Through the blood, we enter in through the torn body of Christ into perfection.  Not merely living in the faith of the outward works, nor even abiding in the flow of the Spirit, but pressing on to complete consummation and indwelling of Him.

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

Hosea 6:3

It is here that no one need to teach us, saying, Know the Lord.  It may come at other places, but here, there is a knowing in the cloud, and a revelation in the glory.

Above the ark, between the cherubim, the only light of the Holiest of all was God Himself.  No source and no supply, no beginning nor end.

It was here that Jesus lived, in His innermost man, perfect, untouched, and one with the Father, in that spot.

Consider, then, this parable.  The unsaved Jew looks forward, wrongly, to the day that his Passover Lamb from God will arrive.  Having missed Jesus, he does not recognize that the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world has already come.  In condemnation, He is alienated from the life of God, though, he studies the scriptures.  Because he does not recognize that it was Christ all the time that Moses was speaking, he remains with the veil upon his eyes and ears.

In contrast, the non-spirit-filled, merely evangelical Christian, rightly believing the cross, recognizes the Lamb has come, but refuses the Spirit’s Baptism.  They look forward to the release of the Kingdom, and the first-fruits, not realizing that they are already here, and are being quite enjoyed by the Pentecostals down the way.  They too, are distant from much of the life of God because they have not far progressed beyond the outward works of the cross.  They see the tabernacle for what it is, but because they never enter in more fully through an understanding faith, they rarely progress further into anything dealing with true holiness, which must come from above.  And, Hence, you see much focus on the physical suffering and ordeals of the man Christ Jesus, with detailed studies, depictions, and remunerations of His physical passion.  Because there is no outward recognition of the inward reality of the Most Holy, they revolve around the surface, never entering in towards the source.  Tending to put all joy and bliss and real, practical authority of the Kingdom to some distant future, such as the Millennium or some further date (not realizing that Jesus had all authority in Matthew 28:18), they lack the insight to see the Kingdom Here, right in the midst of us.  They keep putting off the real deliverance from sin and salvation of the Kingdom, including the signs, wonders, and miracles, to some future date, never praying in faith “Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven”, because faith says “now”, not “some day”.  Because they can never pray in faith, they never receive, and, so they wait.  Saved, but blind, for though the believer dwells in the fullness of Christ from beginning to end, they do not perceive Him well enough on the inside of the tabernacle, to those deeper realms, to the inner life, and the man within the man, and hence remain unchanged.  But let them be proven right before God in the genuineness of their own faith.

Further in, though, we get to the Pentecostals and the Charismatics.  They rejoice greatly in the Spirit and the inward light shed, and in the recognizing their Savior. They receive the benefits of Pentecost with the tongues, the gifts, the joy and peace.  They have learned (and, sadly today, nearly forgotten), that it is the anointing that breaks the yoke, that nothing of the flesh profits, but only the Spirit gives life.  They have learned how to operate in the gifts, in tongues, prophesies, in miracles to a measure, and to deliverances.  Yet, quite often, some things are still not in their fullness, are they?  Many have a form–they sing the songs and have services.  But, sometimes at least, they are missing what lies just Beyond their reach.  In their inability to remove the stumbling blocks and the rocks within their own hearts, and in their failure to either separate or stay separated from the world (Matthew 13:1-9), in their failure to simply see and believe, they fail to bring forth  the fruitfulness–that is, Life!  They have The Way, unlike the Jew.  They have the Truth, the light of the Holy Spirit and a measure of the unity of the brethren.  Unlike the saved, sincere, yet wrong, Baptist that is solidly against speaking in tongues, they enjoy the things of God.  But, quite often, they are stuck in a dead way of what they call “life”.

