The Tabernacle of David and the Acts Church
Tabernacle of David – Ark of the Covenant
Jesus said something that was very interesting to me and it caught my attention. He said,
“And beginning at Moses [Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, & Deuteronomy] and all the prophets [from Joshua to Malachi, PLUS John the Baptist; 'For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.' (Matt. 11:13) & 'The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.' (Luke 16:16)], He [Jesus] expounded [Gk: 'to explain thoroughly, to translate, interpret'] unto them in ALL THE SCRIPTURES [THE WHOLE WORD (COUNSEL) OF GOD] the things CONCERNING HIMSELF [FOR THAT IS WHAT A REVELATION IS! 'But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man ('NO MAN IN HEAVEN, nor in earth, neither under the earth'). For I neither received it of man ('NO MAN IN HEAVEN, nor in earth, neither under the earth'), neither was I taught it, but BY THE REVELATION (LIKE THE BOOK JOHN RECORDED) OF JESUS CHRIST.' (Gal. 1:11-12)]. And they said one to another, Did not our heart BURN within us ['For THE WORD OF GOD is quick (LIVING), and POWERFUL, and SHARPER than any two-edged sword, PIERCING even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and INTENTS OF THE HEART.' (Heb. 4:12); 'I will make My Words in thy mouth FIRE, and this people wood, and it shall devour them ... But His Word was in mine heart as a BURNING FIRE ... Is not My Word like as a FIRE? saith the LORD.' (Jer. 5:14; 20:9; & 23:29)], while He talked with us BY THE WAY [Jesus is the Way], and while He OPENED to us THE SCRIPTURES [THE BOOK, WORD OF GOD]? And He [Jesus] said unto them, These are the [SPIRITUAL] words which I spoke unto you while I was yet [still] with you that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses in the prophets, and in the Psalms [which David wrote MANY of them], CONCERNING ME [in other words, the ENTIRE Hebrew Scriptures we call the Old Testament for it was the only thing written at that time]. Then [When? ‘THEN.’ Not during their three and one half years of learning at His feet? NO, ‘then’] OPENED He THEIR UNDERSTANDING, that they might understand the Scriptures [ALL of the Scriptures, ALL TRUTH, ALL THE COUNSEL OF GOD, THE WHOLE BIBLE].” (Luke 24:27, 32, 44-45).
How did Jesus “fulfill” the Scriptures? By fulfilling the 44 Scriptures listed in the back of Strong’s Concordance concerning the coming Messiah? Forty-four Scriptures only? Those 44 Scriptures are truly, not even the tip of the iceberg.
What Christ did could not be put into books—the whole [kosmos] could not contain it.
“And there are also MANY other things which Jesus did, the which, if they [THE MANY OTHER THINGS JESUS DID] should be written EVERY ONE, I suppose that even the world [kosmos] itself COULD NOT CONTAIN THE BOOKS that should be written. Amen.” (John 21:25).
Jesus did not fulfill the sacrificed sin offering only. Jesus was not merely one offering, but the many offerings, burnt offerings, the meat offering, the peace offerings, the trespass offering, and the sin offering. Jesus also prefigured the priest doing the offering, the meaning of each offering, the compartments and furniture of the tabernacle, the bread, the candles, the curtain, the ark of the covenant, the tabernacle itself, Jesus was Adam, Joseph, Moses, Joshua, King David, King Solomon and the whole nation of Israel—Jesus prefigures all and FULFILLED ALL.
No one could comprehend every verse in the Old Testament Scriptures that represented Jesus, but they could learn the PRINCIPLE by which Jesus fulfilled all the law and all the prophets. And that is how the apostles and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus had their understanding of the Scriptures opened in just a very short time. When the Scriptures speak of Israel they speak of Jesus, and when they speak of Jesus they speak of us, for “… as Jesus is, so are we in the world” (1st John 4:17).
The spiritual resurrected Jesus Christ does not represent the physical house of David, or the physical Tribe of Judah, or the physical nation of Israel. Jesus Christ is Spirit and His words are spirit. “As Jesus is, so are we” means that those who are spiritual (composed of almost exclusively Gentiles in this Church era) are the true Jews—not national Israel and Judah. National Israel and Judah are going into the Great White Throne of Judgment in the second resurrection during the period of the Lake of Fire. They will NOT be grafted into Jesus, the Tree of Life, before then. Jesus fulfilled all that is written in the Law of Moses and all the prophets—it ALL pertains to Jesus, and thus it all pertains to us (‘upon whom the ends of the ages are come,’ 1 Corinthians 10:11).
And that is the simple explanation of this marvelous truth. The Scriptures speak of far more than just the prophesies of Jesus coming as the Messiah.
Let’s spend a little bit of time on my man David.
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