Revealed Treasures of The Tabernacle

Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle Pastor John Shane Vaughn First Harvest Ministries Drawn from the twenty-seven-part teaching series Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle, 2024–2025 Contents Preface...............................................................................................................................................................1 Part One: The Court.......................................................................................................................................3 1The Full Stature of the Body of Messiah.....................................................................................................................4 2A Habitation for YAHWEH............................................................................................................................................22 3The Gate and the Colors of Sonship............................................................................................................................39 4The Altar, the Laver and the Father's House...........................................................................................................51 5Golden Boards on a Foundation of Redemption.....................................................................................................71 6The Silver Message and the Bonds of the House...................................................................................................86 7Royalty Under the Rubbish: The Four Coverings................................................................................................101 Part Two: The Holy Place........................................................................................................................114 8The Altar of Prayer and the Holy Camp...................................................................................................................115 9The Key to the Third Door: The Golden Altar of Incense..................................................................................128 10The Light You Become: The Golden Menorah.......................................................................................................139 11Seven Stars and the Sevenfold Spirit........................................................................................................................148 12The Fullness of YAHWEH in a Family of Sons......................................................................................................162 13The Earnest and the Spirit of Wisdom.....................................................................................................................174 14The Foolish Things: Wisdom from Above and the Spirit of Quick Understanding.................................188 Contents continued 15The Mind of YAHWEH and the Spirit of Counsel................................................................................................198 16The Spirit of Might: From Beggar to Royalty........................................................................................................210 17The Living Temple: Your Body and Your Two Minds.......................................................................................220 18Show the House to the House: Ezekiel's Temple and the Returning Glory................................................231 19Intimacy with the Word: The Spirit of Knowledge............................................................................................248 20Eyes on the Throne: The Fear of YAHWEH...........................................................................................................260 21The Work and the Veil..................................................................................................................................................275 Part Three: The Priesthood....................................................................................................................287 22Without Blemish: The Royal Priesthood................................................................................................................288 23The Heavenly Pattern: Priestly Courses and the Songs of the Sabbath......................................................300 24Wool and Linen: The Garments of the Priesthood...............................................................................................311 25Jacob's Ladder: Aim Your Mind.................................................................................................................................323 26People of the Breastplate: The Priesthood and Its Work..................................................................................337 Part Four: Behind the Veil......................................................................................................................349 27Outside the Camp: The Ark, the Priesthood and the Plan................................................................................350 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE PREFACE Before You Walk Through the Gate When YAHWEH called Moses up into the mountain, He did not hand him a building. He showed him a pattern: "See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount" (Hebrews 8:5). Everything Israel later raised in the wilderness was a copy of what Moses saw: the linen wall, the brazen altar, the laver, the golden lampstand, the table, the altar of incense, the veil and the ark behind it. This book is about that pattern. It is not a book about an old tent. The Tabernacle was never the goal. It was a picture of the people YAHWEH intended to dwell in. "Let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8). The house was always meant to be a people. Why the Seventh Temple? You have probably been taught to wait for a "third temple" in Jerusalem. That count begins with Solomon and leaves out every place YAHWEH dwelt before him. Count every house where His presence rested among His people, and there are seven: 1.The Tabernacle of Moses in the wilderness (Exodus 40:33–34) 2.The Tabernacle at Shiloh, set up in the land under Joshua (Joshua 18:1) 3.The Tent of David, pitched for the ark in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:17) 4.The Temple of Solomon (1 Kings 8:10–11) 5.The Temple of Zerubbabel, built by the returning exiles (Ezra 6:14–15) 6.The Temple of Herod, "forty and six years... in building" (John 2:20) 7.The Seventh Temple: a living temple of living stones, built by YAHWEH Himself (1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:19–22) Six is the number of man. Six houses of skins, stone, timber and gold, and every one of them fell, burned or was torn down. "Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands" (Acts 7:48). Seven is the number of completion. There will be no eighth. The temple YAHWEH is building now is not made with hands, and it is not waiting on a construction crew in Jerusalem. It is a people, and if you are reading this book, He is calling you to be part of it. How This Book Walks The book follows the Tabernacle the way a worshiper would have walked it: from the gate inward, room by room, until we stand behind the veil. •Part One, The Court. The linen wall, the gate, the brazen altar, the laver, the golden boards on their silver sockets, and the four coverings over the house. This is where every believer begins: at the blood and in the water. 1 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •Part Two, The Holy Place. The altar of incense, the golden menorah and the seven Spirits of YAHWEH that burn in it. This is the room of light, bread and prayer, where a believer's mind is trained to think as YAHWEH thinks. •Part Three, The Priesthood. The people YAHWEH is preparing to serve in His house: without blemish, keeping heaven's time, clothed in linen, climbing Jacob's ladder, wearing the breastplate over their hearts. •Part Four, Behind the Veil. The ark of the covenant, and the reason the whole house was built. Three measures run through every chapter: thirtyfold, sixtyfold and hundredfold. They are the court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Every believer who has come through the blood and the water has entered the court. But not every believer goes on to the light, and fewer still press through the veil. This book was written for those who want to go all the way in. How to Read It Do not take my word for anything in these pages. Open your own Bible and study it. You were never commanded merely to read the Scriptures. You were commanded to study them, rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15). Every Scripture in this book is quoted from the King James Version so that you can check it against the Book you already own. You will notice that I write the Father's name as YAHWEH and the Son's name as YAHSHUA. Where the King James Version is quoted, its words are left exactly as they stand. When I speak, I use the names. These chapters began as a teaching series, Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle, which I gave to the assembly of First Harvest Ministries over twenty-seven sessions in 2024 and 2025. They have been rewritten here as a book, for the reader who was not in the room. Where It Is All Going The Tabernacle looks like a house built to keep people out: a fence, a gate, a door, a veil, and a priesthood standing guard. Read it to the end, and you will find the opposite. YAHWEH built that house so that He could one day come out of it and dwell with all mankind. "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." — Revelation 21:3 That is where this book is going. Come through the gate, and let's walk in. Pastor John Shane Vaughn First Harvest Ministries International 2 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE PART ONE The Court “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” — Psalm 100:4 3 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER ONE The Full Stature of the Body of Messiah Picture a wilderness. Brown, dry, endless. Nothing grows, nothing shines, and the wind never stops. In the middle of that desolation stands a wall of pure white linen. It is so clean against the drab earth that it looks as if heaven has set something down in the sand. You walk toward it. A curtain of blue, purple and scarlet hangs at the entrance. Someone draws it back, and light pours out. That is the Tabernacle. Before you read another page of this book, I want you to understand one thing: the whole plan of YAHWEH is revealed in that structure. Every curtain, every pillar, every socket and pin, every color at every door. Nothing in it is decoration. All of it is revelation. Many men have taught on the Tabernacle, and many have taught it well. Most of them are very good at showing you the Messiah in the Tabernacle: the Lamb on the altar, the Light in the lampstand, the Bread on the table, the blood on the mercy seat. That is a wonderful thing, and every word of it is true. This book comes from a different angle. I do not only want to show you Messiah in the Tabernacle. I want to show you the Body of Messiah in the Tabernacle. I want to show you in the Tabernacle. This pattern must be approached with trembling. Its sanctity rebukes casual handling. So we will walk carefully, with the help of the Ruach Kodesh, the Holy Spirit. The wall around this sanctuary is so full of revelation that this entire chapter will not even bring you through the front door. We will spend all of it outside the Tabernacle proper, among the linen, the pillars, the cords and the stakes. That is not delay. That is the foundation. When you see what YAHWEH hid in the fence, you will never read the rest of Exodus the same way again. * * * Three Doors in the Wilderness Look at the whole structure from above. Everything is white except the entrances, and there are three of them. The first is the gate of the court, in the eastern wall of linen. The second is the door of the Tabernacle itself, opening into the Holy Place. The third is the veil, hanging before the Most Holy Place where the Ark of the Covenant rests. All three are woven of the same colors: blue, purple, scarlet and fine twined linen. Here is what you must see: your entire experience in YAHWEH is represented in those three doors. 4 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Step through the first gate and you are standing in the court. Mark this well, because the Church has blurred it for centuries: the court is not the Tabernacle. It is the court of the Tabernacle, closely connected but not the same place. Who dwells in that court? The thirtyfold believers. These are the ones who have received the first measure of the harvest Messiah spoke of: thirtyfold, sixtyfold and a hundredfold (Matthew 13:8, 23). The people in that court are not in the world. The world is outside the linen, in the wilderness. They are not sinners. They have come through the door, through the blood and through the water. They are saved. They are believers. And they did nothing to earn that entrance. There was no charge at the gate. They walked through the door, and that is all. That is what most believers did the day they confessed YAHSHUA as Savior. They walked through the door, and it was free. Now hear the part the Church never told you. When you walked through that first door, you walked into what Scripture calls outer darkness. Why is it called that? Because the light is not in the court. The light is inside, in the Holy Place, where the golden menorah burns. You do not find the light until you pass through another entrance. In the court there is sky above and brass beneath, but none of the light of the sanctuary. You are in. You are saved. And you are in outer darkness, the darkness of understanding. This is why people are confused when they read the Scriptures about outer darkness. They assume every mention of it describes the fires of the lost. They do not understand the pattern. Outer darkness is the outer court. It is the condition of the believer who has entered through the blood but has never walked on into the light. Think of it as the old game show with door number one, door number two and door number three. YAHWEH is bringing His people through those doors. If you follow Him into the full stature, you and your Father will be one, just as YAHSHUA said of Himself: "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). * * * The Word Tabernacled Among Us Before you can understand any holy thing, you must understand the Tabernacle. Start with the apostle John: "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." — John 1:14 Stop at the word dwelt. The Greek word is skēnoō, and it means to tent or to tabernacle. Read the verse again with that meaning restored: the Word was made flesh and tabernacled among us. So the wilderness structure and YAHSHUA were doing the very same thing. Both were the way to YAHWEH. Everything in this book rests on one distinction. The Tabernacle was not YAHWEH. It was the way to YAHWEH. YAHWEH dwelt in the Most Holy Place, above the mercy seat, between the 5 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE cherubim. He was in the Tabernacle, but the Tabernacle was not Him. No one in Israel bowed to the curtains and called them Elohim. The same truth governs the second Tabernacle. The Father dwelt in the Son. "I and my Father are one." Yet you can no more call the flesh body of the second Tabernacle YAHWEH than you can call the boards and curtains of the first one YAHWEH. The Tabernacle never pointed to itself. It had three entrances, and if you followed them all the way through, they brought you to YAHWEH. That is exactly what the Son did. He did not point to Himself. He brought men to the Father. So there are three Tabernacles: 1.The wilderness Tabernacle, the pattern; 2.YAHSHUA the Messiah, the pattern fulfilled in a Son; 3.The Body of Messiah, the pattern being formed in a people. The Messiah tabernacled among us, but He is no longer here in the flesh. There must still be a way to YAHWEH on the earth. That is why He left a third Tabernacle behind, and that third Tabernacle is you. Everyone looks at the first Tabernacle and has no trouble saying YAHWEH was in it. Everyone looks at the second Tabernacle and has no trouble saying YAHWEH was in the Son. But when we come to the third Tabernacle, our minds stumble. We cannot comprehend that the same YAHWEH who dwelt in the first and dwelt in the second is now operating through the third. The same power YAHSHUA carried is now held in trust by His holy assembly. When that truth gets inside you, everything changes. You treat the assembly differently. You treat the servants of the assembly differently. You understand that the third Tabernacle is not a mishmash of people scattered everywhere, with nothing holding them together and everyone doing his own thing. That is exactly why the Church is ineffective. It has no authority, no clear sound and no single voice. YAHWEH is changing that in the hour we are living in. The Great Failure of the Church Here is where the Church failed you. It brought men to the first door, told them congratulations, and never brought them on to the full stature of Messiah. That is why the Church is weak. It lives in outer darkness while claiming YAHSHUA as its Master. It tells you to sign a card and confess Messiah as your Savior. Then, bless its heart, it leaves you standing at the first door, waiting for the train to heaven. The Church told you the purpose of salvation was to go to heaven, and that is where it got everything wrong. The purpose of the first door is to get you to the second door. The purpose of the second door is to get you to the third. When I tell people to get over heaven and get over hell, it blows their minds. But you should have left heaven and hell behind at the first door. The blood settled your salvation, and your inheritance was never heaven. It is the earth (Matthew 5:5). The question is not where you are going when you die. The question is what YAHWEH is making of you while you live. 6 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE A Church with no light has no understanding and no illumination. A Church with no illumination cannot stand against the darkness of its age, and it ends up blessing the very abominations the Torah forbids. A Church left at the first door has nothing to stand on but the door. * * * The Fivefold Ministry at the First Door The apostle Paul wrote: "And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ." — Ephesians 4:11–13 Whom is Paul talking to? The saints. He is not writing to sinners in the wilderness. He is writing to people who have already come through door number one. And he says, in effect: Now that you have come in, you must come a little further. Now you will need something more. You need an apostle. You need a prophet. You need an evangelist, a pastor, a teacher. The Messiah who brought you through the first door has given these gifts to take you by the hand at that door and lead you on. "He gave some." He did not leave you to find the second door alone. He appointed ministers, shepherds after His own heart, to stand in His stead. They say to you: Thank YAHWEH for Calvary. Now let us show you door number two. The priests of YAHWEH take you by the hand, bring you to the second door, and open the curtain for you. Whether you walk in is up to you. But if you walk in, everything changes. First-Door Knowledge and Full Knowledge You have been walking in outer darkness. Saved, yes, but in the dark. Then you step through the second door and the light hits you. The first words out of your mouth are: They lied to me my whole life. Everything I taught my children was wrong. The light in that second room is so bright that some people turn around. It is overwhelming. Many people go through an emotional year, their first year in the light, asking themselves: Do I want to stay in here, or do I want to go back out there? There is a brightness of understanding into which YAHWEH wants to bring His assembly. It is the light Solomon wrote of: "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." — Proverbs 4:18 It shines more and more. You do not get all of it at the first door. Return to verse 13: "till we all come... unto the knowledge of the Son." A reader may object that he came into the knowledge of the Son of Elohim the day he accepted Him as Savior. That was first- door knowledge: Baptist knowledge, Pentecostal knowledge, outer-court knowledge. There is a full knowledge of the Son of YAHWEH, and the tools for gaining it are laid out on the journey through the Tabernacle. Paul calls the destination "a perfect man," a mature man, "the measure of the 7 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE stature of the fulness." That is the full stature of the Body of Messiah, and anything less than a hundredfold is not the full stature. Understand what I am saying and what I am not saying. We have never told anyone he is not saved. We do not tamper with salvation; that belongs to YAHWEH. But this we will tell you: there is more beyond the door. There is a fresh anointing past the open door, and the Spirit is calling you to walk on through. Picture walking into a restaurant. You come through the front door and stop at the sign that says Please wait to be seated. The door has done its job. But you did not come to admire the entryway. You came to be seated and fed. That is the Church. People come through the door and are left standing in the entryway. They are starving to death while the preacher preaches to sinners, and there are no sinners in the building. Week after week the congregation hears how to come through the door they came through years ago. Here is what is waiting beyond the third door: the banquet table. That is where the marriage supper of the Lamb takes place, beyond the veil. If you stay at the entrance, you will never sit down at the table. * * * The Third Door Doctrine Now the deepest truth in this chapter: "The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience." — Hebrews 9:8–9 While that first Tabernacle stood, there was no way in through the third door, except for the high priest, once a year, and never without blood. No one else could pass beyond the veil. No one could come into the hundredfold. Even Moses did not enter it. The way into the holiest of all "was not yet made manifest." The third door was shut. It stayed shut until a Man was made perfect and walked through it. YAHSHUA, our High Priest, had to go through first. He went in as the pioneer of our faith (Hebrews 12:2), and He reached up and tore that curtain apart: "And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom." — Matthew 27:51 Understand which veil was torn. It was not the curtain at the gate of the court, and it was not the door of the Holy Place. It was the third veil, the one that had stood between mankind and the fullness. Fifty days later, on Shavuot, the Spirit was poured out, and the way that had been shut for every generation was opened to all who would claim Him. 8 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Now every man who claims the Messiah can come into the same position the Messiah came into. Hebrews says no man could be made perfect "as pertaining to the conscience" under the first Tabernacle. But a perfect Man has gone in, and all who are in Him are being brought to Paul's "perfect man," the full-stature man. I call this the Third Door Doctrine, and you must understand it. YAHWEH is calling you beyond the third door. You are living in a day of no excuses. You have found the Messiah as your Savior, and now you have heard the voice of Elijah preparing the way for you to enter the third door and lay hold of the full stature of the Son of YAHWEH. Who will make it into door number three? The 144,000. It is not a head count but a quality count: twelve by twelve, the number of divine government. It is the Zadok priesthood, the earthly shadow of the eternal order of Melchizedek that is returning, which Chapter 24 explains in full. They are the ones who do not stop at the door but follow the High Priest all the way in. He is calling you into that full-stature ministry, that third-door calling. The entire Tabernacle is filled with pictures of your purpose in Messiah. * * * Built According to the Pattern The Tabernacle looks simple in a drawing, but it is divine. Moses did not design it. YAHWEH did. "According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it." — Exodus 25:9 "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount." — Exodus 25:40 "And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount." — Exodus 26:30 "As it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it." — Exodus 27:8 Four times the command is repeated. The pattern was shown on the mountain, with Moses alone with YAHWEH, who spoke to him through His angel (Acts 7:38). YAHWEH said to Moses, in effect: You will not build this your way. Not with the colors you like, not on the day you like. I will give you every detail. Why? Because YAHWEH was not merely giving Moses a tent for the wilderness. He had already seen the third Tabernacle in His mind. He was showing Moses what the third Tabernacle would look like, and He was drawing it in the first. This is why we call YAHSHUA the Pattern Son. The first Tabernacle was the blueprint. YAHSHUA was the blueprint fulfilled. And the Body is now being built to the same specifications. Moses' Architects Imagine Moses coming down from the mountain and handing the plans to the craftsmen: 9 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Moses, we can't build it that way. There's a better way. That won't work. With respect, Moses, you don't know how to build anything. Let some of us who know what we're doing take it from here. And Moses answered: No. I was on the mountain. YAHWEH is building this work. Do not let the people vote on the colors of the Tabernacle. YAHWEH showed Moses the pattern, and if Moses had departed from it, the Ark of the Covenant would not have come. YAHWEH places His Presence only among a people who do not deviate from the pattern. And the gathering of the saints has a pattern too: "Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name." — Psalm 100:4 Every time the assembly gathers, we come through the door of praise, then through the door of worship, and then we find the glory. Door number one, door number two, door number three. The pattern never changes, because the Tabernacles are the same. The order in the wilderness is the order in the sanctuary, and the order in the sanctuary is the order of the gathering of the saints. When His people gather at the appointed time, in the appointed order, with no rebellion in the camp and everyone in his place, the Presence comes. Build it according to the pattern, and He will come. That is all you have to do. A Way Back for Former Slaves Here is the mercy in the pattern. The Tabernacle was built immediately after the children of Israel came out of bondage. For generations they had been in chains in Egypt, with no way to worship and no way to fellowship with their Elohim. And the first thing YAHWEH gave them after He set them free was a way back in. "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." — Exodus 25:8 That is the beautiful mercy of YAHWEH. Now read the pattern from the inside out. Start in the Most Holy Place, at the Ark of the Covenant, His very throne, where His Presence dwells. See what He does: He reaches out toward man. He opens a door, then a second, then a gate. His Presence flows outward through every compartment and every vessel, all the way to the edge of the wilderness, and then He provides a way for man to come back in. He flows out, so that they can flow in. When you see that in your mind, the life of the Messiah begins to make sense. YAHWEH restored fellowship through the Tabernacle. You cannot understand the New Testament without understanding it. When the Father laid out every one of those details, He had you in mind. Before the foundation of the world, He was thinking of you, and the Son was the only way He could get you. * * * Why the Court Has a Wall "And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side." — Exodus 27:9 10 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Read Exodus 27:9–19 slowly. Most of us have skimmed those verses a hundred times. They read like a builder's invoice: so many cubits, so many pillars, so many sockets of brass, so many hooks of silver. YAHWEH is a detailed Elohim, and nothing in that invoice is wasted. The court was a rectangle one hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide, enclosed by linen hangings five cubits high. Ask yourself why there was a wall at all. What would guard the Presence of YAHWEH from the profane, sanctity from stupidity, and holy things from people who wanted salvation and nothing more? A wall. YAHWEH said, Build that wall first. There is only one lawful entrance, and it is through the gate. YAHWEH has always protected Israel by building a wall, and the first step in building the Seventh Temple is separating yourself from the world. (The seven temples are traced in Chapter 2.) Any farmer knows what goes up first when you build a fence: the posts. The linen cannot stand on the ground. Before you have a boundary, you must have something upright and dependable to hang it on. And so the entire structure begins with pillars. * * * Sixty Pillars: Men Made Righteous "And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver." — Exodus 27:10 Count them. Twenty pillars on the south side. Twenty on the north side. Ten across the west end. Ten across the east end: three on each side of the gate, and four bearing the gate itself. Sixty pillars in all. Why sixty? Because YAHWEH's plan for the Seventh Temple was hidden in those posts. Six is the number of man; man was created on the sixth day. Ten is the number of righteousness, the Ten Commandments, the Law of YAHWEH. So sixty is six and ten together: man who has received the ten. In the number sixty you see what the Seventh Temple will be built of: men who have received the Commandments and become more than mere men. Through the Messiah they have become the righteousness of YAHWEH. Sixty is the number of men made righteous before YAHWEH. Take unrighteous man, add the Law of YAHWEH to him, and you have the protection of the work of YAHWEH, standing upright in righteous men. In these pillars you see the entire Kingdom message: fleshly man on his way to becoming priests and kings unto our Elohim, if he will keep pressing toward the veil. This new creature, this sixty creature, is your sixtyfold believer. Notice where he stands. These pillars are not necessarily hundredfold believers, but they are not thirtyfold either. They are men who have passed through the second door, come into the light of the Torah, eaten of the showbread, and been made righteous, and they now stand at the boundary of the court, upholding the wall that guards everything inside. 11 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is why they stand where they stand. The thirtyfold believer has just come in. He has entered, but he does not yet know what he has entered. The sixtyfold believer has been inside, has seen the light, and now holds the line so that the newcomer has a court to come into and the holy things have a wall around them. Now I will say something that will surprise you. The most important part of the Tabernacle was not the Most Holy Place. The most important part was men made righteous. Look at the picture and remove the court. Take away the sixty pillars. What do you have left? An Ark sitting in the desert. Nothing protects it, nothing separates it, and nothing keeps the wilderness out. Before the Most Holy Place can be filled, you must first build a court. Before the glory comes, you must raise up righteous men who will guard the glory. YAHWEH begins His work by taking unrighteous men, filling them with His Law, and setting them up as the walls of the city of YAHWEH. When you understand that, you will know what He is making out of you. * * * The Twofold Cords of Love Look closely at the drawing of the court and you will see that the pillars do not stand alone. They cannot. Each one is held by cords staked into the ground, and the cords run in two directions, one on the outside and one on the inside. The desert wind did not blow from one direction. If a pillar had cords on only one side, it would fall the first time the wind changed. Ask any builder what happens if you tie a pillar from only one side. It falls the other way, because nothing is pulling against it and there is no tension to keep it upright. So what are the two cords? The first cord is YAHWEH's love for you. The second cord is your love for YAHWEH. The church you grew up in taught you that YAHWEH loves you. Praise Him, that is one cord, and it will hold you on one side. But they forgot to teach you how to love YAHWEH back. Without that second cord you have no stability, and you will not stand in the storms of the desert. You cannot simply know that He loves you. Someone has to teach you how to love Him. And He has already told you how: "If ye love me, keep my commandments." — John 14:15 That is the second cord. Obedience is how love is returned. The day you begin keeping His commandments because you love Him, you tie off the second cord, and you begin growing from a mortal man into a son of YAHWEH. Two Cords, Twofold Sonship The two cords also reveal the two sides of sonship, both of the Messiah and of the anointed Body: son of man and Son of YAHWEH. They reveal the balance of the whole faith: •Grace and Law •Faith and works 12 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •Spirit and truth •Ephraim and Judah •His love for you and your love for Him Every pillar in this Temple is held by two. The man who has only grace falls toward lawlessness. The man who has only law falls toward a dead religion. The man who has only faith has nothing to show for it, and the man who has only works has no root. You must be held on both sides. Solomon understood the strength of two: "And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken." — Ecclesiastes 4:12 Two shall withstand him. That is the twofold cord. That is what holds the pillar fast when the wind comes against it. The Pillar That Goes No More Out Now see what YAHSHUA promised to anyone who learns to stand with both cords: "Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches." — Revelation 3:11–13 Hold fast. That is what the cords are for. You must have both the love of YAHWEH and your love for YAHWEH, connecting in the middle. He who has the two cords will be a pillar in the Temple of my Elohim. The pillars are the overcomers. Forget the old Tabernacle for a moment, because YAHSHUA is not promising you a post in a tent in the wilderness. He is promising you a place as a pillar in the Seventh Temple. He shall go no more out, never moved again and never blown down. And He will write upon that pillar the name of His Elohim. The sixty pillars of the court are the training ground; the pillar that goes no more out is the man who keeps pressing until he passes through the veil. "He that hath an ear, let him hear." If you have no ear, you will think you are reading about a little tent with some posts. He who has an ear will look past the posts and see what the Spirit is saying: I will give you a new nature, if you will withstand the storm and hold fast what I have given you. * * * When the Wind Blows The wind blew constantly in that desert, and it shook the Tabernacle. Understand this: had it not been for the wall, the wind would have been shaking the Most Holy Place. 13 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE So YAHWEH allows you to be shaken. He tests you in the shaking because He is depending on you to make it through, so that you can protect what He is building in the earth. The wind that strikes the pillar is wind that never reaches the Ark. The enemy comes and shakes one of your cords. YAHWEH doesn't love you, he says. Look at your life. If He loved you, you wouldn't be going through this. That cord is shaking hard. But on the other side, something rises up in you and says: That's all right. I love Him, and I'm going to keep loving Him. Even if I couldn't feel His love today, I love Him. And you stand. Then he shakes the other cord. Do you really have to do all of that? Do you really think it requires keeping the Sabbath, honoring the feasts, going up three times a year? (Deuteronomy 16:16). Now the first cord answers: Remember how He loved you. Remember the mercy that brought you in. Remember what His Word brought you out of. You return to His love, and His love strengthens your obedience. When you are held on both sides like that, the prophet's word is fulfilled in you: "And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house." — Isaiah 22:23 The tension in your life is testing your cords. That is all it is. The trouble you are going through is not proof that you are abandoned. It is the wind finding out whether you are tied on both sides. Why the Enemy Blows Down Pillars The enemy is blowing pillars down all through the Church for a reason: if he can blow down the pillars, he can destroy the place where the Presence comes. When the pillars fall, the work of YAHWEH is exposed to the wilderness. When the pillars of a ministry stand strong, they protect the Presence that dwells among them. So when the wind hits you and you think you are about to fall, here is what a pillar says: No. Moses went up the mountain, and this is how YAHWEH told him to build it. This is how YAHWEH said to build it, and it cannot fall. I am not going anywhere. I will hold fast. When a pillar fails to hold fast, the enemy's strategy is the same: he cuts one cord. He gets you to let go of His love, or he gets you to stop returning it. With only one cord left, the next wind lays you in the sand. But when you hold on to spirit and truth, to faith and works, to law and grace, to the twofold sonship of the Messiah, you will not be defeated. * * * Brass: The Metal of Judgment Now consider what the pillars were made of and what they stood upon. "And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass." — Exodus 27:10 14 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "All the vessels of the tabernacle in all the service thereof, and all the pins thereof, and all the pins of the court, shall be of brass." — Exodus 27:19 Brass for the pillars. Brass for the sockets beneath them. Brass for the pins that held their cords. Wherever the court meets the ground, YAHWEH specified brass. Why? Because brass is the metal of judgment. Anyone who will be a pillar must first come under judgment. And where does judgment begin? "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" — 1 Peter 4:17 Judgment begins in the house, in the kahal, the assembly. Paul said it plainly: "For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?" — 1 Corinthians 5:12 We do not judge sinners. We do not judge those outside the wall. But if you claim to be one of the pillars of this Tabernacle, you are coming under judgment. That is why the pillars can hold up the rest of the court. They have already been tested. They have already been judged by the Word, through the fivefold ministry YAHWEH placed them under. Every week, in every class where the Word is opened, the pillars are being judged. And here is the glory of it: because you are under judgment now, you will not have to stand under it then. "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged." — 1 Corinthians 11:31 Have you consciously felt the judgment of that brass and submitted to it without getting angry, though you could have? That is the brass at work. Brass Feet: The Word That Walks on You You have heard people say about a preacher, He's a little too brassy, or, He's meddling. Exactly. The preaching of the Word is a brass message. It brings judgment, and it meddles with what YAHWEH intends to change. John saw the glorified Messiah: "And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace." — Revelation 1:15 It means His Word has walked on you. His Word took no account of your emotions or how you felt that morning. It forced you to admit you had to change. It walked through your old life with feet of brass. Why is His vesture dipped in blood (Revelation 19:13)? Because He has walked through His people with those brass feet. Every true pillar has died. Your old life was cut off, and you are a living martyr, one who lost the old self to gain the new. The Pillars Are Judged People Who are the pillars? The pillars are wives who recognized their rebellion against their husbands and purged it out. The pillars are husbands who recognized they were not leading their homes and 15 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE purged that out. The pillars are those who were serving YAHWEH, but not with their whole heart, and purged it out. Every one of them came under the brass and let it do its work. YAHWEH showed Moses why brass was chosen for these sixtyfold people: "And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." — Numbers 21:9 I always wondered why YAHWEH would use the image of a serpent to heal His people, until He revealed it to me. That brass serpent was a prophecy of judgment coming upon the serpent that had made them all sick. Brass on a pole meant the serpent was judged. Whoever looked at the judgment lived. Until YAHWEH gets brassy with you, you are not qualified to protect the work of YAHWEH. * * * Discernment Begins With You Here is my problem with the "gift of discernment" as it is practiced in the Church. Nobody is going to like this, but I am going to say it anyway. The gift of discernment was never given so that you could discern other people. It was given so that you could discern you. You are so busy discerning everybody else that you never discern yourself. Nothing is ever wrong with you. You are always right, in every situation. You have the gift of discernment and cannot discern your own heart. When YAHWEH gets brassy with you, then you will discern yourself. When did you last discern yourself? The world will tell you that you must love yourself, put yourself first and protect yourself. But when you begin to discern yourself, you will see some ugly things in there, things you know cannot go with you into the Holy Place. If you keep discerning yourself, you will feel the brassy judgment take hold, and you will pray: Father YAHWEH, I confess this in my life. If You will purge it out of me, I will let You. Send the brass of Your judgment and judge this, and I will release it to You. The prayer most believers avoid is three words long: "Father, judge me." Judge me, because I know You will judge me righteously. It is the prayer of David: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." — Psalm 139:23–24 Deliverance From Me If there is a devil to be cast out of most of us, it is not one from the pit. It is the one that carries our own family name. I don't need deliverance from demons. I need deliverance from me. Here is the truth about deliverance: a package is not delivered until it arrives where it is going. Just because it left your porch does not mean it was delivered. It means it was set free from 16 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE the porch. It is not delivered until it arrives in an obedient life, keeping the commandments of YAHWEH. The most dangerous thing you can do for a person is cast a devil out of him without bringing him into obedience to the Law of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA warned what happens next: "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished. Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first." — Matthew 12:43–45 Do not set a person free from the porch and leave him there. Sit him down and teach him how to walk in obedience to his Father in heaven. When he does that, he will experience deliverance every day. We are not looking for cop-outs. We are looking for the way out, and there is one. If you are bound, the way out is called one decision to obey YAHWEH. That is all deliverance takes. Say: Starting today, I am coming under the ministry. I am going to walk in this light until I am so dead to the old me that my own family doesn't recognize me. And they won't. Your family will say: We liked the old you better. The one who wasn't so serious. The one who wasn't so sincere. Now you think you're better than everybody. They do not understand that it is the opposite. We know we are not better than anyone. That is exactly why we cleanse ourselves of the old ways every day. YAHWEH is turning you into a brass pillar every day of your life. Every time you choose to obey your Father, another layer is set. Take the Sabbath. From sunset to sunset you set apart that time to study, reflect and press the reset button on your soul. You obeyed a commandment. Satan hates that, and so does the old you. But the more you obey, the more you watch the old you dying. One day you wake up and find that you love the things of the Temple. You love the things of YAHWEH. What once felt foreign has become home. * * * Holiness Within and Without The two cords that hold the pillar, one inside and one outside, teach us one more lesson. If you are going to endure, you must have holiness, both within and without. There are two groups in the Christian Church. The first group frightens everybody. That is the old holiness church, where everyone wears the same clothes and the same hair, and the world looks at them and says, Oh, those people! I understand that. Then there is the other church, the one that says, It's all internal. I've got holiness on the inside, even while dressing for the beach no differently from the world around her. Those are the two cords. Holiness without, with no holiness within, will not hold you up. Holiness within, with no holiness without, will not hold you up either. Without both, there is no separation 17 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE between you and the world, and separation is the whole purpose of the wall. If we do not bring some holiness into our lifestyle, we are not separating the work of YAHWEH as holy. It takes within and without, and modesty is a treasure kept for covenant. Mothers, train your daughters in the way of holiness. Teach them what a young woman looks like and what a young man looks like. And young men, this is for you too. Holiness is not only a sister's concern. Dress like a man of YAHWEH, not like the fashion of the age. Carry yourself as a son of the Kingdom. Our young people need to see clearly that there must be a difference between a man and a woman. We cannot criticize the world for blurring what YAHWEH made distinct while we drift down that same road ourselves, only a few steps behind. "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God." — Deuteronomy 22:5 The same distinction holds in the order of the home, where husbands lead and wives honor that leadership, and the pattern is restored. If this is uncomfortable, that discomfort is the brass. This is what it sounds like when YAHWEH gets brassy with His house. We are trying to raise up Israelites, a people with a visible separation from the world. I am writing to save daughters, sons and marriages, and to help you find your place. We do not draw up a rulebook here for what is holy and what is not. We leave that between you and YAHWEH. But be considerate of one another. Remember that the sisters beside you have husbands, and the brothers beside you are guarding their eyes. Help them. Holiness is also a kindness to the saints around you. Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and ask: How am I presenting myself? Ask it about your clothing. Ask it about your words. Ask it about your spirit. A person can cover every inch of the body and still expose a proud, ungoverned spirit the moment he opens his mouth. We must have modesty in every area of our lives, because the two cords must hold within and without. * * * The Second Cord at the Table: Clean and Unclean The second cord can be as ordinary as a meal. The Church taught us that we could take anything, pray over it, and it would be made clean to eat. But some creatures were never created to be received as food (Leviticus 11). They are the cleaning crew of YAHWEH's creation: the bottom-feeders, the scavengers, the filters of the waters. YAHWEH created them to cleanse His earth, not to fill our stomachs. So every time you sit down to eat and choose to obey YAHWEH, every time you say, No, Father, You created that to clean the earth, and I will not eat it, you are loving YAHWEH back. That is the second cord. 18 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE He loves me, and I love Him. The moment you refuse to run down your brother or sister, you are loving YAHWEH back. The moment you choose love when the flesh wants revenge, you are tying off the second cord. These are the cords that hold you, so that you do not fall in the wind. The pillars of the Tabernacle were fastened so securely that the desert winds could not topple them. Their love was more than enough, because they loved in spirit and in truth, the two cords of the Tabernacle. * * * The Unnoticed Stakes "The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords." — Exodus 35:18 Now lower your eyes from the pillars to the ground, to the stakes, the pins of brass driven into the earth to anchor the cords. These were the smallest parts of the Tabernacle. Everyone who talks about the Tabernacle wants to talk about the Most Holy Place. But the humblest part of the Tabernacle was just as necessary. Without the stakes the cords had nothing to pull against. Without the cords the pillars fell. Without the pillars the wall fell. And without the wall the Ark sat exposed in the desert. The apostle Paul taught the same thing about the Body, the Seventh Temple. Do not say, I am only a hand, or I am only a toe: "And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary." — 1 Corinthians 12:21–22 Post a sign-up sheet for the parts of the Tabernacle, and few would volunteer to be a stake. We all want to tend the table of showbread. We want to begin in the Most Holy Place. But you cannot come through the third door unless you are willing to be a stake. You cannot be part of the work of YAHWEH unless you are willing to protect the work of YAHWEH. The protectors of the work of YAHWEH are the princes of the work of YAHWEH. The stakes are high. When you hold firm in the ground so that the elders, the pastors and the servants inside the Tabernacle can do what YAHWEH called them to do, you are holding up the whole work. In that moment you are as necessary as any elder or pastor in the house. The visible servant stands because the hidden servant holds, and even a small word of love to a weary servant holds something up that the one who gave it will never see. Never underestimate who you are in the work of YAHWEH just because you are at the bottom. After all, where are the stakes? At the bottom. Before You Ask for a Title Sometimes a person looks at the work and says, I want to be an elder. Do you really? Then you have to give up your life. You have to be available. You become a public servant, carrying burdens nobody else sees. The desire for a title must come under the same brass that judges every other desire. 19 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Before you ask for a more visible position, learn to be a stake. Hold your place. Hold your position. Be happy protecting the work. What would have happened to the work of YAHWEH in the wilderness without the stakes? It would have fallen down. Whatever your part is, do it with all your might, because you are part of the end- time Temple work. There are no "big I's" and "little you's" in the house of YAHWEH. There is one Temple, with different compartments and different duties, but we are all part of the work YAHWEH is doing in this hour. Everything depended on the stakes. No matter how small your part is, do it. If you will do your part, YAHWEH will do His part. * * * The Brass Socket Before we leave the court, consider one last detail, at the very bottom of each column. The pillar could not be set directly into the ground. It had to be set into a socket of brass. Who would have thought that socket mattered? Who stands in the court admiring the base of a fence post? YAHWEH did. It was so important to Him that He told Moses exactly how it was to be made. The base of the pillar received instruction from the mouth of Elohim. So did the pins, and so did the cords. The parts every visitor overlooked were written into the pattern by the Architect of heaven. Why? Because you matter to YAHWEH. Your place in His work matters, even if no one else ever sees it. The life beneath your visible life, the foundation no one admires, is where YAHWEH begins. He sets you in brass. He judges you so that you can stand. And then He sets you up as a pillar in the house of your Elohim, to go no more out. Consider what the wall alone has shown us, and we have not yet passed the first gate: •The pattern calls us to build YAHWEH's way, not our own. •The three doors call us beyond the court, into the light and on to the fullness. •The pillars call us to become men and women made righteous, the sixty who guard the holy things. •The cords call us to be held on both sides: by His love for us, and by our love returned in obedience. •The brass calls us to come under judgment now, so that we may stand. •The stakes call us to faithfulness in the hidden place. Beloved, hold your place. Let YAHWEH establish you. Hold fast to what you have been given, so that no man takes your crown. When the wind blows, remember that the wind which strikes you is the wind that never reaches the Ark. He who has an ear, let him hear. 20 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE With the pattern before us and the wall standing strong, Chapter 2 approaches the gate. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 21 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWO A Habitation for YAHWEH From the garden to the New Jerusalem, YAHWEH has wanted one thing: to dwell with a people who want to dwell with Him. "The tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them" (Revelation 21:3). The Tabernacle in the wilderness is not a relic. It is the pattern of every house He has ever lived in, seven of them, and the seventh is being built out of you. This chapter shows how He builds it, and the walls men have raised to keep His children out. We are not studying an old building in a dusty wilderness. If you think this book is about an ancient tent, a curiosity of religious history, a set of measurements for scholars to argue over, you will close it unchanged. The Tabernacle is not an archaic structure. It is the divine design for every structure YAHWEH has ever built or ever will build. It is the pattern of all seven temples. If you do not know this pattern, you will never truly know YAHSHUA, and you will have no idea what He is building right now. Without this knowledge, you will not even know what He is the Door to. YAHSHUA is the Door to the Father. No man comes to the Father except through that Door, and that is why one day every knee will bow to that Door (Philippians 2:10). But never forget what the Door was for. YAHSHUA never pointed to Himself, not once. He spent His entire ministry deflecting attention from Himself toward the Father. The focus of the Tabernacle was never the door. The focus was what lay behind the third door, and the door was the entrance that gave you access to it. As Chapter 1 showed, the Tabernacle was never YAHWEH; it was the way to Him. The same is true of the second Tabernacle. YAHSHUA never claimed to be the Most Holy Place. He said He was the Door to it. When Trinitarian doctrine turned YAHSHUA into a second person of a godhead, it broke the very first commandment, and the other camp has it even worse. Get the godhead wrong and everything built on it goes wrong. In Chapter 1 we stood at the boundary of the court among the sixty pillars, the twofold cords and the brass stakes. Now step back far enough to see the whole house, because YAHWEH has never wanted a tent. He has wanted a people. The apostle Paul tells us exactly what is being built: "In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." — Ephesians 2:22 A habitation. A dwelling place. From the moment your Creator first thought of you, all He wanted was to dwell with you. In Genesis He walked with them in the garden. In Revelation, His tabernacle is with men. That has been YAHWEH's dream from beginning to end. 22 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is why He made the Tabernacle. That is why He gave us YAHSHUA. And that is why He sent the Holy Spirit, so that the Seventh Temple could be built and He could dwell with us. It is His ultimate desire. Now we will see how He builds it, and what man has done to get in the way. * * * One Pattern, Seven Temples YAHWEH has had seven dwelling places among His people. Six were built by human hands. The seventh He is building Himself: 1.The Tabernacle of Moses in the wilderness (Exodus 40:33–34); 2.The Tabernacle at Shiloh, set up in the land under Joshua (Joshua 18:1); 3.The Tent of David, pitched for the Ark in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6:17); 4.The Temple of Solomon (1 Kings 8:10–11); 5.The Temple of Zerubbabel, built by the returning exiles (Ezra 6:14–15); 6.The Temple of Herod, "forty and six years... in building" (John 2:20); 7.The Seventh Temple, the living temple of living stones, built by YAHWEH Himself (1 Peter 2:5; Ephesians 2:19–22). Six is the number of man. Six houses of stone, timber and gold, and every one of them fell, burned or was torn down. Stephen pronounced the verdict over all six: "Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands" (Acts 7:48). Seven is the number of completion. There will be no eighth. Now lay the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon beside the house Ezekiel saw, and you will discover something the Church has missed: they are identical in structure. Each has an outer court, a Holy Place and a Most Holy Place. Each has three doors leading inward. When Ezekiel was carried in vision to the house of the future, he was shown an outer court, an inner court and the holy of holies (Ezekiel 40–43). It was the same arrangement Moses built from the pattern on the mountain and the same arrangement Solomon built in stone. Understand what Ezekiel's temple is. It is total symbology. There will be no literal temple of stone like that in the Millennial reign. What Ezekiel saw was a picture, and the Millennial Temple is the Body of Messiah, the 144,000, whom YAHWEH is calling right now as He finishes His Seventh Temple. In the wilderness YAHWEH was already showing you the end-time assembly. With Solomon it simply got fancier. It is all the same house. Why does that matter? Because the pattern never changes. YAHWEH does not redesign His house every generation. When you learn the wilderness Tabernacle, you are learning Solomon's Temple. When you learn Solomon's Temple, you are learning Ezekiel's. And when you learn all three, you are learning what YAHWEH is building in you today. The three entrances of the Millennial Temple are the three entrances YAHWEH is opening in His people now. These three pictures of one house trace the progression and development of the end-time assembly. 23 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is why the first Tabernacle is the key to the last one. It is the blueprint for YAHWEH's end-time work. * * * Three Positions of Nearness Here is what you must understand about all the temples. It is a master key. Without it you will never understand outer darkness (Chapter 1), or what I mean when I speak of those who are saved and yet outside the city (Chapter 4). In the Tabernacle of Moses and in the Temple of Solomon, a man's nearness to YAHWEH was determined by one of three positions in the Kingdom: •The citizens of the Kingdom could approach YAHWEH as far as the outer court. •The priests could approach Him in the Holy Place. •The high priest could approach Him in the Most Holy Place, once a year. Look at that order and see the Kingdom. The citizens are not the government of the Kingdom. They stand outside the priesthood, in the outer court and in the camp beyond it, and the thirtyfold of the court stand with them. The inner court is the training ground of the government: the priests, the sixtyfold, schooled in the ruling and ministering order. But the throne belongs to the hundredfold, typified by the high priest, who alone entered the Most Holy Place. Only the hundredfold are first-resurrection saints. The citizens are not in the first resurrection, and neither are the thirtyfold or the sixtyfold. If you are drawing this out, write "Citizens of the Kingdom" in the outer court and in the camp around it. If you do not grasp the citizens of the Kingdom, you can never grasp the message of this book. Many of the people the Church says are going to hell will in fact be citizens of the Kingdom. Learn the difference. The citizens of America are not the government of America; they are not the governing body. The Kingdom of YAHWEH will have two entities: the citizenship and the government. The court and the camp are the citizenship. The house is the government, the headquarters of the Kingdom, and its throne room is the Most Holy Place, ruling over all. That is the master key: the citizens of the Kingdom versus the priests and kings of the Kingdom. Every citizen is saved. Every citizen is in. But no citizen is a priest, and not every priest will stand where the high priest stands. There are positions of nearness, and YAHWEH has called you to press toward the nearest one. * * * The Fourth Wall: The Soreg YAHWEH designed three positions of nearness. But in later years the Jews added a fourth. They erected a dividing wall in the outer court to make a distinction between Jews and non-Jews. And who is non-Jewish? The Lost Tribes of Israel. The Jews built a wall where not even an Israelite 24 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE could come into the plan of YAHWEH. Only Jews could. It separated, in their minds, those who were "chosen" from those who were not. It was a stone barrier around the inner sanctuary. It was not in the pattern YAHWEH gave Moses, and it was not in the pattern given to David for Solomon. Men added it. Its name was the soreg. Once again, they had taken the command of YAHWEH and laid their tradition on top of it. We are not guessing about this wall. In 1871 the French archaeologist Charles Clermont-Ganneau discovered one of the stone warning tablets that stood along the soreg, near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It is carved in Greek, and it sits today in the Istanbul Archaeology Museum. Here is what it says: "No foreigner is allowed in the courtyard and within the wall surrounding the temple. Whoever enters will invite death for himself!" Whoever enters will invite death for himself. YAHWEH had built a gate. Man built a wall around the gate and wrote death on it. The rabbis have their own name for this kind of thing. They call it "a fence around the Torah": rules added to the Law to protect the Law. It sounds pious. But a fence around the Torah is still a fence YAHWEH never commanded, and this fence did something His Law never did. It shut out the very people His Law promised to bring home. Who Was on the Other Side? Who did that wall keep out? Here is the knowledge that unlocks why YAHSHUA came. Remember the history of Israel. After Solomon, the kingdom split in two. The house of Judah (the Jews) held Jerusalem. The house of Israel, the ten northern tribes called Ephraim, was carried away by Assyria and scattered among the nations. For centuries those tribes lived among the heathen. They stopped circumcising. They lost their genealogies. They lost their name. They became so mingled with the nations that they thought they were Gentiles, and so did everyone else. And Judah was jealous. There was hostility between the house of Judah and the house of Israel that went back to the division of the kingdom itself. Judah came to believe that only the Jews were Abraham's children, that only ethnic Jews were chosen, and that the scattered sons of Ephraim had no place in the house of YAHWEH. The stone says foreigner. But Gentiles did not go to the Temple. Non-Jewish Israelites did. Pagans were not making pilgrimage to the house of YAHWEH. The ones knocking at that wall were the scattered sons of Israel coming home, and Judah called them foreigners. So whatever its builders said they were keeping out, the soreg became the wall that kept the Lost Tribes of Israel away from YAHWEH. It stood between the house of Judah and the house of Israel. It said that only the Jews belonged in the Kingdom of YAHWEH. And that was about to change. * * * 25 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Wall YAHSHUA Came to Destroy Now read Paul with your eyes open: "Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world." — Ephesians 2:11–12 Who is Paul talking to? They had been "aliens from the commonwealth of Israel." You cannot be alienated from a commonwealth you never belonged to. They were "strangers from the covenants of promise." You cannot be estranged from covenants that were never yours. These were people who had once been inside and were now outside: called uncircumcised, without hope, without YAHWEH in the world. That is the Lost Tribes. They had stopped circumcising. They had been cut off from the commonwealth. They had wandered so far from the covenants that they had no hope. When Paul says "Gentiles in the flesh," he is speaking to scattered Israel, Ephraim, who had been counted among the nations. YAHSHUA Himself said it plainly: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." — Matthew 15:24 Now the good news: "But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us." — Ephesians 2:13–14 Far off. That is what YAHWEH always called the Lost Tribes, those afar off (Acts 2:39). And why would Paul say YAHSHUA "is our peace"? Because peace comes when hostility is broken. YAHSHUA came to bring peace between Judah and Ephraim. The middle wall of partition. There it is: the soreg. YAHSHUA came to break it down. Understand what He tore down and what He did not. YAHSHUA did not come to tear down the Temple. He did not come to tear down the Torah. He did not come to tear down the Law. He came to tear down the wall of hostility. "Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby." — Ephesians 2:15–16 The Christian Church reads that verse and says, There it is: the Ten Commandments abolished, the law done away. Read what was actually abolished: the enmity, and "the law of commandments contained in ordinances." What ordinances? Look at that stone again. There is the ordinance, written in stone and set into the wall of partition: Whoever enters will invite death for himself. Those are the added commandments YAHSHUA came to get rid of. Not the Ten Commandments. Not the Law YAHWEH wrote with His own finger. What He abolished was the legal fence of the rabbis: the 26 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE ordinances of men that separated ethnic Hebrews from non-ethnic Hebrews, and that stood at war with the written Torah's own promise. That Torah had prophesied the very unity the fence denied: "And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed." — Genesis 22:18 The hostility was never between the Jews and the pagans. It was between Judah and Ephraim. YAHSHUA came to kill that hostility. He did not come to tear down the walls His Father built. He did not come to tear down the three doors. He came to tear down the one wall that told the Lost Tribes, You are not the chosen people. It's the Jews only. That hindrance said only the Jews are Abraham's children. And YAHSHUA said, No. Abraham has millions upon millions of children who are lost, children of his natural bloodline who need to get into that Temple. I am coming to tear that wall down and let them back into their inheritance. These are Ezekiel's dry bones. The prophet saw it centuries before: "Take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand." — Ezekiel 37:16–17 Of twain one new man. Two sticks, one stick. Two houses, one house. That is Ephesians 2. And YAHSHUA told us He would do it: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." — John 10:16 Do not confuse the two walls in this chapter. If you do, you will misunderstand everything. YAHWEH's wall is the white linen of the court. It is holiness. It separates what is holy from the wilderness of the world. That wall is not coming down; it is the wall we are called to become. Man's wall is the soreg. It is hostility. It separates brother from brother inside the house of Israel. That wall YAHSHUA came to destroy. Religion always builds extra walls of separation. It always adds another layer, another fence, another rule that keeps out the people YAHWEH is bringing home. Be careful that you are not building one yourself. You can defend the restoration of the two houses in a sermon and still keep a soreg in your heart against the brother sitting across the room from you. YAHSHUA died to slay the enmity. Do not resurrect it. * * * Three Doors, Three Feasts Now that the false wall is down, look again at the true doors. YAHWEH placed three entrances in His house, and each one is a door of more. Each door is a step nearer, each calls for a new level of faith, and each opens a fuller experience of YAHWEH. These three doors are written into His calendar: DoorFeastHarvestIn the gathering 27 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Door 1PassoverThirtyfoldPraise Door 2PentecostSixtyfoldWorship Door 3TabernaclesHundredfoldGlory You cannot understand anything of the Scriptures if you are not a feast keeper. The feasts are the doors. Passover brings you through the blood into the court. Pentecost brings you into the Holy Place, where the light of the menorah and the bread of the Presence are found. Tabernacles brings you beyond the veil into the fullness, where YAHWEH dwells with His people. Fix the image of those three doors in your spirit mind, because YAHWEH's entire plan for your life and your walk with Him is contained in them. For some reason this is the part of the Tabernacle Christianity cannot comprehend. Once these three doors of more are in your mind, you will understand why this book pushes so hard to get you past the first door and the second. There is nothing wrong with door number one. There is nothing wrong with Passover, and nothing wrong with praise. But something goes very wrong when you begin to adore the door. When the door becomes your resting place, you turn it into a denomination and get no more. That is exactly where so many get stuck. The Pentecostals are hanging out at the second door. All our tongue-talking charismatic friends think they have arrived somewhere. They had a genuine experience of the Spirit and saw the light of the second room, and they built a denomination around door number two. But Pentecost is not Tabernacles. The second door is not the third. There is an entering in beyond it. The three doors also reveal the three orders of service, according to the measure each servant has been given: •Levi: the one-talent servant; •The priests of the Holy Place: the five-talent servant; •Zadok: the ten-talent servant. The first door is Levi. The second is the priesthood of the Holy Place. And it gets even narrower: the third is Zadok, the earthly shadow of the order of Melchizedek, the eternal order that stands behind the third door. (Chapter 24 explains the two in full.) To the ten-talent servant the Master says, Well done, thou good and faithful servant (Matthew 25:21). YAHSHUA taught that the faithful servant would be given more: "Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents" (Matthew 25:28). In Luke's account the faithful servants receive authority over ten cities and over five (Luke 19:17, 19). The ten-city servant reigns with the Messiah from the first resurrection. The five-city servant receives his cities too, but in a later age, after the first resurrection. The doors are not only levels of experience; they are levels of authority, and of timing. Nearness and rulership go together. And the three doors are the three things YAHSHUA said He is: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." — John 14:6 28 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Door one is the Way. Door two is the Truth. Door three is the Life. He is not only the first door. He is all three, and He leads all the way in. Follow the Way, and it brings you to Passover. Follow the Truth, and it brings you into the inner court, to the menorah and the showbread. Follow the Life, and it brings you into the glory. Praise, Worship and Glory Praise, worship and glory line up with door one, door two and door three, and every gathering of the saints is meant to follow that same journey inward. Praise is the first door. Praise is dancing before YAHWEH and singing about how great He is. YAHWEH is good! Yes, He is, and you are still not worshiping. You are still praising. There is nothing wrong with praise. When I come to a service and dance before YAHWEH, I enjoy that moment, but I am anticipating the worship. Dancing is not where we are going. Dancing is the door that gets us where we are going. That is why dancing matters: it is the door, not the destination. "Let them praise his name in the dance" (Psalm 149:3). Worship is the second door. Praise is about YAHWEH; worship is to YAHWEH. And here is the problem: many have learned how to sing to Elohim, and they think that at door number two they have arrived. But door number three is standing in the glory and saying nothing. There is a realm beyond worship that the Church has never found. A few people have found it. Nothing frustrates a shepherd more than a congregation that stops short of the third door. Worship that stays with words has not yet entered the song of the Spirit, the new song, the place where there are no more words. That is a progression, and it flows through the whole Tabernacle. The glory is a sound, and you only find it in the Most Holy Place, and YAHSHUA opened the door so you could get there. We need more than Bible study. We need to experience the three doors. We need spirit and truth. What is the glory? It is the atmosphere of heaven, beyond the third door. In the inner court you are still ministering to YAHWEH, at the table of showbread and at the menorah. But when you enter the third door, He begins to minister to you. In the inner court we sing to Him. In the glory, He sings over us: "The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing." — Zephaniah 3:17 There are moments when the Holy Spirit begins to sing through a vessel in the first person, YAHWEH singing back to His people. That is what it feels like. He is waiting behind the third door. He wants to sing you a song. He wants to bring you into an enclosed garden. Do not get used to these depths: the children of Israel got used to the Tabernacle, and their manna went bad. * * * 29 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Faith for the Next Door How does anyone pass through a door he has never walked through before? Each door requires a new level of faith. And where does faith come from? "So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." — Romans 10:17 These are your three levels of faith. Since faith comes by hearing, you can only enter each door by what you have heard taught to you by the voice of truth. No one stumbles into the Holy Place. No one wanders by accident through the veil. You have to hear something. Someone has to open the Scriptures and show you the door. That is why YAHWEH sends the voice of Elijah before the great day, a voice crying, There is more. Come further. Here is the next door. Passover only required you to believe that YAHSHUA loved you and died for your sins. That is all. But when you begin to move into the inner court, where the menorah is shining and the Tabernacle is illuminated and you must eat the showbread, that requires another calling. To hear that calling, somebody has to preach you into that door. You must be preached into the Word, into the Bride, into the message of final authority. But be ready. When you get into that inner court, you will feel the push to line up with the light of the menorah, and the menorah is our absolute. It is the Word of YAHWEH shining in our lives. * * * Fitly Framed Together "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." — Ephesians 2:19–22 These verses should show you yourself as the temple. And they should show you why you must lose your stand-alone identity and mindset. A board lying alone in the desert is not a Tabernacle. A pillar standing alone in the sand holds up nothing. "Fitly framed together": that is the language of a builder joining one piece to another. You are being fitted into a growing work, a work that is bringing the Commandments of YAHWEH back into their place in the earth. Families from every background and every walk of life are being joined, piece by piece, into a dwelling place for YAHWEH. YAHWEH is saying, I am fitting these people together from different religions, different walks of life and different personalities. I am taking one family and uniting it with another, connecting a Tabernacle together for a dwelling place. I watch Him fit one household beside another, and I marvel at it. There is no such thing as a stand-alone saint in the Tabernacle of YAHWEH. 30 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Pointing People to the Word The role of every pillar in the court is to point people to the Word and never to itself. The purpose of the pillars was to support the curtains, because those white curtains were so important, and to support the door. Could there be a door without the columns? No. Those columns are you. You are the Temple, and you are the columns. Their total focus was for the world to see the door, not the pillars. In the true Temple of YAHWEH, every piece fits into its proper place for a purpose much bigger than itself. So everyone who serves in this house, seen or unseen, is a pillar pointing people to the Word, whether on the platform or in the kitchen. Find your part. Do it with all your heart, as unto YAHWEH. Every member of this house has a place, and every member should find it. * * * Where Does YAHWEH Dwell Now? There is great confusion in the world about where the house of YAHWEH is today. Some tell you the feasts must be kept in Jerusalem. Others believe the Presence of YAHWEH still lingers at the Wailing Wall. They pray at the stones and kiss the monuments, waiting for a third temple to rise in Jerusalem. But the prophet Ezekiel recorded where the glory went: "Then the glory of the LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims." — Ezekiel 10:18 "And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city." — Ezekiel 11:23 The glory of YAHWEH departed from Jerusalem, and it has never returned. Do you really think His Presence is still at the Wailing Wall? He is the One who tore that Temple down. His name is not in a dead temple in Jerusalem. It is where He has chosen to dwell. I am against turning a wall into the place where Elohim is. I am against turning monuments into sacred shrines while He is trying to show you where He is today. The carnal-minded will go and touch the Wailing Wall, and the glory of YAHWEH is not even there anymore. Where is He? He has placed His name in a new Temple, the Seventh Temple He is building with living stones. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" — 1 Corinthians 3:16 Israel is not merely a location. Israel is a people and a nation. YAHWEH said He would put His name in the place He chose (Deuteronomy 12:5), and He has chosen a people. Wherever His people gather with the authority of His assembly, He has said He will be there: 31 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." — Matthew 18:20 Read it carefully. He did not say, Wherever two or three people show up, I'll be there. He said where two or three are gathered in My name. That name is His authority. Where His authority is present, where it has been proven, where His Word comes forth with authority, that is where He is building the Temple. The Presence of YAHWEH is not tied to a piece of real estate. It is tied to His people gathered under His authority, and He is raising up that Temple all over the world. So stop looking to Jerusalem for a "third temple" of stone. YAHWEH is building His Temple all over the world. Do not build your faith on predictions. Build it on the Word. And there is already a Priest in place, a High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, ministering in the true Tabernacle that YAHWEH pitched and not man (Hebrews 8:1–2). The Three Appointed Gatherings Because we are His Temple, we must gather. The house of Israel was commanded to appear before YAHWEH three times a year: "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty." — Deuteronomy 16:16 That is not a suggestion. It is a command. YAHWEH knew that if He did not get you out of your house three times a year, you would not make it. You must gather where His name and His authority are, and you must not appear before Him empty. These are holy convocations, appointments with YAHWEH. Without the three feasts, you will never make it through the three doors. * * * The Fine Twined Linen Not only are you the columns. You are also the linen. "And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side." — Exodus 27:9 Consider the intricate detail YAHWEH gave for His wall. What if Moses had made those curtains out of silk? It would not have worked. YAHWEH knew exactly what that wall had to be made of. Out in the wilderness the wind would have blown the whole thing down, but linen lets the wind pass through it. So it had to be linen, and not just any linen. It had to be fine twined linen, very rare, very expensive and very difficult to create. If this curtain was going to represent the righteousness of Messiah and the holiness of the saints, it could not be ordinary cloth. The word fine means to pierce, or to comb. The fibers had to be combed constantly until they lay smooth. If you are going to be in this Seventh Temple, you are going to feel the constant combing of 32 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE the Holy Spirit smoothing out your rough edges. If you have a head of tangled hair, the last thing you want is a comb. And YAHWEH says, I have to smooth you out. So you should never tell people, Well, that's just who I am. That's the way Elohim made me. No, it is not. That is the way you became. Let Him comb you. Let Him get your tangles out. If you have a smart-aleck mouth, let Him comb it. If you have a rough attitude with people, understand that you will not be in this wall if you are not combed. He is combing every one of us every day. As you let the Word comb you, you become fine linen. Why did it have to be twined linen? Because the word twine means twisted. The strength of a cord comes from twisting the thread. YAHWEH is going to twist you. There will be days when you look around and no one near you believes what you believe, and you will feel that twisting. YAHWEH is twisting you to see whether there is any Babylon left in you. That twisting is what produces the righteousness of the saints. Linen also wrinkles, as anyone who has worn it knows. To be without a wrinkle it has to be stretched and pulled. That is exactly what YAHSHUA is doing with His assembly: "That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." — Ephesians 5:27 Clean and White Here is what you will look like in the Seventh Temple: "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God." — Revelation 19:8–9 That is the wall of white. Why would YAHWEH make the wall of the Tabernacle out of fine linen, and then show you at the end of the Book what it means? Because it shows you what you must present to the world: a combed head of hair, a life without wrinkles or tangles. And these are the ones who will be invited to the supper. You must have the white linen. How will anyone want to come inside the Tabernacle, into the glory, if there is no beautiful white linen inviting them in? When people see your attitude and your personality, it either invites them in to know YAHWEH or sends them away from Him. People do not see YAHWEH. They see you. That is why YAHSHUA had to be without tangles. He had to be pierced and combed and twisted. He said, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" (John 14:9). Why? Because the Father was in that Tabernacle, and the Son was the door to Him. No one would have wanted to come to the Father if YAHSHUA had been mean, ugly, backbiting and gossiping. But when they saw His goodness and His love, it drew them to His Father. What are you drawing men to with your attitude and your personality? Always something smart to say? "Be ye kind one to another" (Ephesians 4:32). That is your righteousness. That is your linen. People will never find YAHWEH if they do not find Him in you. 33 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHSHUA is the Head of the door. He began the door. But now you are the white linen through which men are led into the Presence of YAHWEH. As Chapter 1 promised, you are seeing yourself in the Tabernacle. This entire Tabernacle is you and Him working together to build the Seventh Temple. * * * The Wall That Excludes and Encloses This wall of white was held up by the columns, the cords and the stakes. So if your stakes are not right, your white linen will not stay up. And the wall told the world one thing: everything inside is separated. Your wall, meaning your dress, your speech and your conduct, tells the world whether you are separated. The first thing people get from you is what they see. The very purpose of the wall was to exclude. Why build a wall at all? To exclude everything unholy from everything holy. No open borders! Sin, you cannot enter here. Rebellion, you cannot come onto these grounds. I have a white linen wall. What are you excluding from your life? YAHWEH wants you to build an exclusion wall. You have been taught that the Church should be inclusive. The Tabernacle tells a totally different story. The assembly of YAHWEH is exclusive. You cannot let everybody and everything in. That is why I believe in a closed communion. I believe the holy things of YAHWEH must be kept separate from the wilderness of the world. The wall excluded mankind that had no love for holy things. When YAHSHUA died, the veil was torn only at the Most Holy Place. The rest of the Tabernacle was not broken. There was still a door to enter and still a wall standing. He wants His assembly to protect holy things. "Neither cast ye your pearls before swine" (Matthew 7:6). The white linen wall does not only exclude. It also encloses. It excludes what is unholy, and it encloses what is holy. YAHWEH hates mixture. The purpose of the assembly is to enclose holy things: to enclose the feasts of YAHWEH, the Tabernacle and the Commandments. The Song of Solomon says it: "A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed." — Song of Solomon 4:12 Not everyone is welcome in that garden. Revilers and railers are not welcome there. The linen is also linen you can see. Chapter 1 has already taught holiness within and without, and it holds here: if the Most Holy Place is inside you, it will show on the outside. Fine twined linen is not immodesty. Present yourself as royalty. * * * Make the Door Beautiful Now look at the whole court from a distance, and notice something you may never have seen. 34 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Everything around the outer court is white. The linen hangings represent holiness, separation from the world and purity. But they are not there to be noticed. They are there to make the door beautiful. All that white takes the attention away from itself and directs it to the door, the one place in the wall woven with blue, purple and scarlet. The pillars, as we have seen, serve the same end: mostly covered and unseen, so that the "wow" falls on the door. That is the saints wrapped around the outer court. The white linen is the righteousness of the saints, and even in our righteousness we are never pointing men to ourselves. Everything we do is so that people will look beyond us and see what is inside us. What is inside us is the Life of Messiah: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." — Galatians 2:20 Don't look at me. Look at the door. If you look at the assembly alone, you will only see people with failures, men just like you. But if you look beyond those broken men, you will see the door. So here is the purpose of your life every time you walk out of your house: that people would no longer even notice you. They would hear another Voice in your voice. They would see a wheel in the middle of your wheel and a fire in the middle of your fire. Your purpose is to point mankind to the door and make the door beautiful, by keeping your linen so clean and white that people want to see what is beyond it. When you understand that role, you understand why what you do in public matters so much. You are the white linen wall. If your linen is stained, people cannot see past you to the door. Your job is to be such a backdrop for the Door that when people meet you, no matter what anyone has told them about you, they know better. They see the Door in you. The Door That Lives in Me When hate is thrown at you, everyone is watching to see how you will respond, and the flesh wants the last word. But there is a Door that lives in me. And that Door says: "Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you." — Matthew 5:44 Do not return hate for hate. Return love for hate. When you do that, you make the Door beautiful. People look at you and say, How does he do that? And the answer is, It is not I. It is a Door that lives in me, full of a forgiveness and a love that human beings cannot comprehend. Take your flesh out of the way. Kill it. Move it aside. Then when people watch you say nothing at all, you will be preaching a sermon. Every person reading this lives in one of two places. You live in the jungle, under the law of the jungle: kill or be killed, dog eat dog, the rat race. In the jungle, if you don't get the last word, you lost. Many believers still live there. Or you have moved into the law of faith. The law of faith says: YAHWEH orders my steps. He allows every attack. Everything is in His hands. When you move out of the jungle and into the law of faith, you find a freedom that finally allows you to be quiet. You can be at peace in the middle of a war, because you know YAHWEH is in control. 35 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is how the white linen points to the Door. * * * The Gate of the Court And so, at last, we move from the wall of white to the door. "And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four. All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass." — Exodus 27:16–17 Why did YAHWEH want everything else white but the door so richly embellished? Because everything was to point to the door. It's all about Him. The white is there to keep you from looking at the wall and to focus you on the door. Your righteousness should be pointing men to the door: to your Elder Brother, your Savior, your King, YAHSHUA the Messiah. Chapter 3 opens the meaning of the gate's name; it is an opening. Remember who was standing outside it. Israel had been separated from YAHWEH for more than four hundred years in Egypt, away from their Elohim. And suddenly, in the middle of a wilderness, there was an opening to dwell with YAHWEH. There was only one gate into the courtyard of the Tabernacle, in the very center of the eastern wall. And YAHSHUA called Himself "the door of the sheep" (John 10:7), a passage Chapter 3 opens in full. Notice whose door He named. He was sent to the lost sheep: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24). Judah had built a wall and blocked their entrance. Why had those sheep never returned before? Because they were the true sheep, the true house of Israel, and they could not return until the true Door came, tore down the wall and opened the gate for them. That is the peace YAHSHUA came to bring: peace between the house of Judah and the house of Israel, and the path that leads them home. The Door and the Father YAHSHUA said, "No man cometh unto the Father, but by me" (John 14:6). Many assume salvation brought them to YAHSHUA as the destination. He said otherwise: to the Father. The Father is in door number three, the Most Holy Place, the glory realm, the realm of Tabernacles. And no one comes to Tabernacles without first coming to Passover. No one reaches door number three without going through door number one. The Door is not the Most Holy Place; as Chapter 1 showed, it is the way to it. Those who made the Door co-equal and co-eternal with the Father became exactly what He warned of, thieves and robbers (John 10:8). They worshiped the door and wrote every song about the door, and so they robbed the Father of His glory. But the true sheep, when they find the true Door, will follow it to their Father in heaven. When you get that revelation, your prayer life will change and your whole life will change. You will no longer be a fatherless Church. 36 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Thirty Feet Wide The gate was twenty cubits wide, about thirty feet. What if Moses had said, Twenty-eight feet fits better right here? It would not have worked. It would have been a door, a religion or a denomination, but not the door. The Elohim you serve has never changed. He wants what He wants, and if you plan to be in this Seventh Temple, you are going to give it to Him. So why thirty? In Hebrew, the number thirty is written with the letter lamed, which pictures an ox goad, a shepherd's staff. It is the symbol of authority, leadership and rule. It means dedicated to ruling. •Thirty was the age at which a priest entered the service of the Tabernacle (Numbers 4:3). They could not even come in and work until they were thirty. •Joseph was thirty when he was raised to power over Egypt (Genesis 41:46). •David was thirty when he became king (2 Samuel 5:4). •YAHSHUA was about thirty when He began His ministry, the Lamb of YAHWEH (Luke 3:23). That thirty-foot door was announcing in advance the age at which He would come, dedicated to ruling and reigning. •And it would be thirty pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15) that set in motion His passage from son of man to Son of YAHWEH. The door is thirty feet wide because anyone who comes through it must be dedicated to ruling: first to ruling himself, and then to ruling the nations of the world. You must come through the door of training for reigning. You thought you were coming in to get saved. You were coming in to go to work. When you come through that thirty-foot door, you had better get a ruling mentality. You are entering training to take authority, first over yourself and then, if you go all the way through the veil, over the nations. When you pass through that door, you are entering the promised land of the Way, the Truth and the Life. * * * Become a Habitation So here is the house. Seven temples, one pattern. Three positions of nearness, three doors of more. One false wall torn down, so that the two houses of Israel can become one new man. One true wall of fine twined linen, combed and twisted and kept white, still standing to protect what is holy and to make the Door beautiful. YAHWEH is building a habitation, and you are the building. Let Him fit you to the brother beside you. Let Him tear down every soreg you have built in your heart. Let Him comb out your tangles and twist you until you are strong. Gather when He calls you to gather. Point people to the Word. And make the Door beautiful. 37 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE We have stood outside long enough. The gate is open, it is thirty feet wide, and it is woven in three colors that Chapter 3 will unfold, colors that will change the way you see YAHSHUA forever. Now we walk through the Door. