“You shall be filled at My table …” (Ezek. 39:20, NKJV)
In the previous teaching we looked at the Scripture from Song of Solomon 1:12: “While the king is at his table, my spikenard sends forth its fragrance.” In the teaching we pointed out an explicit reference to sitting at the table with Christ, and the fact that a covenant is “written” on our inner tablet/table of the heart (as opposed to sitting with religious people who, because of sensual and demonic wisdom, have you literally eating with demons).
It is thus absolutely apt that Scripture often speaks of tables and anointing, as the table is the place where the Anointed can flow in His anointing. Another reference to this brings an interesting perspective into play, from the prophetic book about the Bride, Ezekiel: “You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.” (Ezek. 23:41). Please note – although the bed (which symbolically points to intimacy) is present, the table is the place where the anointing is nestled.
In previous teachings where we’ve discussed anointing we extensively explained that anointing is always corporate in nature. The sense of community which the table evokes makes this an clear linkage. It is thus very interesting that the Lord says the following to Moses in Ex. 34:1: “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke’”. The ten words that are engraved on the stone tablet by the finger of God, is known as the ten commandments, but within the Jewish tradition it is also referred to as the ten words of God. A few Scriptures also refers to it as such, for instance Ex. 34:1 – “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke’.” (Also see Deut. 10:2 in this regard).
The Apostolic Bible Polyglot provides a transliteration of the Hebrew to Greek, and in this translation words is presented as rhema! This would then mean that the tables of the law are the Old Testament typological equivalent of the words of the New Testament Bride! Acts 7:38 clearly states that Moses received “living words” on Mount Sinai, to give to Israel. Indeed – the words He gave them, and the words that are the Bride of Christ, “are spirit, and they are life” (John 6:63).
Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible notes that Ezek. 39 typologically deals with: “The purposes of the past dispensation shall be made clear to God’s people themselves and to the pagan.” In verse 20 it is noted that “’You shall be filled at My table with horses and riders, with mighty men and with all the men of war,’ says the Lord God.” The city who offers the prophetic promise of restoration to the “living words” of God, is Hamonah (verse 16), which means “multitude” or “corporate”! The Bride is satisfied and empowered at the corporate table of the Lord!
- Selah: Read Isa. 2:3 in the light of this teaching.
- Read: 1 Cor. 1-4.
- Memorise: 1 Cor. 3:11-13.
