Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
This is a Biblical Type as described by William Seymour in 1906, in his book called, "The Azusa Street Papers."
A beautiful picture of Pentecost is seen in the precious Word of God in 2nd Chronicles.
All the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished; and Solomon brought in all things that David his father had dedicated; And the silver and the gold, And all the instruments put he among the treasures of the house of God. Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion. Wherefore all the men of Israel assemble themselves onto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month.
That feast was typical of Pentecost. And all the men of Israel came and they brought up the ark of the Tabernacle of the congregation and all the holy vessels that were in the Tabernacle. All of this was typical of our consecration and sanctification unto the Lord.
And it came to pass when the priests were come out of the holy place (For all the priests that were present were sanctified, And did not then wait by course; also the Levites which were the singers, All of them of Asaph, of Hemen, of Jerusalem, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having symbols and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, And with them a hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets.). It came to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord; And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and the symbols and instruments of music, And praised the Lord saying, For He is good; For His mercy endureth forever; that then the house was filled with a cloud, Even the house of the Lord. So that the priest could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; For the glory of the Lord had filled the house.
we read here that all the priests that were present were sanctified. this is typical of Christ's people being sanctified before they receive the baptism with the Holy Ghost. Dear beloved, we must get sanctified to receive it. Sanctification takes out the disobedience, rebellion and resistance out of our hearts and gives us a pure, clean heart that are Christ may come and dwell in. Amen. Sanctification is the second work of grace that deals with our original sin. Sanctification destroys the root and breed of sin and makes us holy. We know these priests were sanctified, For the Word of God says so. Also the Levites which were the singers, we're a raid in white linen. Linen is a type of the robes of righteousness that we read of in Revelation 7:13, "And one of the elders answered and said unto me, what are these which are raid in linen. Whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, these are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.". So the white linen is typical of the precious robes which Jesus gives to us through the sanctifying Blood of the Lamb.
We find that with these singers and white linen we're 120 priests sounding with trumpets, typical of the 120 disciples that were sanctified and in the upper room waiting for Jesus to baptize them with the Holy Ghost and fire.
"And it came to pass as a trumpeters and singers were as one-". This is prophetical as the "one accord" which we find at Pentecost. O, beloved, I pray that you may wait in one accord for the promise of the Father upon the sanctified and cleanse life.
And when they praise the Lord in unison, The house was filled with the glory of the Lord. He will fill the room and you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire, and God will give you a new tongue as a trumpet in singing or speaking as he did the 120 on the day of Pentecost.
It is the blood of Jesus that brings fellowship among Christian family. The blood of Jesus Christ is the strongest in the world. It makes all races and nations into one common family in the Lord and makes them all satisfied to be one. The Holy Ghost is the leader and he makes all one as Jesus prayed, "that they all may be one."
William James Roop, MABS
