Open our eyes, Lord, please open our eyes and our hearts to Your truths. Continually teach us, help us to ever grow in knowledge and in Your grace.
2Pe_3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
*******
We are studying from the following paper-
'1989 Special 1 -- Light From the Throne -- (WWN - William Grotheer)'
So far we've read about the various words to describe 'example, pattern, shadow' in connection with the temple. We've also learned about the two temples- the portable wilderness temple and the temple built by Solomon, a temple that was stationary. We've learned that while the two kinds of temples- portable and stationary- had their differences the services to be performed in each of them remained the exact same. The services did not change from one temple to the next. The earthly we know is a shadow of the heavenly and therefore we know beyond any doubt whatsoever that there IS a heavenly temple. The heavenly temple was not a mere painting, but a FUNCTIONING temple, the temple where our SAVIOR entered upon His return to heaven. And we know He entered as our High Priest because TRULY we know given the example, the pattern, the shadow that the High Priest alone went into the MOST HOLY PLACE once a year. Our Savior entered there and began to do all that would be needed to be done before He could return for those who would be His.
Let's learn more now… all by the GRACE of our Savior!
*******
'The Covenants and the Sanctuaries -- Light from the Throne -- (Continued) --
The sanctuary in type cannot be disassociated from the first or "type" covenant.
In Hebrews Paul stated - "Then verily the first covenant had ALSO ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary." (Heb. 9:1)
This text does NOT say - There was a worldly sanctuary and with it was associated the first covenant.
The primary instrument was the covenant.
The secondary - the "ordnances of divine service" - provided for breaches by those under the covenant.
Neither can the ministry of Christ in the Heavenly Sanctuary be disassociated from the new covenant.
In setting forth Jesus as High Priest forever after the Order of Melchisedec, Paul declares the "sum" or chief point of the whole matter is that Jesus is "a minister of the sanctuary" and that "He is the mediator of a better covenant." (Heb. 8:1-2, 6)
(((Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.))))
The word translated, "minister" (leitourgos), is a compound word derived from leitos meaning public, and ergon meaning work. It referred to a person with sufficient means who performed a public duty or rendered a service to the state at his own expense. How much greater the ministry of Christ who though "rich" rendered a service to the universe at a personal cost difficult for the human mind to grasp. One who died amid the agonies of Calvary, and who chose to be evermore associated in nature with those for whom He rendered such a service is the "minister of the sanctuary." But He is also a mediator (mesites), an internuncius, the medium of communication between God and man, and man and God.
Prior to the communication of a single sanctuary ritual, the relationship between the "type" covenant and the earthly sanctuary was established.
The 40-Day Covenant --
Before the proclamation 'of the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai, God sent a message to "the children of Israel."
- If they would "obey [His], voice and keep [His] covenant" then they would be a "peculiar treasure" to God, a "kingdom of priests and an holy nation."
Without waiting to hear His voice, the people responded, "All that the Lord hath spoken we will do." (Ex. 19:3-9)
But when "the children of Israel" heard God's voice, they had second thoughts.
They said to Moses, "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die." (Ex. 20:19)
God obliged, and had Moses set before them "judgments." (Ex. 21:1 23:19)
These "judgments" were prefaced with a very specific command - 'Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold." (Ex. 20:23)
After receiving from the people a verbal affirmation, Moses wrote these judgments and the preamble in a book which he read to them in a solemn convocation. They reaffirmed. their commitment and Moses sprinkled the blood of sacrifice on both the altar and the people declaring - "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord made with you concerning all these words." (Ex. 24:3-8)
[This "altar" was not the altar associated with the sanctuary, but an altar of worship in harmony with the instruction found in Ex. 20:24-26]
Following this service, Moses repaired to the mountain and was there forty days. (Ex. 24:18)
There was a condition in this covenant which needs to be especially noted.
It was a covenant without mercy.
The "Angel" who would go before Israel to the promised land would "not pardon [their] transgressions." (Ex. 23:20-21)
Further, it was based on human promises.
A - single - transgression would annul it and break the covenant relationship.
Two things happened while Moses was in the mount.
First, God gave to Moses a plan whereby mercy could be extended to a transgressor, and through that mercy, He would dwell among the people whom He had chosen. God said "Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." (Ex. 25:8)
This instruction is recorded in Exodus, Chapters 25-31.
God also gave to Moses, the Ten Commandments which He had spoken 40 days prior, but which now He had engraved in stone to be placed in the heart of the sanctuary. (Ex. 32:15-16; 25:16) This would be fundamental in the covenant God would make with Moses, and the basis of the "new" covenant of which Christ would be the mediator.
