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Tabernacles: a Brief Biblical Basis
By: Justin Mangonel Date: November 27, 2012, 9:04 pm
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Love of the Spirit, or the spiritual bonding of the Body of
Christ through God’s divine love, is the New Testament
fulfillment of the feast of Tabernacles much like tongues is the
spiritual fulfillment of the feast of Pentecost. Like Pentecost
in the church age there is also a biblical basis for the feast
of Tabernacles in the New Testament church.
The basis of Spiritual love is the revealing (or manifestation)
of God’s love in and through us. As it is written,
“Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth
not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
1 John 4:7,8
Spiritual love, is in reality, the pure love that existed in the
Garden of Eden before the fall of Adam, and it is this same love
that God wishes to restore to His people. If we will be made
into God’s image and likeness our most prominent attribute will
be His most prominent attribute: love.
The unity of the Body of Christ will come not from men agreeing
on doctrine, but rather from the shared spiritual experience of
Tabernacles which is divine love. Natural members of a physical
body must listen to the instructions of the head in order to
work together in agreement. Likewise, as we become one with God
and submit fully to His headship the Body of Christ will
naturally come into agreement with one another and work in unity
through His Spirit.
It is written in the book of 1 Samuel,
“And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto
Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David,
and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.”
1 Samuel 18:1
This is an example of a supernatural love that God gave to
Jonathan in order that David might be protected from his father
Saul. Saul, being natural minded, could not understand
Jonathan’s devotion to David and said,
“Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said
unto him, Thou son of the perverse rebellious woman, do not I
know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own
confusion, and unto the confusion of thy mother’s nakedness? For
as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt
not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and
fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.”
1 Samuel 30, 31
To Saul’s natural understanding, Jonathan’s actions made no
sense because he could not understand the self-sacrificial love
that his son felt for David. Saul could not understand this type
of love because it was not of this Earth.
Finally, we see this type of love perfectly described in 1
Corinthians,
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in
the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all
things, endureth all things.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
To summarize, Spiritual love is simply the nature of God
revealed in and through His saints to this present creation.
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself and now God
is in the sons of God finishing the work Jesus began. It is any
wonder that spiritual fulfillment of Tabernacles is
characterized by intense and heavenly love?
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