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 38 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER THREE The Gate and the Colors of Sonship The gate of the court was woven of three colors, blue, purple and scarlet, and those three threads tell the whole story of sonship. Scarlet is the worm of a man. Blue is the heavenly mind he must take on. Purple, the royal color, is what the two make together. The Church has kept only the blue and made the door a god who came down. This chapter shows the door as Scripture weaves it: a man who became more than a man, so that you can walk through after Him. Chapters 1 and 2 taught the pillars and the white linen draped around this outer court, this thirtyfold court. That was not wasted time. You had to understand the wall before you could understand the opening in it. Now we walk through the door. Remember why we are here. The passage that opened Chapter 1, Ephesians 4:11–13, says YAHWEH gave the fivefold ministry "for the perfecting of the saints... unto a perfect man." The perfect man is in that Tabernacle. It is the picture of the full stature of the perfect man. So understand this: we are not studying the Tabernacle to learn what every piece of furniture means. A thirtyfold or sixtyfold believer can have knowledge without the wisdom to apply it. What you are learning in this Tabernacle is what you were saved to become. It is the beginning of a journey that will lead you into headship union with YAHWEH. * * * The Steps of Sonship Picture a staircase of seven steps. At the bottom kneels a man walking in his own will and his own way. At the top stands a son in union with the will of YAHWEH. Every piece of the Tabernacle is a step on that stair. A man who goes through all of them arrives at the same place YAHSHUA arrived: union with YAHWEH. That is the whole ministry of First Harvest. If I could ever make you understand one thing, it would be this: First Harvest is not a church. We are a Kingdom Training Center. What we teach is how each part of the Tabernacle leads you to the seventh step, headship union with YAHWEH's will. We are simply trying to bring you into union with YAHWEH, and the Tabernacle is the picture of the perfect man we must all grow into. So does Ephesians 4 tell us that coming to Messiah is the goal? No. That verse is telling you, I gave you pastors. YAHWEH gave you leaders to preach until it rubs you wrong. Why does the preaching of the Word rub us wrong? Because it is turning us from that man at the bottom of the stairs into the son at the top. It is turning you into a slave of another Master, and that Master is YAHWEH. The old man is being broken. That is the pressure you feel. Some days you want to jump out of the fire, and as soon as you do, you are trying to jump back in. Why? Because you are 39 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE going through a change. The Christian Church never brought you through the change. And the change is hard. You are changing from what you were into what you are becoming. If at the end of this study you have only learned what everything in the Tabernacle means, you are thirtyfold. You have knowledge. Oh, I know what the table of showbread means now. But until you see yourself in that table, until you are becoming every piece of that furniture, this book has failed you. As we go from the front door to the back, I want you to say, That is what's happening to me under this teaching. I am growing into the stature of, dare I say it, the perfect man. When you grew up in church, you were told, Nobody can be perfect. Don't even try. They lied to you. It is your intent that makes you perfect, not your flawlessness. The very desire to be perfect, the settled intention of a heart set toward the will of YAHWEH, is your perfection. We do not want you to close this book smarter. We want you to close it changed. * * * The Gate That Splits the Wall "And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court. And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver." — Exodus 38:18–19 YAHWEH gave the exact description of what the curtain of the gate was to look like. The Hebrew word for this gate means to split, or to open. The door of the outer court literally split open the barrier. Suppose there were no door, and the white linen ran unbroken all the way around. The white represents holiness. No man is holy in his flesh, and holiness itself would bar him. There would be one barrier standing between you and YAHWEH, and that barrier would be holiness itself. The white linen wall did not only protect you from the world. It protected the holy things of YAHWEH from you. The wall said, If you are holy, you may come in. If not, you stay outside. "In me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing," Paul said (Romans 7:18). You could never have been good enough to get beyond that white wall. Something had to come and split open the holiness that protected YAHWEH from your unholiness. "Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep... I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." — John 10:7, 9 YAHSHUA was saying, I am the split. I am the gate. I am what took holiness and split an entrance all the way through it, so that you could walk into holiness. Stare at that door. That gate was YAHSHUA in the wilderness. It was the foreshadow, the prophetic picture of the One who would split open an entrance into the Presence of YAHWEH. 40 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE When He called Himself the door, the people knew exactly what He meant. They had known the door all their lives. "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." — John 14:6 So where is the Father in this picture? In the Most Holy Place, in that hundredfold realm, dwelling above the mercy seat. The Holy Spirit is the Father, His own Spirit, dwelling there. And YAHSHUA says, Without the door you are not getting past the white wall. I came and split open an entrance for you. "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." — Acts 4:12 There is no other way to the Father but through that door. The Three Colors YAHWEH told Moses to make that curtain of particular colors. Whenever you see colors, numbers or patterns in the Bible, they all speak to Israel. If you know the colors, the numbers and the patterns, you can understand your Bible. Your whole life can change through understanding three colors: blue, scarlet and purple. And here is where the Church went wrong. There are three colors in this door, not one. The whole Christian Church focuses on just one of them, the blue. If you take the blue alone and make it the whole door, you degrade the door. * * * Blue: The Heavenly Mind The first color named is blue. The Hebrew word is tekhelet, not just any blue but a heavenly blue, a sky blue. It came from a particular sea snail, and it was the color of the heavens. The color blue depicts and foretells the heavenly mind of YAHSHUA. This is where people get confused about YAHSHUA. They misunderstand the blue. They believe He was born with a heavenly nature, that He pre-existed with a heavenly nature: He is God, the heavenly One, who created all things. Everybody loves a heavenly Jesus. But when you make the blue the whole door, you destroy the door. "No Man Hath Ascended Up to Heaven" Consider one of the most misunderstood verses in the New Testament. "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven." — John 3:13 Take it one line at a time. "No man hath ascended up to heaven." No man. No man is in heaven, and anyone who says otherwise has contradicted the very words of YAHSHUA. 41 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But he that came down from heaven." Here is where people stumble into pre-existence, because it sounds as though John, writing some sixty years later, is saying the only man in heaven is the one who came down from it. So add a second verse: "I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world." — John 6:51 YAHSHUA says He is the bread that came down from heaven. There was another bread that came down from heaven: the manna in the wilderness. That is what He was comparing Himself to. Now here is my question for everyone who believes in pre-existence: Did the manna pre-exist with Elohim at the beginning of creation before it fell on the camp of Israel? Of course not. How foolish it would be to think so. The manna came down from heaven as a gift from heaven. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." — James 1:17 Every good and perfect gift comes down from above. That does not mean every good gift pre-existed in heaven. It means it is a gift from heaven. When someone says, That came out of nowhere, it does not mean the thing pre-existed somewhere. It means it arrived as a gift. "For God so loved the world, that he gave" (John 3:16). He gave a perfect gift to the world, and that gift is YAHSHUA, who came from heaven. The Greek word for "came down" is katabainō, and the lexicons tell you it may be used literally or figuratively. YAHSHUA Himself proves which He meant: I am the bread that came down from heaven. He is telling you, I am comparing Myself to the bread that came from heaven. It is figurative. Beloved, please quit trying to make YAHSHUA what He never claimed to be. I will never understand the need to make Him more than He ever said He was. He was the perfect gift that came from heaven. The "Great Interruption": The Incarnation Myth The church you grew up in taught you from John 3:13 and John 6:51 that YAHSHUA pre-existed, that He gave up His divinity, descended from heaven, took on the form of a man, died, rose and then ascended back to resume His divine place in the godhead. I call that the Great Interruption. And it is pagan nonsense. It is the lie of the Incarnation. There is hardly a pagan religion in the world that does not teach an incarnation: divinity entering the natural world in human form. Nearly every pagan religion has a god called the son who comes down into the womb of a woman and comes out half man and half god. That is the lie of the Incarnation. If the Incarnation is true, this whole Tabernacle teaching is worthless to you, because only a god-man could walk it. If YAHSHUA was God incarnate, you can never attain to it. And you are not a god-man. So the Church lets you off the hook to swim back out into the wild ocean: Only Jesus could do that. He was sort of a Superman. 42 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE He walked on water, but so did Peter (Matthew 14:29). He raised the dead, but so did Elijah (1 Kings 17:22). He commanded the storm, and Moses stretched out his hand over the sea (Exodus 14:21). Miracles do not make a man a god. I know this rubs against everything you have ever believed. But when you hear the truth, you will know it. As Chapter 1 showed, YAHSHUA is the Door, not the Most Holy Place. There is only one Most Holy Place, and His name is YAH. His Son came in His name to lead you to the name He came in. And don't ever demean that Door. It is so intricately connected to the Most Holy Place that without the Door you cannot get there. When you understand that the Holy Spirit YAHSHUA had is the same Holy Spirit you have, all your excuses fall by the wayside. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." — Romans 8:11 I can't love my enemies. I'm not Jesus. I know you are not. But the same Spirit that dwelt in YAHSHUA dwells in you. You can do it. You have the same power. To me this is the only message worth preaching. Where was the Incarnation created? In Babylon. Scripture speaks of Mystery Babylon (Revelation 17:5). The Incarnation is the mystery in Mystery Babylon. Why is it a mystery? Because nobody can explain it. It cannot be explained. A Teacher Come From Elohim The Gospel of John shows what it means that YAHSHUA "came from heaven." "There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: the same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him." — John 3:1–2 There it is: a teacher come from Elohim. A teacher can come from YAHWEH, sent as a gift by His hand, without having been there at the beginning, creating the world. Now ask yourself this: why didn't YAHSHUA correct Nicodemus? Why didn't He say, Nicodemus, before we go any further, I am not just a teacher sent from God. I AM God? I would like someone to answer that. He did not correct him because YAHSHUA knew who He was. He was the servant, the Prophet like Moses: "The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken." — Deuteronomy 18:15 He was not a blasphemer. And yet the Christian Church, Mystery Babylon, pagan Rome, has turned a man into an eternal YAHWEH and made Him the second person of a godhead. He would be ashamed of it. 43 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Where He Came From Then where did YAHSHUA come from, when He says He came from heaven? "Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, (which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh; and declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead." — Romans 1:1–4 Here is exactly where He came from. He was foretold in the heavens themselves, written in the Mazzaroth, the constellations of heaven (Job 38:32; Psalm 19:1). And He was promised beforehand by YAHWEH through the prophets in the holy Scriptures. We agree that the Holy Bible came from heaven. It came from heaven as a perfect gift. Did it pre- exist? In a sense, yes: it existed in the heavens and in the mind of YAHWEH. But it did not exist as a written book like the one you hold. YAHSHUA is the same. He existed in the purpose and mind of YAHWEH and in the witness of the heavens. He did not pre-exist as the Son of Elohim, as a person. Now read verse three: "made of the seed of David according to the flesh." How was YAHSHUA made? Of the seed of David. It had to be done for Him to be the Prince of Judah, and it was YAHWEH who did it, by His Spirit and power. The woman does not carry the seed. YAHWEH placed the repaired seed of the first Adam, through the line of David, into Miriam's womb. That is how YAHSHUA was formed, as the Son of David. And this is Paul telling you. Verse four: "declared to be the Son of God with power... by the resurrection from the dead." Hold on. He was not declared to be the Son of YAHWEH with power as the seed of David. He was declared to be the Son of YAHWEH with power by the resurrection. When was He declared to be more than a man? After His resurrection, and not a day before. He was begotten the Son of YAHWEH, but He was not declared the Son of YAHWEH with power until the resurrection (Romans 1:4). That is your journey, too. At the bottom of the stairs is the son of David. At the top is the Son of YAHWEH. The purpose of the Tabernacle is to teach you how to get from son of your earthly father to son of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA had to be like us, just like us, and so we must live the life He lived, to manifest the Son of Elohim to others. The Christian Church does not teach you that. It says, He did it all for you. Just believe in Him, and you're done. But He came as our example, and He said, Take up your cross and follow Me. Not believe in Me. Follow Me. * * * First the Natural, Then the Spiritual Every reader is in a fleshly body, and the fleshly body comes first, not the spiritual one. Scripture places the new birth at the resurrection. No believer living is yet born again in the sense Paul means. The reason so many cannot live an overcoming life is that the Church lied to them. 44 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE They came to the altar, received their born-again card, and were robbed of their entrance into the Most Holy Place, because they were told they had already arrived. "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body." — 1 Corinthians 15:42–44 When you die, no matter how much Holy Spirit you have and no matter how born again you think you are, you go into the grave in dishonor. You go into the grave as a son of man, just as YAHSHUA did. The Scripture says He was counted among the transgressors when He was buried: "For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end." — Luke 22:37 Why did YAHSHUA have to be reckoned among the transgressors? Because He had to die, and death is the wages of transgression. To die, He had to be counted among the transgressors. But when He rose from the grave, something was different. He said to Mary: "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father" (John 20:17). He was not the same man they had laid in the tomb. He was sown a son of man, and He was raised something more. "It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body... And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual." — 1 Corinthians 15:44–46 There it is. It is sown a natural body, a son of David, a son of man. It is raised a spiritual body, born of the Spirit. That which is born of flesh will always be flesh, but that which is born of the Spirit is spirit, and Paul says that you are born of the Spirit, born again, when you come up in the resurrection. Paul said the spiritual did not come first. How does that line up with the pre-existence of souls? How does it line up with YAHSHUA being a spirit-god before He came into a fleshly body? It doesn't. The natural comes first, then the spiritual. You climb the steps, you reach the Most Holy Place, and then you receive your spirit body. That is when you are born into the Elohim. If that is not how YAHSHUA received His spirit body, you have no hope. YAHSHUA was born of the seed of David; the flesh came first. Then He rose from the grave with a spirit body. Christianity tells it this way: He had a spirit body, then He got a flesh body, then He got the spirit body back. No. The flesh comes first. And you can have a spirit body too, if you follow the Tabernacle pattern into the Most Holy Place, into union and fellowship with your Father in heaven. * * * 45 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE He Learned Obedience So the blue, the heavenly mind, was not something YAHSHUA was born with. It was something He developed. Calling YAHSHUA the Son of YAHWEH is not blasphemy. YAHSHUA Himself said a man could speak a word against the Son of man and be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, the Father's own Spirit, would never be forgiven (Matthew 12:32). So no, we are not blaspheming. Scripture, not your church or your favorite teacher, proves that YAHSHUA was not born with a heavenly mind. "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him." — Hebrews 5:8–9 If YAHSHUA had been born with a heavenly mind, you would all be without hope of becoming like Him, because none of you were born with one. You were all born with a fleshly mind. Read it slowly: though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience. If He had been born with a heavenly mind, He would not have had to learn obedience. And He learned it by the things which He suffered. For thirty years He increased in wisdom and stature and learned obedience. That sounds a lot like us. We imagine Him born singing Hallelujah in the manger. No. He was born with the same kind of mind you were born with, and He spent His life on that staircase, going from the bottom step to headship union, just as you will. See Him in your mind at the bottom of those stairs. Most have always pictured Him born at the top. And being made perfect. The text says made perfect, not born perfect. The Ephesians 4 passage gave pastors, prophets, evangelists and teachers for the perfecting of the sons of Elohim. And YAHSHUA too was made perfect. "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him." — Luke 2:40 The child grew strong in spirit, so He was not born strong. And when you walk through the door of the Tabernacle, you will not be strong in spirit either. You will have accepted Messiah by faith, but you are not yet strong in spirit. YAHSHUA grew stronger and stronger, and the grace of YAHWEH was upon Him to make Him grow. I am so thankful the same grace is upon my life and yours. This is why Hebrews says He was "made a little lower than the angels" (Hebrews 2:9). When He was born as a babe, He was lower than the angels. But after His resurrection He said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18). Why did He not have all authority before the resurrection? Because the second Adam still had to prove He would go all the way through to headship union. He earned it. Everything you are going through is teaching you obedience. The enemy does not want you to learn obedience. He wants you in rebellion against YAHWEH's plan for your life. YAHWEH is doing in you the same work He did in Messiah. * * * 46 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Sea, Earth and Heavens YAHSHUA developed a heavenly mind, and the door had to have blue in it for the door to work. All the sons of Adam live in one of three regions: the sea, the earth or the heavens. The sea is wicked humanity. Some people love their wickedness. They love living like the world. The earth is where the religious live. These people are not wicked. They are halfway between wicked and heavenly. They are not bad people; they simply have no desire for the heavens. They live in the fleshly realm, with one hand reaching out to YAHWEH and the other dipped back in the sea. That is the vast majority of all Christianity. They live on the earth. But there is another realm, where YAHSHUA lived: the heavenlies, in total submission. He lived in the mind of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA was a man who lived on the earth and yet was in heaven. That is what John 3:13 meant: "the Son of man which is in heaven." He was standing on the earth when He said it. And the Bible says the same about you and me: "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus." — Ephesians 2:6 We are planted here, but we are living in the heavens, growing stronger every day in the spirit of the heavenly mind, developing the color blue in our lives. It is vitally important that we have this blue, the heavenly mind. We must become like the Door: heavenly on earth, "seeking first the government of YAHWEH and its right ways" (Matthew 6:33). * * * Authority and Submission Here is another lie the Church told you: that you enter the Most Holy Place during a worship service. You do not enter the Most Holy Place by singing a chorus. You enter the Most Holy Place when you are walking in union with your Head, when you have become one with the Father, when your will has aligned with His and your own will no longer rules. That is the Most Holy Place. Everybody wants to slip in there while still living like a flesh man. I went into the holy of holies! No, you didn't. You got caught up in the music. Praise and worship are doors, as Chapter 2 showed. But the Most Holy Place, the place of union, is where you are going if you will stay under this teaching and come under authority and submission. Do not be ashamed of authority and submission. Obedience to the Word is true faith. It is what the faith was supposed to be from the beginning. Paul said: "Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." — 1 Corinthians 11:1 47 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE In other words, Follow me, because I will only lead you to the Word. YAHWEH uses a man to bring you bread, and there is nothing wrong with honoring the hand that fed you. * * * The Greatest Blessing and the Greatest Battle A message that sets Israel free from Babylon brings two things: the greatest blessings from heaven, and the greatest battle from hell. Babylon does not let her children go without a fight. We are in a war against Babylon. Did you think hell would simply wave goodbye as you walked out of her? No. Babylon wants her children back. "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." — Revelation 18:4 Every believer who comes out of her has a strength that is not his own. It is supernatural. He has called you out, and He is going to keep you out. When you are living in truth, you will be attacked, but "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper" (Isaiah 54:17). The battle is hot, but the victory is sweet. When the battle is over, you will wear the crown, because you have overcome every trial. * * * Purple: The Royal Son The second color is purple, the color of royalty and of kings, because YAHSHUA was the royal Son of YAHWEH, sent as a gift from the royal court. The blue and the purple together tell us this truth: as you become like Him and walk through the door, you must partake of His royalty by partaking of His heavenly mind. We enter the door as common men, strangers and foreigners. But we begin to take on the color blue. If you want to get to the purple, you have to get the blue first. The goal of this curtain is the purple. But to reach the purple, you start with the blue. You wait in His Presence daily, and He will weave into your spirit mind the mind of that purple royalty. He will make you crave the crown so much that you are willing to go to war for it, even to war against your own self. Now you know why, when He was crucified, they draped a purple robe over Him: "And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, and said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands." — John 19:2–3 He was the Door, so they had to put purple on Him. He was the Lamb, and He had to wear the color purple to be the royal sacrifice. They mocked Him with it, but heaven was declaring through their mockery exactly who He was. They draped the color of royalty over His shoulders. 48 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE But how did He get the royalty? How do we get from son of Adam to son of YAHWEH? Purple holds the answer. The color purple is a mixture of two colors: blue and red. The curtain was made of blue and scarlet and purple. That brings us to the red. * * * Scarlet: The Worm That Became a King The Hebrew word for scarlet is tola'at, and it means a worm, a crimson grub. The dye was taken from a crawling worm. It is the lowest creature on the earth. Here is what YAHWEH was saying: I want the door made of a worm of a man who took on a heavenly mind, and it turned him into royalty. The door is what happens when the worm takes on the Holy Spirit. When those colors come together, they form the royal family of YAHWEH Almighty. And YAHSHUA would be the example. He would begin as the son of David, a worm of a man, grow in the spirit, take on the blue, and be transformed into the Son of YAHWEH, the royal Son. That is the door you have to walk through. Hear the Messiah's own voice in the psalm of the cross: "But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people." — Psalm 22:6 I am a worm. That is tola'at, the very same word, the very color of the gate. On the cross, YAHSHUA called Himself the scarlet worm. And from that worm, YAHWEH raised the King. The red is the color of your animal nature, and red blended with heavenly blue will always create royal purple. Look at the curtain one more time: •Find the red. There is the man. •Find the blue. There is the heavenly mind. •Find the purple. There is the man who became more than a man. We can only arrive at royalty by walking through the door of the man who became more than a man. That is the Door: not a god who pretended to be a worm, but a worm who became a king. Because He did it, you can do it. The same blue is offered to you. The same Spirit that raised Him dwells in you. The same staircase stands before you. * * * Walk Through the Door So here is the gate of the court. It is thirty feet wide, dedicated to rulership, as Chapter 2 showed, woven with three colors that tell the whole story of sonship. It splits the wall of holiness so that unholy men can enter and be made holy. 49 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You were not saved to stand and admire the door. You were saved to become what the door is. You were saved to take your scarlet, your worm nature and your animal humanity, and let the blue of the heavenly mind be woven into it day by day until it becomes royal purple. Stop letting the Church tell you that only Jesus could do it. That is the mystery of Babylon, and it was invented to keep you at the bottom of the stairs. YAHSHUA started where you started. He learned what you must learn. He suffered as you will suffer. He was made perfect, and He was declared the Son of YAHWEH with power by the resurrection from the dead. And He did it all as the Door, so that you could follow Him through. Take the blue. Crave the crown. Go to war against yourself. Submit to the Word. And walk through. Now that we are inside the court, the first thing that meets us is fire. The brazen altar is waiting in Chapter 4. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 50 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER FOUR The Altar, the Laver and the Father's House Walk through the gate of the court and you meet only two pieces of furniture: a brazen altar and a brazen laver. Fire and water. Every believer who has ever repented and been baptized has stood at these two vessels, and the Church has taught that this is the whole journey. It is only the first step of it. The altar is where you die; the laver is where you see yourself in the Word and are washed; and neither was ever meant to be a place to stay. Before we reach them, this chapter takes up the verse the Church loves to read at funerals. "In my Father's house are many mansions" is not a funeral verse about heaven. It is YAHSHUA explaining why He had to leave the third room, so that many sons could enter it. I never want you to believe anything I teach simply because I said it. So test it against the verse that opened Chapter 1. Ephesians 4:11–12 says the fivefold ministry was given "for the perfecting of the saints." When YAHSHUA was leaving the earth, He said, in effect, Before I go, I must give gifts to My people. Those gifts are the men and women who operate in the fivefold ministry, and their job, in black and white, is the perfecting of the saints, not merely the saving of souls. That is strange, because the Christian Church has taught us that none of us can be perfect. We only need to believe in Jesus, and there is no ongoing work of sanctification required. But if that were true, what would be the point of the fivefold ministry? If all you needed was to come to Messiah and accept Him as your Savior, you would need only one gift, an evangelist. You would not need apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers at all. So ask yourself plainly: Who has YAHWEH sent into your life as a covering to perfect you? When you look at the Tabernacle, all you are looking at is the progress of perfection that YAHWEH is taking every one of us through, "till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). The Unmeasured Stature At Shavuot, barley and wheat were measured. Oil and wine were without measure. And of YAHSHUA it is written, "for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him" (John 3:34). That is the full stature you are looking at in the Tabernacle: the unmeasured stature YAHSHUA walked in. And bringing you into it is the entire purpose of the fivefold ministry. Anyone who truly desires to move from measure to measure, from glory to glory, here a little and there a little, until he begins to look like someone he no longer recognizes, has found the goal. That is why we study this Tabernacle. Chapter 1 showed from Hebrews 9:8–9 that while the first Tabernacle stood, the way into the holiest was not yet made manifest, and that YAHSHUA, our High Priest, went in before us as the Captain of 51 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE our salvation and tore the veil open so that we could all follow Him in. The curtain has been opened. A Man walked beyond that curtain, turned around, ripped it open, and invited you to go beyond salvation, into the fullness of the unmeasured glory of Almighty YAHWEH. There was a time when YAHSHUA was the only man who could come into that fullness. And He did. * * * "Many Mansions" Is Not About Heaven Every Christian church I have ever heard gets this verse wrong, and I cringe when I hear them start to read it. They love to read it at funerals. "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you." — John 14:1–2 Why would YAHSHUA say, Let not your heart be troubled? Because He was about to leave them physically. Understand where He stood at that moment. He was the only man who had ever walked beyond the third door. He had a third-door relationship with His Father. He had come into complete submission to Him. No other man on earth had come beyond that veil; He alone stood there as a manifested Son of YAHWEH. And now He is saying, I am going away, but don't let your heart be troubled. My going away serves a purpose. Verse 2 is read at funerals everywhere. There is only one problem: it has nothing to do with heaven, and nothing to do with the dead at all. Many Abiding Places "In my Father's house." Notice the word house. It means household, a family. The House of Windsor is a family; the house of a king is his family line. In My Father's household, in the family of Elohim, "are many mansions." Mansions? Look up the Greek word. It is monē, and it does not mean a palace with gold-plated plumbing. It means a dwelling place, an abiding place, a staying place, an abode. "Abode" is what should have been written there, not "mansion." I will never understand why the translators rendered it so deceptively. So hear what YAHSHUA actually said: In My Father's family there are many places where He wants to abide. It was never about one son. It was never about one high priest. It was always about the many. And so YAHSHUA turns to His disciples and says, Don't let your heart be troubled. Right now I am the only man who has gone beyond the third door. But My Father never intended Me to be the only man behind that veil. If you are going to go behind that third door, I have to go away, because in My Father's family there are many places He wants to dwell. He wants to build a Seventh Temple, a combined Temple of far more than one Son. When you understand that, you are getting more than ninety-nine percent of the Christian Church has ever understood about this verse. 52 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Why He Had to Go Away "And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also." — John 14:3 I have to go away to make room in this Most Holy Place. That room was only ten cubits by ten. I have to go so that you can come in yourselves, beyond this veil, and quit looking at Me. If He had stayed in the room where YAHWEH receives the glory, they would have kept following Him and looking at Him, rather than at the One dwelling behind the third door. John the Baptist had to decrease so that YAHSHUA might increase (John 3:30). Here we find YAHSHUA decreasing so that YAHWEH might increase. I'm going away to make a place for you to come into headship union with your Father in heaven. You must now do what I did: submit yourselves to the will of the Father as I have. "I will come again, and receive you unto myself." Many people think that is the Second Coming. It is not. It is Shavuot, the day of Pentecost, when the Spirit of Messiah, the Holy Spirit, was poured out upon those men, so that they could now enter where YAHSHUA already was. "And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?" — John 14:4–5 We don't know how to get beyond that third door. The only one ever allowed behind it was the high priest. We don't dare go in. We don't know how to walk the way You walk. And He answered: "I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." — John 14:6 I am the path you follow. I am the truth you believe. I am the life. No man comes into the third door unless he follows the way I have laid out before him. This has nothing to do with mansions in heaven. That reading is Satan's sophistry, meant to keep you waiting instead of entering. Satan wants you waiting on a mansion so that you will never look for the way into the third door. Show Us the Father "If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?" — John 14:7–9 If you want to know the Father, all you need is to know the Way. And how do you know the Way? You must know the life of Messiah, not only His death. You must follow that pattern. YAHSHUA was heartbroken that they were still asking to see the Father. Notice He did not say, I am the Father. He said, I am the manifestation of the Father. I am one with the Father. It is as if He said: I showed you the Father when you watched Me walk past My enemies and wish them no harm. I showed you the Father when you watched Me love the unlovable. I showed you the Father when I had 53 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE compassion on those who did Me wrong. I showed you the Father when I gave and asked nothing in return. I showed you the Father when I answered not a word. And I am about to show Him to you again, when they crucify Me and I look down and say, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." The Father is full of compassion, and so was His Son. The Father gives a soft answer to wrath, and so did His Son. So here is the question for you: How far do the people around you have to look to see the Father? You ought to be just as heartbroken as YAHSHUA was when someone says, I wonder what Elohim is like. It ought to break your heart to say anything but, Stay around me a little longer, and you'll find out. Once you have gone beyond the third veil, once you have walked into headship union, you shine with the love of YAHWEH. Broken Vessels Here is the truth: the vessel is broken, but what is inside the vessel is not broken. YAHWEH is breaking us. The purpose of the wilderness is to break you so thoroughly that you no longer have a job, a person or a plan to depend on, nothing but total dependence upon YAHWEH. YAHWEH wants to break us of depending on anything or anyone but Him. When we are broken, there are cracks, and the light shines through the cracks. That is why YAHSHUA was broken. Restoring Peter How could a man watch YAHSHUA walk on water, watch Him raise the dead, and then deny Him three times shortly afterward? His name was Peter. And John the Baptist, the greatest prophet who ever lived, sent from prison to ask, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" (Matthew 11:3). Do not hold it against people who are temporarily blinded, if the truth is in them. Peter will always come back. What does this have to do with the Tabernacle? Everything. What was the greatest miracle of Shavuot? Some will say it was that the whole world heard the voice of YAHWEH through those men in their own languages, and that was surely a great miracle. Others will say it was that Peter, who had denied Messiah three times, could stand up and preach the Word and truly believe it. That is very close. But here is what I believe with all my heart. Only weeks earlier, Peter, the leader of that band of apostles, had walked away completely. To me, the greatest miracle of that day was that the other eleven men recognized his authority in spite of his failure. They did not discount his chosen position because of his humanity and his failure. When YAHWEH has placed a man in a position, only the Holy Spirit in you can overlook his shortcomings and see his place in YAHWEH. 54 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That was the miracle of Pentecost: the Spirit of restoration. It was not only what the world heard that day. It was what the world saw. They saw the Father, because when you enter the third door, forgiveness becomes your nature, and forgiveness is an attribute of the Father. The world saw the Father forgive Peter through his brothers. I Am in the Father "Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake." — John 14:10–11 Many were raised reading that verse as though it said, Don't you believe I am the Father? That is not what it says. It says, I am in the Father. How was YAHSHUA "in" the Father? The Father was behind the third door, so to be "in the Father," YAHSHUA had to go into the third room. And what are the three rooms? Thirty, sixty and a hundred: the Christian, the Israelite and the Nazarite. YAHSHUA was telling His disciples, You are at sixty. If I do not leave, you cannot come into the place where I am right now. Notice what He does not say. He never says, Believe that I have come to replace the Father, or, Believe that I have become the Father. He says, Believe that I have gone beyond the veil. I have entered the third door of the Tabernacle. This is a third-door ministry. And how will they know He has entered? They will see the works of the Father through Him. You don't have to tell anybody whether you are sixtyfold or hundredfold. Just do the works of your Father, and everyone will know. Greater Works "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." — John 14:12 What works had YAHSHUA done? He had moved into the third door. He said, I am going away to make room, and to take away your excuse. If I stay with you, you will worship Me and make Me your cop-out, and you will never get where I am. What greater works than YAHSHUA's has any of us ever done? Either the Bible is a lie, and we know it is not, or something has been misunderstood. Here is what He meant: If I don't go away, there will only ever be one man behind the veil. But if there is going to be a greater number behind the veil, I have to go away, so that a greater company can come into the place where I now stand, at the right hand of the Father. The greater works are the greater number. Third-Door Praying "And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it." — John 14:13–14 55 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That verse seems to say YAHSHUA will do anything we ask, so long as we tack His name on the end. That is not what it says. "In My name" means in My authority, in My nature, in My character, in the place where I have arrived. If you ask the Father in His character, then you and He are praying the same prayer. You are both operating in the Father's will, and the Father is glorified in the Son, and you are the Body of the Son. Whatever you ask in that character, I will do, because I will already be asking the same thing. It does not mean ending your prayer with in the name of Jesus or in the name of Yeshua. It means praying the way He would pray. And what did He pray? The will of the Father. YAHWEH has a prayer request, the only prayer in the Word that has never yet been answered. YAHSHUA prayed it: "And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one." — John 17:22 That is YAHWEH's prayer request: that all of creation would be reconciled and made one in Him. When you get beyond the third door, you begin to pray that prayer. My Father, make them one, even as We are one. Bring reconciliation, first to My people and then to the whole world. The Father "will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:4). And while you are praying it on earth, YAHSHUA is praying it at the Father's right hand. Heaven and earth join in one prayer of unity to our Father. Quit praying for your broken toe. Get out of outer-court praying. YAHWEH knows you have a broken toe. Outer-court prayer stays on our own small needs. YAHWEH has His own prayer request, that all men might be saved, and the one nobody is listening to: Will you join Me in the third room, take on the whole world, and stop worrying about your little world? YAHSHUA was not praying for His broken toe. He did not even pray for His broken body on the cross. He prayed for the forgiveness of the very men who were killing Him. When you begin to pray on that level, you will move into the third-door glory realm. YAHWEH is looking for prayer warriors who will go beyond the third door. If Ye Love Me "If ye love me, keep my commandments." — John 14:15 Not If you love Me, just believe I am your Savior. "Keep my commandments." Don't say you believe in Him if you don't obey Him. "And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." — John 14:16–17 He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Here is what YAHSHUA was saying: Right now the Spirit of truth dwells with you, because it dwells in Me, and I am with you. I am the carrier of the Holy Spirit among you. I received it in the waters of baptism, when it descended upon Me. But if I do not go to My 56 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Father, it will never be poured out upon you (John 16:7). So I am going away, that where I am, behind the third door, one with the Father, you may be also. "That he may abide with you for ever." YAHSHUA's bodily presence with them was temporary, but what was coming would abide forever. If I don't move out of the way, I will be the only man who ever has the fullness of the Spirit. That knocks out the lie that you can never receive the fullness of the Spirit. "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." — John 14:18 Now it gets "confusing." In verse 16 He was going to pray to the Father, and the Father would send another Comforter. Then how is YAHSHUA the one coming to them? It is very simple. The Holy Spirit is the Father, and the Father was in Messiah. That same Spirit is now called the Spirit of Messiah, because YAHSHUA became so one with the Spirit that you can no longer separate the man from the Spirit who dwelt in Him. "Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." — John 14:19–20 Here comes that beautiful third-door unity. I am in the Father, you are in Me and I am in you. If you are in Him, and He is in the Father, then you are in headship union with the Father. And all your life you thought this chapter was about mansions in heaven. "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him." — John 14:21 The Church world will not agree with what I read in that verse. He who keeps My commandments is the one who loves Me, is loved by My Father and will have Me revealed to him. If you want to know His full stature, He will reveal it only to commandment keepers. He will not reveal His sixtyfold, let alone His hundredfold, to those who claim Him as Savior but will not keep the Father's commandments. And notice that He calls them "my commandments," though they are the Father's commandments. When you get into the third door, there is no more separation. The Father becomes "all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28). You become so one with the Father that His commandments become your commandments. That is "the unity of the faith." That is also why you need not be confused when people argue over who will rule in the Millennium, YAHSHUA or YAHWEH. There is a headship unity in which, when you see the Son, you see the Father. When you see the sons, you see the Father. You won't have to look for the Father; He will be in His sons. That must be your goal: headship unity. We Will Make Our Abode "Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: 57 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him." — John 14:22–23 See how He binds it all together. In one verse, I will come to you. In another, the Father will send the Comforter. Now: We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. They can no longer be separated. Abode. It is the same Greek word, monē, that was translated "mansions" in verse 2. There are your dwelling places. There is your mansion. In My Father's family there are many abiding places, and YAHSHUA went away to make room for the Spirit that was in Him to come and dwell inside of you. If you are in a church that is still teaching you about mansions in heaven, come out of her. They are robbing you of the crown of life that is waiting for the overcomer. * * * The Eastern Gate Now come back to the gate of the court. Chapter 3 showed its colors. But the curtain was not merely dyed; it was "wrought with needlework" (Exodus 27:16). Unlike the linen of the walls, which only had to be twisted, this curtain had to be pierced again and again with the needle. The needlework represents the piercing, the suffering, the humiliation and the affliction of the One who is the Door. And YAHWEH placed that gate on the eastern side of the Tabernacle. That is why there is an Eastern Gate in Jerusalem to this day. Why the east? Because that is where the sun rises. Every morning the rising sun would shine through the blue, purple and scarlet of that curtain. Every morning Israel would see the Door lit up by the dawn, pointing to the coming Son: "Unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings" (Malachi 4:2). It told Israel the Son was rising. He would come on the fourth day, in the four-thousandth year, as Chapter 13 explains. Ever-Increasing Light The east also promised us an ever-increasing light. And when we look at the Seventh Temple that you and I are part of, we must understand that there will always be an ever-increasing light. Most Messianic congregations, and churches like the Worldwide Church of God, the United Church of God and their offshoots, are still teaching essentially the same things they taught fifty years ago: the Sabbath day and the holy days. There is no fresh revelation in them. Why? Because they do not understand the principle of ever-increasing light. The Seventh Temple must be willing to walk in an ever-increasing light. Here is what that means: the things you believed yesterday will need adjusting tomorrow. You walk out to the sundial at one moment on your spiritual journey and everything lines up perfectly. I've got this figured out! Then you walk out ten minutes later, and the light has moved. 58 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Now you have to adjust a little more. Walking in ever-increasing light means constant adjustment. It is not comfortable, and religious people cannot do it. If you attend a church with its articles of faith painted on the wall, you are in an outdated church. That church's expiration date was the day it wrote its creed, because in the Seventh Temple the light is ever increasing. We must learn to love doctrinal adjustment. It is not a sign of weakness; it is a sign of strength. A true Nazarite learns to love the ever-increasing light that shines through the Eastern Gate of this Temple. * * * The Wide Gate "And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits." — Exodus 38:18 Consider how unusually proportioned that gate is: twenty cubits long and only five high. Why so long? Because it is the main feature. It had to be wide enough for all to come through. The white linen of the saints around it is not the main feature. The main feature is the firstborn Son of YAHWEH. Uniquely Begotten Here is what I consider one of the most misleading renderings in your Bible. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." — John 3:16 The problem is the phrase "only begotten." The Greek word is monogenēs, and many scholars now recognize that it does not mean "the only one ever begotten." It means one of a kind, unique. Some translations have corrected it. Satan would love for you to believe that YAHSHUA is the only begotten Son of YAHWEH. He is not the only begotten Son. He is the uniquely begotten Son. He was uniquely born: YAHWEH supernaturally arranged it by His Spirit, so that the seed of David was formed in Miriam's womb without the union of a man and a woman. That is what made His birth unique. But He is not the only begotten son, because you are also begotten sons of YAHWEH. You have been begotten by the Word: "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." — James 1:18 Paul said, "I have begotten you through the gospel" (1 Corinthians 4:15). We are all begotten by the seed, the sperma, of the Word of YAHWEH, just as YAHSHUA was. We were not begotten in a human womb, but in the womb of the assembly. He was unique in His birth. He was not unique in being a begotten son. 59 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Look at those white linen curtains around the Tabernacle: all the sons of YAHWEH. In the center is the uniquely born Son. But Satan wants you to believe YAHWEH has only one begotten Son, because that robs you of your destiny. He has used "the pen of the scribes" (Jeremiah 8:8) to accomplish it. People love to throw that verse at me when I teach on sonship: Jesus is the only begotten Son of God! No. He is the monogenēs, the uniquely born Son of YAHWEH. Many Called, Few Chosen The door of the Holy Place and the veil before the Most Holy Place were each ten cubits by ten, a perfect square, a symbol of perfection. But the gate of the court was wider than any other entrance, wide enough for all Israel to enter. The width of that gate shows that YAHWEH makes His grace available to many. "For many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14). Look at the first door: wide. That is the many. Now go to the third door: narrow. That is the few. The door is wide for the many, and few come through the third. And notice that to enter the court, you had to pass beneath the hanging. You had to bow low. You had to humble yourself to come in. The Camp of the Twelve Tribes Now consider what surrounded that Tabernacle in the wilderness. Not one Gentile. Only the twelve tribes of Israel, camped around it on every side, guarding it (Numbers 2). The same arrangement appears at the back of the Book: "And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel." — Revelation 21:12 The New Jerusalem! The city is the Most Holy Place, the third door. And there are twelve gates into the city, and on each gate is the name of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Your Bible repeats itself from Genesis to Revelation. The only way into the Most Holy Place is to come into the twelve tribes of Israel. You cannot enter as a Gentile. You must join yourself to Israel. That was in the Tabernacle, and that is why, if you do not understand the Old Testament, you cannot understand the New. And who was camped at the Eastern Gate? The tribe of Judah (Numbers 2:3), the Jewish people. Judah means praise, and YAHSHUA came from that tribe. Paul wrote, "to the Jew first" (Romans 1:16). There it is. The sun rose on Judah first. The Jewish people received the first sunlight. But the first shall be last. The other tribes will come in first, and Judah will come in last. * * * The Brazen Altar The first thing that meets us inside the gate is the brazen altar. 60 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it." — Exodus 27:1–8 YAHWEH is very specific, and He leaves no room for guessing. I don't want you to see only an altar. Ask the Father to show you how this altar stands in the Seventh Temple, and in you. The first thing you must build on your journey to the third door is this altar. It is the altar of sacrifice and surrender; the golden altar of prayer waits in Chapter 8. Yet the two belong together. Prayer is the key that unlocks all three doors. If you do not become a praying people, you will not be a staying people. Thirtyfold, Outer Darkness, Outside the City There are only two pieces of furniture in the outer court: an altar and a wash basin, the laver. You have not yet entered the Holy Place or the Most Holy Place. Until you master these two pieces, you are not yet involved in heavenly things. The number here is thirty. Sixty is in the next room. This is the thirtyfold court, the outer darkness Chapter 1 described, and this is outside the city. Where is the city of Elohim in this picture? Beyond the third door. What does "city" mean? It is where someone lives. YAHWEH does not live in the outer court. He certainly does not live outside it. He does not even live in the sixtyfold. He lives in the city of Elohim, and the city of Elohim is beyond the third door, where only the Zadokite priests, the Nazarites, may enter. The Altar Where It Begins But don't be discouraged. I'm not there. I don't feel that unity with the Father. That's all right. You have to start somewhere, and you are looking at where you start. This altar is the first sermon you ever heard about YAHSHUA dying for your sins, the one that pricked your heart. This altar is the moment the preacher asked whether you would give your life to Messiah, and you said yes, and you came and threw yourself upon it. That was the beginning of an arduous journey. The problem is that this is as far as they brought you. When you reached that altar, they handed you a ticket to heaven and said, Congratulations, you've arrived. And that is why so many will not rule and reign with Messiah: they believed that lie, and the ones who told it had inherited it themselves. In these pages you are being delivered from it. 61 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE This altar is where you fell in love with YAHSHUA, the moment you heard of His death and His love for you, and it pierced your heart. And foolish is the man who belittles that altar. We do not belittle it. We love that altar so much that we will not embarrass it by staying at it. We will follow wherever that altar is leading us. Bound to the Horns Here an offering was brought for sin and accepted by the priesthood. If you had lived in that day, you would have brought an animal and handed it to the priest. He would take your hands and lay them on that animal's head, and you would transfer your sin to it (Leviticus 1:4). Then the priest would take the animal to the altar. Consider the four horns on that altar. To sacrifice that animal, the priest had to keep it from moving. So he would take a rope, tie the hind legs and the forelegs, and bind the animal to the horns of the altar, so that it would not run away when the fire got hot. "Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of the altar." — Psalm 118:27 The old saints used to say, Get hold of the horns of the altar. It means quit trying to jump off. The first thing you will go through in your walk with YAHWEH is the jumping on and jumping off. You think you want to give in, until it is time to. But the old saints used to say, Stay on the altar. Those four horns will keep you in position. That animal had to be bound because they were about to take a knife and slay it upon the altar. And when you make up your mind and say, YAHWEH, put me on the altar, all your running will be taken from you. When YAHWEH is trying to kill you, you will not run away. When YAHWEH ties you to the horns of the altar, you can run, but you can't hide. Every reader must reach the same decision: I'm tired of running. I want to surrender. Your first experience with YAHWEH is total surrender at the altar. The Fire of Judgment After the animal was slain, it was burned on that altar. See that picture of the dead lamb in the fire. That was YAHSHUA. That was the fire of YAHWEH's judgment. Everything about this altar was covered in brass. Brass is the metal of judgment, and judgment begins in the family of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA was placed on that altar and consumed. Now look at it one more time. That is you. You are following in the path of your Elder Brother. He said, I have shown you the way. I am the way. Follow Me. I laid My life down on that altar. I accepted the judgment of YAHWEH until I was consumed. A sacrifice is worth nothing until it has been consumed: until you become YAHWEH's barbecue, you aren't worth eating. That is why you come to Passover every year, to crawl back up on that altar. You are those red worms taking on the blue of heaven, being turned into something wonderful. And there is no way to it without the burning. Look at that picture and ask yourself, Is that what my life looks like? "Take up your cross, and follow me" (Mark 10:21). 62 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE My growth into the full stature of the Son of YAHWEH begins with my death. If I am going to become Him, I can no longer be me. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me" (Galatians 2:20). This is where my first love is found: the redemption of the sacrifice of Messiah. The altar was made of acacia wood, but it was overlaid with brass. It is a type of our Messiah, who at His very base was human, but who was overlaid with the judgment of YAHWEH and clothed with a heavenly nature. And it was foursquare, presenting the full breadth of one side to every quarter of the earth. The New Jerusalem is foursquare too: "And the city lieth foursquare" (Revelation 21:16). The Tabernacle is the Seventh Temple. Everything is the same in the Book of Revelation. You must measure up to the foursquare. Four is the number of the earth. Four sides gather everything in. This altar was for all mankind. "The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof" (Psalm 24:1). Everything in that earth is His. I'm sorry the Christian Church taught you that He was going to lose most of it, that it was all going to hell. The Lake of Fire Is in the Tabernacle The "hell" the Church fears stands in the court itself. The brazen altar is the Lake of Fire. Your church simply never knew it. Every man is going into the judgment of YAHWEH. YAHSHUA went into it. You are going into it first, and then all mankind will be cast into the Lake of Fire, to be purged of their rebellion. The Bible repeats itself perfectly: the Lake of Fire was in the Tabernacle. But where does it begin? In the family of YAHWEH. "Judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17). Judgment is the Lake of Fire, and yes, everyone is going in, even YAHSHUA. If you are stripped naked, with a spear piercing your side, you have been thrown into the Lake of Fire. Carnal minds teach you about some physical lake that men are thrown into. Study your Tabernacle, and you will find the Lake of Fire every human being on earth must pass through. So all the trials we go through, all the times we do wrong and then find ourselves corrected, are that judgment. It is the fire turned up seven times hotter (Daniel 3:19), hotter and hotter, to see whether you will jump out of it. Many have jumped out of that fire. You cannot run while YAHWEH is breaking you, because if you do, you will only be thrown back in, seven times hotter, until your rebellion is gone. Judgment begins in the house of YAHWEH. He wants to burn it out of you. Quit running from judgment. Grab hold of it and say, Burn it out of me, Father! I smell a little rebellion in me. Get it out! If you do, you will start making your way to the second door. Understand what this message is. This message is not the Sabbath day. The United Church of God teaches the Sabbath, and a host of other churches do too. This message is not even the coming Kingdom. The Jehovah's Witnesses teach that. This message is the way into the Kingdom. It is the narrow path. It is the breaking of rebellion in our hearts and minds. This message is not a pile of 63 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE knowledge. It is a pile of breaking, so that we can rule and reign with YAHSHUA in the coming Kingdom of YAHWEH. Breadth, Length and Height of the Altar "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." — Ephesians 3:16–19 That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Many were taught that only Jesus could have the fullness of God, that He was the only begotten Son and only He could do that. Yet this verse says I can have the fullness. But there is a prerequisite, and it is in the verse before. I must know the breadth, length, depth and height. There are the dimensions of the altar: five cubits long, five cubits broad, three cubits high. You have to know the breadth, the length and the height of the altar. And "know" in Scripture means to experience. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived" (Genesis 4:1). He did not merely know about her. If you want to know the fullness of YAHWEH, you must first experience the altar. And what is the love of Messiah? "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends" (John 15:13). He laid down His life, and He reached the fullness. He reached the third door. You must experience the breadth and depth of the burning. If you will accept the crucifixion, you will walk in authority. Everybody wants to get to the glory without dying on the altar. The Fire Shall Never Go Out "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." — Leviticus 6:13 That is some of our problem. We let the fire go in and out. Many ask when the burning ends, when they get a break, when the suffering is over. It does not end. If you want a break, you are not like Messiah. The fire never goes out, because right when you think you have arrived, you notice something ugly sneak out of your character. And here is the problem with so many of us. You left Pentecost on fire, and now you are right back where you were. You have a fire that goes in and out. That is why you can't burn up. But if you take hold of the horns of the altar and let Him tie you down, it won't be long before nobody recognizes you. You will be dead, truly dead to the old man. As the altar of burnt offering consumed whatever was laid upon it, it points to the absolute devotedness of Messiah to His Father's will. I don't think I will ever be perfect. You won't, by yourself. But the fire is perfect. When something sneaks out of your character that you know is not right, don't despair. It won't last long. You'll be repenting to somebody quickly. It is not you that has to be perfect; it is the fire. Anything laid on that altar burns up. Your job is to stay on the altar. 64 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy." — Exodus 29:37 I don't think I can be holy. You don't have to be. The fire is holy. Every day things will pop up in your life that are not holy. Stay on the altar. If your life is on the altar, whatever rises up will be burned, and even unholy things will be made holy, because they have touched the altar. YAHSHUA said it Himself: "Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?" — Matthew 23:19 The altar is greater. It sanctifies the gift. Beloved, your perfection is not in yourself. Stay on the altar, and whatever touches it will be made holy. Fire From Before YAHWEH Consider how that fire started. "And there came a fire out from before the LORD, and consumed upon the altar the burnt offering and the fat: which when all the people saw, they shouted, and fell on their faces." — Leviticus 9:24 The fire started supernaturally. And it will start supernaturally in your life the moment you tie yourself to the altar. They shouted and fell on their faces. When does supernatural fire come into the Seventh Temple, and into your life personally? Every time another lamb is laid on the altar. Every time someone surrenders, a supernatural fire comes out from the Presence of YAHWEH and begins a continual consuming. When you lay your life down at Passover every year, you are asking for that divine fire never to go out. Those who do not come to Passover are not laying their lives down continually. Miss a Passover, and it won't be long before there is no fire left in your life. But lay yourself down, and the fire starts, and it keeps consuming you. He Humbled Himself "And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." — Philippians 2:8 If YAHSHUA was God in the flesh, born already perfect, why did He have to humble Himself? Because He was a man, and every man must humble himself. And why did He have to become obedient? You cannot become what you already are. As Chapter 3 showed, He was a man who had to humble Himself and become obedient, all the way to death. I am not adding anything that is not written there. Everyone who is going to die will have to humble himself too. He said, I have shown you the way. I am the Way. Watch how I did it: I humbled Myself, I became obedient, and I died. You want to get to the third door? There is the way. * * * 65 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Laver Once you are on the altar, the next piece of furniture in the outer court is the brazen laver. "Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein. For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat: when they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD: so they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations." — Exodus 30:18–21 Acts 2:38 in the Tabernacle This is why I laugh when people tell me water baptism is not necessary. The only way a person could say that is if he does not know the Tabernacle. Look at these two pieces of furniture without my saying a word, and tell me what naturally follows repentance. Baptism. There is your next step. "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." — Acts 2:38 What you are looking at in the outer court is Acts 2:38. Go to the brazen altar: repent. Then go to the laver: be baptized. And "the gift of the Holy Ghost"? It is received as you come up out of that water, the earnest that will carry you on, beyond the doors. It is so simple and so plain, and yet the Church wants to argue about whether you must be baptized. You laid your sins on the altar, but now you have to go and wash them away at the laver. You got all smutty on that altar. When you climb off it, you still smell like smoke and ash. The washing away of sin is at the laver. "Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins" (Acts 22:16). Now I am going to say something that makes people angry. It is not the blood of YAHSHUA that washes away your sins. The blood of YAHSHUA seals the New Covenant. And part of the New Covenant is that you must be baptized for the washing away of those sins, because when you go down into that water in faith, they are washed away in faith. He said the blood isn't enough! This is not my claim; the Tabernacle makes it. The blood was shed before the sacrifice was ever burned. The judgment of YAHWEH was the burning. And in your own life, when you say, I am laying down my life, you prove it in the waters of baptism. Yet baptism is not the end of the journey either. There is a place where baptism isn't enough. "For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet... that they die not... a statute for ever." That is every tradition we keep on Passover night. We do it every year: the lambs come, we lay down our lives, we wash our hands and we wash our feet. That is why YAHSHUA said to Peter, "If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me" (John 13:8). He is the High Priest, and this washing is for priests. 66 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Baptism Is for Priests Now understand who the laver was for. "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." — Exodus 19:6 Originally all of Israel was called to be a kingdom of priests. But in the wilderness, only Aaron's sons became priests, and priests had access to YAHWEH. In the shadow, the laver was not for all Israel. Israel was not about to go beyond the veil. Only the priests were about to go into the next level with YAHWEH: the Nazarites, the Zadokites. But in Messiah the call to be a kingdom of priests is restored, and now the laver stands in the path of every man who would return to the covenant. So hear it plainly: you cannot return to the covenant without baptism. The altar is where the journey begins, but covenant return is through the laver: "Repent, and be baptized" (Acts 2:38); "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved" (Mark 16:16). Many went to the altar and stayed there, and they never came into the covenant. And there is a people who want to be priests unto YAHWEH; they will go through baptism, because to reach the next door you must be baptized. And yet being baptized is no guarantee that you will open the next veil and go any further. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." — 1 Peter 2:9 There is a people being called out of darkness into His marvelous light. Where is the darkness? The outer court. And where is the marvelous light? The Holy Place, where the menorah burns, the second door. YAHWEH says, I am calling a kingdom of priests, Nazarites, out of the darkness of the outer court into door number two. The only people who need to wash their hands and feet are those about to handle holy things, those about to walk into that place. They have been baptized, and now they have to wash their hands and their feet, because they are about to be called into a marvelous light. When they open that curtain, they will say, Whoa! It was dark outside, but it's so bright in here! We grew up being taught that the priests washed their hands and feet in order to be saved. No. That daily washing is not the door of the covenant; the water of baptism is. These are people already in covenant and about to enter in. You can come through the altar and the laver and go to your grave having never left the outer court. But there is a kingdom of priests being called out of the darkness, inside, into the marvelous light. The Laver of Mirrors "And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation." — Exodus 38:8 The brazen laver was made from mirrors. When you looked down into its water, you saw yourself. It was a place of self-scrutiny, of washing away what you saw in the mirror. "But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 67 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." — James 1:22–25 When you come to the water of the Word, it is time to look at yourself. No one is required to go any further than the court. To be part of Israel you had to bring a sacrifice, a lamb, and YAHSHUA brought that Lamb. Faith in that Lamb brings you to the altar, and the altar sends you to the water; that is how you return to the covenant. But if you do not want to be purified, to wash and to put away the filth of the flesh, what good did the altar do you? Now you see why you must keep coming back to the Word. When the Word is preached, you will look into it and see what kind of person you are, and you won't like it. So you will walk away from it and forget the rebellion in your heart. But if you keep coming back daily to the Word, which is the water, you will remember what kind of man you are, and the Word will wash it away. He who keeps looking into the Word, the law, the Torah, will keep seeing someone he doesn't like, and he will keep washing until he sees YAHSHUA in himself. A Daily Trip to the Water "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." — Ephesians 5:25–27 Be careful that you don't have only a carnal understanding of baptism. That first trip to the water is not the end. You must now take a daily trip to the Word, continually washing away your sins. Here is a secret: the only way you will stay on the altar is if you stay at the laver. The two work together to keep you on the altar. When you hear me say something you don't like, you may get a little angry. But if you open the Word, you will have to say, That man gets on my nerves, but there it is, in the Word. I will become your worst enemy, though it is not me; it is the Word I preach. And at the same time I will become your best friend, because you will know you have heard the truth. You will stare at it until you burn up. That is why we wash our hands and feet at Passover every year as an annual reminder. Only those who desire to be priests understand what we do that night. We may look clean, but how do we look when we gaze into the laver of the Word every day? Why were the priests told they must wash at the laver? "That they die not." They would die if they did not come to that laver. Priests, you will die if you do not come to this Word every day. Listen to the preaching of the Word every single day. The priests die if they don't come back to the water, and the water is being poured out for you. After your prayer time, on your way to work and on your way home: one a day. That is my prescription for sick saints. Feed where the water is pure, and bring the tithes into the storehouse, "that there may be meat in mine house" (Malachi 3:10). Self-judgment belongs at the laver too. As Chapter 1 showed from 1 Corinthians 11:31, if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged, and Paul ties sickness among the saints to the judgment that comes when we will not judge ourselves (1 Corinthians 11:30–32). 68 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE * * * Night in the Outer Court You cannot stay in the outer court. It is out here that there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. Why? Because of what happens at night. At night there are no sacrifices on the altar, so the fire burns low; it is the sacrifice that makes the fire blaze. Through the night they only keep the embers going. And it gets very dark outside in the wilderness. There is light only inside, in the city. The covered sanctuary is the city of Elohim. Out here is outside the city. If you want light at night, you have to go inside, because the menorah is always burning. Here is what is going to happen to everyone who has experienced repentance and water baptism: you are going to hear a call from the curtain. It is the Nazarite call, the Zadokite call, the sixtyfold and hundredfold call. It will come to you from the curtain: "Come out from among them, and be ye separate" (2 Corinthians 6:17). And how will you know it is time to go to the next level? YAHWEH turns the lights out. The outer court no longer satisfies, and what had been so bright becomes spiritual darkness, until you are desperately seeking a greater light. Light Inside the City In the days of the Tabernacle of Moses and the Temple of Solomon, each evening when the sun set, the outer court became a realm of darkness. There was no light except inside the city. Inside the Most Holy Place, you could not tell whether the sun was up outside. That is the city that has "no need of the sun" (Revelation 21:23), and Chapter 10 opens that people of light in full. What is that light? Truth. When you are walking in truth and your car breaks down, there is still light. When your money runs out, you don't even notice the sun went down, because you are walking in a truth that says, I am your Provider. You are walking in a revelation of truth that is not affected by weather, by sunshine or by darkness. Only those still in the outer-court salvation experience are tossed by every up and down, by sickness and by health. But inside the Temple, even when you are sick, you are whole. Even on your deathbed, you are alive. My world is falling apart! Not inside the Temple. That only happens outside. Inside, the covering of skins (Chapter 7) blocks out the world, and you simply walk in that beautiful light of truth. * * * Go On Unto Perfection The sun is setting on the tired old age of Pentecost, the age in which the assembly of Messiah has dwelt in the outer court for nearly two thousand years. We stopped there and lingered there, milling around, repeating over and over the same outward expressions of our faith. But the Word says: "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of 69 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." — Hebrews 6:1–2 Repentance is the altar. Baptism is the laver; that is in the outer court. And the laying on of hands? At the altar they laid their hands on the animals. Everything on that list is outer-court furniture. The outer court holds only two vessels, and both are about death and cleansing. At the altar you lay your life down and stay bound to the horns while the fire does what you cannot. At the laver you see yourself in the mirror of the Word and wash, not once but daily. And the Father's house, the many abiding places YAHSHUA went away to make room for, lies beyond both, behind the third door. Honor the outer-court furniture, and do not stay there. Quit celebrating the day you accepted Messiah as your Savior. "Go on unto perfection." Go beyond the veil. Quit talking about the elementary things. Find a ministry that will stand at the curtain and say, Yes, you can get by with a lot of things out there, but come on in. The altar has had its fire. The laver has had its water. Now the light of the menorah is calling from behind the curtain. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 70 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER FIVE Golden Boards on a Foundation of Redemption Step through the door of the Tabernacle and the brass is gone. Everything is silver and gold. The walls of this house are forty-eight boards of acacia wood overlaid with gold, set so close that, as the old tradition put it, not a straw could slip between them, and every board stands on sockets of silver. Those boards are the saints who have already passed through judgment in the court. The wood is still there, but the gold has covered it, and the whole house stands on redemption. This chapter shows how wooden people become golden walls. To see the walls, first see what lies outside them. As Chapter 1 showed, outer darkness is the outer court: when the sun went down over that dark wilderness, there was no light in the court until you came inside the city, and the city is the Tabernacle itself, not the court. Outside the linen of the court lies the camp, where the people lived. That camp points to something in the Book of Revelation, because the entire plan of YAHWEH for everything is hidden in this Tabernacle. * * * The City and the Nations of the Saved As Chapter 4 showed, the city of Revelation 21:23 has "no need of the sun" because the covered sanctuary is lit from within, and Chapter 10 opens that light in full. The earth abides forever (Ecclesiastes 1:4); this age will end, but there will be a sun and a moon. The Bible only says there is no need for them inside the city. Those who teach Revelation without the Torah misread it. The Torah is the seedbed of the entire Bible. If you walk into a garden and the tomatoes are not doing well, don't think you can fix the problem in the fruit. The problem is in the ground. When you misread Revelation, the problem is in the soil: you have never studied the Torah. Read the Torah first, and the next verse finally makes sense: "And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it." — Revelation 21:24 The nations of them which are saved. Most of us once believed there were only two groups of people, saved and lost, bound for heaven or for hell. Now we come to a verse that says there are people inside the city and people outside the city, and they are all saved. Few teachers can explain that verse, but the Tabernacle can. How can there be nations of saved people who are not in the New Jerusalem? Because when you are saved, you become part of a new 71 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE nation. But you do not become part of the Bride of Messiah just because you are saved. That is where the Church drops the ball. Look at the picture again. The nations of the saved are the camp, outside the city. Inside the court you have the thirtyfold believers. Outside, all around, you have the camp, the nations of the saved spread all over the world. They will bow their knee to YAHSHUA and confess Him. But they are not in the first-resurrection company of saints. Neither are the thirtyfold of the court or the sixtyfold of the Holy Place; the first resurrection belongs to the hundredfold who go through the veil. The camp will be saved during the Millennium, but they will not be part of the company you have been called to make up. So there are three groups: •The camp: the nations of the saved, who come to salvation in the Millennial reign; •The court: the thirtyfold believers who never entered the sixty- and hundredfold company of the priesthood; •The city: the house itself, the Holy Place where the priesthood is trained and the Most Holy Place where the hundredfold, the Bride, the priests and kings, reign with Him. You grew up hearing about an end-time revival. It is better than what they told you. There is coming a worldwide revival, and the evangelist will be YAHSHUA Himself. He will preach that revival in the Millennial reign, and every knee will bow and every tongue will confess. The camp around the Tabernacle is the greatest tent revival the world will ever see. * * * The Simple Gospel "Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment." — Hebrews 6:1–2 Those who leave the outer court often hear the same advice: Keep the gospel simple. You're overcomplicating it. Jesus loves me, this I know. Get baptized, receive the Holy Ghost, have a good day. That is what modern Christianity offers: a simple gospel. And it sounds great. But that simple gospel is represented in this picture by the two pieces of furniture outside the Tabernacle: the brazen altar, the death of Messiah (and we preach it), and the laver, water baptism. So when the Church uses code words like keep it simple, what it is really telling you is stay outside. Now you may understand why the Bible says Satan has transformed himself into a preacher: "And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness." — 2 Corinthians 11:14–15 72 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Satan's job description is that of a church leader: a messenger, a preacher of light. He does not preach the true gospel but the simple gospel, every week, and with it he keeps the saints outside the city. But Paul gives us a commandment: "Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ." It is time to leave the brazen altar. The brazen altar is that "doctrine of Christ." People who see that we never stop at the cross ask, Do you even believe in Jesus? Of course we believe in Him. That is the brazen altar. But I have a commandment: once I have learned of His sacrifice, His death, burial and resurrection, it is time to get up and go on. The same is true of water baptism. We believe in baptism. But we are not going to drown you in the water and leave you down there. We are going to pull you up out of that water and say, "All right. Now leave it, and let's go on unto perfection." And perfection is beyond the second door. "Not laying again the foundation." Quit going back to the simple gospel. The reason you are not going on unto perfection is that you have placed your faith in the foundation and never built on it. Paul's command is to stop relaying the foundation and build on it: from Mount Calvary to Mount Zion, from the blood to the battle, beyond water baptism and speaking in tongues. We are not belittling any of those things. When your child reaches high school and starts taking algebra, have you belittled addition and subtraction? No, you have simply moved on. Imagine someone walking into the algebra class to say, You ought to just teach him one plus one; that's what matters. You're belittling the cross! We are magnifying the cross by moving on into what the cross accomplished for us. People cling to the cross as if they were honoring it, when the truth is they are simply too frightened to get up and move on from it. Moving On Even from Judgment As Chapter 4 showed, everything on Paul's list is outer-court furniture: repentance and faith at the brazen altar; baptisms at the laver; the laying on of hands at the altar, where hands were laid on the goat to transfer the sin of the people, there at Calvary; the resurrection of the dead; and eternal judgment, which begins right there at the brazen altar. The last item is the surprise. Paul says it is time to move on from judgment. There is going to be a group of people on planet Earth who will not stand before the judgment seat, because they have already moved on from judgment. The great white throne judgment is not for the first-resurrection saints. As the section "Already Judged" shows, those saints have already been judged, out in the outer court. They went through the judgment there. "And this will we do, if God permit." — Hebrews 6:3 Why would Paul give us a command to move on, and then add, if YAHWEH permits? Because the only people who can pass through the veil into the next court are those who have passed through judgment, and YAHWEH determines to whom He opens the veil. * * * 73 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE From Brass to Silver to Gold That next curtain can only be opened by the High Priest, and only those who have been judged in the outer court are admitted into the secrets of the society that lives inside the city of Elohim. Here is a glimpse inside the city. Once you leave your over-excitement about the cross and baptism, a new light appears that leaves all of that behind you. Everything in the outer court, the brazen laver and the brazen altar, was made of brass, and brass represents judgment. That is why Moses set up a brass serpent on a pole (Chapter 1), to show that the serpent had already been judged. But the moment you walk inside the Tabernacle, there is no more brass. Everything is silver and gold. When you move into the Tabernacle, you leave judgment behind you. You have already been judged worthy to enter. That answers a question many readers ask: Why don't my family and friends see this message? They are still under judgment. They have not yet been admitted into that sacred space where the light of truth is shining. That curtain is opened only to those who are willing to leave the cross and their baptism behind and say, All of this is becoming outer darkness to me. It is no longer my joy. There must be more! And the minute you cry out for more, someone opens the door and lets you in: YAHSHUA Himself, the High Priest. He is the Word. What opens the curtain into the realms of silver and gold? Your hunger for more. "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled" (Matthew 5:6). Outside was your flesh, your animal nature. That is why you brought your animal to the altar. What you laid down at the altar was your old self, that old animal. Then you went into the water, for the remission of sins, and washed the animal off of you. Then you came under the judgment of the Word, stood at the door and cried out for more, and you were allowed to enter. Inside, a new nature is formed: a silver nature that will eventually become a golden one. Out in the court you had a brass nature, a very stubborn nature. When you come inside, you move into the silver and the gold, the divine nature: •Brass is thirty. •Silver is sixty. •Gold is a hundred. * * * The Walls of the City There is something in this room you have probably never noticed. It is not the lampstand, the showbread, the altar of incense or even the Most Holy Place. Our eyes always go to the furniture. It is the walls. 74 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Look at those wooden walls, and you may understand why the New Jerusalem is surrounded by walls. None of the other things would be available to us without these walls. Notice how specific YAHWEH was: "And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons. And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards, and their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. And two boards made he for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides. And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners. And there were eight boards; and their sockets were sixteen sockets of silver, under every board two sockets. And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle for the sides westward. And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other. And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold." — Exodus 36:24–34 Everything is now overlaid with gold. There is no more brass. A new nature. The Linen Became Gold It takes a spiritual mind to understand this: these golden boards were once the linen wrapped around the outer court. The linen around the court was the holiness of the saints. That was you in your brass nature. But once you come into the Tabernacle, the walls of the city have taken on a new nature. They have come a little closer to their destiny and their calling. They are boards overlaid with gold. Beneath that gold, there is still wood. There is still an old nature, still an old man. But it has been so overtaken by the new man that you don't even see the wood anymore. You will never be rid of the wood in this life; the wood will always be under there. But the gold has covered it so completely that nobody sees your wood anymore. The boards were set so close together that, as the old tradition put it, you could not slip a straw between them. Twenty boards on the north side, twenty on the south, six across the back and two corner boards: forty-eight boards in all. Everything about this Tabernacle was perfect. Forty-Eight Boards You know how I love numbers. The only difference between you and a brain surgeon is three things: words, letters and numbers. Someone put into a surgeon's mind a set of words, letters and numbers that were never put into yours, and that is what made him a surgeon. A brilliant surgeon may never become a priest and a king unto YAHWEH. But you can. This chapter puts a set of numbers into your mind that will transform you from a piece of wood into a golden board. Why forty-eight? 75 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Four is the number of the earth. Four corners. North, south, east and west. Winter, spring, summer and fall. Four is the totality of the earth. And unlike what the church you grew up in taught you, the last thing on YAHWEH's mind is a place called heaven. His entire focus is planet Earth, and He proves it in these forty-eight boards. Anyone who is going to be a golden board in this building had better get the earth into his mind. Get the rapture out of your head. Get heaven out of your head. Get flying away out of your head. The only people who will be in the government of the Millennial Kingdom are people who have fallen in love with YAHWEH's plans for the earth. Earth Under Government The problem with Christianity is that it is trying to take us off the earth and hand it over to Satan. That is why Satan loves the Church: it preaches his message. Goodbye, world! We're leaving this place! And Satan says, Please hurry. I'm sick of hearing your voice, your prayers and your truth. The rapture doctrine serves Satan's purpose: it would silence the voice of the sons by removing them from the earth, shutting down the silver trumpets that blow a message of end-time redemption. If you are planning to fly away, you are fulfilling Satan's fantasy. Don't preach it, and don't believe it. Plant your feet on the ground and say, I'm not going anywhere. This is YAHWEH's earth. He gave it to the sons of Adam, and we are about to take back every inch of it in the Millennium. And we are going to bring back every man, every woman, every boy and every girl. "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force." — Matthew 11:12 That is what four represents. Now multiply four by twelve. Twelve is the number of divine government. Take an earthly-minded believer and bring him up to the level of divine government. Take a company of wooden boards that have come under submission to the golden nature, the divine nature. What you have in this building is a government of wooden people overlaid with gold, firmly planted on the earth, ruling and reigning with Messiah. You are looking at the Seventh Temple, the Millennial Temple, the New Jerusalem. Remember the walls of the New Jerusalem, great and high. It is all the same: the walls, the High Priest YAHSHUA, everything. Forty-eight is four times twelve: people of the earth who have become people of heaven. Earthly people overlaid with a heavenly mind. You and I are the boards that bring heaven and earth together, just as YAHSHUA did. YAHSHUA was the golden board that joined the wood to the gold. There is going to be a people who are wooden and yet golden, earthly and yet heavenly, and we will bring those two worlds together. * * * Already Judged How did these boards get into this Temple? They had already been judged by the Word in the outer court. They laid their animal down. They were found worthy to be the boards of the Seventh 76 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Temple. These are the resurrected boards, the sons who have already passed the judgment of the brass in the outer court. You must understand this to see yourself in these boards. "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?" — 1 Peter 4:17 The judgment the world is going to experience, you have already experienced in the outer court. Judgment begins in the family of YAHWEH, and then He begins to transform us. Scripture shows who these boards are: "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." — Revelation 20:4 I saw thrones. The teaching that there is only one throne in heaven is a lie from the pit. And who sits on these thrones? Not YAHSHUA; He has His own throne. The ones who sit on these thrones are the ones already judged in the outer court. Judgment of the whole world is given to those who have already been judged. The Church Must Judge So if you ever sit in a church and hear Satan preaching, Now we don't want to judge anybody; let's not judge, run! Leave that church faster than you walked in. The job of the assembly is to judge itself daily. Judgment begins in the family of YAHWEH, because you and I are going to judge the whole world. How do we get ready to judge, if we have been taught never to judge? But didn't Jesus say, "Judge not"? "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." — Matthew 7:1–2 Read the whole thing. He is saying, Don't think you are going to judge until you have been judged. Do not presume to judge unless you are willing to be judged yourself by the same measure. That means we cannot cut corners and then teach someone else. The assembly must have a judgment among its members that says, Hold on, brother. Hold on, sister. What are you doing? Who is judging you? Most will answer, the Word. The problem is that you see the Word the way you want to see it. The Bible says "every man [did] that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). You need someone outside yourself judging you by the Word, someone who says, Brother, I'm sorry you feel that way, but here is what the Word says. As we do this, we are practicing for the day when judgment will be given to the saints. Judgment will one day be the saints' responsibility. "For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son." — John 5:22 YAHWEH is not going to judge anyone. He gave judgment to the Son. And YAHSHUA is giving that judgment to His brothers, the sons: 77 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters? Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?" — 1 Corinthians 6:2–3 They will be judging the angels too. How do you expect to judge angels when you cannot even set matters straight in the assembly, when you can't get two people who have something against one another to sit down together and work it out? He is saying, Do you think I will give you judgment over the world when you cannot judge among yourselves? We will love you when you come, and we will love you when you leave, but the one thing the assembly cannot tolerate is rebellion. Judgment begins right here. If you are not looking for judgment, you are looking for Christianity. We are not Christians in that sense. We are Israelites. We are Nazarites. Set me straight, brother. Judge me. Beheaded: Refusing the Mark "I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of YAHSHUA, and for the word of YAHWEH, and which had not worshipped the beast." Who are these beheaded saints? Read with a carnal mind, the verse conjures a crowd of people who literally had their heads cut off. You had your head cut off when you refused the mark of the beast. I am one of them. The mark goes on the forehead, in your mind, in your thinking. When you are no longer a Sunday worshiper, you have rejected the mark of the beast. The mark of the beast is about who you have placed your authority in: the pope of Rome, or the Elohim of Israel. You must decide. And once you do, you have beheaded yourself. You have taken your own head off and placed yourself under the Head who is YAHSHUA, and you have rejected the mark for the sake of the Word. I think we can worship any day we want to. What you think and what YAH thinks are miles apart. "And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." Those are the golden boards, the wood fully overlaid, the hundredfold who have gone through the veil. YAHSHUA is the High Priest inside that city, and the boards are ruling and reigning with Him. Four times twelve: people of the earth become people of heaven. * * * No Wedge Between the Boards "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit." — Ephesians 2:19–22 78 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You are no longer islands unto yourselves. Look at those boards. What if they were disconnected from the rest, each one saying, I serve YAHWEH on my own. I don't need fellowship with the saints? No board holds up this Temple alone. Those boards were so connected you couldn't slip a straw between them. The boards are so connected to the gold that no one can pull the wood back out of them. The wood was sacrificed. It was judged. We left it in the waters of baptism. The problem with so many is that they do not want to be connected to the other boards. "In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth." There it is: all the boards fitly joined together. We cannot grow into a Temple, cannot have the lampstand, the showbread and the Most Holy Place, until the boards are first fitly joined. That is why Satan fights so hard: he is trying to drive a wedge between the boards. It has been said that if the wind could get through even an inch between those boards, it would bring the whole building down. When these boards overlook their own hurt feelings, whatever happened to them, and join themselves to the other boards, you will see a Temple grow. Board Beside Board YAHWEH raises up these boards and joins them together under one banner, board beside board, with no cracks between them, and He is joining boards who get over what they don't like, what they don't agree on and what they don't understand. They say, It isn't worth it. I want to be connected to what YAHWEH is doing in the earth. YAHWEH had to break your temple to rebuild the Temple. We are no longer in the old church, and we don't have time for church games or for stopping to ask whether everyone's feelings are hurt. That was the old way, and it is over. Your feelings should be so overlaid with gold that nobody even knows you have hurt feelings. Leave it out in the court. The enemy would love to point out what you don't like about the board next to you, so he can fracture the building. As long as we stay connected, we are undefeatable. Offense Is the Wedge As Chapter 1 showed, the saint must discern and judge himself, and here is what that looks like between the boards. When you are offended, stop right there and say, The critic is in me. Father, show me where the critic in me is, and why I am so critical. There is a reason, and if you sweep it under the carpet, it will come up again. But if you deal with it right then and ask YAHWEH to judge you, He will reveal "the hidden man of the heart" (1 Peter 3:4). You don't always need to go to an elder. You can take care of it before YAHWEH. We are so busy baptizing the outer man that we forget to baptize the hidden man of the heart in the Word. * * * Two Rooms, Two Conditions The Tabernacle building, with its two rooms, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place, represents two conditions of everyone who will undergo the change of nature from human to spirit. 