Jun 29
The Table of Healings and Miracles
So I have looked for You in the sanctuary,
To see Your power and Your glory.
Psalms 63:2
The place David was writing of here is the very rooms you are in - the Sanctuary – the place where the ‘power’ and ‘glory’ of God is first seen. If you want to see power and glory consistently operate through your life, there is no avoiding the transformation you will go through in the two rooms of the Sanctuary. It is here, in these Rooms of Mystery, that David’s secret to power and glory was disclosed. Here is the place of God’s presence. It is here, in Him, that our deepest desires are realized. Why is it that so many try to take a short cut thinking they can circumvent God’s process in their life? Have we made Christianity too cheap? Yes, Salvation is free, but ‘discipleship’ is costly.
TWO STONES
Perhaps this is why these two rooms, are the two two stones, as well as the two chambers of God’s heart yet are one in the bosom of God. Here is the place where passion, desire, discipline, obedience, and submission are mingled into one lifestyle of intense spirituality. It is a place where the cost of the ‘Transition toward Transformation’ is eventually found to be worth it – though you may all too often fight it.
Holy Ground - have you taken your shoes off? No one could enter this Holy room with shoes or sandals on, not even the High Priest. Remember, Moses was told to take his sandals off when he approached God, because the ground where he stood was Holy. That is why this room is called the Holy Place and why the next Room is called the Holy of Holies or the Holiest of All. It is where the presence of God is made manifest.
RIGHT TO LEFT
Now you can make your way to the first piece of furniture in this room that will begin your deeper Transformation. This piece is on the right or North side of the room. Remember, Hebrew writing is read right to left so you proceed to the furniture via the same path – right to left, then to the center piece of furniture, that is furthest from you, and on through the Veil to the next room. But, the process is not that quick and certainly not that easy.
So the first piece of furniture you encounter in this mystical room of smoke and golden amber light is the Gold Table of Showbread. This bread is referred to in the Hebrew as the Bread of Presence or Bread of the Display of His Presence. It was to portray the coming Messiah. Little did even Moses know then how much the tearing of this bread would depict the tearing of the flesh of the Messiah, Yeshua who is Jesus.
WHAT IS THE SHOWBREAD?
Jesus expressly preformed this tearing or breaking of the Showbread the night before His Crucification at the “Last Supper.” He even referred to this bread as His own body when He said, “Take, eat; this is My body which is broken for you; do this in remembrance of Me.” Thus He equated the Bread He broke as the Showbread of the Sanctuary. That night, in that small, sanctuary-esk, upper room, Jesus spoke of what He was about to do as well as what He was about to become. He was about to fulfill the very fabric of that which the Hebrew children had been observing and practicing for 1500 years. The Table of Showbread would be served to mankind.
The Gold covered, Acacia wood table that the bread sat on is called the “Pure Table” and is mentioned twenty one times by Moses alone. The wood represents the “tree” Jesus would be crucified on and the Gold represents the purity of His sacrifice.
You see this Table is different from the Brazen Altar in the Outercourt. The sacrifice done on the Altar atoned or covered your sin; this is called Grace – which is the receiving of something good that you did not deserve. The tearing of the Bread/flesh that was laid on the Table of Showbread was for the sake of mercy – which is not getting something bad that you did deserve.
POWER AND GLORY
Remember, these two rooms are about power and glory therefore, this table represents something we can receive, and that something is that which only God’s power and Glory can grant, because it comes from within Him. Remember in these two rooms you are within His bosom
Interestingly enough, the height of this Table is the same height as the grate of the Brazen Altar on which the sacrifice in the Outer Court was laid. With this knowledge, you find that Jesus shed His blood and laid down His flesh on the Brazen Altar. On it He offered His body to be sacrificed in order to cover your sin. That salvation is not covered again by the Table of Showbread. But, if this Table and the tearing of the Showbread is not about Salvation, what is this about? Simply said, it is about power and glory, in other words it is about Healing and Miracles that were provided for you through the tearing and breaking of His flesh.
THE TABLE OF HEALING AND MIRACLES
This is why Prophet and Priest Isaiah was able to write, “By His stripes we are healed.” His stripes were not just stripes inflicted by a whip. The reality is that His flesh was torn apart by the metal tips on the nine tailed whip use to flog Him. With every lash, each of the nine tips tore His flesh. There were thirty-nine lashes multiplied by nine metal tips, that means three hundred and fifty one times the flesh of Jesus was torn and broken and that is just from the lashing of the Roman guard. This does not include the whipping given to him by those who held Him before He was turned over to Pilot.
The provision for healings and miracles is a matter of the Kingdom and the right for that Kingdom to exist was purchased through the entire process of Calvary. The whole of the Tabernacle, and the two rooms of the Sanctuary is a prophetic picture of that which was planned before the foundation of the World. Is it also the Dark Night of the Soul? Yes, for we will go through the same thing Jesus went through. We will have to take up our Cross and follow Him. As He provided for us, there are many parallel ways we will have to provide for others. What we have freely received, we must learn to freely give.
I’ll write more on the Table of Healings and Miracles (Showbread) and how I came to this understanding in my next post.
May you enter this next year with the passion to process through this room and beyond.
Blessings,
John Paul
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And now I am very afraid! I found this blog only two days ago and have read from start to finish recognising many steps of the journey I have travelled. Spirit stirring within me. Remembering tears, trials, joy, delight, disappointment, euphoria. But to go through the same pain (spiritual I assume) as Jesus went through brings great fear.
yes yes yes! I beleive every grace is that much more the activation and release of the holy spirit within us to outside us. As Jesus sent us the Spirit to move us beyond that which the first church could even comprehend and understand, how much greater is that grace even today! Ever increasing!
