Lovesick
Tabernacle of David:
David put up a tent to house of the ark of God that was temporarily staged in Kirjath Jearim after being returned by the Philistines for all the trouble it caused them after being captured at the time of the death of Eli and his sons.
On the second try, David asked the Levites to sanctify themselves and bring the ark in to Jerusalem.
It is important to know that Jerusalem,which means teaching of peace, was formerly known as Jebus, or "threshing." This was the stronghold of the Jebusites. The Jebusites were the last of seven nations that had formerly occupied the promised Land. God gave Israel a list of the seven nations that would be driven out of the land of promise. The Jebusite nation was the last. Until David became king over all of Israel, the Jebusite stronghold of Jebus remained.
When David was made king over a united Israel, Israel all came together and took the city of Jebus. David renamed the city " The City of David."
Jebus represented the last stronghold of what was resisting God's promise for his people. David pitched a tent for the ark of the covenant which, according to the levitical pattern, was supposed to be in the tabernacle Moses was given the plans for. In Moses' Tabernacke there were special sections and the holy of holies that only the priest could enter. David temporarily ignored that!
David knew that eventually this house, a permanent place for the worship order prescribed by God, would be built again, but, just as Moses had pitched the tent of meeting in anticipation of the Tabernacle...in an act of risk...faith...that God would be pleased with His reach for what God wanted....David pitched a tent and moved the ark into Jerusalem, once called threshing. Not only that, David setup an altar of sacrifice on Ornans threshing floor, which we now know as the Temple Mount. David bought that piece of ground from Ornan to pay for the sin of numbering the armies of Israel, rather than trusting in the strength of the Lord:
1 Chronicles 21:14So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. 15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the LORD looked and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. So David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 17And David said to God, “Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.” 18Therefore, the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD. 20Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat. 21So David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David with his face to the ground. 22Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the LORD. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.” 23But Ornan said to David, “Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all.” 24Then King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing.” 25So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. 26And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and He answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering. 27So the LORD commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath. 28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29For the tabernacle of the LORD and the altar of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in Gibeon. 30But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 3:1Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
The tabernacle of David, or tent of David was a precursor to the temple, just as the tabernacle of meeting was a precursor to Moses' tabernacle. David's tabernacle was open to anyone...anyone could go in to the presence of God and worship and that worship was intended to thresh...to sift out a people from a people that would go forward with God into the building of the temple.
The same is promised to happen in our day:
Amos 9:9“For surely I will command,A And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. 10All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’ 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; 12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” Says the LORD who does this thing.
Just as in David's day, God has commanded that a people would see Israel being sifted among the nations and they would pitch tents where they were....they would sacrifice their time and money, just like David, because there would be a corrupted altar in Israel and it would be dangerous to go to the place of sacrifice (Jesus said when you see the corrupted altar, get out of Judea! Mat 24:15)....they would get as close as they knew how to worshiping God in spirit and truth as a precursor to a purified and holy worship center on the Temple Mount that will be built by Jesus after his coming. This rebuilt tabernacle of David will thresh out a people who want to go forward with God into what is next...it will thresh out a Bride:
This is the point of the Church. According to the Bible, this is the destiny of being a Gentile believer! I heard recently someone say they didn't really know what being a 'Christian' meant. This is actually what it means: to submit to the leadership of Jesus so you are ready to live with Him forever. That submission will bring you to a place like David. Jesus is the root and offspring OF David! All the prophets in the Old Testament, according to James, were really prophesying this.
When the Lord says "seek my face" the Bride says "your face I will seek.". She doesn't wait for someone to build the house, she comes as close as she can, and the Lord does the rest.
This is what this passage is talking about:
John 4:19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20“Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22“You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The only right way to do this is not by might, not by power, but by the Holy Spirit.
The rebuilt Tabernacles of David are being erected even now. Will we despise it, or will we despise the indignation as we go in and worship in Spirit and Truth?
1 Chronicles 16:27David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music master with the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. 28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps. 29And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in her heart.
David wasn't a priest, but he wore the garments of one. David was lovesick. So is God.
Are we?
David put up a tent to house of the ark of God that was temporarily staged in Kirjath Jearim after being returned by the Philistines for all the trouble it caused them after being captured at the time of the death of Eli and his sons.
On the second try, David asked the Levites to sanctify themselves and bring the ark in to Jerusalem.
It is important to know that Jerusalem,which means teaching of peace, was formerly known as Jebus, or "threshing." This was the stronghold of the Jebusites. The Jebusites were the last of seven nations that had formerly occupied the promised Land. God gave Israel a list of the seven nations that would be driven out of the land of promise. The Jebusite nation was the last. Until David became king over all of Israel, the Jebusite stronghold of Jebus remained.
When David was made king over a united Israel, Israel all came together and took the city of Jebus. David renamed the city " The City of David."
