How Do Atonement, Tabernacles & 8th Day Apply to YOU?
Maybe it is somewhat providential that I recently came across two messages that I gave over two decades ago. This is the second of those two messages. This was given in 2000, at the Cincinnati North congregation of the United Church of God.
Presentation Notes – Intro
Fall Holy Day Season – Value of Feasts
Last message – Trumpets
Principal of scale, octaves – music
Augments Historical Prophetic Time-Line – doesn’t replace
Christianity is Personal, Pragmatic & Practical
They are full of profound meaning for our DAILY lives
More breadth in this message
Atonement – Access to Most Holy Place – God’s Throne
Hebrews 9:6 Now when these things had been thus prepared, the priests always went into the first part of the tabernacle, performing the services. 7But into the second part the high priest went alone once a year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the people’s sins committed in ignorance; 8the Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet made manifest while the first tabernacle was still standing.
Death to those going into the Most Holy Place Leviticus 16:1
Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Satan’s banishment (Leviticus 16:21; Revelation 20:2)
Luke 10:18 And He said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”
But do we exercise that power?
Matthew 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, “Why could we not cast it out?” 20So Jesus said to them, “Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. 21However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting.”
Christ spent 40 days in the wilderness fasting and praying before He confronted Satan. (Matthew 4:1-11)
At-One-Ment
Tabernacles – Life’s journey as a pilgrim
1 Peter 2:11 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
Hebrews 11:13-16 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. 15And truly if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
1 Corinthians 10:5-11 But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.
6Now these things became our examples, to the intent that we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. 7And do not become idolaters as were some of them. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” 8Nor let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell; 9nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents; 10nor complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.
Egypt is more real to us. We’ve already been there. The wilderness is real. We’re in it.
Is everyone in the wilderness? No, the Egyptians weren’t in the wilderness.
Ignorance is bliss.
The law of the Farm. It takes time from the time of planting to the fruit.
Numbers 32:11 Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, 12except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’ 13So the LORD’S anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.
Two out of over a million made it into the Promised Land in their lifetime.
Last Great (8th) Day
Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one’s birth.
Hebrews 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once,
Revelation 2:10 Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
Philippians 1:21-23 For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 22But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. 23For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better.
Hebrews 2:14 Inasmuch then as the children have partaken of flesh and blood, He Himself likewise shared in the same, that through death He might destroy him who had the power of death, that is, the devil, 15and release those who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
8=new beginning
Conclusion
Atonement:
Access to God’s merciful throne of grace & binding of Satan is available to us NOW
Tabernacles:
A journey from Egypt to the Kingdom. Let’s be focused on the Kingdom NOW.
Last Great (8th) Day:
Death will have no permanent power over us. It’s our path to the resurrection. Let’s run with endurance until the last day of our life.
