The Feast of Tabernacles is a collection of teachings by Richard Mikelson.

 

These teachings explore spiritual depths of influential texts of scripture,  and of the human condition.

All the Way

God said to Moses, “Present thyself to me IN THE TOP OF THE MOUNT”. The top of the mount was what Moses was called to, it is representative, type and shadow, of a people now called to the top - to spiritual Mount Zion. Our journey to the top is a high calling only possible by receiving the Holy Spirit and forming a clear spiritual mind revealed by Jesus. Following Jesus is the way-the path enabling us to go from glory to glory all the way to the top. For those who do partake of this calling in their life each will measure up and be prepared to go alone — ALONE as being separate from the crowds and fellowships, yet being with the Spirit of CHRIST JESUS developing constantly within our being.

Our spiritual progress is not based on acceptance by church fellowship or following church leaders, but by overcoming the conditional faults within the candlestick church heavens. Overcomers do not compromise between church standards and the Word of God, but they form a fellowship and relationship with God as a son or daughter. God uses testing that actively occur within us when we are separated from falsehoods and taken to desert places, desert places can bring swift spiritual qualification to those who remain faithful and answer the calling of the Lord to ascend. They press on to the spiritual operations going on at the top - in spiritual Mt. Zion. Some have heard and obeyed the call to COME UP HITHER, they are willing to go it alone if necessary, they are led by the Lord to the gathering taking place at the top of the mount. They long to be with that people that have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, a remnant people that He has been drawing together for many, many generations, they go all the way with Him.

I write of a great host, the army of the Lord, the spirits of just men being made perfect, those overcomers from every candlestick church heaven that have ascended all the way up and presented themselves to Him at the top of the mount. Not one member of that is predestined to be found in Him as first fruits shall be missing. The Lord is leading us to HIS SPIRITUAL CITY, one built without the hands, or manipulation of men, one He has built by the Holy Spirit. As we learn to receive and wait on Him, we too are being made perfect, even now we know we only fit with that company of people called to spiritual Mount Zion. They are filled with His messages.

“Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. I heard a sound coming out of heaven like the sound of the ocean or the roar of thunder; it was like the sound of harpists playing their harps.” Revelation 14:1-2

Wondrous things still await the followers of Jesus Christ, hidden things that are not possible for the natural minded man to understand. We do not know everything that awaits us, but enough is known, enough is revealed to wean us and purge us from the elementary doctrines abounding in candlestick church heavens that are now mixed with earthly minded interpretations of scripture and filled with the priorities of religious activity.

Christ is coming by Spirit so that we know His mind, it is revealed fully, making us aware of the extraordinarily divine provisions of understanding gained by listening carefully to the words God has declared to those who love Him. An open door is provided for those who seek His rule above all else: above money, above the praises and positions of men, above fame, above our own pleasure, for He has:

“…made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in Him...that we should be to the praise of His glory...and...that in the ages to come He might show (display) the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Jesus Christ.”   Ephesians 1:9-12; 2:7

We are now gathering to what has been generally considered a future dispensation, our life contains that which is yet future. The writer of the book of Hebrews wrote about the ultimate gathering, a complete, comprehensive work of restoration to a general assembly, into what God is ultimately doing. The workings of it have dawned and now arisen within us a glorious power that has changed our inner nature and restored truth in the INNER WAYS OF OUR BEING. The worldly minded man has never seen anything like that which is taking place in those He quickens as God manifests Himself to the body of Jesus Christ called to the gathering in Zion.

“But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the Judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, 24 and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel.” Hebrews 12:22-24 NAU

Jesus Christ will keep coming inside our spirit until we all (all Christians) come to this unity of faith, this knowledge of the Lord keeps being unveiled within us until we too conform to the perfect standard that is within all His first fruit brethren. Every eye shall see Him through this people that have been prepared for many generations, we are called for this very thing! The transformation of the saints into oneness is an ongoing commencement. The direction I expound is that God has prepared a people by making them one with the Lord, so made one that they are the greatest symphony of harmony the creation will ever know. This is a symphony voicing divine wisdom and omnipotent power, displaying UNCONDITIONAL LOVE like unbounded rivers of inspiration that quickens man’s spirit.

