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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One New Man, #6
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:2`1-23)
The depth of the above passage is not readily grasped. The only manner in which we will come to any understanding of it is to experience what it declares.
Of note are the following concepts:
The oneness of the Father, the Son, and the saints.
The redemption that comes to the world as a result of the oneness of the Father, the Son, and the saints.
The giving of the Glory of Christ to the saints.
The fact that the Father loves the elect as He loves Christ.
Because of the oneness of the saints with the Father and the Son, the world will come to believe and know that the Father has sent Jesus, and has loved the members of Jesus' Body as He loves Jesus.
Here is the one new Man, the Kingdom of God, the glorified Church, the new Jerusalem. The world will be redeemed through the Glory of God in Christ in the saints. The nations will keep the feast of Tabernacles by coming up to Jerusalem and partaking of the spiritual Life that flows from God through Christ through the saints.
The nations willing to come up to Jerusalem and receive of the Life of Christ in the saints will enter eternal life. But the nations that are unwilling to come and receive of Christ in His saints, to keep the feast of Tabernacles, on them will be no rain of the Spirit of God—and perhaps no physical rain as well.
And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. (Zechariah 14:17)
In the light of what we have just discussed concerning the one new Man, let us return to our eight questions.
1. In what manner did we Christians keep the feast of Tabernacles in Jerusalem during the 1985 celebration?
We kept the feast of Tabernacles, not by dwelling in booths for seven days, nor by offering an offering made by fire, nor by bringing the four species to the synagogue, but by coming up to Jerusalem and learning of the coming of the King to cleanse our temples and to make us the eternal dwelling place of the Father and Himself—the one new Man who Himself is the Kingdom of God and the Tabernacle of God.
We have "read in the book in the law of God distinctly."
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading. (Nehemiah 8:8)
To be continued.