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.

Magnificent Liberty

Believers on earth in physical bodies are the feet members of the body of Christ. We are now the of the last of the church age, some that are last shall be first in kingdom rank. These are first in power and first in authority though out the ages in executing the hidden plans of God, even now they are being revealed. The Bible states spiritual kings will work until nations stop making or teaching war, the nations shall walk in the light of a new peaceful day. The Lord Jesus is now coming with great reward and lasting honor for His faithful followers who receive and obey His word. He always speaks the truth, never lying, the Christ of God speaks without guile. God finds no more fault in those maturing sons coming to spiritual Mt. Zion. They have been anointed with a word about higher realms, heavens found on the upward paths of God’s leading. Many have gone on to perfection in Jesus, many are being made perfect as Jesus is perfect. God is clearly granting followers opportunity for growth and pure expression even at this present time. The truth of Christ formed within us makes us free from human pride, it enables us to wait in meekness and steadfastly with a cleaned heart.

God makes us be peacemakers when people attack and persecute us. Those are the times we are becoming shining lights of what God’s fiery trials can do, that’s when we practice making peace. When faced with discord, we quickly find inner compassion for those suffering, and refuse to get involved with destructive word battles or wars of any kind. God has now turned our hearts to holy behavior, and filled us with inner agape love, love without animosity or blame toward any other person or people. God’s sons are not prejudice about any racial heritage, nor are they any longer thrusting one another with vain arguments trying “to straighten others out,” but rather now we have been made solders that speak the truth in love.

God is taking control of every circumstances of our lives, He can change us “in a moment” or at “the last trump.” He is giving us strength to endure anything as the Spirit of truth reveals every hidden thing that works in our heart. The book of Revelation teaches us well about having a lasting homeland called the “spiritual” New Jerusalem. The Spirit of truth has revealed this many times to those now come to Mt. Zion, how we are found in love, peace, and joy well able to dwell righteously now as citizens of Jerusalem’s Zion. This citizenry is anointed with love, it’s formed within their being now. We can and will hold to our peaceful home trusting God to flow deep within our heart with guidance for our every step. In Zion God clearly leads us to perfection from within our inner spiritual being. He now proposes a cleansing for all of us and with it a release from every fleshly way.

“But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He is like a refiner's fire and like fullers' soap. He will sit as a smelter and purifier of silver, and He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, so that they may present to the LORD offerings in righteousness.” Malachi 3:2-3

Spiritual recognition of God’s refinement within our personal live must reveal the “fiery” trials we go through are bringing great release within our being as He comes to burn up our former ideas formed from religious hay, wood, and stubble. He knows about how to burn up all those “good works” we are so proud of, those works found in the candlestick church realms. Those works have all failed to grant or usher in the true perfection found in the hidden body of Christ. Candlestick church heavens are filled with mixture, strife, and division which is far from that found in the “church of the first born,” this is all written about in the Book. The church of the firstborn is entirely made up of believers who have gone on to higher heavenly agreements with God, and done so perfectly. He invites us to come up higher where He makes priests for His habitation. This all takes place within our being. The Old Testament Feast of Tabernacles foreshadows much teaching about the third heaven where it is unlawful for men to be uttering their own opinions about the great things of the Lord. The Day has come, people are truly being made alive, healed, led to be perfectly complete in our heavenly Father.

It is obvious that lying wonders rule masses of “Christian people” through newspapers, books, tv, and internet filling the airwaves today stoking fear into man’s heart, modern men are now motivated by fear and frustration about things coming to pass on the earth. Truly gross darkness now has covered the human mind. Nevertheless, the Lord is coming to His beloved to really free us from dark earthly concerns and replace fear, with godly courage as we become stronger in yielding to what qualities in our life that God loves, for God is love. Yet He hates that which is wicked. He is coming by Spirit that we know and trust Him, as He makes an end of wickedness in our own being, He rebukes every lie. He ends that wickedness in us, by making us “alive” that is raising us from our former ignorance, freeing us from hellish mental torments, granting release from every opposition. God’s righteous judgement is presently working in our hearts to free our inner being from every torment that takes and holds people to the graves of death. He brings resurrection life that strengthens us and qualifies our inner character, to form a spiritual body like His perfectly within our being. Godliness is profitable in this life, it goes beyond rules about eating and drinking. He is committed to revealing the truth He sees to our heart, it convicts us to change, to truly align our mindset and character with His instructions. He is faithful to bring you and I to a completion in the perfecting work.