At this present time we Christians gather on the earth for meetings, in that God is fine-tuning the lives of His people. Still, many times it seems as if every man is tooting his own horn, everyone is playing his own little fiddle. It all sounds out of tune to those of us who have listened to what the Spirit says about the candlestick churches, most of it is a medley of discord that is carnal, because of egocentric strife and differing there has been discord in most of His people. “Christian” people are called but the many called are still asleep, they have been divided into bundles and strive about innumerable things. If you do not recognize this you will if you follow the Lord long enough. The good news is God is changing the lives of those called to the top. Our Father is teaching us His ways, feeding us truth of hidden mana and He writes it in our hearts that we may receive enlightenment so we can know what every thought should be:

“…casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

Overcomers are now, in this life, being established in His perfect will, we are now being transformed from within by words of truth found in chords of harmony found in the life of Jesus Christ and His people. Our spiritual minds can now be quickened and renewed to a transformation in thought that recognizes His spiritual operations. Jesus is coming as Christ is formed within us now. Christ is inworking a perfection within us as we dare go “all the way” through the crucible of our daily experiences. Yes, Christ Jesus has come in a spiritual operation, Christ Jesus will continually be coming to accomplish God’s plan working even through our daily experiences! God’s sons and daughters now perceive and know His spiritual understanding of the Bible. Wisdom is in the mind of Christ, by which we now grow to full stature in Him. We are no longer bound in the prison of thinking with man’s soulish carnal reasoning. God’s refining is even done in fiery circumstances that purge from us any trust in the flesh, our own soulish strength is removed out of us: we no longer harbor fleshly confidence nor yield to any inbred religious mentality.

What raucous screeching of discord is emitted in fellowship meetings as we dare to claim that we are now the sons of God called to go all the way — all the way to the top — grown into the Head, because some are destined to MEASURE UP TO THE STATURE OF THE FULLNESS OF CHRIST. We can now partake of this greater ministry, it is a greater realm than that of the candlestick church heavens, for God is granting a greater portion of His power to set us free and is reconciling us by revealing the truth of Jesus’s words. God is Fathering a people that really do make a difference. What we think about scripture makes a great deal of difference when it comes to being APPREHENDED TO BE ONE SPIRIT WITH GOD’s SPIRIT. The spirit of sonship has opened our spiritual ears to hear the sounding voice of His heavenly messengers and we dare not, cannot, settle for anything less then what God has appointed. The standard measurement found in spiritual Mt. Zion is there is a new song sung, something new is within us and in it is no guile coming from our mouth, no lies, no false messages coming out from us.

“ and no one could learn the song except the one hundred and forty-four thousand who had been purchased from the earth. These are the ones who have not been defiled with women (in-part church orders), for they have kept themselves chaste. These are the ones who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the Lamb. And no lie was found in their mouth; they are blameless.” Revelation 14:3-5

His blameless judgments are standing up within our hearts now, creating a determination to follow on to know Him with those who are standing with the Lord in spiritual Mount Zion. We are hidden from view, yet God sees and is revealing the truth to those of us called to sonship today. Sons are not caught up in church affairs or stuck with world events that prophecy more gloom and doom about the desperate needs everywhere, nor will we be following more of Babylon’s fallen prattle. We are occupied with the knowing of the FATHER’S will and knowing of the FATHER’S works.

“ But what you have come to is Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem where the millions of angels have gathered for the festival (feast of Tabernacles), with the whole Church of first-born sons, enrolled as citizens of heaven. You have come to God himself, the supreme Judge, and to the spirits of the upright who have been made perfect; and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to purifying blood which pleads more insistently than Abel's. Make sure that you never refuse to listen when he speaks.” Hebrews 12:22-25 NJB

“with me in white”