The other thing which occurred during the forty days was a continuing experience even as Moses descended the mount. The people had induced Aaron to make a golden calf in direct violation of the preamble of the covenant to which they had so solemnly committed themselves. Their worship of the calf had turned into a licentious orgy which was in progress as Moses entered the camp. (Ex. 32:1-6, 25)
The enormity of Israel's sin and the fact there was no pardoning provision in the covenant caused Moses to become deeply involved. He said to them - "Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin." (Ex. 32:30)
He did plead with the Lord that if forgiveness could not be granted, then "blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." (ver. 32)
The intercession of Moses resulted in a "type" covenant.
After a prolonged interchange between the Lord and Moses, God said - " I make a covenant." (Ex. 34:10) But it was on a different basis.
He instructed Moses - "Write thou these words" - similar to the 40-day Covenant, but much abbreviated - "for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel." (Ex. 34:27) Moses was to be the "surety" of this covenant and under it, the "worldly sanctuary" functioned.
If there was one lesson above all others which the 40-day Covenant taught, it was that man is unable to keep his promises, or to do what God commands, no matter how sincere his intentions.
Centuries later, Jeremiah the prophet would express it in these words - "0 Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." (23:10)
However, there was a way, and that way, the way of God, was in the sanctuary. (Ps. 77:13)
A Microcosm of the Reality --
The experience at Sinai reflected the experience of the human race.
When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden, He said to them - "Of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen. 2:16-17)
It was a commanded covenant. It was obey and live; disobey and die.
There was no mercy revealed.
Our first parents chose to disobey, and had not One stepped in, as did Moses, they would have died. A promise was given. (Gen. 3:15) In fulfilling this promise, Jesus, the Surety of a better covenant, suffered in reality what Moses offered to suffer.
Jesus experienced the meaning of having one's name blotted out, when from the darkened, clouded skies that hung mercifully about Calvary, He cried - "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
Adam's transgression necessitated another covenant.
With a second Adam, God entered into a covenant. He would deal with humanity again, in and through Jesus.
Paul wrote that "we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom. 5:1)
The ancient prophet declared that "the counsel of peace shall be between the Two of Them." (Zech. 6:13, Heb.)
This Mediator between God and man ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary, which is the sanctuary of the New Covenant.
*******
Truth!
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Time and time again mankind has made an agreement with God only to turn around and break that agreement over and over.
Paul in this agony did the same-
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS IN MY FLESH) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT WITH ME BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
The WAY was made possible.
And that WAY was not through anything we might do, any act we might undertake, any goodness we might be compelled to do.
The WAY is through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD and we must thank GOD.
In us is hopelessness, in Him there is hope.
We must never find hope in ourselves.
We must never get to a place where we can believe we have hope in ourselves, in our actions. When we get caught up in that sort of hope, we are getting caught up in the same lie the Pharisees lived in- believing THEY were that hope, that goodness, that THEY could save themselves through their own actions.
There isn't a single thing we can do physically to save ourselves.
I say physically because mentally we must assent to our SAVIOR saving us. We must believe.
And truthfully this is our work, if we must have a work to perform-
Joh 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Believe.
We must believe in our SAVIOR and that HE is ministering in the Heavenly Sanctuary right this moment, and He ministers towards the end of His being able to return for those who would be His.
This is why we must know the sanctuary truth right now, because it allows us to comprehend the ministry of our Savior and the work He does.
The cleansing He is making for us right now. He is cleansing the Heavenly Sanctuary- every accountable individual will be considered, not a single one overlooked. And all those who are God's will be cleansed, completely cleansed.
This is an awesome, truly unfathomable undertaking that is being worked on our behalf.
The ministry will not be finished until all that will be cleansed are cleansed and the sins of all of those cleansed placed upon Satan.
Yes, we must know the Sanctuary Truth.
Covenants were made, covenants were broken, intercession was made.
By the grace of our Lord Savior, may He intercede on our behalf. When the time comes for that decision to be made, may we be found believing in HIM.
Amen.