But, if we remember, it was never the operation of the gifts in which God was interested.  He warned that though mighty miracles and prophesies and casting out of demons were done in His name, if we live in iniquity and not in Him, we are none of His (Matthew 7:21-23).  Unless the religious either retain what is had or progress into life, they tend live in their programs, in their particular doctrines, which may or may not be correct, and in their own way.  They do their church, but the free flow of the Gospel river is not seen among them.  As for tending towards the baptisms (Hebrews 6:1), they are generally strongly directed, but so far as it comes to the Lord Himself, to seeking His face (Psalm 24:6), where can it be found?  This then, is the problem.  Temple service can seem wonderful, but it can still be merely man’s exercise.  As one may feel secure in that they definitively see a deeper reality than those who merely stay without, the flesh may find that it prefers the duties of crushing the olives, of trimming the lamps, of arranging the shewbread, and, even of burning the holy incense before the Lord.  But, do they have Him?  For, no flesh may glory, and while the Holy place is about service, the final is only about Him, and can be nothing else.  In all our getting, and all our acts, the most important one of all, yea, even the only thing required, is only ever, to fall at His feet.  Failing this, for pride, position, recognition, or politics, many have remained, built great edifices, and shipwrecked the true faith for themselves and many others.  As for Jesus’ prayer that they would be One even as He and the Father were One (John 17:11), some may touch it and a few may understand, but as a body, in general, in these places, it is not known?  For the most part, those who find not the innermost dwelling, do not know these things, and for that, the body is left robbed, naked, and poor (Revelation 3:17).

Some, of course, do find it, but for many, there is that missing element, that missing piece.  There is a some sort of disconnect between the natural life and that heavenly realm of the Spirit.  Worse still, there is an elevation of the institution, of that mundane religion which exalts one brother above another, setting one in Lordship over the Lord’s heritage, contrary to the Word (1 Peter 5:3). Having secured the doctrines of salvation by faith alone, and the necessity of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, how often they have simply fallen back into the mundane, into the institution of church, and relied upon the organization rather than on the Living One.  In such a structure, instead of spirituality being recognized in true agape love and faithfulness, it is too often regarded in the deacon-ship and in the political standing before men, and in governmental seating upon a platform, which God hates.  Because the office endued by man takes the precedence over that which is bestowed only by God, the people are blinded to the true treasure, the littlest seed, even Christ.  In this, they are cut off from the true stream, and left only to wonder longingly for the land over the Jordan, the promised inheritance of the saints, and so there are no mighty works.

These are the religious, who though abounding in outward efforts and works, they do not go on to know the Lord.

These are lacking the greater thing.  They don’t seem to make it over the edge to where nothing matters but the cross.  You don’t always see them laying their lives down in the greatest love of all, giving their lives for their friends (John 15:13).  You don’t see them, or any body bound in religious institution with nothing of their own effort, as a body, but wholly given for who Christ is in all of His splendor and the completeness of what His cross has done, in all its entirety.  Paul and the early apostles did all this, and are our example.  As they followed Christ, we follow them.  But somehow, lacking the vision for something Beyond being baptized in water and the Spirit, of being completely one with the Lord, we fail to seek first His Kingdom continually, the invisible, perfect, heavenly, awesomeness of His domain, inseparable from Him Himself.  But, they, those who are merely in illumination of the Spirit but not in the Oneness with Him, unless they too continue looking forward to something greater, somehow miss the obvious,  miss the invisible, miss the wholeness of His Gospel to every creature in the world.  And, manifestly, what is missed, what is lost, and overlooked, is His heart.

This is the end of all our instruction, that which was originally given to Adam, and that which is being restored to us through our common salvation through the faith which we are contending earnestly for, even His Face.  For, in His image, he created us, and by His likeness are are His.  For, Jesus is the image of the invisible God (Colossians 1:15), and it is in looking like Him that we are once again restored to godliness.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 14:6

The goal is a pure heart, and only in such is the Kingdom established.  Only in the pure heart with unfeigned love do we abide in God (1 John 4:16-17), and thus do we testify that we are in Him.  And, to those who would be godly in this world, to this rule we are called, not to any outward show, but manifestly that which flows from our innermost being, in accordance with faith, which is Christ’s.

But to those who pursue, looking ultimately to the time that we will be fully tabernacled with the Lord, meet with Him in His Holy Hill, and are made One.  They enter the Holiest of all, and with nothing to offer of their own, they stand with unveiled faces, beholding His beauty.

