend her time in the Tabernacle of David. Shepherds after His own heart will gather them together:
Jeremiah 3:14-17 "Return, O backsliding children," says the LORD; "for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. (15) And I will give you shepherds according to My heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. (16) "Then it shall come to pass, when you are multiplied and increased in the land in those days," says the LORD, "that they will say no more, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they visit it, nor shall it be made anymore. (17) "At that time Jerusalem shall be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations shall be gathered to it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts.
Don't settle for theology that takes the grand promises and reduces them to your personal experience of God because this sort of thinking will cost you the wedding. You aren't the Bride by yourself...and can't be. The Bride is a family....a cloud of witnesses. One, yet many.
It is costly to stay in personal and present relationships with people, but we have to learn how to do it at cost. Heaven won't make people get along. Those who dwell there spent themselves learning that on earth.
Revelation 22:14-15 Blessed are those who do His commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may enter through the gates into the city. (15) But outside are dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters, and whoever loves and practices a lie.
Revelation 21:23-27 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. (24) And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light, and the kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it. (25) Its gates shall not be shut at all by day (there shall be no night there). (26) And they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. (27) But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life.
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