79 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The first room, the Holy Place, represents the condition of the Zadokites and Nazarites in the making, those who have consecrated their human nature to death. That first, larger room is where the great transformation from brass to gold begins. It is the condition of those who have beheaded themselves, who have been begotten of the Spirit. "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." — 2 Peter 1:4 You can be a partaker of the gold by escaping the brass. You have two natures. There is the old nature, the wood, which must come under the judgment of the brass. And there is the new nature, the heavenly mind. How does one go from wood to gold? There are three tools in that first room: the golden lampstand, the table of showbread and the altar of incense. The altar of incense is the subject of Chapters 8 and 9, and the lampstand of Chapter 10. Those three tools have been assigned by YAHWEH to transform you from wood into gold. The people who submit to them are the people of that first room. The second room, the Most Holy Place, behind the third door, is where you have not merely committed to die. It is where you have actually overcome and obtained the divine nature. In the first room you are obtaining it; in the second you have obtained it. What is the difference between you and YAHSHUA? YAHSHUA went beyond the third door and obtained what He sought. That is why He could say, "I and my Father are one." But He learned obedience in that first room, under the ministry of the lampstand, the prayer life of the golden altar and the bread of the Presence, and that is where you are now. Not every believer is spending his life in that first room. Most are too busy being saved at the cross and baptized at the laver. They are so busy in the court that they never come under the ministry of the great threefold cord inside the Holy Place. We spent our whole lives out there too, until we heard the call. Those who go through the third door will be the firstborn sons of YAHWEH, the firstborn from the dead, fully changed in the first resurrection. In the first room you develop the divine mind. In the third room you receive the divine body. And when those two meet, the veil is torn, and there is no more separation. Called to Consecration But understand the age you are living in. You are not in the golden age yet. You have been called, and "many are called" (Matthew 22:14). We always thought that meant called to salvation. The many who are called are called to consecration beyond salvation: to sacrifice their animal to YAHWEH's service in the Tabernacle and inherit their spiritual nature. The many who are called are right there in the outer court. Many of them are called into the inner court, but they are not admitted because they have not yet desired to come in. They have been called to become members of the manifested sons of YAHWEH. Look at the picture once more: 80 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •Passover is outside the door. •Pentecost is inside the door. •Tabernacles is beyond the veil. We are all experiencing Pentecost now, to bring us into Tabernacles. That is the thirty, the sixty and the hundred. This is the algebra of truth: the revelation of the thirty, sixty and hundredfold. Until you know what x equals, until you know what thirty means and what sixty means, you cannot become one of the manifested sons of YAHWEH. It is all hidden in those three numbers. After Pentecost comes the wine and the oil, the unlimited measure, waiting behind the veil. Some of us, like Joshua, are itching to step in. We have tasted it. We are just waiting for the rest of Israel to join us. "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." — 1 Corinthians 2:14 Why don't my friends know this truth? It is impossible for them to know it. The natural mind cannot comprehend it. I cannot comprehend a dog's bark; I don't have a dog's mind. This is given by the Holy Spirit, and you need to accept that. Quit worrying about who isn't getting it. Grab it and never let go. "Buy the truth, and sell it not" (Proverbs 23:23). Pray for all men, and stop fretting over who cannot comprehend it. And understand what it proves: if you are able to comprehend this message, you are not a natural man. You have been spiritually begotten. The Myth of "No Works" The outer court, the outer darkness, is where those who have been justified by faith live. They believe in Messiah, they believe in the cross and they believe in faith and no works. Going beyond the veil is not preaching works. We are going on unto perfection, so that we may experience a change of nature and become new creatures, partakers of the heavenly calling, partakers of the divine nature. Entering the Holy Place proves your full consecration to YAHWEH's service, your begettal by the Spirit and your start in the race for the prize of the third door. Door number one, door number two or door number three: every believer must choose a door. What are the terms of our vow? To crucify the flesh; to lay down our human will as living sacrifices to YAHWEH; to be dead to our own pleasure, our own preferred day and our own honor, and alive to heavenly impulses. That is what happens in the Holy Place. Suddenly everything you had planned for your life, all your dreams, you can't even find them anymore, because all you want is to be joined with the other boards. * * * 81 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Forerunner How do we get into that second room? We come through YAHSHUA the Messiah, who opened the door for us. He is our Pioneer, our Forerunner. So many people do not understand who YAHSHUA is. "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec." — Hebrews 6:19–20 The hope of the soul is to enter within the veil. Our hope is not merely to find Messiah, but to follow Messiah into the veil. He was not given to be our excuse. "Whither the forerunner is for us entered." A forerunner runs ahead. He is the first of the firstfruits, not the only firstfruit. He ran ahead, not to leave us behind, but so that we could come running after Him and follow where He has already gone. It is the race Paul spoke of (1 Corinthians 9:24). So quit saying, YAHSHUA did it all for me. YAHSHUA was the Forerunner. He ran ahead. He is the pattern. He went beyond the veil ahead of you so that He could turn around and say, I am the Way. Come on! It is as if He said: I went to the brazen altar and laid My life down. I was baptized. And now I am seated at the Father's right hand in the Most Holy Place. I am the Forerunner. Come on, and I will show you how to sit on the thrones judging the world. Now read that verse again. Is our anchor the fact that Messiah died, or the fact that He went beyond the veil? "Which entereth into that within the veil." We need hope that we can enter into the veil, and that anchor is our Forerunner. "I am the way" now has a whole new meaning. He is not showing you a cop-out. He is showing you the way in. Two simple words bring this whole study together: "Follow me." He didn't just say, Believe on Me. He didn't just say, Claim that you know Me. He said, Take up your cross, die to yourself at the altar and follow Me. Do what I do, and I will be your Forerunner. I will bring you beyond the veil. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures." — James 1:18 There is a company of people who have not merely been saved; they have been begotten. As Chapter 4 showed, you are not begotten because you believed in Messiah. You are begotten because you believe the word of truth. That is the lampstand (Chapter 10), and that is how you know you have entered the Holy Place. The people who live in the Holy Place are heavenly-minded new creatures. They are still wood, still in the flesh, but they have a new inner life and a new walk with YAHWEH. That first room is the Nazarite court, the veil of consecration, beyond the intellectual sight of this world and of the unconsecrated believers. * * * 82 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Hidden Life of the Holy Place As Chapter 4 showed from John 14, "Where I am, there ye may be also." He is already there, and He moved out of the way so we could come in. Every son in the Holy Place lives a hidden life, and his work is hidden from the world. What YAHWEH is doing in you is for eternity, and He is doing it in secret, in quiet places. That is why you are no longer part of the Babylonian church. People don't know what happened to you. Where did you go? You were drawn into an inner work. The transformation has begun in your life, and it is not for the world to see. Those in the Holy Place enjoy the inner light of the golden lampstand while others sit in outer darkness. And they eat a special food. Now you know what YAHSHUA meant: "But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of... My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work." — John 4:32, 34 He was eating from a table of showbread, food served in secret. Pour that hidden food over your troubles, and they aren't trouble anymore. It comes from a secret place, a food the world knows nothing about. Why do you think He brought you into the wilderness? Nobody can find you in the wilderness. That is the purpose of the wilderness. A true prophet opens the Scriptures and shows you the mysteries of the Word of YAHWEH. He shows you the clean and the unclean (Ezekiel 44:23). Find yourself an inner sanctum, a place where He can feed you with spiritual food, the bread of His Presence, and where you can offer incense at the golden altar. * * * The Silver Beneath the Gold One last question: what is holding up the golden boards? The golden boards hold up the Temple, but something else holds up the boards: the sockets, the foundation of it all. Each board was set into two sockets of silver. Forty-eight boards rest on ninety-six sockets, and four more sockets of silver hold up the pillars of the veil: "And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket." — Exodus 38:27 A hundred sockets of silver. Here is the algebra of truth again: a hundred is the hundredfold. And fifty is the number of Jubilee, the year that sets all men free (Leviticus 25:10). A hundred is two fifties, a double Jubilee, the number of fullness. There is coming a full Jubilee, brought to pass by the boards of this Temple. What holds up this Temple is the redemption of all men, a double Jubilee. A hundred always means fullness. The silver means redemption for all men because silver is the metal of redemption. The silver for these very sockets came from the ransom money every man of Israel paid when he was numbered: 83 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "a ransom for his soul" (Exodus 30:12–16; 38:25–27). As Chapter 6 shows in full, redemption is far more than forgiveness: it buys back what was lost and restores it to its rightful owner and its rightful place. The Sockets Hold Up the Works Our foundation is the act of redemption, by grace. The golden boards are not grace; they are the life being formed in us. But what holds us up is not our works, but our salvation by grace. You can have all the works in the world, but if they are not seated in the free gift of redemption by grace in Messiah YAHSHUA, your board will not stand. Those boards cannot stand without those sockets. Those sockets hold up the works. Your works will not hold up your salvation. Your salvation, your redemption, will hold up your works. We are not saved by works. We are redeemed by the free grace of the silver sockets, and it is that silver grace that holds up the works we add to our salvation. "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." — 1 Corinthians 3:11 YAHSHUA paid the price to redeem all mankind. That is the foundation of this Temple. Everything is built on the foundation of redemption. The Sons of Merari That foundation mattered so much that YAHWEH appointed a family to carry it. "As for the sons of Merari, thou shalt number them after their families, by the house of their fathers; from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old shalt thou number them, every one that entereth into the service, to do the work of the tabernacle of the congregation. And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tabernacle of the congregation; the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and sockets thereof." — Numbers 4:29–31 The Merarites may have had the most important job in all of Israel, even though it looked like the least. They did not carry the Ark of the Covenant. They did not carry the beautiful curtains. Their charge was the boards, the bars, the pillars and the sockets. When the camp set out, they went ahead with the structure, so that when the Ark arrived, the house could be raised and the silver sockets laid in place for it (Numbers 10:17, 21). These were the lowliest jobs in the Tabernacle, and yet the entire ministry rested on the Merarites. The entire ministry rests on the skeleton crew. Nobody sees their work. They get no credit. They don't sit on the platform, and their voices aren't heard. Nobody sees what you do. You are the Merarites. You are laying the silver sockets of this great work. Lose any desire for the face people see and the voice people hear; the Merarite is just as much a part of this work. These Merarites are the very foundation of this work. Every Merarite deserves honor, and YAHWEH sees what no congregation does. 84 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE * * * Take Your Place in the House So stand back and look at the house. Outside is the camp, the nations of the saved, waiting for the great revival of the Millennium. Inside the linen is the court, the brass, where the thirtyfold were judged. And inside the curtains is the city: forty-eight boards of wood overlaid with gold, the earth brought under heavenly government, standing so close together that not a straw or a termite can come between them. Beneath them, a hundred sockets of silver: redemption for all men, a double Jubilee, the grace that holds up every work. You were once linen. YAHWEH intends to make you gold. Leave the brass behind. You have been judged. Cry out for more, and the High Priest will open the curtain. Get the rapture out of your head and the earth into your heart. Let the gold cover the wood until no one sees it anymore. Join yourself to the other boards. And stand on the silver. Inside that first room, three tools are waiting to change you from wood to gold: the altar of incense (Chapters 8 and 9), the lampstand (Chapter 10) and the table. The Forerunner has gone ahead. Follow Him in. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 85 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER SIX The Silver Message and the Bonds of the House Every golden board in the Tabernacle stood in two sockets of silver, and that silver came from the ransom money every Israelite paid for his soul, rich and poor alike. Chapter 5 showed the boards: wood overlaid with gold, your two natures, the carnal and the heavenly, coming together, just as Chapter 3 showed the crimson worm and the heavenly blue blending into royal purple at the gate. Gold is the divine nature you build. Silver is the redemption you could never buy. This chapter shows why your faith must rest in the silver and not the gold; why redemption is far more than forgiveness; why the Temple must sound a silver trumpet of redemption and not a brass trumpet of condemnation; and what bars hold the whole house together. All through the Tabernacle we are being taught one lesson: you were born with a destiny, and that destiny is neither heaven nor hell. The whole Christian Church believes you were born to wake up for seventy-five years, go to sleep, eat three meals a day, put a little money in the bank and, when it is all over, collect a ticket to heaven or hell. If heaven or hell is the whole purpose of life, the Church has no reason to teach doctrine at all. Why teach the Sabbath, the holy days or the oneness of YAHWEH? Now you see why no church teaches doctrine: they have everybody "saved." Turn on the television and they will proudly tell you, In this church we don't teach doctrine. We teach love. Love is the most misunderstood word in the whole Bible. They have turned love into something perverse. They have made YAHWEH into a doting adult who loves a child and never disciplines him, who calls him onto his lap and gives him candy and never once corrects him. That is not love. "For whom the LORD loveth he chasteneth" (Hebrews 12:6). The purpose of the Tabernacle is to say: you were not born to go to heaven or hell. You were born to be overlaid with gold. We are not trying to get you to an altar to make a decision. We are trying to get you out of the altar to change your lifestyle, to create something in you that was not there before, to overlay your wood with gold. * * * Your Faith Must Be in the Silver The part of the Tabernacle least mentioned is the part beneath everything. Look at the bottom of those golden boards: each board sits in two silver sockets. Would any of that frame stand without those silver sockets, no matter how many works you add to your faith? You can never earn the free gift of grace. There is nothing you can do to make YAHWEH so pleased with you that He hands you salvation. Baptism is not a wage you pay for it; it is the door of 86 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE the covenant He commanded you to walk through. You can't keep the Sabbath into it. Keeping the Sabbath has never saved anybody. Keeping the Sabbath saves no one, and it helps no one who does not stand in these silver sockets. Silver is the metal of redemption. Gold is the metal of the divine nature. Put your whole focus on the golden wall, and it turns you into a Pharisee. Our faith is in the silver, the redemptive work of Messiah. The Ransom Silver Where does the silver come from? The story of the silver itself begins with the ransom: "When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary... Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the LORD. The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls. And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls." — Exodus 30:12–16 Two words stand out in those verses: atonement and the half shekel. And a shekel was made of silver. Atonement and silver go hand in hand. YAHWEH was saying, If you want your soul ransomed, bring silver. And that very ransom silver was melted down and cast into the sockets of the sanctuary (Exodus 38:25–27). Notice also: the rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less. Every man's ransom was the same. No one bought a better foundation than his brother. So when we reach the bottom of the Tabernacle, we already know: you cannot reach the divine nature until your sins have been atoned for, until you have been redeemed. The foundation of everything is the Man YAHSHUA the Messiah and His sacrifice for our sins. Your faith must not be in the good works of the gold. Your faith must be in the foundation. I give the Baptist church a great deal of credit for preaching this silver. The problem is that we need to build a house on top of the foundation. A house must rise on that foundation, the Seventh Temple, and no, it will not be built in Jerusalem. YAHWEH is almost finished building His Seventh Temple, and it looks just like the first: the foundation of salvation by grace, and then the golden walls you add to your faith. The foundation is free, but the walls are built by you. Salvation is not up to you. But when you take the salvation of YAHWEH and let it work in your life, you will begin to see your wood nature overlaid with gold, and that divine nature will grow every day, if your faith is in the silver and not in the gold. 87 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Thirty Pieces of Silver Now you may understand why they could not simply bring YAHSHUA to the cross for the sins of the world. They had to bring thirty pieces of silver with Him. That is why Judas had to betray Him. And I may be the only preacher you know who believes Judas will be redeemed too. When the blindfold came off and Judas realized what he had done, he was so grief-stricken that "he repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver" to the temple (Matthew 27:3–5), and he could not bear to live another day. Somebody had to fulfill that role. We are all on a stage. This life is a drama, and YAHWEH directs every role. Thirty pieces of silver. In the Torah, thirty shekels was the price of a slave (Exodus 21:32). Every one of us was a slave to sin, and YAHWEH purchased us, and He had to do it by the Torah. Everything had to be done according to the Torah. * * * Redemption Is Not Forgiveness We are the silver sockets, the silver trumpets, the silver shekels, so we must understand redemption. Redemption is not forgiveness. We have always thought that we were merely forgiven. The trouble with forgiveness is that it comes and goes. Redemption is the full restoration of what was sold into bondage. If you were a slave under the Torah and were redeemed, it did not mean you were "forgiven." It meant you were restored to the condition you were in before you were sold into slavery. Fully redeemed. Fully restored. The salvation message was not given merely to forgive you. It was given to redeem you. And our problem is that we don't have faith in redemption. We believe we're forgiven, but we have a hard time believing we have been restored to the person we were before we ever committed one sin. Consider the difference. Suppose you were your mother's daughter, living in her mansion, eating from bowls of silver. One day you make Mama angry, and she throws you out. Now you are living in the homeless shelter. You call Mama and tell her you're sorry, and she says, I forgive you. Just don't come home. That is forgiveness. Redemption says, Come home. Go back to your room. Everything is restored. We are not looking for mere forgiveness. The silver sockets are full redemption. Faith in Full Redemption Here is what happens the moment you step into this Torah-observant life. Tomorrow you are going to mess up. And here comes the devil into your mind: If you can't keep all the law, there's no use keeping any of it. Why even try? If you failed in one point, you failed in all of it. Redemption is your foundation. And you will quit building the golden walls if you do not have faith that you are fully redeemed. You will give up on the building, because you keep being dragged back to who you think you still are, a fallen man. 88 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If you have been redeemed by the shed blood of YAHSHUA, there is nothing fallen in you anymore. You are fully redeemed, restored to what Adam was in the Garden of Eden. Put your faith in the foundation. I do not keep the Sabbath to get holy. I have so much faith in the foundation of my holiness that it frees me to keep the Sabbath. When the enemy comes to tell you nothing has changed about you, if you believe him for one second, you have just said, I have no faith in redemption. I have no faith in the silver sockets. But when you know you are redeemed, you can stand tall as a golden wall. Get your foundation right. If you believe in redemption, even when you fail, you cannot fall. No Original Sin A fully redeemed man has the same standing before YAHWEH as Adam had before he sinned. Consider what you were before you committed your first sin. We do not believe in the doctrine called original sin. I know the whole church world believes it. But death came by one man; sin is each man's own. "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned" (Romans 5:12). Death passed on to all; sin is what each one committed. We have been taught that when you are born, you are born a fallen man. You are born with a sentence of death, but until you sin, you are in the condition of an innocent child. That little newborn angel is not a fallen man. He is fully innocent. He carries the sentence of death that rests on all mankind, but he is not guilty of any sin. And when YAHWEH redeems you, He brings you back to that innocent child, before those thoughts ever entered your mind, before you were ever touched by the world. He says, You are innocent before Me. If you do not put your faith in that silver message of redemption, you can never build the golden walls. You Don't Serve Sin No one earns salvation. You earn your rewards in the Kingdom; those are the golden walls. But the silver sockets are free of charge. "Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. For he that is dead is freed from sin." — Romans 6:6–7 Paul writes knowing this: not hoping it, not Maybe that's a good idea. I know it, because I know His Word. How do we know the body of sin has been destroyed? It does not say you will never sin again. It says you will no longer serve sin. The difference between a sinner and a saint is not the absence of sin. It is the presence of repentance. People who serve sin take pleasure in it. People who fall into sin jump out of it as fast as they can. There is something in them saying, Yes, you sinned, but don't serve it. Run from it! There are people who wake up in the bed of a lover, and they stay lying in it. They serve it, and they're glad to be there. There isn't one moment of O Elohim, what have I done? That is the difference in a child of YAHWEH: we run, like Joseph (Genesis 39:12). 89 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life." — Romans 6:22 Free from sin, servants to YAHWEH, and the result is golden walls: fruit unto holiness. And the end of it is everlasting life. When the wind starts blowing, the silver sockets will hold you up. You have to know it every day, deep down: I am redeemed. We used to sing about it in the old church: bought with a price, my whole life changed. Pastor, do you never fail? I fall short of YAHWEH every day, but I am redeemed. I have been bought with a price, and I know it. And because I know it, even when I fail, I keep building those golden walls. My faith is in the socket. Free From Which Law? "For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." — Romans 8:2 We are free from a law, and verse 2 tells you which one: the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death says you must sin and you must die. The law of the Spirit of life says you are free from sin, and you will have everlasting life. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you." — Romans 8:11 The Spirit of Him that raised up YAHSHUA. That is YAHWEH. YAHWEH is the Holy Spirit; there is no Trinity, and Chapter 13 sets out why. Notice that Romans 8:11 is not only about the resurrection. He will quicken your mortal body now. He will make you alive in Messiah so that you are dead to your sins. That is the message we must preach if we are going to be part of this Temple ministry: our foundation as overcomers is faith in our full redemption. Otherwise, all we have is forgiveness. The Quality of the Silver We can only be boards in this Seventh Temple if we know that the quality of the silver is the security of our standing before YAHWEH. This is not fake silver. This is the real thing, pure silver. The old-timers used to say they would drop a silver coin into a jug of milk to keep it from spoiling, because of the quality of the silver. The day you lose faith in what happened for you at the cross is the day your golden board turns into fake gold: strange fire. There will never be a Sabbath you keep outside of that silver socket that is anything more than "sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal" (1 Corinthians 13:1). You have to know you are planted in silver. * * * 90 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Message the Silver Carries The silver carries a message, and the only people who will be boards in the new Temple are those who truly understand redemption and know how to preach it. YAHWEH has a plan for all mankind, and that plan is not what you were taught. Suppose you were Michelangelo, and you had just finished the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, your life's work, your masterpiece. Would you have painted it with the intention of one day ripping it down and burning it up? YAHWEH's greatest creation was mankind and planet Earth. And every church you've ever attended has convinced you that He plans to burn it all up. Earth More Beautiful Than Heaven The earth is more beautiful than heaven. Everybody wants to go to heaven, yet the angels wanted to come to earth. When YAHWEH laid the foundations of the earth, "the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy" (Job 38:7). If heaven were so much more beautiful, wouldn't they have wept at the sight of a lesser creation? YAHWEH made the earth, and He set Lucifer over it as its high governor (Ezekiel 28:13–14). We know that is true because when YAHSHUA was in the wilderness, Satan offered Him the kingdoms of the world, saying, "for that is delivered unto me" (Luke 4:6). The only one who could have delivered it to him is the One who created it. That is why Satan is still "the god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4), and that is why you are never going to win the world in this age: "And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world." — Revelation 12:9 The whole world is deceived. Only those YAHWEH saw through the eyes of election will walk out of that deception in this age. And that brings us to the message of silver. There is a message going to come out of this Seventh Temple, and it must be the message of redemption. It must be a silver message. If you ever want to know why mankind can't hear your message, here it is: you are telling them, Your life is a living hell, you wake up in a living hell every day, and when it's over you're headed to an even worse one. The Bible says YAHWEH "will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth" (1 Timothy 2:4). But that does not happen in this age, and that is what confuses the Christian Church. They are trying to save a world that has no desire to be saved. "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him" (John 6:44). Only those who receive a personal invitation by the Spirit can come. The world will never come, not in this lifetime. If you understand the message of redemption, you will understand why. The Blindfold and the Cliff Suppose I tie a blindfold around your eyes and lead you right to the edge of a cliff. You can't see a thing. And I say, Now walk. You fall off the cliff. Then I climb down after you and beat you to death for falling. You would think I was out of my mind. 91 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is the gospel we have preached. YAHWEH has allowed the whole world to be blinded, and then, so the story goes, He will torture them for all eternity for being blind. The message you have preached has not been a silver message. It has been a rusty message. But this Seventh Temple is going to preach true redemption. Why is there so much evil in the world? To blame the devil only moves the question back: who created the devil, and did He know that devil was going to turn bad? If He did not know, then He is not Elohim, because Elohim declares "the end from the beginning" (Isaiah 46:10). If He knew Satan would turn evil and wreck humanity, the plan is His. The silver message also answers why YAHWEH created the devil. Satan is a minister in the hand of YAHWEH, and everything is being worked toward the redemption of mankind. For YAHWEH to be a Healer, someone must be sick, and something must make them sick. For Him to be a Father who redeems, there must be a fallen child to redeem. For Him to be a Restorer, He must allow things to fall apart, and allow the very one who will tear them down. When you understand this message, the Elohim you serve becomes greater in your eyes. Why People Run to Paganism People run to paganism because their gods seem more forgiving than the God the Church preaches. And somebody will answer one day for preaching a God who is a tyrant toward humanity. YAHWEH is correcting that message across the world. He is awakening His people to His compassion and loving-kindness. The Christian Church has turned "Jesus" into the good God and YAHWEH into the bad God. But it was not the Son alone who loved the world. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son" (John 3:16). It was YAHWEH who loved the whole world. That is the silver message of redemption, and we must preach it to every man, woman and child. Silver for Sins of Ignorance "If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering." — Leviticus 5:15 Sin through ignorance means he was blind. Every one of us has sinned in ignorance; I certainly have. And what did YAHWEH require for sins of ignorance? Silver. Silver is the message. The whole world is committing sins of ignorance. "They have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not" (Ezekiel 12:2). Those are sins of ignorance. Even those who have heard the gospel may still be blind to the truth. YAHSHUA spoke to multitudes who heard and did not understand (Matthew 13:13). They were blind. And the Torah says that those who sin in ignorance need silver. The foundation of this Seventh Temple will be the gospel of redemption for all men. That is what YAHWEH has called First Harvest to do: not only to find the lost sheep of the house of Israel, but to 92 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE take the condemnation out of you and let you know that what your neighbor is doing is not your business to condemn. Many of them are ignorant. One day YAHWEH is going to lift their blindness. The message coming out of this Temple will not be, Elohim is about to kill all of you who won't come into this Temple! The Elohim we serve is so filled with loving-kindness and compassion that His mercy always triumphs over His judgment (James 2:13). His mercies are new every morning (Lamentations 3:23). And His mercy did not run out when someone died in his sins. If everyone who dies without hearing is lost forever, that does not line up with this Scripture: "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." — Philippians 2:10–11 The Scripture says, "if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus... thou shalt be saved" (Romans 10:9). And here is a Scripture saying every tongue will confess. But be careful. If you are not careful, you will think that because you walk in holiness, you are now entitled to condemn those who don't. That is not our place. We are building a building, and we are walking this path. If no one goes with me, still I will follow, because I have been called to this. My day of salvation is today. I am so glad He called me. * * * Silver Trumpets, Not Brass Once you know that, you are qualified to fulfill this: "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand." — Joel 2:1 The trumpet is going to be blown from Mount Zion. Mount Zion is the Seventh Temple, and the Seventh Temple is the congregation. And we are to blow a trumpet, but not just any trumpet. YAHWEH is saying, Be careful what you preach out of My Temple. I want you to blow a silver trumpet. I want you to sound forth a message of redemption. Tell the world what I have done. I don't want you blowing a brass trumpet. Brass is condemnation. Brass is judgment. A brass trumpet sounds like this: Jesus died for the sins of the whole world. Only problem is, if somebody doesn't tell you about it before you die, you're out of luck. Jesus died for the sins of the whole world, except for the places no missionary has reached yet. That is a brass trumpet. But "God so loved the world." You had better preach a silver message! YAHWEH says, I want you to blow a trumpet from Mount Zion. Preach a true message, and when that true message goes forth to the nations, I will put My blessing on it, and everyone who hears it will know they have heard a certain sound. 93 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Why the Trumpet Hasn't Sounded Yet Then why hasn't that trumpet sounded to the world yet? If you thought the last trump of YAHWEH would be blasted from the sky, you have misread the Scriptures. The trumpet has not yet sounded to the world because it must first sound to Mount Zion. YAHWEH must first raise up men and women who will give a clear message to His assembly, so that Mount Zion can sound a clear message to the nations: a message of silver sockets, a message of redemption. That has not fully happened yet. But it is beginning. YAHWEH is raising up men and women to straighten this people out and make the path clear. Tune up that sound! Tune up the message from your lips! Stand and declare that the Elohim of heaven intends to lose nothing. He intends to redeem everything and get it all back. He prepared that fire for one group: "the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41). Why would an Elohim who knows the end from the beginning do that? Because they are spirit beings; they do not die, so death cannot correct them. The fire must. The deceived angels will be refined in that fire. Only the deceiver himself, the Azazel goat, is removed. YAHWEH blessed us with death. We are not like them. When we die, Solomon said, we are no different from the beasts in this: the dust returns to the dust (Ecclesiastes 3:19–20; 12:7). But there is a people on the earth who are going to get this message right. And when their voice goes forth, it will lay the groundwork for the last move of YAHWEH on planet Earth, a message sounding throughout the world: Redemption is coming, to every man, woman, boy and girl! The Two Silver Trumpets "Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee." — Numbers 10:2–4 Those trumpets were made of silver. The silver trumpets were sounded over Israel's appointed days (Numbers 10:10). And on the Day of Atonement, in the year of Jubilee, the trumpet of liberty was sounded through all the land (Leviticus 25:9). The trumpet is tied to the Day of Atonement because of what happens on that day: the goat for Azazel is bound and led away (Leviticus 16). You cannot redeem all mankind until you bind that old goat. These trumpets will sound fully when the tempter is no more. The Scripture says Satan will be bound (Revelation 20:1–3), and at that moment the blindfolds will fall off, and the silver message of redemption will sound throughout the whole world, and all mankind will be brought to redemption. Much of the Church is blowing the wrong trumpet. One Trumpet for the Leaders Notice carefully: when both are blown, all the congregation gathers. But if only one trumpet is blown, only the heads of Israel assemble. YAHWEH is saying, Before I blow both trumpets, I am going to blow one. And when I blow that one, I don't want all of Israel to come. I don't want the whole world to come yet. I want only the kahal. The 94 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE kahal is the Hebrew word behind the Greek ekklesia. But here it is not the whole multitude; it is the first harvest, the firstfruits, the leaders, the government of the Kingdom. That is the name this ministry carries: First Harvest. Pastor, why isn't this message of redemption being heard in all the Christian churches? Because both trumpets haven't blown yet. Only one trumpet is sounding now, and it is only for the leaders of Israel to understand the silver in those trumpets. Now you may know why Paul mentions only one trumpet at the first resurrection: "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first." — 1 Thessalonians 4:16 The trump: singular. That trumpet, that voice and that message have already begun to sound among the people of YAHWEH. I'm going to sound one trumpet, and it is not for everybody. It's only for the government of the Kingdom, the kahal, those who are going to rise up. "Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed." — 1 Corinthians 15:51–52 Why did YAHWEH command two trumpets? To give a prophetic message, and it is simple: two resurrections. "But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection" (Revelation 20:5). The first is for the leaders of the house of Israel. The second is for everyone else. When you understand the two trumpets, you will understand that what is happening in the future is already happening in the assembly. YAHWEH is sounding forth a voice and a trumpet, and a trumpet is a message. And that first resurrection is not free. Paul himself was not presuming he would attain it: "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead" (Philippians 3:11). The second resurrection comes from your silver sockets. The first comes from your golden walls. The first resurrection will cost you everything. It is only for those who have laid it all down, who have beheaded themselves, cut off their old way of thinking, had their rebellion cut out of them, who have no agenda and no plans but His. Full redemption has already been given to the kahal. And now sin must be taken out of our midst, so that we can enter the full blessing and power of the Feast of Tabernacles, the feast of fulfillment. A Refined Trumpet "The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain." — Joel 3:16–17 That shaking happens through these silver trumpets. First Harvest Ministries is part of that trumpet ministry, fulfilling the Feast of Trumpets even now. The Feast of Trumpets was a day of awakening. Most of the church world is waiting for Gabriel to toot his horn so they can leave the planet. But the trumpet is a voice: words, anointed words, powerful words, awakening words, a 95 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE message from the throne. And that message is coming through a body of anointed messengers who have gone through the fire and been refined, as Zechariah says: "And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them." — Zechariah 13:9 That is what is happening to you. YAHWEH is trying to turn you into silver sockets so that you can sound forth a message of true redemption. Don't back away from the fire. Leap into it joyfully, because YAHWEH has ordained it for your profit. It is time for the people of the world to hear something new: a new sound from a new trumpet, and that trumpet will be you. No Glory to the Devil While the whole world despairs over how bad things are, you will not be the trumpet that parrots their message. Oh, the whole world is falling apart! No, the whole world is lining up. Get your message right. The wicked have taken over the world! No, they haven't. The media likes to puff them up. We sound forth a different message. The biggest worshipers of Satan aren't the witches. Many of them don't even believe in Satan. The biggest preachers of Satan's glory are the Christian Church. We make evil so big: Poor God! We put fear in people. The world has not yet begun its best age. There is a new age coming. We are coming out of the last two thousand years and moving into the Golden Age. My trumpet is clear. It gives glory to YAHWEH, and Satan gets no glory from these lips. That is also why I have stood so hard against the movement of casting devils out of everybody in mass deliverance services under the big tents. They give way too much attention to the devil, turning a whole service that should be for the glory of YAHWEH into a circus for manifesting devils. If you want to be delivered from a demon, sit under the preaching of the truth, because the truth will set you free (John 8:32). On that day the whole world will look at Satan and say: "They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?" — Isaiah 14:16 At First Harvest Ministries we intend to keep him a worm. We give him no glory and no credit. He is a defeated foe on his last ride, showing his best tricks, because "he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12). He knows he is about to be displaced by the sons of YAHWEH. If the Church knew what time it was, it would quit trying to cast the devil out of everybody and start getting YAH's people to grow up. Ninety-nine percent of it isn't devils; ninety-nine percent of it is you. The devil has never made you do anything. Satan has one power: the power of suggestion. All he did was suggest to Eve that YAHWEH wasn't being fair. The moment you agree with his suggestion, you let him move in. The moment you say, "It is written," he has to move out. As Chapter 1 showed from Matthew 12:43– 45, a demon cast out of a house that is not brought into obedience returns with others; until a person is taught to keep the commandments, the Sabbath and the Word of YAHWEH, no devil has been cast out. So get focused on growing in the Spirit. You were born to rule and reign with Messiah in the Kingdom of YAHWEH. Wake up every day in the Word, because the devil never takes a day off. The only way you will ever lose to Satan is if you don't show up for work. 96 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE * * * The Bars of the House Past the silver sockets stand the bars. "And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end." — Exodus 26:26–28 Once your foundation of salvation and redemption is laid, and once you have begun building the golden boards in your life, the Seventh Temple is forming. But YAHWEH said, in effect, Even the gold and the silver will not keep this Temple secure in the wind. It had to be finished with bars: four on the outside, and one running through the center from end to end. Five bars, the number of grace. This chapter teaches four; Chapter 7 takes up the fifth. Why Every Movement Falls So many people have come out of the Baptist, Catholic and Pentecostal churches, and yet sadly there has been no effective movement in the earth: no coming together, no organization, no unity. Here is why. Satan doesn't care about your silver sockets. He doesn't care about your golden walls. A believer can build a golden board on silver sockets alone, and it has no effect on the world. That is the problem: nobody wants a pastor, and nobody wants to be joined to other believers. We came out of Babylon! Coming out of Babylon didn't mean coming out of the ekklesia. Well, we're doing our own thing. Somebody told you that you alone are the temple of YAHWEH. No one is the temple alone. You are a stone of the temple, a lively stone, fitly joined (1 Peter 2:5). A golden board alone will not establish an end-time work. A silver voice of truth will never be heard on planet Earth with each one doing his own thing. Satan knows it, and he couldn't care less what you're doing alone. There is simply no effect, no coming together of a voice. Something has to hold the work together, and that is why the house must have its bars. The Four Bars of Acts 2 "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers." — Acts 2:41–42 The Seventh Temple began to be built on the day of Pentecost, and here are the bars that held it together. They gladly received the Word and were baptized. There are your silver sockets and your golden walls. But they would have made no lasting difference in the world without the four bars. Three thousand souls were added that day, and Satan wasn't frightened by it. He wasn't frightened by their receiving the Word, or their baptism, or by three thousand being added, because he is almost 97 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE always successful at tearing down a move of YAHWEH. YAHWEH is good at starting a movement. But the one thing even YAHWEH will not do for you is keep it together. That is your charge. Look at every move of YAHWEH: it almost always falls, because the bars are missing. Mark my words: YAHWEH is going to raise up men and women who will put these four bars into this Temple, so that Satan cannot destroy this end-time work. Here they are: 1.The apostles' doctrine 2.Fellowship 3.The breaking of bread 4.Prayer Receiving the Word was not enough. Baptism was not enough. The great revival that started in that upper room would have ended as quickly as it began unless these four bars were driven into the movement. The First Bar: Doctrine No one who follows a man will last; only love for the doctrine endures. If everything in this ministry is not about doctrine, you will not survive. This ministry is not built on music, though we have great music. It is not built on emotion, though we love a good service. It is not built on the gifts of the Spirit, though we believe in them and operate in them. It is not built on grand preaching, though we have great preaching. The way First Harvest Ministries will survive is a love for the doctrines of this ministry. That is the first bar that will hold us all together. The only way we will ever be more than a starter movement is to be built on doctrine. Every time this assembly gets together, doctrine should slip into every conversation. If all we have is a sound system, a stage and a nice get-together, we are nothing more than a venue, a wedding venue. I left the venue called Christianity. I didn't leave it to start another one. There are venues on every street corner. It must be our doctrines: knowing who YAHSHUA is, knowing what the Kingdom of YAHWEH is, understanding our role in it, what the Seventh Temple is, what the Mazzaroth is. These doctrines are the bar. When you get these truths into your spirit, you can't fall away. I feel like the disciples when YAHSHUA asked, "Will ye also go away?" and Peter answered, "Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life" (John 6:67–68). Where would I go? To a Sabbath-keeping church that believes in the Trinity and doesn't keep the holy days? Build yourself on these doctrines, and you will be here when YAHSHUA returns. And doctrine holds us together in practical ways: conflict resolution is a doctrine too (Matthew 18:15). The Second Bar: Fellowship The next bar is the one Satan hates most, and he will do everything he can to keep you from understanding it: fellowship. In that early assembly, salvation wasn't enough, baptism wasn't 98 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE enough, and even doctrine wasn't enough. They had to have what is missing in today's church: fellowship. Not a get-together. Fellowship around something. Some think that when YAHWEH called them out of Babylon into the wilderness, He meant for them to die there. John the Baptist went into the wilderness, but he didn't die there. YAHWEH brought him into the wilderness to send him back to Israel. But many say, I'm just alone with YAHWEH. Well, I don't trust people. Get over it. Somebody hurt me. They'll hurt you again. Get over it. Those living out in the wilderness need fellowship. If not, they become islands, and they won't be connected to the work YAHWEH is doing in the earth. Satan knows that if he can pull you away from the ekklesia, he can blow your house down. That is why YAHWEH commanded, three times a year (Deuteronomy 16:16). I am commanding you to fellowship. If you skip them, the enemy will huff and puff and blow this house down. Oh, we just keep the holy days at home. That is not what He said. He said three times a year you will leave your houses, and I am going to make you get around people you may not even like. Why? Because if I can get you around My people, instead of the people you've been living among, I'll keep your head straight. Fellowship requires us to become like Messiah: forgiving one another, overlooking one another, bearing one another's burdens. And the reason most don't want fellowship is that we're afraid people will see we aren't perfect. Most people don't want fellowship because it means accountability. Most people can fool you for one or two services, but in fellowship you start to figure them out. "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." — Hebrews 10:25 The writer bothered to say that because this is one of the bars that will keep the work strong. Assembling here is the Greek episynagōgē: a gathering together into one place, a complete collection. Don't forsake the complete collection of the people. And remember the first bar: we don't just get together for a potluck. We fellowship around the apostles' doctrine. Otherwise we are no different from any civic club. But when you gather around the first bar, your fellowship and your conversation are about the latest truth you've learned from the Word, and you are exhorting one another. You won't make it without fellowship. Well, YAHWEH has withdrawn me. I have never found anywhere in Scripture where He takes you away from the fellowship of the saints. He will take you out of the fellowship of Babylon, but never away from the true saints of YAHWEH. We are one another's strength. Bread and Prayer I love bar number three. Some people think "breaking of bread" means taking communion. It does not. The breaking of bread follows the word fellowship. They were fellowshipping around a meal: "And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart." — Acts 2:46 99 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE In every society on earth, the ultimate expression of love is Let's go grab a bite to eat together. To share a meal in fellowship is to obey the third bar. And the fourth bar that will hold us together is prayer, the ministry of the golden altar that Chapters 8 and 9 open in full. Put those four bars into this building, doctrine, fellowship, the breaking of bread and prayer, and I give you my word: this ministry will stand. We will be here when YAHSHUA returns, still blowing a silver trumpet. * * * A House With a Silver Voice So here is the house in full: •The silver sockets beneath: redemption, not mere forgiveness. Free of charge, the same ransom for rich and poor, restoring you to the innocence you had before you ever sinned. Your faith must rest there. •The golden boards above: the walls you build, the divine nature growing over the wood. Your rewards. Never your foundation. •The silver trumpet: the message this Temple must sound, a message of redemption and not condemnation. One trumpet for the leaders now, both for the whole world when the deceiver is bound. •The bars that hold it all together: doctrine, fellowship, breaking bread and prayer, without which every move of YAHWEH has fallen. Put your faith in the silver. Put your life into the gold. Blow a clear sound. And stay bound to the house. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 100 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER SEVEN Royalty Under the Rubbish: The Four Coverings Over the Tabernacle lay four coverings. Outermost was a plain, weathered hide; beneath it rams' skins dyed red; beneath that, eleven curtains of goats' hair; and innermost, ten curtains of fine linen woven with cherubim. From outside it looked like every other tent in the wilderness. Inside it hid more than a ton of gold. Those four layers are the whole journey of a son: a common flesh, covered by the blood, a rebellious mind being soaked through by that blood, and a hidden work of the Spirit no outsider will ever see. There is royalty under the rubbish, in Messiah and in you. Before we lift our eyes to the roof, remember why we study the Tabernacle at all. "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." — Hebrews 8:5 The Tabernacle is a pattern. Moses was shown the heavenly sanctuary, the New Jerusalem: not a temple sitting in heaven right now, but the pattern of a future Temple, the Seventh Temple. The expectation of a rebuilt third temple in Jerusalem, with the Antichrist sitting in it to bring on Armageddon, is carnal; Chapter 2, "One Pattern, Seven Temples," showed why. This Tabernacle is the shadow of the Seventh Temple. It is just like the Sabbath, which is still a shadow, still pointing forward, not merely to Messiah but to the coming Kingdom of YAHWEH, the great Sabbath. When you keep the Sabbath in your home, you are not in a Bible study; you are in a shadow study. A Pattern Is Meant to Make a Garment "Who serve unto the example and shadow." It is an example, and it is not to be looked at as anything more. It is like a woman buying a dress pattern at the store, laying it out on the table and sitting there admiring it, ooh and ahh, with no intention of ever cutting the cloth. The pattern is nothing by itself. It is meant to produce a garment. So do not become so enamored of the Tabernacle that you fail to see yourself, and the end-time kahal of the living Elohim, in it. And notice what YAHWEH did when Moses was about to build. He admonished him. Moses, if you are going to do something for Me, you are not allowed to do it haphazardly. Don't do it your way. Don't add to it and don't take away from it. Make all things according to the pattern I showed you on the mount. Not to the right hand or to the left. Anyone who begins keeping the Sabbath will hear the same objection: God knows your heart. As long as your heart is right with the Lord, these little details don't matter. Saturday, Sunday, it doesn't matter. They say it because they believe "Jesus" came to be their great cop-out, so they could serve a different kind of God, nothing like the God of the Old Testament. But YAHSHUA was so much like 101 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE the Elohim of the Old Testament that He said, "I and my Father are one." The Elohim who told Moses, Be careful how you build it, never changed. "For I am the LORD, I change not" (Malachi 3:6). With Him there is "no variableness, neither shadow of turning" (James 1:17). Yet the churches put Him in a museum, the museum called the Old Testament, where you may dust off the YAHWEH exhibit but never serve Him. If the seventh day was the seventh day in the Garden of Eden, it is the seventh day today. Every detail of this work was to be performed exactly as instructed: "And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount." — Exodus 25:40 The details mattered because they illustrated something greater to come, so that the end-time Temple could see the perfection of YAHWEH in all His workings. If you plan to be part of the end-time Bride, YAHWEH will allow no shadow of turning in your life. Obedience is displayed in the details. They were preserved so that at the end of the age, when it looks as though the world is falling apart and no one believes anymore, there would be a pattern you could return to, and every detail of it would show you where we are, who we are and why we are. * * * The Fifth Bar Chapter 6 taught four bars on the walls of the Tabernacle: doctrine, fellowship, breaking of bread and prayer. The fifth is very simple. The four bars were on the outside. The fifth bar was on the inside, hidden, running all the way through the wall from end to end: "And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end." — Exodus 26:28 That hidden bar is the invisible work of the Holy Spirit, operating through our fellowship, our breaking of bread, our prayer and our doctrine. You can see the other four. You will never see the fifth. But without it, the other four are only activities. * * * Four Coverings Over the House Now look up at the roof. There were four layers of coverings over the Tabernacle (Exodus 26:1–14): 1.Fine twined linen (innermost) 2.Goats' hair 3.Rams' skins dyed red 4.The outer skins (outermost) That Tabernacle was so covered that inside you could not tell whether the sun was shining or not. It was lit by only two sources: the menorah, and the glory that abode above the Most Holy Place. That is why the city of Revelation has no need of the sun, as Chapter 10 shows in full. 102 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Your entire experience in the Spirit is displayed in these four coverings. We will start from the outside and work our way in, just as you do. * * * The Outer Covering: Your Flesh "And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers' skins above that." — Exodus 36:19 Your King James Bible calls the outer covering badgers' skins. But the Hebrew word, tachash, is widely understood to refer to the hide of a sea creature, the dugong or sea cow. It was the skin of a marine animal, what I call dolphin skin. The outer covering was made of a sea creature's hide for an obvious reason: it was waterproof. That outer layer protected the glory of YAHWEH hidden inside the Tabernacle. You find the very same skins again in Ezekiel: "I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk." — Ezekiel 16:10 YAHWEH is speaking in that chapter to Jerusalem. The Tabernacle was covered with these skins, and Jerusalem was clothed with them. And the New Jerusalem is us. If you are not covered with these coverings, you will not be in the New Jerusalem, no matter how hard you try. Just Another Tent in the Wilderness That outer layer was very unattractive. There was nothing appealing about a dried and stretched sea-cow hide. But that ugly hide was hiding something from the world. It hid the glory inside the Tabernacle. That outer covering is the humanity of Messiah, and the humanity of His kahal. That first layer is your flesh. This Tabernacle represents two things: Messiah, and His Body. It is a picture of Him, and of the people of Him. If you had walked through the wilderness and seen that Tabernacle from a distance, it would have looked like every other tent in the wilderness. Most of Israel's tents were made of the same kinds of hides to keep out the rain. If you were not careful, you would look at YAHSHUA and see just an ordinary man. And if you are not careful, you will look at the members of this assembly and see just another ordinary tent. Do not be deceived by what you see. Something is being hidden by this flesh. No one walking past that Tabernacle would have known that beneath those skins lay more than a ton of gold, nearly four tons of silver and more than two tons of brass (Exodus 38:24–29). Under those rough skins something was hiding. There was a King under that skin. There was royalty under the rubbish. If you weren't an Israelite, you had no idea what that tent was. Oh, there's some people with a nice tent over there. Same outer covering as ours. Same old hide. Same old flesh. 103 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE There are treasures of gold hidden inside His people. And if you are not careful, you will walk right past them and say, Oh, there's another little Bible study. Another little church. We have it so well hidden that the world does not comprehend it. Don't ride past this tent and see only another hide. That is exactly what Satan would love for you to do. "Have I Been So Long With You?" Many people saw Messiah and had no idea what they were looking at. The disciples came to YAHSHUA and said, Show us the Father. And it broke His heart, because until then they had seen only the son of man. "Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?" (John 14:9). In other words: You still haven't looked beyond My flesh. You haven't looked beyond this outer skin. You still see Me as Miriam's son. Haven't you seen the treasures pouring out of My mouth? When you see Me, you see the gold, the silver and the brass. Many sit for years among the people of YAHWEH and see only flesh, just as men walked with YAHSHUA and still didn't know who He was, because His outer skin looked just like theirs. I pray every day: Father, don't let it happen. When I embrace a brother or sister in this assembly, I realize I am embracing the Seventh Temple. Every member of His assembly is part of the Seventh Temple. Treat one another in this ministry as if you were handling gold. If you get hung up on the outer skin, you will fail to comprehend what you are a part of. What You Leave Behind When you die, you leave behind your outer skin. But the treasures were never in the skin: the brass of judgment, the silver of redemption and the gold of glory are in your character. If you die without the gold, the silver and the brass, you will die just a piece of hide. You have seventy-five years or so to collect brass, silver and gold within you through the work of the Holy Spirit, that fifth bar hidden behind the wall. You have the chance now to develop the character of gold, the nature of silver and the judgment and conviction of brass. It is the daily inworking of the Holy Spirit. Yes, we know the Kingdom is coming. "Thy kingdom come." But the Christian Church has it out of balance. We don't only have a coming Kingdom. We have the inworking, right now, of the character of the Kingdom developing in our lives. That is our gold, our silver and our brass. Without that, you are nothing but a name on a church roll. One day they will lay your outer skin in the ground. Every parent leaves either gold or gossip. Let the Holy Spirit, that fifth bar, so work in you that your character is filled with YAHWEH's. What pours from your mouth, life or death, is the inheritance. Don't be worthless. Have some value. "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt" (Matthew 6:20). The Treasure in a Wife That is why the apostles spoke as they did about women's adornment (1 Timothy 2:9–10; 1 Peter 3:3–4). Some think they were preaching against jewelry. They were saying, Let your adornment, 104 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE your value, be a gold that is internal. Many women want to buy jewelry. Why not become jewelry? "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies" (Proverbs 31:10). "But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." — 1 Peter 3:4 A meek and quiet spirit doesn't mean a woman has no voice. It means she will have such a voice that when she does speak, all of heaven will pay attention, and so will her husband. It won't be a nagging voice. It will be a voice filled with gold and silver, wisdom and understanding. And a husband who is not careful will see his wife only by her outer skin, just another woman's body. Look beyond that and begin to see the treasures within your wife. Honor them. Cherish them. Develop that gold. Develop that brass. Develop that silver. Don't Pull Back the Covering "He came unto his own, and his own received him not." — John 1:11 He came to His own people, and they didn't accept Him. All they saw was the outer skin. "The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." — John 19:7 They couldn't see past His outer skin. Kill Him! He thinks there's something inside Him more valuable than skin. He thinks He is the Son of Elohim! Here is His greatest temptation, the same one you will have to overcome. When they said, This man claims to be the Son of Elohim, He surely wanted to show them what He had, to say, Hand Me that stone; I'll turn it into bread. I'll show you who I am. And He answered not a word. That is royalty. Satan said, If You are who You say You are, show off Your gifts. Show off Your glory. Pull back the covering and show us who You are. YAHSHUA overcame. He overcame the desire to say, Satan, come inside this Tabernacle, and I'll show you the gold and the silver. He could have called down twelve legions of angels: "Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?" — Matthew 26:53–54 Those who truly have power never show it off. They simply operate in it. They do it while you think you're looking at a rough old hide. But they know who they are. When you know who you are, you never have to tell anyone who you are. Only the Chosen Saw Inside The only ones who ever saw the true beauty beneath that outer skin were one house: Aaron and his sons. Not one ordinary Israelite ever set foot inside. No Israelite knew what was in there. Even the Levites who carried the holy things were forbidden to look on them. Israel was the called; only the chosen house of Aaron ever went in. "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14). 105 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The millions of Israelites in that camp had no idea what was inside. That is why the walls were there, and the curtains. It was hidden even from the congregation. Israel was the kahal, the house of Israel, but just being a member of the house of Israel did not admit you. Oh, my family came from Scotland! I'm one of the lost tribes! Good, wonderful. And you can still be carnal-minded and have nothing. You may be of the Lost Tribes, but that does not put you in the Bride of Messiah. You have not seen behind the curtain. Only a few are allowed to see the gold. "But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden: but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die." — Numbers 4:19–20 If the carnal congregation had tried to walk into the Holy Place, they would have died. YAHWEH doesn't play with holiness. He doesn't play with holy things. Anyone who handles holy things carelessly, thinking they are just an old hide, stands on that verge. This is not a church. This is not a Bible study group. This is the Seventh Temple. Handle it with care. That is why YAHSHUA refused to call those angels. He was hiding His glory for a future day. "Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him." — Isaiah 53:1–2 There it is: that outer skin. No beauty that we should desire Him. Just another tent in the wilderness. When He walked by, no one said, Whoa! He was just another fellow from down the road. But He was hiding something. * * * What He Emptied Himself Of: The Right to Rule "But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men." — Philippians 2:7 Many Christian churches point to this verse as "proof" of the pre-existence of YAHSHUA, that He was God in the beginning, a member of a Trinity at creation, who gave up His godhood to become a man. But the verse never tells you that He gave up His godhood. It doesn't say what He gave up. Don't add to the verse, and don't take away from it. We know He gave up something, since He made Himself of no reputation, so let Scripture say what that something was. As Chapter 3 showed, the last Adam started where the first Adam started. Both men became: Adam was formed a body and became a living soul, and YAHSHUA was "made of the seed of David according to the flesh" and "declared to be the Son of God with power... by the resurrection from the dead" (Romans 1:3–4). First the natural, then the spiritual (1 Corinthians 15:45–46). Chapter 3 also answered how He did the miracles: Peter walked on water, Moses parted the sea and Elijah raised the dead, and YAHSHUA said, "The Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works" (John 14:10). 106 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHSHUA was a man with YAHWEH inside of Him, the same Holy Spirit that dwells in you, and the same Spirit that raised Him will raise every brother and sister reading this (Romans 8:11). If we don't understand this, Satan will convince you that Jesus went through life as God, that this is why He could overcome sin, and that this is why you can't. Right now YAHSHUA is divine. He is Elohim, because Elohim speaks of divine rank and the glory His Father gave Him (John 17:22). But He is not YAHWEH. He sits at the right hand of the Father, governing the Kingdom of His Father YAH. We take nothing from Him. We add to Him by not setting Him against His Father. Read His own words: "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I." — John 14:28 My Father is greater than I. You cannot get co-equal out of that. The moment you make YAHSHUA the Elohim of heaven, you have committed idolatry. You have broken the first commandment. That other Jesus was created in hatred of the Jewish people: when the Roman church set the date of Easter at the Council of Nicaea, the emperor Constantine wrote to the churches, "Let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd," and out of that hatred grew a Jesus severed from His Father, His people and His Father's appointed times. He is my King, my Sovereign, my Savior, my Master, my Messiah, but He is submitted to my Father, just as I am. We will never give Him creation glory. It was our Father who created the heavens and the earth. The Branch and the Right to Rule "Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou, and thy fellows that sit before thee: for they are men wondered at: for, behold, I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be seven eyes: behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day." — Zechariah 3:8–9 Men wondered at: the men of faith who came before, signs to the generations. I will bring forth My servant the BRANCH. That Branch was brought forth when He came up out of the water, and by His sacrifice He would remove the iniquity of the land in one day. No one but YAHSHUA had this promise, to be King of the whole earth. So while YAHSHUA walked the earth, even holding this promise, what did He empty Himself of in Philippians 2:7? The right to rule. He was this Branch, and He knew it. He was the rightful King of the earth. He had the right to rule. But He emptied Himself of that royal heritage. He knew His genealogy, and He took up the role of a suffering servant and died on a cross, knowing who He was. He set aside the reputation of Son of Elohim to be merely son of man, until the right time. And every son will have to do the same. You will have to lay down your right to rule in this lifetime. You will have to give up your rights as a son of Elohim to live as a son of man, even though you know who you are and you know your power with YAHWEH. You will have to walk in humility. You will be spat upon. You will have to empty yourself of your destiny in order to become 107 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE who you must be to fulfill that destiny. YAHSHUA was King, and the King was willing to be a servant. My kingdom must fall, that Thy kingdom may come. That is what He emptied Himself of: the right to call those twelve legions from heaven. Satan tried to make Him seize the promise ahead of its time. Well, I don't have that problem. Every time YAHWEH doesn't answer your prayer the way you want, and you say, I have a covenant with You! You promised!, that is the same temptation. YAHSHUA had a covenant too, that He would rule over everything, including the devil. And here came the devil offering Him a bargain: All this will I give thee. That is what He emptied Himself of. * * * The Second Covering: The Ram of Consecration Beneath the outer skin lies the second covering, the rams' skins dyed red. A ram is a male sheep. In the Torah it was used as a substitute: the ram caught in the thicket, offered in the place of Isaac (Genesis 22:13). And it was used to consecrate the priesthood (Exodus 29). So what is under your flesh? The blood of YAHSHUA the Messiah, the Ram. That blood covenant lies right beneath your flesh and right above the next curtain. That blood covering of the Ram has redeemed your flesh. This is your "bloody backup." This blood has redeemed your humanity. Your outer man is redeemed by this blood covering. * * * The Third Covering: The Goats' Hair Mind "And thou shalt make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make." — Exodus 26:7 My flesh is the outer skin. I went to the brazen altar, and the Lamb was slain, so now I have a blood covering. Then what is this goats' hair right underneath it? Beneath the blood lies the goats' hair: the only thing stopping you, after you are saved, from getting into the Holy Place is your old goat nature, your mind of rebellion. Look at your life in those curtains. Your flesh is saved. Your mind is not. After you come to the altar and go down into the waters of the laver, you have a blood covering. You are back in the covenant. And now that blood must go to work on your mind. From the blood to the battle! Right here on the roof of the Tabernacle: from the blood, and now the battle begins. The dye from that red curtain must press down into that white goats' hair. The blood of the covenant must stain your mind. Picture the crimson dye of the rams' skins soaking down into the goats' hair beneath it, until the hair itself turns red. That is the mind becoming like Messiah's. The goat mind is your stinking, rebellious thinking that is not yet saved. The blood has covered your flesh; you are saved. But your 108 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE thinking must now be soaked through by the dye of that blood. "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). And that doesn't happen by grace alone. It is a work of you and the Holy Spirit together, letting that red curtain drench into your goats' hair and bleed into it daily. That is why the Bible says: "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." — Romans 12:2 Eleven Curtains: Six Against Five Here is something fascinating about the goats' hair covering: it was made of eleven curtains woven together (Exodus 26:7–9). Why eleven? Eleven can be seven and four, ten and one, eight and three, or five and six. And Exodus 26:9 tells us they were coupled exactly that way: five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves. Five is the number of grace: that is the blood covering. Six is the number of man. When you get to this goats' hair covering in your walk with YAHWEH, you have a little more man than grace. You are out of balance. You are still struggling with that man's mind. Six is battling five. You have the five; you have the blood, you have grace. But there's that rebellion in the goats' hair, that six, battling against the grace of YAHWEH. Now you can see what Paul meant: "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain." — Galatians 2:21 Paul is saying, I will not frustrate the grace of Elohim. Grace is free; it is the blood. But six keeps getting in five's way. Your goat head, that rebellious mind, keeps getting in the way of the blood. Quit frustrating grace! And notice: eleven, not quite twelve. Not yet fully under the divine government of YAHWEH. You are no longer just the outer skin. Grace is working in your life. But you're not yet twelve, because six will not let five bleed into it and take over your thinking. Forget your flesh being saved; we have to get your mind saved, soaked through by the Word and the thoughts of Messiah. Look at the picture again. Start on the outside, at the outer skin. Follow it through the blood. Now follow it to the white goats' hair. The new creation is almost here in you. We are right on the edge of your surrender and your becoming everything YAHWEH created you to be. The only thing stopping us is that number six. And until that six is gone, you've got a bloody backup, covering you even when you sin, even when you make mistakes. * * * The Inner Covering: Fine Linen of Cunning Work Finally, the last curtain, which is really the first. This one is made of fine twined linen. It isn't the outer skin, it isn't rams' skin, it isn't goats' hair. There is no animal in this one. There is no humanity in this curtain at all. 109 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE This is Elohim-level material. YAHSHUA started out on that outer skin as the seed of David, but He ended up in the linen. You started out on the outer skin too, but you are going to end up in the linen. "Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them." — Exodus 26:1 Count the strips: ten. Not eleven. Not six and five, no war, nothing out of balance. Ten: the Ten Commandments, the ten virgins, the ten lost coins, the ten lost tribes. Ten curtains go into the linen covering. And they were joined five and five (Exodus 26:3). The battle has ended. Grace for grace (John 1:16). There is now Sabbath rest. You come to the point where your goat mind has been so soaked in that blood that you think the thoughts of heaven. The Ten Commandments, the Torah, become your guide. "With cherubims of cunning work." Notice the word work. The outer layers were thrown together. This one is the inner working of the Holy Spirit in your life, so intricately detailed it is a work of art. This is the covering you saw when you stood inside the Tabernacle and looked up. You are no longer looking from the outside. You don't see the flesh. You don't see the humanity of Messiah or of the assembly. You see something being made ready to share the glory of Elohim, an intricate work of the Holy Spirit. "And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them. The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size. And he coupled five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another. And he made loops of blue on the edge of one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling: likewise he made in the uttermost side of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. Fifty loops made he in one curtain, and fifty loops made he in the edge of the curtain which was in the coupling of the second: the loops held one curtain to another. And he made fifty taches of gold, and coupled the curtains one unto another with the taches: so it became one tabernacle." — Exodus 36:8–13 "Every wise hearted man." Anybody could throw together the other coverings. This one took wisdom. The coverings take you beyond grace, the thirtyfold, and beyond the knowledge curtain, the sixtyfold, to the wisdom curtain: the hundredfold. It was joined with loops of blue because there are ten curtains, the Ten Commandments, and blue is the color of the law. "That ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them" (Numbers 15:39). This curtain is not only about grace. It is not only about the blood or the cross. This curtain is joined together by a love for the law of YAHWEH. Fifty loops on each side: fifty is Jubilee, total freedom. You will be walking in Jubilee. Fifty and fifty make a hundred: this whole curtain is the hundredfold. And fifty clasps of gold coupled them, "so it became one tabernacle." 110 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE See the unity, the coupling in gold. None of this is on the other layers. But when you reach this place, you have been wrought together intricately. YAHWEH has been doing a work in you that no one on the outside could see. They can't even see this layer of you. This is the last curtain, though it is actually the first: the first shall be last, and the last first. This is the working of the Holy Spirit, and this curtain represents the new creation, the holy white linen. Now you know why the priests had to wear white linen. This is sanctification, being set apart for the work of YAHWEH, with the fruit of the Spirit woven into the fabric. Five and five, grace for grace: one new man, no longer ruled by the flesh or the goat mind, but made new and woven together, hidden in the process of time. * * * The Cherubim of the Throne Woven into that linen were cherubim. Moses saw the pattern in a vision; he saw the throne. The Ark of the Covenant was the throne, where YAHWEH would meet with His people. And when you walked into the Holy Place and looked up, you would see cherubim woven into the white linen, surrounding the throne of YAHWEH. Moses had seen where that came from: "And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." — Revelation 4:6–8 A sea of glass before the throne: that is the brazen laver. That is what Moses was looking at when YAHWEH said, Take these living creatures and weave them all around the throne, on the sides and above it. The Guardians of Holiness The cherubim guard holiness against sin. That is their work. The cherubim defend and protect the holiness of YAHWEH from sin entering His presence. When Adam was driven out, YAHWEH placed cherubim at the east of the garden "to keep the way of the tree of life" (Genesis 3:24). That is why, before you reached the cherubim, you had to pass the brazen altar and the brazen laver. You had to leave sin outside. If you walked into the presence of the cherubim without the blood and the washing, you would die. And understand what they guard. Inside the Ark was the law of YAHWEH. The blue above it was the law of YAHWEH. The cherubim protect anyone, any ministry, that is preaching the law of YAHWEH. They protect it from those who have no business being there. They protect it from spirits, from tares. They protect the throne. The cherubim will not let anything violate the sacredness of what YAHWEH is doing. 111 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is why YAHSHUA's invitation means so much: "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." — Hebrews 4:16 You don't have to be afraid of the cherubim. They will not strike you, because you come through the blood and the washing, through the brazen altar and the brazen laver. But when you walk into the Holy Place, the cherubim are above you and on every side, with eyes before and behind. Inside the Holy Place, grace alone is not the whole story. This is your sanctification: the work of destroying this flesh and this rebellion. The guardians of holiness will not allow rebellion against authority, against the law of YAHWEH, which says to humble yourself under the mighty hand of Elohim (1 Peter 5:6). And His hand, in this Temple, has always been His ministry. If you wanted to find YAHWEH, you had to come to the priest. He never changes. Uzzah and the Strange Fire "And when they came to Nachon's threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it. And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God." — 2 Samuel 6:6–7 YAHWEH smote him. And I believe He did it through the guardians of His throne, the cherubim that overshadowed that Ark. This man had the best of intentions. He was trying to be part of the work without reverencing the holiness of the work, and he died there by the Ark. "And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD." — Leviticus 10:1–2 They were in the Tabernacle, offering strange fire. They were part of the ministry, thinking they could come in any way they pleased and say, I'm part of the work! I'm part of end-time Israel! Those who serve without reverence for holy things invite the same judgment. The guardians are watching over the work of holiness. This is the fear of YAHWEH, and it is the beginning of wisdom (Proverbs 9:10). We tread softly around holy things. "I Fell Upon My Face" "And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it... This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake." — Ezekiel 1:26, 28 Ezekiel fell on his face in the presence of the cherubim and the glory. 112 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Look at the picture of the four coverings one more time. When you start your journey with YAHWEH, your concern will be the blood. By the time you reach the linen, your concern will be the cherubim. Your concern will be holiness, doing it right, the details. Every true priest of Israel can be recognized this way: he is always conscious of the cherubim, and he reverences the holiness of YAHWEH. When you find believers living carelessly, they are still back on the outer skin. But when you find believers saying, I want to do this right, it is because they have come to know they are priests unto YAHWEH. * * * Beneath the Cherubim How will you know you have reached the linen, that you have moved from the outer skin to that intricately woven fabric? You will discover a priest's reverence. You will be constantly aware of His holiness around you, of every word that leaves your mouth, of everything you allow yourself to hear and see. Then you are walking beneath the covering of the cherubim. Your flesh is the outer skin, and it hides more treasure than the world will ever guess. The blood of the Ram covers you, your bloody backup. Your goat mind is being soaked through, day by day, until six no longer frustrates five. And the Holy Spirit, that hidden fifth bar, is weaving something inside you no one else can see: ten curtains joined five and five in blue and gold, cherubim of cunning work, one Tabernacle. Beloved, this Tabernacle is your pattern to live by. Stop admiring the pattern. Let YAHWEH make the garment. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 113 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE PART TWO The Holy Place “For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.” — Hebrews 9:2 114 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER EIGHT The Altar of Prayer and the Holy Camp Two things prove you have left the outer court: you pray, and you guard the camp. The Holy Place is not a room you visit on Sabbath. It is the heavenly places Paul says you are already seated in, and the furniture standing nearest the veil is an altar of prayer. This chapter makes two claims. A believer who will not pray is not where he thinks he is. And an assembly that will not keep its camp clean will lose the One who walks in the midst of it. Chapter 7 uncovered the coverings over the Holy Place; now we go inside it, and two words must be fixed in your mind: the Holy and the Most Holy. The Holy Place is twenty cubits long, ten cubits wide and ten cubits high: 20 × 10 × 10 = 2,000 cubic cubits. The Most Holy Place is a perfect cube: 10 × 10 × 10 = 1,000 cubic cubits. That matters because the larger room is the last two thousand years. You and I have been inside that room the whole time. YAHWEH reached out by His Spirit, took hold of us, brought us out of the outer court and shut us inside the twenty-by-ten, and that is where the people of YAHWEH have been for two millennia. But He is getting ready to move us into the little room. The ten-by-ten is the thousand years. Those who press through that last veil enter the third-day ministry, the great Sabbath day, the Millennial reign of Messiah. That little room, the Most Holy Place, is where YAHWEH is going to meet all of us. This Whole World Is a Dressing Room Until we are moved into the little room, He is calling you and me to prepare in the big one. There is an old song that says this whole world is just a dressing room. The Holy Place is the dressing room. This is where we are putting on our linen garments. This is where we are being prepared, trained for reigning and schooled for ruling. Nobody walks out of a dressing room onto the stage by accident. You were put in this room because there is somewhere to go and someone to become. So ask yourself the questions of the dressing room. What is YAHWEH correcting in me this week? What part of my character would hurt someone if He gave me authority now? Can I stay faithful when nobody is watching? Those questions are not speculation about the end of days. They are the end of days, being prepared in you now. * * * Seated in Heavenly Places These two rooms have a name in the New Testament: they are the heavenly places. 115 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If you have been in church all your life, you probably thought the heavenly places were somewhere past the clouds, waiting for you after the funeral. Scripture shows where they are. "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." — Hebrews 8:5 "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." — Hebrews 9:23 What Moses built on earth was a copy of what was happening in heaven. So what was happening in the Tabernacle is what is happening in heaven, and what is happening in heaven is to be happening in you. If you want His will done on earth as it is in heaven, you must build in your daily life the very instruments that stand in heaven. Notice what Paul does: "Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places," — Ephesians 1:20 YAHWEH seated His Son in the heavenly places. One page later: "And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" — Ephesians 2:6 We love to say Messiah is at the right hand of the Father. He does not sit there alone. If the Head is at the right hand of the Father, so is the Body. Raised up together. Made to sit together. You enter the heavenly places when you leave the outer court. After the cross, after the laver, after your baptism, you step through the second door into the Holy Place. I am not waiting to enter the heavenly places. I am already there, and so is every believer who has passed the laver. The Proof Is the Altar How will you know you have entered the heavenly places? You will find the altar of prayer. In this room you will find three pieces of furniture, and those three will transform you from an outer-court believer into an inner-court priest: the menorah, the table of shewbread and the golden altar of incense. Now ask what Scripture says YAHSHUA is doing at this very moment in heaven. He is interceding. "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." — Hebrews 7:25 If you are not standing at that same altar, praying that same prayer, you are not in the heavenly places. You can sit in the right building and sing the right songs. But if the Head is interceding and the Body is not, the Body is somewhere else. We cannot operate in the selfish, fleshly realm. We must operate from a heavenly dimension, with YAHSHUA, at His altar. That is why your prayer life is not optional. 116 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE * * * Let the Light Lead You to the Altar Before you reach the altar, you walk in the light of the menorah. "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." — Proverbs 4:18 The menorah is the symbol of ever-increasing light. There is a reason we light it one lamp at a time: light comes to YAHWEH's people the way it came to that lampstand, one flame, then another, then another, until it is complete. It has seven branches because seven is the number of completion. The menorah is the symbol of complete truth, all truth restored. That is why you will see the menorah throughout our assembly and why you will not find it in the churches most of us came out of. We are walking into the fullness of the light. But you will know you are walking in the light of the menorah by your love for the altar, not by your love of knowledge. Don't you dare think that because you love knowledge, you are walking in the light. The menorah is lighting your way to the altar. Don't get hung up at the menorah. If all the knowledge you are receiving from this teaching only makes you stand and stare at the lampstand, saying, Wow, did you hear that? Wow, can you believe what this chapter said about the little room? Wow, wow, wow, then you have done exactly what the Pharisees did. You have become a religious person who collects light and never offers anything. The wow has to turn into a woe, and the woe has to turn into woe is me. "Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts." — Isaiah 6:5 Isaiah saw the glory and went straight to his face. That is what light is for. This knowledge is meant to lead you into repentance and into a constant life of prayer. You have not entered the heavenly places until you have found the altar of prayer. The Torah itself ties the two together. Notice when Aaron burned the incense: "And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." — Exodus 30:7–8 Every time the light was tended, the incense went up. Lamp and incense, morning and evening, never one without the other. Every time YAHWEH gives you light, He expects incense back. A Treasure in an Earthen Vessel Here is your problem: 117 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." — 2 Corinthians 4:7 You have a heavenly calling stuck in an earthly vessel. You have been seated in the heavenly places, but you still have to drag a body of clay through the grocery store. The vessel gets tired. The vessel gets distracted. The vessel picks up the phone to pray and twenty minutes later it is still scrolling. At the end of the day the vessel has listened to a hundred voices and hasn't spoken once to the Father. But read it again: that the excellency of the power may be of YAHWEH, and not of us. He put the treasure in clay on purpose, so that no one would ever mistake where the power came from. What is in Messiah is in you. The weakness of the vessel is no excuse to leave the altar cold. It is the very reason the incense must keep rising. * * * The Golden Censer Is Empty Revelation shows what YAHSHUA is doing in heaven now, and where He is standing. "And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand." — Revelation 8:3–4 Which altar is this? The very one Moses saw and copied on earth. There it is, standing before the throne. And who is standing at it? John calls Him "another angel." But the word angel means messenger, and Malachi names the Messenger of the covenant: "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." — Malachi 3:1 That Messenger is YAHSHUA the Messiah. Our High Priest is standing at the golden altar with a golden censer in His hand. Now read slowly. There was given unto Him much incense. Given. And what is given Him is the prayers of all saints. He ever lives to make intercession. That is settled. But look at what He offers when He intercedes. The incense in His censer is your prayers. The High Priest stands at the altar with a golden censer, and the censer is filled from the earth. The incense He offers before the Father is supplied by His Body, and when the Body will not pray, the Head has nothing in His hand to lift. YAHSHUA is waiting for His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, waiting for someone to hand Him what He presents to the Father. YAHWEH has made you His partner in the work of intercession. 