Within the first paragraph you mentioned “Here is the place of God’s presence.” and I beleive this is the absolute key.
Many work signs and wonders, and even can be tested to find that their fruit is GOOD and pleasing, but yet they did not know the king. I think that as we move into the days ahead, the essential keys to our part is not about understanding the gifts or understanding how we can do or arrive at miracles, but rather KNOWING GOD. As we know God, the miracles flow out of us so naturally that we even heal and prophesy and teach and preach to others without even knowing we are doing it. It is this that illuminates in my mind what the book of matthew has regarding the sheep (and the goats.) But the sheep said “When Lord did we do these things” and if they were aware of all the things they did, they wouldn’t have asked such a question. It is these sheep who live life everyday in love with God, and it is Gods love that has antivated every power miracle they experience…. I think that is the key difference between miracles done through religious services or even in occultic or pagan circles..every religious group has some form of miracle (or did at one time) but..the question is rather..do they know the king of all…and that is precisely what you are talking about here.. i love it.
Thank you, John Paul, for your sharing. It stirs up in me the desire to keep on keeping on, to further embrace my destiny, to say ‘yes’ to Someone of whom I may be deeply, but yet dimly, aware.
I thought that I was past the crying, but now I have been moved to tears again. Things that I could not understand before has now become clear. For so long, I could not understand why I was being held back from the things that God had placed in my heart to fulfill. And now he has shown me, that he was preserving me and that it was his protection for me. I can say that I do understand what is happening with me now, because I have experienced this before. I believe that God is bringing me through a deliverance. And when this is complete, I will once again experience the fullness of the fruit of the Spirit. I will be transformed through the blood of Jesus and by the Spirit of God. Thank you so much for ministry. I have been so blessed by your wisdom and guidance.
Many Blessings
John Paul,
Thanks so much finally somebody putting into language the things i have been going through. I have read the whole years blog in one week. WOW, I have a SENSE of whats going on now. i now have a desire to embrace THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, and i also realize what phase i am in. THANKS AGAIN.
p.s. I will be visiting the THE BRIDGE CHURCH in Birminghan Alabama next sunday.
Blessings
Daniel
What do you mean by “Have you taken your shoes of yet.” Literal, Or figuratively? Sorry some times i need it spelled out for me.
Blessings,
Daniel
Wow, this truly is a fearful thing; when I face the cross that is only mine to bear it helps a little to know that the chastisement for my peace was upon Him. That is a payment that has already been made on my behalf. Yet, if Jesus had to learn obedience through the things that He suffered, why do I so often look for a shortcut?
The Lord is gracious and compassionate. He is slow to anger, but He isn’t devoid of it. I know my words, my actions and my thoughts betray my love for Him. But I know with a depth of certainty I haven’t known before that He is bringing to completion the work that He started in me.
When are you back in Canada, John Paul? I’m praying for your release on the 5th. May God grant you an incredible gift of wisdom as you prepare for this significant day. Blessings.
Happy new year John Paul,
Yes, I have “taken my shoes off” in preparation for this new way of life and walk in the Spirit.
However, it’s not so easy because it means depending more on God’s strength demonstrated through my weaknesses than my own strength. Thankfully, communion is available, providing God’s grace and mercy for healing and miracles. As a result, I am transformed into Christ’s image thus making me more effective for His Kingdom.
Thank-you for this posting, looking forward to the next one.
Oyinda
Yes! By His stripes I am healed!
Thank you for these well written words of encouragement, I needed the reminder today.
Z
I have longed to go deeper into the mystery that is my God. I have strained at the door pushing, pounding and kicking with all my might. It’s funny how I think that brute natural force is the answer when if I would look with my spirit eyes I would see that the door has a lock and what I really need is a key to open the door. A key, oh my LORD a key, is what I need! The key that I need to unlock this door to mystery is wisdom!
Thank you John Paul for your insight that has helped me to step through a door into a place of intimacy and mystery with my LORD and my GOD.
The scripture commands that we worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
There is a parallel to this in the tabernacle - the sanctuary ( the bosom of the father/ the two stones).
The holy place depicts Christ - The Truth and the holy of holies depicts the Holy Sprit- The Spirit.
Oyinda
I had an experience with God a few months ago (during worship at church), where He taught me a little about the Holy of Holies. He pointed out that if it is named the Holy of Holies, then there are other “holies” around…, this being the holiest of them.
Holy of Holies. Simple thought but not one I had ever heard before.
So I thought of the places we visit as we pass through the Tabernacle. All represent places where we interact with God in some different application, all of which are in fact holy (as far as He is concerned). And as I thought through the brazen alter, table, incense, lampstand, etc and the things I have been taught that those represent, they are certainly holy moments where I am in relationship with Him. I found myself thinking, what is in there, what is in the holy of holies? And of course my mind tried to start taking the separate pieces to consider. But the HOLY Spirit, said to me “the MERCY SEAT” is there.
When we receive Mercy and we give Mercy, we are acting out the experience of the Holy of Holies! We are being holy as He is holy.
Now, every time is say or hear the name of the part of God that lives in us, I remember that mercy is the biggest part of his business with me. That he is the Holy Spirit. And even though we round up all the facets of holy into his one name, the Holy Spirit, mercy is what is in the Holy of Holies!
YEA!! It is easy to receive, but usually a challenge to give!
I hope my experience will bring a blessing to you as it blessed me,
Sherrill