A trumpet is heralding a move of the Spirit to ignite the Tabernacle of God within men.
Under the old covenant the Spirit of the Lord dwelt in the Tabernacle of Moses, while under the new covenant the Spirit dwells in the hearts of men. Just as the presence of the Spirit changed the earthly Tabernacle into a holy building so the presence of the Spirit in the tabernacle of our heart changes us from being of the earth to being a holy people. For this purpose, the Spirit of God, is about to ignite hearts with His Spirit so that they we will be led of the Spirit just as Jesus was in His ministry on the earth.
The Lord is igniting the hearts of His chosen ones to to revive them from being a natural man of the earth, to be a living spirit of the heavenly Tabernacle. This word was received in a dream in Nov 2021.
The dream began with me walking a woman into church. I was dressed, in a shiny blue coat with matching gloves. As we walked, I felt the anointing of the Spirit come upon me, and with His presence, I knew that the Lord was giving me a prophetic word for the woman. I then started to say the words that the Lord was speaking to me but I could tell that she wasn’t listening so I stopped and asked her to listen, explaining that if she didn’t listen, I would forget the words.
“He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches”.
In the Old Testament, the Priests blew trumpets to call the Israelite camps together to hear the word of the Lord spoken through Moses and this was to be an ordinance throughout their generations (Numbers 10:2-9). While under the New Testament, Christians can hear the word of the Lord for direction and understanding, through the revelation of the Spirit spoken into their heart. However, God says that “He does nothing, unless He reveals His secrets and mysteries to His servants the prophets”. Under the anointing of the Spirit, servants of God are declaring the Lord’s message to the church (Israelite’s camp) so together they can establish the work of the ministry in the church.
The dream continued as I walked into a gathering of believers who were chatting while choosing their seats. As I observed this, the Spirit spoke to my spirit to say that “this congregation belonged to a church, which had a name that was alive, though it was dead”. The Spirit spoke again to say that “He was going to ignite the hearts of certain ones in the church to develop a great passion for His presence and this would affect those around them to start a fire within the church”.
Jesus said, “I know your works that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead, for I have not found your works perfect before God”. But he who overcomes I will make a pillar in the church” (Rev 2:1-2).
Perfect works are those that are done through the presence of the Holy Spirit as opposed to the dead works resulting from natural man. Initially the dream is revealing that there are churches that do the works of the flesh (dead) as opposed to the leading of the Spirit. The Lord describes these works as dead because they are not of the Holy Spirit, as their genesis is in the hearts and designs of man. However, there is encouragement in this word, proclaiming a revival in certain hearts which will ignite a spiritual fire leading to the rejection of dead programmes, rituals, and agendas in favour of hearing and following the leading of the Spirit.
Gaining an understanding of the Spirit of fire in the first Tabernacle helps us to appreciate the work of the Spirit in the church.
The typology of the first tabernacle, where the Israelites were led by a visible cloud of fire is an example of perfect works. The visual presence of a cloud of fire made it attainable for natural Israel to be led by the Spirit of God. At the command of the Lord the children of Israel would journey, and at the command of the Lord they would camp. If the cloud of His presence moved, they moved, and if the cloud stayed above the Tabernacle, they stayed camped (Numbers 9:18-23). They did nothing away from the fiery cloud of His presence. They could have disregarded the cloud and moved away to determine their own path however if they had done so they would have done so without the Spirit (dead). However, they remained obedient to the presence of God and therefore as far as they could go under the Old Testament their works were perfect as opposed to being works of the flesh.
This Tabernacle was the place where God dwelt on earth and where the Israelites could come close to Him. It was a shadow of the heavenly pattern, as Moses was divinely instructed on its design which was revealed to him on Mount Sinai (Exodus 26:30). Despite this, it had limitations, as a veil divided the holy place from the Most Holy Place which effectively cut off access to the cloud of the Spirit which resided there. This veil was a permanent barrier to all except the High Priest who was only permitted to enter the Most Holy Place once a year (Hebrews 8:4; Exodus 26:33). Graciously Jesus as our High Priest discarded the first covenant so that He could establish the second covenant by bringing the believer through the living veil of His flesh into the Most Holy Place (Heb. 10:9). Sacrifice and offerings were not God’s ultimate plan for us, as he wants a heart (tabernacle) prepared for Him where He can fellowship.
Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent (Rev. 3:3). I know thy works; behold I have set before thee an open door which none can shut (Rev. 3:8).
The Tabernacle of Moses was made with human hands, while Jesus made a more perfect Tabernacle for us in the inner chamber of our heart (Hebrews 3:11). This Tabernacle in the Most Holy Place is of the realm of the third heaven whereby God can enter and make His abode within the believer. There is an open door between Jesus and the believer which if Jesus opens for us no one can shut. For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabited eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place (inner chamber of the heart), with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit (Isaiah 57:15). Providing a better Tabernacle for us Jesus says that “I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people (Jeremiah 31:33).
Through faith in the New Testament Gospel of Christ the spiritual innermost chamber of the heart, God’s dwelling place in man, is revived (alive). It is God’s chosen place where true worship of the Creator and intimate communion of believing humanity with God occurs. This is what we received when we first heard the message and were born again. In contrast to the first Tabernacle where only the High Priest entered the Most Holy, it is God’s plan under the new covenant that, “None shall teach his neighbour, none his brother, saying “know the Lord,” for all shall know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them (Hebrews 8:11). By communing directly with God, we can walk in the Spirit, so as not to be conformed to this world, but to do the good, acceptable, and perfect works of God. The Lord requires Christians to avail themselves of the fellowship of the Spirit to personally direct and lead them to serve the living God (Hebrews 9:8-14).
The Lord said that “he was going to ignite the hearts of His chosen ones,” thus filling them with His Spirit in their Most Holy Place of the heart, and thereby making them celestial heavenly beings of light and fire.
The word of the Lord spoken in the dream is highlighting the release of His Spirit (fiery cloud) on His chosen ones to ignite their heart with His presence. This infilling of the Spirit will also act as a spiritual circumcision to divide the carnal nature of the soul (entangled with the Kingdom of this world) from the tabernacle of heart the (Most Holy Place). Through confession and repentance “the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live” (Rom 12:2). This progressive separation from the world and a reliance on God will cause a spiritual refinement leading to purity and ongoing perfection. These ones will have the power to overcome the world as they walk with Him to keep His word and have perfect works before Him (Rev. 3: 4-8). United with the Lord’s heart and responding to His voice they shall move in spiritual authority and minister in the power of the Holy Spirit as Jesus did. “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father (John 14:12).
He makes his angels’ spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire. (His ministers born again of God who walk in the Spirit and not after the flesh) “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestine to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Hebrews 1:7).
As the dream continued, I went to fly up over the congregation. I felt an initial lag at first and I wondered if my anointing had changed, however, almost immediately I was able to fly and after circling the church, I stood down and I removed my blue gloves.
Currently the Lord is preparing the way if we would hear His voice, for Christians to know Him and to seek to hear the Spirit in the Most Holy Place of their heart. Those who possess the power of the Spirit within them to overcome will hear and obey the Lords commandments, to be one with Him, so that having previously been naturally minded they shall now bear the image of the heavenly (1Cor. 15:49). These heavenly vessels knitted together will create a fire which will bring life to their tabernacle and the glorious life of the Lord’s presence to the church.