118 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE David knew it a thousand years before John: "Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice." — Psalm 141:2 And John saw it twice: "...golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints." — Revelation 5:8 The more you pray, the more incense and sweet-smelling savor is presented to the Father. When One Saint Prays Picture it. The Messenger stands at the golden altar. The censer in His hand is empty. He is waiting. And somewhere on the earth, a saint of YAHWEH begins to mourn in the Spirit. She begins to say, Hallelujah. She whispers, Father, I love You. I magnify Your name. I come to You because I don't know where else to go. And all of a sudden the golden censer is filled, and the smoke goes up before the throne. And because someone prayed, the world gets another day. Someone prayed for you, and you are still here because of it. Now it is your turn to fill the censer. There is a sweet smell still rising to the Father, and that is what has held back judgment from falling on this nation; Chapter 9 shows how that incense covers the stench of the world. When you simply mutter a prayer, you have handed incense to YAHSHUA to present to the Father. Ashes in the Censer But the censer carries more than incense. It carries coals and ashes, and ashes come from what has been burned up. The more you die, the more ashes you send up. You are the souls John saw under that same altar: "And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:" — Revelation 6:9 Every time you die a little more to your pride, your offense and your own way, the High Priest has more ashes to show the Father. Father, look. You still have a remnant. You cannot destroy them yet. Smell the proof: You still have dead saints in the earth. Abraham knew that bargain when he pleaded for Sodom, and YAHWEH would have spared the whole city for ten righteous; Chapter 9 takes up his intercession in full. What is He sparing now because of you? That is our role and our calling. * * * Interlude: The Camp as the Pattern of Heaven Before the second half of this chapter turns to the holiness of the camp, step outside the Tabernacle one more time and see how perfect this pattern is. Look at what Moses saw surrounding the house of YAHWEH. 119 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch." — Numbers 2:2 Twelve tribes, in four camps of three, encircling the dwelling place: •East: Judah, with Issachar and Zebulun •South: Reuben, with Simeon and Gad •West: Ephraim, with Manasseh and Benjamin •North: Dan, with Asher and Naphtali And between the tribes and the Tabernacle, the Levites. Gershon on the west, Kohath on the south, Merari on the north. And on the east, at the door: "But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." — Numbers 3:38 Notice: the ministry is never mixed in with the tribes. Moses, Aaron and his sons have their own tents, at the door, between the people and the presence. The man of YAHWEH stands in a separate place because he keeps the charge of the sanctuary. Now step back far enough to see the whole camp at once. What you are looking at is a picture of the New Jerusalem, a foursquare city with twelve gates named for the twelve tribes and the glory of YAHWEH in the middle. And step back further still, and you will see the heavens themselves: twelve constellations circling the earth, the Mazzaroth YAHWEH asked Job about (Job 38:32), the circuit of the heavens that "declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1). The camp on the ground mirrored the circuit in the sky. Twelve around one. Judah First, Ephraim Last Look at who sits where. Judah is in the prime position, directly east, at the door of the Tabernacle, first in the camp and first on the march. And diametrically opposite, at the very back, on the west, is Ephraim. Judah at the front. Ephraim at the back. The Jew first, and the scattered house of Joseph last. And YAHSHUA said: "So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." — Matthew 20:16 The whole history of the two houses of Israel was laid out on the sand of the wilderness before either house existed as a kingdom. The Calendar in the Camp The arrangement is exact. There were four principal tribes, one on each side: Judah, Reuben, Ephraim and Dan. North, south, east and west. Each stands ninety degrees from the next. Judah to 120 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Reuben, ninety degrees. Reuben to Ephraim, ninety. Ephraim to Dan, ninety. Dan back to Judah, ninety. Four nineties make three hundred sixty. The twelve thirty-day months of the Zadokite priestly calendar also make three hundred sixty days. And the four principal camps are the four gates, the four seasons, the four gate days that stand at the turning of each quarter of the year. Add those four days to the three hundred sixty and you have 364 days, fifty-two exact weeks, the year YAHWEH set in the heavens and guarded at the four corners of His camp. The timing of YAHWEH and the instruments of YAHWEH were all being protected in that arrangement: the calendar of heaven drawn in tents around the house of YAHWEH. And where will He finally dwell? Not in heaven. He is coming to the earth to dwell among His people. That is what the camp was rehearsing. The Four Living Creatures Around the Throne "As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle." — Ezekiel 1:10 Ezekiel and John both saw four living creatures around the throne: a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. Now look at the four principal sons of Israel in their blessings. Judah is the lion: "Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up?" — Genesis 49:9 Reuben is the man with the water. Jacob called him "unstable as water" (Genesis 49:4). In the heavens he answers to the sign of the man pouring out water. Ephraim is the ox: "His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." — Deuteronomy 33:17 That is your bull. Joseph's sons push the people together from the ends of the earth. And Dan is the serpent by the way (Genesis 49:17), the sign of the scorpion, which the ancients pictured in its exalted form as the eagle. The man, the lion, the ox and the eagle. Reuben, Judah, Ephraim and Dan. There they are, the four living creatures, standing around this Tabernacle on four sides. And the living creatures in Ezekiel and in John guarded the throne. The throne is inside that Tabernacle, between the cherubim in the Most Holy Place. 121 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Wheel in the Middle of the Wheel "The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel." — Ezekiel 1:16 Here is the wheel in the middle of the wheel. The outer wheel is the twelve tribes, circling the house. And in the middle of that wheel is another wheel: the court, the Holy Place, the Most Holy Place, and at the very center, enthroned above the mercy seat, YAHWEH Himself. And those wheels and living creatures were always moving the throne. It was Israel that carried and guarded the throne of YAHWEH as it was moved from one place to another through the wilderness: Judah, Reuben, Ephraim and Dan, foursquare, north, south, east and west. The Church has wondered for centuries who these living creatures are. They can't see it because they don't know who Israel is. So let anyone reading this who belongs to the house of Ephraim and Manasseh know: you are part of guarding the throne. You are part of carrying this glory in the end time. You are part of the four living creatures. Blessed be the name of YAH. * * * Put Outside the Camp The Torah settles what outside the camp means. First, understand the picture. Outside the Tabernacle is not the same as outside the camp. The twelve tribes living in their tents around the house were outside the sanctuary, but they were inside the camp. To be thrown outside the camp meant being put beyond that whole circle of tents, outside everything on that picture. And an Israelite, a believer, could be put outside the camp for this: "And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean. All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be." — Leviticus 13:45–46 And notice the very next verse: it isn't only the man. The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment or a linen garment (Leviticus 13:47). The plague gets into the linen. It gets into the priestly garments you have been putting on in the dressing room. Leprosy is the Torah's picture of sin. And sin at its most common base is rebellion. So according to this Scripture, a believing Israelite who becomes defiled with sin is to be separated from the rest of the people. That is Torah. My final authority is the Word of YAHWEH, and Torah says that if someone in the camp becomes defiled, he goes outside. Leprosy of the Tongue Why? Because leprosy spreads. 122 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE So does gossip. Let one person run another member down, and it spreads. It always spreads. YAHWEH shows what He thinks of it in the first great case of leprosy in the camp of Israel: "And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman." — Numbers 12:1 "And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous." — Numbers 12:10 Miriam spoke against YAHWEH's servant, the cloud lifted off the Tabernacle, and she was leprous before she could finish the conversation. Then she was shut out of the camp seven days, and the whole nation waited for her (Numbers 12:15). Most believers would have no trouble putting a sexual predator out of the assembly. They would agree to it in a heartbeat. But YAHWEH named seven things He hates, and look at what sits second on the list: "These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren." — Proverbs 6:16–19 A lying tongue sits on the same list as hands that shed innocent blood. The false witness and the sower of discord close the list. We have been taught to rank sins by how they make us feel. YAHWEH ranks them by what they do to His camp. What Torah Says to Do with a Leper Here is a test for anyone who calls himself Torah observant: what does Torah say to do with someone spreading malicious gossip in the assembly? A mercy that will not act only gives the leprosy time to infect more people. Let the Word answer: "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell." — Numbers 5:2–3 Put out. Not coddled. Not comforted. Put out without the camp. Chapter 27 builds on this command when it carries the priesthood outside the camp. And understand this: we don't go looking for rebellious sheep. We go looking for lost sheep. There's a big difference. People say, But YAHSHUA left the ninety and nine and went after the one! Yes, the one that was lost. If you are in rebellion, you are not lost. You know exactly where you are. * * * 123 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Order of Correction Matthew 18 makes it plain that you don't simply put someone out without giving them a chance. It is a protocol everyone should know. "Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican." — Matthew 18:15–17 Step one: Have you spoken to that person? If not, start there. Step two: If you have, and they would not hear you, we bring two or three witnesses, so that every word is established, not just repeated. Step three: We bring it before the assembly. And if you still refuse to submit to the authority of the Word, then the Word says we cannot allow it to remain in the camp. YAHWEH does it this way for a reason: removing rebellion brings peace to the camp. YAHWEH will place certain believers outside the camp. They will not be allowed in the camp of Israel until the plague is gone. Put Out for the Purpose of Bringing Back They did not put the lepers outside in the hope that they would go out there and die. It was done with restoration in mind. The leper was sent out so he would know: You need help. You are not clean. You are not right. Go out there, and in a few days, when you come to yourself and begin to heal, come back to the priest. And look who came out to meet him: "And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the leper;" — Leviticus 14:3 The priest went outside the camp to look for the healing. The same Torah that put him out made a way to bring him home. Once he was clean, he was welcome back into the camp. That is the pattern we follow. We are a Torah assembly. Anyone is welcome in this camp, but if you are a leper, you have to go and get cleansed of that leprosy before you bring it back in. To become clean, we confess our sin and repent, and we are clean, just like that. Then the congregation must be mature enough to receive that person back with no recourse, completely restored, as if nothing ever happened. "So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. Wherefore I beseech you that ye would confirm your love toward him." — 2 Corinthians 2:7–8 That does not mean handing them back the keys. Trust is earned, and a person earns their way back into leadership. But they are forgiven. Completely forgiven. Completely done away with. 124 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Forgiveness is not the same thing as a position, and a congregation that confuses the two will either never forgive or never protect. What the Amish Understood You may not agree with me on this, and that's up to you. The Amish have been able to remain a strong, identifiable community for generation after generation because they put people outside the camp. When their young people reach sixteen or seventeen, they go through what is called rumspringa. They are let out into the world to see what it is, to decide whether they want to be Amish or want to be in the world. If they choose to come home, that is when they are baptized. No child is baptized before he understands what he is choosing. And a baptized member who turns his back on the community is shunned. That is what has kept their community pure and their community free. YAHWEH set that up for His people first. When you see trouble in the camp, know that YAHWEH wants to deal with that person, and sometimes the only way He can deal with them is outside the camp until they come back to the priest clean. * * * Therefore Shall Thy Camp Be Holy The Baptist and Pentecostal churches don't do this because they are churches, and churches are not Israel. When I say we are not a church, I mean it. We are a house of Israel. We go by the Torah, and the New Testament matches the Torah completely. They agree with one another one hundred percent. And the camp is the dwelling place of YAHWEH. It is the garden where He walks in the cool of the day. Wherever the presence of YAHWEH is walking, that is the camp. In the wilderness, the camp was wherever the Tabernacle stood. They were a people of the presence. Look how long and detailed the cleansing ritual for the leper is: two birds, cedar wood, scarlet and hyssop, running water, the shaving, the washing, the waiting seven days, the trespass offering, the blood and oil on the right ear, thumb and great toe (Leviticus 14). Few rites of purification in the whole Torah are spelled out at such length, because few things do more damage to the camp. So we need to make sure we are never put outside the camp. And what puts us there is choosing to walk in rebellion to the doctrines and teachings of the Word and to the authority of YAHWEH's government on the earth. Here is why it matters so much: "For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee." — Deuteronomy 23:14 125 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Notice the first clause: YAHWEH thy Elohim walketh in the midst of thy camp. That is reason enough. He walks in the midst of us like He walked in the cool of the garden. We are the garden. In the cool of the day He fellowships with His people. And He said He is there to do something. To deliver thee. He means to deliver His people into Canaan land, into the Millennial reign. And to give up thine enemies before thee. He is there to destroy every enemy you have. That's what He's in the camp to do. Therefore shall thy camp be holy. Your camp, the congregation, the qahal, must be holy. That He see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee. "Depart from Me" Beloved, that is exactly what is going to happen on the last day. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." — Matthew 7:21–23 They will look up at Him, confused. Master, Master, I don't understand. I loved You. I cast out devils in Your name. I laid hands on the sick in Your name. You said a devil can only be cast out by the Spirit of YAHWEH, so I must have had the Spirit! And He will say, You worker of iniquity, of lawlessness, you have leprosy. An unconfessed, unrepented lifestyle in rebellion to the Word. I need you to go outside the camp now, until you come back to the priest clean, because what I am gathering must be holy. * * * Bring the Whole Life to the Altar So here is where the two halves of this chapter meet: the altar of prayer and the holiness of the camp meet in the same person. I cannot stand at the golden altar on Sabbath, lifting incense for the assembly, and then go home and tear the assembly apart with my tongue on Sunday. I cannot pray for my brother's restoration and then refuse to receive him when he comes back clean. The same mouth that fills the censer of the High Priest cannot spread the leprosy of the camp. Incense and gossip will not come out of the same mouth for long. One of them will win. So let the light lead you to the altar. Let the altar crucify your pride until there are ashes in the censer. Let the ashes keep the judgment back one more day. Keep the camp clean, so that the One who walks in the midst of it will see no unclean thing and stay. And if you have been put out, come back to the priest. He is already walking outside the camp, looking for the healing. You are in the dressing room now. The little room is coming. And the One who promised to meet us there is standing at the golden altar with a censer in His hand, waiting for His Body to fill it. 126 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE So pray. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 127 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER NINE The Key to the Third Door: The Golden Altar of Incense Directly in front of the veil, closer to the mercy seat than any other piece of furniture, YAHWEH placed an altar of incense. Whoever would enter the Most Holy Place had to pass it first. That is the claim of this chapter: prayer is the key to the third door, and a believer without a prayer life is locked out of the hundredfold, however much truth he has learned. The brazen altar deals with your sin. The golden altar makes you a priest. As Chapters 3 through 8 have shown, everything outside the linen fence is the camp. Inside the fence is the court, the thirtyfold. Beyond the first curtain are two rooms, the Holy and the Most Holy, the sixtyfold and the hundredfold. Out in the court stand the brazen altar, the cross of Messiah, and the brazen laver, which is baptism. Most readers grew up at one of those two pieces of furniture. The brazen altar is the Baptist church: brought to the altar, told you were saved, and told that was the end of the journey. The laver is the Pentecostal church: baptized in His name, filled with the Spirit, and told that was the end of the journey. And the problem with the Messianics, the Hebrew Roots movement and everyone in our camp is that we came through the first curtain into the Holy Place and thought this was the full revelation. We found the Sabbath, the feasts and the Name, and we sat down. Everything you do on this journey is bringing you into the fullness of YAHWEH. And never forget this: neither this ministry nor any other ministry has all truth. What we understand now may need correcting tomorrow, not because truth changes, but because truth is everything that is true, and no man has all of it. So never believe anything I teach you just because I taught it. The Bereans "searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so" (Acts 17:11). Make sure it lines up with the Word. Then, if it does, believe it. Truth is an ocean. The minute you dip a cup and fill it, YAHWEH hands you a glass. The minute you fill the glass, He hands you a pitcher. Thirty, sixty, a hundred. And then He gives you waters to swim in (Ezekiel 47:5). Our problem is that we think because we have some truth, we have arrived. Inside the First Curtain When you get into the Holy Place, your whole life changes. This is the place of isolation. There is a curtain that separates you from all the church members out in the courtyard. While you are in the court, you are courting. You're trying to decide whether you really want to do this or not. But when you go inside the curtain, it is time for the wedding. The consummation takes place in here. 128 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And that is where you disappear. Everybody starts asking, What happened to him? Where did she go? Where is that old man we used to know? He's in this room. He is becoming. He is being prepared for the priesthood YAHWEH has called us all into. When you get into the Holy Place, three pieces of furniture begin to work in your life and prove you're there. This chapter takes the first, the altar of incense, because it sits right in front of the third door, and it is the key that unlocks that door. Chapter 10 takes the menorah. * * * The Altar Before the Veil Exodus 30 describes the altar in detail: "And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of shittim wood shalt thou make it. A cubit shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof; foursquare shall it be: and two cubits shall be the height thereof: the horns thereof shall be of the same. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about. And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal. And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold." — Exodus 30:1–5 And YAHWEH says where to put it: "And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee." — Exodus 30:6 Right in front of the third door. If you are going to come into that third room, there is a piece of furniture standing in your way, right in front of the curtain, and it is the altar of incense. So where does prayer stand? Prayer, or the lack of it, is what is blocking your entrance to the third door. And look how close it stands to the mercy seat: where I will meet with thee. Of everything in that Tabernacle, the thing nearest to the glory is the altar of incense. That is how closely YAHWEH associates Himself with prayer. A Perpetual Incense As Chapter 8 showed from Exodus 30:7–8, Aaron burned the incense every morning when he dressed the lamps and every evening when he lit them: "a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations." A perpetual prayer life. Never stopping. Someone once asked Smith Wigglesworth, the man who mentored Lester Sumrall, how long he prayed. They expected him to say hours, because he was so powerful. He said he seldom prayed more than about half an hour at a time, but he never went more than half an hour without praying. That's perpetual. 129 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon." — Exodus 30:9 Notice the detail of what YAHWEH requires at the third door: no strange incense. He tells you exactly what may burn there, and nothing else will do. * * * Two Altars There were two altars in this picture. The brazen altar and the golden altar are not the same altar. They have two entirely different purposes. The purpose of the brazen altar is to deal with your sin. But until you learn what has to happen at the golden altar, you are not qualified to be a priest unto YAHWEH. Salvation begins at the brazen altar, and you enter the covenant at the laver. But you cannot be made a priest or a king in the court. The Christian church drops you off right there. But only the priesthood was allowed into the Holy Place. There are going to be a great many saved people who are not priests unto YAHWEH. You don't have to do a thing to earn the salvation at the brazen altar. It is free. But the golden altar is not free. YAHSHUA settled that in the parable of the talents. He said, in effect, I'm giving you this talent. When I come back, I want you to have earned more than I gave you (Matthew 25:14–30). And He said, "unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required" (Luke 12:48). Salvation is free. Your rewards are not. You will earn them. "If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward. If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire." — 1 Corinthians 3:14–15 Saved, and yet suffering loss. The free gift is at the brazen altar. The reward is earned at the golden one. From "Me" to "All Men" So what is the golden altar for? It was not for you to pray for the forgiveness of your sins. This is where you pray for the whole world. In the thirtyfold, it's all about you. When you move into the atmosphere of the Holy, it becomes about all men. That's where priesthood training is happening. In the priesthood, the priest reaches up to YAHWEH with one hand and reaches out to man with the other. That is the priest. Rome, of all places, kept a shadow of the idea. In their thinking you don't go to the Father directly; you go through the confessional of the priest. They put the wrong man in the box, but they understood that a priest stands between. 130 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE A priest is the go-between for the whole world and its Elohim. What is that priest doing daily at the golden altar? He is so close to the throne that he can hear the desire of the throne, and he is proclaiming into the earth what heaven is believing for. Whenever you pray, you step between a holy Elohim and an unholy world, and you bridge the gap. "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none." — Ezekiel 22:30 * * * Standing Between YAHWEH and America It is in prayer that you are holding back the judgment of YAHWEH on America. If YAHWEH were going to judge the nations by how outwardly moral their laws are, if He were depending on enforced holiness, we would already be finished. Yes, America is a Sodom and Gomorrah. But what you never understood about Sodom is that YAHWEH wanted to save even Sodom. He had no priests there. Abraham started at fifty. If we find fifty, will You spare it? Absolutely. Forty-five? Forty? Thirty? Twenty? Absolutely, because I'm not here to destroy. And finally: "And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake." — Genesis 18:32 I'm ready to show mercy. But I've got to have a priesthood. The whole Christian end-time message is a message of a god of destruction. But America still has a great many priests, and YAHWEH is still saying, What about ten? I'll do it for ten. Somebody has to get to the altar of incense and offer Him a savor that overrides the stench of the world. YAHWEH has to have a priesthood. "And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father" (Revelation 1:6). And the training for priesthood happens in this room, not out in the court. Out in the court you're rejoicing that you're saved. Out there you're praying, but it isn't for the world. In the court, prayer is for your own bills and your own family. Hearing the Heartbeat Behind the Curtain But notice how close this altar is to the Most Holy Place. Here you feel the heartbeat of YAHWEH. And the closer you get to that curtain, the louder the thumping of His heart becomes. "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." — 1 Timothy 2:3–4 Now you begin to proclaim into the earth what you are hearing behind the curtain. I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men (1 Timothy 2:1). We don't doubt it. We don't try to figure it out. We pray it, because we are learning the ministry of the altar. 131 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE There is something in religious people that can't stand the thought that YAHWEH might love somebody other than them. Pastor, what about the worst tyrants in history? Scripture shows that YAHWEH works even them into His purpose. He told Pharaoh, "Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up" (Romans 9:17). He called Nebuchadnezzar, the man who burned His Temple, "my servant" (Jeremiah 25:9). He "worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Ephesians 1:11). So, yes: pray for all men. It is not up to your holy religious mind to decide who isn't as good as you. But for the grace of YAHWEH, there go I. Until you fall in love with humanity, you have never loved YAHWEH. He told you to love your enemies because you are their priest. How can I be your pastor if I don't love you? Some have said, I want to be a pastor. You already are. You are the priests of the whole world, the pastors of the whole world. Love them. Get to the altar. Listen to what YAHWEH is saying about the future of the world. Feel the heartbeat. Feel what He feels, a love so great that He gave His Son for the whole world. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." — John 3:16 First the Teachers, Then the Nation People get confused, because YAHSHUA also said He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel (Matthew 15:24). He comes first to save the lost sheep of the house of Israel, then Judah, then the whole world. It's that simple. We ought not to make it more complicated than it is. Suppose I set out to bring an entire nation under a new government. The first time, I don't try to take the whole nation. I go and gather up all their teachers. I'm only here for the teachers this time. I bring them home, train them, and then bring them back with me to teach the whole nation. Now look around you. YAHWEH has arrested just the teachers, just the priests. That's all that has been taken so far, and most of us were taken against our own will. * * * Changing the Atmosphere The purpose of the golden altar was to change the atmosphere. Imagine how it smelled out in the court, with dead animals burning out there all day long. The outer court was the most foul-smelling place in Israel. When YAHWEH begins to burn you on that brazen altar, it is a stinky situation. But this was the throne of YAHWEH on the earth, and He doesn't care for anything stinky. So for Him to tolerate the stench, He said, I need you to stand right in front of My door and light the incense. Cover that stench. YAHWEH has senses. "And the LORD smelled a sweet savour" (Genesis 8:21). If you want Him to pass over some stinky areas in your life, turn on the prayer. 132 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The minute that altar was lit, the atmosphere inside that twenty-by-ten room changed. The smell changed. Prayer changes the atmosphere. I give you my word: if your life is stinking, begin to pray, and the atmosphere of everything around you will change. Morning and Evening: Thirty Seconds Is Enough This altar was to be tended twice a day, morning and evening. If you will light your altar twice a day, you will never miss Him. You'll always be right where He is. Many are working and busy, and can't pray for hours at a time. But it takes about thirty seconds to light a match. Just say, Father, I love You. That's all. You will change the atmosphere. The incense was burned only in this room because if you are going to have a heavenly life, you have to have a heavenly atmosphere. The glory is the atmosphere of heaven. So YAHWEH said, If I am going to set My throne on this earth, I need somebody to change the atmosphere of the earth. That is why you can walk into an ordinary room built for cooking and entertaining, and someone says, Father, I love You, and instantly the room is different. That altar is worship and prayer. It is the changing of the atmosphere. Work Without Worship YAHWEH's ministry had to be covered by a cloud of fragrance unlike any earthly fragrance. On the Day of Atonement the high priest could not pass the veil until "the cloud of the incense" covered the mercy seat (Leviticus 16:13). So no ministry on this earth is acceptable to YAHWEH without the covering of prayer and intercession for all men. Without it, it is useless work. Martha, Martha (Luke 10:41). If you are working without worshipping, it's all just work. "Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" — Ephesians 5:20 Giving thanks always, for all things. Thanksgiving is prayer. Thanksgiving is worship. When you are thankful for the good, the bad and the ugly, you are standing at that altar. For anyone reading this who has no prayer life: you have the wrong book. I am not here to impress you with my knowledge. I am trying to change you into an obedient, faithful, commandment- keeping believer. That's all the Father is interested in. Addicted to Prayer No incense will work at this altar except incense offered in His name. We have to learn the right prayer and the right character to pray in. As Chapter 8 showed, the High Priest in heaven holds the censer, but the incense, the smell, comes from us; we are His counterparts on earth. And here you become addicted to prayer. Not to knowledge. Not to power. To prayer. And as you begin to pray, you start wanting to go inside that curtain so badly you can taste it. That is how you will know you're in the Holy Place: when you are addicted to prayer. 133 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE We are not here for knowledge. We are here for wisdom and understanding, and this knowledge is not meant to make you smarter; it is meant to push you in, to be transformed into the glory of YAHWEH. We don't keep the Sabbath to go to heaven. We keep it because it is a symbol of what is happening inside us. If you are a Sabbath-keeper but not a prayer warrior, you are a Pharisee. If you're truly praying, you will want to obey Him so badly that you'll keep His day the way He wants it kept without anyone handing you a rulebook. * * * The Five Ingredients of Acceptable Prayer There are five ingredients in the only prayer YAHWEH will accept. YAHWEH did not want any strange smell in His house. It has to smell right. There is a smell of heaven. So read what YAHWEH required: "And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:" — Exodus 30:34–35 Tempered together. The Hebrew word is memullach, seasoned with salt. So there are your five: stacte, onycha, galbanum, frankincense and salt. But nobody can make it for himself. YAHWEH forbade it (Exodus 30:37–38). Only His priests could compound it, and only for Him. First Ingredient: Stacte, Prayer That Flows Willingly The word stacte means drops. It is the tears of the myrrh tree, and the oldest writers tell us the finest of it was the myrrh that flowed from the tree on its own, without the tree being pierced. It cries it out. It gives itself up willingly. So the first ingredient is willingness. If your prayer is offered only because it's time to pray, that's a strange fire and a strange smell. He wants stacte prayer. You don't have to pierce that tree. You don't have to pry it out. As a matter of fact, it comes out almost by accident. True prayer warriors pray by accident. You merely mention that you're sick, and before they know what they've done, they've laid hands on you. Make My fragrance with the stacte of the myrrh. I want prayer that comes from tears. Prayer that is not offered out of religion. And YAHSHUA is our example of stacte. There was no compulsion in Him. It was all voluntary. YAHWEH appointed the morning and the evening, but the hour was never the offering. The heart was. He doesn't want you approaching prayer because it's time. He wants willingness. And there will come a point in your life when the time of prayer becomes a willing thing, but you'll have to get there yourself. Nobody can get you there. 134 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Onycha, Galbanum and Frankincense: Prayer Refined and Made Pure The second ingredient is onycha. The word comes from the Greek for a nail or claw, a scale, and it had to be prepared by fire. It was roasted to draw out its fragrance and make it pure. As you bring YAHWEH stacte prayer, He will roast the onycha out of you. The burning of the Holy Spirit in your life produces the second level of prayer. You start off willing, and then He burns the next level of prayer out of you. Then come galbanum and frankincense. Galbanum takes its name from the Hebrew word for fat, the rich portion, and "all the fat is the LORD's" (Leviticus 3:16). The best of you belongs at that altar. Frankincense, lebonah, comes from the word for white. It means pure. When you come willingly and let Him burn you, you release a purity, and that prayer He will accept. Fifth: The Salt of the Covenant But every one of those ingredients had to be bound together with salt. "And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt." — Leviticus 2:13 The covenant of salt (Numbers 18:19) was so important. Salt stops corruption. No perversion. No corruption. YAHWEH wants your prayer life uncorrupted. And here is the covenant your prayers must be salted with. YAHWEH made a covenant with the earth: "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth." — Genesis 9:11 He said, in effect, I am going to redeem this earth. And if you will be My priests, I will get them all. If your prayers are not salted with that covenant, they will be corrupted, because you'll think that altar is for you, and every prayer you pray will be selfish. The only way you will ever stand at this altar is when you understand your role in YAHWEH's covenant with all mankind. The Test of Salt: Pray for Your Enemies And YAHSHUA gave a test to find out whether your prayers are corrupt: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;" — Matthew 5:44 Pray for your enemies. The only way you can pray for your enemies is if you have the salt. If you can't truly pray for your enemy, you don't have the covenant of salt. Go back out to the brazen altar. You're not qualified for this one yet. "Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." — Luke 23:34 135 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is stacte, onycha, galbanum and frankincense, salted. That is the prayer of Stephen with the stones still flying: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" (Acts 7:60). If you are praying for your family more than you are praying for your enemies, you are not yet a priest. You've got corruption in your prayer. When you get close to the heart of YAHWEH, He is not more concerned about your little Johnny than He is about the man in the homeless shelter. He loves them all. He created them all. And one day He's going to get you to pray for them all, so that He can save them all. The altar of incense is the test of your priestly role. If you don't pass it, then when you get to the Millennial reign you'll be running around looking for your family instead of His family. It won't work that way. Now you know why YAHSHUA said, Who is my mother? And who are my brethren? (Matthew 12:48). Even as a boy He said, "wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" (Luke 2:49). And His Father's business is the whole world. If you have listened to preachers so long that you think YAHWEH is trying to destroy the whole world, send them all to hell and take only you to heaven, you cannot hear that heartbeat. We have to get beyond our Baptist, Pentecostal, Catholic and charismatic minds. Strange Fire YAHWEH gave a warning about this incense: it was to be pure and holy, unmixed with any foreign substance, and reserved for sacred use alone. In Leviticus 10, Nadab and Abihu offered strange fire before YAHWEH, and fire went out from before Him and devoured them. And in Acts 19, the seven sons of Sceva used the Name to cast out devils, but it was strange fire. It wasn't pure, and it wasn't whole, and the demon answered, "Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?" (Acts 19:15). * * * Your Profession Is Priest We don't believe we're the only ones; we believe YAHWEH has a plan so much bigger than FHMI that your mind can't comprehend it. But if you've been called among us, it has been for a very special purpose, and it isn't salvation. You can get saved at any church in town. You have been called here for priestly training. As Chapter 8 said, we are not a church. "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession." — Hebrews 4:14 We already have a High Priest. He has already passed into the heavens. Let us hold fast our profession. Ask a man his profession, and he says, I'm a carpenter. Your profession is priest. 136 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Because we have Him, let us never give up our profession. He is staying at the altar, so we are staying at the altar. Priests pray. "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin." — Hebrews 4:15 Our High Priest feels the pain of this world. And when you pray, if you don't feel the pain of this world, you are not praying at His altar. A priest's heart breaks for people bound in sin; he is not against the people in those chains. But by the grace of YAHWEH, that would be me. Without Sin at the Altar Yet without sin. After His baptism, He came up out of the water and walked without sin. And every man who comes up out of the water comes up washed. In the eyes of YAHWEH, he has never sinned. You read without sin and think, But that was Him. There is another group without sin, the hundred forty and four thousand, twelve times twelve, the whole company of overcomers: "And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads... And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God." — Revelation 14:1, 5 As long as you stay at that altar, you are without sin. I didn't say without mistake. Sin is rebellion. You'll stumble every day, but as long as you keep getting up and confessing, you are walking without sin (1 John 1:7, 9). And the only way you'll ever find the strength to get back up is by staying at the altar in prayer. He Prays for Us; We Pray for the World "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine." — John 17:9 He is saying, My part is to pray for those who are struggling now, just as I did. I'm praying for them, and while I pray for them, they are praying for the world. If you will pray for the world, YAHSHUA will pray for you. You don't even have to pray for yourself. YAHSHUA is praying for you. What a prayer partner you have! "He ever liveth to make intercession for them" (Hebrews 7:25). He intercedes for His priests, and He has called His priests to intercede for the world. He is praying for us so that we will never stop praying. * * * Intercession That Will Not Let Go It is in this room that we develop the love of YAHWEH and the love of humanity, the lost souls of this world. That love keeps praying for people who can't get it together. If we quit loving them, who will? 137 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You've heard the expression take hold of the horns of the altar. There they are, at the four corners. Once a year the high priest put the blood of atonement on the horns of this golden altar (Exodus 30:10). And out in the court, a man who fled for his life would run and catch hold of the horns of the altar and refuse to let go (1 Kings 1:50). Take hold of the horns and do not let go. Even when you are tired, you can kneel down and lean on those horns. Prayer is the key: the altar stands before the veil, and no one passes it with cold hands. Brothers and sisters, we must become those people who pray for all mankind. Take hold of the horns. Light the match. Salt the incense. Stand in the gap. And the One who stands at the right hand of the Father with a golden censer will fill the whole house with the fragrance of your prayers, until the veil before you opens and you walk into the little room of Chapter 8. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 138 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TEN The Light You Become: The Golden Menorah In Chapter 9 we stood at the altar of incense and learned the ministry of prayer. Now we move past that altar, deeper into the Holy Place, to the great menorah, the golden lampstand. Here is the claim of this chapter: without the full light of truth, you do not have the house of YAHWEH. You have a building. The seven lamps are the fullness of truth, and the light you meet in this room is not only a light you behold. It is a light you become. And that light was commanded to burn without interruption. "Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually. Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations." — Leviticus 24:2–3 The light is never supposed to go out. Continually. Every night of every year, from evening until morning, Aaron was to keep it burning. A statute for ever. When the Light Went Out Remember what Hanukkah commemorates, the feast during which YAHSHUA Himself walked in the Temple (John 10:22–23). The pagans came into the house of YAHWEH, defiled the sanctuary, and the light went out. That is the pattern. The first thing paganism and Babylon always try to do in the house of Israel is put out the light of truth, the full measure of truth. That is why YAHWEH gave such specific instructions about this light, and the main thing comes first. If there is no light of truth, you can still have a church. You can build a sanctuary. You can lay your sacrifice on the altar outside. You can be baptized in the laver. You can even pray. But if the full light of truth is not shining, you are in a building. You are not in the Tabernacle of the qahal. For it to be the true house of YAHWEH, the summit of it all must be the revelation of truth. Most of the Christians you know couldn't care less about the light. Why? They sacrificed for their sins outside. They were baptized outside. They have even come in and prayed a little. But the whole purpose of the Holy Place is to have the full light shining, the menorah burning on the table of your life right now. Seven Lamps: The Fullness of Truth The menorah has seven branches, and seven is the number of completion. "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." — Revelation 4:5 The seven lamps are the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, which Chapter 11 begins to open. The menorah represents the fullness of the truth of YAHWEH, the light of all truth. 139 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE We are no longer in the days of partial truth, the days of "here a little, and there a little" (Isaiah 28:10). Sooner or later, here a little and there a little has to come to the completion of the fullness of YAHWEH. And in this room, the Holy, there must be a love for the light. Follow the Fire to the Water The light of the menorah was a constant reminder to the Israelites of YAHWEH's light leading them to the land of promise. In the same way, spiritual Israelites are led by the light of His Word. In the days of the Tabernacle, when the pillar of fire moved, the children of Israel moved. The fire leads YAHWEH's people from one desert place to the next, and notice where it led them. From the bitter waters of Marah, the fire led them to Elim, "where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters" (Exodus 15:27). The fire will always lead you to water, more water for your thirsty spirit-mind. So understand why the light must be both continual and full. You can pray till the cows come home. You can be baptized until there is no water left in the baptistry. But if you do not come into the fullness of truth, you are not walking in the Holy Place. Paul said, "I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God" (Acts 20:27). You will not stand in the first resurrection while despising the whole counsel of YAHWEH. You must develop a hunger for a light that shines more and more every day. When the assembly lights the menorah, it is not going through a ritual. It is making a prophetic decree that this ministry is walking in ever-increasing light, in the fullness of light. And when you light it in your home, don't you dare turn it into a ritual. Tears ought to run down your face to know that the light in front of you is full: you have come into the fullness of the message, to know His Name and His appointed times. The menorah is a joyful thing in our lives, and we should walk in anticipation of the beauty it brings. * * * See Yourself in the Room Be careful to see yourself in this room. Look above the priest's head, at the ceiling, and you will see cherubim, woven into the linen of the inner covering (Exodus 26:1). They guard everything in that room: the altar of prayer, intercession for all men, which Chapter 9 set before you, and also the light. They are guarding the truth. Everything in this room should be a picture of where you are with YAHWEH right now. You have moved out of the outer court. You have moved into this twenty-by-ten, and the way is getting narrower by the day. This room must represent the room YAHWEH is moving into in your own heart and your own mind. Your whole life should be walked in reverence, because of the cherubim, the messengers of His holiness. Somebody once said, The angels of the Lord camp round about all Christians. No, they do not. That is not what Scripture says. 140 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them." — Psalm 34:7 Them that fear Him. Beloved, when you come into this second room, you will begin to live in holy reverence. There will be a fear of the things of YAHWEH that separates you from this world, in this little room, in this tent, away from the show, away from the pomp and the circumstance. In this little room is where you will find the messengers of YAHWEH. And until you see you, not only individually but collectively, as the Body of Messiah, you have not seen anything. The light you encounter in this room is not only a light you behold. It is a light you become. * * * You Are the Menorah "I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life." — John 8:12 When YAHSHUA said He was the light of the world, He was saying, I am the menorah. But He put a condition on it: "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world." — John 9:5 As long as I am in the world. He is now at the right hand of the Father. So who is the light of the world now? "Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house." — Matthew 5:14–15 He left a Bride, and He said, Now you are the light of the world. You have become one with the menorah. That is why the menorah is our symbol: you and I are now that menorah. Don't hide it under a bushel. Let it shine. That is why, when you light the menorah on the Sabbath, you are lighting up yourself. You may have come into the Sabbath dead tired and weary, but those seven lamps remind you that you are walking in complete truth, and that makes you the light of the world. A Light No One Outside Could See Here is the mystery of that room: this light was so bright, and yet no one outside the tent even knew it was burning. When the disciples urged YAHSHUA to eat, He said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of" (John 4:32). And to the overcomer He promised "the hidden manna" (Revelation 2:17). There is a place in YAHWEH where nobody knows or understands what He is doing in your life, except you. No one outside those curtains ever saw this light, except when the glory rose above the Tabernacle and stood over it as a pillar of fire. Daily, it was seen only by the priests. 141 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE This light is burning in the secret places of your life, revealing things in your heart that ought not to be there. You cannot hide from it. You can run from it, back out into the thirtyfold court. But as long as you stay in this room, that light is going to shine brighter and brighter. * * * The City That Needs No Sun Chapter 8 showed that the camp around the Tabernacle is a pattern of the New Jerusalem. It is also the pattern of that greater Temple, the Seventh Temple of Chapter 2, which you and I are part of. "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof." — Revelation 21:23 Consider the city. Twelve gates, and a name on every gate: the twelve tribes of Israel (Revelation 21:12). Those twelve gates are the tribes encamped around the Tabernacle, and that little square box in the middle, the Tabernacle, is the city. Inside the city there is no need for the sun. It has its own light: the menorah. There is a people who will be so lit by truth that they will outshine the sun. Why the Darkness Gets Angry You will be so full of supernatural light that it will make the darkness angry at you. You know how it is when you're sound asleep and somebody walks in and flips on every light in the room, and you want to throw something at them? That is what you are when you walk into this world. Something is shining out of you, a love that will not hate the world even when it wants you to. You are angering the darkness without saying a word. You are just shining, and you are already outshining the sun. "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." — Revelation 22:5 YAHWEH giveth them light, and they shall reign. Every time you light that menorah in your home, this is the Scripture you ought to read over it: YAHWEH gives these people the light, and they will light up the earth. There Will Still Be a Sun Many have read that verse and thought, There won't be any sun in heaven. How childish we have been. There will be a sun, because the Kingdom is coming right here to the earth. We are not getting rid of the sun and the moon. YAHWEH swore by them: "It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven" (Psalm 89:37). What He is saying is that the sun will pale in comparison to these people. Why do you think John, when he saw YAHSHUA in His glorified body, said His feet were like fine brass, His eyes like a flame of fire, "and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength" (Revelation 1:14–16)? That is the menorah inside of Him, the fullness of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, and that same light of the world is forming in your life. 142 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father." — Matthew 13:43 "And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." — Daniel 12:3 One day in the Millennial reign, the overcomer will be one of the immortals in the government. Be that overcomer, and when you shine you will be brighter than the noonday sun. There can be no shadow of turning in these people, because they are walking in all seven lamps of truth, in the sevenfold fullness of YAHWEH. The Head and the Body Be careful here, or you will think the menorah is a symbol of YAHSHUA alone. The menorah is not a picture of the Head alone. It is the Head and the Body together, the Body that Scripture calls "the fulness of him that filleth all in all," as Chapter 12 shows in full. He is the Firstborn of many brethren, and the menorah has seven lamps, not one. * * * A Work of Divinity and Humanity Here the teaching goes deeper: the menorah was a combined work of divinity and humanity. It was built by men anointed with the Spirit of YAHWEH. "See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah: And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship," — Exodus 31:2–3 The golden lampstand was divine because the idea came from YAHWEH. But YAHWEH never hammered out a menorah. He found a man and filled him with His Spirit, and that man built the work of YAHWEH. Many people have some messed-up thinking about how YAHWEH works. If He wants a light for the world, why doesn't He just build one, ship it from outer space and let it land on the earth? Because He builds through men. Through the Hand of a Man You will never receive a financial blessing that a man does not put in your hand. "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom." — Luke 6:38 Shall men give. YAHWEH Himself reaches you through the hand of a man. It is foolishness not to see YAHWEH in a man. The fool says in his heart there is no Elohim (Psalm 14:1), and the same foolishness can't see that YAHWEH fills men with His Spirit and uses them to build His work. Then He fills other people with that same Spirit and shows them how to help build it. 143 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Anointed to Cut Stones "To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship." — Exodus 31:4–5 You have to be anointed by the Holy Spirit just to work on building one of His houses. You have to be anointed to cut the stones for the house of YAHWEH. It all comes from Him. He fills your mind with how to do the work, too. Don't ever think you can do it on your own; you need His thoughts to know how to do anything. You may be building a room onto your house, and some days you stand in it and don't even know why you're building it. What am I doing? It isn't you. He fills our minds. Moses Spoke; YAHWEH Sent the Workmen "And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;" — Exodus 31:6 Moses, you don't have to build it. You just have to say it. I'll send you the men. I'll put it in their hearts and in their minds how to do what you have said. If you'll say it, YAHWEH will do it. Exodus gives the full list: the tabernacle, the ark, the mercy seat, the table, "and the pure candlestick with all his furniture" (Exodus 31:7–8), the altars, the laver, the holy garments, the anointing oil and the sweet incense. According to all that I have commanded thee, shall they do (Exodus 31:11). I commanded you, Moses, but they shall do it. I'll give you the vision. You'll say it with no idea what you're even saying, and I'll put it in the hearts of men and women to come together. They won't be like regular church folk. They'll put their hands to the plow and say, Pastor, we've heard the vision. Keep telling it to us, so He can keep showing us how to build it. The vision is supernatural before it is understood. If you can understand it, it isn't supernatural. * * * A Talent of Pure Gold Consider what they built. "Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels." — Exodus 25:39 A talent of pure gold: some seventy-five pounds of it, the most gold given to any single vessel of the Holy Place, worth millions in today's money. Now you know why the Bible says: "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." — Proverbs 23:23 The menorah is truth, and truth was among the costliest things in the whole house. What will cost you more than anything else in this life is walking in the truth. You will have to buy it. It 144 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE will cost you your pride, your reputation, sometimes your friends. And once you've bought it, don't you sell it. When YAHWEH tells you to do something, He normally tells you to do it right, and to do it with the best you've got. Its design was given down to the detail: seven lamps on a central shaft with six branches, and, counting them out of Exodus 25:31–36, twenty-two almond-shaped cups, eleven knops and nine flowers. Before the Lamp of YAHWEH Went Out Anytime you read of "the lamp of God" in your Bible, it is the menorah. "And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep; That the LORD called Samuel: and he answered, Here am I." — 1 Samuel 3:3–4 Consider the hour. "The word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision" (1 Samuel 3:1). Eli's eyes were growing dim. The night was nearly spent, and the lamp of YAHWEH was burning low. And before the lamp of YAHWEH went out, YAHWEH called a boy named Samuel. In the darkest hour of the priesthood, He would not let the light die. He raised up a prophet. That is the lamp supernaturally designed by YAHWEH, even though it was built by men. "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts" (Zechariah 4:6): that is the word that came with Zechariah's vision of a golden lampstand (Zechariah 4:2). One Beaten Work "Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold." — Exodus 25:36 One beaten work, not separate pieces soldered together. It had to be hammered out of one single piece of gold, the way a sculptor brings a statue out of a single block of stone. This is beaten gold. Truth has to be hammered into us, tried and tested. The word for beaten work, miqshah, comes from a root meaning hard. Truth is hard work, and it has to be beaten into all of us. One more thing is imperative: all seven branches came from one piece of gold. If you don't understand that, you will not understand what YAHWEH is doing in the earth. * * * The Government of YAHWEH in the Earth This is what separates the wheat from the tares: the lampstand represents the government of YAHWEH on the earth: the seven churches, the complete assembly, one beaten work. 145 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle." — Revelation 1:12–13 Hold on. Not seven lamps on one candlestick. Seven golden candlesticks. Plural. The Greek word is lychnia, a lampstand, from lychnos, a lamp. John didn't see one menorah with seven lights. He saw seven menorahs. We used to picture YAHSHUA walking beside one seven-branched lampstand, but Revelation tells you exactly what they are: "the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches" (Revelation 1:20). Seven complete assemblies, each one a menorah, and Messiah standing in the midst of them. Ten Lampstands in Solomon's House When the house grew from a tent to a temple, the lampstands multiplied. "And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left." — 2 Chronicles 4:7 There was one menorah in the Tabernacle; there were ten in Solomon's Temple. Ten is the number of earthly completion, and each menorah carries seven branches. Seven times ten is seventy. Now bring that number to the Feast of Tabernacles, the feast the nations will come up to keep in the Millennial reign: "And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles." — Zechariah 14:16 Over the seven days of that feast the bullocks offered numbered thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight and seven (Numbers 29:12–34): seventy bullocks. And Genesis 10 lists seventy nations after the flood. YAHWEH "set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel" (Deuteronomy 32:8): seventy nations, plus Israel. Seventy bullocks for seventy nations. And now seventy lamps burning in the house of YAHWEH, one for each nation. The light of truth is going to shine in every nation of the world. When you see that menorah, when you wear it, it is a promise of the seventy, a prophecy of what is coming. We once thought the menorah spoke only of the light of the assembly. The ten lampstands of Solomon's house show the rest of it: in the Millennial Kingdom the overcoming saints will be priests who lift up the whole world, and the light of YAHWEH's understanding will shine into the hearts of all mankind. 146 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Messiah in the Midst of the Lampstands That is what John saw on Patmos. He saw Messiah standing in the midst of the lampstands of His government, the light-bearers through whom He will bring the whole world to bow before Him. And when John saw Him there, "his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength." "That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father." — Philippians 2:10–11 He showed it in Solomon's Temple with seventy lamps, and He showed it again on Patmos: YAHSHUA will inherit the whole world, and every knee will bow and every tongue confess, to the glory of the Father. * * * The Lamp Has Not Gone Out Babylon always comes first for the light. But the menorah is the fullness of truth, seven lamps with nothing missing, and without it you can have an altar, a laver and a place of prayer and still be standing in a building. It was built by men YAHWEH filled with His Spirit, it cost more gold than any other vessel in the Holy Place, and it was beaten from a single piece. It is the Head and the Body together, seven assemblies with Messiah in their midst, and seventy lamps for the nations of the earth. So light your menorah. Light it with tears. You are the light of the world now. You are one beaten work, hammered out of a single piece of gold. And the lamp of YAHWEH has not gone out. * * * Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 147 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER ELEVEN Seven Stars and the Sevenfold Spirit John turned to see a voice, and he saw seven golden lampstands, with one like the Son of man standing in the midst of them and seven stars in His right hand. Then he looked at the throne and saw a Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, "which are the seven Spirits of God." This chapter answers two questions those visions raise. First, how is YAHSHUA, seated at the Father's right hand, in the midst of His assembly? He is in the midst of His churches through the stars in His right hand, the messengers who carry His voice. Second, how can there be seven Spirits when Paul says there is one? Because the one Spirit of YAHWEH shines in sevenfold completeness. And the throne in the midst of those visions belongs only to those who carry all seven. * * * The Prize of the High Calling "Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years." — Revelation 20:6 Most church people do not understand the difference between the first resurrection and the second, and if you don't know the difference between those two resurrections, nothing else in the Bible will make sense to you. The most blessed people will come up in the first resurrection. Not everybody is coming up in the first resurrection, only those who are blessed and holy. Everyone else comes up in the second. Even the apostle Paul did not count himself as having attained it: "If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after... I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." — Philippians 3:11–12, 14 Forgetting those things which are behind. That is the mark: the first resurrection. And those who reach it "shall be priests... and shall reign with him a thousand years." Not in a place called heaven. They will rule and reign right here on the earth. Thirty, Sixty and a Hundred The Tabernacle has three sections: the outer court, the Holy and the Most Holy. This book has been journeying through those three levels of your walk with YAHWEH. When you first come to Messiah at the altar and go down into the waters of the laver, you are a thirtyfold believer. You aren't producing much work or much fruit, because most people attend churches that tell them works is a dirty word. But understand this: salvation is free, but rewards 148 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE are not. And the Christian church has quit preaching about the rewards of the Kingdom. This ministry believes we have been called into alignment with the Word of YAHWEH, to become recipients of the rewards of the believer. What will those rewards be? Not ribbons and trophies. Not little stars added to your crown; those are all euphemisms. Luke 19 tells you: "And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities." — Luke 19:17 "And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities." — Luke 19:19 The reward of the believer is ruling and reigning over governmental territories on planet Earth, kings and priests unto YAHWEH. Now put that on the Tabernacle: •The ten-city believer is the hundredfold believer. He has pressed through the veil into the Most Holy Place, behind the third door. •The five-city believer is in the Holy Place, the sixtyfold, the second dimension of your walk with YAHWEH. He is faithful, and he will have his cities. But not in the first resurrection. His authority comes in a later age. The thousand-year throne belongs to the hundredfold. •And then there is the one who was cast into outer darkness (Matthew 25:30). As Chapter 1 showed, outer darkness is not hell; it is the outer court, where believers who never came into the light remain. They are not lost. But they never came into the consecrated life of a believer, and therefore they are unfit for the government of YAHWEH. "And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." — Luke 9:62 It didn't say he was lost. It didn't say he was going to hell. It said he is not fit: not fit for that inner court, that government of YAHWEH. The Narrow Way Many who have come into that twenty-by-ten room won't stay there. They'll go back out into the outer court, back to the religion they came from, back to Babylon, back to all the false teaching of the Babylonian church system. Why? Because out there all you have to do is believe. But in here, a work begins to happen in a person's life. That outer court is big. You can move around in it. You've got freedom out there: just believe, and you can do anything you want. But the moment you pass through the second door, the way gets narrower. "Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." — Matthew 7:14 The people in the outer court are saved. The narrow way is the way of the sanctified, the way of the kings and priests of YAHWEH. I want to be one of them. That's what I'm striving for. I want to hear 149 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Him say, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: enter thou into the joy of thy lord (Matthew 25:21). I'm glad He has treasures waiting for the believers. * * * The Tabernacle Is Only a Shadow It is easy to be amazed at the wood and the structure and stay stuck in the shadow. If we are not careful, that's all we will see when we look at this Tabernacle. Those were all shadows of something that was coming, and that shadow is not only of YAHSHUA, but of the Body of YAHSHUA. All of this is a shadow of what YAHWEH wants to do in your life. And if these shadows are not changing you, they are bringing you into bondage. That's all it is, more religion. It is easy to light the menorah every Sabbath and turn it into nothing but pure religion, failing to understand that if the same light is not being lit in you, the lamp on your table is dead. There's a reason we light these lamps, and it isn't to light lamps. It's to remind us every week that YAHWEH is lighting more and more lamps in His end-time Bride. Chapter 10 traced the light from the one menorah of the Tabernacle to the ten of Solomon's Temple and the seventy lamps for the nations. But all of those houses were bringing us to the one John saw in the book of Revelation, the Seventh Temple, the final Temple, which is not made with hands. That Temple is every one of us, being "fitly framed together" (Ephesians 2:21). * * * Seven Golden Lampstands "And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man..." — Revelation 1:12–13 As Chapter 10 showed, John saw seven lampstands, not one. Why seven? What John is seeing is the day when the assembly of YAHWEH, the qahal, the ekklesia, comes into complete maturity. Seven is the number of completion in the Spirit. YAHWEH always signs His name in sevens. The antichrist always signs his in sixes, 666, never quite making it to seven. So John is seeing an end-time perfected assembly, one that has come into full understanding of the mysteries of YAHWEH. How do I know? Because later in that same book the angel swears: "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." — Revelation 10:7 There will be a people who understand the mystery of YAHWEH. An Assembly Brought to Completion Over the past two thousand years there has always been an assembly, but it never came into full understanding. It walked in the light it had. Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira, Sardis, 150 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Philadelphia: it has been an ever-increasing light. Many of us grew up in the Philadelphian church. But now we have come into Laodicea, the last of the seven churches, and in Laodicea the light almost goes out. Yet John saw them: there will be a people who come into perfection and maturity before Almighty YAHWEH, and "in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne" (Revelation 14:5). "Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God." — Colossians 4:12 Perfect and complete. That is the number seven. That was the prayer of the apostles. If the apostles were praying for the assembly to come into completion, then they didn't have a complete assembly in their day. There is going to be an end-time people with more understanding than the people of the apostles' day. An assembly is being formed in this hour that will have a full and complete revelation of the Word of YAHWEH. * * * In the Midst: How YAHSHUA Walks Among Us Consider a word that stands out in that vision: in the midst. In the midst of the seven candlesticks. If YAHSHUA, the Son of YAHWEH, is in the midst of His people, then there is no such thing as serving Messiah without serving one another. He walks among us. He is what gives us life and light. But here is the question. He is at the right hand of the Father in heaven. So how is He in the midst of His churches? "And he had in his right hand seven stars..." — Revelation 1:16 "The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches." — Revelation 1:20 He is in the midst of His churches through the stars in His right hand. He has something at His right hand that speaks with a voice just like His. The stars are the angels of the churches. And when you see the English word angels, don't think of feathers and wings. The word is angelos, messenger. What is a messenger? A voice. A preacher. A man saying the same words YAHSHUA said, because YAHSHUA said the same words His Father said. Turn and See the Voice Notice what John says: I turned to see the voice. Not I turned to see YAHSHUA. I turned to see the voice. How do you see a voice? Because if you follow that voice far enough, you will see YAHWEH Himself. It is His voice, through His Son, through the messengers of the assembly. In the days of His flesh YAHSHUA always said, Don't look at Me; look to the Father. "I can of mine own self do nothing" (John 5:30). And one day you've got to quit turning to see the man and learn to 151 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE see the voice. There is a voice that rings the same through every mouth it comes from, and you will get to the point where you no longer see the man. You see the voice. Why didn't John turn to see YAHWEH? No man can see YAHWEH (John 1:18). And he didn't even turn to see YAHSHUA, because he understood that all the glory goes to the Father. When you truly become a man of YAHWEH, you don't want anybody to notice your person. You want them to know the voice. Seven stars to seven churches: a perfect message to produce a perfect assembly. Why only seven? Get out of your carnality. It is the complete voice, the completion of the end-time message. YAHSHUA didn't even have John looking at Him. He was showing him the messengers. If you don't follow the voices, He cannot be in the midst of the assembly. He comes into the church through the voice. You can have all the Bible studies you want, but you'll know when you hear a voice, when YAHWEH raises up a clear voice to make the path straight. YAHWEH Is Voiceless in His Own Church So many churches have no backbone for one reason: there is no voice in the land. The people are desperate for a voice of clarity. Nothing is clear anymore. We need a clear voice in the earth that says light is light and darkness is darkness, a voice that never changes. Our children are confused about the world, and then they go to church and get more confused, because all they hear in church is about a god who's going to throw them into eternal fire to burn for as long as he lives. The world puts them in hell, and then the church sends them to another one. There is no clarity of voice. Suppose YAHWEH wanted to speak to all of us from the throne, and everyone in the room refused to open his mouth. He could not do it. "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me for the land... but I found none." — Ezekiel 22:30 I sought for a man. And if He can't find a man, He'll find a donkey and talk through it (Numbers 22:28). He has to have a voice, because He is voiceless in His own church. That is why so many churches are dead. So how is He in the midst of us? Through the stars. When you begin to hear the truth, you have just seen Him come into the midst. And when you look past the messenger and begin to hear the voice, you become a solid rock, unable to be shaken. YAHWEH Never Did It Without the Messenger The more we come into agreement with the messenger, the more YAHWEH moves. Even Abraham did not receive YAHWEH without a messenger. Remember Abraham sitting at his tent door in the heat of the day: "And the LORD appeared unto him... And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him" (Genesis 18:1–2). It was men who walked up to him, messengers who came from the presence of YAHWEH, and yet the Scripture says YAHWEH appeared. Was it YAHWEH? It was YAHWEH's voice in YAHWEH's 152 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE messengers. You have to get past the messenger and understand that this is how YAHWEH comes into His assembly. Paul did the same. In the storm on the way to Malta, he stood up and said, Be of good cheer: there shall be no loss of any man's life among you. How did he know? "For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve, Saying, Fear not, Paul..." — Acts 27:23–24 YAHWEH spoke, and a messenger stood by him. That is the pattern. Wherever the Voice of Truth Goes Out I want to be a star. I want my voice to carry His message. And forget me: on your job, you can be a star. You don't have to be a pastor to be a star. Wherever the voice of truth is going out, there is a star shining. After all, it wasn't an angel choir that led the wise men to YAHSHUA. It was a little star over Bethlehem (Matthew 2:9). But there is only one way to be a star. YAHSHUA is at the right hand of YAHWEH, fully submitted to His Father, and those seven stars are in His right hand, in the same submission. "I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things" (John 8:28). It's okay to want to be a star. The stars represent the voice of perfection that comes forth in every age to bring the assembly to the number seven. * * * The Lamb with Seven Horns and Seven Eyes "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." — Revelation 5:6 Thrones always represent the government of YAHWEH. John said, I saw the government, and in the midst of the government stood a Lamb. A Lamb as it had been slain. A broken man. And on that man's head John saw seven horns. Horns always represent authority. Here is what he saw: a broken man who had been overcome by seven. Perfection had overcome imperfection. Maturity had overcome immaturity. "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man" (Luke 2:52). He grew, and John saw Him grown into perfect authority coming from a Lamb, and this is who sits on the throne. If your goal is the throne, and it had better be, there is only one way you will sit on it. You have to have seven horns. You have to be overcome by seven, by the full knowledge of YAHWEH, laying aside this world. No Beasts on the Throne Everyone who is waiting for the mark of the beast to come can stop waiting. It came. You missed it. It came centuries ago, when the church changed YAHWEH's holy Sabbath and transferred 153 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE authority from the Word of YAHWEH to the bishop of Rome. And the world took his mark, in the forehead and in the hand: in what it believes and in what it does. Those people cannot sit on the throne, because no beasts are allowed on the throne. Only Lambs. Only Lambs conquered by seven. Seven overcomes six. Seven wins the battle with 666. And John said, I saw a Man who had been conquered by seven. The Proof Is Love So what does it look like when YAHSHUA is in our midst? You see it in the ones who went to that Messenger, took the little book from his hand and ate it (Revelation 10:9–10), and it began to transform them until horns began to grow out of their brokenness. True authority with YAHWEH comes from your brokenness. That's how YAHSHUA dwells among us. And what will it look like? One word: love. "We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death." — 1 John 3:14 If Messiah is here, then the excuse so many use, Well, that's just who I am; everybody knows me, will disappear. If He is among us, love has to be about. And if there is anyone in the assembly you just don't want to be around, remember: Messiah ate with sinners and tax collectors. If you do not love, Messiah is not in our midst. Self-sacrifice is another sign: sacrificing for the work of YAHWEH without griping, bellyaching or complaining. Many have become convinced that Messiah is in the midst when prophetic words are coming forth, the sick are being healed and people are falling out in the Spirit. That isn't the proof. They do that in every church you can find. You'll find Messiah when they turn the church lights off, the show has ended, and there is love among the brethren: when you're helping one another, when you've had little spats with one another and that supernatural patience takes over. People are going to get on your nerves. But you know Messiah is in the midst when you can get over them getting on yours. I am determined, before I die, to help Him build a work where Messiah is in our midst freely and abundantly. No Murmuring in the Camp Murmuring drives YAHWEH from the midst. He said He hates murmuring and complaining. In Moses' day, Israel weren't bad people. They weren't murderers. They weren't adulterers. They were complainers. They complained, they complained, they complained (Numbers 11:1; 1 Corinthians 10:10). If you're a complainer, Messiah is not in your midst, because the moment Messiah is in your midst, "in every thing give thanks" (1 Thessalonians 5:18). You give thanks when you're broke. You give thanks when you're rich. 154 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And if He is not in our midst, here is what you are: a dead menorah. You've still got a church. You're still collecting tithes and offerings. You're still doing the dance. You're building beautiful new buildings. But there's no light, no truth, no life. Gentleness and Kindness And what about gentleness and kindness? Sometimes truth sounds mad, but truth is a sword: it cuts you, and then it heals you. Husbands, how kind are you? We preach in this ministry that wives are to submit to their husbands. But a true husband "love[s] his wife, even as Christ also loved the church" (Ephesians 5:25), and if you'll do right by your wife, I'll never have to preach submission to her. It'll come naturally. Be kind to her. Love on her. What proof do we have that YAHSHUA is in our midst? We know it by our love for the brethren. * * * Seven Spirits, One Spirit "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." — Revelation 4:5 What John sees coming out of the throne is the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. And when you see the Lamb with seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits, John is pulling back the Lamb and showing you what was inside the Lamb. He is exposing the throne. This is the throne you say you want to sit on. And when you pull back the Lamb's covering, whatever is in that Lamb has to be in the other lambs of YAHWEH: the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. But here is our conundrum: "There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;" — Ephesians 4:4 John says seven Spirits. Paul says one Spirit. Which is it? One Light, and Yet Seven Chapter 12 answers it in full, and the answer is in the light around the throne. White light stays white until it passes through a drop of rain, and then it becomes seven. That is the rainbow John saw "round about the throne" (Revelation 4:3), and Ezekiel saw "the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain" (Ezekiel 1:28). One light, and yet inside the white are seven. There is one Spirit of YAHWEH, and YAHWEH's Spirit shines in sevenfold completeness. As Chapter 12 shows, the Holy Spirit alone is not enough for a throne ministry; you need the whole Spirit. Filter It Through the Word Here is the problem: everybody says they are hearing the voice of God. But every word claimed from the Spirit has to pass through a raindrop of truth called the Word of YAHWEH, to break it into the seven Spirits and show the truth inside the light. 155 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If you don't filter what you heard from the Spirit through the Word, you won't get seven colors. You won't get beauty. You'll get confusion. When YAHWEH sends you a word, it has to filter through this Book and line up with every jot and tittle. And to everyone waiting for YAHWEH to speak: He already has, on every page of this Book. Open it up. Healing, Filtered Suppose you're praying, and you just know YAHWEH told you He's going to heal everybody you lay hands on. That word will not survive contact with Scripture. You'll say, I listen to God, not to man. Well, go ahead and pray for everybody and get embarrassed in front of the whole world, or find somebody with some wisdom who will show you in the Word what even YAHSHUA could not do: "And he could there do no mighty work, save that he laid his hands upon a few sick folk, and healed them. And he marvelled because of their unbelief." — Mark 6:5–6 Paul left his own traveling companion sick: "Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick" (2 Timothy 4:20). And when Timothy was ailing, Paul didn't send him a prayer cloth. He sent him a prescription: "use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities" (1 Timothy 5:23). When preachers say, Everybody here is going to be healed, they are setting YAHWEH's people up, and they make us look like fools. Filter it through this Book, and you will say: YAHWEH is able to heal everybody in this room. His Word says nothing is too hard for Him. I'm going to believe for everyone I lay hands on, and everyone who isn't healed, I'll believe for again the next time I pray. That is a word that has passed through the raindrop. Otherwise you get the messed-up church we have today. The Wealth of the Wicked Many have claimed for years that the wealth of the wicked is laid up for them, and they're still broke. Here is what the Bible actually says: when the Millennial reign begins, the nations will bring their wealth into the city of YAHWEH. "The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee" (Isaiah 60:5). "The kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it" (Revelation 21:24). That is when the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just (Proverbs 13:22). And if you want money for your ministry, here is how to get it: preach the truth, and the people will support the work. Don't manipulate. Don't lie. Don't twist the Word of YAHWEH. When you are truly anointed, provision follows you wherever you go. Filter it through the Word, or you will not have the seven Spirits. * * * The Eyes That Watch for Your Soul Look again at the Lamb. He doesn't only have seven horns. He has seven eyes, and those eyes represent the Spirit of understanding. He understands the mystery of YAHWEH. He has complete and perfect understanding of the Holy Scriptures. 156 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Notice: something is coming out from the throne and being sent forth into all the earth. YAHSHUA is at the right hand of the Father, and He is sending something out from Himself into the earth. "For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth." — Zechariah 4:10 Some people won't like what comes next. How do the eyes of YAHWEH run to and fro through the earth? In His messengers, watching for your soul. "And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding." — Jeremiah 3:15 "Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account..." — Hebrews 13:17 They are His eyes. They watch over the assembly. They are the stars of YAHWEH. That's how He is in His assembly; that's how His eyes run to and fro. And if the stars can be His voice, as this chapter has shown, if we can be His mouth, we can be His eyes. A Ministry of Accountability That is why most people don't want to be part of a ministry of accountability: there are too many people watching. We are all watchers. We watch for one another (Hebrews 10:24). We are the eyes of YAHWEH and the ears of YAHWEH, carrying something that has come out of the throne and been sent into the earth: the seven eyes, the seven horns, the seven Spirits. They have been sent forth from Him, and now they are in the midst of us. Righteous Judgment in the Assembly The biggest lie Christianity ever taught you is judge not. Scripture nowhere forbids judging, read in context; it forbids hypocritical judgment. Everyone runs straight to Matthew, where YAHSHUA said judge not. But read the next line: "Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again." — Matthew 7:1–2 Don't judge unless you are ready to come under the same judgment. And then He tells you to get the beam out of your own eye so that you can see clearly to take the mote out of your brother's (7:5). "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment." — John 7:24 If you're an orange, I'm going to call you an orange. If you're an apple, I'm judging you as an apple. I have the right to judge you, not by what you think you are, but by what I see that you are. Everyone who says they don't believe in judging should try letting a child go home with a stranger off the street. Oh, now you've judged him? We are commanded to judge in the assembly. "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God" (1 Peter 4:17); "do not ye judge them that are within?" (1 Corinthians 5:12). This is where we say, Your attitude needs some Holy Spirit on it. 157 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Why Revelation Was Written to the Messengers "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars..." — Revelation 3:1 Unto the angel, the messenger, the pastor, of the church. Why was the book of Revelation addressed to the messengers of the churches instead of directly to the churches? Because YAHWEH always filters His word through anointed teachers who understand the Scriptures and can bring you the truth, because many times you are not yet mature enough or seasoned enough to discern His voice. These are My chosen. These are the ones I'm bringing the message to. You tell the church. YAHWEH always honors delegated authority and order. "Let all things be done decently and in order" (1 Corinthians 14:40). And look at the sevens of that book: seven lamps, seven Spirits, seven churches, seven lampstands, seven stars, seven seals, seven horns, seven eyes, seven trumpets, seven vials, seven thunders. And yet Paul said there is only one Spirit. In every case, the seven is the completeness of the one. * * * Thunder and Lightning from the Throne Read Revelation 4:5 more closely: "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." First, the words there were are printed in italics in your King James. The translators supplied them. Second, the word lamps is lampas, a torch, a blazing flame, not the little clay lamp (lychnos). Third, before the throne is enōpion, in the very presence of the throne. Follow the context. The verse begins with lightnings and thunderings proceeding out of the throne, so follow that train of thought: seven torches of fire blazing in the presence of the throne, right alongside the thunder and the lightning that are coming out of it. John is looking at the Lamb and seeing what is inside Him, the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, all of it pouring out of the throne. The Thunder Is the Voice The first thing that comes out of the throne is thunder. "Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him." — John 12:28–29 Hold on. This chapter began with the seven stars, the voices. And here the people heard a voice from heaven, and they called it thunder, and they called it an angel. It is all one picture. The seven stars in His right hand are the voices, and here come the seven thunders out of the throne of YAHWEH (Revelation 10:3–4). Thunder is the voice of YAHWEH. 158 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And why does the thunder come into your life? To shake heaven and earth. "Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." — Hebrews 12:26–27 When you hear this message, it will clap like thunder, because it is jerking loose out of you everything that doesn't fit in the Lamb of YAHWEH. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken, so that the things which cannot be shaken may remain. Come Boldly to a Thundering Throne "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." — Hebrews 4:16 How can anyone come boldly to a throne with thunder coming out of it, lightning coming out of it, and seven torches of fire blazing in front of it? Here's why He says boldly: the thunder gets louder the closer you come, and by the time you get near, everything in you that should have been afraid of that throne has already been shaken off. All that remains is what cannot be shaken. As YAHWEH calls you closer, He empties you. Come closer. But it's loud in here! Come closer. You thought you were doing good, and it shakes you one more time, until all that's left of you is what He put there. The fire of that throne is not meant to destroy you. It is meant to purify you. The Lightning Is the Sons Something else comes out of the throne: lightning. When lightning passes through the air, it heats the air to roughly five times hotter than the surface of the sun. The air around it expands violently, and when it collapses back, that's your thunder. So who is the lightning? The thunder doesn't strike the earth. The lightning does. And remember, the Lamb's seven Spirits are "sent forth into all the earth." The lightning is the sons of YAHWEH. When a Father sends something forth from His throne, He is sending forth sons. The message doesn't produce the sons; the sons produce the thunder. The sons are the voice that brings the thunder, and they are coming forth from the throne of YAHWEH into the earth, carrying a piece of their Father's character, His very seed: "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God." — 1 John 3:9 When you find a real son of YAHWEH, he will have thunder all around him. That's why YAHSHUA surnamed James and John "Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder" (Mark 3:17). There was a message in their mouths. 159 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Hebrew word for lightning is baraq. And Scripture joins the arrow, the lightning and the son: "As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth" (Psalm 127:4); "and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning" (Zechariah 9:14). Brothers and sisters, we must become the arrows of YAHWEH, the lightning strikes of YAHWEH. The throne is the government of the sons of YAHWEH at the end of the age. They will be so on fire with the Word that they heat up the atmosphere of darkness, and their voice will be thunder. They will be sons of thunder. They will radiate the sevenfold, complete nature of their Father. They will be in the throne, and the throne will be in them. This is the picture of "the general assembly and church of the firstborn" (Hebrews 12:23), the lights of the world. * * * The Seven Locks of Samson The book of Judges gives a final picture: the strength of the Nazarite. "And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web." — Judges 16:13 "And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and she caused him to shave off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him." — Judges 16:19 Samson's strength was in seven locks. Seven horns. Seven eyes. Seven lamps. Seven locks. If you want to destroy his influence in Israel, you have to take away his dedication to seven. His power was separation and dedication to the throne of YAHWEH. When Samson's hair was cut, he lost his strength. And when the assembly lost her seven horns and traded them for this world, she lost her place with YAHWEH. The seven churches have lost their power just as Samson did, and Laodicea, the final church, had her locks shaved in the last century. But here is the good news. "Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven." — Judges 16:22 Down in the house of the Philistines, blind and grinding at the mill, Samson felt the seven locks growing back. And he stood up between the pillars of Dagon's house, cried out to YAHWEH, and brought the whole house of the enemy down (Judges 16:28–30). That is what is coming for the people of YAHWEH in the Babylon of this age. Your Strength Is in Seven The menorah represents the seven stars, the seven Spirits, the seven horns, the seven eyes, the seven lightnings. It's all in there, and we must be dedicated to seven. That is the strength of the Nazarite. 