Jebus represented the last stronghold of what was resisting God's promise for his people. David pitched a tent for the ark of the covenant which, according to the levitical pattern, was supposed to be in the tabernacle Moses was given the plans for. In Moses' Tabernacke there were special sections and the holy of holies that only the priest could enter. David temporarily ignored that!
David knew that eventually this house, a permanent place for the worship order prescribed by God, would be built again, but, just as Moses had pitched the tent of meeting in anticipation of the Tabernacle...in an act of risk...faith...that God would be pleased with His reach for what God wanted....David pitched a tent and moved the ark into Jerusalem, once called threshing. Not only that, David setup an altar of sacrifice on Ornans threshing floor, which we now know as the Temple Mount. David bought that piece of ground from Ornan to pay for the sin of numbering the armies of Israel, rather than trusting in the strength of the Lord:
1 Chronicles 21:14So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel, and seventy thousand men of Israel fell. 15And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was destroying, the LORD looked and relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who was destroying, “It is enough; now restrain your hand.” And the angel of the LORD stood by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 16Then David lifted his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between earth and heaven, having in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. So David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. 17And David said to God, “Was it not I who commanded the people to be numbered? I am the one who has sinned and done evil indeed; but these sheep, what have they done? Let Your hand, I pray, O LORD my God, be against me and my father’s house, but not against Your people that they should be plagued.” 18Therefore, the angel of the LORD commanded Gad to say to David that David should go and erect an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 19So David went up at the word of Gad, which he had spoken in the name of the LORD. 20Now Ornan turned and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves, but Ornan continued threshing wheat. 21So David came to Ornan, and Ornan looked and saw David. And he went out from the threshing floor, and bowed before David with his face to the ground. 22Then David said to Ornan, “Grant me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar on it to the LORD. You shall grant it to me at the full price, that the plague may be withdrawn from the people.” 23But Ornan said to David, “Take it to yourself, and let my lord the king do what is good in his eyes. Look, I also give you the oxen for burnt offerings, the threshing implements for wood, and the wheat for the grain offering; I give it all.” 24Then King David said to Ornan, “No, but I will surely buy it for the full price, for I will not take what is yours for the LORD, nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing.” 25So David gave Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place. 26And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on the LORD; and He answered him from heaven by fire on the altar of burnt offering. 27So the LORD commanded the angel, and he returned his sword to its sheath. 28At that time, when David saw that the LORD had answered him on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he sacrificed there. 29For the tabernacle of the LORD and the altar of the burnt offering, which Moses had made in the wilderness, were at that time at the high place in Gibeon. 30But David could not go before it to inquire of God, for he was afraid of the sword of the angel of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 3:1Now Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. 2And he began to build on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.
The tabernacle of David, or tent of David was a precursor to the temple, just as the tabernacle of meeting was a precursor to Moses' tabernacle. David's tabernacle was open to anyone...anyone could go in to the presence of God and worship and that worship was intended to thresh...to sift out a people from a people that would go forward with God into the building of the temple.
The same is promised to happen in our day:
Amos 9:9“For surely I will command,A And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground. 10All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’ 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; 12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” Says the LORD who does this thing.
Just as in David's day, God has commanded that a people would see Israel being sifted among the nations and they would pitch tents where they were....they would sacrifice their time and money, just like David, because there would be a corrupted altar in Israel and it would be dangerous to go to the place of sacrifice (Jesus said when you see the corrupted altar, get out of Judea! Mat 24:15)....they would get as close as they knew how to worshiping God in spirit and truth as a precursor to a purified and holy worship center on the Temple Mount that will be built by Jesus after his coming. This rebuilt tabernacle of David will thresh out a people who want to go forward with God into what is next...it will thresh out a Bride:
Acts 15:13And after they had become silent, James answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me: 14“Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. 15“And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: 16‘After this I will return And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, And I will set it up; 17So that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, Says the LORD who does all these things.’ 18“Known to God from eternity are all His works.
This is the point of the Church. According to the Bible, this is the destiny of being a Gentile believer! I heard recently someone say they didn't really know what being a 'Christian' meant. This is actually what it means: to submit to the leadership of Jesus so you are ready to live with Him forever. That submission will bring you to a place like David. Jesus is the root and offspring OF David! All the prophets in the Old Testament, according to James, were really prophesying this.
When the Lord says "seek my face" the Bride says "your face I will seek.". She doesn't wait for someone to build the house, she comes as close as she can, and the Lord does the rest.
This is what this passage is talking about:
John 4:19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20“Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22“You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23“But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The only right way to do this is not by might, not by power, but by the Holy Spirit.
The rebuilt Tabernacles of David are being erected even now. Will we despise it, or will we despise the indignation as we go in and worship in Spirit and Truth?
1 Chronicles 16:27David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who bore the ark, the singers, and Chenaniah the music master with the singers. David also wore a linen ephod. 28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps. 29And it happened, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in her heart.
David wasn't a priest, but he wore the garments of one. David was lovesick. So is God.
Are we?
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