Daily Rhema: Fulfilment of the feast of tabernacles

1Corinthians 5:8 NKJV
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

The Old Testament contains shadows of realities we are now experiencing in the New Testament.

Colossians 2:16-17 KJV
Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

Some one has said that the Old Testament is the ‘glove’ while the New Testament is the ‘hand’ that fits the glove. When the ‘hand’ fits the ‘glove’ fully, then we say the scripture has been fulfilled or ‘fully-filled’.

In particular, the three annual feasts of Israel are shadows of three experiences we are to have in Christ.

Passover
The feast of Passover foreshadows our experience of being born-again (1Cor. 5:7-8). This was fulfilled when Christ died for us on the cross and was raised from the dead.

Pentecost
The feast of Pentecost foreshadows our experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues. This also was fulfilled in the early church as recorded in Acts 2:1-4.

Tabernacles
The feast of Tabernacles foreshadows our experience of coming to the measure of the fullness of the stature of Christ (John 7:2, 37-39).

The feast of Pentecost is also called the feast of the harvest of the first fruits, and the feast of weeks. This is because the outpouring of the Spirit in the feast of Pentecost was just the first fruits of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Church (Exo. 23:14-16, Deut. 16:16).

The outpouring of the Spirit in Pentecost was limited in measure. However the outpouring of the Spirit in the feast of Tabernacles will be without measure, as it was in the life of Jesus.

So in this experience of Tabernacles we will be endued with the Spirit without measure as Christ was and do the works Christ did and even greater (John 14:12-13).

John 3:34 (KJV)
For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.

This manifestation of the sons of God will lead to a world wide revival and harvest of the fruit of the Spirit in the Church, as well as the evangelization and discipleship of all the nations (tribes and tongues) of the earth. For this reason, it is also referred to as the feast of Ingathering (Exo. 34:22, Rom. 8:19, Isaiah 60:1-5).

As you can see, we already have experienced Passover and Pentecost. The fulfillment of Tabernacles is what we are waiting for now, in this third day.

Ephesians 4:13 AMPC
[That it might develop] until we all attain oneness in the faith and in the comprehension of the [full and accurate] knowledge of the Son of God, that [we might arrive] at really mature manhood (the completeness of personality which is nothing less than the standard height of Christ’s own perfection), the measure of the stature of the fullness of the Christ and the completeness found in Him.

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