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How can we recreate or "compete" with the kind of worship God receives in Heaven? David instructed sanctified levies to keep fueling the flame of God's presence with 24-hour worship everyday. (Don't get into legalism and think, "I have to help my church set up a 24-hour prayer vigil." If God tells you and your church leadership to do it, then do it. If not, ask Him what He wants you to do and do it.)
Remember that you can beg for God to come all you want, but until you prepare a place where his weighty glory can safely dwell, He may visit but cannot stay. I don't know about you, but I am tired of visits. Somehow we have to reclaim the ability to host the Holy Ghost. David knew how to do it.
David surrounded that Ark with worshipers so that the glory of God would keep flickering. For the first time in history, Israelites, pagans, or heathen could stand near mount Zion in Jerusalem and literally see the blue flame of God's glory flickering between the outstretched arm and dancing feet of the worshipers in David's tabernacle! How could this be? It was because David's tabernacle was a place marked by open -veiled and unfettered worship.
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David did more that surround the Ark of God with sanctified worshipers. He made sure that their primary focus was to minister to God through praise, worship, and adoration. The levies, the Old Testament minister of worship and praise, stood between the world on the outside and the unveiled glory of God on the inside.
For the first time since His final walk with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. God found a house where there was no veil or dividing walls between His glory and the frail flesh of men. It wasn't needed because the worshipers had become the veil and protective walls as they surrounded God's glory with a covering cloud of repentant, Sacrificial worship and praise. For lack of a better term, I call this precarious place between the porch of man and the altar of God "the weeping zone." This is the miracle that made David's humble tent become God's favorite house.
Two Scripture passages may help you understand why David managed to build a tabernacle without a veil or walls without seeing people die by the hundreds or thousands. First, God said, "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none." Secondly, john seems to describe the two component of God's glory when he wrote, "we beheld his glory..... full of grace and truth."
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