Bodily pain can rack our physical body to the point of death, yet our spirit is alive, and we made to know we will remain alive forever in our spiritual body, in union with God, in a body formed formed of spirit that will never end or “die.” Those now quickened are rather already made alive and growing within our inner being, and we will continue until the end of time, then it does not yet appear what we shall be, yet we know then we will be just like Jesus Christ. Our daily duty is to now know His viewpoint concerning the truth, a quickening that makes us aware of how to apply His wisdom, that which causes us to recognize His guidance as it comes into our heart and mind. When we become harmonious with His words, it establishes us in His throne realm, in our heart we soak up deep truths that anchor our soul in His steadfast love. He now feeds us hidden manna, revealing higher insights with vast supplies of truth that makes merciful love work in us. He brings peace with others, as springs of enjoyment flow out from His enthronement within our innermost being.

We have come to Mt. Zion where the trumpet sounds like a roaring lion of truth in the face of every lie, this power in Zion brings healing that continually flow out in deliverance from ignorance, poverty, pain, and disease, yes He is now wiping away all our sorrow by the Spirit of His Word. This Word works quickly and powerfully to change us, causing us to recognize and apply His guidance effectively. The truth of Christ sets us free from within, it anoints our inner being with expectations of deliverance. Our vile bodies can be changed. He challenges us to believe and walk in the conditions we find ourselves until we are found and fashioned like unto His glorious body. God liberated Jesus from all death, that is the ultimate freedom written of and offered in the Bible.

“For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.” Philippians 3:20 -21 NAU

We can now have freedom from life’s sorrows, escape from the sad memoires and tearful events that have weighed us down with regret and shame. Christ working within us frees us from every deep seated personal opinion or grudge, frees us right now from generational curses that have gripped the core of our natural families. Yes, thank God we are increasingly freed from our own greed, hidden fears, and hatred, our thoughts are purged and can put on Christ’s nature and put off all inner darkness. We are following on this path to know the Lord. These truths of Christ are found already formed within a great host of holy people.

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.” Ephesians 1:3-6 NAU

The kind intentions of His will are being bestowed within us now in the quality of His character found within our attentive souls, love is appearing. God keeps supplying us with His strength, godliness is revealed to us, so that is what we express within our lives. This spiritual process grants greater and greater inner liberty. We are now free from the fallen human nature, and our claim to that fact is being proven as we walk accordingly as He writes deep within our spirit the truth. His Word and Spirit frees us from the roots out our own human darkness. He is against all the uncleanness of thoughts that convey corrupting influence. Christ is working mightily to free us from lies that limit our faith in Him.

Today American churches are devoted to worldly minded leaders that are expressing bold lies with assertions that cause corrupting malice toward others. Yes, today almost all the candlestick church realms promote words that place limits on His coming, stating it to be yet future, and rather teach religious works as the path to get to heaven sometime after one’s death. They do not decern the Lord’s body and “His people” are sick, “Christians” are occupied with bitter divisions, strife, jealousy, verbal abuse fills hearts with malicious pride that is exhibited by the leaders they blindly follow. Yet, God already has a holy people that are shaped into perfect union with His Spirit, the Spirit of truth, which guides all to come “up Hither” to the realms of His throne, to come to Zion, and to the city of God where the spirits of justified men are made perfect. This is the realm having no problems with vain human futility that loves lies, and the making of lies, lies does not abiding within God’s holy people. The revelation of Jesus is expanded to a reality within those who see Jesus and those who become like Him.

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God’s Word is alive and working within us is like a flame of fire that consumes the brittle bark of passed year’s problems, all troubling doubts rooted in our affections. He will releases us from every bit of human dross into bright new purity daily, as He comes by His Spirit flowing in new truth that washes away all the old stings, bites, and devouring’s of the dead human heart. People that have a new heart have stopped the blame game with all it’s wrong accusations. Saints have come out from the dark bottomless pit of human ways. The unregenerated man is a bottomless pit. Saints are now freed from those pits, saints are not trained to be critical fault finders, but on every level of their life is bestowed His Word and Spirit revealing the finest qualities of godly characteristics that cleanse our own heart. Become powerful and strong in His beautiful characteristics, have them written upon our hearts until it fills us with the proper attitudes that recognize our personal sonship and we choose those things that really do please our heavenly Father.