So, then, there is the “glory junkie”.  Who is the glory fanatic?  The who can know anything else!  Who can say anything other than that in that place we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory!  Unlike the unsaved Jew, he has the blood.  Unlike the Baptist, he has the Spirit.  And, unlike the mere Pentecostal or Charismatic, well, how can we put this?  He just rolls on the floor and laughs!  Somehow, in a fit of love and lost intimacy, he lost his mind and come into the mind of Christ.  Forever changed.  Forever sealed.  Beyond the mortal world which will pass away, he is alone and one with Christ.

For, it is in the fullness of the manifest revelation of Christ that all true believers are first of all called to and second of all instructed to walk within, in the light of the Gospels.  Whether it is realized or not, from the beginning, it has always been the inward place that has mattered, the life of the Spirit.  Only God will get the glory, for it is His salvation alone.  But, as outward actions and even some emotion (though rooted in self) can be produced, there is no operation of man, only Spirit, within the innermost chamber.  Either God dwells within, or you’re a devil (John 6:70).

And, while the youngest believer who truly believes has God in His fullness within, it is borne out and demonstrated as each step is made, and each word is spoken.

Even Judas the traitor moved in the miracles.  He prophesied and cast out demons by operation the Spirit (the Holy Place).  But, he never knew Jesus in the inner.  He never saw Him who was Eternal, though he saw His physical form and a portion of His nature, He never knew Him, and was known by Him.  Rather, being carnal at the very core, he demonstrated his true self through betrayal, and surrendered the Eternal for a price.

Don’t you see the difference?  Don’t you see how, at the bottom of his heart was still wickedness?

But, the true heart, motivated by God alone, and directed by His Holy Spirit, demonstrates the works of God, as though it were God Himself within him doing the acts (John 14:10).  Anything else is always a show, and is always false.  And, so, by the Spirit, when we discern the spirit of the deeds, we, like Jesus, say of this one, He is of god, and of that one, He is a devil.  Simply because of the Spirit!

As even the divining girl grieved Paul’s spirit, though she spoke factual things, he rebuked that spirit of divination (python), and forced it to leave her, so that her handlers were greatly distressed for their lass of revenue.

It is in this dimension, where the spirit of the words spoken, and they were false words though they spoke facts, were discerned.  It is in this place that every act, every deed, and every word is judged.  And, it is in this place, this fullness of the Tabernacle, that all true saints of God are demonstrated that they are of God, because they have love one for another.

In this is the greatest deception against the coming Sons, not in that they must be of power, or that they must be of love, but that this great power and this great love work one in the same, so that the greatest powers ever released are governed, constrained, and bound to the image of Him who created them, namely Christ.

It isn’t merely in that they are powerful, that they have such great faith in God, but that this dimension of His greatness within is so coupled, bound, and surrendered to His wholeness, that, having lost this world with nothing to gain, they have gained Christ.  Not that others haven’t as well, but they are trusted with His greatness within, each according to his kind, such that the world notices, and darkness cannot overcome them.  For, it is not merely in the power that one is preserved, for there is always one greater, but it is in submitting that power to the one who submitted it to them, so that in Him, they are more than conquerors.

So, you see, the question isn’t are these things valid or required, Moses said they were!  Each of these three feasts required the full participation of all in Israel.  Rather, the question is simply, How Good is He?

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Romans 8:19

Paul wrote considering the revealing of the  Sons of God, those who are of that Eternal glory of God.  While the ultimate fulfillment of this will come at the Harvest, both Peter and Paul wrote that we are partakers of it today.  If, by Peter’s example, a mere taste is enough to heal people with one’s shadow (Acts 5:15), and by no means is this set forth as a limit by Scripture, what prevents us from entering into similar dimensions with the Lord, and knowing Him as much as we can today.  The question is not so much of when the fullness will come, for that will come at its appropriate time, but rather, as God is no respecter of persons, why should we not enter into that self-same glory of which others have partially tasted, and get another taste?  As Peter said He had a measure then, so much more should we, who are of the later house, have the greater glory than that!

Whether we receive the fullness of His perfection in this life or in the next one, it does not prevent us from looking for that illumination of His Glory alone, which is able to bring us to perfect life and oneness with Him now, even as Jesus Himself asked.