160 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And that is why, if you ever give up the seventh-day Sabbath, you lose your connection to the number seven. Satan stole the seventh day from the assembly of YAHWEH for that very reason. Your strength is in your seven. The Babylonian churches will tell you, Any day is fine, as long as you worship. But YAHWEH said: "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings." — Leviticus 23:3 He set the appointment. Those who are connected to the throne will honor His appointment. It shows your love for the throne of YAHWEH. It's like a young man asking a girl out on the first day of the week. I've got Friday night free. I'll pick you up at seven o'clock. And all week long she doesn't prepare, and on Friday she calls and says, Why don't we go out on Monday instead? He set the date. The Bride shows up. You Can't Preach Against Sin Without the Law The problem with the church today is that they don't believe in an Elohim who makes demands anymore. They don't believe He has requirements of any kind. They tell you the law has been done away with, and then they turn around and preach against sin. You can't preach against any sin without the law. "I had not known sin, but by the law" (Romans 7:7). * * * The Locks Are Growing Back The Lamb on the throne carries seven horns and seven eyes, and the Son of man walks among seven lampstands holding seven stars. Seven is the signature of completion, and the throne belongs to those in whom the one Spirit has come to sevenfold fullness. He is in the midst of His assembly through the voices He holds in His right hand. He is seen in the midst of it by love. And He sends His sons out from the throne like lightning, with thunder in their mouths. Samson's hair grew back in the house of Dagon. The seven locks of this assembly are growing back now. Do not trade them for anything. YAHWEH is calling a people who will love Him enough to say: Father, if Your Word says it, I'll do it. I heard Your voice. I heard it through a preacher, and that voice has awakened me. And Father, if I don't get it right today, I'll try to get it right tomorrow. And if I don't get it right tomorrow, I'll wake up the next day, and I'm going to get this right. * * * Adapted from Part Eleven of the teaching series Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 161 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWELVE The Fullness of YAHWEH in a Family of Sons Every father who has a son has reproduced himself. That is the whole plan of YAHWEH: to reproduce Himself in a family of sons who will govern with Him. The menorah shows that plan. One light burns at its center and six branches take its fire, until the whole lampstand is ablaze. This chapter makes a claim the church has missed for centuries: the fullness of YAHWEH is not complete in the Head alone. It dwells bodily in Messiah because His Body dwells in Him. When you move out of the outer court and come inside the Holy Place, you find three pieces of furniture: the altar of incense, the menorah and the table of shewbread. They represent your experience with YAHWEH at the next level of your walk. In Chapter 9, standing at the altar of incense, our prayer life and our intercession for all men, we found that we were still looking beyond it, toward the third veil. Prayer keeps us looking forward to the fulfillment of all things, when we will no longer see in part or know in part, but come into our fullness at the resurrection. Chapter 10 introduced the menorah, on the south side of the Holy Place, and Chapter 11 began to open its seven Spirits. In this chapter you will see that the menorah we light in our services is far more important than any of us ever realized. So make this your prayer: Father, help me build the meaning of the Tabernacle into my life. Don't let it remain knowledge. Let it become understanding. Content with a Touch You have friends who are wonderful people. They are Christians, good people. They have no desire to displease the Master. They have no desire to be evil. They love Him, and I believe many of them would lay down their lives for Him if they were asked. The problem is this: they have no desire for a throne ministry or the fullness of YAHWEH. They do desire a touch. That's why they go to church every Sunday: to get a dab. They want to walk into a service, have someone lay hands on them and get a touch. They aren't against the Holy Spirit. They want it. They just don't desire the whole Spirit, only the Holy Spirit. And they are walking in a place where they are welcome to walk. But you have been called into the fullness of YAHWEH. You have been called beyond a dab. You have been chosen to know more of His fullness, to learn obedience to the whole plan of YAHWEH. And contained within the menorah is the entire plan of YAHWEH for you and for me. * * * 162 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE A Father Reproduces Himself Picture a family: a father, with his son at his right hand. When a father produces a son, what that father has done is reproduce himself. YAHWEH has one desire, and it is to reproduce Himself. Satan reproduces himself too. No one reading this has ever seen Satan, ha-satan, the accuser. And yet every one of us has seen him, because we have looked into the eyes of his reproduction in his sons. YAHSHUA said it plainly: "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." — John 8:44 The only way Satan can reproduce himself in the earth is through his offspring. And the only way YAHWEH can reproduce Himself in the earth is through His sons. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." — Romans 8:29 This is YAHWEH's plan for the whole earth: He is determined to reproduce Himself in a family of sons who will one day govern the universe with Him. A Family Not Yet Complete He has determined that, just like a father, His family will only be complete when the sons have come. And seven, the number of the menorah, represents completion. YAHWEH's fullness has no extension in the earth until He has sons. The only way a man makes his name endure is to have sons, and for those sons to have sons. Then that man never disappears from the face of the earth. That is what YAHWEH is doing. His whole plan has been to take His character, His love, His joy, His peace, His longsuffering, His mercy, His goodness, and reproduce it in a wicked world. How? He must have begotten sons. And His purpose will not be complete until "God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28). That is why you must be baptized in His Name. What if I had a son who wouldn't take my name, only my title? You must be identified in the Name of YAH. You must take on that Name, and don't take it in vain (Exodus 20:7). You must take on His nature and His character. You are bigger than yourself, and yet you were nothing until you came into your identity. You are "of all men most miserable" (1 Corinthians 15:19) until something identifies you as the re-creation of YAH Himself. * * * The Family Name Is Elohim YAHWEH is the personal name, the first name if you will, of the Elohim. This may sound Mormon to some readers, but the family name to which every member of this ministry walking in divine alignment with truth is called is Elohim. How can that be? Simple. El means mighty one. That's all it means. Add the Hebrew plural, and Elohim is the mighty ones. 163 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE So when you hear the name Elohim, it is not the personal name of the Creator. His personal name is YAH, YAHWEH. But YAH is the foundation of the family of Elohim. From YAH come the El, and He is YAH Elohim because He is the fountain of the Elohim, the Father of many sons. And what word do our English Bibles use to translate Elohim? God. So the Elohim is God, and those brought into the family of the Elohim are what Scripture itself calls them: "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." — Psalm 82:6 "Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken..." — John 10:34–35 Mighty ones, raised above their fellows, called into the divine family of the Elohim, not by nature, but by the Name and the glory the Father gives them (John 17:22). That is why you are told to "walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called" (Ephesians 4:1). You have a calling above and beyond that of a Christian. You have a divine calling to come into the Holy Place and let the menorah, the altar of incense and the table of shewbread do the work of divinity in you. From Shittim Wood to Gold It is in this room that your transformation from humanity into Elohim begins. This room is the training ground, not the destination. The veil is still ahead of you. When you walk into the Holy Place, the sixtyfold, suddenly you have light you never had before. And light represents understanding. Suddenly you have bread that didn't come from the earth: the table of shewbread. When the disciples urged YAHSHUA to eat, He said, "I have meat to eat that ye know not of" (John 4:32), because He was in the Holy Place. Suddenly you have a desire for prayer that the world, and the church world, does not have, because you're in the little room. These are the three tools that are transforming you from shittim wood into gold. Everything that is going to transform you is in this little room. * * * One Light in Seven Places Chapter 11 showed the seven flames coming out of the throne, the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. Now go deeper. Look closely at the menorah. It looks like seven lights. It is one light, showing up in seven places. It all comes from the same lampstand, from the central shaft, the servant lamp. The servant lamp is one light. Remember Ephesians 4:4: there is only one Spirit. And yet there are seven Spirits of YAHWEH. Look at the menorah and you will see one Spirit, and yet seven Spirits: seven expressions of one flame. One Spirit of YAHWEH, expressed in the number of completion. The Seven Spirits Named So what are the seven Spirits of YAHWEH? The answer is simple. Isaiah saw them: 164 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" — Isaiah 11:1–2 Take the first phrase first: The Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him. The Spirit of YAHWEH is the Holy Spirit. There is no third person called the Holy Spirit; that is a Babylonian lie you need to be delivered from. There is no "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" as three persons. There is the Father, who is Spirit (John 4:24), and He is holy, and He is the Holy Spirit. And then there is the Son. That's it. Now count what Isaiah says will rest on the Branch: 1.The spirit of wisdom 2.and understanding 3.The spirit of counsel 4.and might 5.The spirit of knowledge 6.and of the fear of YAHWEH Six. But I thought there were supposed to be seven. You missed one, and it was the very first thing Isaiah saw: the Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him. Nobody counts that one. The Spirit of YAHWEH is the servant lamp, the one in the middle of the menorah that feeds and produces the other six. I Am the Vine; You Are the Branches Look at that center lamp again. You light it first, and then you light the other six from it. And that center shaft goes all the way down, and all the other branches grow out of it. That's why YAHSHUA said: "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." — John 15:5 Six branches, because six is the number of man. The men are the branches. But the seventh is Me. "The Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath" (Mark 2:28). I am the Master of the seventh. Here is the servant lamp: YAHSHUA, anointed by the Spirit of YAHWEH, and after He is anointed, six other manifestations come forth from His life. If you ever receive the real Holy Spirit, the same fullness will come forth in your life. This is the example for all of YAHWEH's elect. We must all bear the same seven Spirits of YAHWEH in our lives. And what is the first thing those Spirits did for Messiah? They gave Him understanding. "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD" (Isaiah 11:3). It isn't that we know more than everybody else. It's that we have come into the presence of the seven Spirits, and we have been given an understanding we often can't even explain to other people. We just know, because a light has shone more and more on our path. 165 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Holy Spirit Is Not Enough for a Throne Ministry Here is the problem: the Holy Spirit is not enough for a throne ministry. Only the whole Spirit is. Think how many people have the Holy Spirit. Lord, Lord, did we not cast out devils in Thy name? (Matthew 7:22). YAHWEH's power worked through them, because YAHSHUA said devils are cast out "by the Spirit of God" (Matthew 12:28). So how could that power work through them and they still be rejected from the throne ministry? Because they never had the whole Spirit. They never moved into the fullness and understanding of the mystery of YAHWEH. They had no desire for greater light. For anyone in whom the Spirit hasn't yet opened that door, the light is too bright. "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). If you have come into the fullness of YAHWEH, this message does not overwhelm you. It ignites you. And even if you can't explain it to anybody, you know it. Somebody says, Brother Vaughn, I can't explain this to anyone. Maybe you aren't supposed to explain it. Maybe you are supposed to walk in it. Not everyone is gifted to teach, but every one of you is anointed to walk in the fullness of YAH. * * * He Left a Menorah in the Earth Tell a Christian, Did you know that Jesus is not the light of the world? and you will be called a blasphemer and a heretic. But as Chapter 10 showed, YAHSHUA put a condition on it: "As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world" (John 9:5), and before He left He told His Body, "Ye are the light of the world" (Matthew 5:14). The same seven Spirits that rested on Him will rest on you. You are now the menorah. YAHSHUA is gone. He is at the Father's right hand. But He left a menorah in the earth, and He is the servant lamp who has lit all seven Spirits of YAHWEH in our lives. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised," — Luke 4:18 What did Isaiah say about the Root of Jesse? The Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him. And now YAHSHUA stands up in Nazareth and says, I am the one that Spirit is resting upon. Always Joined to a Throne Look how often the Bible speaks of the seven Spirits, and look where they always are: "Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;" — Revelation 1:4 "These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars..." — Revelation 3:1 166 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." — Revelation 4:5 "...stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." — Revelation 5:6 Your Bible talks this much about the seven Spirits, and most people have no idea what they are. And where are the seven Spirits always found? With the throne. With the government. Why does that matter? As this chapter began, there are great Christians in this world, good people, with no desire for a throne ministry, no desire to be in the government. So you can't be upset when they come short of it. They show no desire for it. They are not called to it. Quit driving yourself batty hoping somebody will believe like you believe. Stop trying to convince them. If you will embrace this truth and let it embrace you, you will find out who's called to it and who isn't. Leave them alone. Let them love the Master in their measure. They will not be on the throne. And even Paul said he had not yet attained it (Philippians 3:12–14). The only people who will govern with Messiah are those with the seven Spirits of YAHWEH operating in their daily lives, day in and day out, not just on your good spiritual days. You have become the throne. And what holds up the throne? The seven Spirits of YAHWEH. * * * The Rainbow Government "And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald." — Revelation 4:3 Why a rainbow? Because John is looking at a rainbow government. One rainbow, seven colors. The government of Messiah is a rainbow government: one rainbow with seven aspects, seven nuances, seven brilliantly shining colors of one light. The menorah is the rainbow. That's why Satan has tried to take the rainbow. The rainbow is the seven and the one. It is the sign of the government of YAHWEH on the earth, which Satan is trying to supplant with his own. White light is the beginning of every color, and the colors all come out of it. The seven colors of that rainbow are the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, and so are the seven lamps of fire, the seven horns and the seven eyes. If you don't look like that rainbow, you will not be allowed on that throne. You must be filled with the one Holy Spirit, and it must begin to branch out into every area of your life with the seven characteristics of Almighty YAHWEH. The First Rainbow Was a Promise Why does Satan want the rainbow? Because the first rainbow that ever appeared to men was a promise, a covenant from YAHWEH: 167 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth... I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth." — Genesis 9:11, 13 The rainbow was the promise of a coming world government filled with His goodness and His mercy. John saw a coming government founded on a rainbow promise, not a government coming to destroy the earth or destroy mankind. This government is coming to bring joy in the morning (Psalm 30:5). John saw a throne established on a promise: a government of goodness and mercy under which all the inhabitants of the earth will be governed in righteousness. And every one of those governors will have the rainbow in their lives: goodness, mercy, longsuffering, the fear of YAHWEH, the spirit of wisdom, understanding. Every one of them will be fully matured. The rainbow is the sign of a fully matured carrier of the light. From a Drop to a Rainbow You start off with the white light of the Holy Spirit. You come down to the altar in repentance, you go down into the water in His Name, and you get a drop of that white light. Oh, yes, Brother Vaughn, we all have the Holy Spirit. But once the white light drops in, it has to be filtered through the Word. The Word is where we filter the Holy Spirit. And from that Word, as we grow into the fullness of Messiah, the little white light of the Holy Spirit matures into seven characteristics that look just like your Father. That is how the Father reproduces His seven Spirits in a son. The Father has not finished reproducing Himself just because you received the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the earnest, the down payment of our inheritance, as Chapter 13 shows in full. It is the seed, "his seed remaineth in him" (1 John 3:9), the first drop. It is not until that seed matures through your study of the Word that you begin to become the fullness of YAHWEH. Look at that throne. That is what you were promised. We sing about mansions in heaven, but heaven was never your home. The inheritance is a share in the government of the earth, if you will develop these seven colors. The seven characteristics are drawn out one by one from the single white light, the way a prism draws them out. It is not your job to override the colors. It is your job to let the colors override you. YAH is developing this in all our lives. * * * The Fullness Doctrine The fullness doctrine is of great importance, and I want to make it plain. There is a scripture that confuses many people: "For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;" — Colossians 1:19 "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." — Colossians 2:9 168 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE First, there is a word you need to retire from your mouth. In Colossians 2:9, the Greek word is theotēs (Strong's 2320), and it means deity, divinity. "Godhead" is simply old English for Godhood. But people hear it today and think of a committee: three in the Godhead. There is no "three in the Godhead" anywhere in your Bible. Read it as it means: "in him dwelleth all the fulness of deity bodily." Read the Verse Above It: Colossians 1:18 When you first read those verses, they seem to say that all of the Deity dwelt in the man YAHSHUA. But read the whole chapter, and that is not what the verse is saying. It is saying something far more powerful. First, who is YAHSHUA? "These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;" — Revelation 3:14 How is He "the beginning of the creation"? YAHSHUA is the beginning of an entirely new creation on planet Earth. And what is that creation? The family of YAH, the Elohim. He is the first. He is the beginning of this new creation, but He is not all of it. He is the beginning of the one new man being built today (Ephesians 2:15). And what is the beginning of your body? The head. Now go up one verse from Colossians 1:19. That's all you ever have to do when you study: go one verse above it and find the subject. "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." — Colossians 1:18 He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning. He is the firstborn from the dead. He has the preeminence. He is the Head of the fullness. And who dwells in Messiah? The church. The Body. The subject of the passage is the church. So if YAHWEH is going to fill all in all, then the fullness of all the sons is not finished until the mystery of YAHWEH is finished (Revelation 10:7). But YAHWEH chose that in Messiah all of us would dwell bodily. The fullness dwells in Him because we dwell in Him, and Paul says so in the very next breath of chapter 2: "And ye are complete in him" (Colossians 2:10). Some readers will resist this. Let the next verses settle it. Hidden in the Head Every child of YAHWEH is recognized in Messiah. That's why we pray in His Name. The Father does not recognize any of us outside of Messiah. When you take His Name in baptism and put your faith in Him, you are raised into heavenly places, into the Head. He bundles every one of you up and hides you in Messiah. "Your life is hid with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3). And that is how the fullness dwells in Messiah bodily. You have to understand this, or you won't understand anything. Quit letting "Jesus" be your cop- out. Quit saying, It's all in Him. It's all in us, and we're all in Him. 169 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH recognizes every sinner in Adam. Every man of the flesh is hidden in Adam, the federal head, and "in Adam all die" (1 Corinthians 15:22). But when you are begotten by the Holy Spirit, you are no longer reckoned in Adam. You have been moved: "Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:" — Colossians 1:13 Transferred from darkness into light. Now you have the light in you, and every one of you is part of the all in all, hidden in the Head of the Body. That is how the fullness of YAHWEH is in Messiah: because you are in Messiah. The Fullness of Him That Filleth All in All "And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all." — Ephesians 1:22–23 He has put all things under His feet, and who are His feet? His Body. "The God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly" (Romans 16:20). And He gave Him, as Head over all things, to the church. The Head over everything has been given to the church. Now what is the subject? The church, the ekklesia, the qahal. Read it again: which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. What is the fullness of YAHWEH? His Body. The fullness of deity is bodily in Messiah because we are the Body of Messiah. Without every one of you, the fullness of YAHWEH is not complete, because He is not full until He is all in all, and every one of us has been placed in Messiah, putting the fullness of YAHWEH in Messiah bodily. And why doesn't Satan want you to know this truth? Because it makes you as responsible to carry the light as YAHSHUA the Messiah was. It takes away your excuse for denying your duty to be the light. Come into your full identity. The seven Spirits of YAHWEH rested on Messiah. And if you are hidden in Messiah, then here is what is now in Messiah: the fullness of YAHWEH, the many sons, the many carriers of the light. * * * The Holy Anointing Oil "And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil. And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and his vessels, and the altar of incense, And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot. And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy. And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may minister unto me in the priest's office." — Exodus 30:25–30 A man must be anointed with the seven Spirits of YAHWEH to sit on the throne of the priesthood. 170 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Under the Torah, the anointing was the ceremony by which the priests were installed in their service. They were anointed into their office with a peculiar ointment, the holy anointing oil, and it was unlawful for anyone else to use it (Exodus 30:32–33). Why? Because the oil is the picture of the Holy Spirit, by which we, the true royal priesthood, are sealed as sons of YAHWEH. Only the consecrated ones, the priests, were ever anointed with it. And Peter tells us who the priests of Aaron were picturing: "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 2:5 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people..." — 1 Peter 2:9 And Hebrews tells us who the high priest is: "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;" — Hebrews 3:1 YAHSHUA is our High Priest, but He is not the only priest. Just as in every house of YAHWEH, and we are the Seventh Temple of Chapter 2, everything that was in the earlier houses is in this one. The high priest could not do the work of the priesthood without priests. Anointed at Thirty, at the Jordan Aaron was the high priest, and he had oil poured on his head. And just like Aaron, YAHSHUA, at about thirty years of age (Luke 3:23), at the Jordan River, had that same anointing placed on Him. This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, and the Spirit came down upon Him like a dove (Luke 3:22). And when He returned from the wilderness in the power of the Spirit, He stood up in Nazareth, took the scroll and read: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek..." — Isaiah 61:1 I am now anointed. That is the center lamp of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. And Peter preached: "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." — Acts 10:38 Isaiah said He would be anointed with the Spirit of YAHWEH. Peter said He was anointed with the Holy Ghost. Isaiah's "Spirit of YAHWEH" and Peter's "Holy Ghost" are the same Spirit. Remember the first of the seven: the Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him. YAHSHUA was anointed by His Father with His Father's own Spirit. That is why the Trinitarian doctrine is a lie. But look at the whole pattern of His life. Before the Jordan, He "increased in wisdom and stature" (Luke 2:52) and "learned... obedience by the things which he suffered" (Hebrews 5:8). At the Jordan, the Spirit rested on Him. And after the Jordan, He went forth "full of the Holy Ghost" (Luke 4:1) and 171 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE returned "in the power of the Spirit" (Luke 4:14), demonstrating in one acceptable year everything the Father had formed in Him. What you received when you got the Holy Spirit is not enough. You have to grow into the seven-colored rainbow. You have to become the seven aspects of your Father in heaven, just as YAHSHUA did. Poured on the Head Here is something you must always remember. "Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him." — Exodus 29:7 The anointing oil was poured only on the head of the high priest, the official head of the house of Israel's priesthood (Leviticus 8:12). His sons were consecrated too, but with oil sprinkled on them and their garments, mingled with the blood of the altar (Leviticus 8:30). The pouring was on the head. Why? Because if you were walking in alignment with the high priest, you were identified in the high priest. When he was anointed, every one of you walking in obedience to him shared in it. Bodily. The fullness of the priesthood was in the high priest, not because he had all of YAHWEH's Spirit to himself, but because he carried the whole priesthood in himself. The priests who recognized the anointing on the high priest and came under submission to it were recognized in that anointing. How do we know we are hidden in the High Priest? When the high priest rose in the morning and gave the orders for where each man would serve that day, and you went to your duty, you were walking in alignment with the authority of the head. It Runs Down the Whole Body Now hear what David said about that oil: "Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;" — Psalm 133:1–2 Where does the ointment start? On the head. And then it runs down the whole body. Why? Because if you are in alignment with the head, every blessing on the head comes down to the body. That is why you will see people come into a ministry, and before long you begin to see what is in the head expressed throughout the whole body. When you come into alignment and perfect order, the oil runs down. "Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." — 1 Chronicles 16:22 Who was He talking about? Not the high priest alone. He was speaking of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their households (Psalm 105:9–15), a people who had never had a drop of oil poured on them. And yet YAHWEH called them My anointed. When you come into alignment and walk the life of obedience to the Word, the fullness of YAHWEH that is on the Head flows through the entire Body, to all who walk in His order. YAHSHUA is our Head. 172 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you..." — 1 John 2:27 Our anointing comes from YAHSHUA. And "if ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7). It is just as if the Head Himself were asking. * * * When You Look at the Menorah So as you come into this Holy Place, from now on, when you look at the menorah, you should see a rainbow. There is only one menorah, but seven lights. You should see the one in the seven, and the seven in the one. And you should see that the light in the middle, by itself, is not the fullness of YAHWEH. It is not the fullness until He has reproduced Himself in many sons. The fullness of deity dwells bodily in Messiah because His Body dwells in Him. Without His sons, the Father's house is not yet full. The servant lamp is lit. Now let the six branches take His fire, until the whole lampstand blazes with one light in seven places, and the Father looks at His house and sees His own likeness in a family of sons. * * * Adapted from Part Twelve of the teaching series Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 173 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER THIRTEEN The Earnest and the Spirit of Wisdom When you received the Holy Spirit, YAHWEH lit one lamp: the center lamp of the menorah. Paul calls it "the earnest of our inheritance," a down payment, an engagement ring. A ring is not a marriage, and one lamp is not a menorah. This chapter makes two claims. The Holy Spirit you received is a pledge that YAHWEH expects to see grow into His whole sevenfold Spirit. And the first lamp to catch fire from the center is the Spirit of wisdom. Chapters 10 through 12 introduced the menorah, and Chapter 12 named its seven Spirits; this chapter lights the first two. Before you understood any of this, when you looked at the Tabernacle all you saw was a tent in a wilderness. But Paul said everything in the Old Testament was written for our example (1 Corinthians 10:11). It is a shadow of great spiritual realities in our lives. YAHWEH did not put that Tabernacle in the wilderness just to pitch a tent. He wanted to show you what every house of His would look like. Solomon built his Temple on that pattern. The exiles who came home from Babylon rebuilt on that pattern, and Herod expanded what they built, the house whose Western Wall still stands in Jerusalem today. And all of Christianity is now waiting for yet another temple of stone. Christianity can wait. There is never going to be another temple of stone, because YAHWEH has already begun building the final one, the Seventh Temple. He started it on the day of Pentecost, when He filled us. Living stones instead of dead stones. This is the final house of YAHWEH. But you cannot understand this Temple if you don't understand the pattern it was built on, the Tabernacle of Moses. If you do not know the Tabernacle, you will not know this Temple, its purpose or what it is doing in you. * * * The Ticket to Heaven The outer court is where all Christians live. That's where the vast majority of believers are. First comes Mount Calvary. Every believer has to go there first. You cannot get in without Calvary. This ministry believes in Mount Calvary, the shed blood of Messiah and the requirement for that blood. After Calvary comes the laver: water baptism. I don't care what any church teaches you; it is not just a good idea. It is required. You cannot return to the covenant without baptism. And for those called to the priesthood, it is only the beginning. Christians who aren't trying to become priests don't think baptism matters. They are wrong. But when you are standing outside that curtain, your eyes should be on the veil, drawn like a magnet into the second experience in YAHWEH. 174 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Here is the problem with Christianity. They bring you to the altar and say, Congratulations, you've arrived. You accepted Jesus. Here's your ticket to heaven. You're good to go. So you wake up the next morning and think, You know what? I feel like cussing my neighbor out today, and I believe I will, because I've already got my ticket. I said the sinner's prayer. I'm good to go. Someone does you evil, and a scripture torments you: you are never to return evil for evil, but always good for evil (Romans 12:17, 21). But you're thinking, What's the point? I've got my ticket. Why live the life of Messiah when I'm already saved? That is the thinking of modern Christianity. But there is a reason there are curtains over this tent: it is not for everybody. Saved People and Sanctified People When people hear me preach, they think I'm saying you have to go inside to be saved. That is not what we teach. If you say you're saved, that's between you and YAHWEH. But I will tell you this: what YAHWEH is looking for is not saved people. He is looking for sanctified people. Sanctification happens inside that little tent, the little room Chapter 8 showed you, where YAHWEH said He would meet His people. What begins to happen in that little room is the tearing away of your flesh and all the things you've held on to. Paganism is not allowed in that room. Your Halloween is not allowed in there. The things of this world have to be left outside. You cannot go in there and be a priest unto YAHWEH with them. The Tools of Time When you get into that room, you find three tools that YAH created. I call them the tools of time, because they are creating within you, in time, what the Bible calls "a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory" (2 Corinthians 4:17). The room is twenty by ten, the Holy, the sixtyfold. It is tighter than the outer court. You had a lot of room out there on that fifty-by-one-hundred: room to do things your way, worship the way you like on whatever day you like. But when you slip in here, it gets narrower. YAHSHUA called it the narrow way. And when you get into the next room, ten by ten, it's tighter still. Many who have found this truth have felt YAHWEH tightening His belt around their lives. And when do we enter that third room in its fullness? In the Millennial reign. Ten by ten by ten, a thousand years. We enter it when we receive the new body in the first resurrection. That is the reward. But you press toward that veil now. And there is only one entrance into that third door, and it is in this room. Three tools are about to enter your life: 1.The altar of incense. You are going to become a prayer warrior. You will love prayer in a way you've never loved it before. 2.The table of shewbread. The Word of YAHWEH will come alive to you as never before. 3.The menorah. Chapters 10 through 12 introduced it; this chapter lights its first two lamps. 175 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Cockroaches Love the Dark The menorah they had was as tall as a man, and its lamps lit that little room so brightly that you knew you were walking in the light. When you come into this message, here is what happens. Cockroaches thrive in the dark. You don't know they're in your house until you turn on the light. There are things in the closets of your life that you've been able to hide, and your excuse was, I love the Lord; I'm saved. So nobody turned on the light of truth, because you were saved. But when you come into this room, the light comes on, and the things you used to get by with, you can't get by with anymore. Everything starts narrowing up in your life. And you have to spend a lifetime in this room being prepared and molded by the three tools of time. A Hundred and Twenty Years Every one of us is running out of time. When YAHWEH created man, men lived nearly a thousand years. But they did not understand the one purpose of their lives: to be transformed from an animal into a son of YAHWEH. And here is what YAHWEH said: "And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years." — Genesis 6:3 I'm cutting your years down to a hundred and twenty. Why? Because if you are not changed in that span of time, you have wasted the reason you exist. That is a wasted life. If you are not changed, you were born an animal, and you die an animal. YAHWEH even tolerated polygamy in the Old Testament. He told David, "I gave thee... thy master's wives into thy bosom" (2 Samuel 12:8). Why did He allow it then? It is the same principle YAHSHUA gave about divorce: "Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so" (Matthew 19:8). Before the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, men could not master themselves. They were animals. But now He gives you power over your impulses, and He says, Be the husband of one wife (1 Timothy 3:2). You are not an animal. In this room, you will lose your animal nature. You will be broken in this room. * * * The Word That Examines You "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." — Revelation 5:6 This menorah is the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. It is also the seven eyes of YAHWEH. Chapter 11 read those eyes as the messengers who watch for your soul. Here they are seen from another side. 176 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE At the center of those seven eyes is the Word of YAHWEH. When you open the Word, you are no longer being examined by one eye. Seven eyes pop out at you. The fullness of YAHWEH begins to look you over to see whether you're starting to look like your elder brother YAHSHUA at all. "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword... and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." — Hebrews 4:12 Why do you need seven eyes? Because you don't have the ability to judge yourself. "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9). The seven eyes of YAHWEH can know it. Just when you thought you were doing good, you find one little scripture that says love your enemy, and that eye says, Did you do it? You will wish you could make those eyes look away. He's staring at places in your life you thought didn't matter. You open the Word and it says, if your brother has offended you, go to him (Matthew 18:15). And those eyes start looking at you, and the seven flames of YAHWEH, the fire from those eyes, begin to burn you. Why? Because when we put you in the water, you chose to walk through that second door into the room of the seven eyes. It is the room of the eyes and the room of the seven horns, and horns represent authority. You have given YAHWEH authority to examine you from top to bottom, front to back. Check me out, Father, because somehow I must become like YAHSHUA. The Eyes and the Sabbath Here is what happens in this room. You'll be reading your Bible and come to Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy (Exodus 20:8). The seventh day, which is what Sabbath means: the one day YAHWEH Himself blessed and sanctified (Genesis 2:3). Many preachers will tell you, Jesus is our Sabbath now, but there is no scripture for it. And then you open that Book again, and that eye is staring at you. I'm examining you to see whether you'll believe the truth or believe the preachers. They have one they like to throw out: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28). "I will give" is future tense. Read the next verse: "ye shall find rest unto your souls" (11:29). "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God" (Hebrews 4:9). That's their only scripture, and it falls flat. And then you read that YAHSHUA Himself went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, "as his custom was" (Luke 4:16). Oh, but that's just because He was a Jew. First of all, the Sabbath doesn't belong to the Jewish people. It belongs to YAHWEH. Well, Pastor, that was for the Jews. Then go read Acts. Paul is preaching in the synagogue on the Sabbath, and when the service is dismissed, who comes asking for more? The Gentiles. "And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath. ... And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God" (Acts 13:42, 44). Those are the eyes of truth. If you come into this room, get ready for the eyes of YAHWEH to search your heart, your intent, your desires, your emotions. And they will not care whether it hurts your feelings. 177 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Signature of YAHWEH As Chapter 11 showed, the sevens run all through Revelation, and YAHWEH signs His name in sevens while the flesh signs in sixes, always trying to be a seven and never making it. All of it is the complete perfection of Almighty YAHWEH. When you go into this room, you are going on "unto perfection" (Hebrews 6:1). Only those who understand the number seven, who revere it, celebrate it and keep it, like the seventh day of the week, are moving into the seal of YAHWEH. Pastor Vaughn, didn't they start having church on the first day of the week in the New Testament? That question needs its own study; here, note only the Greek of those verses: mia tōn sabbatōn, literally "one of the sabbaths." If you don't know how to study, you will never be approved by YAHWEH for the priesthood. Not for salvation; for priesthood, for kingship. Get this number seven. Wear it around your neck. We are the people of the Sabbath, and He is the Master of the seven. Only those who are celebrating seven have moved into that little room. All of the assembly kept the Sabbath until Rome changed it. They changed it from Saturday to Sunday because they hated the Jewish people. That's where it all started: anti-Semitism, rooted in the flesh. You have to come into the seven of YAHWEH. It is the Sabbath day that separates you. We are no longer living in an hour when a people is being separated from the world. A people is being separated from the church. It wasn't the world that messed this up. It was the church. The Menorah Is the Week of Creation All these sevens represent the seven Spirits of YAH. Look at your menorah: on each branch is one of the Spirits of YAH. And in the center, as the old song says, He's the center of it all: YAHSHUA, the servant lamp. This is the picture of creation. YAHWEH created the earth in six days and rested on the seventh. Count the lamps from one end: first day, second day, third day, and in the dead center is the fourth day, the day the sun was set in the heavens (Genesis 1:14–19). The fourth day is the center of time. On the fourth day, the sun was appointed to rule the day. And in the four-thousandth year, the Son of YAHWEH was born. Everything YAHWEH has ever done is in the menorah. * * * The Seven Spirits upon the Branch "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" — Isaiah 11:2 Chapter 12 named and counted the seven Spirits Isaiah saw resting on the Branch. When you come into the room we have all come into, if those seven dimensions of YAH do not begin to come forth in your life, you're headed back out to the outer court. In this room, YAH is doing a quick work, and 178 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE suddenly these seven dimensions begin to appear, and you'll notice them popping up in your spirit man. Why? Because you asked for them. YAHSHUA said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6). I am the menorah, the altar of incense and the table of shewbread. I received all of them first, but I didn't receive them just for Me. Everyone who comes into this room must find the way, the truth and the life. The Spirit of YAHWEH Is the Holy Spirit The Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him. What's another word for the Spirit of YAHWEH? This is why I am so adamant against the doctrine of the Trinity. The word Trinity is nowhere in your Bible. It was coined around AD 200, and the doctrine was hammered out at Rome's councils, Nicaea in 325 and Constantinople in 381. The apostles never preached it. But Pastor, the Spirit of the Lord is the Holy Spirit. You're right. I believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I just don't believe in the Trinity. You have to make a choice: the tradition, or the Word. And the Word is very simple: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." — John 4:24 YAHWEH is Spirit. And YAHWEH said, "Be ye holy; for I am holy" (1 Peter 1:16). He is holy, and He is Spirit. That makes Him the Holy Spirit. And when the angel came to Miriam, he said: "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God." — Luke 1:35 Whose Son is He: the Father's, or the Holy Spirit's? Unless the Holy Spirit is the Father's own Spirit, the power of the Highest Himself, the Son has two fathers. Rome's doctrine does not merely say, as I do, that there is a Father, a Son and a Holy Spirit. It says all three are co-equal, co-eternal and co-existent, and a church that holds it has broken the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Exodus 20:3). Co-equal? YAHSHUA said, "My Father is greater than I" (John 14:28). Co-eternal? YAHWEH "only hath immortality" (1 Timothy 6:16), and the Son was born, and He died. Co-existent? The Son was "made of a woman" (Galatians 4:4). He was in the purpose of YAHWEH from the beginning, but He came into existence in Miriam's womb. That is a doctrine of Babylon. And here is the problem for the Trinitarian: if YAHSHUA is co-equal with the Spirit of YAHWEH, why does He need the Spirit of YAHWEH to rest upon Him? He walked on the water! Peter walked on the water. He calmed the sea! Moses parted the sea. He raised the dead! So did Elijah. How did they all do it? The Spirit of YAHWEH rested on them all. Get out of those churches, because what you sit under is what you agree with. * * * 179 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Center Lamp: The Holy Spirit The Holy Spirit will rest on anyone who comes into this room. The first of the seven Spirits you must have is the Spirit of YAHWEH, the Holy Spirit. It is the center of it all, because the Holy Spirit is YAHWEH, the center of it all. And when you come into the second room, it all has to start with the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Many people sit in church who don't have it. So here is how to receive it. You don't have to get emotional. We don't have to beat the drums until you finally get it. Here's all you have to do: "Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost." — Acts 2:38 Turn from your sin. Make up your mind: I'm done. Be baptized in the Name, not the titles, the Name of YAHSHUA the Messiah. And you shall receive the Holy Spirit. I take it at its word. When you come up out of that water, having done all YAHWEH told you to do, you shall receive the Spirit of YAHWEH. That is the prescription. Even YAHSHUA Needed It After the Spirit came on YAHSHUA, even YAHSHUA needed the Holy Spirit. YAHWEH did not open the heavens and send a dove down just so they could have a little dove show: "And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness," — Luke 4:1 It is our example. Nothing we do for YAHWEH will ever be effective without the Holy Spirit. Our preaching is in vain. Our singing is in vain. Building a church is in vain. You have to have it. If you don't have the Holy Spirit, repent of your sin, be baptized, and it will come upon you. "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me..." — Luke 4:18 The very Son of YAHWEH is saying, I am not equal. I can do nothing of Myself (John 5:30). The only reason I can do anything is that the anointing is upon Me. If only the church could come to the same confession. This ministry must have the anointing. We are powerless without it. "I do nothing of myself" (John 8:28), He said, and in the same breath He calls that anointing the Holy Spirit and calls it His Father. It's the same. "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD" (Deuteronomy 6:4). But here's the problem: this lamp was not given to you so you could spend your life telling everyone, I remember when I received the Holy Ghost. It was given to you to expand into the whole Spirit of YAHWEH. As Chapter 12 showed, the Holy Spirit is not enough; you need the whole Spirit. This one lights the fire. But if you believe you've received the fullness, you'll live in the lackness. Righteousness Must Be the Girdle Keep reading Isaiah: "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: But with righteousness 180 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth... And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins." — Isaiah 11:3–5 If righteousness does not become the girdle of your loins, the Holy Spirit was not all He needed. He needed the whole Spirit of YAHWEH, which produces righteousness: the right way of doing things. If the Spirit came upon you and didn't produce the right way of doing things, you got the Holy Almost, not the Holy Ghost. If your Holy Spirit is only good enough to heal the sick and cast out devils, you still need the belt of righteousness. "They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea." — Isaiah 11:9 * * * The Earnest: A Down Payment When you first receive the Holy Spirit, every lamp is dark except the center one. And you will be deceived into thinking you have the fullness of YAHWEH, because you got the first installment. "In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession..." — Ephesians 1:13–14 What is your inheritance as a son of YAHWEH? The fullness of YAHWEH, the seven Spirits, and the earth you will rule with Him. YAHSHUA had it, and He said, "greater works than these shall he do" (John 14:12). He wants you to have your inheritance. The Greek word for earnest is arrabōn, a pledge, a down payment, money put down to guarantee the full price will be paid. And to this day, in the Greek language, that same word is used for an engagement ring. When a man gives his promise ring, if he's a man of his word, it's as good as done. In the Hebrew way of things, once the pledge is given, you're married, even though the wedding hasn't happened yet (Deuteronomy 22:23–24). Why? Because if it's going to be, it already is. That's why YAHWEH "calleth those things which be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17). That's why He calls you righteous when you know you're not yet. Everyone who has the Holy Spirit has been given a pledge. But when you deliver yourself into that Holy Place, that's when the rest of it comes. The Wicked Servant Kept the Center Lamp Burning That brings me back to the parable of the shrewd investor in Luke 19, to me the most powerful parable in all the Bible. When YAHWEH gives you the center lamp, He expects a full menorah. He will light the first lamp supernaturally, but you must light the others. How you handle the engagement ring determines how the wedding will go. How you reverence the deposit is how you'll handle the fullness. 181 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And it came to pass, that when he was returned, having received the kingdom, then he commanded these servants to be called unto him, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading." — Luke 19:15 He said, I gave every one of you an engagement ring, a pound of silver. You didn't work for it. You didn't earn it. It was a free gift of grace. What is it? It's the Holy Spirit, the center lamp, the down payment. I gave it to every one of you when you were baptized. And here comes the wicked servant: Look, Lord! I've still got the center lamp burning! I remember when I spoke in tongues. I remember when I got it! And the Master says, You're still talking about the first time you received the Holy Spirit? Oh, yes, Lord. I knew You were a shrewd investor. I knew You didn't like to lose what You invest, so I held on to it. I'm glad to testify that I kept the faith. "For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow." — Luke 19:21 I knew You weren't just handing out salvation because You like giving things away. I knew You expected to reap where You didn't sow. I knew You wanted more than You gave, so I made sure I was still talking in tongues when You came back. And He said, Thou wicked servant. I didn't give you the Holy Spirit so you could talk about it. I gave it to you so you could produce My fullness. I expect a return on My investment. That pound is the anointing. It is the first lamp, the Holy Spirit. It is the begettal. YAHWEH Wants a Son, Not a Seed What father gives his seed only to get seed back? A father wants a son, with fingers and toes and eyes, a living child. YAHWEH gave you His seed (1 John 3:9) to produce a mature son, a new creation. I want something I cannot simply create. Can YAHWEH not create something? He proved it. He created a perfect man named Adam, and He still didn't get what He wanted. He wanted obedience, and obedience is the one thing YAHWEH will not manufacture by decree. If it is not chosen, it is not obedience. I gave you a seed to produce a son who would obey Me in all things. I came back looking for a return, and all I got was an excuse: that you were saved by grace. Oh, but Lord, I would have produced something, but my church told me it's "not of works, lest any man should boast," so I didn't add any works to my faith. That's when YAHWEH said, Woe to the shepherds who have lied to My people and left them barren (Jeremiah 23:1–2; Ezekiel 34:2–4). You have a debt to YAHWEH. He gives the seed, and we produce a son of YAHWEH. He gave; now we give. It's like giving a farmer one pound of seed and a bag of fertilizer and expecting him to feed a continent with it. A partial supply cannot produce a full result. The glory of YAHWEH's fullness cannot be ministered to us out of the down payment alone. YAHWEH wants more than He gave you. 182 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You Have No Faith of Your Own And He won't work with your faith, because it was never your faith to begin with. Most people don't know that no human on earth has faith of his own. "For all men have not faith" (2 Thessalonians 3:2). It is "the faith of the Son of God" (Galatians 2:20), His faith, imparted to us by grace. "There is none that seeketh after God" (Romans 3:11). Why not? Because man has no faith. Oh, but Pastor, the Bible says He has given to every man the measure of faith! Look at the first words of that sentence: "For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you..." — Romans 12:3 To every man among you, the brethren. He has given every one of you a measure, a down payment of His faith. I have no faith of my own in an Elohim I have never seen. But an Elohim I have never seen has faith in Himself, and He sent it into my mind by the Holy Spirit. And one of the gifts of the Spirit is the gift of faith (1 Corinthians 12:9). How is it a gift if you already had it? YAHWEH seeks man; man doesn't seek YAHWEH. So if you have faith, know that it was deposited in you from the heavenly supply, supernaturally. Hold on to it, and add works to it (James 2:17). Emotion Is Not Faith Men don't have faith. They have emotions. Emotions can get you to an altar. But can they keep you there? If faith were being planted in your heart, I could stand up preaching on tithing and you'd come give your heart to YAHWEH, because it's supernatural. We pay evangelists to come in and get everybody saved, and next year we have to pay them to come back, because everyone who came in is gone. It wasn't supernatural faith. It was the emotion of the moment. Faith comes from YAHWEH. It is the Spirit of YAHWEH. If you have faith in a world like this one, you ought to fall on your face and give glory to YAHWEH that you still have it. If you believe in YAHWEH, it is not your own doing. It's because YAHWEH said, I'm giving you My faith and My Holy Spirit. Now add works to your faith, because I'm not lighting those other lamps for you. But what I've given you will light them. * * * The Second Lamp: The Spirit of Wisdom The center lamp is where it all starts. And the second Spirit that comes to us is the Spirit of wisdom. Carnal minds love knowledge. Knowledge is power, and power isn't always good. YAHWEH's sons are not chasing knowledge. We are after wisdom. What caused Eve to fall? The tree of knowledge. Knowledge is carnal; wisdom is supernatural. It only comes by the Spirit of YAHWEH. People who want knowledge don't want to know that America is the Lost Tribes of Israel. They want to know what's happening next. They don't want the underlying wisdom of it all. 183 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The knowledge of this world is not the knowledge of YAHWEH, and YAHWEH is bringing His assembly into a different kind of knowledge altogether. Wisdom Has to Gain You Wisdom is not a thing you go out and get. Pastor, I'm going to go gain me some wisdom. No. Wisdom has to gain you. You don't find wisdom; wisdom finds you, in the Holy Spirit. Wisdom isn't an object to be sought after. As one of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, wisdom is alive. "But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God." — 1 Corinthians 1:24 Why is Messiah the wisdom of YAHWEH? Because He had the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, and one of them is wisdom. And Paul adds: "But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:" — 1 Corinthians 1:30 The seven Spirits were on Messiah, and they must be on us. Some of the most foolish people I know have the Holy Ghost, because they never received the next Spirit that comes from the Holy Spirit: the Spirit of wisdom. Wisdom Hates the Evil Way So what will it look like when wisdom comes into your life? "I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate." — Proverbs 8:12–13 Knowledge without wisdom is a dangerous thing. Wisdom begins with the fear of YAHWEH. It hates evil. It hates pride. And here we find out who has the whole Spirit of YAHWEH: it hates arrogance. It hates the evil way, the ways that are not like YAHWEH. Halloween. December 25. Easter. Paganism. All wisdom hates anything that belongs to that evil way. So what happens when you meet someone who says, I spoke in tongues; I know I have the Holy Ghost? The question is whether he hates the evil way, the pride, and the arrogance of those who defy YAHWEH and do it their way. Arrogance says, I don't care what it says. That's not how we do it. The way we've always done it. But the Spirit of wisdom says, Wait a minute. If that's an evil way, I want to know about it. At least let me read it. Let me study it. Tongues Without Wisdom Many people misunderstand me here. Speaking in tongues does not exempt anyone from the Book. My faith is never in a physical manifestation. My faith is in the seven Spirits coming out of your life. Paul said, "I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all" (1 Corinthians 14:18). And Paul also said: 184 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." — 1 Corinthians 13:1 If the seven Spirits aren't coming out of your life, it's all in vain. This is not preaching against tongues. It is preaching the balance of it all. Many people want to speak in tongues, but they don't want to come to a Bible study. "I'm Willing to Be Wrong in Order to Be Right" Wisdom lays down the spirit of arrogance and pride and says these words: I'm willing to be wrong in order to be right. That is the proof of the Holy Spirit. You have to be able to be wrong, or you don't have the Spirit of wisdom. Many, the first time they heard someone say YAHSHUA, wanted to say, Get thee behind me, Satan. That's arrogance and pride, religious pride. We think we've arrived. We think we know the Bible. And it produces arrogance and pride in all of us. Wisdom says: drop the pride, drop the arrogance, and let wisdom prevail. Wisdom Hates the Froward Mouth And the froward mouth, do I hate. Wisdom hates a perverse mouth. Will you go to hell for cussing? No. YAHWEH is not sending you to hell for cussing, or for anything else; there is no ever-burning hell. But cussing makes you a fool, and wisdom hates it. When wisdom comes into your life, it takes over your mouth. The Holy Spirit alone isn't enough to do that. You have to grow in wisdom. You begin to watch what you say, how you say it and to whom you say it. "Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength. By me kings reign, and princes decree justice. By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth." — Proverbs 8:14–16 The Wisdom of This World But be careful, because there are two kinds of wisdom. There is a wisdom in this world that doesn't come from YAHWEH. People look for it in their horoscopes. The gurus are making a killing. Everybody wants wisdom, but it's the wisdom of this world. And the word for it gave us sophistry: clever reasoning that bends logic until it deceives. "This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish." — James 3:15 Any wisdom not built on the solid foundation of the Word of YAHWEH is the same wisdom Eve got in the garden. The Serpent's Half-Truth The serpent told Eve one flat lie, "Ye shall not surely die" (Genesis 3:4), and then he wrapped it in truth: "your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil" (Genesis 3:5). 185 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Even YAHWEH later said, "the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil" (Genesis 3:22). But the serpent left out the one thing that mattered: if you do it without YAHWEH, you become a false god, and you die. It was convincing. Here is the wisdom of this world: reasoning that is plausible, factual and deceptive. Without the Spirit of wisdom, you will be deceived even by the quoted Word of YAHWEH. I can take that Bible and make it say whatever I want. But when I have the Spirit of wisdom, it helps me hear the deception inside the truth. Many have been deceived by what they thought was true, and now, as they come into the Spirit of wisdom, something sounds off. That is growth in the Spirit of YAHWEH. True, but Not the Truth Satan used YAHWEH's own Word to deceive Eve, and he still does: "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:" — Matthew 28:19 See, Pastor? Yes, it's true. We are to baptize in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. But the part they left out is that it says the name, singular, and the name of the Father is YAH. The Son came in His Father's name (John 5:43), YAHSHUA, which means YAH is salvation. And the Holy Spirit is the Father's own Spirit. One Name. All your life you were deceived by something true. They read Matthew 28:19 for nearly two thousand years, and then, early in the last century, some brethren reading that verse saw it: Wait a minute. We are to baptize in the name. Not the titles. The name. That is the Spirit of wisdom: it reveals the difference between what is true and what is the truth. All your life you thought you were going to die and go to a place called heaven, to a mansion with gold plumbing, because somebody read you John 14:2 through Mama's glasses. As Chapter 4 showed, YAHSHUA promised dwelling places in His Father's household, not a mansion in the sky, and the meek inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5). The Spirit of wisdom is going to come and separate the truth from the true. And when it does, you'll know the room you're standing in is taking over your life. It's just like the Sabbath day. So many are keeping the facts of the Sabbath without union with the Master of the Sabbath. There are many Sabbath-keepers who have no gift of wisdom. They keep the day, but they are not in union with its Master. Wisdom takes the truth, unites it with His Spirit and illuminates it to you. * * * Provision, Protection and Pleasure Man has to have three things to exist on the earth: provision, protection and pleasure. When YAHWEH planted the Garden of Eden, He put all three in it. They had everything, because they were dependent on Him for all three. But they left the garden. And here comes Cain, "who was of that wicked one" (1 John 3:12). Consider what his line produced (Genesis 4:20–22): 186 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •Jabal, "the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle." Provision, out of union with the Father but still providing. •Jubal, "the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." Pleasure. •Tubalcain, "an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron": the forge, the blade. Protection. In the garden, with YAHWEH, they had provision, protection and pleasure. Outside the garden, without Him, they still had provision, protection and pleasure. They made them for themselves, thinking happiness could be found in things outside their relationship with their Father. In the garden they had wisdom. They understood what the serpent left out. True wisdom is total fear of YAHWEH. True foolishness is doing it on your own. So, brothers and sisters, when you receive the Holy Spirit, it will move you back into the garden, where your provision, your protection and your pleasure come from your relationship with your Father. That is true wisdom. And when you begin to see that relationship growing in your life, providing everything you need, that's when you'll know the Spirit of wisdom is taking over your life and shining out of it. * * * Let the Center Lamp Light the Others The Holy Spirit is the earnest: the ring, the deposit, the center lamp. It is real, and it is not the whole. YAHWEH did not give you His seed so you could keep a seed. He gave it to produce a son, and He will come back looking for a return on what He invested. Do not stand before Him boasting about the day the first lamp was lit. Let the center lamp do what it was made to do. Let it light the others, beginning with the Spirit of wisdom, which fears YAHWEH, hates the evil way and separates the truth from the true. The center lamp is lit. Now let the second lamp catch its fire. * * * Adapted from Part Thirteen of the teaching series Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 187 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Foolish Things: Wisdom from Above and the Spirit of Quick Understanding "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom: and the grace of God was upon him." — Luke 2:40 The child grew. YAHSHUA was born of a miraculous birth, and yet He had to grow, just like us. Luke names the first sign of that growth: He was filled with wisdom. Every believer has had a miraculous begettal too. "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth" (James 1:18). The Spirit of YAHWEH reached into you and planted a life that did not belong to you. The question is whether the child grew. The first sign that you are growing in the Spirit is that the Spirit of wisdom begins to grow in you. But the wisdom that comes from the Spirit of YAHWEH is not the wisdom men admire. It is the wisdom that chooses fishermen over scholars, a shepherd's stick over Pharaoh's army, and a failure over a success. The wisdom of this world calls these choices foolish. This chapter traces the wisdom that makes them, and the quick, living understanding that comes with it. Chapter 13 lit the center lamp, the Holy Spirit, and began on the second Spirit, the one that manifests itself in your life as you grow in YAHWEH. As Chapter 13 showed, the center lamp is the fourth day of the menorah's week, the place where the Child was born. And the next thing YAHSHUA's own life displayed was wisdom. Power Without Wisdom Will Not Balance Chapter 12 named and counted the seven Spirits of Isaiah 11:2. Keep that menorah before your eyes. If we took one branch off and left everything else, it would not balance. And there are many people who have the Holy Spirit but have no balance whatsoever. They have the power, but they have no wisdom. Many people with the Holy Ghost know a great deal. They can quote the Bible. But until wisdom begins to grow in your life, you will be walking down the street trying to cast the devil out of everybody, turning YAHWEH's assembly into a freak show and a circus. You can't just have the Spirit. You have to know how to move in the Spirit. As Chapter 13 showed, knowledge without wisdom is carnal, and knowledge alone will destroy a church; you need wisdom to balance this thing out. "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." — Proverbs 4:7 188 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Once you receive the Holy Spirit, the first priority is wisdom. It is as plain as it can be. Wisdom governs even what the world is allowed to see, because people do not understand what they are seeing. * * * The Principal Thing Nobody Asks For "For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it." — Proverbs 8:11 In all my years with YAHWEH's people, I have met many who desire a great ministry. Many would love to have a following. Their whole life would change overnight. But I have never once met anyone who told me their greatest desire was wisdom. And yet the Bible says it is the principal thing. "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." — Proverbs 1:7 Here is how to find out whether you have the Holy Spirit. If this Spirit is truly from YAHWEH, it will begin to produce wisdom. And wisdom comes from a place none of us like: instruction and correction. When wisdom is being produced in your life, it is because you are no longer a fool, and a fool despises authority and instruction. If you want to see a foolish child, watch the one who despises his parents' instruction. You know a fool by this: there is no one who can speak into his life with any authority. Slain by the Teaching There comes a point in your walk when the power of YAHWEH has to give way to the instruction of YAHWEH. You cannot want to be slain in the Spirit and then refuse to be slain by the teaching. You have to let somebody slay you with the instruction that causes you to grow. In today's church there is no instruction, because they are afraid of the people. But when you find a father in the faith, he couldn't care less whether you like what he says. He is there to instruct you, so that the Spirit of wisdom can grow. Don't tell me you most need the Spirit of healing the sick. Everybody wants to heal the sick. Get wisdom. "Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding." — Proverbs 3:13 "She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee." — Proverbs 4:9 Picture a woman wearing beautiful jewelry. That is what a man looks like who has the Spirit of wisdom. 189 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Different Minds "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom" (Proverbs 9:10). As Chapter 13 showed, there are two wisdoms in this world: the wisdom from above and the wisdom from below. And every creature on earth has a mind. Your mind is not your brain. Your mind is the part of you that connects to your brain but is not your brain. If a dog barked at you, you could not understand what it was saying. Another dog could, because they both have dog minds. They can comprehend each other. That is why some people walk into this fellowship and think we are from Mars. Different minds: different abilities to comprehend two different worlds. "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God... because they are spiritually discerned" (1 Corinthians 2:14). If you are not careful, your human mind will grab hold of what it thinks is wisdom. But there is another wisdom YAHWEH wants to put in place of your human wisdom: the wisdom from above. * * * YAHWEH Chose the Foolish Things "For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory in his presence." — 1 Corinthians 1:26–29 Not many wise men are called. A chapter on seeking wisdom has to say which wisdom it means. YAHWEH says, I don't want the ones with man's wisdom. And man's wisdom has another name: logic. I have chosen what you would never think was wise. When I choose you, everyone with worldly wisdom is going to say, "That was a foolish choice." The wisdom of YAHWEH looks foolish to the wisdom of men. So if you want the mind of YAHWEH, to understand why He would choose weak things, that can only come from a closet of prayer, from a supernatural wisdom. The wisdom of this world would say, That's foolish. But there is a place in YAHWEH where, when you have truly heard from Him, that settles it. That is supernatural wisdom. YAHWEH does things that make no sense. If it makes sense, it doesn't take faith. That no flesh should glory in his presence. When the fear of YAHWEH is in you, it will not let you take the glory. When you receive the real Holy Spirit, you begin to receive a wisdom the world makes fun of, a wisdom that says, If YAHWEH can't do it, it can't be done. You have to develop that Spirit of trusting YAHWEH, because it is not humanly possible. Speak from a wisdom not your own, and YAHWEH will hear your faith and begin to provide. 190 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Power of the Unseen The greatest force on our planet is not the mighty ocean. It is not the tidal wave, the thunder or the lightning. The most powerful thing on our planet is something we cannot see: the atom. There is nothing more insignificant than an atom, and nothing more powerful. Split it, and you can destroy a planet. It is remarkable that YAHWEH chose to make the greatest power on earth completely invisible. It is one of His unique workings: He has always delighted in using small things to launch mighty movements. The world does not see you in your small room. But you are a little atom getting ready to split. YAHWEH is creating something in the secret place that is going to be known around the world, because He chooses small things for mighty movements. "For who hath despised the day of small things?" (Zechariah 4:10). * * * YAHWEH Builds His Kingdom on Failures YAHWEH loves failures. His Kingdom cannot do without them. The whole Kingdom of YAHWEH is built on failures. And YAHWEH hates human success, the success of men who will not give Him the glory. That is why He stopped the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:4–8). The minute we take the glory is the minute He stops the tower. YAHWEH loves to find people who have been so defeated that if He decides to use them, the whole world will try to tell Him He needs a little wisdom. But He has a wisdom that makes no sense to the human wisdom of mankind. YAHWEH will stop your tower for one reason: you were building it. He will put His hand on it and say, I can't use you until your tower falls. If your life is in order because you put it in order, when you ask YAHWEH to use you, He will undo your order and rebuild it from the ground up. He Chose a Nation of Nobodies Of all the nations of the earth, YAHWEH chose Israel, a people without a capital, without a headquarters, without a building, without a flag. He could have chosen Egypt. He could have chosen the empires of the world. But He needed a nation with nothing to brag about. "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:" — Deuteronomy 7:7 When YAHWEH gets ready to use you and receive the glory, it will be because you had nothing to brag about. He chose failures to lead the world. YAHWEH is the great miracle worker: He makes something out of nothing and somebody out of nobody. 191 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Moses in Pharaoh's House Pharaoh thought that by killing the male infants of Israel he could crush the people of YAHWEH. But if Pharaoh had not done what he did, Moses would never have slid into Pharaoh's house. Pastor, are you telling us YAHWEH allowed Pharaoh to kill those Hebrew children? He allowed it. It makes no sense, unless you have the Spirit of wisdom, and then you see the wisdom inside the calamity. Moses was scheduled to die. Because of Pharaoh, his mother put him in a basket and set him in the river, and that baby floated right into Pharaoh's house (Exodus 2:3–10). That makes sense only to the Spirit of wisdom. The Wisdom Inside Calamity When you have the Spirit of wisdom, you begin to see YAHWEH's hand in everything, even in calamity. Why did YAHWEH let Pharaoh kill those mothers' babies? Scripture says, "Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints" (Psalm 116:15). With YAHWEH, sometimes something has to die so that a nation can live. But Pastor, it was horrible. It was. And only without the Spirit of wisdom does it look like nothing more than horror. Wisdom never questions YAHWEH, because the fear of YAHWEH is the beginning of wisdom. The Fool and the Suit Fools try to figure YAHWEH out. Atheists think we are foolish for believing in an unseen Elohim. So let us give the test. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God" (Psalm 14:1). Consider a suit. Here is how a suit comes into being, the evolutionist's way. There was a cotton field, and one day some seeds fell from the sky and landed in it. A few days later some rain came and the cotton started growing. About a thousand years later, a little steel needle somehow formed somewhere across the world, and the wind blew the needle into the cotton field, and the wind started sewing the cotton together, exactly to a size fifty. And after ten million years, you have a beautiful, perfectly designed suit, by accident. It does not work. A suit needs a tailor, and a world needs a Maker. How can you look up and see a sun that has never been late one time and believe it made itself? It would be like handing me a fine watch and telling me it assembled itself. That is the wisdom of men. But when you receive the wisdom from above, you see YAHWEH in everything. And if you don't see Him, here is why: you do not yet have the Holy Spirit that produces wisdom. The Fear of YAHWEH Puts Him First Pastor, why do you keep the Sabbath holy? Because I fear YAHWEH too much not to. He said, Remember the seventh day. The spirit of wisdom says, Obey. The spirit of a fool says, I'll worship on whatever day suits me. When you have the Spirit of wisdom, you fear YAHWEH in your finances. He gets the first part. Don't ever tell me you are putting YAHWEH first when you truly put Him last. Ask somebody who tells you to put God first how to do it, and they will say, Oh, just say your prayers at night and pray 192 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE over your food. That is not first. He said, If you get ten dollars, give Me the first one. I'm giving you seven days; give one back. We don't put YAHWEH first by saying "put God first." We put Him first by putting Him first. And that only comes from the Spirit of wisdom. If you want to find a fool, it will be someone who is not honoring YAHWEH with the first of his increase (Proverbs 3:9), someone who is not keeping the Sabbath holy. Why? Because they have said in their heart, "There is no God." The fool never says it with his mouth; he says it in his heart. If you truly believed there was a YAHWEH, He would be first. He commanded His people to appear before Him three times a year at His appointed feasts (Deuteronomy 16:16). The fool says, I just don't have the money to go. But the Spirit of wisdom says, If YAHWEH said it, I'm going to do it. I'll be there, because I'm not a fool. * * * A Stick, a Shout and Five Smooth Stones Nothing was weaker than Moses' rod: a shepherd's stick. YAHWEH sent Moses against the mightiest empire in the known world. Egypt ruled the world, but a rod ruled Egypt. When you have the Spirit of wisdom, you will see YAHWEH in a stick. Quit seeing a devil behind every bush and start seeing YAHWEH in every bush. The Spirit of wisdom finds YAHWEH in everything. And YAHWEH told Moses, Throw it on the ground. Pharaoh has an army; you have a stick. But if you have the Spirit of wisdom, when you look at that stick you will see chariots and angels. When you have the Spirit of wisdom, you will no longer hear a man preaching to you. You will hear YAHWEH. The spirit of a fool says, That's just a man like me. The Spirit of wisdom says, I see something in that stick. March Joshua, do you see those walls? I want you to take six hundred thousand men. Yes, Master. We're trained; we're ready. Boys, sharpen your swords! Oh no. Everything you've learned about war, I want you to forget. I want you to take up shofars. The carnal mind of man hears a noise. The Spirit of wisdom hears the shout of victory. You want us to bring up the siege engines now, Master? No. I want you to march. I'll bet Joshua's counselors came to him and said, Son, you need some sense. This makes no sense. We need to appoint you a board to give you some good advice. I don't want carnal wisdom. I want to hear what YAHWEH is saying. But Master, my board says this is suicide. I know, but I'm giving you the Spirit of wisdom. March. And they marched, and you know the rest of the story (Joshua 6). YAHWEH chose the most foolish plan to do the greatest work. Five smooth stones and a little slingshot against a giant would tell the same story (1 Samuel 17:40). But pass by little David and come to YAHSHUA. 193 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Board of Elders from the Shore Here He is, about to start a worldwide ministry. If you were trying to build a ministry with twelve elders, you would go to the schools of theology, to the seminary in Jerusalem. There was no shortage of trained clergy. All He had to do was knock on the Temple door: I need to hire twelve preachers who know the Bible from cover to cover, because we're going to change the world. That is the wisdom of the world. But instead He went down to the shore of Galilee, to a few fishing boats, to the men nobody would have chosen. Foolish things. And YAHSHUA says, I'm ready to present My board of elders to the world. Come on, James. Come on, John. Come on, Peter. The world would never pick these men. But the Spirit of wisdom looks beyond the shortcomings. And when they introduced YAHSHUA, people said, Isn't this the carpenter, Joseph's son? (Mark 6:3). His own kin came to lay hold on Him: "He is beside himself" (Mark 3:21). The Board That Failed YAHWEH made YAHSHUA the Pastor of the assembly, and He was executed between two thieves. He made Peter chairman of the board, and Peter cursed and swore and cut off a man's ear. He made Judas the treasurer (John 12:6; 13:29). Oh, Pastor, that doesn't seem wise to me. It did to YAHWEH. He knew Judas would betray Him, and He needed Judas in that position so His will would come to pass. You need to quit questioning whom YAHWEH puts in position. And the ones who remained faithful to YAHSHUA at the cross were a group of women (Matthew 27:55–56). The leaders all failed Him. The failures are always the ones YAHWEH makes lead. The Foundation Standeth Sure You may feel neglected, unnoticed, unhonored, unseen. You may be an unsung hero to the people around you. You may seem a little peculiar and feel you aren't doing enough for YAHWEH. You may have been separated from all the religious activities and programs, and the church may have judged you insignificant for believing these "strange doctrines." Here is the promise: "Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his." — 2 Timothy 2:19 No matter what the world thinks about you, YAHWEH knows those who are His. That is the foundation you can stand on. * * * The Spirit of Quick Understanding The next thing that will begin to happen in your life when you receive the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of understanding, and Isaiah gives it a particular name: quick understanding. "And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:" — Isaiah 11:3 194 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE When the Spirit of YAHWEH came upon YAHSHUA, you know He had it because He had quick understanding. And the Spirit of wisdom brings quick understanding. Notice that word quick. In the English of your King James Bible, quick means living. YAHSHUA will judge "the quick and the dead" (2 Timothy 4:1): the living and the dead. "The word of God is quick" (Hebrews 4:12): it is alive. YAHWEH is going to give you a living understanding, not a dead knowledge. The Letter Killeth There are two kinds of "word" in Scripture: logos, the written word you hold in your hand, and rhēma, the word spoken and made alive. And here is a hard saying for any visitor to this teaching: without the Spirit, this book is death. "Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." — 2 Corinthians 3:6 Ink, paper and leather, and without the Spirit, no life in it at all. Pastor, how can you say that? Let YAHSHUA say it. The Pharisees and the Sadducees had this book. They were spiritually dead, and they read it. They preserved it. They made sure not one jot was out of place. They loved this book. They just didn't love truth. Many still love this book and do not love truth. "Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered..." — Mark 7:13 Of none effect. They made it dead. But I read five chapters every morning! They made it dead through their tradition. YAHSHUA said, in effect, Your mama's voice is more powerful than this Book. Reading Through Tradition Chapter 13 called this reading the Bible through Mama's glasses. I can show someone exactly what this Book says, and they will tell me, Well, that's not what my mama taught me. So you don't believe your mama could ever have been wrong. You've made Mama a god. And the answer comes back, Well, if it was good enough for my mama, it's good enough for me! But what if nobody ever taught your mama? She didn't mean to teach you wrong. She taught you what she was taught. "Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit" (Jeremiah 16:19). Your mama probably also taught you that YAHSHUA rose from the dead on a Sunday morning. Grandma said it too. But your Bible doesn't say that. You're teaching new things! This is not new doctrine. It is old truth nobody ever taught you. It was always in your Bible. But your mama gave you a pair of glasses, and you read it the way Mama read it. Mama taught you He died on Good Friday and rose Sunday morning. But Mama also taught you He would be in the grave "three days and three nights" (Matthew 12:40). Count from Friday evening to Sunday morning. It doesn't work. Where is the other day? Where are the nights? And yet many will ignore what I show them, because something is more powerful to them than the Bible: their tradition. 195 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "I Knew It Was the Truth" When you receive the real Holy Spirit, the one developing the seven Spirits in you, the next Spirit that comes to prove you have it is the Spirit of quick understanding. You hear what I just said, and quickly something in you says, That makes sense. A living understanding. Suddenly, supernaturally, you begin to understand things you never understood. Those who stay in the truth stay because they received a quick, living understanding. I will never forget when I began to understand. I went looking all through my Bible for the Sunday- morning resurrection, and I couldn't find it. Here is what I did find: Mary went to the tomb "when it was yet dark," on the first day of the week, and the tomb was already empty (John 20:1). He had already risen. He rested in the tomb through the Sabbath and rose at its close, three days and three nights, exactly as He said. Many readers knew it was true the first time they heard it taught. That is the Spirit of quick understanding. * * * A People Who Were Never Satisfied Scattered across the human race on planet Earth is a special group of people. They are in the world, but they aren't obvious. They have a wisdom that makes no sense. These people look foolish to the world, because they give their time and their money to the work of YAHWEH. But there is no greater investment than the work of YAHWEH. The wisdom of this world would tell them one thing. But there's another wisdom, and I want it. I want to see YAHWEH in everything. There Was Always Something More There is a group of people reading this who have always had something that kept them from being satisfied in church: an emptiness, a void, a deep inner awareness that there was something more. These people went through the motions. They tried to be good Christians. They held church offices and taught Sunday school. They tried to meet every demand of religion. But in the middle of all that effort to belong and to please, something kept them from being satisfied with any of the entertainment of the church. Many of them have been searching for YAHWEH since childhood. Look back at your childhood, and you will find YAHWEH was dealing with you as a child. Some were not born into godly homes. They had no religious background at all, and yet they always had an intense hunger for YAHWEH, though they knew nothing about Him. Some looked for it in the barroom. Hungry people are always the black sheep, not because they are bad, but because they are too hungry. And when you are selling a story that says this is all there is, you don't want hungry people around. YAHWEH is saying: If you're hungry, I'll bring your teachers to you. You don't find your teacher. Your teacher finds you. Few of those who found this teaching went looking for it. 196 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Babe Leaped You never have to drag these people into the new experiences of YAHWEH. They run into them. When the Light appeared, the babe leaped in Elizabeth's womb for joy (Luke 1:41), an instant recognition of truth. When truth finds you, your baby will leap. There will be an excitement. This is the day of recognition. This is the day of quick understanding. We are living in the time when you say, I didn't come here just to get saved. "Deep calleth unto deep" (Psalm 42:7), and you know you were born for this moment. YAHWEH has been with you from your birth. He watched over you, led you and directed your path every step of the way. None of us had anything to do with being here. He led you through every bad church you ever sat in and every ministry you ever passed through, because His Spirit in you was demanding a quick understanding. When you were taught who YAHSHUA is, you may not have understood every detail, but you just knew. When you were shown which day the Sabbath is, you couldn't have proved it all or taught it, but you knew it was the truth. That is quick understanding. You could never have found your way here on your own. Every Step Ordered Every event YAHWEH placed in your path was to teach you, lead you and give you an understanding of His ways, His Word and His will. Maybe it was meeting the right person at the right time. Maybe you ran across a magazine or a book. That was no coincidence. See the hand of YAHWEH in everything. It was YAHWEH who ordained and orchestrated every event and circumstance. The wisdom of YAHWEH was working in what looked like the messes of your life. The Mark of Sonship Here is the clear mark that you have come into sonship: when everyone around you is content with their life and their religion, content to remain stagnant in the bondage of religious creeds, the sons of YAHWEH have a special anointing of the seven Spirits that propels them farther and higher into His purposes. "This is the LORD'S doing; it is marvellous in our eyes." — Psalm 118:23 The wisdom of this world would never have chosen a nation of nobodies, a shepherd's stick or twelve fishermen. YAHWEH chose them all, so that no flesh would glory in His presence. When that wisdom grows in you, and when truth you could never have proved leaps in you the moment you hear it, you are not becoming strange. You are becoming a son. The center lamp is lit. The second has caught fire. Now let the third burn. * * * Adapted from Part Fourteen of the teaching series Revealed Treasures of the Tabernacle. Scripture quotations are from the King James Version. 197 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Mind of YAHWEH and the Spirit of Counsel The fourth lamp on the menorah is the Spirit of counsel, and it is not what the church calls counseling. The Hebrew word behind Counsellor means to purpose, to devise, to plan. To receive the Spirit of counsel is to receive the mind of YAHWEH: to think His thoughts, to know His plan, and to give advice that comes from His throne and not from human sympathy. But before you can receive a second mind, you have to understand that you have a first one, and that your spirit is that mind. As Chapter 2 showed, the first Tabernacle is the pattern. Solomon's Temple was built on it. The house the exiles raised when they came home from Babylon was built on it. And the Seventh Temple, the living Temple, is being built on it now. So as you walk through this house, look for yourself in it. Have you become that altar of incense before YAHWEH, interceding for all men? Have you become that table of shewbread, changed every Sabbath with a fresh word from YAHWEH? And have you become that menorah, displaying the seven Spirits of YAHWEH? Chapter 13 lit the center lamp, the Holy Spirit, and the Spirit of wisdom; Chapter 14, the Spirit of quick understanding. Now we come to the next lamp. "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead." — Revelation 3:1 "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" — Isaiah 11:2 Isaiah saw those seven Spirits resting on YAHSHUA, and he tells us what each facet of the diamond looks like. Just as the rainbow has seven colors but is one light, the seven Spirits of YAHWEH express different parts of His one character and nature. * * * Spirit Means Mind The seven Spirits of YAHWEH need not be a mystery at all. Seven is the number of completeness and perfection. So set the number aside and put its meaning in its place. Instead of reading that John saw seven Spirits before the throne, read that he saw the completeness, the perfection, the totality of the Spirit of YAHWEH. 198 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Then there is that mysterious word spirit. The seven Spirits of God sounds so spooky, so ethereal: seven spirits floating around the throne. That is not what it means. The Greek word is pneuma, and it carries many meanings, but for some reason, when we hear the word spirit, we see a ghost. That is just where our minds go. Try reading that word as mind. The rest of this chapter will show why: your spirit is your mind, and YAHWEH's Spirit is His mind, the way He thinks. Now read Revelation 3:1 again with that understanding: These things saith He that hath the complete mind of YAHWEH. The spookiness is gone. When you come into the Holy Place, twenty cubits by ten, and receive the Holy Spirit, the Ruach HaKodesh, you will receive not only wisdom and quick understanding. You will receive the spirit, the mind, of counsel. And by the time you are ready to enter the third room, the Millennial reign, you will have acquired the complete mind of YAHWEH. The way YAHWEH thinks will take over the way you think. When you come into this room, another Thinker moves into your mind, and keeps moving in, until you take on the perfect thinking of YAHWEH. I would love to have the thinking of perfection. * * * Of One Mind "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." — 1 Corinthians 1:10 YAHWEH says, I have a desire for My Temple, and that means you: that every one of you have the same way of thinking. Humanly, that is impossible; no two men think alike. But those who have the seven Spirits of YAHWEH growing in their lives will all have the same mind. They become so unified that nothing can divide them, because they have left their human mind and are walking in the new mind. Scripture commands it again and again: "Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind..." — 1 Peter 4:1 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..." — Romans 12:2 "Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and the God of love and peace shall be with you." — 2 Corinthians 13:11 "Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind." — Philippians 2:2 "I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord." — Philippians 4:2 199 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;" — Ephesians 4:23 Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. That is the purpose of the Holy Place. It is not a place for you to speak in tongues while you can't even speak to one another. It is not a place to get the gifts of the Spirit more than the fruit of the Spirit. Something has to change in your thinking. As humans, no two of us can come to think alike; we have to have the perfection of YAH, and while we are in this room, our thinking has to change, and it will. You will know who is in this room with you, because it will just be easy to be together. You will begin to become carbon copies of one another, because you are losing your old identity, your old way of thinking. You may have heard someone say, I've lost myself. Good. That self probably wasn't good for you anyway. When you find a ministry that is in one accord and of one mind, you've found your people. Something is changing about the way all of them think. "And here is the mind which hath wisdom." — Revelation 17:9 I cannot reveal what these symbols mean until I find a mind that has one of those Spirits of YAHWEH. The purpose of being in the Holy Place is to become one mind, one way of thinking. The way we treat each other is the way we treat Him. You cannot love the Head and push His Body away. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matthew 25:40). Every one of us will become so alike in our thinking that we will not become Satan's prey. * * * An Animal with a Mind The mind of a man is quite different from the brain of an animal. Everyone reading this was born a Homo sapiens. You are a mammal. You were born into the animal family. There is nothing animals do that you don't do. They eat, they eliminate, they destroy others to come out on top. They put themselves first. They take care of their own only. They are takers. They mate and have babies. Honestly, what is the difference between you and an animal? You are born and you die like one. "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast..." — Ecclesiastes 3:19 Oh no, Pastor Vaughn, we were created in the image of God! Absolutely. But we gave that identity away in the Garden of Eden, and there is only one way to get it back: find the Tree of Life again and receive the dominion mandate back into your life, to become more than the animal you were born. The animal in you is the addict, every kind of addict known to man. That is what every one of us was born with. The one who loves to gossip and tear other people down and believe things without evidence, who joins in and becomes part of the crowd, part of the mob: that is all animal nature. 