Worship As It Is In Heaven: Worship That Engages Every Believer and Establishes God's Kingdom on Earth by John Dickson & Chuck D. Pierce

Author:John Dickson & Chuck D. Pierce [Dickson, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Apostolate (Christian theology), Public worship
ISBN: 9781441268082
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2011-08-25T00:00:00+00:00

The Rebuilding Begins

As the leaders of the fledging church gathered in Jerusalem, as recorded in Acts 15, the apostle James was listening to Paul’s report that Gentiles were being saved when the Holy Spirit quickened the prophecy of Amos: Gentiles would come into the kingdom when God began to rebuild the fallen tent of David. James was reminded of Simon Peter’s earlier accounts of Gentile conversions and addressed the council:

Men and brethren, listen to me: Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: “After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; so that the rest of mankind may seek the LORD, even all the Gentiles who are called by My name, says the LORD who does all these things” (Acts 15:13-17).

James didn’t explain how the Gentiles related to David’s tabernacle, nor do I believe he understood it himself. I believe it was the Holy Spirit proclaiming through James the beginning of a new era on the earth. Joseph Garlington says:

James was publicly announcing “that day” had come, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit among the Gentiles marked the beginning of the fulfillment of the prophecy of Amos.1

That which God had instituted 1,000 years earlier and then let fall into the dust, He was now going to “build it as it used to be.” This was the beginning. The New Testament-style face-to-face worship that had been modeled in David’s tabernacle would now be built again in the New Testament Church. The end result would be that “all the Gentiles who are called by My name” would be brought into the kingdom. The rebuilding of Zion and David’s tabernacle that crowned it would be a process that unfolded over the next centuries, but James, by the Holy Spirit, proclaimed that the process had begun.

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