sermonette: Seeking A New Home


Clyde Finklea
Given 15-Oct-19; Sermon #FT19-02s; 18 minutes

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The research of E. W. Bullinger compellingly suggests that our Savior was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, September 29, 4 B.C. As the ancient Israelites lived in booths during their trek through the wilderness to the Promised Land, so Jesus Christ "tabernacled" with us in a physical body, a metaphorical tent, preparing a permanent dwelling for His called-out ones when they enter the Kingdom of God in glorified spiritual bodies. We, along with Father Abraham, are seeking a permanent dwelling in God's Kingdom. In our on-going sanctification process, we are not yet home, but trudging along the way in our spiritual pilgrimage.




Well, it was in 1975 that I first learned about the meaning of these appointed times. You know, Passover pictured the sacrifice of Christ. These are the things that the way we learned it in the beginning, the days of unlive and bread pitcher to putting sin or levi out of our life leven which Pentecost picturing the receiving of the Holy Spirit piece of trumpets, picturing the return of Christ, the Day of Atonement, picturing the binding of Satan and being at one with God and um the piece of tabernacles pitching the millennium and the Last Great Day. Of course, the second resurrection. Now as years have gone by, we come to understand that there may just be a little more meaning to these, to these early days. For example, we do not actually put sin out of our life. Christ does. Um And as far as the days of B 11 bread are concerned, you know, we put the 11 out, which is symbol of sin before the days of B 11 bread began. So the days of unlearned bread, as I see, it is more of a focus on um feeding up on the young perfect un bread from heaven, which is Jesus Christ. And we look at Pentecost or if you look at Pentecost, you go to Peter's first sermon. Where does he draw that from? He puts it squarely in the day of the Lord cause he draws from Joel, speaking about Christ, God pouring his spirit out on all flesh. So the church then basically is a forerunner of first roots of that. This going to be fulfilled. Again when Christ returns, that's when he brings um the remnant of Israel, he'll bring them back and he's going to force a spit out on all those remnants from little boys and girls to old people. Now, during the Feast of Tabernacles, you know, we heard a lot of sermons and sermon that on how people um on how we will be beating the weapons and to plow shears and what a wonderful, you know, time it's going to be during the millennial reign of Christ. And certainly these are, these are right and we are most likely going to hear even more of these messages during this feast. But when I tried to connect tabernacles, let's just say you want to look up the Feast of Tabernacles and then try to connect it to the millennium. Found it kind of difficult to do a again, do not misunderstand me now because I do believe it does picture that. But I, I come to understand that it may have just been from a assumed time sequence. You know, you have the return of Christ and trumpets to putting away of Satan the atonement, the reconciliation. And then what follows next piece of tavern? I mean, the millennium, right? So, and so, um I truly believe that it does. Ok, do not misunderstand that, but there is a little more to it than that. If you would open your Bible to Luke. Let's begin hereLuke 26 loop beginning uh loop one. I'm sorry. Did I say? Loop 26. Yeah, that's Luke one verse 26. I give you a minute to get there. Ok. All right. Luke. Luke one verse 26. It says now in the six month. Now that's referring to of course, Elizabeth John, the Babson mother, she was pregnant there and she, she was in her six month. It says the angel of Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth to a virgin. We travel to a man whose name was Joseph of the house of David. And the virgin's name was Mary. All right. Then in verse 31 he said, and behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a son shall call his name JesusHe will be great and will be called the son of the highest. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom. There will be no end. I drop down to verse 36. Now, indeed, Elizabeth, your relative has also conceived a son in her old age and this is now the sixth month. I always have a problem with that 6th, 6th month. I remember a kid back in school. I used to peek at him all the time cause he would go and I think I'm paying for it. Now, I can't always say it, but it was the sixth month of her who had called Baron. Now, I want to bring this to your attention that, that Gabriel mentions Elizabeth being in the sixth month twice. Well, it talks about it in verse 22nd and it repeats it again. So it dawned on me um Just to what did he mention um about her spin in the six months? Well, after a little research and digging around, I um come to um ew Bullinger companion Bible appendix 1 79 he puts all this together in order to pinpoint the birth of Jesus. Now, his conclusion was that Jesus was actually born on the first day of the feast of Tabernacles and not trumpet as we have, you know, many have assumed. Um He even pinpoints the date as September the 29th 4 BC. And if you add Jesus 33.5 years, that brings us directly to the Passover of 31 AD where John has proven from the scriptures. That, that was the Passover um crucifixion date. Da understand that. I do not know because I'm certainly no biblical scholar, but there is some compelling evidence. Um, you know, Jesus was born in a barn laid in a manger and, you know, God could have provided a house for him, but he did not. And there was um so that was like a temporary dwelling place for him. Now, the shepherds were living in the field tending to their sheeps. Could they have been out there in tabernacles? Keeping the feast with the sheep with them? Possibly. But again, I do not, I do not know for sure, but just some interesting stuff. And if you're interested, you can look it up on the internet, just type in ew Bullinger companion Bible. And by the way, he wrote this back in the late 18 hundreds. I think he, I think he died in the early 