London House of Prayer – Ryan Meegan

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London House of Prayer – Ryan Meegan

The Tabernacle of David – October 9-10, 2015

Session 3 – Harp and Bowl and the Tabernacle of David/Obed-Edom

our prayer meetings are driven by music
1. The Lord loves music. He surrounds His throne with music. He made humans to be musical beings. It is literally hard-wired into our brains.
2. As we’ve seen previously, in the Tabernacle of David the music never stopped. 4000 full-time musicians, 288 full-time singers, divided into 24 divisions, 1 for each hour of the day. The music never stopped.
3. So we follow this pattern in our harp and bowl model for our prayer meetings. We have music going, non-stop, during our prayer meetings. We have musicians and singers who keep this music going.
prophetically singing the word
1. We saw in the Tabernacle of David that there were singers who were trained to sing prophetically. The number one way they did this was by singing the Word.
2. Likewise, we follow this pattern. When we speak of “prophetic singers”, “prophetic singing”, and “prophetic songs”, the number one thing we mean is singing the Bible. So we pray from the Bible, and then we sing from the Bible, and we are flowing in the most prophetic thing in all of history, the Word of God.
Antiphonal singing
1. We looked at the idea of “antiphonal singing”, or singing back and forth, in the Tabernacle of David. The singers would stand opposite each other and sing back and forth. Often this would be a call and response type of song.
2. Likewise, we use this pattern. On a worship team, the singers are not just trying to do their own thing. Rather, they listen to what is being prayed, and what else is being sung, and they try to echo, elaborate, or build on what was prayed and sang. So there is a back and forth, and a building upon one another.
team ministry
1. In the Tabernacle of David, the 1 hour sessions were all led by entire teams. There was never a “one man show”.
2. The Lord loves team ministry, and so do we. We follow the pattern of team ministry in our prayer meetings. Team ministry forces us to move in humility, to prefer one another, and to not try to make it about ourselves.
3. Our emphasis on singing the Word and on antiphonal singing helps to enforce this value. It’s harder for one person to stand out when everyone is working together, and when we are trying to sing the Word, not trying to come up with the cleverest phrase.
ministry unto the lord
1. We saw that the point of the Tabernacle of David was that it was unto the Lord, not unto men. Men benefitted. Men participated. But at the end of the day, it was for and unto the Lord.
2. We follow this pattern in focusing our prayer meetings on Jesus, not on people. If the room is empty or the room is full, we still do what we do, and we do it the same way. Our goal is not to get a crowd jumping. Our goal is to minister to the Lord.
Obed-Edom – movements of the ark
1. After the journey in the wilderness, in the time of the Judges, the ark is kept in Bethel. Eventually the ark is moved to and house at Shiloh.

Judges 20: 26-27 Then all the sons of Israel and all the people went up and came to Bethel and wept; thus they remained there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening. And they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 27 The sons of Israel inquired of the Lord (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
1 Samuel 1:3 Now this man would go up from his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice to the Lord of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the Lord there.
1 Samuel 3:3 and the lamp of God had not yet gone out, and Samuel was lying down in the temple of the Lord where the ark of God was,

Israel acted foolishly and took the ark out to battle without the Word of the Lord. They lose the battle, and the Philistines take the ark at Ebenezer. The Philistines move the ark to Ashdod and put it in the temple of their false god Dagon. A curse comes upon them, so they send the ark to Ekron. The Ekronites don’t want to be cursed, so they put the ark on an ox-cart and the oxen take the ark to Beth-shemesh in Israel. The men of Beth-shemesh look inside the ark and many die. They send the ark to Kiriath-jearim. The people of Kiriath-jearim place the ark at the house of Abinadab, and consecrate Eleazar to keep the ark.

