In Exodus 25, the Bible presents us with a blueprint of a specific dwelling for God to live with and be in His people. While today we are not offering physical sacrifices, we are indeed chosen to be His New Testament priests (2 Pet. 2:9). So what does it mean to be a priest? It is all about the table.
As priests, we find our supply within the tabernacle, but not a physical one; it’s through our churching today. Here, the showbread table provides not only the bread, but also the way we eat it. This table is the height of the Ark of the Testimony. It carries the same standard as the Ark. It is this eating that constitutes us with the same life and nature of God! Christ is the expression of God’s testimony and the true bread of life in the Word presented as the showbread table. As we eat His words, we receive His presence: He is shining, revealing and exposing within our being. The showbread table is a mysterious yet intimate way God arranged for us to mingle with Him; without practical eating, everything is theoretical. Today, our true priestly service comes from true eating. And that eating has a result: we become His dwelling place, a mutual abode. It is no longer God and man living separately. Now it is “I am in you, you are in me.” Today, our eating is with purpose: for constituting, reigning and expressing the Lord we serve.
(Above are notes of fellowship taken from a gathering on 1/21/2024, not reviewed by the speaker.)