2Pe_3:18 But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
*******
We are studying from the following paper-
'1989 Special 1 -- Light From the Throne -- (WWN - William Grotheer)'
So far we've read about the various words to describe 'example, pattern, shadow' in connection with the temple. We've also learned about the two temples- the portable wilderness temple and the temple built by Solomon, a temple that was stationary. We've learned that while the two kinds of temples- portable and stationary- had their differences the services to be performed in each of them remained the exact same. The services did not change from one temple to the next. The earthly we know is a shadow of the heavenly and therefore we know beyond any doubt whatsoever that there IS a heavenly temple. The heavenly temple was not a mere painting, but a FUNCTIONING temple, the temple where our SAVIOR entered upon His return to heaven. And we know He entered as our High Priest because TRULY we know given the example, the pattern, the shadow that the High Priest alone went into the MOST HOLY PLACE once a year. Our Savior entered there and began to do all that would be needed to be done before He could return for those who would be His.
Let's learn more now… all by the GRACE of our Savior!
*******
'The Covenants and the Sanctuaries -- Light from the Throne -- (Continued) --
The sanctuary in type cannot be disassociated from the first or "type" covenant.
In Hebrews Paul stated - "Then verily the first covenant had ALSO ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary." (Heb. 9:1)
This text does NOT say - There was a worldly sanctuary and with it was associated the first covenant.
The primary instrument was the covenant.
The secondary - the "ordnances of divine service" - provided for breaches by those under the covenant.
Neither can the ministry of Christ in the Heavenly Sanctuary be disassociated from the new covenant.
In setting forth Jesus as High Priest forever after the Order of Melchisedec, Paul declares the "sum" or chief point of the whole matter is that Jesus is "a minister of the sanctuary" and that "He is the mediator of a better covenant." (Heb. 8:1-2, 6)
(((Heb 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Heb 8:2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Heb 8:6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.))))
The word translated, "minister" (leitourgos), is a compound word derived from leitos meaning public, and ergon meaning work. It referred to a person with sufficient means who performed a public duty or rendered a service to the state at his own expense. How much greater the ministry of Christ who though "rich" rendered a service to the universe at a personal cost difficult for the human mind to grasp. One who died amid the agonies of Calvary, and who chose to be evermore associated in nature with those for whom He rendered such a service is the "minister of the sanctuary." But He is also a mediator (mesites), an internuncius, the medium of communication between God and man, and man and God.
Prior to the communication of a single sanctuary ritual, the relationship between the "type" covenant and the earthly sanctuary was established.
The 40-Day Covenant --
Before the proclamation 'of the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai, God sent a message to "the children of Israel."
- If they would "obey [His], voice and keep [His] covenant" then they would be a "peculiar treasure" to God, a "kingdom of priests and an holy nation."
Without waiting to hear His voice, the people responded, "All that the Lord hath spoken we will do." (Ex. 19:3-9)
But when "the children of Israel" heard God's voice, they had second thoughts.
They said to Moses, "Speak thou with us, and we will hear: but let not God speak with us, lest we die." (Ex. 20:19)
God obliged, and had Moses set before them "judgments." (Ex. 21:1 23:19)
These "judgments" were prefaced with a very specific command - 'Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold." (Ex. 20:23)
After receiving from the people a verbal affirmation, Moses wrote these judgments and the preamble in a book which he read to them in a solemn convocation. They reaffirmed. their commitment and Moses sprinkled the blood of sacrifice on both the altar and the people declaring - "Behold the blood of the covenant which the Lord made with you concerning all these words." (Ex. 24:3-8)
[This "altar" was not the altar associated with the sanctuary, but an altar of worship in harmony with the instruction found in Ex. 20:24-26]
Following this service, Moses repaired to the mountain and was there forty days. (Ex. 24:18)
There was a condition in this covenant which needs to be especially noted.
It was a covenant without mercy.
The "Angel" who would go before Israel to the promised land would "not pardon [their] transgressions." (Ex. 23:20-21)
Further, it was based on human promises.
A - single - transgression would annul it and break the covenant relationship.
Two things happened while Moses was in the mount.
First, God gave to Moses a plan whereby mercy could be extended to a transgressor, and through that mercy, He would dwell among the people whom He had chosen. God said "Let them make Me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them." (Ex. 25:8)
This instruction is recorded in Exodus, Chapters 25-31.
God also gave to Moses, the Ten Commandments which He had spoken 40 days prior, but which now He had engraved in stone to be placed in the heart of the sanctuary. (Ex. 32:15-16; 25:16) This would be fundamental in the covenant God would make with Moses, and the basis of the "new" covenant of which Christ would be the mediator.