Jesus is the first born of many brethren, many are taught of the Holy Spirit how to be guided into knowing the truth every day, many are entering the higher celestial realms of Zion, many are a part of God’s continuing city destined to be filled with His glory. Sweet liberty has already been formed in the body of Christ, and Christ is within us, changing us, raising us up to know God as our Father in our inner spiritual person. We can become a part of the Godhead that participates in kingdom matters, conformed to righteous standards in living honestly, in humility dealing with others, as godliness grants growth from our first stages of salvation. The things that candlestick churches promote are still childlike at best, lukewarm viewpoints promoted by Christian leaders building with $$hay, $$wood, and $$stubble, on stages that project an image of a “proper church order,” as taught in “their” church, yet the history of Christian church organizations are filled with dismal short comings of a blood-soaked throne of Satan.

The Pergamum candlestick dwelt where Satan’s throne is, (Rev.2:13). Church history can be found in proper interpretation of the “candlestick churches” found in chapter 2 and 3 of the Revelation. Those seven candlestick churches have been from their beginning, corrupted with major disqualifying errors for generations. Even before the early apostles departed corrupt men left their first love of God to seek preeminence. The candlestick church orders were lowered to carnal self exaltations, steeped in ordinances conceived by religions minds in order to rule the people, the very spirit of the Nicolaitans. False teachers laid down church by-laws and rules that corrupted “the candlestick churches” until it was enthroned with Satan. That’s what the Book teaches, churches became mixed with much worldly ideas promoting icons, relics, and forming of hierarchies that had limited spiritual revelation of God’s Word. Yes, these are all “good ”people” that keep social laws and alliances with those they expect to find financial support from, this too is corruption all geared to gain advantage in regulating and exercising control over the vast majority of God’s sincere “saved” souls.

God has blessed us who overcome the candlestick conditions with a spiritual blessings: "Who blesses us with every spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ.” We may waiting for a MANIFESTATION THAT LIBERATES OUR VILE BODY TO BE CONFOMED LIKE UNTO THE LORD’S GLORIOUS BODY. YET, OUR INNER SPIRITUAL MAN IS ALIVE NOW, GRANTED BY GOD! GOD grant His sons and daughters to be clothed in WHITE GARMENTS, that’s being raised up far above the corrupting platforms man has established in candlestick church heavens. Satan’s throne is there and only overcomers of the candlestick churches come to know the throne realm, they are not stuck in carnal church programs, but have rather have gone on to know the Lord in higher dimensions where the spirits of righteous men are made perfect, unified, made one perfectly in fellowship with the body of Christ. We have come to Zion’s perfection, where Christ is working to perfect us, being made perfect even now. The faster we understand these spiritual truths the faster we are brought out of the shallow carnal minds of the candlestick church realms into what the apostle Paul states is ultimate liberty, stating it will be shared by the entire creation:

“In my opinion whatever we may have to go through now is less than nothing compared with the magnificent future God has in store for us. The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own. The world of creation cannot as yet see reality, not because it chooses to be blind, but because in God’s purpose it has been so limited — yet it has been given hope. And the hope is that in the end the whole of created life will be rescued from the tyranny of change and decay, and have its share in that magnificent liberty which can only belong to the sons and daughters of God!

It is plain to anyone with eyes to see that at the present time all created life groans in a sort of universal travail. And it is plain, too, that we who have a foretaste of the Spirit are in a state of painful tension, while we wait for that redemption of our bodies which will mean that we have realized our full sonship.”   Romans 8:18-23, J. B. Phillips

ALL CREATED LIFE means EVERY PERSON EVER BORN ON EARTH, EACH SHALL HAVE A SHARE IN THE LIBERTY THAT BELONGS TO GOD’S SONS! Full deliverance means a change for our bodies -”soma” - the body. Divine council prepares those who qualify, they are sealed into His understanding of scripture, new insights are granted, insights that are tremendously valuable to gain footholds and progress into the promised complete deliverance. God has offered this divine liberty for our spirit, our soul and body. The life Jesus Christ enlightens us to the promise of God, it releases us from the powers of death, it frees us from all that would or could destroy us, it stops the tormenting's voices of hell. We are made to be free from man’s religious ideas of death, hell, and the grave! Christ definitely is working truth into us, He feeds us truth that works within to exposes any selfish contrary conduct. The Lord has come to remove our need for what the candlesticks boasts of, we are separated unto becoming celestial beings that are now calling on His power to omnipotently supply EVERY spiritual blessing that we need to be completely rescued from decay and made perfect, complete in Christ Jesus.

Freedom