200 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE There is only one thing in you that makes you more than an animal, "a little lower than the angels" (Psalm 8:5), and it is your mind. Not your brain. Animals have brains, and some have bigger brains than you. It is not your brain that makes you who you are. It is your mind. Instinct and Instruction Science will tell you that dolphins have brains as large as ours, and that whales and elephants have far larger ones. And yet they cannot create anything. No animal on earth can comprehend the complexities of creation, because animals function on instinct. Immediately after birth, a calf knows how to stand, how to walk and where to find milk. It has to; its mother doesn't bring the milk to it. It was written into its code. But a human baby has to be taught everything. He must be taught to eat. Man was created to be taught. He was given hands to create, and a mind to acquire knowledge, gather facts, draw conclusions, make decisions and build character. That is the difference between the human mind and the animal brain. And that is why, when you became a Christian, your growth was so stunted: you quit acquiring knowledge and understanding. Man has an unseen part, a spiritual part, called the mind, or the spirit. "But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding." — Job 32:8 There is a spirit in man, and there is no such spirit in a beast. And because man has that spirit, that mind, he is able to receive understanding from YAHWEH. Why the World Can't Understand the Bible YAHWEH would not create such a marvel of engineering as the human mind and not give it an instruction book. He did: the Holy Bible. And yet it remains a mystery to the whole world. It is the best-selling book on earth, and the brilliant brains of mankind cannot comprehend it, because you cannot comprehend spiritual things with your brain. As a matter of fact, your brain will hinder you. Most people spend their whole lives worried about what other people think and say about them, without ever giving a thought to what YAHWEH thinks or says. Nobody on your street knows their destiny. Nobody in your neighborhood even knows why they were born. They think they wake up to make more money, or to have more women or more men, to enjoy life. "At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes." — Matthew 11:25 The only ones to whom YAHWEH reveals His Word are His sons, the babes, those begotten by His Spirit. You may have been asked, after you witnessed to someone, Well, then why doesn't God show it to everybody? Why do you think you're so special? Quit getting frustrated when you see that YAHWEH hasn't revealed it to someone. You are not the revealer. Your job is to pray every day for your loved ones: Father, reveal to them what You have revealed to me. And if He does, thank Him. If He doesn't, thank Him as well, and keep praying. 201 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Holy things don't go to the animal mind. When the woman of Canaan came to YAHSHUA, people think He was being cruel when He spoke of the children's bread and the dogs (Matthew 15:26–28). He wasn't calling her a dog to insult her. He was saying holy things don't go to the animal mind, but He saw something in that so-called dog that didn't look like a dog at all: a great faith. And He gave her the crumbs from the Master's table. What you are getting in this book is crumbs from the Master's table. We were all dogs, but something changed in the dog mind. * * * You Do Not Have an Immortal Soul This ministry makes much of body, soul and spirit for a reason. In Christianity you were taught that your soul is your mind, your will and your emotions. They are wrong. Your spirit is your mind, your will and your emotions. That is why this ministry preaches against the doctrine of the immortal soul. It is also part of why people believe in a Trinity: after all, we are body, soul and spirit. We are not body, soul and spirit. We are body and spirit. When YAHWEH breathed into Adam, "man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7). A living body is a soul, and that soul has a spirit. No one has an immortal soul floating around somewhere forever. It did not exist before you were born and get trapped in a body. That is paganism. That is what witchcraft loves: the idea that you have a soul trapped in a body, and that when you die they can communicate with it. Perish the thought of such tomfoolery. You have a spirit, and if you never understand the importance of that spirit, you will never renew it. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." — Ezekiel 18:4 So much for an immortal soul. The immortal soul is Greek pagan philosophy, from Plato; it is nowhere in the Torah, and nowhere in the Bible. The Ship and Its Captain Build a ship of iron and set it in the water. You have nothing but a dead ship. The first wind, the first wave that comes along, that ship goes in that direction. The first thought that comes along saying cheat on your wife, that ship goes that way. If you want that ship to come alive, you have to give it an engine. The engine is the life of the ship. Now the ship is a soul. It has life; it can fight the waves. But it is still missing something: somebody has to tell the engine what to do. That is the captain. That is the spirit in a man. You were born with a captain, and his name was Adam. You have to throw that old captain overboard and get a new Captain who will command your vessel which way to sail. And if you don't understand the importance of the mind, you will never throw the old captain out. "The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him." — Zechariah 12:1 202 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Just as He stretched forth the heavens, He formed the spirit of man within him. There is a part of you that mystifies science. No one has ever found the mind. Where do we reason? Where does creativity come from? It isn't the brain; animals have brains. There is a part unseen by any X-ray machine that YAHWEH formed within man. "Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation," — Numbers 27:16 He is "the God of the spirits of all flesh." And now you may understand what Hebrews means by "the spirits of just men made perfect" (Hebrews 12:23): the perfected minds of just men, the seven. * * * Two Spirits: Image and Likeness Every human being on earth was created with room for two entirely different spirits. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion..." — Genesis 1:26 YAHWEH said two things. First, our image: to look like Us. That is why angels and men look alike, and why, when you see YAHWEH face to face one day, "we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). Your heavenly Father is not a blob in outer space. But notice the next word: our likeness. The Hebrew is demuth, from the root damah, which means to be like, and which can also carry the sense to imagine, to think, to intend. So you were given not only the ability to bear His image. There is another spirit meant for you: to think like Him. To have His mind. In your body there is a human spirit; you were made in His image, and you think like a man. But the problem with humanity is that something is missing. You have heard of the right brain and the left brain. It isn't really your brain, but you are missing half of what you were created to be: your potential for that second Spirit, so that you may not only look like your heavenly Father but think exactly as He thinks. When you come into the Holy Place, He is trying to plant your missing half. Without the Spirit of YAHWEH, you remain incomplete. That is why men become addicts and alcoholics: they are incomplete. You have heard people say, Something's missing. Something is. Your first spirit, the spirit of man, comes at conception. Your second Spirit, the Spirit of YAHWEH, comes at repentance and water baptism. When they put you in that water in His Name, the Spirit of YAHWEH comes upon you as it came upon YAHSHUA like a dove. And that new mind moves in and begins to overtake the mind of the man, until everyone with the new mind is of one mind. The Candle of YAHWEH "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." — Proverbs 20:27 203 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Without the spirit of man you would have no conscience. That is a difference between you and an animal. Even in the spirit of man there is a conscience, "the work of the law written in their hearts" (Romans 2:15). That is the candle of YAHWEH. But that candle goes out without the other Spirit coming in to keep its flame alive. And YAHWEH communicates with us through our spirit. You are connected to YAHWEH even when you don't want to be, because your spirit was created to be connected to Him. That is why men turn to witchcraft, to Eastern religions, to the goddess. They are looking for what they know is missing. They will go to the bottle. They will look everywhere. "Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom..." — Ezra 1:1 YAHWEH took a heathen king and moved him to proclaim that all Israel was free to go home. Cyrus didn't have the Holy Spirit, but he had the spirit of a man, and the spirit of a man is your communication hub with YAHWEH. That is how He governs mankind. But Satan influences you the same way. Your spirit is neutral; it is that ship. That is why all your life you could walk into a church service, hear great preaching and be stirred to serve YAHWEH for twenty-four hours. Your spirit is moved by whatever wind blows its way. It is the same spirit alcohol speaks to; there is a reason they call alcohol spirits. Your spirit-man is intrigued by spiritual things, whether it's a Ouija board or tarot cards. Animals aren't intrigued by those things at all. Man is, because his mind is spirit. So when you wake up without the seven Spirits fully functioning in your life, you will yield to the mood of the day, because your spirit is connected to an atmosphere where Satan is working. That is why you must put on the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness and the shield of faith (Ephesians 6:14–17). You are being fed spiritual things. That is why so many people turn on religious television and fall for everything they hear. Their spirit is connecting with a spirit. There is only one group of people who cannot be swept along: those who have the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, the Spirit of wisdom, of quick understanding and of counsel. War in the Mind "The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:" — Romans 8:16 Paul names two spirits: His, and yours. His Spirit has to work with your spirit. And when His Spirit moves in on your spirit, you have a nuclear war. When this new mind arrives, there is an explosion. Your old self meets the Holy Spirit, and the two do not like each other. You may think you like the Holy Spirit now. But as soon as the Holy Spirit comes in, it won't let you run one another down, talk sharp to one another or criticize, and that is when the war begins. Nobody was born a son of YAHWEH in his human brain. You were born to take care of yourself. 204 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Ask yourself whether you search the Book as much as you search Google to find out what YAHWEH says about your life, your role as a wife, your role as a husband, your role as a son. You have something the world doesn't understand, something growing in you called the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, and it is transforming your thinking. * * * The Spirit of Counsel All of that had to be laid down to reach the Spirit of counsel, the fourth lamp, which begins to come forth after wisdom and quick understanding: the next color of the rainbow shining out of you. This is not human counseling. Picture your two minds as the left side and the right side. On the left, you counsel out of human understanding. Someone comes to you and says, I'm not happy in my marriage. There's no more romance. There's no more fun. And human counsel says, Well, you deserve to be happy. Do what you need to do to find your happiness. That is left-side counsel. But there is a Spirit of counsel that comes from the throne of YAHWEH, and it will look you in the eye and say: You didn't marry merely to be happy. You married to build a family and raise children who will love YAHWEH. "And wherefore one? That he might seek a godly seed" (Malachi 2:15). There are going to be days you aren't happy in your marriage. But when we receive the Spirit of counsel, we receive another way of thinking, so full of truth that sometimes it sounds cruel when it comes out. Something will happen to you that makes you unhappy: your bills, whatever it is. You don't run out on the assembly when you're unhappy. You don't run out on your marriage. There is another Spirit, the total opposite of the carnal mind. And when the left side counsels out of human understanding, the right side rises up and won't be quiet: "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." — Proverbs 3:5–6 That is the Spirit of counsel, overruling your human counsel. Counsel That Stings Many readers want human counsel, and there is plenty of it. You need somebody with the Spirit of counsel, who hears from the truth of YAHWEH's Word. Human methods deal with the effects instead of the root. The wisdom and counsel of YAHWEH are rejected by this world. Here is a hard rule: if someone is accepting your counsel ninety percent of the time, you're probably giving them the wrong counsel. If they're enjoying your counsel, you are probably giving the wrong counsel. 205 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Word says, "if any would not work, neither should he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10), and godly counsel will sound like a sword when it comes out: You are not a victim. Get up and fight again. But if you survive the sting, you'll be standing at the final bell. Quickened from the Dead "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:" — Ephesians 2:1–2 He quickened you. He sent a living Spirit into your dead spirit, because the human spirit is dead in sin. And now there is a war between life and death in your mind. That Spirit moves in and quickens: it brings the Word of YAHWEH to life in your old, dead mind. It brings you the counsel of the Word. In time past ye walked according to the course of this world, as a human, in a human spirit, controlled not by the Holy Spirit but by "the prince of the power of the air." Satan controlled your emotions. In time past you were controlled by your emotions, and your emotions were controlled by the prince of the power of the air. The spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. There is a spirit that connects with their human spirit, and its name is disobedience. So if you want to know which side of your mind is running your life: one side is disobedience, and the other is the Spirit of counsel, full obedience to the law of YAHWEH. An attorney is called a counselor, and he is there to stand on the law. When the Spirit of counsel moves in, you move from disobedience to the law of YAHWEH into obedience, because YAHWEH writes it in your spirit-mind (Jeremiah 31:33). If He tells me to gather with the house of Israel at His appointed feast, and there is any way possible, I am getting there, because a new Spirit is taking over my life. "Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others." — Ephesians 2:3 By nature. That is the spirit you were born with, the part of you that is so smart you can build a car, but can't build a life. You can't build one moment of peace and joy. "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:" — Ephesians 2:4–6 But YAHWEH. When I was dead, with no power and no control, YAHWEH, who is rich in mercy, joined me together with the same mind that was in Messiah, the same seven Spirits, meshing my old mind with the new one. And I am developing, in this room, before I enter the Millennium, the full, 206 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE complete mind of YAHWEH, just as YAHSHUA did. "But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he... shall also quicken your mortal bodies" (Romans 8:11). That is why you must be baptized. That is where that Spirit comes in, at the point of obedience. Baptism is obedience to the Word. What better place for the conception of the new mind than at your first obedient choice? * * * The Root Is Rebellion; the Cure Is the Way In very few cases can a tangled-up life not be traced back to rebellion. If you feel empty and helpless and your life is a mess, there is one answer, and His name is YAHSHUA the Messiah. When the light of YAHWEH's Spirit bursts into your understanding, you will hear three words: I am the way, the truth, and the life (John 14:6). But Pastor Vaughn, if YAHSHUA is the answer, why hasn't He taken away my depression? The problem with Christianity is that they're bringing people to a man rather than to a way. YAHSHUA is the way. You do not find the peace of YAH because you "accepted Christ into your life." That won't do it. Of course the Man is there. But the Man is a way, a direction, the truth, and you have not brought anyone to Messiah until you've brought them to the way of Messiah, which is the way of obedience. "And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life." — John 5:40 Many people are accepting Messiah who are not coming to Him. Coming to Him means duplicating Him, copying Him, walking in that new mind, saying, Not my will, but Thine. The whole Christian world has sold the biggest scam on the face of the earth: "Just accept Jesus." Follow Him instead. Go down the path He walked. In Him is the path of peace, the journey of joy, and life more abundantly. So much anxiety and depression has its root in rebellion, and in refusing to believe what YAHWEH's Word says about who you are. You don't understand that you are the future ruling family of planet Earth. You refuse to believe you are called to reign with Messiah. And so you don't yet have the Spirit of counsel. Out of the Heart: Mark 7 Every bit of it comes from one place: "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man." — Mark 7:21–23 Read heart as mind: out of the mind of men proceed all these things. And no marriage counselor can heal that source. There is only one way that contaminated source can be healed: by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, which comes into the source and cleans out the well. 207 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace" (Romans 8:6). It isn't demons that need to be cast out. It's water that needs to be poured in, the teaching of the Word, because the water drives out the demons. * * * The Counsel of YAHWEH Is His Plan "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." — Isaiah 9:6 Many people are confused into thinking YAHSHUA is the Mighty God because of this verse. It does not say he shall be the Mighty God. It says his name shall be called the Mighty God, because the name He carries is His Father's name; He came in His Father's name (John 5:43). Chapter 16 takes up the Mighty God, El Gibbor, in full. But notice what else His name will be: Counsellor. His Father, YAH, has the Spirit of counsel, and YAHSHUA would be the Counsellor. Here is the heart of the Spirit of counsel: "The LORD bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nought: he maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations." — Psalm 33:10–11 The counsel of YAHWEH is the thoughts of His heart, His mind. And when thoughts are put together, they form a plan. The Hebrew word behind Counsellor is ya'ats: to advise, to consult, to purpose, to devise, to plan. The Spirit of counsel is the Spirit of the plan, the mind, the thoughts, the purposes of YAHWEH. And He has revealed that purpose to His elect. "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit..." — 1 Corinthians 2:9–10 It has not entered into the heart of man, but He has revealed it to us by His Spirit, because we are learning His thoughts. We are learning His plan. So if you ever want to overcome anxiety, learn the plan of YAHWEH for creation. Learn His seven-thousand-year purpose, the first resurrection and the second, the restoration of all things, your place in His government, and fear loses its grip on you. Notice the order. When the seven Spirits come in, it starts with the Holy Spirit, then wisdom, then quick understanding. Quick understanding of the counsel: of the plan. The Spirit of counsel is understanding the plan of YAHWEH, and the churches of this world are not teaching it. 208 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Fourth Lamp The Spirit of counsel is not sympathy, and it is not therapy. It is the plan of YAHWEH, His thoughts put in order, written into a spirit-mind that once belonged to Adam. Human counsel tells you that you deserve to be happy; the Spirit of counsel tells you to get up and fight again. Learn His seven- thousand-year plan, and fear will lose its grip. Give His counsel to others, and some will leave angry, and some will survive the sting and be standing at the final bell. The fourth lamp is burning. Do not let it go out. 209 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Spirit of Might: From Beggar to Royalty "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD;" — Isaiah 11:2 Chapter 13 lit the center lamp, the Spirit of YAHWEH, the Holy Spirit, and Chapters 13 through 15 watched three more lamps take its fire: wisdom, quick understanding and counsel. Now we come to the lamp that sits beside counsel in Isaiah's list, because the two belong together: the spirit of counsel and might. Counsel shows you the plan. Might gives you the strength to stand in it. Wisdom sees the way, counsel charts the course, and might carries the man down the road. A man with counsel and no might knows exactly what YAHWEH wants and never does it. A man with might and no counsel is a bull in the house of YAHWEH. YAHWEH puts them in the same breath. * * * The Rod Must Blossom "And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:" — Isaiah 11:1 Before Isaiah ever names the seven Spirits, he gives you a picture: a rod, a branch, something growing out of a stump. The Spirit of YAHWEH doesn't rest on a dead stick. It rests on something that is growing. And a rod was laid up in the Ark of the Covenant, inside the Most Holy Place: "And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds." — Numbers 17:8 When Israel rebelled against YAHWEH's appointed priesthood, YAHWEH settled it with a dead stick that blossomed overnight. Twelve rods were laid before the testimony, and only one came alive. That is how YAHWEH proves whom He has chosen to govern: the rod blossoms. And Aaron's almond rod went into the Ark, beside the tables of the law (Hebrews 9:4). That is the Spirit of might. It is the evidence that what YAHWEH planted in you at the laver is alive and bearing fruit. When the Holy Spirit first comes in, every lamp is dark but the center one. But the rod is supposed to blossom. The Spirit is supposed to come into fuller and fuller expression in you until the whole world can see that YAHWEH has chosen you. * * * 210 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Enemy of Might Is False Humility The great enemy of the Spirit of might is not the devil out there. It is false humility in here. The church has taught you that the most spiritual thing you can say is I'm nobody. I'm just a sinner saved by grace. I'll never be anything. That sounds humble. It isn't. True humility believes whatever YAHWEH says. False humility refuses what YAHWEH says about you and calls that refusal piety. Moses at the burning bush is the first witness. YAHWEH says, I am sending you to Pharaoh. And Moses says: "Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?" — Exodus 3:11 "O my Lord, I am not eloquent... but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." — Exodus 4:10 That sounds so humble. YAHWEH did not think so: "And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses..." — Exodus 4:14 YAHWEH got angry at Moses' humility. When YAHWEH tells you who you are and what you're going to do, arguing with Him is not humility. It's unbelief wearing a robe. Thou Mighty Man of Valour Gideon is the second witness. When the messenger of YAHWEH found him, he was hiding in a winepress, threshing wheat where the Midianites couldn't see him. And the messenger called him this: "And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour." — Judges 6:12 A mighty man, hiding in a hole. And Gideon answered just like the church answers: "Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house." — Judges 6:15 I'm poor. I'm the least. YAHWEH didn't call him what he was. He called him what he was going to be. "Calleth those things which be not as though they were" (Romans 4:17). And the Spirit of might will do the same thing to you: it will call you a mighty man while you're still hiding in the winepress. Great by Serving There is a desire for greatness that comes from pride, and YAHSHUA dealt with it: "But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all." — Mark 10:43–44 But notice what He did not say. He did not say, Don't desire to be great. He told them how to become great. The way up is down, through service. Pride wants the assignment because it wants to be 211 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE admired. False humility refuses the assignment because it can't imagine being used. Faith receives the assignment because YAHWEH said so. That is the Spirit of might. "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom." — Luke 12:32 A little flock and a whole Kingdom, both in the same sentence. The size of the flock doesn't determine the size of the gift. Quit telling YAHWEH you're too small for what He's already decided to give you. * * * From the Dunghill to the Throne Here is the whole Spirit of might in one verse, from the song of a woman who had been mocked as barren: "He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them." — 1 Samuel 2:8 From the dunghill to the throne. That is what YAHWEH does with a beggar. He doesn't leave him at the gate with a bowl. He sets him among princes and makes him inherit a throne. And that is the transformation the Spirit of might brings: from a beggar mentality to a royal mentality. The beggar mentality says, Master, just let me in the gate. Just give me a little mansion in the corner of heaven. I'll be happy with a crumb. It keeps asking for enough mercy to stay nearby, and never once believes YAHWEH meant to give it a seat at the table. But the Scripture never calls you a beggar after you come in. It calls you sons (1 John 3:2), heirs (Romans 8:17), a royal priesthood (1 Peter 2:9) and kings and priests unto YAHWEH (Revelation 1:6). You are still dependent on grace, every day of your life. But a son can ask his father for help and still take up the work of his father's house. Need and calling stand together. * * * The Children Not Yet Revealed "For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God... For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now." — Romans 8:19, 22 The whole creation is in labor. It is groaning like a woman about to give birth, waiting for the sons of YAHWEH to be revealed. There are children of the Creator who have not yet been brought forth, sons who are being formed now, in the Holy Place, waiting for the day of their manifestation. "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is." — 1 John 3:2 212 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Now are we the sons. Not someday; now. But it doth not yet appear. You are a son in the womb of the Holy Place, being formed in the likeness of your Elder Brother, and the Spirit of might is the strength that carries you to term. The next verse follows: "And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure" (1 John 3:3). If you believe you are going to be like Him, you will start living like Him now. * * * Might and El Gibbor The Hebrew ties this whole chapter together. The word Isaiah uses for might in Isaiah 11:2 is gevurah. It comes from the root gibbor: a mighty man, a warrior, a champion. The same word appears in Isaiah 9:6: "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." — Isaiah 9:6 The mighty God is El Gibbor. The Counselor of Isaiah 9 is the Counselor of Isaiah 11, and the Gibbor of Isaiah 9 is the gevurah of Isaiah 11. The Child who would bear the government on His shoulder is the Branch on whom the Spirit of counsel and might would rest. His name is called the Mighty El because the Spirit of might rested upon Him, and because, as Chapter 15 noted, He came in His Father's name. The Government upon His Shoulder The government shall be upon his shoulder. We like to picture a crown on the head. But Isaiah says the government sits on the shoulder, and a shoulder is for carrying. Authority is a weight you bear for the people under you. "Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever." — Isaiah 9:7 That is why YAHWEH has to give His sons the Spirit of might. You can't carry a government on a soft shoulder. If He is going to set you over cities (Luke 19:17), He has to make you strong enough to carry them. He has to train you, now, to stay truthful under pressure, patient with people who need instruction, and steady when it would be easier to run. An Army of Mighty Men David had his gibborim, his mighty men (2 Samuel 23:8). They came to him as failures: "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men." — 1 Samuel 22:2 213 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Men in distress, men in debt, discontented men: a cave full of failures. And out of that cave came the mightiest fighting men Israel ever saw. One of them stood in a field of lentils and held it when everyone else ran (2 Samuel 23:11–12). One went down into a pit on a snowy day and killed a lion (23:20). That is what YAHWEH is doing with you. He is gathering an army of mighty people out of the caves and the debt and the distress, and He is turning them into gibborim, the mighty men of the Son of David. * * * The Family of the Mighty "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods." — Psalm 82:1 The congregation of the mighty. The word is El: the congregation of El. YAHWEH stands among the mighty ones. "I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." — Psalm 82:6 And YAHSHUA Himself quoted it: "Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?" (John 10:34). The Scripture cannot be broken. Chapter 12 showed that the family name is Elohim: the mighty ones, the sons of the Most High, bearing the Name and the glory the Father gives them. The Spirit of might is the family resemblance. It is what makes the sons look like the Father. But Psalm 82 is a courtroom. YAHWEH is judging the mighty ones because they judged unjustly: "How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy." — Psalm 82:2–3 "But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." — Psalm 82:7 A high calling doesn't excuse a low life. It makes it worse. The mighty ones were judged because they were mighty and failed to defend the poor. So if you want the Spirit of might, understand what it is for: to defend the fatherless, to do justice for the afflicted, to stand between the wicked and the weak. Might that only serves itself is the might of the fallen princes. Claim Your Seat at the Table "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." — Revelation 3:21 There is a seat at that table with your name on it. As Chapter 4 showed, the Father's house has many dwelling places, not mansions; here they are many seats. And the beggar mentality will stand outside the banquet hall all night, too "humble" to come in. YAHSHUA told a parable about a wedding feast: Don't rush to the highest seat. Take the lowest, and when the master of the house comes, he will say, "Friend, go up higher" (Luke 14:10). Take the low 214 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE seat in service. But when the Master says Go up higher, arguing is no longer humility. It is disobedience. * * * Anointed with Might "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." — Acts 10:38 With the Holy Ghost, and with power: the center lamp, and the lamp of might. He went about doing good. Might is not for show. It is for doing good and setting the oppressed free. Micah had it: "But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin." — Micah 3:8 Full of power by the Spirit of YAHWEH... and of might. The same word, gevurah. Micah's might was for telling Israel the truth about their sin when every other prophet in the land was preaching peace for a paycheck (Micah 3:5, 11). That is the Spirit of might: the strength to say what YAHWEH said when everybody else is saying what the people want to hear. Zechariah 4:6 is often quoted against this: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts." — Zechariah 4:6 See, Pastor? Not by might! But the verse says not by your might: not by human strength, armies and horsepower. By My Spirit. And Isaiah names one of the Spirits of YAHWEH the spirit of might. Zechariah is not against might. He is against human might trying to do what only the Spirit of might can do. And notice which vision that word came with: the golden lampstand fed by two olive trees (Zechariah 4:2–3). The menorah again. The lampstand doesn't burn by its own strength. It burns by the oil. * * * Mighty Men and Mere Men You do not recognize the Spirit of might by how loud a man is. Here is Paul's test: "For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?" — 1 Corinthians 3:3 Walk as men. Mere men. Paul is saying, You're supposed to be more than mere men by now. The Corinthians were speaking in tongues, prophesying and carrying every gift, and they were still walking as mere men, fighting over which preacher they belonged to. The mere man is ruled by envy. The mighty man is ruled by YAHWEH. 215 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Here is how you will know whether the Spirit of might is growing in you: watch what happens when your pride gets touched. When you're interrupted. When you're overlooked. When you're corrected. When someone else gets the credit. When you're asked to serve and nobody will ever know. The mere man explodes. The mighty man stands. "He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city." — Proverbs 16:32 The mightiest man in the room is the one who rules his own spirit. Anybody can take a city. The Spirit of might takes the man. * * * Daniel: Wisdom and Might in Babylon If you want to see the Spirit of might in a man's life, consider Daniel, a young man carried off to Babylon who never once bowed. When Nebuchadnezzar threatened to kill every wise man in Babylon, Daniel didn't panic. He went to his friends, and they prayed. And when YAHWEH revealed the dream, Daniel said this: "Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings..." — Daniel 2:20–21 "I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might..." — Daniel 2:23 Wisdom and might, side by side, the same two lamps these chapters have been lighting. And Daniel saw this: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings. Standing before the most powerful man on earth, under a death sentence, Daniel saw that Nebuchadnezzar was not the highest authority in the room. That is the mind of might. The power right in front of you is not the only power at work in the world. The boss, the judge, the government, the diagnosis: YAHWEH removes kings and sets up kings. You can stand before any of them, because you know who is really on the throne. "But If Not" Then his three friends stood before the furnace: "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." — Daniel 3:17–18 But if not. That is the Spirit of might. Not I'll obey if You deliver me, but I'll obey whether You deliver me or not. The Spirit of might doesn't bargain. Their worship couldn't be bought with comfort or scared out of them with fire. And YAHWEH sent His messenger into that furnace to walk with them (Daniel 3:25, 28). "But the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits." — Daniel 11:32 216 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Know your Elohim, and you will be strong. That is where might comes from: knowing Him. * * * The Sword: The Authority of the Word The weapon of a mighty man is the Word. "And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:" — Ephesians 6:17 The Spirit of might wields the Word. It doesn't come from your personality. Intensity is not authority. The Word is the authority. "For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword..." — Hebrews 4:12 And a sword doesn't compromise. It cuts. The Spirit of might won't trade away the Sabbath. It won't water down the appointed times to fill the pews. It won't soften the Word to save its reputation. But the same Word governs the way the sword is held. "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;" — 2 Timothy 2:24–25 Might is not meanness. You can give a straight answer without needing the other man humiliated. The point of the sword is not to win the argument. The point is that he comes to the truth. And the sword cuts you first: it judges your motives and exposes your excuses before you ever turn it on anybody else. * * * Ruling the Nations Here is what YAHWEH is training mighty men for. "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father." — Revelation 2:26–27 Power over the nations is not a ribbon or a little star in your crown. That is government. YAHSHUA received it from His Father (Psalm 2:8–9), and He is going to share it with the overcomers. A rod of iron: a government that rebellion cannot overturn. For six thousand years the nations have been at the mercy of whoever was most willing to exploit them. In the Kingdom that ends. And that is why YAHWEH has to put the Spirit of might in His people now. You cannot rule the nations with a rod of iron if you can't rule your own temper with a rod of iron. If you expect 217 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE to judge righteously in the Kingdom, learn to judge truthfully in the assembly. If you expect rebellion to bow to Messiah, start with the rebellion in yourself. And understand the timing. This is not a commission to seize power over your neighbors today. The rod of iron is given when He comes, to those who "keep my works unto the end." Our work now is witness, obedience, service and endurance. He hands out the rod. Inheriting All Things "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." — Revelation 21:7 All things. That promise follows directly on "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them" (Revelation 21:3). This whole book has been walking toward that verse. The Tabernacle in the wilderness was the pattern; the tabernacle of YAHWEH with men is the fulfillment. And the sons inherit all things in it. So quit making yourself smaller than the Word makes you. And if you believe you are going to inherit all things, you can afford to be generous now. Another man's blessing takes nothing from yours. The inheritance belongs to a family. "Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth." — Psalm 46:10 That psalm begins with the earth shaking, the mountains falling into the sea and the nations raging (Psalm 46:2–6). And into all that upheaval YAHWEH says, Be still. I will be exalted among the nations. The nations don't get the last word. YAHWEH does. That is the confidence of the Spirit of might. When your own world shakes, you can mourn what you lost and still know who is on the throne. You don't have to understand every sorrow. You only have to know that He will be exalted, and that you will be standing with Him when He is. * * * Strengthened with Might in the Inner Man You get it by asking for it. Paul did: "For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ... That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;" — Ephesians 3:14, 16 Strengthened with might by His Spirit, in the inner man. Not muscle, not personality. The inner man is the mind, the spirit, the new Captain of Chapter 15's ship. This is the same lamp we have been lighting all along. So pray it: Father, strengthen me with might in my inner man. Give me the courage to obey what I've already seen. Make me steady where I've been weak. Don't let the fear of men run my life. 218 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And then walk in it. Keep the commitment that got inconvenient. Refuse the old excuse. Receive the correction. Might grows by use. And don't think you have to look invincible first. "And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me." — 2 Corinthians 12:9 Paul asked YAHWEH three times to take the thorn away, and YAHWEH said no. The Spirit of might didn't remove his weakness. It rested on it. "When I am weak, then am I strong" (2 Corinthians 12:10). Remember Gideon in the winepress and the four hundred men in the cave: YAHWEH loves to put His might on the weakest vessel in the room, so that no flesh can glory. "Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might." — Ephesians 6:10 In the power of His might. Not yours. His. * * * From Beggar to Son Here is where the Spirit of might leaves you. Quit hiding in the winepress. YAHWEH already called you a mighty man of valor. Quit arguing at the burning bush. He already told you you're going. Get off the dunghill. He already set a seat for you among the princes. Let the rod blossom. Let the Spirit of might turn a beggar into a son, a cave full of debtors into an army, and a little flock into a Kingdom. Take up the sword of the Word, hold it with meekness, and cut yourself with it first. Rule your own spirit, and one day He will give you cities. From beggar to son. The center lamp is lit. Wisdom, quick understanding and counsel are burning. And now the fifth lamp, the Spirit of might, is on fire. 219 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Living Temple: Your Body and Your Two Minds If you could find the exact ground where the Tabernacle stood, the fifty-by-one-hundred of the court, the room where the menorah burned, the ten-by-ten where the Ark sat, nothing special would happen when you stood on it. That Tabernacle stood in place after place: at Gilgal, at Shiloh, at Nob, at Gibeon. None of that ground is holy now. YAHWEH packed that tent away when Solomon built the temple, and He let Herod's temple burn. He is not coming back to a spot of sand or to a wall in Jerusalem. He is building His house in people. Your body is the outer court, your human mind is the Holy Place, and the Most Holy Place is His own Mind deposited in you. This chapter is about how the third room gets into the second. When Solomon built the temple, somebody had to pack the Tabernacle up and put it away, because YAHWEH was finished with it. "And they brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up." — 1 Kings 8:4 And not one person standing in Solomon's Temple had any desire to go back to the wilderness and find where the Tabernacle once stood. The Glory Has Departed It breaks the heart of the Father when we are so lacking in our understanding of the temple He is building that we would want to go and stand at a wall in Jerusalem and call it holy ground. YAHWEH packed that temple up too. He let it be destroyed. He is done with it. That wall was never the house of YAHWEH. It is a retaining wall of a courtyard Herod built. The house itself was burned to the ground, and the glory had left long before the fire. Ezekiel watched it go: "And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city." — Ezekiel 11:23 It left that place, and it is not coming back to a wall. This needs pressing, because many are still so tied to the old shadow in their thinking that they do not yet have the revelation of the Seventh Temple, which Chapter 2 laid out: the living Temple, the house YAHWEH is building out of people. Before the last two lamps of the menorah, YAHWEH, who 220 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE told Moses to build it according to the pattern he was shown in the mount, asks us to look deeper into that pattern: Do you see you? The Voice in the Garden Start where everything in the Bible starts. Genesis is the seedbed of Revelation. As the Bible starts, it ends. It starts with a tree and ends with a tree. It starts with a son of YAHWEH, Adam, and ends with the Son of YAHWEH, YAHSHUA. It starts with a serpent and ends with a dragon, which is just a grown-up snake. That is the reason people don't understand Revelation: they don't know Torah. "And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden." — Genesis 3:8 Notice what it does not say. It does not say they saw YAHWEH in the garden. It says they heard something: the voice. They did not see Him, because no man has seen YAHWEH at any time (John 1:18). No human eye will look on Him until we stand in our new bodies. But they heard a voice in the garden, and it spoke to them. You will know you are part of the Elijah ministry when that ministry causes the voice to come back into the garden of your life, and you can hear the voice in the garden again. YAHWEH's desire has always been to dwell among His people. That was His desire in Genesis, and it is His desire in Revelation. In Genesis He dwelt with His people by a voice. And here is where the Book ends: "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." — Revelation 21:3 There is that voice again. John said at the very beginning of his book, "I turned to see the voice that spake with me" (Revelation 1:12). And the voice announces the purpose of the whole Tabernacle: that YAHWEH might dwell with men. The People of the Shadow That verse happens after the Millennial reign. During the Millennium, YAHSHUA comes to bring every enemy into subjection to the Torah. At the end of the thousand years He puts the last enemy, death, under His feet. Then the Son hands the kingdom back to His Father: "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." — 1 Corinthians 15:24–26 221 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And then the voice that walked in Eden is welcome to come back and dwell with the sons of Adam, to tabernacle among the whole world. So here is the purpose of the Tabernacle: to do in advance, for a certain people, what YAHWEH will one day do for all the world. We are the people of the shadow: what is still to come for the world has already come for some. YAHWEH is coming to tabernacle among the whole earth, but until He does, He tabernacles as He always has: with Israel. "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." — Exodus 25:8 Let them. "Them" is Israel. Let them make Me a sanctuary for one purpose: that I may come and dwell with them. And YAHWEH has always dwelt with His people through the voice. YAHWEH said, in effect, You have to build Me a place to put My voice. You have to make room for Me to do in you what I will one day do in the whole earth. I am going to make you the first, the firstfruits. And how will you know I am there? The same way Adam knew: you will hear My voice in the midst of the garden. You will not know He is among you because you can look around and see Him standing there. You will know because you hear His voice in the very moment you need Him. That is why the people living in the shadow have a peace the world cannot explain. When everything you knew changes overnight, when the life you planned collapses in a single day, you hear a voice. It brings a supernatural, out-of-this-world peace and tranquility you cannot account for. The voice is the message you have been taught, and you hear it because He is already tabernacling with you. They will think you're crazy. They will say you're hearing voices. And you are. You alone will hear the voice in the earth that nobody else can hear. This Tabernacle is preparing a place for the voice to return to earth and dwell among His people. In every generation, the ones who heard the voice in that generation were the temple: the living Temple, the true house of YAHWEH. Flee Fornication "Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." — 1 Corinthians 6:18 Paul did not say "flee stealing" or "flee bearing false witness," though we're not to do those things either. He said there is something about fornication you must run from. And then he explains why. Every other sin, stealing from someone, lying about someone, is outside the body. That is a different kind of sin. But fornication is a sin against your own body. Why would YAHWEH care so much about a sin against your own body? It almost sounds as though Paul is lessening the sins outside the body. He is not. He is telling you that you have no idea what the Tabernacle is. "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?" — 1 Corinthians 6:19 222 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Read it slowly. The temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you. Paul chose his word carefully. He did not use the Greek word for the whole temple complex, the courts, the porches and the walls. He used naos, the word for the sanctuary itself: the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place, the rooms where only the priests could go. Paul is saying there is a sanctuary inside you. The Court Around the Sanctuary The Tabernacle had an outer court, and inside the outer court stood the sanctuary. The outer court was not the sanctuary. The sanctuary was inside the outer court. The Holy Place and the Most Holy were set within it, protected by it. And that outer court had no menorah. It had no table of showbread. It had no golden altar of prayer. It was the shell that surrounded the house. That is your body. Your body is the court that surrounds the sanctuary. The court is never purified; it is only saved. It will not be changed until the resurrection. Paul knew this well: "Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing." — Romans 7:17–18 "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man." — Romans 7:22 There is an inward man, and there is an outer one. What is in your body is the sanctuary of the Holy Spirit. And if you do not protect what comes into the body, it slips into the holy place of your life. This is not about food yet; that comes later in this chapter. It is about what you see with these eyes and what you hear with these ears. If you do not put a guard at the eye gate and the ear gate, whatever you let into the court will creep into the rooms it was built to protect. Your Two Minds What are those rooms? In days gone by we were taught that we are made up of three parts: body, soul and spirit. As Chapter 15 showed, we are body and spirit, and your spirit is your mind. We are made up of the body, which is the court, and it is never purified. And then there are two rooms within. Those two rooms are your two minds. You have a human mind. And when the Holy Spirit comes in, it brings a second mind, YAHWEH's own Mind, deposited in you. •The Holy Place, the sixtyfold, is your human mind. It is the room being converted by the menorah, the showbread and the golden altar. •The Most Holy Place, the hundredfold, is His Mind in you. That room does not need to be sanctified. It is already holy. It is the seed, the deposit, the earnest of the Spirit placed in you at your repentance and water baptism. It is the manifest presence of YAHWEH living inside you, and it is hidden in the secret place. (The sixtyfold and the hundredfold are the dimensions laid out in Chapter 11.) In short: 223 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Holy Place, twenty by ten, is your mind. The Most Holy Place, ten by ten, is His Mind. Paul said it plainly: "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ." — 1 Corinthians 2:14–16 We have the mind of the Messiah. There is a supernatural Mind, and it dwells in the Most Holy Place. And here is how Paul finishes the passage on fornication: "For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." — 1 Corinthians 6:20 There it is: your body and your spirit, and your spirit is your mind. He just said, Glorify YAHWEH in your body and in your mind. That is where the temple is: inside the body, in the mind. So protect your mind. Protect the temple. And protect it by the friends you allow to speak into your ear gate. The Three Tools of the Holy Place The Holy Place has a menorah, a table and an altar because the body is never going to be changed by the body. The human mind controls the body, not the other way around. So the Father placed three tools in the room of the human mind: 1.The menorah: the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, the light of understanding. 2.The showbread: His Word. 3.The golden altar: your prayer life. You are not trying to get into the third room. The third room is trying to get into the second room. Through the menorah, through the showbread, through the altar, He is working His way out of the Most Holy Place into the Holy Place, so that He can change your first mind. He is saying, You're not coming to Me. I'm coming to you. He is not inviting you into the third room. He is inviting Himself into the second. I need an entrance into your human mind, through the light, through the bread, through the prayer, so that I can bring with Me what is in My Mind. He has never wanted you to have to climb up to Him. He has always wanted to come to you. "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." — Revelation 3:20 There is the voice again. If any man hear My voice. Open that door and let Him into the second room, and He will sit down at the table with you. You will already experience what the whole world will one day know. 224 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Remember Peter on the mount of transfiguration: "Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles" (Matthew 17:4). Peter wanted to build tents on the mountain and stay there. But the tabernacle was never meant to stay on the mountain. It was meant to come down the mountain with us. The Smallest Room Consider the measurements again. •Your body, the outer court, is fifty by one hundred. It is the biggest part of you. That is why Paul said, Flee fornication. •Your human mind, the Holy Place, is twenty by ten. It is the next biggest. •The Most Holy Place, ten by ten, is the smallest part of you. That is the Holy Spirit, the still small voice. That is why many who have the Holy Spirit are defeated and miserable. The Spirit is in them, and it is trapped. It is in the ten-by-ten, the smallest room, behind a veil, in a house filled with noise. Every day it has to war against everything these ears are hearing and everything these eyes are seeing. By the end of the day, what you heard and what you saw has overtaken your emotions, because what the Spirit is saying is locked in a room with no outlet. Its only way out of the deep recesses of your mind is through the three tools: the menorah, the showbread and the altar. The only way that holy Spirit, trapped in a world of noise, affects your body is through the light, the Word and prayer. So how do you turn the ten-by-ten into the twenty-by-ten? How do you double the YAHWEH part of your life? The Holy Place is exactly twice the length of the Most Holy, and that is your work: to let the Mind in the small room fill the larger one. You must take up the three tools through which that still small voice can move toward your fifty-by-one-hundred. Prayer, the Word and the Spirit of understanding: through those tools of the trade, you begin to change how you think. Negativity is replaced by what YAHWEH says about you. The Power Is Already in You The Spirit can be in a man the whole time, hidden in the ten-by-ten, until the voice of the message, day after day, draws it out into his body. If you want victory over your body, over your sin, over pornography, over fornication, the power is already in you. Dynamite comes in small packages. You received it by faith. It is yours, a free gift of grace. But it only comes out through the menorah, through the Word and through prayer. The more you pray, the more you study, the more you listen to this message, the more your human mind begins to change. And after the human mind, the fifty-by-one-hundred is transformed. 225 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Working Out What Is Worked In "Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure." — Philippians 2:12–13 When people say "work out your own salvation," most don't know what they're talking about. It does not mean go do it your way, figure it out, work it out on your own. It means that what is working on the inside is working its way to the outside. YAHWEH works in you; you work it out. He is working on the inside, and now it is showing on the outside. And it all starts in the Most Holy Place. The Tabernacle was where YAHWEH communicated with His people. And understand this: Paul wrote "your body is the temple" while Herod's temple was still standing in Jerusalem. The priests were still offering there. And still Paul pointed the Corinthians away from the stones and toward the sanctuary within them. YAHSHUA had already shown him the way: "Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up... But he spake of the temple of his body." — John 2:19, 21 The temple lives in the body. That is why we protect our bodies from what we hear, what we see, what we entertain and who we keep company with. If you don't, everything good the back room has been working out in your life can be undone in one moment. Knowing it is not enough. The message has to work its way out. The only way this message will keep you is when it comes into that Holy Place through the Word, through a daily prayer life and through surrender to the Spirits of YAHWEH. Then it works its way out into your life. House, Tabernacle and Temple Here is the key: when you see the word house, tabernacle or temple in Scripture, it is a code word for the mind. The house of YAHWEH is the Mind of YAHWEH. The temple of YAHWEH is His Mind dwelling in a people. Scripture proves it: "Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread. Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees? Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees." — Matthew 16:6–12 They thought He was talking about bread. "Do ye not yet understand?" Even though He said bread, it had nothing to do with bread. And it may take us just as long to understand that even though we 226 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE are talking about a Tabernacle in the wilderness, this has nothing to do with a tent or a temple in Jerusalem. I'm so glad we are the people of the shadow, who understand the shadows. He was not talking about bread. He was talking about the mind. Lies live in the mind. The leaven He warned about was doctrine: lies taken in until they work through the whole lump. There is going to be a people who clean the temple and who care more about what goes into the mind than what goes into the mouth. This is not permission to eat unclean food. Keep your ingredient list, and become just as concerned about what you let into your mind: negativity poured into your ears is unclean food, dead things feeding on dead things, and that is why Paul said flee. Make Me a Clean Mind Go back to the verse where it all began: "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." — Exodus 25:8 Now read sanctuary as mind: Let them make Me a mind, that I may dwell among them. The Hebrew word for sanctuary is miqdash: a sacred place, a consecrated place, a hallowed place. It comes from the root qadash: to be clean, set apart, consecrated. So read it again: Let them make Me a clean mind, and I will dwell with them. Then they will hear My voice, and that still small voice will become a loud voice. We make YAHWEH a clean mind with the Word: "That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word." — Ephesians 5:26 And the showbread represents the Word. How do they make Me a Tabernacle, Father? Put a menorah in there, put the Word in there, put prayer in there, and they will have made a mind for Me. That is why He told Adam to stay away from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He wanted our mind filled with Him, not with the earth, not with Satan, not with anything that was not His. He wanted to dwell with us in our minds. YAHWEH walked with Adam as long as there was no serpent speaking in the garden. But the moment they made room for doubt, the voice was hidden from them. And the same thing happened in every house before this one: the glory departed. The Spirit of YAHWEH departs from any room that has no menorah, no showbread and no altar. Only in the place in your mind where those three stand will He dwell instead of depart. If you are not feeding at a table of truth, you will feed somewhere else; you have found a good table filled with food, so why go looking for many instructors? "For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers." — 1 Corinthians 4:15 227 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE We clean the temple by the Word. And if you are running from ministry to ministry, you are getting a mishmash of the Word. There I Will Meet with Thee See what YAHWEH promises when you prepare His sanctuary: "And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony." — Exodus 25:22 If you will make a clean mind for Him, there in that mind He will meet with you and speak to you. He will bring the voice back into your life. And He will commune with you when you quit communing with them. "This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee." — Exodus 29:42 YAHWEH will speak to you in your mind, in the place you have prepared for Him. When you have cleaned your mind of lies, gossip, deception and delusion, of false doctrine, of a false Christianity, of Christmas and all the traditions men handed down, then you will hear His voice. Then He will meet with you in a cleaned-out mind where no lie is in the room. Those who will not let false doctrine be dug out cannot hear Him speak, because the truth they do hear is not yet strong enough to stand against a Holy Place packed with lies. But when this message gets into your head and stays there, it will clean your mind of those lies. That is where He will come and bring you truth. So it is our job to make our mind a place where He can meet us, so that we are guided by His truth instead of lies and delusions. To what extent is your mind His sanctuary? What do you still need to clean out? Spiritual Fornication The Holy Spirit can begin a good work in you, and it can be destroyed by fornication. Oh, Pastor, you don't have to worry about me. I'm not committing fornication. Is something penetrating your ear gate? Fornication is not only sex. Fornication is joining yourself to what is unclean. Paul said: "What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." — 1 Corinthians 6:16–17 Whatever you join yourself to, you become one with, and if you receive an accusation against your brother, you have joined yourself to that accuser. Spiritual fornication conceives too: you will produce a child that looks just like the people you have been keeping company with. That is why Paul said, Flee it. There is a sanctuary inside you, and the good it was doing in your life can be destroyed by what you join yourself to. 228 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE When Wisdom Enters Proverbs 2, the great wisdom chapter, tells how the Mind in the Most Holy Place comes out into the Holy Place. "When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul." — Proverbs 2:10 You know the Spirit of wisdom, one of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, has entered your heart, your mind, when true knowledge becomes the pleasure of your life. That is why the people around you don't understand why you're so devoted to this message. You are satisfied with knowledge and understanding because wisdom has come into your mind. You have cleaned out the lies, and now you want to replace them with something you can't find anywhere else. Notice how wisdom comes in. "My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee." — Proverbs 2:1 That's where it starts: receive My words. He did not say, I'll show up face to face. It will be as it was in the garden: they heard His voice. The first thing you must do is receive His words. "So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding." — Proverbs 2:2 Incline your ear. Crave it. Crave understanding. Crave the knowledge of His Word, and wisdom will begin to enter your mind. The more you listen, the more it comes. "Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding." — Proverbs 2:3 You have to cry after it. As soon as you finish a teaching, you want it to start all over again, because something has entered your mind. The ten-by-ten is pressing its way into your twenty-by-ten, and you know it because now you are crying out for knowledge. "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures." — Proverbs 2:4 You know how you hold a silver coin and turn it over and rub it. Seek His words like that, and you will walk in wisdom. "Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding." — Proverbs 2:5–6 Out of His mouth: the voice. YAHWEH does not give you wisdom any other way than from His mouth. Fed from His Mouth An eagle feeds her young from her mouth. YAHWEH said He bore Israel "on eagles' wings" (Exodus 19:4), and that "as an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young," so He led them (Deuteronomy 32:11–12). 229 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH feeds His children from His mouth. He feeds the hungry with the voice that walked in the garden, the voice that spoke from between the cherubim, the voice that knocks at the door of your second room even now. So build Him a sanctuary. Guard the court. Light the lamp, set the bread, keep the altar burning. Make Him a clean mind, and the voice that walked in Eden will walk in you. "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them." — Revelation 21:3 For the people of the shadow, it has already begun. 230 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Show the House to the House: Ezekiel's Temple and the Returning Glory Ezekiel saw a temple that has baffled theologians for centuries: an altar, sprinkled blood and a sin offering, in a house that is supposed to stand after Calvary. If that is a literal bull on a literal altar, then the blood of YAHSHUA was not enough. It is not a literal bull. Ezekiel saw the Seventh Temple, the house not made with hands, and the priesthood that restores the daily sacrifice for the whole world. And YAHWEH told him what to do with the vision: show the house to the house. To read Ezekiel's house, you have to know the pattern it was built on. Chapter 17 showed that the Tabernacle of Moses is a picture of your body and your two minds, and that before you die, your two minds have to become one: the mind of the Messiah must overtake your mind. As Chapter 15 showed, your mind is your spirit, and we are body and spirit, not the body, soul and spirit of Babylon. What the Tabernacle shows us is your body and your two minds: the mind of a man, and the mind of YAHWEH. The Mind of a Man We wake up in the morning and figure out how to survive. And the mind of a man in survival mode thinks selfishly. It is the way of get: everything I can get, all about me. The man-mind thinks of what it can get, never of what it can give. Listen to how that mind talks: •"No one is going to walk on me." That is the mind of a man. •"You are going to respect me." The mind of a man. It is all about self. And every one of us, me included, was born selfish. You were born being fed a bottle, and every day it was all about you. No one can honestly say he has never woken up thinking, What can I do today to make everyone else's life wonderful, without a thought for my own? That is just not the thought we wake up with. Selfishness is the root of rebellion. That means every one of us, in our man-mind, is rebellious, and it slips out. Even the curse in the garden worked this way: "thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee" (Genesis 3:16). Before sin, the woman walked beside Adam, and no one ruled over anyone. Rule entered with rebellion. Where you find selfishness, you will find rebellion. Where you find rebellion, you will find greed. And those roots in the man-mind will not enter the kingdom of YAHWEH. 231 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE As Chapter 17 showed, that is why the ten-by-ten has to flow out into the twenty-by-ten. The Holy Place, the sixtyfold, will never enter the government of YAHSHUA as it is. It has to be overtaken. That is why YAHSHUA said: "I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me." — John 5:30 He no longer had a mind of His own. He had taken upon Himself the mind of His Father. As the mind of the Father takes you over, the one you are becoming looks so much like the light that it offends the darkness. They killed YAHSHUA, and He had done nothing to them. His light, His humility, His refusal to talk back: that offended the darkness. All this has everything to do with Ezekiel's Temple. Many teachers can give you every intricate detail of the Tabernacle. Torah teachers are wonderful. But they are missing something called spirit and truth. You cannot understand Moses' Tabernacle until you understand that it is a pattern of you: your mind, His Mind and your body, and those three must become one, in complete submission to His Mind. The Riddle of Ezekiel's Temple As Chapter 2 showed, the pattern of Moses' Tabernacle is exactly that: a pattern. You can watch it duplicate itself. Solomon's Temple was laid out exactly like Moses' Tabernacle. When Solomon's house was destroyed, it was rebuilt after Babylon, and it too was laid out like Moses' Tabernacle. The pattern never changes. And now we run into a problem that has mystified theologians for centuries. Christianity and Judaism both call it the Third Temple: Ezekiel's vision of a temple yet to come. Look at any drawing of Ezekiel's Temple. It is very fancy looking, with gates and courts and chambers. But look past the altar to the house in the center: it is Moses' Tabernacle. The Holy Place and the inner sanctuary are covered, just as they were in the wilderness. The rooms are enlarged: the Most Holy Place is twenty cubits square (Ezekiel 41:4). But at the end of the day, it is the same tent in a grander frame. The more things change, the more they stay the same. The story runs from Ezekiel 8 to Ezekiel 48. In chapters 8 through 11 Ezekiel watches the glory leave the house in Jerusalem. In chapters 40 through 48 he is shown, in every minute detail, a house where the glory comes back. The most brilliant minds in history are at a total loss as to what to do with Ezekiel's Temple, but what they have not understood, the Holy Spirit has revealed. Blood on the Altar After Calvary? Here is why Ezekiel's Temple makes no sense to any theologian who believes in the shed blood of the Messiah: 232 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon. And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord GOD, a young bullock for a sin offering. And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it." — Ezekiel 43:18–20 The problem is plain: burnt offerings, sprinkled blood, a sin offering. Judaism and Christianity both believe this temple will be physically rebuilt in Jerusalem during the Millennial reign. But the animal sacrifices for sin were finished. YAHSHUA shed His blood once for all (Hebrews 10:10–12). Yet Ezekiel sees a temple where a sin offering returns. If that were a literal bull on a literal altar after Calvary, it would be the closest thing to blasphemy against the blood of YAHSHUA you have ever heard. So we have three choices: 1.Ezekiel was a false prophet. I'll throw that one out. 2.The blood of YAHSHUA was not the sin offering for the whole world. I'll throw that one out too. 3.There is something in Ezekiel's vision we have failed to see in the spirit. That's the one I'm going with. And here is one reason I'm going with it: "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." — Revelation 21:22 John saw no temple building. YAHWEH and the Lamb are the temple of it. So how are you going to burn a bullock in a building that isn't there? You cannot have it both ways. Either the kingdom of YAHWEH ends in a stone building with bulls on the altar, or it ends in a living temple. The so-called rebuilt temple of Ezekiel was never meant to be read in physical terms. That is why YAHWEH gives you a teacher. The ministry of the teacher carries a unique gift to discern what is literal and what is not. Until you can tell the difference, you will have a problem. A Temple for the Antichrist Babylon proves it has no Spirit on this very point. Pick up almost any popular prophecy book of the last fifty years, or turn on any religious television station. Christianity and Judaism both look for a rebuilt third temple. Both are Babylon. Judaism and Christianity are brothers from the same mother, and both religions need that building. And here is the danger: if you fall for that lie, you will have no place in the temple. That is how important this subject is. Satan is the master magician. A magician has you watching this hand while he works with the other. Satan has you looking for an Antichrist who is coming, so that you never deal with the 233 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE antichrist that is already here. He has you looking for a mark of the beast that is coming, so you never see the 666 already in you. He is playing tricks with your mind so that you will not deal with your mind. So if Christianity gets you looking for a third temple of stone, you will never begin working on the temple YAHWEH is actually building. Satan is preaching in every church and every synagogue for men to look for a building. But John said there would be no temple building in that city. There will be a Temple, and it will be YAHWEH, and the Lamb, and the body of priests built into them. That is the doctrine we teach. We call it the Seventh Temple Ministry. As Chapter 2 showed, in the line of YAHWEH's houses, from Moses' Tabernacle to the house Herod enlarged, there have been six made with hands; the seventh is not made with hands. And the reason people don't understand the Seventh Temple Ministry is that they don't understand Malachi 3:1. The Messenger Prepares the Temple The purpose of Moses' Tabernacle was to host the presence of YAHWEH. The purpose of Solomon's Temple was to host the presence of YAHWEH. And the purpose of YAHSHUA was to host the presence of YAHWEH. "God was in Christ" (2 Corinthians 5:19). The Torah was lived out in a man, and inside Him dwelt the Mind of His Father. He was a host. He was a temple of YAHWEH. "Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts." — Malachi 3:1 Before YAHSHUA comes, YAHWEH sends a messenger, and the messenger begins to work on something. He will do what King Josiah did when he cleaned up the house of YAHWEH and Hilkiah found the book of the law lying in it (2 Kings 22:8). I will send My messenger, and he shall prepare the way. Everyone is waiting on the return of YAHSHUA. We are all seeking it. But YAHSHUA comes only when there is a temple for Him to come to. "The Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple." The messenger builds the temple, and then the Master comes to it. "Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." — Acts 3:21 When you understand that YAHSHUA is being held back because He does not yet have a perfected priesthood, a perfected temple, then you understand why Satan has robbed the church of this doctrine. We have been so busy waiting for someone to build a temple for the antichrist that we forgot to build one for the living Messiah. The messenger is not one man but a voice, a chain of witness sent to begin preparing the way, each one preparing a temple that would come out of Babylon. And now we are part of that messenger's voice, continuing in our generation, preparing the temple for YAHSHUA to come to. 234 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Why the Temple Is Not Ready What's missing, then? Why isn't the temple ready? No one to this day has taught the true purpose of the temple. The temple must have a priesthood, and the duty of the true Zadok priesthood was to burn the daily sacrifice. And the daily sacrifice was taken away from the house of Israel: "Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down." — Daniel 8:11 Judaism took it away by putting its whole hope in Atonement once a year. Christianity took it away with its communion; the Roman church has utterly replaced the daily sacrifice. And the daily burnt offering was for sin. What is missing in the house of YAHWEH is a priesthood that understands its role: one hand reaching into the heavenlies and the other into the earth, bringing to all men the salvation of the daily sacrifice of YAHSHUA the Messiah. The temple is not finished because we have preached about trying to get close to YAHWEH without realizing YAHWEH is trying to get close to man. He wants us to come into the temple and receive the revelation of the altar of incense: praying for all men, bringing a daily offering for all men, that they might be saved through the shed blood of YAHSHUA our Messiah. "I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men... For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." — 1 Timothy 2:1, 3–4 The problem is that the churches of this world do not believe the blood will actually reach all men. They believe that sacrifice will save only those who "got saved" in this life, and so they are not burning a daily sacrifice for all men. And so they are not qualified for the priesthood of the Seventh Temple. The duty of the Seventh Temple priest is to put the Lamb back on the altar as a sin offering for the whole world, so that the river of life may flow out of the temple and bring healing to all the nations. "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." — 1 John 2:2 Other preachers are burning a sacrifice for "us four and no more." But Ezekiel saw a temple filled with priests who restore the daily sacrifice, the sin offering for the world. You cannot do that unless you believe for the whole world. Christianity is not qualified to burn this offering. This is the one we burn: the incense of prayer that rises like smoke for all men. That is what the Seventh Temple Ministry is going to do, and you are learning how to do it now. There is hope for the whole world, and only this temple is qualified to bring that hope to the world. Before Ezekiel's temple is restored, the daily sacrifice has disappeared. This temple brings it back: the sin offering, the shed blood of YAHSHUA, for the whole world. 235 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is why at Passover we bring ourselves as living sacrifices (Romans 12:1). Along with YAHSHUA the Lamb, we become an offering for the world. A Vision Given on the Day of Atonement There is a principle here that is seldom taught: many times, the day a revelation is given has to do with how it will be fulfilled. John the Revelator said, "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day" (Revelation 1:10), and his vision was a vision of the day of YAHWEH. YAHWEH uses the way He gives a vision to show how it will be fulfilled. So consider when Ezekiel received the vision of this temple: "In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither." — Ezekiel 40:1 At the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month. The tenth day the Torah ties to the turning of the year is the Day of Atonement, the day the trumpet of Jubilee sounds: "Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." — Leviticus 25:9–10 Ezekiel received the vision of this temple on Yom Kippur, in a year of Jubilee. Yom Kippur deals with sin, and Ezekiel's Temple restores a sin offering. Jubilee is liberty for all; Yom Kippur is freedom for all mankind. And the Seventh Temple is a priesthood that brings freedom out of the temple to all men. Read about that temple and you will find something flowing out of it. It flowed out to the nations and healed everything wherever it went (Ezekiel 47:9). Brothers and sisters, that river coming out of Ezekiel's Temple is you, the priesthood. We are the river. But for us to flow out of the temple, we must first be drawn into it. "The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace." — Haggai 2:9 "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 2:5 There is Ezekiel's Temple: a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, spiritual sacrifices. And the sacrifice we offer is what has been given to us. YAHSHUA has come into us, and we will declare His name and His sacrifice throughout all the nations of the world. 236 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Called In to Be Sent Out The Tabernacle is not so much calling us in as sending us out. Consider the priesthood of Ezekiel's Temple: "When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister; for they are holy; and shall put on other garments, and shall approach to those things which are for the people." — Ezekiel 42:14 They enter in order to go out. They come into the hundredfold, and then they are to go back out to the thirtyfold. They change their garments, and they approach to those things which are for the people. Every priest of this temple is called in to be sent back out. What is hidden in the ten-by-ten was never just for you. It was always for all men. It was meant to flow through you and "make glad the city of God" (Psalm 46:4). It was meant to turn you into the ministry team that YAHSHUA sends out in the Millennial kingdom. You go into a holy place, but you go out into an unholy place, and you carry with you the river you found in the secret place. The treasure YAHWEH has placed in these earthen vessels (2 Corinthians 4:7) was never meant to stay in. It was meant to come out. When this temple is perfected and YAHSHUA comes to it, He will send out the priesthood He has trained over centuries. Many of them are in the grave even now. They are the ones who have been in the inner court, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who received the Holy Spirit, and who believed for all men. Now imagine the Christians of Babylon who have been in the glory, who felt the powerful presence of YAHWEH, but never heard a voice that taught them the purpose of the priesthood. YAHSHUA tells them, Now go and bring them all in. Them? You don't know how hard I fought them. I thought they were lost! Their minds won't be right. They never knew the altar of incense, the prayer for all men. You can't go get what you never believed for. You can't catch what you never fished for. But in this hour YAHWEH is calling His priesthood into the glory of the Tabernacle. Not so you can bask in it, but so you can take on a love for all mankind. That is why He watches how quickly you forgive those who have done you wrong. It is a test of the emergency broadcast system, because He is trying to broadcast His love to the whole world. Training for reigning asks a hard question: how will you reign over people you never wanted? How will you reign over them if you never prayed for them, never believed for them, never even knew they were coming? He says, I am building the Seventh Temple now, and in this temple I have restored the daily sacrifice. The role of the true priesthood is to burn the daily sacrifice. The role of the false priesthood is to take it away. You will know you are in the true temple when your prayers spread that blood over the whole world, when your prayers believe for all the rest. 237 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Walking Through the House Now walk through Ezekiel's Temple the way the man with the measuring reed walked Ezekiel through it. First, the Most Holy Place: "So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits; and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the temple: and he said unto me, This is the most holy place." — Ezekiel 41:4 The inner door: "Then went he inward, and measured the post of the door, two cubits; and the door, six cubits; and the breadth of the door, seven cubits." — Ezekiel 41:3 The length and breadth: "Before the length of an hundred cubits was the north door, and the breadth was fifty cubits." — Ezekiel 42:2 There is your fifty-by-one-hundred again, just like Moses' Tabernacle. Moses' Tabernacle was the pattern for it all. Then the altar. Ezekiel 43:13–17 gives its measures: a base, a lower ledge, a greater ledge and the hearth with four horns, eleven cubits from the ground to the top, about sixteen feet and more. Its stairs face the east. The priests had to climb those stairs to bring the sacrifice up to the altar. YAHWEH is being very specific, so that you can see what is going on in the temple that is being built now. The Zadok Chamber and the Thirty Chambers Then the chambers, and what they are for. "And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister unto him." — Ezekiel 40:46 This temple has a place reserved for the Zadok priesthood, the earthly shadow of the eternal order of Melchizedek that is returning. But those who did not come all the way into full obedience, who stayed in the sixtyfold, have a chamber too: "And he said unto me, This chamber, whose prospect is toward the south, is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the house." — Ezekiel 40:45 These are not the sons of Zadok. They keep the house; they do not come near to the altar. Ezekiel says it plainly a few chapters later: "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house... And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me... But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the 238 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me." — Ezekiel 44:10–11, 13, 15 Ezekiel is seeing the future ministry of the hundredfold and sixtyfold believers. If that seems a stretch, Ezekiel 40:17 settles it: "Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were upon the pavement. And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement." — Ezekiel 40:17–18 Thirty chambers. He brought Ezekiel to the Zadok priests: the hundredfold. He brought him to the priests who keep the house: the sixtyfold. And then he brought him to the outer court, and there just happen to be thirty chambers in the outer court, on the lower pavement. Those thirty chambers confirm the thirty, sixty and hundredfold doctrine that Chapter 11 lays out, and without it, those who teach on a third temple see the Zadok chamber, the chamber of the other priests and the thirty chambers, and have no idea what they're looking at. Some who read this will be in that Zadok chamber. Some will be in the chamber of the sixty. Some will be in the thirty. And Babylon loves that little verse, God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). Oh, God doesn't see one higher than another. But the thirty are on the lower pavement. Peter said YAHWEH accepts men of every nation; he never said every man will stand in the same chamber. And on the corners of the courts there are kitchens, places where they boil the offerings (Ezekiel 46:21–24). Four of them. There will be food in the Millennial kingdom. The Prince at the Eastern Gate Now consider the front of the temple, the eastern gate of the inner court. "Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening." — Ezekiel 46:1–2 The one standing at that eastern gate, waiting for a temple, is the Prince. He is standing outside, because He will not come in until some messenger prepares the temple. The Prince of Peace. "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." — Revelation 3:20 Behold, I come quickly to My temple. But right now I'm still outside the gate. He stands by the gate, waiting for His priesthood to rekindle the daily sacrifice. 239 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The gate is shut six working days. But on the Sabbath it is opened. "Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons. And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish." — Ezekiel 46:3–4 Six lambs and a ram. Six and one: seven. "And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth." — Ezekiel 46:10 Notice: the Prince goes into the temple with the people of YAHWEH on the Sabbath day. In the midst of them. Every Sabbath, the Prince leaves His post outside the gate, and where two or three are gathered together in His authority, He enters the temple with His people. And there is a promise in it: "But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it." — Ezekiel 46:9 Everyone who comes into this temple to worship will not leave the way he came. You will go out in a totally different direction from the one you came in. If you come in through the north gate, you are not going back out the north gate. You are going to be changed. If you will meet Him on the Sabbath, if you will come in with Him, He will meet you there, and you will never go back the way you came. Scripture confirms that the Prince comes in with His people: "Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me." — Hebrews 2:12–13 That is YAHSHUA speaking. He comes to the assembly with us. He sings praise to His Father in the midst of His brethren. He puts His trust in YAHWEH along with all His brethren, and He declares it to us in the midst of the congregation. Ezekiel saw Hebrews 2:12. The Prince on the Sabbath enters in with all the living stones and declares His Father's name among His brethren. And if the Prince is Elohim Almighty Himself, to whom is He offering sacrifices? The Prince worships at the threshold. The Prince brings an offering to YAHWEH. The Son declares the Father's name. He worships with us on the Sabbath, and together with us He intercedes for all men. The Glory Returns from the East Now go to the eastern gate, the outer one, and see what all of this was for. 240 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Ezekiel is the one who saw the glory depart from the house in Jerusalem, the house everybody flocks to stand beside. He watched the glory go up from the midst of the city and stand on the mountain on the east side (Ezekiel 11:23). It left the house. And now: "Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east: and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east: and his voice was like a noise of many waters: and the earth shined with his glory." — Ezekiel 43:1–2 The glory left toward the east, and the glory comes back from the east. And His voice is like the noise of many waters. It is the voice John heard on Patmos: "his voice as the sound of many waters" (Revelation 1:15). As Chapter 17 showed, it is the voice that walked in the garden, and it is coming back to the house. The glory is back. Wherever there is a people keeping Sabbath, where the Prince is welcome, that is the temple the glory comes into, and from there it covers the whole earth. And it is not coming back to the old Jerusalem; it is coming to the New Jerusalem. It is not coming back to the earthly mount; it is coming to Mount Sion (Hebrews 12:22). It is not coming back to Hagar; it is coming to Sarah: "For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all." — Galatians 4:25–26 That is why YAHWEH lets us see His glory from time to time. No one else sees it, but we do. A Hole in the Wall This story did not start in Ezekiel 40; it ends there. It started in Ezekiel 8. It is one of the saddest stories in the Bible, and it is the picture of the religion so many of us came out of. "And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me... And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy." — Ezekiel 8:1, 3 YAHWEH picks Ezekiel up by a lock of his hair and carries him to the house in Jerusalem. The first thing he sees at the gate is the image of jealousy. An image of jealousy is a false image of who YAHWEH is: a man turned into a god. It provokes Him to jealousy because it is a lie about Him. I am eternal. YAHWEH cannot die (1 Timothy 6:16). And the first thing you see when you walk into so many churches is an image of jealousy at the door. "And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there... He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary?" — Ezekiel 8:4, 6 241 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That I should go far off from My sanctuary. The glory is getting ready to leave. "But turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations." "And he brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall." — Ezekiel 8:7 A hole in the wall sounds like a breach. Chapter 17 showed that the body is there to protect the sanctuary. Your ear gate and your eye gate are the holes in your wall. And a little hole in the wall becomes a breach. "Then said he unto me, Son of man, dig now in the wall: and when I had digged in the wall, behold a door." — Ezekiel 8:8 Like a surgeon, dig into that hole, the one nobody wants you digging into, the one they wish you'd stay out of. And the hole turns out to be a door: a door for every lie of hell, every gossip, every negative spirit. If you don't fix it now, it will fix you later. Keep that hole sealed up. "And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here. So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about." — Ezekiel 8:9–10 Pagan decorations on every wall: everything the pagans do, brought into My house. An image of jealousy turning a man into a god at the gate, and the trappings of the nations on the walls, replacing the worship of Israel. And it all started with a little hole. Anything that provokes YAHWEH to jealousy is an idol: the image at the gate, the beautiful stained glass, even the face of your own child if you put it in His place. Incense in the Dark "And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up." — Ezekiel 8:11 Seventy elders, and seventy is the number of the nations. The leaders of YAHWEH's people, who were to stand for the nations, had been infected by that hole in the wall. And they had censers in their hands, and a thick cloud of incense went up. They were having church. "Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth." — Ezekiel 8:12 There is your hole in the wall. The abomination was in their thinking. It doesn't matter to Him. He doesn't really see. He's not that focused on what we're doing. Get a life. He doesn't care what day we worship. Just wave the incense around and let's get on with it. He doesn't care about the details. 242 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE When you get that little hole in your mind that says the details don't matter, that He's a god of love who doesn't really look, that is the hole in your wall. He is an Elohim of details. Always read verse 12. Tammuz and the Rising Sun "Then he brought me to the door of the gate of the LORD's house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz." — Ezekiel 8:14 Out in the court, in the thirtyfold, sat women weeping for Tammuz, the dying and rising god of the pagans. They mourned for him and waited to see whether he would come back. That same pagan mourning and those same pagan festivals were later dressed in church clothes and brought into the house. It's just an image. YAHWEH's not really looking. That is your hole in the wall. "And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east." — Ezekiel 8:16 Between the porch and the altar is exactly where the priests should have been weeping and praying (Joel 2:17). Instead they are turning their backs on the house and bowing to the rising sun. The women out there are weeping for Tammuz; the men in here are holding a sunrise service. All of it in the house of the living Elohim, while an image of a man-god stands at the gate, a god who loves everybody and isn't really looking. The restored temple of Ezekiel 40 through 46 is the end of that story: Zadok priests offering the daily sacrifice, the Prince coming in on the Sabbath and worshiping with them, the glory returning. This is its beginning. What you are looking at in Ezekiel 8 is the church many readers came out of. What you read before it is the temple they ran into: the house of the Holy Spirit. "Then he said unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? Is it a light thing to the house of Judah that they commit the abominations which they commit here? for they have filled the land with violence, and have returned to provoke me to anger: and, lo, they put the branch to their nose." — Ezekiel 8:17 Is it a light thing? Never take the work of YAHWEH lightly. They have filled the land with violence. Those priests destroyed the land. It was these priests who brought the curse on the whole earth, because they would not do it right. But in the other temple are priests who will restore the land. "Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them." — Ezekiel 8:18 That is what YAHWEH said to the house in Jerusalem: Cry all you want; My glory has departed. And the same thing has replicated itself in the Christian church, which was supposed to be His house. 