Tehillah Generation Chapel
Daily Manna | Friday, March 2, 2018 | Reading: Exodus 33:1-11, Exodus 4, Gen 3:1-21
Topic: The Tabernacle of God 371
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.” Paul calls this earthly housing of tabernacle that’s serves as an important shelter for the soul, a temporary dwelling place. Paul’s reason being the short duration of time that humans shall be in this housing compared with the new, heavenly housing that’s made for everlasting life. The obvious weaknesses and deficiencies in the current tabernacle is incomparable to the perfection, majesty and gloriousness of the heavenly tabernacle.
Unfortunately, what’s riddled with a catalog of imperfections, fightings within and without, interspersed with constant fear and threats of insecurities due to diseases and dangers, has become the straw that the uninformed, the uninitiated and the unlettered are battling and wrestling to exercise dominion over. A graphic imagination of someone that finds himself drowning and who in desperation will clutch at anything that purports to give hope, even a straw for possible survival, aptly depicts the futility in which some people fruitlessly find themselves battling for all the wrong reasons.
The direction of Paul’s battle was in fighting and battling to get himself out from this temporary cage, that in many ways incapacitated him, and put him in positions of disadvantage and limitations. Fortunately for Paul, he had had a previous stint in the realm of the spirit where he was carried to the third heaven about fourteen years ago. As at the time he was writing the second epistle to the Corinthian Church, his past precious experience was his guide (2Cor 12:2). Paul was speaking of what he knew, not hearsay, nor traditions of men nor philosophical ideas and collections of men’s wisdom.
Speaking of what he knew at first hand was very refreshing. It meant what he had seen, heard, touched and experienced it as living proof. Paul’s writing wasn’t an effusion that took its source from some grandmasters. Infact it was more than that. Paul’s was a firsthand knowledge attained through his relationship and fellowship with Jesus Christ; the One by whom the world was created. For it is through Jesus that all things consist and it was for Him that all things were created (Col 1:15-17). Paul was very wise to have sourced his knowledge from a living relationship with Jesus.
Food for thought: There’s no superior knowledge, understanding and wisdom outside Christ or a relationship with Jesus.
Declaration: For by Him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him. Col 1:16
©Author: Rev Fred Aboe
