You have not come to the mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire. (Hebrews 12:18)
How vast is this movement
from that old economy to the bringing in of the New Economy. There is one thing
only in your New Testament, introduced by Christ in the Gospels and followed out
by the apostles; and in this letter to the Hebrews, the solid object of the
whole letter is the transition from one economy to Another. Oh, read it again
and glory in it. Read that letter again to the Hebrews. Glory in this: “My, what
a thing we have been brought into.” Tabernacle? Yes, says the writer, there was
a tabernacle on this earth, and for the time being... until the time. That is
all gone, he says, and now we have come into the True Tabernacle not made with
hands, which God has made, a Heavenly Tabernacle. See how wonderful the
transition is!—the passing over from one economy to Another.
I must pause to ask, is this where Christendom
has gone astray?—
Is it still holding on to the old economy?
Is it still in the grave clothes?
Is it still that old Mosaic economy with its forms and ways?
Is it not emancipated into the Heavenlies?!
That is what the Lord wants to do with us here.
Things
have gone away, gone wrong, got out of Gods way,
and God is returning to where they went wrong. God
usually does that with us. And so what is Gods
beginning? It is His Son before the foundation of
the world. Right back in the eternal counsels His Son was
made the beginning, Gods starting place. Men have
all gone astray, because of history, all of us like
sheep have gone astray.
God gets back to His beginning, His Son. Christendom has
gone astray, and the only way of saving Christendom is to
get back to Gods beginning, a true and right
apprehension of His Son.