1 Samuel 4:10-11, 21-22 So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died…21 And she called the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God was taken and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God was taken.”
1 Samuel 5:1-2, 6, 10-11 Now the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer to Ashdod. 2 Then the Philistines took the ark of God and brought it to the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon…6 Now the hand of the Lord was heavy on the Ashdodites, and He ravaged them and smote them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territories…10 So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And as the ark of God came to Ekron the Ekronites cried out, saying, “They have brought the ark of the God of Israel around to us, to kill us and our people.” 11 They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it return to its own place, so that it will not kill us and our people.” For there was a deadly confusion throughout the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
1 Samuel 6:11-12, 19-21 They put the ark of the Lord on the cart, and the box with the golden mice and the likenesses of their tumors. 12 And the cows took the straight way in the direction of Beth-shemesh; they went along the highway, lowing as they went, and did not turn aside to the right or to the left. And the lords of the Philistines followed them to the border of Beth-shemesh…19 He struck down some of the men of Beth-shemesh because they had looked into the ark of the Lord. He struck down of all the people, 50,070 men, and the people mourned because the Lord had struck the people with a great slaughter. 20 The men of Beth-shemesh said, “Who is able to stand before the Lord, this holy God? And to whom shall He go up from us?” 21 So they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath-jearim, saying, “The Philistines have brought back the ark of the Lord; come down and take it up to you.”
1 Samuel 7:1-2 And the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord and brought it into the house of Abinadab on the hill, and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the Lord. 2 From the day that the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim, the time was long, for it was twenty years; and all the house of Israel lamented after the Lord.

Finally David brings the ark from the house of Abinadab, attempting to bring it to Jerusalem. But Uzzah is killed when they don’t treat the ark as the covenant commanded, and David places the ark at the house of a Gittite named Obed-edom.

2 Samuel 6:6-11 But when they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen nearly upset it. 7 And the anger of the Lord burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down there for [e]his irreverence; and he died there by the ark of God. 8 David became angry because [f]of the Lord’s outburst against Uzzah, and that place is called [g]Perez-uzzah to this day. 9 So David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” 10 And David was unwilling to move the ark of the Lord into the city of David with him; but David took it aside to the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 11 Thus the ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-edom the Gittite three months, and the Lord blessed Obed-edom and all his household.

3 months at obed-edom’s house
1. Obed-edom is a Gittite, a Philistine from Gath, the same thing that Goliath was. Apparently he has chosen to join himself to Israel and to Yahweh. He is just a normal guy living a normal life. He has a family, a farm, and a house. His plan is to work hard, raise a family, and leave a small plot of land to his children.
2. Then one day the largest surprise of his life comes. King David comes knocking at his door, and deposits the ark of the covenant at his house. THE ARK. With THE CHERUBIM. Above which the GLORY OF THE LORD dwells.
3. The ark is left with Obed-edom for 3 months, about 90 days. I wonder what life was like for those 90 days for Obed-edom and his family. I wonder what happened in his head and his heart. I wonder what happened in his desires and his vision for his life.
4. At the end of three months, the report comes back to David that the Lord has blessed Obed-edom, and David is stirred to once again move the ark to Jerusalem, to the tabernacle. David comes and moves the ark the biblical way, and brings it up to Jerusalem.

1 Samuel 6:12 Now it was told King David, saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-edom and all that belongs to him, on account of the ark of God.” David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

But what about Obed-edom?

obed-edom moves to jerusalem
1. We find in other places in the Scripture that Obed-edom did the most remarkable thing. He left his home, left his farm, uprooted his family, and moved to Jerusalem with the ark! And somehow, this Gittite Philistine actually became a musician, singer and gatekeeper in the Tabernacle of David.

1 Chronicles 26:1, 4 For the divisions of the gatekeepers there were of the Korahites, Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of [b]Asaph…4 Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, Sacar the fourth, Nethanel the fifth,
1 Chronicles 15:16-18 Then David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their relatives the singers, with instruments of music, harps, lyres, loud-sounding cymbals, to raise sounds of joy. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel, and from his relatives, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their relatives, Ethan the son of Kushaiah, 18 and with them their relatives of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom and Jeiel, the gatekeepers.

What? How? Huh? The Bible doesn’t give us all the in’s and out’s, but somehow this foreign Philistine from Gath, after being in the presence of God for 90 days, figures that he has no other option left in life now than to follow God’s presence wherever it leads, and to do whatever it takes to remain in His presence. Somehow he finds a way to be counted among the Levites and to have a place before that ark.
I wonder what he had to do. I wonder what it cost. I wonder what his friends, neighbors, and family said when he up and moved, left his land, and moved to stand in a tent and sing to a box.
More than that, I wonder what I would do, what I would give, what price I would pay in order to stand and sing to the Presence of God.

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