Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In the arrangement of Tabernacle, Luke 9 refers to The Table of Showbread. It means fellowship with Jesus as the bread of life.
The Table of Showbread consists of two parts as follows:
- The cake
Leviticus 24:5-6
24:5. " And you shall take fine flour and bake twelve cakes with it. Two-tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake.
24:6. "You shall set them in two rows, six in a row, on the pure gold table before the LORD.
The provision of God is twelve cakes shall be set in two rows, six in a row.
Number 66 refers to the Bible that has sixty six books.
The bread is true teaching word that becomes our spiritual food, so we are mature in spirituality up to perfect like Jesus.
Be careful!There are a lot of efforts to change the Bible, so it does not consist of sixty six books and fulfill the Heaven. Consequently, it cannot make us perfect.
The terms of bread or spiritual food or true teaching word are as follows:
- It is written in the Bible.
- It is the revelation of God, not human's mind. It means the Word is revealed, namely a verse explains other verses in the Bible.
- Being well-organized. It means the Word is told orderly, regularly and continuously.
The word is not pure anymore if it is told irregularly.
- The table.
The table refers to our heart and mind.
There are two possibilities about the table as follows:
- The heart and mind are full of vomit and filth.
Isaiah 28:8
28:8. For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.
Consequently, the heart and mind become wicked and unclean.
The meanings of vomit and filth are as follows:
- Preaching the Word that is not in line with the Bible.
- Preaching the Word based on ill will and envy.
- Twelve wicked and unclean minds.
Mark 7:21-23
7:21. "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries(1), fornications(2), murders(3),
7:22. thefts(4), covetousness(5), wickedness(6), deceit(7), lewdness(8), an evil eye(9), blasphemy(10), pride(11), foolishness(12).
7:23. "All these evil things come from within and defile a man."
- The heart and mind are full of twelve bread, namely true teaching Word, the law and the promise of God.
Hebrews 10:16-17
10:16. "This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws into their hearts, and in their mindsI will write them,"
10:17. then He adds, "Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more."
The processes are as follows:
- We hear true teaching Word in the anointing of Holy Spirit earnestly and in need, so we are like the dog eating the crumbs.
- Holy Spirit helps us, so we understand true teaching Word. It is the same as the Word is written in our minds.
- Holy Spirit helps us to believe true teaching Word. It is the same as the Word is written in our hearts, so it becomes faith in the heart.
For with the heart one believes, and with the mouth confession is made, so the blood of Jesus takes away the sins until we are spotless.
- Holy Spirit helps us to do true teaching Word, so it is sealed in our whole life or ingrained in our life.
We obey the Word, so we become holy.
The heart and mind determine our fate of life.
If the heart and mind are full of vomit, we will be cursed.
On the contrary, if the heart and mind are full of true teaching Word and we are purified, we will receive God's blessing.
There are three kinds of God's blessing that are received by sacred heart and mind as follows:
- There is new bread always.
Leviticus 24:8-9
24:8. "Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
24:9. "And it shall be for Aaron and his sons, and they shall eat itin a holy place; for it is most holy to him from the offerings of the LORD made by fire, by a perpetual statute."
It means as follows:
- For a shepherd, he always gets the revelation of the Word of God to be preached to the congregation.
- For congregation, we always understand the revelation of the Word of God until obey or practise it.
The result is God takes care of us miraculously and our future is in Him.
He also takes care of our spiritual life, so we are full and satisfied until we receive eternal life.
- One is equipped with ministry.
Ephesians 4:11-12
4:11. And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
4:12. for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,
We receive the robe of service.
Do not take off the robe of service. It means one is unfaithful up to leaving ministry and the gifts of Holy Spirit, so he will be naked, ashamed, and his life fails.
Our attitude to the ministry is ministering faithfully and fervently.
1 Timothy 4:14
4:14. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.
2 Timothy 1:6
1:6. Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of Godwhich is in you through the laying on of my hands.
If we are faithful and fervent in spirit in ministry, we are like a flame of fire.
The apple of God's eye is like a flame of fire too.
It means we become the apple of God's eye. We are protected and we shall be God's.
- We can see God.
Matthew 5:8
5:8. Blessed are the pure in heart, For they shall see God.
If our mind and heart are holy, we can see and worship God. We totally trust and commit ourselves to God.
Psalms 16:8
16:8. I have set the LORD always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.
2 Chronicles 20:1-3, 12
20:1. It happened after this that the people of Moab with the people of Ammon, and others with them besides the Ammonites, came to battle against Jehoshaphat.
20:2. Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar" (which is En Gedi).
20:3. And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the LORD, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
20:12. "O our God, will You not judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You."
When we are unable to do anything, it is the chance for us to surrender all to God and our eyes are upon Him.
John 11:32
11:32. Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died."
We see God, speak, cry and believe to Him.
A great multitude can be carcass (the enemy of King Jehoshaphat) and carcass can be restored (Lazarus), until we are perfect like Him. We see God face to face in the glorious clouds.
God blesses us.