19 hundreds. So it's been out there for a long time now. Also interesting. His name was Ethelbert. There is nobody here named Meel. Is it good? Because I think that's why he went by. Ew, but anyway, he also connects us with John the first chapter. So let's let's move over to John, the first chapter. Yeah, John one and verse one in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with GodThe word was with God and the word was God. Now down to verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelled among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Now, Bullinger states that the Greek structure here should be two clauses and thus should read and the word became flesh, semicolon. That's the first law and Tabernacle with us or among us still quoting, he writes the word Tabernacle. Here receives beautiful significance from the knowledge that the Lord of Glory was found in fashion as a man and thus Tabernacle in human flesh. And in turn, it shows an equally beautiful significance that our Lord was born on the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles, but he was fully convincedNow the word tabernacles comes from the Latin Taber culum or I think I pronounced that right and it means a tent or a hut. It's exactly the same in the Hebrew for the Hebrew word Suka. As we heard, as we've already heard, I probably pronounced that wrong, I'm sure. And the Greek and the Greek word that is used means that basically the same thing, pitching tent or pitch tents. So trying to connect Tabernacle with the meaning of the feast, you know, generally the first place we want to go is to command itself. So this turned back to Leviticus. We haven't been there yet. Have we just feed? Matter of fact, I think beginning here might be part two of David Gary's serve there from yesterdayAll right, Leviticus 23 in verse 33. Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying this is in verse 33. Did I say that? Well, you tell I've been here a long time, can't you? I'm old. All right, speak to the children of Israel saying the 15th day of the seventh month shall be the Feast of Tabernacles for seven days to the Lord. I drop down to verse 42 you shall dwell in boos for seven days. All who are native Israelites shall dwell in booth or tabernacles. Verse 43 that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booze when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, I am the Lord your God. Now we heard David expand on this a little bit yesterday. So it was to is an Israelite a memorial of the time that they lived in tents or tabernacles and journeyed into wilderness. Of course, they did not know it was going to be so long, but for 40 years. But what about you? And I are we not spiritual Israelites on a journey to the promised land dwelling in temporary tabernacles. Here we are. So what then does it really mean to us? Let's turn now over to Hebrews, Hebrews the 11th chapter. Really? Right. I can get there. Here we, here we go. Hebrews 11. We're going to begin in verse eight. It says by faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive his inheritance. And he went out not knowing where he was going by faith. He dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob the heirs with him. Of the same promise in verse 10 for, he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God. Now drop down to verse 13. It says that these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them a far off were assumed of them, assured of them, excuse me, were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were pilgrims, strangers and pilgrims on this earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. We're all here seeking a new home. We're not in a home yet. It's all temporary. You see, we were taken out of spiritual Egypt and we were rescued from this evil ruler of this world. And we too are dwelling in temporary tabernacles waiting for the promise of our Lord to come and take us to our permanent home. All we have here is temporary. We sometimes think we all our lives, we work hard and we try to put down roots, but it's just temporary. It's all temporary. Our bodies, they grow old. We're temporary. We're seeking a new home in John 14 in verse one. Let's let's turn back there14 Jesus gives us a promise. He's um talking to his disciples here and he's kind of preparing them for what's coming that he was fixing to be crucified and he's going to be gone and leaving them. And he was trying to comfort him here. He said, let in one. He says, let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions, many rooms, many places if it were not. So I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive it to myself. That where I am, you may be also. So when Christ comes back to this earth, we aren't going to be temporary anymore. That's our promise, that's his promise. And that's our hope. A new home. Now in second Corinthians 51, you do not have to turn it. I'm just going to read this to you showing you where Paul references our bodies as a Tabernacle. He says for we know that if our earthly house, he's talking about our earthly home here, our bodies. This tent, that's the word Tabernacle there or where we get, we use it as Tabernacle. This tent is destroyed. They said for if we know if our our earthly house, this tent is destroyed. We have a building from God, a house, a home not made with hands eternal in the heavens. So during the millennium, those who are in the flesh, who are flesh and blood will still be keeping the Feast of Tabernacles. You, you can reference that in Zechariah 14. Why? Well, they are still, they are still in temporary houses, aren't they? Those who are living in the millennium? But when we, the millennium begins, we will not be in temporary tabernacles, not in the sense of our bodies, we will be permanent, we will have found a permanent home. So I think that the is closing here is I think that the Feast of Tabernacles is a time. Maybe when we need to make a confession, we confess every time we come here and keep this feast that we are not home yet and that we are pilgrims and strangers on this earth. Nothing is permanent to us. And we brethren are still seeking a new home.

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