YOU ARE A TYPE AND SHADOW OF WHAT YOU SHALL BE

08-02-20 This message may be viewed live streaming video at youtube.com and tabernacleofmoses.org today Sunday at 11:00 am, and repeated 24/7 thereafter. The video, audio, and study notes are archived.

God is Thought. The brightness of our revelations depends upon the correctness of our doctrines, our building blocks, our Godly Thoughts laid one upon another, ascending into the mind of Christ.

 

(Luke 17:20,21)  And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation [Gk: ocular evidence: observation]: Neither shall they say, Lo [Look] here! or, lo [look] there! for, behold, the kingdom of God [“the kingdom of heaven” Matt 19:23,24] is within  [Gk: inside] you. [Whose thoughts are inside you?]

 

GOD IS PREPARING YOU TO BE A SANCTUARY FOR HIS THOUGHTS

(HE IS HIS THOUGHTS)

(Exo 25:8-11) And let them make me a sanctuary [1]; that I may dwell [Heb: reside or permanently stay: abide, inhabit, remain] among them [OT “among them” / NT “within you”]. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern [2] of the tabernacle [of the tabernacle in Heaven which is an earthly physical type and shadow of the spiritual body of Jesus Christ] [(draw a blueprint of the body)] [3], and the pattern [of those instruments in Heaven, i.e., angels] of all the instruments [4] [in Heaven, i.e., furniture, vessels, pots, snuffdishes, tongs, etc.; earthly types and shadows of us as instruments of God, that is, of angels] thereof, even so shall ye make it. And they shall make an ark [5] of shittim wood [6]: two cubits [7] and a half [possibly over 6 feet] shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half [possibly over 3 feet] the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half [possibly over 3 feet] the height thereof [i.e. a rectangular box/chest] [(draw a blueprint of the ark with the three inner items)]. And thou shalt overlay [Heb: cover] it with pure gold [Heb: to shimmer] [a metal that symbolizes God in the OT relating to the Shekinah Glory of God], within [Heb: inside] and without [Heb: outside] shalt thou overlay [Heb: cover] it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about. (Exo 25:40) And look that thou make them [i.e., everything] after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount [Sinai].

1.    sanctuary = Heb: a consecrated thing or place, esp. a palace, sanctuary (whether of Jehovah or of idols) or asylum: chapel, hallowed part, holy place, sanctuary.

a.     Dict: sanctuary = 1. a holy place, as a building set aside for worship of a god or gods a) the ancient Temple at Jerusalem b) a Christian church c) any church or temple. 2. a place of refuge or protection; asylum: orig. fugitives from justice were immune from arrest in churches or other sacred places.

                                                             i.      Dict: asylum = 1. formerly, a sanctuary, as a temple, where criminals, debtors, etc., were safe from arrest. 2. an institution for the care of the mentally ill, or of the aged, the poor, etc.: in this sense largely replaced by such terms as mental (or phychiatric) hospital, nursing home, etc. – syn: shelter. 

b.    (1 Cor 6:19,20) What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

2.    pattern = Heb: structure; model, resemblance: figure, form, likeness, pattern, similitude [i.e., a copy of an original other thing].

a.    (Rev 15:5) And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven [i.e., the original thing] was opened: [perhaps we ourselves are physical copies of original heavenly things - angels]

3.    tabernacle = Heb: a residence (including a shepherd’s hut, the lair of animals, fig. the grave; also the Temple); specif. the Tabernacle (properly its wooden walls): dwelling place, habitation, tent.

4.    instrument = Heb: something prepared; any apparatus (used as an implement [Dict: any thing or person used as a means to some end]).

5.    ark = Heb: (in the sense of gathering); a box: chest. [either a cof (fin (box) or a treasure (chest)]

6.    shittim wood = Heb: the acacia tree (from its scourging thorns).

a.     (Psa 1:1-3) Blessed [Heb: happy] is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD [i.e., the Bible]; and in his law doth he meditate [Heb: ponder (think about)] day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water [the rivers of revelations (trains of thought); nourished by the Holy Spirit], that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

b.    (Mark 8:22-25) And he [Jesus] cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man [literally and spiritually walking in darkness] unto him, and besought him to touch [Gk: to attach oneself to] him. And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes [i.e., sending “the Spirit of truth” John 16:13], and put his hands upon him [i.e., he touched him], he asked him if he saw ought. And he [being bowed down before Jesus] looked up [at/to/with/thru/by “the light of the world” John 8:12; 9:5], and said, I see men as trees, walking. After that he put his hands again upon his eyes, and made him look up: and he was restored [to normal], and saw every man clearly [Gk: plainly].

7.    Commentary: “a cubit” is a Biblically variable indefinite measure of a body part of a man, representing the unmeasurable Holy Spirit.

 

(Rev 21:3) And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

 

 

 

Amen