243 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The glory departed from the house in Jerusalem, and it has departed from the church of Babylon. The only place the glory is coming back is the temple that restores the daily sacrifice: a priesthood that, instead of bringing a curse on the world, becomes the blessing of the world, because it understands His purposes for the earth. The Law of the House Now finish where Ezekiel saw the purpose of this temple. The glory has come in by the east gate: "So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house. And I heard him speaking unto me out of the house; and the man stood by me. And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile." — Ezekiel 43:5–7 The glory of YAHWEH fills the house, where the priesthood is, in the inner court. Ezekiel saw a temple with the glory already inside it before it covered the earth. It was in the priesthood that had restored the Name, that no longer took these things lightly, and that was being transformed from the inside out. "Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever." — Ezekiel 43:9 These people, the people of this temple, have put away their whoredoms. This temple will not cause Him to leave. I will dwell in the midst of them for ever. "Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern." — Ezekiel 43:10 Hold on right here. Show the house to the house. Son of man, everything I have shown you, reveal it. Show the meaning of this house to the house of Israel. That they may be ashamed of their iniquities. That they never again break Sabbath, never again forsake My holy days, never again put up an image of jealousy and call it worship. These are the people who will do it. And let them measure the pattern. The pattern is the body and the two minds: Moses' Tabernacle, YAHSHUA in the flesh. These will be pattern children. These people are going to measure the pattern. "And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them." — Ezekiel 43:11 244 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If they will be ashamed. If they won't take it lightly. If they will truly be ashamed of how they let Babylon into His house. If they will come out of her, My people. Then show them: •the form and fashion of the house: reveal to them what the temple means; •the goings out and the comings in: show them how to work in this temple ministry, called in to be sent out; •all the ordinances and all the laws: teach them My commandments, show them the customs, show them how I want things done. And write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form. Not part of it. The whole form. "This is the law of the house; Upon the top of the mountain the whole limit thereof round about shall be most holy. Behold, this is the law of the house." — Ezekiel 43:12 This is the law of the house. Learn the law of the Seventh Temple. Learn to transform your mind into the mind of the Messiah. Learn not to let a hole into your wall. Learn the pattern He has shown you in this vision. And if you will learn it, the whole limit round about shall be most holy: everything about you will be holy. The Altar for the Four Corners of the Earth Now Ezekiel gives the measures of the altar again, in the very same chapter as the law of the house (Ezekiel 43:13–17). The altar is foursquare because four is the number of the whole earth: north, south, east and west. Its ledges are four cubits. It has four horns, toward the four corners of the earth. "And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof." — Ezekiel 43:16 Twelve and twelve: the government of YAHWEH, the divine order of His kingdom. The whole earth will be covered by the government that is hidden in that temple. And the stairs look toward the east: it is all looking for the glory. This is the meaning of the house. This is what no one with all these wild third-temple theories has been able to figure out. It is all about north, south, east and west. It is all about mankind. "These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon." — Ezekiel 43:18 In the day when they shall make it. The priesthood is going to build this altar for all men. And they will sprinkle on the whole world the blood that has already been sprinkled on them. It is like the cleansing of the leper in Leviticus 14: two birds, one killed, and the living bird dipped in the blood of the first and let loose into the open field (Leviticus 14:4–7). We are that bird. We have been dipped in His blood, and we are sent out to carry it. And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok... a young bullock for a sin offering. The sons of Zadok are going to build this altar. They are going to believe the message of the 245 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE restoration of all things. They are going to pray for it daily. They are going to believe for the four corners of the earth. "And thou shalt take of the blood thereof, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the settle, and upon the border round about: thus shalt thou cleanse and purge it." — Ezekiel 43:20 This priesthood is cleansing and purging the four corners. "For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy" (Romans 11:16). Get a little holy, and you'll get the whole lump holy. "Thou shalt take the bullock also of the sin offering, and he shall burn it in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary." — Ezekiel 43:21 Without the sanctuary. The One taken outside to be the offering for the whole world was YAHSHUA: "Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate" (Hebrews 13:12). We have a sin offering for the whole world. "And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock." — Ezekiel 43:22 Judaism took the sin offering away. Rome took it away. Christianity does not believe in a sin offering that will actually reach the whole world. There has to be a priesthood that restores it for the north, the south, the east and the west, and the sons of Zadok will do it. "And thou shalt offer them before the LORD, and the priests shall cast salt upon them, and they shall offer them up for a burnt offering unto the LORD." — Ezekiel 43:24 The priests cast salt. "Ye are the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13). The priesthood is covering the whole earth with the sacrifice of YAHSHUA the Messiah. The Eighth Day "Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish. Seven days shall they purge the altar and purify it; and they shall consecrate themselves." — Ezekiel 43:25–26 Seven days: completion. And they shall consecrate themselves. We are coming into complete consecration. The world is not consecrated yet, but we are offering the sin offering for them daily, in our own consecration. And when the seven days are finished: "And when these days are expired, it shall be, that upon the eighth day, and so forward, the priests shall make your burnt offerings upon the altar, and your peace offerings; and I will accept you, saith the Lord GOD." — Ezekiel 43:27 Upon the eighth day, when the priesthood has finished its work of consecration, the offering goes forward, and YAHWEH says, I will accept you. That is the vision Ezekiel received on the Day of Atonement, in the year of Jubilee: a house of living stones, a priesthood called in to be sent out, a Prince who walks in with His people on the 246 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Sabbath, and a glory that comes back from the east and fills the house until the earth shines with it. Son of man, show the house to the house. You are the house. Measure the pattern. Seal the hole in the wall. Keep the whole form. And let the river run. 247 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER NINETEEN Intimacy with the Word: The Spirit of Knowledge The sixth lamp is the Spirit of knowledge, and it is not information. "Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived." In Scripture, to know is to be intimate. The knowledge of the Messiah is intimacy with the Word: being so joined to It is written that you can hold the bloody coat and still say, My son is not dead. Hosea says YAHWEH's people are destroyed for the lack of this knowledge, and that whoever rejects it shall be "no priest to me." Such people may still be His people. They will not be His priests. That is the claim of this chapter, and it is why the Tabernacle was never given to fill your head. The Tabernacle was not given to fill you with head knowledge. Anybody can do that. The Tabernacle is a pattern. The Tabernacle of Moses was the pattern for Solomon's Temple, for the house rebuilt in the days of Ezra, and for the house Ezekiel was shown. Every temple is built off that one pattern. If you don't get the pattern right in your mind, you will never know who you are. You'll think you are a Christian who has been saved to go to heaven and live forever, and that is all you'll think. As Chapter 18 showed, you are the Seventh Temple. Moses built the first house. Solomon built a house. Ezra and Zerubbabel built a house. The last house is being built by YAHSHUA the Messiah, the Head of this assembly, and He is its High Priest. If you don't know your place in this temple, you will not rule and reign with Him when He returns. The Way, the Truth and the Life The outer court represents several things, and they are all the same thing: the thirtyfold (Chapter 11), the body (Chapter 17), social knowledge, which this chapter takes up, and the way. YAHSHUA said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), and the Tabernacle shows all three. The outer court is the way. The Holy Place is the truth. The Most Holy Place is the life. YAHSHUA is the Tabernacle, and the way is through YAHSHUA. When you come into YAHSHUA, you go deeper into truth, and eventually you find life. The Holy Place is twenty by ten. It represents the sixtyfold, and it represents the truth. That tells me the sixtyfold believer is no longer interested only in the way. He has found the way; now he is interested in the truth. If you ever find truth and build it into your life, you will find life, and the life is in the hundredfold room, the ten by ten. The third room and the veil are ahead, and Chapter 27 will take us through them. First, the Holy Place has more to give. Three things stand in that room: the table of showbread, where the priests 248 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE eat, changed out every Sabbath so that the priests always come home on the Sabbath to eat fresh bread; the golden altar, the prayer life of the intercessor; and the menorah. In this room you are being prepared for the Millennial reign, and the menorah represents the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. Chapters 13 through 16 lit five of its lamps. Two remain, knowledge and the fear of YAHWEH, and both must burn before the third room. When you come into truth, you run into the menorah, and it will become your favorite emblem in the world. It will be more beautiful to you than the Star of David, because it is the one symbol YAHWEH Himself gave Israel to put in His house. The Anointed Body "And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead." — Revelation 3:1 He that hath the seven Spirits. YAHSHUA has the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, and if you do not have them, you are not walking as part of YAHSHUA. Every believer will have to walk under the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, because if you do not develop them in your mind and your life, you are not qualified to move into the next room. That is the problem. Many believers think they have arrived because they received the Holy Spirit. But the Holy Spirit is the center lamp, the seed. It does you no good until it lights up all seven Spirits of YAHWEH in your walk. As you come into this message, you will begin to see wisdom, counsel and might lighting up in your life. "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD." — Isaiah 11:2 Our thinking has gone wrong in the way we read that verse. We read that the Spirit would rest upon the Messiah, and we think only of the man YAHSHUA. But YAHSHUA is the Head of the body. The Messiah, the Anointed One, is a Head and a body together. Learn a word: the anointed body. When you see a promise made to the Messiah, it is made not to the Head alone, but to His anointed body. "For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ." — 1 Corinthians 12:12 So also is the Messiah. The seven Spirits of YAHWEH were never meant to rest on the Head alone. We make a grave mistake in the church when we focus on the Head and forget the body. We do it because we are lazy. We want all the work, all the promises and all the purposes to go to the Head, and it has created a stunted church. That's why, before He left, He said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." — John 14:12 249 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE This was never about a Head without a body. A head without a body is powerless on the earth. When what rested on Him does not rest on you, the Head has no hands and no feet in this world. Put plainly: YAHSHUA is at the right hand of His Father. YAHSHUA is not omnipresent. YAHWEH is, because YAHWEH is the Holy Spirit. But "the man Christ Jesus" (1 Timothy 2:5) is seated at the right hand of the Father. And when He left the earth, He said, in effect, I go away, but I leave you in My place. I'm glad I'm one of them. So we read Isaiah, that the Spirit would rest upon the Messiah, and we cheer for the Head alone: Go, Jesus, go! No. The seven Spirits will rest on the anointed body. Quit cutting off the Head and adoring a head with no body. I love YAHSHUA more than anything. But until I love the brother sitting next to me as much as I love YAHSHUA, I am honoring a head and despising its body. We would give our lives for the man YAHSHUA, but we would never do anything for the other men who make up His body. When the seven Spirits that rested on the Head find their way through the body, it will be a living, life-giving ministry to the whole world. Put it in three sentences: Everything prophesied to the Head is prophesied to the body. The purpose of the Head is the purpose of the body. The promises to the Head are the promises to the body. We are not part of a dead religious system. We are part of a living organism called the body of YAHSHUA on planet earth. We are the continuation of His ministry: His presence, His voice on the earth. No Knowledge of YAHWEH in the Land The next Spirit of YAHWEH that must develop in your life is the Spirit of knowledge, the sixth lamp. "Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land." — Hosea 4:1 YAHWEH has a controversy with the people: no truth, no mercy, no knowledge of YAHWEH. It didn't say there was no knowledge in the land. It said there is no knowledge of YAHWEH in the land. Knock on every door in your neighborhood and ask, Do you know YAHWEH? and see how they look at you. They'll know a god, but there is no knowledge of YAHWEH in His own creation. Worse, there is no knowledge of YAHWEH in the church. "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." — Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed because they do not have the sixth Spirit of YAHWEH in their lives. Because thou hast rejected. You have not rejected His Spirit. You have not rejected the baptism. You love to speak in tongues. But when He tried to put the sixth lamp on you, the knowledge of 250 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH, the church rejected it. You have received the Holy Spirit, but you have rejected the sixth Spirit of YAHWEH. Rejected from the Priesthood, Not from Salvation I will also reject thee. What is He rejecting them for? Not for salvation. He is not rejecting them to perdition. He is rejecting them from what He created them for: from the dominion mandate. I'll let you be saved, but I'm rejecting you from what you could have been and should have been. That thou shalt be no priest to me. The priests go into only one place: these rooms. I'm rejecting you from the Holy Place and the Most Holy, and I'm casting you back into the outer darkness, which is the outer court. You can be My people, but you cannot be My priests. You are not rejected from salvation, but you are no longer qualified for the priesthood. Why? Because I tried to give you knowledge of My plans. A priest declares YAHWEH's plans to the whole world. He takes the hand of the world and the hand of YAHWEH and joins the two. But you rejected that knowledge. You would rather have good church and a smiling television preacher than know the truth. "For many are called, but few are chosen." — Matthew 22:14 You will be called. You will be saved. But you won't be chosen, and chosen means chosen for the priesthood. You were called to be a priest unto YAHWEH. Seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God. That is the knowledge. I will also forget thy children. Your children will miss out on the priesthood, because you rejected the law of YAHWEH. A Kingdom of Priests to Get the Earth Back Ever since Adam sinned in the garden, YAHWEH has had a purpose: to bring forth a royal house of priests, His instruments to bring the inhabitants of the world back into reconciliation. When Adam fell, YAHWEH said, All right. I am going to raise up a priesthood that will reconcile them and bring them back to Me. YAHWEH has not always been looking just to get people saved. He has been looking to get them reconciled, and He needs a priesthood to do it. "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." — Exodus 19:5–6 If ye will obey My voice and keep My covenant. Then you shall be a peculiar treasure, a segullah, unto Me. Above all people. You will not be equal. You'll be above and not beneath, the head and not the tail. You will ride on the high places of the earth (Deuteronomy 28:13; Isaiah 58:14). Why? Because if YAHWEH can find a people who will obey Him, He has a plan for them. For all the earth is Mine. And since all the earth is His, He plans to get all the earth back. He doesn't plan to burn it up, mess it up, throw it up or give it up. He plans to get it all back, and the way He will get it back is through a priesthood. Ye shall be unto Me a kingdom of priests. 251 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHSHUA does not reconcile the world alone. He reconciles it through a bride. The last chapter of the Book no longer says only "the Spirit saith come." It says: "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come." — Revelation 22:17 Now the ministry is complete. He will not have a bride calling the nations to come whom He cannot trust. So He says, If you will obey Me, you will be that body, that priesthood that gets Me the world back. And an holy nation. Israel. Your identity is Israel. You may live in America, Britain or Africa, but you are a nation within the nations: a holy nation unto Him. Now compare Exodus with Hosea. In Exodus, YAHWEH promised them the priesthood if they would obey. In Hosea, He denied them the priesthood because they rejected knowledge. He is not sending them all to perdition. He is denying them the priesthood. Without the Spirit of knowledge, you cannot be a priest unto YAHWEH. You need more than the Holy Spirit. You need the complete seven Spirits. And here is what happens to so many. As soon as they receive the Holy Spirit, they are told, There's no more law. So when the Spirit of knowledge comes to give them the knowledge of YAHWEH's law, they reject it, because they have the Holy Ghost. And so they are rejected from the priesthood. Two Kinds of Knowledge What is the Spirit of knowledge? First of all, the world is full of knowledge, and it is leading the world to destruction. The people of YAHWEH are chained with worldly knowledge. But I prophesy that in this hour YAHWEH is separating a people from the knowledge of this world so that He may impart to them the Spirit of knowledge. It is a different kind of knowledge. The world has never had more knowledge, and yet it has no knowledge. But I know a people whose minds the Spirit of knowledge is filling daily, so that they know that they know. It is an unusual knowing. It is the knowing that says: "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread." — Psalm 37:25 When the wisest with the most knowledge do not know, the Spirit of knowing still knows. There's a knowing, and then there's a knowing. When you come into the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit comes into you, that Spirit of knowing comes as you mature in YAHWEH. You need the Spirit of knowledge when your world is falling apart. You just have to know that YAHWEH has never failed you yet. People look at you like you're crazy because they don't know. When YAHWEH speaks, any advisor may say no, but when you know you have heard from YAHWEH, you obey, and when YAHWEH is in a thing, He provides for it. If YAHWEH told you everything at the beginning, you would never get anything done, so do what He told you to do at the beginning, and whatever you do know, do with all your heart. That's the Spirit of knowledge: even when I don't know, I know. I don't know how it will be done, but I know it will be done, because there is a Spirit of knowledge flowing, and YAHWEH reveals His plans through it (Amos 3:7). He 252 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE is separating a people who walk in a different kind of knowledge. You've got to forget what you know and walk in what you know. Knowledge in Gross Darkness Before we go on, see our purpose in becoming the priesthood: "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." — 1 Peter 2:9 It did not say the job of the priesthood is to go out and save the world. The job of the priesthood is to show the world what has happened in the priesthood. You are to show the world what the world will look like. There should be so much love among us that the whole world sees what tomorrow is going to look like. "And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; and hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." — Revelation 5:9–10 The world has not yet been redeemed in that verse. Thou hast redeemed us: out of every nation where we were scattered, the lost tribes. And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. Not the man YAHSHUA alone: we shall reign. And we will reign to bring them back to YAHWEH. If that is hard to believe, read Obadiah: "And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD's." — Obadiah 1:21 Saviours on Mount Zion: that is the priesthood YAHWEH is forming. I am not yet all that YAHWEH called me to be, but I too will have the seven Spirits of YAHWEH flowing through my mind and my life. "For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." — Isaiah 60:2 When you see the earth getting so dark, that's when YAHWEH will arise upon you, the priesthood. His glory shall be seen upon thee. You can't see the glory on YAHSHUA right now; He's at the right hand of the Father. The world has to see it on us. We are told that a darkness is coming on the earth greater than it has ever been. But see what is promised in the darkest hour: "But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day." — Proverbs 4:18 As we come closer to the seventh day, we will shine more and more. We are that light. As the world gets darker, we get brighter everywhere we go. 253 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You are living in the hour of separation, YAHWEH separating the light from the darkness, as He did on the first day (Genesis 1:4): the knowledge of YAHWEH against the knowledge of this world. Science and the Bloody Coat The knowledge of this world is the ignorance of YAHWEH. We live in an age where science is the new religion. You are told to believe in science. Our English word science comes from the Latin scientia, which means knowledge. Science is the knowledge of facts. Here is what science looks like. Jacob's sons have gone out, and Joseph has been thrown into a pit. The brothers bring back a bloody coat and hand it to their father. "And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces." — Genesis 37:33 That's science. Here are the facts: a bloody coat and ten witnesses who say your son is gone. That is evidence. But if you have the Spirit of knowledge, you can hold the bloody coat and say, My son is not dead. There is another knowing that comes into the life of a believer, and if you do not have that knowing, you are not developing into the priesthood of the Almighty YAHWEH. Gross darkness is covering the earth, and the world today is filled with a knowledge that is leading it to destruction, because it is addicted to knowledge, but not addicted to truth. The people of YAHWEH in this hour must know what true knowledge is. The Spirit of knowledge that rested on YAHSHUA is now resting on the pure, virgin sons of Mount Zion. Follow On to Know "For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings. But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me." — Hosea 6:6–7 "Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth." — Hosea 6:3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know. You have to get another knowing. You have to get the Spirit of knowledge, not just knowledge. "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest." — Hebrews 8:10–11 254 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE I will put My laws into their mind. All shall know Me, from the least to the greatest: that is the Millennium. But first, you must know Him. You have to know Him beyond knowing. You have to know Him so well that fear has no room in you. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear" (1 John 4:18). Every ounce of worry is a place where you do not yet know Him as you will. Know Him so well that you know beyond the shadow of a doubt that He is working all things together for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). To Know Is to Be Intimate Now we can say what the Spirit of knowledge is. YAHSHUA is the Word. "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). So the knowledge of the Messiah is the knowledge of the Word. And what does knowledge mean in Scripture? "And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived." — Genesis 4:1 To know is to be intimate. The knowledge of the Messiah is intimacy with the Word: being so close to the Word that you and the Word are one. You are a Word bride. Everything is about to fall apart, and there is an intimacy with the Word that says, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory" (Philippians 4:19). The doctor says you are about to die, and intimacy with the Word says, "I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of the LORD" (Psalm 118:17). When this sixth Spirit is forming in your life, anytime someone says something, you'll say, But now the Bible says..., because you have learned you can trust the Word and that it will never let you down. And what is built not on a man but on the Word is unshakable. Three Trees in the Garden Here is what it means to be intimate with the Word. YAHWEH's eternal plan is revealed from Genesis to Revelation. Open the Book of Genesis and you find YAHWEH creating man in His own image, so that YAHWEH, through man, can express His image to the universe. And there is not one thing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). It is all one repeating pattern. When YAHWEH placed Adam in the garden, there were three sets of trees: the other trees, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and the tree of life. Thirty, sixty and a hundred. You can follow these numbers everywhere you go. "And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." — Genesis 2:8–9 255 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH planted a garden, and He planted a Tabernacle in the wilderness. Same pattern. When YAHWEH made Adam a son of YAHWEH, He placed him in the garden to walk the same path He gave Moses to walk in the Tabernacle. I call the garden the holy place because YAHWEH walked there and met with Adam. And what was the Tabernacle for? "That I may dwell among them" (Exodus 25:8). The garden of Eden was the first tabernacle. Moses is teaching you something deeper than your human mind. Don't spend your life hunting for a spot on the map. If you insist that it is all literal, then you'd better believe a fruit can give you eternal life by chemistry. Moses is showing you the pattern. •Every tree pleasant to the sight and good for food: that is the outer court, the thirtyfold, the body. Good for food. No harm at all in those trees. There's no harm in the thirtyfold. •In the midst of the garden stood two more trees. Not among the other trees; in the midst. There is a separation. These two trees are your two minds, the human mind and the Spirit Mind, which Chapter 17 opened in full. Remember the blind man when YAHSHUA first touched his eyes? "I see men as trees, walking" (Mark 8:24). Men are trees. And the other trees are where all of Christianity hangs out. "And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of 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." — Genesis 2:16–17 Of every tree thou mayest freely eat. You can receive from them. It's not YAHWEH's best for you, but there's no harm. You may freely be among the thirtyfold. They all love the Master. They're all glad to be saved. You can be among them all you want. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat. The Day You Die from the Priesthood As Hosea 4:6 warned, Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to Me. You die from the priesthood. The day you begin to eat of that tree is the day you die from your purpose on the earth. Someone will say, But Adam didn't die after he ate. He lived nine hundred and thirty years. He did die. The reason Adam was alive was to be a priest unto YAHWEH, and that day he died from the priesthood. And all his sons died with him. Then YAHSHUA came, the second Adam, and returned the priesthood to His seed, His sons, His brethren. The warning to Adam not to eat of that tree is a warning to the whole priesthood of YAHWEH today. What is that tree? YAHWEH wants you to receive. He created you to eat. "Receive ye the Holy Ghost" (John 20:22). "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you" (John 6:53). "As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God" (John 1:12). He wants you to receive into your mind. But He has always limited what you can eat. 256 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The tree of the knowledge of good and evil represents the human mind reasoning on its own, independent of YAHWEH. It stands in the Holy Place of your life, the room where one of two things can happen: you can be converted to the tree of life, or rejected back to the other trees. The tree of life is the Most Holy Place. The tree of life is the glory. The tree of life is the knowledge of the Messiah: intimacy with the Word, not with your own imagination. The tree of knowledge stands in the midst as a test: Will you stop there and eat? The human mind must have another Mind added to it. Adam found his two minds in the garden, as Chapter 17 showed: the one you were born with, and the one you were begotten with by the Holy Spirit. All the other trees are nature; nothing is wrong with them. But in the midst of it all, you will run into your two minds. Only those who walk past their own thinking and become intimate with the Word will become the priests of YAHWEH. Only those who survive the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, who come into this room and reject their own knowledge for His, who reject their own way of thinking for His way of thinking, will escape that death. What is the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? It is the realm of self-consciousness: identity as a mere human, deciding for yourself what is good. "For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." — Galatians 6:8–9 He who sows to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil reaps corruption: in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. But he who bypasses the flesh and goes straight to intimacy with the Word shall reap life: a life that is not his own, the life beyond the curtain of the third door. Don't be weary in well doing. Don't be weary in keeping YAHWEH's commandments. If you survive the tree of knowledge, He will give you life. "But I'm a Good Person" How do you know what to bypass? Here is where most people fail, where they will not make it to the tree of life and the hundredfold. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." — Genesis 1:31 Anyone who has tried to teach someone the truth has heard it: But I'm a good person. That's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you think for one second you can decide for yourself what good is, you have already eaten the fruit of good and evil. YAHWEH is not looking for good people. He is looking for dead people. "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me." — Galatians 2:20 Here is what deceives you. Mankind is not evil in its general nature. That's the problem. Your neighbors are good people. YAHWEH said everything He made was very good. Think of your family 257 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE that won't follow truth. Are they evil? No. They are good, so good that they have been deceived by their own goodness. They ate a fruit that convinced them they are good, because they decided for themselves what was good. I give to charity every week. I help the little old lady across the street. I read my Bible once a week. I go to church. I don't need to keep the Sabbath or the feasts; I'm a good person. You have eaten a lie. You are not truly good until you are godly. The tree of knowledge is when you decide what is good and what is evil. The deception of this hour will be good people in rebellion to the Word of YAHWEH. Show me a scripture where that is what goodness is. Here's what I read: nothing I do is good if it is not in obedience to the Word of YAHWEH. Your family and friends are all good people, and that is where the deception comes in. That's why they won't listen to you. They're good Christians. That's exactly what Satan told Eve. The Word said, Don't eat it. The day you do, you lose out. Temptation came along and said, Well, that's not fair. Why would it matter to YAHWEH if I eat this fruit? I'm a good person. The Word said don't eat it, and Eve decided on her own that it was good to eat. That is the trap: the fruit of covered-up rebellion. Satan will never convince you to deny YAHWEH. He'll convince you to deny the Word. It Is Written So what is the sixth Spirit? The knowledge of the Messiah. And what is the knowledge of the Messiah? Intimacy with It is written. That is how YAHSHUA answered the tempter, three times: "It is written" (Matthew 4:4, 7, 10). Hold to It is written even when your family does not understand: it is written that on the seventh day of the week you shall stop all work and come into holy convocation. YAHWEH is not looking for you to be good, because there is a goodness that comes only from the Spirit of knowledge, when you know YAHWEH and you are intimate with His Word. The Car and the Tree The difference between doing good and doing YAHWEH can be shown with two things: a car and a tree. A car has wheels, an engine and dynamics. It goes. It looks alive. Over here, you have a tree. It goes and grows too, by no action of its own. The car is not life. The car is your works, your goodness, which only looks like life. And this is why so many programs to set addicts free fail: they are trying to build a car. They're trying to make a man do good and do better, rather than putting the life of YAHWEH in him: doing His Word and receiving the Spirit of knowledge. When the Spirit of life comes, life comes. Here's what the car looks like on a Friday afternoon: Oh my, it's Friday! I forgot tomorrow's the Sabbath! Okay, okay. Get the bread made. All right, let's do this. 258 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And here's the tree. You've been in the Word all week, so in love with the Word that without any effort of your own, it's the Sabbath. It's not from your goodness. It's from His life. When you fall in love with this Word, you won't go to Passover out of any works of your own. You'll go because you can't help but go. There is a tree growing in you, the Passover tree, and it grows from the life that is now inside you: your intimacy with the Word. The Spirit of knowledge is not more information. The world has never had more of that, and never been darker. It is intimacy with the Word: a love for It is written so deep that you can hold the bloody coat and still say My son is not dead, and keep the Sabbath because the tree of life in you grows toward it. Hosea's warning stands: reject this knowledge, and you may still be His people, but you will not be His priests. So follow on to know Him. Be the tree, not the car. That is the sixth lamp. The center lamp is lit. Wisdom, understanding, counsel and might are burning. And now the Spirit of knowledge is on fire. One lamp remains before the veil. 259 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY Eyes on the Throne: The Fear of YAHWEH The last lamp is the fear of YAHWEH, and it burns nearest the throne. John saw "seven lamps of fire burning before the throne," exactly where the menorah stood at the entrance to the Most Holy Place. To pass them, you must be inspected by the seven eyes of the Lamb; to sit on the throne, you must first stand in awe of the One who sits there. The fear of YAHWEH is not fright. It is the reverence that drives out every other fear: the fear of hell, of the devil, of the end, of the conspiracy of the day. That is the claim of this chapter. Because the seven lamps burn before the throne, the chapter first sets the throne before your eyes: who will sit on it, who wants to keep you off it, and how the seven eyes inspect everyone who approaches. Then it comes to the seventh lamp itself. You did not just learn about a building called a Tabernacle. There are great teachers who will teach you about the Tabernacle, but in this ministry we teach more than the structure of a building. Everything in your walk with YAHWEH is in this diagram. As Chapter 15 showed, you are not a body, a soul and a spirit; the never-dying soul is the doctrine of pagans. The Holy Place is spirit number one, your human mind, and the Most Holy Place is spirit number two. If the second Spirit is never added to the first, the first will always be in control of you, and you will be like a ship drifting on the ocean. Born to Obey When we were in the world, we were the servants of sin (Romans 6:17). There is no one reading this who has not been a servant from the day of birth. You were born to obey, and you are going to obey one of two masters. "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" — Romans 6:16 You will obey either the Spirit Mind or the human mind, and the human mind is nothing but rebellion. But if you ever make it into the Most Holy Place, if you ever come through the third door, you will discover obedience: complete submission. Obedience is nowhere in your nature. Every one of us lives to rebel. Wives rebel against husbands, husbands rebel against pastors, pastors rebel against bishops, children rebel against parents. If you ever want to know who your father is, look at what you obey. One is the father of lies and rebellion (John 8:44). One is the Father of truth and obedience. Speaking in tongues does not answer that question. As Chapter 13 showed, tongues prove nothing about whose child you are. Satan can imitate a heavenly language better than anybody alive. The only language he cannot speak is truth. "When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own" 260 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE (John 8:44). So when you hear truth, grab hold of whoever is teaching it to you and walk in it. That's the only way you will never be deceived: "Buy the truth, and sell it not" (Proverbs 23:23). How do you draw near to YAHWEH? There is only one way: YAHSHUA, the way, the outer court where you were saved and baptized, and then the door, for YAHSHUA said, "I am the door" (John 10:9). Beyond the door, as Chapter 17 showed, the goal is not for you to climb into room number three. The goal is for room number three to come into room number two, as in Ezekiel's temple, where the Most Holy Place grew to twenty cubits by twenty (Chapter 18). YAHWEH does not do it all at once; it comes here a little, there a little (Isaiah 28:10), through the three tools of the Holy Place: the golden altar of prayer, the table of showbread and the menorah. Chapters 10 through 19 have taught the most beautiful of those tools, the menorah, because it represents the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. If you do not develop the seven Spirits, the glory of His Mind will never take over the ugliness of your own. Your goal now is to let what that light represents permeate you: the seven eyes of YAHWEH. Not Your Excuse, Your Example The first human being on earth who had the seven Spirits of YAHWEH was YAHSHUA the Messiah. And He developed into that. He was not born that way. Here is one of Satan's greatest tools. If he can convince you that YAHSHUA was born already full of the seven Spirits, he has given you a cop-out. You can always say, Well, He was born that way. Then He becomes your excuse instead of your example. But the Bible says He grew: "And Jesus increased in wisdom and stature, and in favour with God and man." — Luke 2:52 "And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them." — Luke 2:51 "Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him." — Hebrews 5:8–9 He had to learn obedience. Obedience never comes naturally. It is the opposite of who you are. And when did He finish learning it? Not until the very end. See Him in the garden of Gethsemane: "O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt." — Matthew 26:39 He was still learning obedience on His way to the cross. And when He said, Not as I will, but as Thou wilt, He passed inspection. Being made perfect, completed, He became the spotless Lamb of YAHWEH. You will know you are moving into perfection when, more and more, all that matters to you is the will of YAHWEH, and you never give the enemy one moment of attention. They came after Him in the garden with torches and weapons to seize Him. But He kept praying with all His might. 261 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Satan hates that kind of teaching, because it takes away every Christian excuse you used to roll onto the Messiah. The Seven Spirits Before the Throne "John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne." — Revelation 1:4 John is writing to Israel, the scattered tribes. And notice where grace and peace come from: from Him, and from the seven Spirits. He is telling the churches that everything they need is in the seven Spirits. If no one has taught you about them, that is why they are lacking in your life. There is going to be an end-time church. That is who he is writing to: May the seven Spirits of YAHWEH come to you in the last days. I believe YAHWEH is raising up a people on the earth who will walk in the power of the seven Spirits, perfectly balanced, perfectly whole. I believe that moment is now. And where were those seven Spirits? Before His throne. Keep that word throne in your mind. The Most Holy Place is the throne of YAHWEH. It was always the throne, because YAHWEH sat right there, between the cherubim, above the mercy seat (Psalm 80:1; 99:1). So where was the menorah? Right before the throne. Many say the Book of Revelation is too mysterious. It's mysterious only if you don't know this Tabernacle. The minute you know the Tabernacle, you will see the same Tabernacle all through the Book of Revelation. The throne is the Most Holy Place, and right before the throne are the seven Spirits, exactly where the menorah stood, at the very entrance to the throne room. Thrones, Not Mansions You will never receive the seven Spirits until you change your mind from Christianity to the throne. I don't know of one church in Christianity that is teaching anything about the throne. They're on the mansion in the sky instead; Chapter 4 showed that the Father's house has dwelling places, not mansions. The only time you hear about the throne is, I'm going to go dancing around the throne! He doesn't need you to do that. The angels have that covered; the cherubim and seraphim do a great job. What He needs is for you to get yourself onto that throne. Christianity wants you dancing around the throne, while YAHWEH is pleading with you to sit on it and rule and reign from it. Christianity teaches that there is only one throne in heaven. There are many thrones. "And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them... and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." — Revelation 20:4 The kingdom of YAHWEH is full of thrones, and the lost tribes of Israel were created to rule and reign with the Messiah. 262 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Christianity robbed us of that understanding and told us instead that we get gates of pearl, streets of gold and mansions. But the city John saw was a bride, "the Lamb's wife" (Revelation 21:9), and the gold and the pearls are the glory of a people. We were blinded, because we sat in a church and opened our minds to the preacher instead of the Word. So never believe anything I teach you just because I said it. Take it to the Book and study the Book. And here's what will happen: once you study it, you'll come back and hear me teach again, because this Book is my life. I want the throne. If you don't want the throne, you are in the wrong ministry. We are preparing the people who will sit on the thrones of the kingdom of YAHWEH. They will rule and reign with the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." — 2 Timothy 2:12 Not under Him, not over Him, not around Him: with Him. You Are the Book I've heard the Tabernacle taught so many times. They'd teach every little detail of the menorah, and I'd think, That's beautiful. But now I'm seeing me. If Daniel is me and I am Daniel, if the Tabernacle is me and I am the Tabernacle, then I'm beginning to think I'm that Book and that Book is me. We are all one with the Word. It is one continuous, beautiful story of what YAHWEH is doing in each of our lives. That is why the angel told John, "Take it, and eat it up" (Revelation 10:9), the command Chapter 21 opens in full. Eat the Book. You are the Book, and the Book is you. The Voice from the Throne "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." — Revelation 4:5 The seven Spirits come out of the throne. Therefore they come out of the Most Holy Place, the hundredfold. If your eyes are not on the throne, they don't come to you. Out of the throne proceeded... voices. People say they are looking for the seven Spirits. They are a voice, a message. You will hear the seven Spirits when you hear the right voice. The seven Spirits are the voice from the throne. How sad it is that everybody is out somewhere trying to hear the voice from the throne, not understanding that the throne speaks through a man. "And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the gap before me" (Ezekiel 22:30). When YAHWEH finds a man, He puts the voice in the man. The only way you hear the Voice is when the Voice finds a voice. Desire the throne. Crave the throne. Rule with Him. 263 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Vying for Satan's Job Satan will fight every voice that is creating a people for the throne. Who sits on the throne of this earth right now? Satan. He is still "the god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4). And you are vying for his job. Satan knows who we are. He knows what we're getting ready to do. We are public enemy number one to him. So if you're scared of the battle, it's time to go home, because this thing is real. This is a battle for the earth, for the plan of YAHWEH, for the destiny of the sons of YAHWEH. Pick up the sword and fight. The only time Satan will know who you are is when you finally know who you are. That's when all hell breaks loose against you. That's when fear tries to set into your heart because the way is getting too hard and too narrow. You are a threat to the throne. Satan sits on that throne now, but he knows the prophecy of Daniel. He reads the Bible too. "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake." — Daniel 12:2 "And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High." — Daniel 7:27 Satan knows that the saints who sleep in the dust will awaken and take his place on the throne of this earth. That's why, when you come to know who you are, he sends every attack he can to send you back home. He knows the saints are applying for his job. He called me son, and that's what I am. I see what He sees. I say what He says. I believe what He believes. Christianity is not Satan's enemy. He doesn't mind anybody getting saved. But he doesn't want anybody getting onto his throne. The Offended Will Never Reign When a ministry directs your attention to the throne, where the seven Spirits come from, Satan will send distractions and offense to keep you off it. Offense is satanic. Anybody who can still be offended is not ready for the throne. "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." — Psalm 119:165 When you come into that room, you will quit giving your opinion. You don't have opinions anymore. The only opinion a son of YAHWEH has is this: It is written. Whatever is written is what we live by. If you don't get a backbone for the Word, you're not qualified for the throne. Offense is one weapon; false humility is the other. Ask a Christian, Are you getting ready for the throne? and he says, Oh, I wouldn't want to think too highly of myself. Chapter 16 exposed that false 264 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE humility as the enemy of might. Here it only needs its answer. He said the overcomer will sit on thrones (Revelation 3:21). When Satan convinces you that you are not worthy, and you say, Oh, I could never, I agree. You could never. But His name is YAHSHUA. "As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us." — Psalm 103:12 Seven Horns and Seven Eyes "And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." — Revelation 5:6 In the midst of the throne stands YAHSHUA, the Lamb. Chapter 11 opened the horns and the eyes; here they meet the throne. Seven horns. Horns always represent authority, complete authority. After He was raised and went to His Father, He came back and said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18). Those are the seven horns. Seven eyes. They are the inspection of the Messiah. The seven eyes of YAHWEH are in the menorah, and they come to examine you in the Holy Place, to make sure He can release what is in the Most Holy Place to you. Why does no one want the throne? Because nobody wants to be inspected. To get to the throne, you have to go past the menorah, and the menorah is the seven eyes. "For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God." — 1 Peter 4:17 One day the whole world will be judged. But your day is now. Judgment begins at the house, the family of YAHWEH. And it begins the moment you set your eyes on the throne. Now you must go and stand before the menorah. Now you go under inspection. We are standing before the judgment seat of the Messiah now, whenever we let the Word convict us, judge us and inspect us. If the Word has already inspected you, you're under judgment, and it's a beautiful thing, because if you can get past the menorah, we can get you onto the throne. And notice where those seven eyes are: in the Man who earned them, the Lamb who passed under their inspection. Why was all authority in heaven and earth not His until after His resurrection? Because only then had He passed under the seven eyes, only after He had learned obedience. You Are the Throne Many people get confused about the throne: who will sit on it, YAHWEH or YAHSHUA? These thrones are not chairs. The throne is a symbol of authority and government. Nobody is going to climb up onto a chair in the Millennium. 265 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE You won't have to climb onto a throne, because you will be the throne. The authority goes where you go. The throne is in you, and you are in the throne. Anywhere you walk, the throne of YAHWEH has just shown up in that place. Right now YAHSHUA is the only Man in the throne, but He is calling many brothers to come to it. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne." — Revelation 3:21 But don't think you're going to run up and grab the throne without passing inspection. No cheating. No shortcuts. If anyone tries to seize a seat that isn't his, YAHWEH will let him sit there until He embarrasses him before the whole world, and then He will give it to the one it belonged to all along. Satan sits on the throne of this earth now, and he is about to be just that embarrassed. YAHWEH is calling you to the throne. But first the throne has to come into you through the seven Spirits. They guard the throne. Sent Forth into All the Earth Sent forth into all the earth. Those seven Spirits must go through all the earth, but not yet. Right now they are going into the bride, so that the bride can carry the seven eyes of YAHWEH into all the earth: seven lamps burning before the throne. Every Torah-keeping home should have a menorah. It is the one emblem with true, eternal meaning. It is made of pure gold, and it has a central shaft. YAHWEH commanded that the light be kept burning: "to cause the lamp to burn always" (Exodus 27:20; Leviticus 24:2). And the center lamp lights the others, because the center is the Messiah. The six branches are not the Messiah, and yet they are. Six is the number of man. The branches represent you and me. Before the light touches your branch, you are just a man. But when the light of the center is added to your branch, you begin to burn with the same seven Spirits that burn in Him. You become part of the anointed body. "I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." — John 15:5 Everything in the Vine flows into the branches. Satan hates that teaching, because he wants you to have an excuse for low living. There is a high price for low living. But when that light touches your life, you are not your own anymore; you are bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20). Everything in you begins to be filled with everything that was in the Messiah. Your walk with YAHWEH begins with the center lamp being lit: the Holy Spirit. When you receive the Holy Spirit, you get the initial light. But "the path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day" (Proverbs 4:18). That's the menorah. When that first light comes on, you're not done. If you have not grown into the seven Spirits, into the fullness, you didn't get much; as Chapter 13 showed, that is where the Pentecostal church stops. That's why so many live defeated lives: on fire one week, and the next week not sure they're going to make it. 266 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The seven burning lights are the eyes of YAHWEH in your life. And make sure you're not learning just for knowledge's sake. Make sure it is going into the wisdom area. Knowledge is dangerous without wisdom. You have to learn to apply what you know in YAHWEH's ways. The Spirit of YAHWEH Upon Me Consider who had the seven Spirits. This is the center lamp speaking: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." — Luke 4:18 He hath anointed Me. If He were YAHWEH, the Spirit of YAHWEH could not be upon Him, and He would need no one to anoint Him. "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him." — Acts 10:38 Peter said it plainly: He was a man anointed by YAHWEH. Chapter 13 laid the Trinity to rest, and one verse is enough to recall it: "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD." — Deuteronomy 6:4 The oil is pure, and it flows through a church that knows one Elohim, and His name is YAHWEH. All our lives we never even heard the name YAHWEH. We didn't know who our Father was. He was some distant power out in space, and so mean that He had to send His Son to protect us from Him. That makes no sense. It wasn't the Son who had to talk the Father into loving you. "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son." — John 3:16 It was your Father in heaven who loved you. He gets all the glory and all the honor. You can get by with all of that confusion until you come under the seven eyes. Then you have to get it right. This truth will shock you at first, but you'll either embrace it or become its enemy. YAHSHUA said, The Spirit of YAHWEH is upon Me. He was quoting Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound." — Isaiah 61:1 "And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD." — Isaiah 11:2 The Spirit of YAHWEH shall rest upon Him: that is the center lamp, the Holy Spirit. And then Isaiah tells you what is contained in it: wisdom, understanding, counsel, might, knowledge and the fear of 267 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH. He is the menorah. And we all have the same Spirit: "if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you" (Romans 8:11). It is the Spirit of YAHWEH, not a third person: YAHWEH is holy, and YAHWEH is Spirit. YAHWEH's own Spirit is the Holy Spirit. My Bible says when you pray, say, "Our Father which art in heaven" (Matthew 6:9). Not a third partner: the Father. This whole ministry focuses on the Father. Why is that so important? Because your Father's name is YAHWEH. They took His name out of His own Book and put LORD and GOD in its place. Nobody even knows His name. And what does it mean? The Self-Existing One: I need nothing and no one; I am self-existent. When YAHWEH told Moses, "I AM THAT I AM" (Exodus 3:14), He was declaring the meaning of His name. He Will Guide You into All Truth How do you prove whether you have the Holy Spirit? Running the aisles, speaking in tongues and prophesying prove nothing. Here's the proof, from the Book: "Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you. All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." — John 16:13–15 First, it guides you into all truth. You know the Spirit is there when it starts pulling you out of your churches, out of what your church taught you, and leading you into all truth. Not Baptist truth. Not Pentecostal truth. All truth. When you meet a Christian who claims to have the Holy Spirit, and you open the Scriptures and show him truth, and he rejects it, he doesn't have the Holy Spirit. He has the Holy Almost. He has religion. The Holy Spirit never stops leading and guiding you into all truth. Second, He shall not speak of Himself. The Spirit cannot speak at all unless it comes from the Mind of YAHWEH. Third, He will shew you things to come. You'll know you have the Holy Spirit when you become interested in prophecy, in the holy days, in where we are on YAHWEH's calendar. When the fullness of the Holy Spirit comes, everything you used to love begins to fade away. The things of earth grow strangely dim. Fourth, He shall receive of Mine. All authority has been given to the Son, and now He speaks on behalf of the Father. When the Son speaks, it is the Father speaking. And when the Spirit comes into your life, it touches you with the same Spirit, and now you no longer speak of your own; you speak what the Father says. All things come under your authority because the Son is in you. And yet all authority given is given by YAHWEH. At the end of the day it is still all YAHWEH: through the Son and through the brethren. "And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." — 1 Corinthians 15:28 268 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is how it will happen. YAHWEH dwelt fully in the Son ("for it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell," Colossians 1:19), and one day He will dwell fully in the sons, and His glory will fill the whole earth. Right now He is all in One. He is becoming all in us. And then we will carry Him to the world, and He will be all in all. And no matter how many He reproduces Himself in, it will always be only Him. "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). It will always be the Father. Honor the Son, Honor the Brethren Then how do we honor the Son? Don't be afraid of it. You don't have to fear giving honor to the Son; the Father is in the Son. "That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him." — John 5:23 Now the harder point: you can honor the brethren. Oh, I'm not going to worship a man. Are you worshiping the man, or honoring what is in the man? The Father is in the Son, and the Son is in the brethren. That's why the Bible says, "in honour preferring one another" (Romans 12:10). Some object that they honor only God. But you cannot honor the Father if you don't honor the Son, and you cannot honor the Son if you don't honor His brethren (Matthew 25:40). The titles we use are honorific. They recognize what YAHWEH has done in a life, by the power of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. We're not honoring a man; we are honoring YAHWEH in a man. Honor the Son, because you are honoring the Father in Him. Give Him the glory He is due as the firstborn Son of YAHWEH. That's why YAHWEH said, "I will bless them that bless thee" (Genesis 12:3). Was Israel perfect? Are we worshiping Israel? No. And I'm not talking about a modern state; I'm talking about Israel scattered all over the world. We recognize who she is, and we honor her. The Fear of YAHWEH Honor is where reverence begins, and it brings us to the one Spirit left: the Spirit of the fear of YAHWEH. Here is the problem we run into. If you really have the Holy Spirit, you will develop the fear of YAHWEH. And yet: "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." — 2 Timothy 1:7 "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love." — 1 John 4:18 "And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." — 1 John 4:16 269 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If the Holy Spirit carries the fear of YAHWEH, how can the Bible say YAHWEH has not given us a spirit of fear? If perfect love casts out fear, how am I supposed to develop the fear of YAHWEH? First of all, He never told you to have the spirit of fright. There is a difference. As you grow in YAHWEH and these Spirits develop in you, you will develop a reverential fear: not a paranoid fear, not a frightened fear, but reverence. Take the word fear out and replace it with awe. You will develop a reverential awe of YAHWEH in every little thing. If a bird flies by, you'll see YAHWEH. If an acorn falls, you'll see YAHWEH. If somebody hands you five dollars, you'll swear YAHWEH gave it to you. Somebody calls with an extra job for you, and you won't say I got that job; you'll say YAHWEH gave me that job. That's how you know you're growing into the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. Two Kinds of Fear The Hebrew word is yir'ah: fear, reverence, awe. And like the biblical numbers, every one of which has a light side and a dark side, fear has a light side and a dark side. In Hebrew, yir'ah is the light side. In Greek the dark side is phobos, and from phobos we get phobia: dread, always expecting the worst to happen, alarm at everything. Many people live in a phobia. The touch of the fear of YAHWEH begins to drive out every other fear. The reverential awe of YAHWEH loosens the grip of every phobia in your life. Your what-ifs turn into so what. It is the awe you would feel if a king or a queen were about to enter the room. That isn't worship of the king; it is reverence. We honor men. A husband who honors his wife is honoring YAHWEH. Reverence Begins at Home We don't just call ourselves the heads of our homes; we become the heads of our homes. You can't send your wife to work all day while you sit home playing a game and announce you're the head of the house. I didn't say she can't work. But the head of the home has to be the head of the home. And just because I teach wives to obey their husbands (Ephesians 5:22), I do not teach wives to be abused or mistreated by their husbands. "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it" (Ephesians 5:25). We honor our wives because we honor YAHWEH, who gave them to us. Many a woman takes up the man's role only because the man will not be a man. If you will be the man, she will walk beside you as YAHWEH designed. The Bible says the older women should teach the younger (Titus 2:3–5), and the older men should teach the younger men. Honor that precious lamb YAHWEH gave you. If a wife has to beg you to get ready for the Sabbath, you don't deserve to be her husband. Husbands are leaders. We lead. You'll rarely meet a woman who won't follow a man who leads, but she will not follow a man who won't. Be a husband, a lover, a protector, a leader, and she'll honor you. 270 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Every day isn't perfect. Your love will outlast your moments. Your honor will outlast your horrors. No Fear of Hell How do you get rid of the spirit of fear? There is only one way: the fear of YAHWEH. What is the fear of YAHWEH? Knowing that He is in control of everything. You are in such awe of His perfection that you never have a moment to notice the imperfections. Look back over your life. If you ever really look back over your life, you will develop the fear of YAHWEH. You'll be in such reverential awe of how you came to be right where you are. If it hadn't been for all the junk you went through, you wouldn't be sitting where you are now. "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God" (Romans 8:28). If I know that, what is there to fear? Now consider the greatest fear the Christian church taught: the fear of hell. You were raised to be afraid of YAHWEH, not to fear Him. If you didn't behave, you would burn as long as YAHWEH existed. I never understood how that was supposed to work; fire consumes the flesh and turns the bones to ash. How was I supposed to burn for all eternity? That is the fear Rome placed on the church, the hell that Dante's Inferno painted into the imagination of the Western world, to keep you serving out of terror. But when the true fear comes in, you can laugh at that hell. You don't need that fear anymore. You're in such awe of the awesomeness of your Father, who is going to redeem all things and restore all things (Acts 3:21), that it has no hold on you. We don't serve Him out of terror. We serve Him out of reverential awe. And that doesn't happen overnight. It comes through the development of the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. No Fear of the Devil Many Christians live in fear of what the devil is going to do to them. Are we so in awe of YAHWEH that our testimonies don't have time to mention the devil, because YAHWEH has been so good to us? "Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world." — 1 Peter 5:8–9 Yes, he walks about. But resist him, steadfast in the faith: the faith of the Messiah, given by His Spirit, standing in reverential awe of YAHWEH. And the same afflictions are happening to your brethren all over the world, so don't think you're special because the devil is attacking you. You have nothing to be afraid of. "Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil." — Hebrews 2:14 271 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE It is time for the church to learn that Satan is a defeated foe, a bag of wind. As Chapter 1 showed, the Word itself delivers, and the devil is not going to get any glory in our sanctuary; it is a worship center for the Almighty YAHWEH, not a stage for Satan. The only devil you ever need to be afraid of is you. Get you out of you, and you'll be devil-free. YAHWEH Is Sovereign over It All There is a teaching that YAHWEH does all the good and the devil does all the destroying. I don't believe that. When YAHWEH brought His people out of Egypt, it was not the devil who sent the plagues. It was YAHWEH (Exodus 12:23). Quit giving the devil worship he doesn't deserve. The devil does nothing without permission from the One who created him. "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou?" — Job 1:6– 7 If Satan alone is responsible for evil, we have a problem, because YAHWEH created him. "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things." — Isaiah 45:7 Brothers and sisters, if you don't begin to see that when something bad happens YAHWEH has allowed it, you will give the devil the glory until you die. "In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you" (1 Thessalonians 5:18). Whatever is going on, YAHWEH has allowed it. It takes the fear of YAHWEH to believe like that. You will never be free from fear until you are filled with fear. It takes the fear of YAHWEH to set you free from fear. Numbers 21:6 shows it: "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." — Numbers 21:6 YAHWEH sent the serpents. So many prefer a different picture of Elohim because they can't deal with that verse. They want a soft, smiling god who never sends the serpents. They have pushed aside the Elohim of Israel. But it is written. Argue with the Book, not with me. So you look and see YAHWEH's people bitten. YAHWEH wouldn't do that! When you have this Spirit, you lift both hands and say, Father YAHWEH, I thank You even for the destruction, because what comes after the destruction will be greater than the destruction. "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." — Isaiah 55:8–9 272 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE I have so much reverence, so much trust, that I'll give Him glory in the destruction. If you'll see Him in the destruction, He'll let you see Him in the restoration. You have to have the fear of YAHWEH. You have to see Him in everything. No Fear of the End So many of YAHWEH's people are afraid of things that are not of YAHWEH. In this ministry we never teach on the mark of the beast. And yet that's all so many Christians want to hear about. We never teach on the coming Antichrist. Why not? Because I know who the real antichrist is, and I've already dealt with him. I know what the real mark of the beast is, and I've already gotten rid of it. I have no fear of the end times. If you want to get afraid, go to a prophecy seminar and listen to what's about to happen: Store your food! They're spraying the skies! I have no fear. I'm not preaching against your buckets of food. If you do it out of prudence, that's one thing. But if you do it out of fear, let it go. We have hope after this life. The Christian church is the one body in the world that preaches a resurrection after death, and so many Christians are terrified to die. Of course I know what's coming. I know the Book. I know what came upon Egypt: the river turned to blood, frogs in the food, death to the firstborn. But I also know that YAHWEH protected His people from every bit of it. "Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." — Revelation 7:3 "Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you." — Exodus 31:13 There is a seal on my forehead: a mind obedient to His commandments, bearing the sign of His Sabbath, and He said, Don't you harm them. His will be done in my life. The Real Mark All the fear over the mark of the beast that was forced on the church was carnality. The mark of the beast is six hundred sixty-six, the number of man in rebellion, multiplied through your body, your mind and your whole being. The mark of the beast is embracing Babylon instead of the New Jerusalem. The mark of the beast is rebellion, and until you get it out of you, you've already taken it. "Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." — 2 Thessalonians 2:4 The antichrist has been sitting in the house of YAHWEH for two thousand years, right in the middle of the temple as god: teaching that Sunday is the day of worship, teaching pagan holidays to 273 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH's people, teaching that they can eat whatever they want, teaching them all his rebellion. You don't have to worry about the mark of the beast if you have the mark of YAHWEH. Fear Not Their Fear Negativity is fear. Some people are negative because they are truly afraid, afraid even to leave their homes. Isaiah gives the final word: "For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying, Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid. Sanctify the LORD of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread." — Isaiah 8:11–13 The Hebrew word for confederacy is qesher: a conspiracy. Don't be like the people who are always talking about a conspiracy. It's in your Bible. I know there are conspiracies, but we have no fear of them. Neither fear ye their fear. If you would get as involved in the coming kingdom of YAHWEH as you are in the coming conspiracy, you would have no fear. It is YAHWEH who takes kings down and sets them up. "And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings." — Daniel 2:21 "The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will." — Proverbs 21:1 The Seventh Lamp Before the Throne Sanctify YAHWEH of hosts Himself; let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread. That is the fear that frees you from every other fear. I have something in me bigger than fear: the faith that comes from the fear of YAHWEH, the knowledge that He has a plan. The fear of YAHWEH is the last lamp before the throne, and it is the one that sets you free. Stand in awe of Him, and you can laugh at Rome's hell, give the devil no glory, and let the prophecy seminars sell their buckets. He sends the serpents; He removes kings and sets up kings. Keep your eyes on the throne, pass under the seven eyes, and let the throne come into you. Be filled with this fear, and you will be rid of every other. The center lamp is lit. Wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge, and now the fear of YAHWEH are burning. All seven lamps are on fire before the throne. The veil is ahead: Chapter 21 brings us to it, and Chapter 27 takes us through. 274 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE The Work and the Veil "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." For nearly two thousand years the world has heard a gospel about the Messiah, but not the gospel of the kingdom, and that is why the end has not come. Preaching it is the work. It is a witness work, not a numbers work, and YAHSHUA Himself defined it in John 17: to manifest the Father's name and keep those the Father gives. That is the claim of this chapter. The work is what carries a priesthood from the gate, through the door, to the veil, and the chapter ends where the work leads: before the veil woven with cherubim. This Gospel of the Kingdom The Tabernacle matters because something must happen at the end of the age: "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come." — Matthew 24:14 Not a gospel. Not the gospel in general. This gospel of the kingdom. For almost two thousand years the world has not heard the gospel of the kingdom. They have heard a gospel about the Messiah, but not the gospel of the kingdom. Listen to any three sermons on religious television, and you will not hear the gospel of the kingdom. About the only places you'll hear a kingdom message at all are a Kingdom Hall and a Mormon ward, and they have so much else wrong that you don't want to go there to hear it. No one has heard the gospel of the kingdom. Shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. Not to get the world saved. Not to get the world converted. As a witness. This is a witness work, not a salvation work. And then shall the end come. If the gospel of the kingdom had been preached for the last two thousand years, why hasn't YAHSHUA returned? According to that verse, as soon as the witness of the gospel of the kingdom goes forth, the end will come. The end has not come because the witness has not yet gone forth. The Purpose of Time Picture a circle, and write in it the word eternity. Now draw a line through it: a timeline. Divide it into seven parts: seven days of a thousand years each. At year four thousand, the Messiah came. At the end of year six thousand, the seventh day begins, and at the end of the seventh thousand we run out of time (2 Peter 3:8). 275 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And what happens when we run out of time? We run back into eternity. Nothing will be destroyed. The sun will still rise. The moon will still be there. But we will no longer count time by them. We'll no longer be on a timeline. And after the thousand years comes the Last Great Day, when the rest of the dead are raised to their equal chance, and then YAHWEH is all in all. YAHWEH will have no more need for time, because time exists for one purpose and one purpose only: to create the future rulers of eternity. Before time began, who were the rulers of eternity? The angels: the mighty ones, the sons of Elohim, the heavenly council (Job 38:7; Psalm 89:7). They were with Him when He set the timeline in motion. (The sun and the moon already existed before the fourth day. They were not created that day; they were appointed.) They ruled. But they were given immortal bodies without first developing character. And character is developed over time. Now you know the purpose of time. Because the fallen angels were given bodies that cannot die, they have no death to end their rebellion; it must be ended by YAHWEH's correction in the judgment. Death is a mercy. Because you are able to die, you will never be tormented forever. That's a beautiful thing. So YAHWEH created the tool of time and placed you in it. He gave you "threescore years and ten" (Psalm 90:10), and set the limit at a hundred and twenty (Genesis 6:3). He gave you that span to develop in you the next rulers of eternity. When we come to the end of time, something will be revealed to the whole world: the mystery of YAHWEH. When time shall be no more, there will be no more need to develop character, because even now there are multitudes asleep in the dust whose character of obedience was developed over their lifetimes. They have been found worthy to rule and reign as the future Elohim, the rulers of eternity. You are not called only to be saved. You are called to be trained. There is a people on the earth created for this purpose: to develop their minds from rebellion to obedience. And when the gospel of the kingdom, the gospel of what comes after time, gets into your brain, then the end will come. By the timeline, we are standing at the very threshold of the seventh day. The gospel of the kingdom must now go forth into all the world. The Work Being a witness and preaching the gospel of the kingdom is the work of YAHWEH, or simply the work. This gospel of the kingdom must be preached in all the world. That is the work. Announce the kingdom of YAHWEH to the world, and find the lost tribes of Israel. When you help with your hands, or declare the gospel of the kingdom to the lost tribes of Israel in your community, that is the work. 276 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The work means what it says. It's work, night and day. We are all putting our hands to the plow. People don't want to work. They want to join a church, not a work. Study is work: how many hours a week do you study? Prayer is work. Going to the feasts is work. Success Is Not Numbers Nowhere in Matthew 24:14 is our job to grow a church. Everyone reading this still carries an old mentality from the world they grew up in. In that world, success means growth, success means numbers, success means large. If that's the case, the most successful work on earth would be the Roman Catholic Church. The only growth you are required to bring forth is the witness that the kingdom is coming. If you have done that, that is growth. That is your calling. If you are standing and declaring that the kingdom of YAHWEH is coming to earth, that is all you are called to do. Stand and declare it. And don't try to do the work only YAHWEH can do, which is drawing people to the message. Your job is to declare the message. So many no longer want to put in the effort. After all, the work is work: long hours, hard labor. It requires a spirit of sacrifice and a long, detailed prayer life. It requires you to study the Scriptures like no one else does. Why? Because you have a special purpose just before the coming of YAHSHUA. You have been called to be a co-worker with YAHWEH in this last hour (1 Corinthians 3:9). You are among the most blessed people on planet earth. You have been given a unique understanding and a unique calling. It is your moment on the timeline, wherever you are. We can compare this end-time work to a harvest. You and I are living in the moment of supernatural harvest. The problem is that we don't understand that the harvest in the springtime is a very small harvest. If you're not careful, you'll misunderstand the spring harvest and look for more. We want more people! No. We don't want more quantity. We want more quality: more growth in the things of YAHWEH. If you get distracted looking for the wrong harvest, you will always be disappointed. Keep your eyes on the harvest that is coming now: the spring harvest, the firstfruits. Eat the Book: The Mystery Finished The whole Bible was written for these last few years before the end of time. This is the first harvest, and you are part of it. YAHWEH does not intend to reveal the glories of His great plan until the end of this age. He is allowing clouds and darkness to mystify the world while He takes out of it a people for His name (Acts 15:14). And He calls the people He is secretly pulling out of the world the mystery of YAHWEH. Why is it a mystery? The whole world has no idea what is going on in this study. The world has no idea that YAHWEH is training the future rulers of eternity. You have been hidden from the world. "But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." — Revelation 10:7 277 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The mystery is over when the finishing voice comes forth. When you hear the voice of that perfecting message, you'll know it is time for the mystery to be revealed to the whole world. "And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey." — Revelation 10:8–9 Once you hear the voice, it brings you to the Book. The voice offers you something, and it is entirely up to you whether you take it. Take it, and eat it up. The first time you taste this truth, it's as sweet as honey. You call all your family and friends and tell everyone what you've found. And then it gets inside you and starts working. It upsets your stomach. It messes with your daily life. It tells you when you can worship and when you can't, what you must do and what you mustn't. Once it's inside, you want to throw it back up, because you didn't know it was going to transform you, and now you don't even know who you are anymore. Do not throw up the Book. You've been called to it, and it has been called to you. "And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings." — Revelation 10:10– 11 John already knew the gospel. He was an apostle; he already knew the truth. But evidently, just before time shall be no more, there will be a people who already tasted the Book, who already had the gospel, who will be offered a finishing message: to eat the Book a second time. These are the people who will finish the mystery of YAHWEH. Thou must prophesy again. Now John has to un-preach everything he ever preached, and preach again. Now he has a new message, a new revelation. Every sermon he ever preached? I fed you a second time. Now prophesy again. Anyone who has truly eaten this message knows it has turned his insides over. It has re-created him from the inside out. When is the mystery finished? When He finds a people who will eat the Book. A Witness Ministry: The Five Hundred and Twelve Beginning with YAHSHUA's ministry, and from Pentecost on, YAHWEH has been sowing the kingdom gospel. Think about this carefully. The greatest ministry that ever lived on planet earth was the ministry of the Son of YAHWEH, YAHSHUA. A man who walked on water. A man who raised the dead. A man who told people the secrets of their hearts. A man who had done nothing to anyone, and yet was hated by nearly everyone at the end of His ministry. (His public ministry was one year: the ministry of the yearling lamb, set apart at His baptism, not the three and a half years tradition gives it.) 278 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And at the end of it, out of the multitudes His ministry touched, He had twelve devoted to Him and about five hundred brethren who had come to His message (1 Corinthians 15:6). Five hundred and twelve. That was it. The world would have called His ministry a failure, because He had so few. Why so few? They tasted the Book, but they couldn't digest it. And if we're not careful, we will taste this end-time message and not be able to digest it either. Why wasn't YAHSHUA discouraged? At the end of His ministry, to the eyes of the world, His enemies had won. He went down with only five hundred and twelve, and the religious establishment seemed to have defeated Him. But He knew why He had been sent. It was not to win all the lost then and there. He came as a witness, to sow the seed of His Father's coming kingdom. If you can ever get that into your heart, it will never again matter to you who is hearing you and who isn't. You'll simply know you are a witness, a signpost to the world: The kingdom is coming. John 17: The Work He Finished Read it word for word, and don't ever believe anything I teach you without the Book. "These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." — John 17:1–2 As many as Thou hast given Him. Not as many as He was able to go out and find. As many as were given to Him: the ones called of YAHWEH. "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent." — John 17:3 This is life eternal: to know the only true Elohim, YAHWEH, and YAHSHUA the Messiah whom He sent. If you believe that, that is eternal life. As Chapter 13 showed, the Trinity is not in the Book, and this one verse confirms it: you do not have to believe in a Trinity to have eternal life. "I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do." — John 17:4 He did not say, I glorified Myself and told the world I was equal to You. He said, "I have glorified thee." He came to glorify the Father. I have finished the work. He had a work in His day, and the rest of the prayer tells us what it was. The Glory He Had Before the World Was "And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was." — John 17:5 He does not glorify Himself. He asks the Father to do it. 279 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The glory which I had with Thee before the world was. Before the world was formed, He had a glory as the Son YAHWEH had purposed. He was declared in the heavens, the stars that "declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1), written there before Abraham ever existed. He was declared in Genesis 3:15 when YAHWEH announced the Seed of the woman. He had a glory with the Father in the Father's mind, purposed and promised from the foundation of the world (1 Peter 1:20; Revelation 13:8). Now that I have finished My work, give Me the glory I have earned, because I have done the work You gave Me. If He had held the same position as YAHWEH from the beginning, why would He have to say, Now I've finished the work; now give it to Me? He never held it. It was promised to Him, and He did the work that won Him the reward. And it is the same for all His brothers. You and I also had a glory with the Father before time began, in His mind. He saw every one of you by name. He knew every hair on your head (Matthew 10:30). "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son" (Romans 8:29). There was never a time when you were not a daughter, a son, in the purpose of YAHWEH. Of all the seed that ran toward life, one bore your name in His foreknowledge, to bring you forth in the fullness of time. And one day, when you finish the work, He will grant you the glory of the Elohim, the sons of YAHWEH, the glory that was always yours in His purpose. You have a glory coming. But only when you can say these words: "I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness." — 2 Timothy 4:7–8 The glory coming to you was always yours. You just have to finish the work to receive it. YAHSHUA said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18), because He finished the work. Do not let opposition slow you down; at the end you must be able to say, I finished my work. I did what You called me to do. Manifesting the Name "I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word." — John 17:6 Part of His work was this: "I have manifested thy name." That is why declaring and manifesting the Name is such a huge part of our work. He never lifted up His own name. He manifested the Name of His Father: its very character and attributes. Thine they were, and Thou gavest them Me. The ones You gave Me were Yours from the beginning. I didn't go out and evangelize them. I didn't go out and find them. YAHWEH gave them to YAHSHUA, and now YAHSHUA has undershepherds He has given them to, and He says, "Feed my sheep" (John 21:17). And they have kept Thy word. 280 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee." — John 17:7 Here's what they know. They saw Me walk on water, but I made sure they knew I don't do these things on My own. I made sure to give My Father the glory in all things. That was His work: to do the work of the Father, to be so dead to Himself that He could go through that third door of the Tabernacle. Any ministry pointing people to a life of happiness is not doing the work. But when a ministry is pointing you to the kingdom of YAHWEH, it is doing the work. The Word Received and Held "For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me." — John 17:8 I taught them, but they weren't My words. YAHSHUA has been telling you for eight verses what His work was: to find a people who would receive the Word and hold on to it. When I say, Father, I finished my work, what I will be saying is: The ones You sent to me held on to the Word I taught them. That will be my work. They have known surely that I came out from Thee. They knew who He was: though He was a man, He was a man sent from YAHWEH. They received that, and they held on to what He taught. They ate the Book He handed them. They had to believe He was a man sent from YAHWEH, because they would never have held on to the Word if they had not believed in the messenger sent to bring it. As Chapter 20 showed, they honored the messenger, and by doing that they honored the One who sent him (John 13:20). I Pray Not for the World "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine." — John 17:9 The Man who came to save the world is not praying for the world? No. I'll pray for the world when it is time for the world to come. But it's not time right now. I am doing a work, not for the world yet, but for the ones You gave Me, the lost sheep, the little flock. He prays for us, and we pray for the world. That is the order of the priesthood. "And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them." — John 17:10 They're not Mine; they're Yours. And yet they're Mine. Mine is Thine and Thine is mine. That's how He and the Father are one. And I am glorified in them: in the ones listening to His teachings. 281 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are." — John 17:11 Not Keep the ones I went out and knocked on doors to win, but Keep those whom Thou hast given Me. The Spirit of YAHWEH found you where you were. If you didn't know how loved you are by the Father, know it now. He found you. You are part of that work. This is the work. Wheat and Tares Since that day, YAHWEH has been sowing in the earth. YAHSHUA described that sowing in a parable: the wheat and the tares (Matthew 13:24–30). He came and sowed the good seed among the house of Israel, the scattered tribes. But He said the enemy would come and sow false seed, and what grew would look just like the true seed. They would grow up right alongside the lost tribes, all looking alike, all calling themselves Christians. And He told His servants, Don't pull up the tares. If you tear down the false church, you'll destroy the wheat growing in it. Let both grow together until the harvest. In the time of harvest, I'll find the wheat. That's why He sends the voice of the last-day message right before His coming: to find the wheat. How will the wheat be found? It's very simple. The wheat is filled with the life of the Word. In the churches of this world there is an infilling of excitement; they whoop and dance and holler right along with us. They go to church just as we do. But when it's time to find the wheat, you'll know it, because the wheat bends over under the weight of the Word. The tares have no weight; there's nothing in them. They're easy to pull up. They get offended easily. They quit easily. They have no Word in them to bow them down. Go watch a harvest and you'll see the difference: the wheat is already bending under its own grain. That's why YAHWEH is returning the Sabbath message to the church. It identifies the wheat. The Word is already in them, and when they hear it, they bow to it. YAHSHUA is not trying to gather in the whole earth right now. He is planting truth here and there and gathering a crop from here and there. There was a time for planting, and there is a time for developing. We are in the time of developing. Camp, Court and Tabernacle Unlike so much of the Christian church, we know we are not the only ones who will be saved. We know it because of the Tabernacle of Moses, the pattern this book has been opening chapter by chapter. Without this teaching, we don't understand anything. In Christianity, everybody is going to the same heaven to get the same halo. Then what is the point of my trying to live for YAHWEH? What is the point of keeping the Sabbath if you and I are both saved and both going to the same heaven to get the same mansion? Why not live in adultery and 282 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE party every night? That is the confusion of Christianity. If we're all equal, let's all just say we love Jesus. You'll never meet anybody who isn't saved. They don't see it because the kingdom is not being preached. And if you're going to preach the kingdom, you have to preach this, the pattern. In that pattern are three levels of believers, the thirtyfold, sixtyfold and hundredfold of Chapter 11. All will be saved. The entire earth will be saved and filled with the glory of YAHWEH. But not all will be kings and priests unto YAHWEH. Three places tell the story: the camp, the court and the Tabernacle. The camp. The camp lies outside the white linen perimeter. The camp is the world: everyone outside of salvation. All of those people are going to be saved, but not now, because right now only the lost tribes of Israel and Judah are being called. They all need atonement. They all need the blessings of Israel. YAHWEH has a plan for the camp, just not yet. One day, when YAHWEH finds Israel and brings them all back together, the ministry of the court and the Tabernacle will bless the camp. The court. Inside the curtains. The white linen around the court is salvation, and the gate into it is YAHSHUA. The court represents everyone who has ever believed on YAHSHUA the Messiah as Savior. When someone walks into salvation, they come through the gate, which is YAHSHUA. They come to the brazen altar and place their faith in the sacrificed Lamb. Then they go on and are baptized according to Acts 2:38, in the name of YAHSHUA the Messiah. That is the covenant return. No one comes back into covenant without the water (Mark 16:16). All of those people are in the outer court: the outer darkness, the thirtyfold believers. They have come to the altar and through the water of baptism. They are saved. But they have no right to the Tabernacle. There's a curtain there, the second curtain, and the Tabernacle is shut off from saved people. And most have no desire to go in. They are good people. They love the Master. They just don't love Him enough to keep His commandments and go through that door, under the ministry of the menorah and the seven Spirits of YAHWEH. The Tabernacle. Who may go in? "But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden: but they shall not go in to see when the holy things are covered, lest they die." — Numbers 4:19–20 The only people allowed to remain half man and half spirit, if you will, are those in the outer court. Anyone who comes into the inner rooms must die. In the courtyard everything is bronze, but inside the Holy Place everything is gold: the divine nature (2 Peter 1:4). The Tabernacle invites all saved people who want to come in. But when you do, as Chapter 17 showed, the carnal mind must give way to the spiritual mind under the ministry of the menorah. This is YAHWEH's entire plan. So much of the New Testament is focused on the Tabernacle because in it is the work YAHWEH is doing in the world. The Tabernacle in One Verse Here is what must happen after you are begotten of the Spirit at salvation and water baptism. 283 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls." — James 1:18–21 All three stages of the Tabernacle are in those verses. You'll see the Tabernacle in every part of your Bible. Verse 18: the court. Of His own will begat He us. By whose will were you begotten by the Spirit? The Father's. You had nothing to do with it. You were chosen to be begotten by the Spirit because you were a member of the lost tribes, or joined to them as Israel. That we should be a kind of firstfruits. The reason He called you by His own will was to make you a firstfruit: a priest and a king. That part was free. That was a work of grace. Verse 19: the door. Wherefore, my beloved brethren. After He has done that, now, brethren, it's up to you. The next step into the Holy Place is not His to take for you. I called you to salvation, but you must go on to sanctification. After you've been saved by grace, now works come into play, and the first work is this: swift to hear, slow to speak. Now that you've been begotten, it's time to be quiet and be taught. If you can't be quiet and be taught, you cannot let the seven Spirits of YAHWEH infiltrate your life. Verses 20–21: the Holy Place. The wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of YAHWEH. Lay apart all filthiness. Now you're coming into the second room. Lay it down and die. When you're a dead man, you're quiet. Don't get wrathful, because wrath will not work righteousness in you. Die. I only let dead men into the Tabernacle. And receive with meekness the engrafted word. Be quiet, die, come in. That sounds a lot like YAHSHUA: "he was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7). Receive with meekness the engrafted Word: let the engrafted Word of the menorah, the seven Spirits of YAHWEH, graft itself into you. Which is able to save your souls. The whole Tabernacle is in that passage, and every believer must understand this journey. The Gate, the Door and the Veil The third door itself is ahead, and Chapter 27 will take us through it. Here the work brings us close enough to study the curtain. There are three entrances into the Tabernacle, and each represents a different aspect of the Messiah's ministry. The gate. "And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four." — Exodus 27:16 284 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Now you know why YAHSHUA calls Himself the door of the sheepfold (John 10:1–9). He is talking about the Tabernacle. What comes inside that gate is the sheep of the house of Israel. I am the door of the sheep. The door of the tent. "And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework. And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them." — Exodus 26:36–37 The veil. "And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made: and thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver. And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy. And thou shalt put the mercy seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place." — Exodus 26:31–34 YAHSHUA is the gate. He is the door. And He is the veil: "By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh." — Hebrews 10:20 We have come through the gate and through the door, and now we are approaching the veil. It differs from the gate and the door in one way. Not the colors; the door had blue, purple and scarlet. Not the gold; the door had gold. The cherubim. With cherubims shall it be made. The angels were woven into the third veil. Why? Ezekiel saw the cherubim carrying the throne of YAHWEH (Ezekiel 1; 10). And the Ark of the Covenant is the throne of YAHWEH, where He dwells between the cherubim. Those cherubim were woven into the very fabric of the veil. Angels are spirits (Hebrews 1:7, 14). You are flesh. The only ones who can pass through that veil are spirit people. The only ones who can come into the third room are those who are no longer flesh and blood (1 Corinthians 15:50), but like the angels of heaven (Luke 20:36). And brothers and sisters, when you begin to shed your flesh mind, your carnal mind, and come into your spiritual mind, what is behind the third veil begins to press out into your mind, making you ready for the ten-by-ten ministry of the Millennial reign, the thousand years the veil represents. The glory of YAHWEH allows no room for your agenda, your doctrines, your ideas or your way of doing things. The angels cry, "Holy, holy, holy" (Isaiah 6:3). In other words: Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. They are in full submission to the Commandments in that Ark. Only those who come into that position will experience Tabernacle glory. 