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Chapter Three
Your Life a Dwelling Place for God
The main revelation of the Tabernacle is the fact that it is a dwelling
place for the manifest presence of God. What an incredible awesome
opportunity we have to be able to come into the manifest presence of
God! One time I was mentioning revival to a man that was not from a Pentecostal
background. He stated, “Well, isn’t God everywhere?” He was responding
to the fact that I was referring to God coming into a church in a
powerful way. I knew that he did not understand what I was saying. He had
never experienced God in this way. I believe this is the ultimate message of
the Tabernacle. It is a place of meeting with God. It is a place of basking in
his presence.
The prescribed way to come
Just like in the natural, there is a prescribed way to welcome and entertain
royalty. This is a powerful concept to grasp for some with a western gentile
mentality. If I were going to have a president or king over to my house, I
would clean up and put my best china out. I would not have a messy house
and eat off paper plates! Just like we need to have a healthy respect for roy­
alty coming to our house, we need this healthy respect for the presence of
God. The Jews understand the holiness of God, and how much he hates sin.
There is a tremendous disrespect for the holiness of God among most west­
ern churches. There is a message of “abused grace.” The God they present
is so tolerant toward sin and understands hypocrisy! This is simply not true.
Hebrews 10:28­29 states “Anyone who rejected the Law of Moses died with­
out mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. How much more se­
verely do you think a man deserves to be punished who has trampled the
Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the
covenant that sanctified him and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?” I am
ready for men and women of God to arise that actually have backbone. I am
ready for people to quit preaching this wimpy gospel and focusing on minor
issued like prosperity. When will the true men and women of God rise up
who will actually preach the whole counsel of God?
The Jewish people had a heritage of understanding God’s holiness with
great respect. Therefore they were given the glory of God. The glory is
God’s manifest presence. It is weighty and awesome. This is what many
churches are lacking today. Oh, they have the anointing, some giftings, and
a little power, but they don’t have the glory. The main reason why is sin and
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