Posted: 04/14/2016 at 7:33pm
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The Return to the Garden
By Ron McGatlin
The people of God have long
ago forgotten who they are and where they came from. However, God’s provision
is not lacking. Christ Jesus by the cross and through His resurrection life in
His people by the Holy Spirit is all that is needed to return to the life on
earth that God provided in the Garden of Eden.
THERE HAS BEEN A RECENT SHIFT
BEGUN TO THE OUTWORKING OF THAT WHICH WAS EXPRESSED IN THE JEWISH FEAST OF
TABERNACLES.
Among the Jewish feasts there
are three major ones that are of great significance of God’s working with
mankind through the ages, the feasts of Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacles.
Both Passover and Pentecost have been fulfilled and Tabernacles is now being
fulfilled. Christ Jesus fulfilled Passover at the Cross and Pentecost at His
return in the Holy Spirit. The significance and power of these great works of
God were lost to most of mankind during the centuries of man-made religion and
spiritual darkness. The significance and power of Passover and Pentecost began
to be returned or restored to the people of God around the sixteenth century.
First, around 500 years ago
the outworking of that which was proclaimed in the Feast of Pass Over in the
expression of salvation by grace through faith became manifest.
Then just over one hundred
years ago that which was pictured in the Feast of Pentecost was returned to
God’s people as the fullness of the Holy Spirit baptized believers with love
and power bringing forth the return of Spirit gifts of healings and miracles
with many glorious manifestations of the Spirit of God with His people.
Now in this season the
manifestation of that which was proclaimed in the Feast of Tabernacles is
manifesting into our world.
The primary characteristics of
Tabernacles is the manifest intimate presence of God with and within His
people. The solid coverings of structure were removed as the people gathered branches
from certain trees and made a booth or temporary shelter outside of their home
structures of busyness and activities of natural life.
Today the structures are being
removed that have separated us from the intimate one on one relationship with
God. Christ Jesus is the only mediator between God and man.
Much freshly restored
revelation is coming into the hearts and lives of the people of God as they are
learning to live as one with God in constant communion of hearing and speaking
with God. Spiritual dreams, visions and conversations with our loving Father
God through Christ Jesus by the Holy Spirit is causing us to become one with
God as we were created to be in Adam and redeemed back into at the Cross.
Literally Christ Jesus Yeshua
Messiah is dwelling within His people. Christ in His people is again bringing
forth the glory of God on earth.
We are returning again to the
life God originally created in Adam. The life that was lost through the
disobedience of one man is now returning to us in the life of one man, Christ
Jesus Yeshua Messiah. “For as by one man’s disobedience many
were made sinners, so also by one Man’s obedience many will be made righteous”
(Romans 5:19).
We are headed back into the
Garden of Eden by the obedience of Christ in His people.
The Old Testament Scripture
was given for our learning of eternal truth in many types and shadows or clear
pictures of that which was to come that has now come.
Our current situation is
pictured for us in the return of Israel’s from captivity in Babylon to
Jerusalem in the book of Nehemiah. Israel had gone away from their God and
turned to other Gods under the leadership of a bad king. After that the king of
Babylon came and defeated Israel and took the people and all of the wealth to
Babylon. A few of the common people were left in Jerusalem. The walls were
broken down and the huge wooden gates burned. Much later Nehemiah had returned
with provision to rebuild the walls and the gates of the city of Jerusalem.
After the walls and gates were
rebuilt and more people had returned from Babylon the people also needed to be
rebuilt. They had lost their connection with God and had not been living
according to God’s ways for them. They had forgotten the law and how to connect
with their God. Ezra a Priest who knew the law very well and Nehemiah the governor
began the work of reinstructing and reconnecting the people to their God and
their heritage in Him.
In chapter 8 of Nehemiah it is
recorded that the people were all called together and Ezra read the Law of
Moses to them for half of the day. When the people heard the law which was
their connection to God they wept and greatly mourned. I believe that was
probably because they began to recognize how far they were away from God and
perhaps how important they and their lives were to God.
Nehemiah 8:9-11: “And Nehemiah, who was the governor, Ezra the priest and
scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, “This day
is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor
weep.” For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the Law.
10 Then he said to them, “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and
send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared.” for this day is
holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
11 So the Levites quieted all the people, saying, “Be still, for the day is
holy; do not be grieved.”
Then on the second day of reading the law they
discovered that it was the time of the Feast of Tabernacles and the people were
to build temporary shelters of branches leaned together outside their homes
away from the covering structure of the busy activity of natural life. They
began to keep the Feast for what was probably the first time ever for them.
There are many other important parts to the Feast of Tabernacles including a
great gathering of all the people to pray and worship God.
God is restoring us now in this day into true
intimacy and deep supernatural life walking in the Spirit with Him. This is the
manifestation of what was represented and pictured in the Feast of Tabernacles.
God dwelling in and with His people.
He is restoring His people to reach the nations
with His love and thereby establish God’s kingdom on earth. The gifts and
miracles will again flow freely especially healing so that the unredeemed
natural minded people can experience the love and power of Spirit God in their
natural bodies and through supernatural healing know there is a God that loves
them.
Someone once said, “Healing is the diner bell for
salvation.” For the natural minded people who cannot see spiritual things,
healings in their own bodies or in those they know and love lets the people see
and know there is a Spirit God that loves them. Their eyes can be opened to the
Spirit and they become witnesses to many others. Signs and wonders are a major
part of restoring the people back to God and back to the journey toward the
Garden of Eden lifestyle in our world.
Thus the kingdom of God is manifested into the
world to the glory of God.
Ron McGatlin
archive.openheaven.com
basileia@earthlink.net
Edited by Ron McGatlin on 04/16/2016 at 7:54am
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