The other thing which occurred during the forty days was a continuing experience even as Moses descended the mount. The people had induced Aaron to make a golden calf in direct violation of the preamble of the covenant to which they had so solemnly committed themselves. Their worship of the calf had turned into a licentious orgy which was in progress as Moses entered the camp. (Ex. 32:1-6, 25)
The enormity of Israel's sin and the fact there was no pardoning provision in the covenant caused Moses to become deeply involved. He said to them - "Ye have sinned a great sin; and now I will go up unto the Lord; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin." (Ex. 32:30)
He did plead with the Lord that if forgiveness could not be granted, then "blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written." (ver. 32)
The intercession of Moses resulted in a "type" covenant.
After a prolonged interchange between the Lord and Moses, God said - " I make a covenant." (Ex. 34:10) But it was on a different basis.
He instructed Moses - "Write thou these words" - similar to the 40-day Covenant, but much abbreviated - "for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel." (Ex. 34:27) Moses was to be the "surety" of this covenant and under it, the "worldly sanctuary" functioned.
If there was one lesson above all others which the 40-day Covenant taught, it was that man is unable to keep his promises, or to do what God commands, no matter how sincere his intentions.
Centuries later, Jeremiah the prophet would express it in these words - "0 Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." (23:10)
However, there was a way, and that way, the way of God, was in the sanctuary. (Ps. 77:13)
A Microcosm of the Reality --
The experience at Sinai reflected the experience of the human race.
When God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden, He said to them - "Of every tree in the garden thou mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." (Gen. 2:16-17)
It was a commanded covenant. It was obey and live; disobey and die.
There was no mercy revealed.
Our first parents chose to disobey, and had not One stepped in, as did Moses, they would have died. A promise was given. (Gen. 3:15) In fulfilling this promise, Jesus, the Surety of a better covenant, suffered in reality what Moses offered to suffer.
Jesus experienced the meaning of having one's name blotted out, when from the darkened, clouded skies that hung mercifully about Calvary, He cried - "My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
Adam's transgression necessitated another covenant.
With a second Adam, God entered into a covenant. He would deal with humanity again, in and through Jesus.
Paul wrote that "we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." (Rom. 5:1)
The ancient prophet declared that "the counsel of peace shall be between the Two of Them." (Zech. 6:13, Heb.)
This Mediator between God and man ministers in the Heavenly Sanctuary, which is the sanctuary of the New Covenant.
*******
Truth!
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Time and time again mankind has made an agreement with God only to turn around and break that agreement over and over.
Paul in this agony did the same-
Rom 7:14 For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.
Rom 7:15 For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.
Rom 7:16 If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good.
Rom 7:17 Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:18 FOR I KNOW THAT IN ME (THAT IS IN MY FLESH) DWELLETH NO GOOD THING FOR TO WILL IS PRESENT WITH ME BUT HOW TO PERFORM THAT WHICH IS GOOD I FIND NOT
Rom 7:19 For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.
Rom 7:20 Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
Rom 7:21 I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.
Rom 7:22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Rom 7:23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Rom 7:24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
Rom 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
The WAY was made possible.
And that WAY was not through anything we might do, any act we might undertake, any goodness we might be compelled to do.
The WAY is through JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD and we must thank GOD.
In us is hopelessness, in Him there is hope.
We must never find hope in ourselves.
We must never get to a place where we can believe we have hope in ourselves, in our actions. When we get caught up in that sort of hope, we are getting caught up in the same lie the Pharisees lived in- believing THEY were that hope, that goodness, that THEY could save themselves through their own actions.
There isn't a single thing we can do physically to save ourselves.
I say physically because mentally we must assent to our SAVIOR saving us. We must believe.
And truthfully this is our work, if we must have a work to perform-
Joh 6:28 Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?
Joh 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.
Believe.
We must believe in our SAVIOR and that HE is ministering in the Heavenly Sanctuary right this moment, and He ministers towards the end of His being able to return for those who would be His.
This is why we must know the sanctuary truth right now, because it allows us to comprehend the ministry of our Savior and the work He does.
The cleansing He is making for us right now. He is cleansing the Heavenly Sanctuary- every accountable individual will be considered, not a single one overlooked. And all those who are God's will be cleansed, completely cleansed.
This is an awesome, truly unfathomable undertaking that is being worked on our behalf.
The ministry will not be finished until all that will be cleansed are cleansed and the sins of all of those cleansed placed upon Satan.
Yes, we must know the Sanctuary Truth.
Covenants were made, covenants were broken, intercession was made.
By the grace of our Lord Savior, may He intercede on our behalf. When the time comes for that decision to be made, may we be found believing in HIM.
Amen.
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