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Christians do not know About the Tabernacle? Most

What Is the Tabernacle? The tabernacle is the greatest teaching-learning resource designed by the greatest teacher for the purpose of training mortal man how to worship, that is how to approach an immortal God’s magnificent majesty in spirit and truth. God foresaw that a fallen man would be limited in processing and retaining spiritual truths because we are disconnected from His presence. Much like being disconnected from the internet because our broadband is broken. W

Why Study the Tabernacle? The tabernacle was hardware developed so that we could have practical knowledge of spiritual truths, practice what we learned and demonstrate our learning with a righteous response to the tests of life. It is a simulated learning resource centre filled with successively, progressive lessons and assessments that last a lifetime.

It is a flat-packed, portable, multisensory and multidimensional classroom. It is a discipleship curriculum that will prepare us to live and reign with God in eternity. It demonstrates how Jesus will restore us back to fellowship with the father, returning us to our original estate as sons of God, no longer His enemy.

It is a transformational learning journey because as you begin the tour of the tabernacle you realise that a holographic projection of your life is being played out before your eyes and it is in real time. Each step is a lesson of truth that transforms you, as long as you engage and are willing to surrender your will.

Heavens’ Protocol of Worship It reveals the worship protocols of heaven and we get to join in with Heaven’s worship while remaining on our own time line. A protocol is [defined by Google online dictionary] as the official procedure or system of rules governing affairs of state or diplomatic occasions. Can anything be more official or auspicious than entering into God’s presence? The protocol of worship as delineated in the tabernacle is according to the Heavenly pattern. God never left it to chance or conjecture He was precise in outlining every minute detail of the tabernacle. This reveals something about God’s characterHe knows what He wants and how He wants things to be done. He is not random but loves order and structure. It’s His prerogative and we, in turn, should respect and fulfil His wishes.

To worship in heaven means to fall prostrate to be totally surrendered to the awesome presence of His omnipotent majesty. If I suggested to you that you may have never worshipped as heaven does in your life you may feel offended and say that I am out of order to even suggest such a thing. Maybe on a personal basis many of us have experienced God’s presence in this way but what about corporately? Shouldn’t it be an even richer experience together? I maintain that it is impossible to experience

God’s manifest presence and remain blaze` or indifferent, It is just TOO Awesome! Yet, I recall observing this while worship was ‘in progress’. This inherent contradiction dogged me for years and it remained irreconcilable with what I saw in scripture.

If by heavens’ standard- when the presence of God is manifest everything that is within man falls prostrate before God, then I ask you when last has this happened in any of our meetings and why not? Surely we have experienced high praises and joy but worship? I am beginning to realise not really, we are as a whole-body still in pursuit of that goal... the Glory of God manifest in our midst. Don’t we want to experience this? It can’t be God’s fault so we must look again to His instructions to us. What have we missed in our walk with Him? We are so privileged to be living in the age of the revelation of many things that were once sealed up and so it is we who must seek and, knock and ask God for the

revelation of those mysteries that now belong to us and our children.

The objective is for God to dwell within us No tabernacle or any temple can substitute- God desires to be reunited with us as He once was with Adam and Eve before the fall. RESTORATION has finally come to us in Jesus Christ and so we have the highly privileged position of reentering eternity and being seated again in heavenly places with Him in Spirit and in Truth. We progress from salvation -to sanctification -to service and finally complete surrender. Only the converted soul can contain the glory of God’s presence and His precious Zoe` life. Such a life has been dead to sin and awaits its immortal form when we see Him face to face... Hallelujah!

The current challenge is to CHANGE! We have to intentionally choose to be humble and accept that the patterns of worship that we have inherited traditionally and culturally and that we have become comfortable with may not be correct, in fact, it may be offending God because in spite of our sincerity it is not accurate. We have to accept also that the worship is NOT for us, it is for God alone. When we approach God biblically there is an audience of ONE. We bow down before God alone! Everything in our being is focussed on Him.

If you receive this revelation of worship as being temple- keeping then by the end of this teaching and learning experience you will never choose to live below the line of God’s standard for you again. You will gladly submit to the Holy Spirit’s discipleship of your life because you will be confident that His way is best and where He is taking you to is more than worth it. Let’s joyfully go with Him! p

By Angela Slack educator, curriculum/literacy specialist, technical author, editor and publisher