The Daily Word of Righteousness

Symptoms of "Tabernacles", continued

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2—NIV)

Surely God has become your salvation. This is one of the principal symptoms of the "Tabernacles" experience. Prior to this time you have had some aspects of salvation. Now God Himself has become your salvation. The volleyball game is over. You now are on the same side of the net with God. No more deals in which you do something so you will get something back from God.

Now comes trust in God. It is trust rather than faith. Faith is the victory. Trust is helpless reliance on God. God's cripples trust in Him, like Jacob. Those whom God has lamed are infinitely stronger than the strongest of those who are still under the rain of Pentecost.

We trust now and will not be afraid as we enter the age of moral horrors on the horizon. In fact, it is the "Tabernacles" experience that will bring us through the tribulations of the future, not escape to Heaven but the fullness of God. The fullness of God is the best protection from danger, don't you agree?

We trust and are not afraid because God Himself has become our strength, our song, our salvation. Here is another principal symptom of "Tabernacles." We no longer are able to hang on, to work the moves, to trust our familiar cues that we think are saving us.

Now we are held in the hand of the Almighty. He is our Strength. What can I say? Tabernacles has to be experienced if it is to be understood. No longer are we holding God's hand. He is holding our hand. Much, much safer!

The wells of salvation are in us. We draw water from them with joy. The water slakes our thirst and the thirst of those who come to us. If they drink from our well they never will thirst again because that water is springing from God Himself.

In that day, the day when the Lord alone is exalted in our life, the day when we know Jesus is in the Father and we are in Him and He in us, we will give thanks to the Lord. We will call on His name. We will proclaim to all people, as God enables, what God has done. We will exalt Him.

We will sing of the glorious acts of God so others may come to the water of life. The Spirit and the Bride say, "Come!"

If we are faithful to the point of death while we are being tested, not seeking to save our life, not compromising our integrity, we will sing and dance in the heights of Zion when the world is in flames. The prisoners will hear us and many will be released.

What we have described above is the fullness of the Christian salvation.

We referred previously to the forty-seventh chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. There we find the Spirit of God to the ankles, to the knees, to the hips, and finally as waters to swim in, a river that cannot be crossed.

To be continued.