Even consider History. Does not even the testimony of church and revival past clearly show us that there is more than what we currently have today?  Does not the testimony of both the Scripture and the sure, time-proven historical moves of God show that there this Gospel is so great that there are people who have some measure, and yet some have more.  There are those who have a good, solid salvation, and then there are those outsanding saints, those worthy of greater honor, who demonstrate that there is yet a living flame, an aspect and a depth of God which we have not yet grasped in whole?

Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known.

1 Corinthians 13:8-12 NASB

At the end of this age, knowledge will be done away with.  Him which we have known only in part, we will then fully know, even as we are fully known (v12).  Then, at that day, the complete fulfillment of both Romans 8:19 and the feast of Tabernacles will be realized.  But, today, while it is still today, He is still that Tent.  The same Tabernacle He was since the beginning, He will be for all of time, and it is still in the Presence of the Holy that we have, according to Paul, access to come before Him boldly and with confidence, asking anything.

It is into the Most Holy place, into the very presence of the Almighty God Himself, that we can come without fear, albeit reverently, in joyful celebration and peace, obtaining the mercy and grace to help in time of need.  This same glory that Jesus had, He has given to us (John 17:22), not necessarily the glory of the creator with which He asked to be restored, but with that glory of the living Tabernacle, the Most Holiness of God, and the perfect man, that, as Peter writes, we become partakers of His divine nature through His precious and magnificent promises, through Faith!  (2 Peter 1:4).

Sovereignty is important to consider, but the moment we allow that to be an excuse to disregard the direct command of Scripture, the portion that God HAS entrusted to us, we have disobeyed, see?  For, God said to earnestly desire the Spirituals, especially that we might prophesy (1 Corinthians 14:1).  If you say, “God will give it to me if He wants me to have it.”, then, directly, you are disobeying scripture.  If you say, “I don’t have to ask”, you circumvent the command of Jesus in that He told you to ask (Matthew 7:7).  God, in His Sovereignty, has put responsibility in the hands of men, and if by reason of burying that talent entrusted we find we produce nothing, it will be taken away from us and given to someone who will produce its fruit.

Much controversy has been stirred over the concept of the manifestation of God’s true Man, the mature body of Christ.  Perhaps, indeed, there will one day a rise a whole generation of believers that will fully embrace the things of God’s Kingdom.  Truly, all of creation has been waiting for this, since the beginning with the fall of the first Adam.  But, whether it is through the course of the ages, or whether it is measure upon measure, faith to faith, and glory to glory, the measure that Peter walked in has not departed, nor diminished, for of the increase of His, Jesus’, government and peace, there will be no end (Isaiah 9:7).  Not just no end of the government, but of the increase of that government!

But, this one new man, the church, is all the body of Christ there is upon the Earth.  And so as much as the Kingdom of God must come forth, until He comes, it must come through us.  If men like the apostles had not followed, their fruit would not have been brought forth.  If, throughout church history, men of God had not stood up in the strength of the Spirit, their labors would not have happened.  Except for the labors, born of the Spirit, within us, the Kingdom God has ordained to be brought upon the Earth through us will not come forth by our hands.  Except we stand, and do His will, though He will bring forth His purpose one way or another, His work will not happen.  No matter how it looks, and no matter the fact that it is only Him from beginning to end, unless we pray, unless we labor, unless we go and preach, unless we both hear and obey, as a body, there is no substance, as faith without works is dead!  From the youngest babe in Christ, to the greatest who is the servant, we must serve the weaker, and we must arise in faith and in the Spirit of God.

If we look at those who have gone before, remembering their faith, can we see that there is more, even in this life?  If we see that Jesus said greater works, He wasn’t just talking quality or some other thing, but greater in every facet simply because He was going to the Father. What, then, is the limit to His grace?

For, truly, nothing is impossible for him who believes!

And, so this must be our Anthem.  Lest the Word be made void because of our traditions (Matthew 15:6).  When we choose to follow men, when we look to systems in the place of Christ, when we look to anything other than the Spirit of the Living God for every facet of every part of our life, in an ever increasing measure, we become religious, and have stepped off the Highway of His Holiness.  Only by His Grace do we find it, and only by continuing day by day, step by step, do we remain thereupon.