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Acts 3:21 NLT

For he must remain in heaven until the time for the final restoration of all things, as God promised long ago through his holy prophets

Double Restoration of Israel & Body of Christ

Parallel Restoration

Restoration of The Tabernacle of David

Tabernacle of David

tent - ‘o'-hel’-

nomad's tent, ( symbolic of wilderness life, transience)

dwelling, home, habitation

the sacred tent of Jehovah (the tabernacle)

In the days of King David, he established a tabernacle that had singers and musicians who ministered to the Lord night and day.

On that day - yôm ( 24 hour period)

The Tabernacle of David - a deposed dynasty of David (Amos 9:8)

will I raise up (‘yum’- to be established, be confirmed, to be fulfilled)

his ruins ( the dynasty of King David)

The promise of the restoration of the tabernacle of David refers to the governmental restoration of David’s worldwide rule as part of the restoration of national Israel in the millennial kingdom.

The governmental rule of Jesus from Jerusalem over all the nations.(

Jesus ruling from the throne of David).

Israel and undivided Jerusalem must be in place

God’s waves of restoration of Israel since 70 AD

days old - ʿôlām - long duration, for ever, everlasting, evermore, perpetual, indefinite unending future or eternity

This chapter describes a famous meeting of leaders in the early church that was held in Jerusalem to decide how the church was to respond to Gentiles who had become believers.

(Incidentally, this problem is the other way around today.

Years ago, the Assemblies of God denomination held a meeting to decide whether their churches could accept Messianic believers.

Eventually, one of the leaders stood up and said, “Brothers, they have accepted us— we’ve got to accept them!”

In this way, history has come full circle.)

The controversy in Acts 15 was brought to a conclusion by James, who gave the above statement in which he quoted from the prophet Amos.

(Read Acts 15:13-18).

Notice the central statement in the above Scripture that James quoted from Amos: “I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David”—

not the tabernacle of Moses, nor the temple of Solomon, but the tabernacle of David.

Where was the tabernacle of David built?

In Jerusalem, the place where God had chosen to put His name.

This passage gives us the scriptural basis for the whole era of the Gentile church.

It is the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David.

I have heard many messages that illuminate the differences between the tabernacle of Moses and the tabernacle of David.

In the tabernacle of Moses, worship was permitted only during certain hours of daylight; the tabernacle of David was open day and night.

With the tabernacle of Moses, only the Levites had access; but with the tabernacle of David, there was a freedom and a spontaneity of worship—anybody could worship there.

At which kind of tabernacle are we, as God’s children, able to worship?

The tabernacle of David.

What was the essence of the tabernacle of David?

Praise.

What was a result of the tabernacle of David?

The book of Psalms, Prosperity and total peace

For the Gentile church, our true charter of liberty is the rebuilding of the tabernacle of David.

However, our emphasis here is not on the building but on the site where God had chosen to put His name.

In our dispensation, the key issue for us is this: Where has God chosen to put His name?

The answer is not in a building, nor in a nationality, nor in a denomination, nor in a particular human leader’s teachings.

God has placed His name in one Person.

That Person is Jesus Christ.

Where are we authorized to meet? “Into” the name of Jesus.

We are to gather around the invisible Person of Jesus, who meets with us when we are led together by the Spirit of God into His name.

When we repent of having turned aside to “high places” of worship, rejecting them as the basis of our meeting together as Christians, we will remove barriers that have been holding us back from fulfilling our calling as God’s people in the world

In the days of King David, he established a tabernacle that had singers and musicians who ministered to the Lord night and day.

After this -’meta’ GK. in the midst of, amid, denoting association, union, accompaniment

Rebuild - to build again

fallen down -to fall under judgment, came under condemnation

the tabernacle - of that well known movable temple of God after the pattern of which the temple at Jerusalem was built - we are the temple of God ( sanctuary - habitation of the heart

set it up - build anew ( worshippers)

the rest of mankind - whosoever

Worldwide unprecedented harvest is the result

The Holy Spirit is orchestrating a global worship and prayer movement that will operate in great authority.

This prayer movement will operate in the spirit of the tabernacle of David.

God is not finished with the prayer movement around the world.

He wants to transform it from a “movement” to a lifestyle.

(Mt.

21:13; Lk. 18:7–8; Rev. 5:8, 8:3–5, 22:17; cf.

Isa.

62:6–7; Joel 2:12–17, 32).