Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Monday, January 22, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 337
Scripture: But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say not of this building. (Heb 9:11)
Note: 2Cor 5:1, “For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” The dissolution of our earthly tabernacle is set for an appointed time to every man, born through the Adamic lineage. For, in Adam sin came to abound in man, producing death in our members, by virtue of the corruptible nature of man inherited through Adam.
Heb 9:27, “And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment.” Every man, good or bad, rich or poor, powerful and well connected or lowly and insignificant, will one day have an inescapable appointment with death. Death is bad enough on any day. But the death of man with the dissolution of the body doesn’t end the misery of man. The next thing after death for every man is to face judgment with his or her Creator.
Both death and judgment are horrible things everyone would rather avoid. Were it to be possible to completely avoid or escape these two looming events, anyone with the means, the cash and the connection, may be prepared to sacrifice all these luxuries at their disposal that they had laboured for, merely in exchange for their lives. The fact of the precious nature and sanctity of human life, universally acknowledged by all, remains indisputable worldwide. Buying and selling had always involved a means of exchange. This is deemed fair and legal.
Yet, the greatest and most important exchange that ever took place on planet earth was when Jesus died an excruciating death on the cross of Calvary, shedding His precious blood for lost humanity, who was doomed to face the wrath of God’s judgment. The failure of man to accept this magnanimous exchange offered by God to man in a bid to reconcile man back to Himself through an act of faith in the finished work of Christ, is what exposes man to the wrath of God’s judgment.
Food for thought: Failure to accept God’s reconciliatory offer of exchange through the atoning blood of Jesus, means rejection of God’s offer and hence death.
Declaration: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin unto salvation. Heb 9:28
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
