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The Daily Word of Righteousness
Three Holy Convocations
Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty: (Deuteronomy 16:16)
The seven feasts are divided into three major convocations:
Passover, Unleavened Bread, Firstfruits.
Pentecost (the feast of Weeks).
Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Tabernacles.
The first convocation (Passover) portrays Christ as the High Priest of God; the second major convocation (Pentecost) portrays Christ as the Prophet of God; and the third convocation (Tabernacles) portrays Christ as the King of kings and Lord of lords.
Now we will discuss the redemption of the individual believer. Let us look at the three major convocations as representing three reapings of the believer's personality.
It may be somewhat enlightening to think of the three reapings as three deaths and three resurrections which the saint experiences. We may think of the three deaths as the death of the gate (leading into the Courtyard of the Tabernacle of the Congregation), the death of the door (leading into the Holy Place), and the death of the veil (leading into the Most Holy Place).
The first reaping. Although the Godhead is One and acts as One, it appears the Lord Jesus Christ is especially prominent in the first reaping, the death and resurrection typified by our entrance through the gate of the Courtyard of the Tabernacle. The first death and resurrection are typified also by the first of the three major convocations of the feasts of Israel (the feast of Unleavened Bread—Deuteronomy 16:16 above) and by the exodus from Egypt and crossing of the Red Sea.
We experience the first reaping, so to speak, when we accept the Lord Jesus as the atonement for our sins and put no confidence in our own ability to satisfy God by our righteous behavior. We no longer trust in our self-righteousness or our keeping of religious laws, and cast ourselves on the righteousness that is of God by faith in Christ.
The first death is death to the world. It is followed by the judgment of God on the gods of the world who have kept us in bondage. Calvary is the judgment of God on the gods of this age. The first death is followed by a first resurrection—a resurrection to the righteousness of God through Christ.
We walk from darkness into the light of God's Presence. We now are legally members of the Kingdom of God and eligible to press into the Kingdom. We are born again of God. We are baptized in water in obedience to God's command, portraying the fact that the authority and power of the kingdom of darkness have been left behind and we now are God's servants.
The first reaping occurs instantly. By faith we reckon ourselves dead with Christ and by faith we reckon ourselves alive with the resurrected Christ. Our new born-again personality is raised to sit with Christ in God. It is an instant death and an instant resurrection. From this time forth we walk in the righteousness of Christ that has been assigned freely (imputed) to us. We are clothed with His own righteousness.
To be continued.