285 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Tabernacle Glory Before Its Time Tabernacle glory will not be fully experienced until the Millennial reign. But the feasts have always given their glory early to those who keep their shadow. There were people keeping the shadow of Passover who experienced Passover before the Lamb was slain. There were people keeping the shadows of Pentecost who were filled with the Spirit long before Pentecost came. I believe with all my heart that those who are keeping the shadow of Tabernacles are going to experience in their own lives the glory of what is behind that veil before it is released to the world. I believe there is a people who are meshing with the veil, moving from the sixtyfold into the glory of the hundredfold in their walk with YAHWEH. That Tabernacle glory is moving beyond the veil into the priests of YAHWEH who are dying to themselves in that Holy Place. One Way, Narrowing One more feature of the veil belongs here: every one of the three entrances measures one hundred square cubits, and a hundred represents YAHSHUA. •The gate in the outer court was twenty cubits by five. Twenty times five: one hundred. •The door of the tent, ten by ten: one hundred. •The veil, ten by ten: one hundred. But why was the gate of the outer court so wide? Twenty by five, to make room for many, because many are called. And when you get to the door, it narrows from twenty to ten. The way in is the same size all the way through, and it is always YAHSHUA. But it gets narrower the closer you come to the throne. The work is simple to state and hard to do: announce the kingdom to the world as a witness, and keep the ones the Father gives until they hold the Word to the end. It is not measured in numbers; YAHSHUA finished His work with five hundred and twelve. Every entrance into this house measures a hundred square cubits, and every one is YAHSHUA, but the way narrows as it nears the throne: twenty cubits wide at the gate, ten at the door, ten at the veil woven with cherubim. Do the work, eat the Book, die to the flesh mind, and you will stand where only spirit people can pass. The veil is before us. 286 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE PART THREE The Priesthood “But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.” — 1 Peter 2:9 287 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Without Blemish: The Royal Priesthood Before we go behind the veil, we have to answer a question most believers have never been asked: who is allowed to go in? The priesthood is part and parcel of the Tabernacle. You cannot separate the two. And the priesthood was never the whole nation, or even the whole tribe of Levi. Israel was called. Levi was called out of Israel. But only a son of Aaron with no blemish could approach the altar. This chapter is about the difference between being called and being chosen, and the twelve blemishes that keep a saved man out of the Most Holy Place. The third door is ahead, and Chapter 27 will take us through it; the priesthood must come first, because the priests are the ones who go in. First, one more look at the veil Chapter 21 described. There are three entrances, the gate, the door and the veil, and YAHSHUA is all three. He is the gate of the sheepfold. He is the door into the Tabernacle. And He is the veil, torn to give us access to the Most Holy Place (Matthew 27:51; Hebrews 10:20). But one thing is on the veil that is not on the gate and not on the door: the cherubim, and the cherubim represent the heavenly mind. As Chapter 17 showed, these rooms are the two minds; the carnal mind is dealt with in that twenty-by-ten room, where it is developed into the heavenly mind. To enter the third door, you must have become heavenly in your thinking. That's why the cherubim are woven into the veil. Chapters 24 and 26 take up the garments. Here I want to lay down the foundation, because few believers really comprehend the priesthood. Most of us didn't grow up in a church with a priesthood. Those who grew up Catholic may have a little better sense of it than we charismatic and Baptist people do. But without an understanding of the priesthood, you don't know who you are: not your duties, not your responsibilities, not your requirements as a priest. Israelites, Levites and Priests Scripture divides the people into three categories, just as the Tabernacle has three parts: 1.Israelites 2.Levites 3.The priesthood Aren't the Levites the priesthood? Why make it a third category? The answer will shock you. You have to learn the difference between an Israelite, a Levite and a priest. (There is even another division beyond these: the Zadok priesthood, the earthly shadow of the order of Melchizedek; see Chapter 24.) The more we look at the priesthood, the more you'll see the structure of the Tabernacle in it. 288 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The nation of Israel in the Old Testament is a type and a shadow, and this is a key to biblical interpretation: "Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; and did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness." — 1 Corinthians 10:1–5 "Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come." — 1 Corinthians 10:11 The only way we will not be ignorant is to understand the shadows of Israel. If you don't want to make their mistakes, if you don't want to fall as they fell, go back and study Israel. They are your example of what to do and what not to do. Israel is called "the church in the wilderness" (Acts 7:38). When all Israel left Egypt, that was a type of the whole church, everyone who comes out of the world to the cross and gives his life to the Messiah. But when it comes to the priesthood, Israel is a type of all mankind. Remember the three: the camp, the court and the Tabernacle. The camp, outside the court, is all mankind. The court is the Levites. The Tabernacle is the priesthood. The Holy Place is the priesthood's training ground, not its destination. Only the priests who press through the veil into the Most Holy Place, the hundredfold, are the first- resurrection saints who will reign. The Tabernacle in the Midst of the Camp "And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world." — 1 John 2:2 YAHSHUA did not die only for the people who are saved now. He died for all who will be saved. He was the propitiation not just for the church's sin but for the sin of the whole world. All mankind will come under that propitiation, and that is the camp. Why was the Tabernacle set in the midst of the camp (Numbers 2:2)? Because the work done in the Tabernacle through the priesthood is what will bring salvation to the whole camp. The work is done first in the Tabernacle, and the work done in the Tabernacle is for the sins of the whole world. As Chapter 9 showed, intercession is the priesthood's work. That is what the priests did for the camp, and that is why YAHWEH is building the Seventh Temple in the midst of the camp: so that what He is perfecting in the Tabernacle will one day be reproduced in the whole world. Our duty as priests is to do the work of the temple. There is a people called to temple work, and that's what we do: we work in the temple for the whole world. 289 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Called, but Not All Chosen If Israel as a whole represents the whole world, then the tribe of Levi must represent the household of faith: all believers in YAHSHUA the Messiah. You'll see the three categories over and over. The camp is all Israel, but there was one family among Israel called out to be the household of faith. The Levites were called. They were not chosen. The difference will become clear before this chapter ends. Earlier, all Israel had been called out of Egypt. But now we're in a different type. Israel represents the whole world, and from that world there is a called-out people, the Levites, typifying the household of faith. All your neighbors who believe in YAHSHUA as Savior and have gone down in the water of baptism are typified by that Levite family. Within the Levites there is another group: the priesthood. The Levites were called to serve under the priesthood (Numbers 3:5–10). Not all Levites were priests, and this is imperative, or you will get very confused where we're headed. The priesthood is one body under a high priest. It represents the little flock among the Levites (Luke 12:32). The Levites are the saved people, and the priesthood is a little flock in the midst of the big flock. One Body with the High Priest You could not separate the priests from the high priest. They were one body. The high priest was the head of the priesthood, but they were all one. There was no such thing as a separated priest. You were in the priesthood, in the brotherhood. You were not your own. You were either in the priesthood, or you were not a priest. "And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth." — Revelation 5:10 We have been called to be royal priests, kings and priests after the order of Melchizedek (Hebrews 7:17), a priesthood in training now, to be installed in the Kingdom. But we must begin to see YAHSHUA as our High Priest, and ourselves as His priests. There is no priesthood without the Head. But there is also no priesthood with only a Head. And the problem in the Christian church is this: we have recognized YAHSHUA as High Priest, but we have failed to recognize the priesthood. We have failed to see our connection with the great Intercessor Himself. Carrying the Blood to the Throne Why is YAHSHUA at the right hand of the Father making intercession? "Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them." — Hebrews 7:25 290 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Surely you've thought, He already died. He already paid the price. But consider what the priests did. First they killed the lamb. Then they took the blood and carried it in, before the mercy seat, to the very throne of YAHWEH. The death of the lamb paid the price, but a slain lamb never reached the mercy seat by itself. A priest had to carry the blood in. "Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us." — Hebrews 9:12 YAHSHUA did both. He was the Lamb slain, and He is the High Priest who carried His own blood into the true Tabernacle. And now His priesthood continues that ministry on earth. That is why the priesthood presents that sacrifice daily before the Father, for all men, knowing He is going to redeem them by the blood of the Lamb. The blood is the price. Without it, our prayers have nothing to stand on. But the blood must be carried to the throne, and that is priestly work. The priesthood takes the sacrifice to the right hand of the throne, above the Ark of the Covenant, working in the temple so that YAHWEH can send back through the priesthood the glory of the temple. Then they take off their linen garments and go out to minister to the world what they have received in the Holy Place. If you don't understand your job as a priest, you will get tired of your job. The priesthood is bringing lost Israelites back to the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, restoring men to the fathers of their faith (Malachi 4:6). A Spiritual House, a Holy Priesthood "Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter 2:5 Never read that verse again and gloss over it the way you did when you didn't know what a priesthood was. To offer up spiritual sacrifices. Why do we need to offer sacrifices when YAHSHUA was the sacrifice? Because you have been called to keep presenting it. Every year at Passover, that's what we do. Every year at Atonement, that's what we do. We are the continuation of YAHSHUA's ministry on earth, the priesthood He is the Head of. He has no ministry on earth without priests. What good is a slain lamb without a priesthood? YAHSHUA is at the right hand of the Father because He is the slain Lamb, and He is doing priestly work. And He is raising up priests to join Him in it. That's why the earth is groaning, waiting for the sons to be manifested (Romans 8:19–22), so that we can carry the healing of the blood of the covenant to all creation. The priesthood reaches one hand into the heavens and the other back into the earth, and joins the two. We are the connectors. That is how YAHWEH will save the world: through the Lamb, and through His priesthood carrying the Lamb's blood to the nations. His will comes to earth, on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10), because someone heard His will, spoke it and declared it. 291 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." — 1 Peter 2:9 Shew forth the praises. That's what you are called to do. When we come into holy convocation and dance before YAHWEH, we are showing forth in the earth the praises of His victory over sin. We do it with our feet, with our hands, with our swaying, with our voices (Psalm 149:3; 150:4). We are declaring in the earth the goodness of YAHWEH. That is what priests do. When musicians play before YAHWEH, they are bringing into the earth what they received from the Most Holy Place, and carrying what they gathered from the dust of the earth back into the Most Holy Place. We are the go-between. The Priest's Day Begins in Prayer "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus." — Hebrews 3:1 Holy brethren: that's the royal priesthood. Partakers of the heavenly calling: you've read it a million times, but what does it mean? To be part of the priesthood. You are called, royal brethren, to take part in temple work. That's why prayer is the key that unlocks the door. A believer who stops praying daily will not last long in this walk. You cannot survive this suffering without daily prayer. The day you slip in prayer is the day you start to backslide. Miss one day and you'll miss two. When your feet hit the floor in the morning, the first words out of your mouth bring heaven into earth: you are doing the work of the priesthood, showing forth the praises of YAHWEH in the earth. And if you start slipping in prayer, here's what will happen: you'll start slipping in your conversations with the family of YAHWEH. Then you'll start slipping away from the gatherings. And before long you'll be right back where you were when you were found, right back in Babylon. No one is above obedience, submission, prayer and the work of intercession. We are not called to build large congregations and big crowds. We are called to big prayer and great love for the truth. That is the work of the ministry in this hour. He Went First How do I do the work of the priesthood? Consider the High Priest. He laid down His life, and then He interceded for all men, "with strong crying and tears" (Hebrews 5:7). He loves people. He loves humanity. He loves the world, and so must we. In every ordinance of the Tabernacle, in every ceremony you read about, the high priest was first. No one preceded the high priest. Authority was established in that Tabernacle: the high priest went first. 292 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel." — 2 Timothy 1:10 When YAHSHUA came, He opened and walked the narrow path that leads to eternal life. It was not opened until He came. He was the first man to walk the path of total obedience, from His baptism to the cross. So let us consider Him, and do it the way He did it. He sacrificed His own human interests for the work. The work came before mother or father. The work of the priesthood was His calling, and it led Him to sacrifice. He did not seek glory and honor; He sought to serve, and so He became the first human being ever to possess eternal life (Romans 6:9). That is what we must consider. Anointed to Serve The priesthood was an anointed ministry under the Torah. The anointing was the ceremony by which the priests were installed into their service. They were anointed into office with a very particular oil, the holy anointing oil, which could be used on no one else (Exodus 30:25–33). The oil typifies YAHWEH ordaining His royal priesthood by His Spirit. Only consecrated ones were ever anointed. Here was the order. First, they were washed: immersed, baptized (Exodus 29:4; Leviticus 8:6). Then Aaron the high priest was clothed in holy garments for glory and for beauty (Exodus 28:2; Chapter 26 reads from that chapter). After he was washed and after he was clothed, the anointing oil was poured on his head (Leviticus 8:12). In the same way, YAHSHUA was washed in the Jordan and anointed with the Spirit at His baptism (Acts 10:38); and at His resurrection He put on the linen of the new body, and He was declared High Priest and said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth" (Matthew 28:18). The whole of Exodus 28, forty-three verses, is given to the priesthood. And the first thing you'll notice is that they were a set-apart people. "And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him." — Numbers 16:5 Those whom He has chosen, He causes to come near to Him. That is the pattern. If you want to know why you're reading this, why you're so in love with truth: those He has chosen, He draws near to Him. A Minister of the Sanctuary Aaron the high priest was a type of YAHSHUA. "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; a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. 293 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." — Hebrews 8:1–5 A minister of the sanctuary. Not of the world, right now. None of us are ministers to the world yet. We are ministers of the sanctuary, those He has made to draw near. And of the true Tabernacle: He is High Priest of the true Tabernacle. See that thou make all things according to the pattern. In other words, Don't build the Tabernacle out of your own imagination. I'll give you the pattern. And thousands of years later the pattern still hasn't changed, and the people of the pattern will remain until the pattern is fulfilled. "It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." — Hebrews 9:23 Everything YAHSHUA did, He did according to the pattern. Thirty, sixty and a hundred never changes. That is the pattern, the threefold cord. YAHSHUA was the fulfillment of a pattern, and you are in a pattern too, the one laid down in this Tabernacle. There may not be anything more important in the Bible than the Tabernacle. Moses was shown the pattern of heavenly things in the mount, and he replicated on earth what he saw in the heavens. And now that pattern is coming to its completion. So follow the patterns. Follow the numbers. In the pattern of the Tabernacle, the camp, the court and the Holy Place, you can see how everything is going to end. Follow the pattern of the holy days. Follow the pattern of the weekly Sabbath: six days of labor and one day that is holy. Follow the pattern of clean and unclean. Follow the patterns, and you'll follow YAHWEH, and you'll follow YAHSHUA, because He followed the pattern. If We Suffer Before the members of the priesthood, the under-priests, can be united with our Head and begin our reign on earth, there is a pattern even He followed: "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us." — 2 Timothy 2:12 He also will deny us. Now put that next to "once saved, always saved." Anyone raised under Calvinism has read that verse and wondered, How is He going to deny us if we're saved? He's not going to deny you salvation. He's going to deny you the priesthood. Read the first half of the verse and see what you'll be denied: If we suffer, we shall also reign. If we suffer with Him, we will be in the priesthood, kings and priests with Him. But if we choose not to suffer with Him, He will deny us. Not salvation: the priesthood. Because not all of Levi will be priests. That's why we suffer with Him now. We suffer for truth's sake. We are hated of all men (Matthew 10:22). That is what He means by if you suffer with Me. If you will stand for truth, He will not deny you the priesthood you've been called to. 294 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Legitimate Birth The first qualification of a priest was a legitimate birth. That's why the genealogies were so important. Those who could not prove their line were "as polluted, put from the priesthood" (Ezra 2:62). First you had to be a legitimate Israelite, then a legitimate Levite. You have to come in through the door, the right way: repentance, water baptism and His name (Acts 2:38). That brings you in. Now the distinction set out at the beginning of this chapter comes due. We've always been taught that the Levites were the priesthood. No. Even if your birth was legitimate, even if you'd been called into the tribe of Levi, that didn't make you a priest. If a son of Aaron had any blemish, he could not serve at the altar. He was called into the service of YAHWEH, but if he had a blemish, he could not be a priest. So apply it. Israel represents the whole world. The Levites represent the household of faith within the world. All the saved are Levites, because they were called in this day, and they have a legitimate birth. They came through the blood of YAHSHUA. They came to the cross, and they came through the water. They are legitimately believers, called by YAHWEH. But being called is not the same as being chosen. Twelve Blemishes "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer the bread of his God. For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any thing superfluous, or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded, or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken; no man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God. He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them." — Leviticus 21:16–23 Count them: twelve. Twelve physical blemishes disqualified a man from being chosen for the priesthood, even though he was called. I find it interesting that there are twelve, the number of divine government. Twelve blemishes must be brought under control before you serve in the government of YAHWEH. YAHWEH is not despising the blind or the lame. YAHSHUA healed them, ate with them and called them to His table (Luke 14:13). This is a pattern written in the flesh of Aaron's sons to teach us about the inner man. The Torah is showing you, in the body, what disqualifies the mind from the altar. 295 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron. Even though he is a son of the high priest, even though he is saved and in the household of faith, if he has one of these twelve, he is called but not chosen. Remember those who said, "Lord, Lord" (Matthew 7:22)? Yes, you belong to Me. But because you didn't deal with your blemishes, you can't be chosen. This is what He meant when He said He would deny us (2 Timothy 2:12). And see what the blemished son was still allowed to do: He shall eat the bread of his God. He's allowed to stay in the church and show up for services. He can hear the preaching. He can eat the showbread. He may even rejoice in the worship. But he cannot touch the ministry of the altar. Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar. He can't go through the veil. He can't even come to the altar, the work of the ministry, because he has a blemish he never dealt with. The Washing of the Word What do we do about blemishes? Before breaking them down, see why true priests spend so much time in Bible study: "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish." — Ephesians 5:25–27 Without blemish. He cleanses the blemishes by the washing of water by the Word. The only people who will make it into the royal and high-priestly calling are a Word people, so in love with the Word that they'll sit in a Bible study hour after hour and let it wash away the blemishes that are keeping them out of the sacred places of YAHWEH. That's why you have to stay under the ministry of the Word. There is a way to get rid of blemishes. Blemishes of Sight 1. The blind. The first was a blind man. Saved, legitimately born, came to the cross, baptized, but he chooses to remain blind to the truth of the Word. Saved, but with his eyes closed. Those people are saved, but they are never allowed into the priesthood. And the priesthood that presses through the veil is the 144,000: twelve times twelve, the full government of the overcomers, not a head count. What blinds the Levites, the household of faith? The scales of religion. They come to the cross, they come to the blood, but they refuse to wash the scales from their eyes so they can see the truth of the coming kingdom of YAHWEH (Acts 9:18). "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be 296 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see." — Revelation 3:15–18 I have need of nothing. I'm a good Baptist. I'm a good Pentecostal. I come from four generations of this. I've got all I need. That is the blindness that cannot be used in kingdom work. And knowest not that thou art... blind. You don't even know you're blind. There's your blind man: he loves the Master, but he loves religion more. And he will not be accepted into the bride, into the 144,000, into the priesthood. 3. The flat nose. Why would YAHWEH reject a saved Levite because of a flat nose? Because you avoid danger with your senses, and smell is one of them. It's how you tell when something's not right, whether it passes the sniff test. You smell the milk to see if it's sour. A man with a flat nose can't discern. He can't smell right from wrong. You've got to be able to smell the gospel you're listening to. Your senses have to be sharpened (Hebrews 5:14). "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God." — 1 John 3:21 Your heart, your conscience, can only warn you if you have a nose to smell the truth: to smell the danger of false doctrine, the danger of rebellion. 9. A blemish in the eye. This is wrong focus. You're a Levite, but you're focused on the wrong things. "If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light" (Matthew 6:22). Blemishes of the Walk 2. The lame. The second is a lame man: a man disabled in his walk. A man who wandered from the Shepherd's path through rebellion and disobedience, and the Shepherd had to deal with him severely to keep him in the household of faith. You can be saved, but lame. You don't have control of your legs. You walk the way you want to walk, on your own path. Such a man may still eat the bread and hear good preaching, but he is not qualified to serve in the work of the temple. The saddest thing is to see good people lame in their walk with the scars of rebellion in their lives. "And make straight paths for your feet, lest that which is lame be turned out of the way; but let it rather be healed." — Hebrews 12:13 But there's healing for that lameness. Let it rather be healed. It's called obedience. The water of the Word can wash that lameness right out of your legs. Quit walking your own way and going your own direction, before He has to put a limp in you, as He touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh (Genesis 32:25). 5. The broken foot. A broken foot means you can't walk a straight path. You've got a crooked walk. It isn't a plumb-line walk. Being a Levite doesn't make you a priest. A holy Levite makes you a priest. 7. The crooked back. No backbone: no backbone to stand for truth. Yes, you're saved, but you're a crooked-back saved man. You go along with any little doctrine. Whatever somebody says, you say amen to it. You're not fit. 297 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Blemishes of Service and Growth 6. The broken hand. What do you serve others with? Your hands. Those who don't want to serve, who have a broken hand and can't serve one another, are not fit for the altar. 8. The dwarf. If a priest was a dwarf, why couldn't he serve? Because he was stunted in his growth. Spiritual dwarfs stay on low levels and like to talk about small things. Your growth is stunted. Yes, you're saved, but you don't want to get off the milk. "For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat." — Hebrews 5:12 It's time to turn in that bottle. Quit being a dwarf; you will not be accepted that way. 4. Anything superfluous. Anything added, anything malformed, anything less than holiness. A priest must be whole and in proportion, with nothing extra that YAHWEH didn't put there. Blemishes of the Skin and the Seed 10. Scurvy. Why couldn't a man with scurvy serve in the priesthood? Because scurvy comes from an improper diet. In other words, you're eating up everybody's preaching, and you've got a bad diet. 11. Scabs. Why couldn't you be a priest if you had a scab? Because a scab means a sensitive area, tender to the touch. Many believers carry scabs. They're a little too tender to the touch. Things hurt them. People hurt them. You'll never make it unless you get rid of that tenderness. "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them." — Psalm 119:165 They won't have any scabs. If you love the law of YAHWEH, if you are saturated in the Word, you will never be offended. You won't be tender anywhere. When you're doing all the work and wondering why nobody else is doing as much as you, quit being tender to the touch. When the work costs you, remember what it cost your Master. Get that crooked back out of you. Get those scabs off. You haven't given up anything. Your Master gave up everything. You've been called to a high calling, and He expects you to get the crooked back out and the scabs off. The cure is the Word, day and night. Get in the Word, and you will straighten up like a soldier. You won't have any scabs. Everything will roll off you like water. 12. Broken stones. And what comes after the scabs? The broken stones, the twelfth blemish, the man who cannot bring forth seed. A priest must be able to bring forth fruit (John 15:16), a son who will carry the seed of the Word into the next generation. 298 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Called, and Chosen Israel was called out of Egypt. Levi was called out of Israel. And out of Levi, only the unblemished sons of Aaron came near the altar and passed through the veil. That pattern has not changed. Every one of these twelve blemishes can be found in the household of faith, and every one can be washed away by the water of the Word. Salvation brought you into the court. Obedience will bring you to the altar. Stay under the washing of the Word, and He will present you to Himself without blemish, chosen, not merely called. Twelve blemishes. One washing. That He might present it to Himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish. Stay under the washing of the Word, and He will make you a priest. 299 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE The Heavenly Pattern: Priestly Courses and the Songs of the Sabbath The Tabernacle Moses built was not the pattern. It was a copy. The pattern is in heaven: a real sanctuary with a real High Priest, served by a priesthood that keeps holy time in twenty- four courses. The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, recovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls, preserve the songs those ancient priests sang on the Sabbath. This chapter is about that heavenly pattern, and what it means for a people who keep the Sabbath on earth while heaven keeps it above. In Chapter 22 we studied the qualifications of the priesthood: no flat nose, no broken foot, no broken hand, no crooked back, no dwarf, no blemish in the eye, no scurvy, no scab, no broken stones. The garments of the priesthood wait for Chapter 24. Before them comes something deeper about the priesthood. The Copy and the Pattern The Tabernacle Moses built was not the pattern; it was a copy of a pattern in heaven. "Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount." — Hebrews 8:5 I have always understood that the Tabernacle of Moses was a copy of a heavenly pattern YAHWEH showed him on the mount. Either YAHWEH brought Moses to heaven or brought heaven to Moses, but He showed Moses something in heaven, and Moses came down from the mountain and rebuilt it on earth. What Moses built was a portal joining heaven and earth. I don't believe anybody reading this has truly understood what that means. What was the heavenly pattern? What did Moses see that he never fully told us? "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us." — Hebrews 9:24 So before the priests' clothing, we must go to the heavenly Tabernacle first. The road is slow at first, but it leads somewhere no study of the Tabernacle has taken most readers. Unity, Order and the Calendar Truth must be walked out in unity and in proper kingdom government order. This thing is not about me or you. YAHWEH is building a work together, in unity. That is the importance of considering leadership and honoring government. 300 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The devil is subtle. He is sneaky and sly, and he will get you to break away from the end-time work of YAHWEH over secondary things. Don't fall for it. Walk in unity, and walk with a heart after truth, even when standing for truth costs you friends. The calendar must be adjusted periodically to stay true to the heavens, and two things govern it: 1.Your calendar has to line up with the priestly courses. 2.It has to line up with the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. Through those songs YAHWEH reveals the true meaning of the Sabbath day. We are all on a journey: here a little, there a little (Isaiah 28:10). What the Caves Kept The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. The first scrolls came to light in 1947, when a shepherd boy threw a stone into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard a jar break. Daniel had prophesied that in the time of the end "knowledge shall be increased" (Daniel 12:4), and out of a cave came writings hidden for two thousand years. Fragments of these Songs were later recovered from more of those caves. And who kept them? A community of priests who called their leaders the sons of Zadok, a priesthood that had separated itself from the temple establishment of its day. Everything I have taught about the Tabernacle by the Spirit throughout this book, I found reflected in those songs. Who were the sons of Zadok? Ezekiel tells us. When the Levites went astray, YAHWEH said that from then on only the sons of Zadok would come near to Him to minister (Ezekiel 44:15). It was that priestly line that kept watch over heavenly time: the Zadok priesthood, the earthly shadow of the order of Melchizedek. In Chapter 22 we learned the difference between Israelites, Levites and priests. Here we focus not on the copy but on the original pattern itself: the heavenly temple, beginning with the first of those songs. There are thirteen songs. These priests sang them on the Sabbath, one song each Sabbath for thirteen weeks, a quarter of the year: the first thirteen Sabbaths, beginning at the head of the year. Why? When you find out why they are called the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, you will understand what the Sabbath day is. Ask yourself: what do I know about the heavenly temple? Until you know the heavenly temple, you cannot know the Seventh Temple, because the Seventh Temple is the earthly counterpart of the heavenly one. When the New Testament says YAHSHUA is High Priest in heaven, it isn't speaking in a figure of speech. There is a real sanctuary in the heavens with a High Priest ministering in it right now (Hebrews 8:1–2). 301 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE What a Priestly Course Was Among the scrolls was a calendar that was not the calendar the Jewish leaders of that day followed. They were reckoning by the moon. These priests kept a solar calendar, synchronized with the moon and the stars. That is how it is done: not by the sun alone or the moon alone, but by all of them, for YAHWEH set them "for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years" (Genesis 1:14). But here is where we have missed it. Their calendar didn't only factor in the sun, the moon and the stars. It also factored in the mishmarot, the priestly courses. If the word courses confuses you, think of it as shifts. These priests were employed at the temple. Their whole lives were provided for, because the tithe went to the priesthood so they could serve the temple (Numbers 18:21). And the work was hard: a constant burning of offerings, day and night. So they served in shifts. A priestly family would come up to Jerusalem and serve one full week, Sabbath to Sabbath, and each course came up more than once in the year. Hundreds would come from one family. That was their course, their shift. The calendar scrolls show that the priesthood relied on this repeating cycle not only for its calendar but for its history. Every Sabbath, every month, every year and every feast bore the name of a priestly family. And the families rotated so that it took six years before the same family served the same week of the year again. To make that plain, picture a church with twenty-four families who take turns serving the Sabbath meal, one family a week, always in the same order. There are fifty-two Sabbaths in the year. So the list goes around twice, and then four more families serve before the year runs out. The next year doesn't start over at the top of the list. It picks up where the last one left off. The family that served the first Sabbath this year will serve a different Sabbath next year, and the year after that a different one again. Each year the list slides forward four places. Twenty-four families, four places a year: six years, and the first family is back on the first Sabbath of the year. Nobody has to keep a calendar on the wall; the rotation itself tells you what year you are in. If you know which family is serving and which week of the year it is, you know exactly where you stand in the cycle. That is what the priestly courses did for Israel. The shifts were the clock. David Drew the Lots Scripture records where those courses came from. Most readers have skipped right over these verses all their lives, and they may be some of the most important verses in the Bible. Solomon built the temple, but the pattern of its service was laid down by King David. "Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all." — 1 Chronicles 29:11 302 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee." — 1 Chronicles 29:18 David is asking, How do we build this great copy of what is going on in heaven? And notice what he prays: Keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people. Keep what forever? This temple. If they don't have this temple in their imagination, if they don't know what it truly is, they will drift far from Him. Keep this temple in your imagination, so you can keep your heart perfect before Him. "And they... made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest." — 1 Chronicles 29:22 Who did they make priest over this temple? Zadok. The sons of Zadok held authority over the temple, and especially over its calendar. If the sons of Zadok left us a detailed record of their calendar, it should at least give us pause; we might want to lend our ear to how they kept it. "Now these are the divisions of the sons of Aaron... And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service. And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers." — 1 Chronicles 24:1, 3–4 Sixteen and eight: twenty-four. David chose these men by lot, by the inspiration of the same Spirit that gave him the Psalms. And they were "governors of the sanctuary, and governors of the house of God" (24:5). "Now the first lot came forth to Jehoiarib, the second to Jedaiah, the third to Harim, the fourth to Seorim, the fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin, the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah, the ninth to Jeshua, the tenth to Shecaniah, the eleventh to Eliashib, the twelfth to Jakim, the thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab, the fifteenth to Bilgah, the sixteenth to Immer, the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses, the nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel, the one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul, the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah. These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him." — 1 Chronicles 24:7–19 Most readers skip this whole chapter of Chronicles. It may hold the secret of heavenly time. The eighth to Abijah. That name should sound familiar: Zacharias, the father of John the Baptist, was "of the course of Abia" (Luke 1:5). Keep your eye, too, on Gamul, the twenty-second. As the LORD God of Israel had commanded. Who commanded this order? YAHWEH. YAHWEH is all about government. He is all about order. 303 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And they set the priests in their divisions, and the Levites in their courses, for the service of God, which is at Jerusalem; as it is written in the book of Moses." — Ezra 6:18 This was clockwork, calendar work, a repeating pattern that held Israel together. Even when Antiochus Epiphanes defiled the temple and it lay desolate for three years, the faithful did not forget the Sabbath or the order of the courses. Keeping Heaven's Time on Earth Why is this so pivotal? Because the earthly Tabernacle, every article in it, and the order of the priestly courses are all copies of what is going on in heaven right now. We are living in a parallel world. YAHWEH will have a pattern people, duplicating heaven. That is what the prayer meant: "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven" (Matthew 6:10). There is a ministry in heaven being reproduced on planet earth, and His will is going to be done on earth at the same time it is done in heaven. That is why YAHWEH arrested you and made you a Sabbath keeper. We think we are just a group of seventh-day Sabbath keepers. But YAHWEH is building the Seventh Temple to stand in parallel with the heavenly temple, so that heaven and earth are joined by a people bringing heaven to earth. We are the earthly counterpart of the heavenly Tabernacle, and because we haven't understood it, we haven't known who we are. That is why, when it comes to holy time, YAHWEH's appointed times, we have to get it right. This lesson will change your prayer life, your connection with the heavens, your praise and your worship. The Calendar of the Courses Among the calendar scrolls of Cave 4 are lists of the priestly courses in their order, and charts showing which course begins each year of the six-year cycle. Remember Gamul? In those scrolls, the first year begins with the course of Gamul. The second year begins with Jedaiah, the third with Mijamin, the fourth with Shecaniah, the fifth with Jeshebeab and the sixth with Happizzez (Aphses). That is one complete cycle. And when the cycle is complete, the calendar is brought back into step with the heavens. The immediate question is: why Gamul? Why does the year open with the twenty-second course, and not with Jehoiarib, the very first lot David drew? Because the house was not dedicated at the new year. It was dedicated in the fall. "And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month." — 1 Kings 8:2 "And Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him... And in the eighth day they made a solemn assembly: for they kept the dedication of the altar seven days, and the feast seven days. And on the three and twentieth day of the seventh month he sent the people away into their tents." — 2 Chronicles 7:8–10 304 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Count it back. They were sent home on the twenty-third day. The eighth day, the solemn assembly, was the twenty-second. The feast's seven days ran from the fifteenth through the twenty-first. So the seven days of the dedication of the altar ran from the eighth through the fourteenth of the seventh month. Now count the courses. Begin the year with Gamul, and let the shifts turn week by week, twenty- four families in order. Jehoiarib's turn falls in the seventh month, in the very week of the dedication of the altar, between the eighth and the fourteenth day. The order didn't start at the head of the year. It started at the altar. Jehoiarib, the first lot, stood at the altar in the week it was dedicated. Count the shifts forward from that week to the head of the year, and Gamul is the one standing at the gate. The calendar wasn't keeping time from a date on the wall. It was keeping time from the day the house of YAHWEH was given to Him. The priests also recorded the signs: on which day of which course's week the full moon would appear, and on which the new moon. That was how they knew they were on correct heavenly time: the sign would always appear in its appointed week. It is detailed, but it shows how carefully they kept time with heaven. Thirty, Sixty and a Hundred Among the Angels Where did these priestly cycles come from? We would never have known their meaning without these songs, because in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice we find the heavenly temple described, and in it a hierarchy of angels. Among the angels we find the same pattern as among men: thirty, sixty and a hundredfold. There are angels who are not permitted into the inner sanctuary, as the first song, below, makes plain. The point of the calendar is to restore order among the people of YAHWEH, just as it is in heaven. That is the pattern. That is why we are here. So many are caught up in the calendar and miss the purpose of the calendar. The calendar kept the priesthood in order, and it kept the temple service in step with heaven. YAHWEH is restoring more than time. He is restoring the temple. The Twenty-Four Elders Someone will ask how twenty-four priestly courses can come from a book that isn't in the Bible. Scripture itself answers: "And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold." — Revelation 4:4 Who are these twenty-four elders? The heads of the twenty-four priestly courses of heaven, dressed in priestly white linen, with gold upon their heads. A priest wears white linen. On the high priest's mitre is a plate of pure gold, "a holy crown" (Exodus 29:6; 39:30). It was in your Bible the whole time. There are twenty-four priestly courses in the heavenly temple, and you cannot keep a 305 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE correct calendar without the twenty-four courses. We must line up with the priestly order to be in order. These elders sitting before the throne are the priests of the heavenly temple. They are serving right now. They have a calendar. They are moving in their courses without fail. "And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God." — Revelation 4:5 The lamps burning before the throne are just like the temple: that is the menorah. That throne- room scene in Revelation is the temple Moses saw on Mount Sinai. The throne is the Ark of the Covenant, and the twenty-four priests are performing their heavenly service along with all the angelic priests. And they keep time, not because they are creatures of time, but so they can keep in step with the earthly priesthood. So where did David and Zadok get the order of the courses? From the pattern. Songs About the Heavenly Priesthood The Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice are a collection of thirteen songs, one for each Sabbath, to be sung only on the Sabbath. And here is the remarkable thing: the songs the men on earth sang were not about men. They were about the angels in the temple, the priesthood in heaven. How can there be a High Priest in heaven unless there are other priests serving with Him? Use your mind. If YAHSHUA is High Priest, He is High Priest over a priesthood in heaven, and these songs describe what that priesthood is doing. In these songs, the angelic priests in the heavenly temple are pictured making atonement for those who turn from transgression, obtaining for them YAHWEH's favor. I thought that's what we did! Exactly. For years I have taught that the purpose of the temple priesthood today is to pray for all men to be redeemed. And I found out, reading those songs, that the priests of heaven, with YAHSHUA Himself, are offering the same intercession around the throne. When you and I join them in that prayer, we are bringing His will to pass on earth as it is in heaven. Does that include binding and loosing? Absolutely. "Whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matthew 16:19). The prayers of the saints connect heaven and earth. This is not my invention; the ancient priests wrote it, and it lines up with the Book. The songs were sung by men about the heavenly priesthood, to be sung together with heaven, as both the heavenly and the earthly sanctuaries offered their worship at the same time. On the Sabbath, heaven and earth worship in one service. Why? Because "they without us should not be made perfect" (Hebrews 11:40). Us without them is incomplete, and them without us is incomplete. The thirteenth song focuses on the garments of the priesthood, which Chapter 24 takes up, and you will find that the priests in heaven wear the same garments. What does the Bible say the bride will wear when she enters the kingdom of YAHWEH? White linen. 306 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints." — Revelation 19:8 "And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean." — Revelation 19:14 Right now, in the heavenly sanctuary, they are wearing white linen. And who else wore it? The priesthood in every one of the temples. It matters what we wear. The Shape of the Thirteen Songs Picture the thirteen songs as a pyramid. Songs one through five are short, and sadly many of their pieces are missing. They lead up toward the center. Songs nine through thirteen are short too, and they point back to the center. Everything in the heavenly temple is drenched in sevens, and every one of the thirteen songs points to the seventh song, which contains a description of the angelic order such as you have never heard. The longest and most powerful are songs six, seven and eight. Why? Because you and I live in the sixth day, we will reign in the seventh, and we will go on ruling into the eighth, and everything is about the seventh day. Those priests sang every week about the seventh: about what was coming in the seventh kingdom, the seventh millennium. And that is what you and I sing about, preach about and talk about. Ascending Together The scholar who edited these songs explains that their carefully crafted language was meant to lead the worshipers into a sense of being present in the heavenly sanctuary itself, among the angelic priests. On the Sabbath, they ascended. And the editor points out that this experience was not an individual experience but a community experience. They ascended together into the angelic temple. We don't go by ourselves. We go together. We do this together or we don't do it at all, and this is exactly how those priests did it. You cannot enter the temple individually. You enter it as a community. In their songs they marveled at how mortal men could be counted among the angels in their Sabbath praise: How are we worthy to be among them? In one song they call on the heavenly host: let us exalt the King. That is why worship music on the Sabbath matters so much. The editor notes that the songs were not written as a technique for producing visions, but those who sang them testified that the songs lifted them into the heavenly temple, and that visions and the prophetic word came forth there. 307 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Song Was the Sacrifice Remember, these priests had separated themselves from the temple of their day. They had no part in its sacrifices. They were disconnected from the religious system. So what was their sacrifice? "And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel. And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished." — 2 Chronicles 29:27–28 Now you know why they are called the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice. When the burnt offering began, the song of YAHWEH began also. The song was offered with the sacrifice, at the same time. We have no animal sacrifice anymore. We have the song of the Sabbath sacrifice. "By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips" (Hebrews 13:15). That is our sacrifice. I never understood it until now. And notice who worshiped: all the congregation. Everyone. The whole congregation offers the Sabbath sacrifice of song. Praise That Ascends They had no animal sacrifice. What they had were thirteen songs about the kingdom of YAHWEH, and they sang them with the angels on the Sabbath, and it lifted them into heavenly territory. Here is a vital lesson. There is something in us called the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of the Almighty YAHWEH, and when it lives in a believer, you will know the truth before you can explain the truth. And when you finally hear it, you'll take off running: I told you so. That's a holy I told you so. This is real history. These people existed just as you do. They kept the priestly courses, they kept the calendar, and they left us a record of their songs. The First Song: Angels Made Fit for the Inner Sanctuary Here is a taste of the first song. These are fragments; there are gaps where words are missing. The first song is for the first Sabbath, sung on the fourth day of the first month. Which calendar is correct, and who is keeping the right Sabbath, when the first Sabbath of the year falls on the fourth day of the first month? The song calls upon the "godlike beings," the elohim, to praise the Most High. For years I have taught that the Elohim are divine beings, the mighty ones, sons of YAHWEH (Psalm 82:6; Job 38:7), and here are those ancient priests calling the angels elohim. So when you hear it, don't be confused. Consider what the first song says YAHWEH has done among them. He has established holiness among the holy ones so that they might become priests of the inner sanctuary in His royal temple. 308 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The same thing that is happening to us is happening to the angels. Not all of them are qualified for the inner sanctum, the ten-by-ten room. Even the angels are qualifying to come into the royal sanctuary, and the rest stand outside. It is an exact replica. Those who are admitted are called "ministers of the Presence." And what has He done for those who come into the inner sanctum? He has engraved His precepts upon them. He has written His law in their minds, just as He promised: "I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts" (Hebrews 8:10). The song speaks of those "who draw near to knowledge." Those are the ones YAHWEH honors, and a great many who read this are drawing near to knowledge. And the priests of the inner sanctuary grow strong precept by precept. Here a little, there a little, precept upon precept (Isaiah 28:10), even among the angelic priesthood, until they are counted among the seven priesthoods of the holiest place. Even the angels have to come up from six to seven. There is such a thing as the holiest of the angels, those who minister in the Most Holy Place. And the song speaks of princes who take their stand in the temples of the King: some in His presence, some over realms and nations (Daniel 10:13, 20), and some over their appointed inheritance. These holy ones tolerate none who pervert the way. They put up with no false doctrine, and there is nothing unclean in their holy ranks. Even the angels are sanctified by His law. Now here it is. Why have these angelic priests been made pure? So that they may make atonement for all who repent of transgression, and obtain for them YAHWEH's good pleasure. The angels in the heavenly temple are interceding for sinners in this world, just as we are. He has given "tongues of knowledge" to the priests who draw near, and from their mouths come the teachings that govern all the holy ones. Out of their mouths comes what it will take to govern all the other angels. And I know another people out of whose mouths will come what it takes to govern all the other men. The priesthood is not spreading fear. We are spreading His eternal goodness, His lovingkindness for the whole world. At the end of that first song, the King is praised as the One who dwells in the seven holy temples. Seven temples. And it speaks of the council of the godlike beings, the heavenly council of Psalm 89:7. That is just the first song. There are twelve more. Thy Will Be Done in Earth Here is what those songs show. The Tabernacle of Moses was a copy. The pattern is in heaven. There is a real sanctuary there right now, with a High Priest, YAHSHUA, and a priesthood in twenty-four courses, keeping holy time, clothed in white linen, interceding for those who turn from transgression. 309 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And YAHWEH is building on earth a people that keeps time with heaven: a Sabbath people, a feast- keeping people, an ordered people, a priesthood that ascends together on the Sabbath to join the worship around the throne, and offers the song with the sacrifice. Keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of Thy people. Keep the temple in your imagination. So keep the Sabbath as heaven keeps it: in order, in its appointed time, and together. Come to the convocation ready to ascend, not to watch. Offer the song with the sacrifice. Carry the intercession of the heavenly priesthood into your own prayer for all men. When you do, you are no longer a lone Sabbath keeper. You are a priest standing in your course, in step with the throne. "Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." — Matthew 6:10 When you keep the Sabbath, you are not just keeping a day. You are keeping heaven on earth. 310 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Wool and Linen: The Garments of the Priesthood "To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord." It is one of the most quoted verses in the Bible. Paul was not describing a soul flying off to heaven. He was describing a priest changing garments. The priests of Ezekiel's temple put off wool and put on linen before they entered the inner court, because no wool, nothing that causes sweat, could come before YAHWEH. This chapter shows that the woolen garment is the body you wear now, the linen garment is the body you will receive at the resurrection, and the priesthood is being prepared today to make that change. Absent from the Body Paul gives the key in 2 Corinthians 5: "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." — 2 Corinthians 5:6–8 This may be the most misunderstood verse in the Bible. What did you always think it meant? When I die, I go to heaven to be with the Lord. That is the verse the churches always use. Would it shock you to find that this verse has nothing to do with life after death, and everything to do with the Tabernacle of Moses? The high priest wore eight garments: the turban, the crown, the ephod, the breastplate, the girdle, the robe, the coat and the breeches. And this verse is all about the priestly garments. Paul is not speaking about going to heaven when you die. He is speaking about changing garments: moving from an earthly priesthood to a heavenly one. Wool and Linen Consider an example. When YAHSHUA walked the earth, had He yet received all authority in heaven? No. All power in heaven and earth was given to Him after the resurrection (Matthew 28:18). Why? Because of the garment He was wearing. It all goes back to the Tabernacle. He did not receive that heavenly authority until He changed clothes. When He changed garments, from wool to linen, then all authority in heaven and earth was given to Him. The wool robe is flesh and blood. The linen robe is the priestly garment that allows Him to enter the Most Holy Place. 311 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Old Testament is not nothing but shadows; it's a book of patterns, and if you forget the pattern, you'll never make the right garment. The Torah gives whole chapters to the garments of the priesthood (Exodus 28 and 39), and the consecration of the priests in them (Leviticus 8). Read them, and when you finish, say to yourself, I'm so glad YAHWEH doesn't care about clothing! Chapter after chapter of YAHWEH commanding specific fabrics. Most readers skim right over them: Are we really going to worry about this? Why would YAHWEH, who placed every star in the heavens, take the same care with a priest's garments? Because it was never about the garments. The priests couldn't wear wool and linen together: "Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together." — Deuteronomy 22:11 You can't wear them together. You have to take one off, and that is what YAHSHUA did at the resurrection. When YAHWEH lays out every detail of those garments, it isn't because He cares so much about the cloth itself. The garment represents a garment waiting for you in the heavens: the new body, the linen body, that you must take up in the resurrection. And every one of us is walking around right now in a woolen garment. Changing Garments to Enter When the priests went from the outer court into the house, they had to change garments. On the Day of Atonement, the high priest had to put on linen to minister in the Most Holy Place: "He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on." — Leviticus 16:4 Ezekiel 44 shows the same law in the temple of the sons of Zadok: "And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat." — Ezekiel 44:17–18 If you are coming into the Tabernacle proper, you must remove the wool garment to minister as a heavenly priest. They shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. Wool causes sweat. And sweat is the curse: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Genesis 3:19). No sweat in the inner court. "And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they 312 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments." — Ezekiel 44:19 Remember those words: the holy chambers. Why do they lay the linen garments there? Because in the inner court they are ministering before YAHWEH, not to the people. And in that temple they must have a new body: one that doesn't sweat, one laid up for them, a house not made with hands. A linen garment is waiting for every one of you who overcomes, in the holy chambers, and that is what Paul was so desperate to put on. They shall not sanctify the people with their garments. They cannot pass that holiness to the people by their clothing, because the people they minister to in the outer court are the thirtyfold. There is a group who will be given the linen garments of the inner court, and it isn't simply the saved. It is the overcomers: the priesthood of the sons of Zadok, the earthly shadow of the eternal order of Melchizedek that is returning. The Order of Melchizedek We are a Melchizedek priesthood in training right now. But the installation, the full ministry of that priesthood with His sons, comes in the Millennial reign. There is a reason YAHSHUA is "a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec" (Hebrews 7:17). He was not a Levite. He wasn't from the priestly tribe, so He was placed into another, better order. Break down the name: Malki-tsedeq, my king is righteousness. Melech is king. And tsedeq, righteousness, is the same root as Zadok. King and priest. So the order that is coming is not about a single name. It is about the office of priest and king together. How Shall We Be Counted Among Them? As Chapter 23 showed, the priests who kept the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice sang thirteen songs over the first thirteen Sabbaths of the year, one song for each Sabbath, and that is how they kept time with heaven. Chapter 23 gave the first song. The second song answers to this chapter's garments. The second song is about the elite angelic priests, the hundredfold of heaven. And in it, the priests on earth humble their own worship beside that of the angels. They were astonished that YAHWEH had called men, in their low estate, to worship on the Sabbath alongside the angels in the heavenly temple. The song praises YAHWEH's glory among the wise divine beings and extols His kingdom among the holy ones. It says these elite angels are honored in all the camps of the godlike beings. There are three camps: the outer, the inner and the Most Holy. These angels are honored in every one of them, and revered even by those angels who direct the affairs of men. Hierarchy is in heaven. These angels declare His royal splendor as they truly know it, and exalt His glory in all the heavens of His rule. And then the earthly priests cry out: 313 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE How shall we be counted among them? How shall our holiness compare with their utter holiness? What is the offering of our mortal tongue beside their divine knowledge? That was the song. They were singing, Angels of the heavenly temple, why are we allowed to join you in these Sabbath sacrifices and lift our songs with yours? How is this possible? The Godlike Beings The earthly priests called the angels godlike beings. Christianity has kept many from receiving it, but when we hear godlike beings, that is the Elohim. Why would He say, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," unless there were other gods to have before Him? That is what I call foundational understanding. I hate to use this comparison, because I don't believe in the Masons at all, but in a lodge a man goes through degrees of learning before he is advanced. In the Word, everybody doesn't come in at the same level. Your understanding of Scripture is an initiation, beginning with the basics. And one of the most basic things every believer must master is the Logos and the Elohim. If you cannot explain the Logos and the Elohim to your friends and family, you will not stand in this message. So when you hear the Songs of the Sabbath speak of godlike beings, your Christian mind will start saying, Get behind me, devil; there are no other godlike beings. But there are. That is why YAHWEH sits among them: "God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods." — Psalm 82:1 Brothers and sisters, the truth you've been given is more precious than silver and gold. It is opening eternity to you. It is opening the destiny you were born for. And that is why the enemy will try to drag you away from it with every distraction he can. Don't fall for it. "Buy the truth, and sell it not" (Proverbs 23:23). Two Songs and One Answer That is why I believe YAHWEH has given us back the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: to explain the connection between the heavenly and the earthly. In this second song, those priests asked, What is our holiness compared to theirs? How are we invited to offer a Sabbath sacrifice on earth while they offer one in heaven, when we are not as holy as they? The answer is that the priesthood on earth is now in the inner sanctum, being transformed to the same standard of holiness the angels walk in. One day you will wear the same garments the angelic priesthood is wearing today. Whoever grasps this will quit the idle talk and the foolishness. This message is bigger than any of us; you have to grow into it. This message demands more than curiosity; it demands awe. 314 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Groaning to Be Clothed I used to look at those priestly garments and wonder why YAHWEH was so fixed on every detail. But go back to where we started. Paul said we are now absent from YAHWEH, absent from the heavenly temple. Why? Because we're wearing wool. But he said a time will come when we'll be allowed back into His presence. For we walk by faith, not by sight. Right now we're absent from that heavenly temple. In the garden we walked in His presence, and we're absent from it now. So we don't walk by sight; we walk by faith. But the day is coming when these eyes, which now see "through a glass, darkly," will see Him "face to face" (1 Corinthians 13:12). If you don't believe this is about priestly clothing, go back to verse one: "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven: if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life." — 2 Corinthians 5:1–4 Our earthly house of this tabernacle. We have another house, another garment: not this old woolen body, but an eternal linen garment, set aside in the holy chambers. Paul is talking about going back to the temple. Earnestly desiring to be clothed. We want that linen priestly garment so we can go back into the service of the temple. If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked. The whole passage is about clothing. We that are in this tabernacle do groan... not that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon. We cannot enter the inner sanctum without the new body. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God" (1 Corinthians 15:50). No woolen body will ever be allowed in. That mortality might be swallowed up of life. When do we get the new clothes? At the resurrection. "For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality" (1 Corinthians 15:53). That is why YAHSHUA had not yet received all heavenly authority: even He did not go in to the Father in the garment of flesh. After He rose, He said to Mary, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father" (John 20:17). Even He had to be clothed upon in the linen of the high priesthood. Now read verses six and eight again. Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent: while we're in this old woolen garment, we're absent from YAHWEH. Willing rather to be absent from the body: willing to be rid of this wool so we can wear linen. That is what that verse means. All you had to do was read the verses above it. It doesn't mean that the minute we die we go to heaven. It means that when this old woolen garment is finally put off, we put on the linen and go into the temple of YAHWEH. The linen garment is the new body, and we do not receive it before the resurrection. 315 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The "many mansions" of John 14:2 are many dwelling places in that house not made with hands, and what the disciples saw on the Mount of Transfiguration was a vision of the kingdom of YAHWEH as it will appear in the resurrection. Born at the Resurrection So when will you and I receive our linen garments? The feast gives the answer. "In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink." — John 7:37 What happens to you at the resurrection? You will finally be born. No one reading this is born again yet. You are begotten now, by the Word and the Spirit; you will be born at the resurrection. That is what makes the "I'm already born again" doctrine so dangerous: if you were already born of the Spirit, you'd already have the linen body. But no one has that linen garment yet. "That which is born of the Spirit is spirit" (John 3:6). Even YAHSHUA, holy as He was, was not received into His Father's presence in the woolen garment. When He rose, He did not go straight to His Father. The Torah explains why the Feast of Tabernacles is eight days instead of seven. Technically, Tabernacles is seven days, but an eighth day is added (Leviticus 23:36). Why? "Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me. Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me." — Exodus 22:29–30 The first of the ripe fruits. The firstborn. Who is that? The first harvest. And when will the firstborn be born? On the first day of Tabernacles, the Millennium. Seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it Me. Now you will know why you will not see YAHWEH face to face during the Millennial reign. You will see YAHSHUA. You will be like Him after His resurrection: newly born, and still in your days of consecration. You will serve through the Feast of Tabernacles, the thousand years represented by seven days. And then, on the eighth day, the Last Great Day, you will see Him face to face and be brought back into the presence of the Father. That is why you must go through the Feast of Tabernacles, the Millennial reign, to be admitted into the Father's presence, when the Father Himself comes down to dwell with men (Revelation 21:3), "that God may be all in all" (1 Corinthians 15:28). The Seven Days and the Eighth It is the same law that applies to the priesthood: "And ye shall not go out of the door of the tabernacle of the congregation in seven days, until the days of your consecration be at an end: for seven days shall he consecrate you." — Leviticus 8:33 316 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE This is spoken to the priests. The Feast of Tabernacles is the time of priestly consecration before we are admitted to serve YAHWEH face to face. "They shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years" (Revelation 20:6). And when will the priests be called out to come into the Most Holy Place in their linen garments? "And it came to pass on the eighth day, that Moses called Aaron and his sons, and the elders of Israel." — Leviticus 9:1 "Also a bullock and a ram for peace offerings, to sacrifice before the LORD; and a meat offering mingled with oil: for to day the LORD will appear unto you." — Leviticus 9:4 For to day YAHWEH will appear unto you. When? On the eighth day. Your Bible is perfect from cover to cover. The priests had to wait seven days. They could not come out until the eighth, the Last Great Day of the feast. That is why "whosoever will, let him come." And those priests who come up on the eighth day will be able to minister in the inner court and the outer court, going in and coming out. The only requirement is the change of garments. Glory upon Glory Evidently there will be something more glorious still. Remember the second Sabbath song: the elite angels. Paul said there is "one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars" (1 Corinthians 15:41). There are different levels of glory. Upon the hundredfold priesthood there will be an additional glory on their garments when they go in to minister. Some who read this will one day minister to YAHWEH in His presence. Consider the going in and the coming out. When Moses came down from the mount, from the presence of YAHWEH, his face shone so brightly that he had to put a veil over it so the people could bear to look on him (Exodus 34:29–35). He had been clothed in light. There is a day coming when you will travel at the speed of thought and appear at the speed of light. I can't explain the glory of that new body, but evidently when you step into the presence of the Father of lights, you take on light, an added glory on your linen garment, and the people on earth won't be able to bear it. When YAHSHUA appeared to His disciples after His resurrection, the doors were shut (John 20:19), and He stood in the midst of them, "But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit" (Luke 24:37). Something about Him made them think He was a spirit. There is a going in and a coming out, and a glory that must be veiled to dwell among men. Ministers to the House, Not to Me Earlier in the same chapter, Ezekiel describes the other priests, the ones who do not receive that glorified linen garment at His coming. "And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. Yet they shall be ministers in 317 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them." — Ezekiel 44:10–11 Here are your thirtyfold. These are Levites. They are saved believers, but they have gone away from the commandments. They keep Christmas and all the rest. And mark this: not even the sixtyfold receive that garment at His coming. Only the priest who presses through the veil is in the first resurrection. Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary. Yet. They'll be ministers, but not unto Me. I called them, but I didn't choose them. As Chapter 22 showed, "many are called, but few are chosen" is not about who is chosen for salvation, but who is chosen to come into the Most Holy Place, to wear that glorified linen garment the priesthood requires. Having charge at the gates of the house. Who is this? Saved believers who never walked in obedience to YAHWEH's commandments. They drifted from the truth. They'll serve at the gates. And where are the gates? The thirtyfold, the outer court, the outer darkness. And ministering to the house. Not to YAHWEH, to the house. There is your Mary and your Martha (Luke 10:38–42). Martha ministered to the house. Mary sat at His feet. He loved them both, but one drew near. Martha was a great servant, but she was "cumbered about much serving," while Mary chose "that good part, which shall not be taken away from her." Mary drew near to the truth. They shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people. In other words, they'll preach a good message about the sacrifice. I'll use them to tell people about their Jesus. But the problem is they love the sacrifice and don't love the truth. They don't realize YAHSHUA was more than a sacrifice. He was the way, the truth and the life. Let them do their good work; that is fine. But because they don't walk the narrow way, they will never be chosen to serve Him in the heavenly temple. I'll let them serve the world, but not in My temple. Idols on the Platform "Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity. And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy place." — Ezekiel 44:12–13 Because they ministered unto them before their idols. Here is the difference between them and the chosen. They'll stand right among the pagan idols and still preach Jesus: right in front of the Christmas tree, with trees all over the platform, telling the world about Jesus. And YAHWEH says, Because they joined themselves to them, they will never be chosen. To such He will say, "I never knew you" (Matthew 7:23). Why didn't He know them? Because Martha was so busy trying to get people saved that she had no time for truth. If we could just go out and get some folks saved! Go ahead, go while you're doing that. 318 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE I'll be at His feet. At the feet is where I'm going to be, because YAHSHUA is going to get them all. If He sends somebody into my path, I'll tell them about YAHSHUA all day long. But I'm going to be at His feet getting this right, walking in holiness and truth, because I don't want to be only called. I want to be chosen. They shall not come near unto Me. They will not be among the hundred and forty-four thousand. They will not receive the glorified linen garment. I am against them, yet that doesn't mean He won't let them work for the good of people or pass out their tracts. But He will not have them near Him in the heavenly temple. Nor to come near to any of My holy things. They don't want to come near holy things. They want to come near Christmas trees. They have no love for what is truly holy. What else is holy? Every one of YAHWEH's people. How you handle His people is how you handle Him. But there are people who have no love for holy things. They don't love the temple. They love a good time, and once in a while they try to get somebody to say they believe in Jesus. Nor to come near to any of My holy things, in the most holy place: the hundredfold. Ezekiel just told you the parable of the ten virgins (Matthew 25:1–13). The wise virgins went in. And the foolish virgins aren't sinners. They are not going to perdition. They are virgins, but foolish. Why? Because they go among the idols of the world and preach Jesus with idols. If you are in a church with a Christmas tree on the platform and you sit in it, you have sat down with idols. And if you are attending a ministry that teaches a Trinity, you have bowed down to the three gods Christianity set before you. If you don't run out of there, you'll share in her sins and her plagues (Revelation 18:4). Preach one Elohim, and His name is YAHWEH: "I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself." — Isaiah 44:24 He sent His Son, and His Son pointed you to Him. Get it right. Ezekiel told you the same thing YAHSHUA told those who said, "Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name?" (Matthew 7:22). Oh yes, you did all that. Go out and serve the people. But don't come near Me. You didn't love Me enough to come near the truth in this life. Don't expect to come near My holy things in eternity. Buy this truth and sell it not to anybody. Whether in Wool or in Linen So the next time somebody tells you the Bible says, To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, tell them: The Bible says to put off this wool is to put on that linen. "Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him." — 2 Corinthians 5:9 Whether present or absent. Whether in the woolen garment or in the linen, whether in the heavenly temple or this earthly one, we are going to strive to please Him. We're walking by faith and not by sight. We'll keep His commandments to the best of our ability. Why? Because we want to please 319 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Him. Not merely to be saved; we want to please Him. If you don't stop striving only to be saved, you'll never be chosen. When the priests laid their garments down in the holy chambers, that was dying to the flesh. We can't put on the linen yet, but we can take off the wool: the sweat, the stink, "the sin which doth so easily beset us" (Hebrews 12:1). You cannot walk in truth and walk in Babylon at the same time. It is time to decide that you believe this message and that you are going to be chosen. It is time to stop sitting in Bible classes becoming a smart Israelite, and become a Nazarite, wholly given to the things of YAHWEH. "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." — 2 Corinthians 5:10 And that is where the linen garment is given. The Tallit: A Ring Between You and YAHWEH Of the priestly coverings, one speaks to every Israelite now: the tallit, the covering with its fringes. (The breastplate follows in Chapter 26.) The tallit is not to be worn just out of religion. Know what it is, so that when you wear it you connect to the heavenly temple, not through the material but through the message. "Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself." — Deuteronomy 22:12 Consider the words. •Vesture is kesuth (Strong's 3682): a covering, something that conceals, wherewith thou coverest thyself. •Quarters is kanaph: the wings, the corners, the skirts of the covering. •Fringes here is gedilim: twisted threads, tassels. So YAHWEH said: make twisted threads into tassels on the four corners of the covering garment you wrap yourself in. That is why I believe this scripture refers to the fringes on the covering itself, the tallit, rather than to fringes hung separately from a belt loop. "And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: that ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God. I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: I am the LORD your God." — Numbers 15:37–41 320 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Who gave the command? YAHWEH. Moses wrote it down, but if Moses gave it, YAHWEH gave it. That ye may look upon it, and remember: in a physical world you need a reminder of a spiritual covenant. The tallit is my ring between me and YAHWEH. It says, I am Yours, and You are mine. Healing in His Wings Did YAHSHUA wear the fringes? We know He obeyed every word of His Father, and this was a commandment for all Israel's generations. "And, behold, there cometh one of the rulers of the synagogue, Jairus by name; and when he saw him, he fell at his feet, and besought him greatly, saying, My little daughter lieth at the point of death: I pray thee, come and lay thy hands on her, that she may be healed; and she shall live. And Jesus went with him; and much people followed him, and thronged him. And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years, and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, when she had heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, If I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole." — Mark 5:22–28 Matthew tells us exactly what she touched: "And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment." — Matthew 9:20 The hem. The Greek word is kraspedon, the same word the Greek Old Testament uses for the fringes commanded in Numbers 15:38. She reached for His fringes. Why did she believe there was healing there? "But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings." — Malachi 4:2 Wings is kanaph: the same word as the four corners where the fringes hang. If I could just touch the wings. How did she know to reach for His fringes? Because Malachi prophesied that when the Sun of righteousness came, there would be healing in His wings. And why would there be healing in His fringes? Because He obeyed His Father and wore them, and healing flows in obedience. Then word came from Jairus's house: Thy daughter is dead. YAHSHUA said, "Be not afraid, only believe" (Mark 5:36). He let no one follow Him but Peter, James and John. At the house, everyone was weeping and wailing, and He said, The damsel is not dead, but sleepeth, and they laughed Him to scorn. So He put the scoffers out, took the father and mother and those three, and went in where the child lay. "And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise." — Mark 5:41 321 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Talitha. In His own Aramaic tongue, it is a tender word: "little one," "little lamb." Little lamb, arise. The woman touched the wings of His covering and was made whole. The little lamb heard His voice and arose. Paul was never describing a soul escaping to heaven. He was describing a priest changing clothes. You wear wool now: flesh that sweats and carries the curse. The linen is waiting in the holy chambers for those who overcome. You cannot put on the linen yet, but you can begin taking off the wool: the idols, the walk that tries to keep truth and Babylon at the same time. Wrap yourself in the reminder He gave you, and keep His commandments. And one day, at the voice of the Son, you will put off this old woolen garment and rise to be clothed in linen (John 5:28–29). Little lamb, arise. And the priests of YAHWEH will put on the garments that wait for them in the holy chambers. 322 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Jacob's Ladder: Aim Your Mind "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God." — Colossians 3:1–3 Set your affection on things above. The Greek word is phroneite: set your mind. Aim your mind. Aim your mind on things above, not on things of this earth. YAHWEH will not do that for you. It is up to you to aim your mind off the things of this earth. Jacob saw a ladder joining earth to heaven, with YAHWEH standing at the top, and that ladder is the pattern of every life He refines: from knowledge to understanding to wisdom, from thirtyfold to sixtyfold to hundredfold. It is also the pattern of His church. This chapter shows the three stages of the refinement of YAHWEH's people, under the judges, under Saul and under David, and how you climb. Who are YAHWEH's people? Israel. YAHWEH has no other people on earth. YAHSHUA came "to seek and to save that which was lost" (Luke 19:10), and the lost tribes of Israel are YAHWEH's focus at this moment in time. Electricity and the Key Every reader of this book will have to deal with a question: Where do the rest fit, the ones who don't see things this way? It doesn't put them in hell. I'm so glad that when Benjamin Franklin flew his kite with the key on it and showed the world what lightning was, he didn't feel bad for everybody who had never known about electricity. Imagine if he'd said, We won't tell anybody, because I'm the only one who knows. He wasn't condemning anyone who had never had electricity. He was saying, I have something to offer to anyone who wants it. We don't condemn anybody. But we won't let you condemn us for discovering electricity, either. There was always electricity. Franklin just put a key to it. And here is the key to the Word: thirty, sixty and a hundred. The Key to the Whole Bible I believe the key to the whole Bible is being revealed at the end of time, and it is these three numbers: thirty, sixty and a hundred. Without them you're lost when you read your Bible. It is a key YAHWEH has given us to understand all of Scripture, especially the Tabernacle of Moses. 323 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Here we will see the church, the called-out of Israel, in three stages of refinement: under the judges, under King Saul and under King David. Follow your thirty, sixty and hundred: ThirtyfoldSixtyfoldHundredfold The judgesSaulDavid KnowledgeUnderstandingWisdom PassoverPentecostTabernacles ServantProphetKing and priest Outer courtHoly PlaceMost Holy Place All of the Bible is thirty, sixty and a hundred, and it fits the Tabernacle of Moses. Homo Sapiens or Holy Saints? Aim your mind on heavenly things. It's easy to say. But how do you do it? What changes our minds from the earthly to the heavenly? First: without a heavenly mind, you are nothing more than a mammal. A Homo sapiens: a taker, a getter, living for yourself. Without a heavenly mind, there's nothing to change you. Without a heavenly mind there is no purpose, and whatever feels good will bind you. After all, the church told them, Do what you like; we're all going to the same heaven to get the same mansion and the same golden everything. As long as everything is about you, it can never be about Him, and your mind stays on earthly things. The rest of this chapter teaches how to aim your mind on things above. The Sabbath Is a Bridle All week long, you were focused on you. And when the sun went down on Friday, you aimed your mind. "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." — Exodus 20:8 Why? It's a test. A Christian who won't keep the Sabbath holy has failed the test of setting his mind on things above. We are here to put a bridle on our minds, to take this old unbroken horse and train it. The Sabbath is our bridle. It retrains the mind on things above. The tenth given to heavenly things is another bridle. This is how you retrain your brain so that, when they lay you in the grave, you'll have invested your life in something bigger than you. Connect yourself with the heavenly work. There is work being done in the heavenly temple right now. If you want to connect with it, you have to aim your mind. That's why we're baptized: we take a moment in our lives and connect with heavenly things. That's why we go to Passover: the Bible commanded you to be there. It's optional 324 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE for animals, but not for the King's horses. We've got a bridle: the commandments of our Elohim. And they transform us into heavenly beings. Quit saying, I am seated with the Messiah in heavenly places (Ephesians 2:6), if you're still bound by earthly things. YAHWEH gives us things to retrain our minds, and gathering with His people is one of them. Whenever you give to the work of YAHWEH, whether it's your talent or your time, you're aiming your mind. You set aside your agenda to aim your mind toward heavenly things. Until your identity goes from Homo sapiens to holy saint, until your thinking is transformed from human to Elohim, YAHWEH gives us these things to do. YAHWEH has given you the Sabbath day. It is your wedding ring, your covenant, your seal that you belong to YAHWEH (Exodus 31:13). You have stepped into more than a gathering of people. You will never be complete without your heavenly identity. That's why something is always missing, until you come to this message. Strength in the Valley When you find a heavenly mind, you will still feel the pain. Of course it's going to hurt; it will hurt until you die. But there is a heavenly strength that comes in your earthly trials. There are people who don't live as the world lives. Their minds are trained in the heavenly. You don't get to choose whether it hurts. You get to choose how you respond to the hurt. You can take it and lay it at the feet of YAHWEH and tell Him, I don't understand You, and I'm not going to pretend I do. I can't trace Your fingers. But I'm going to give it to You and trust that when this life is over, I'll understand it better by and by. And right then, you'll start up out of that valley. YAHSHUA Himself wept at the grave of His friend (John 11:35). Feeling is not the enemy. Being ruled by it is. The heavenly mind takes dominion over the emotions instead of being dragged by them. Here is another emotion: fear over money. Ask yourself one question: have I given YAHWEH my firstfruits? If I have, I have a right to come boldly before the throne (Hebrews 4:16). Stop excusing yourself as just a woman or just a man. You are Elohim in the making. YAHWEH is raising up a new order of people. Sea, Earth and Heaven Every man lives in one of three places. You'll find them in the Book of Revelation: the sea, the earth and the heavens. The sea is where many people live: sin, degradation, wickedness. "The wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest" (Isaiah 57:20). "The wicked flee when no man pursueth" (Proverbs 28:1). There's no peace in them. 325 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE But many live in the next place: the earth. It's halfway between wicked and holy. People on the earth aren't wicked; they're good people. They're just not godly people. They're not out in the wicked world, but they have no desire for heavenly things. They go to church because that's what you're supposed to do on the earth. Not evil, not bad, just no desire for heavenly knowledge. After all, I love Jesus, and that's all that matters. Actually, that's not all that matters. "He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar" (1 John 2:4). And the fourth commandment says, Remember the seventh day, to keep it holy. And some people live in the heavens. They are aiming their minds above this earth, on the things that lift them out of the merely human realm. The emotional realm is the earthly realm. Many need to get hold of their emotions. When you become heavenly minded, you can take dominion over your emotions. The Ladder Jacob had a dream of that ladder (Genesis 28). Up here is the heavenly temple, and they're holding service right now on the Sabbath around the throne of YAHWEH. How do we get from the earthly into the heavenly? "And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it." — Genesis 28:12–13 Who stood at the top of the ladder? YAHWEH. Jacob had laid his head on a stone, and when he woke, he took oil and anointed that stone and called the place Beth-el: beth, house; El, the Mighty One. The house of Elohim (Genesis 28:18–19). And if you anoint a stone and call it the house of Elohim, you don't leave it lying in a field. There is an old tradition, long cherished by those who trace the lost tribes, that this very stone was carried with Israel and is the Stone of Destiny, the Stone of Scone, on which the kings of Scotland and then of Britain were crowned. Whatever you make of that tradition, here is the point: the anointed stone was meant to be looked upon, to aim the mind back to the ladder. Not to be worshiped. We don't worship the menorah either. But when we see it, it re-aims our minds to the heavens. This ladder is also a picture of your walk with YAHWEH, and you must learn to keep it in your mind. Emblems That Re-aim the Mind All the emblems we have are for this: everything in them is there to re-aim your mind to what we believe. •We believe that without the cross of the Messiah, we are all in trouble. We cannot earn our salvation in any way, shape or form. It is a free gift of grace, and it all starts there. •We believe His Spirit, the Holy Spirit, must come into our lives and give us power to overcome sin. 326 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •And here is where you'll lose them: we believe that the coming of the Holy Spirit reveals all truth, including YAHWEH's law: how YAHWEH wants you to live. Many people buy a vehicle and never open the owner's manual. They find out they should have when they're down the road and can't figure out how to turn the lights on. That's what so many Christians do. The law of YAHWEH is the owner's manual for the Spirit-filled life. The Holy Spirit leads you to the Torah, and it's there you're told: don't steal, don't kill, love your neighbor as yourself. It's there you learn to keep the Sabbath holy and pay your tithe. •And the purpose of it all: that we may overcome, and rule and reign with the Messiah here on the earth for a thousand years (Revelation 20:4–6). That's where you'll lose ninety-nine percent of them, because they're all going to heaven. But no scripture says anybody is going to heaven to live there forever. We don't preach works to get saved. We preach works because we're saved. What kind of fool walks up to a sheep and says, Don't produce that wool to get saved? That sheep produces wool because that's what sheep do. True believers produce the works that fit their calling (Ephesians 2:10). The laurel crown, the victor's crown the Romans gave a champion, is the overcomer's crown (1 Corinthians 9:25; Revelation 2:10). The menorah re-aims your mind. The Steps of Sonship (introduced in Chapter 3) re-aim your mind: look up and see whether you're still climbing those steps. The whole gospel we preach is right there: 1.The cross first. Salvation is a free gift. 2.Repentance and water baptism. That is how you return to the covenant (Acts 2:38; Mark 16:16). 3.A life of prayer. 4.Obedience to the Word of YAHWEH. That's a novel idea, you know. 5.And then headship: union with YAHWEH's perfect will for your life. Set a ladder in every home. Walk by it and see what step you're on, and let it convict you, and let that conviction drive you into maturity in the Messiah. There is going to be no excuse for many who read this. You know too much. Knowledge, Understanding, Wisdom Your first step on the ladder is the thirtyfold servant. The second is the sixtyfold prophet. The third is king and priest, the hundredfold. The first step is knowledge. That's when you first found out which day is the Sabbath, and you thought you'd go tell every Christian they were going to hell for going to church on Sunday. Knowledge without wisdom does more harm than good. We're not out to condemn anybody; that is wisdom, the hundredfold. 327 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE After you get knowledge, before long you'll get understanding of it. But you still won't have wisdom. Wisdom comes as you walk with YAHWEH. Wisdom is when you can fly above. Your goal is to get above the earth-line that binds you to your emotions. Studs, Sheetrock and Chandeliers This ladder is a picture of the perfected church at the end of time. YAHWEH is progressively perfecting His church. Nothing taught here is new. It's been in your Bible all your life. And that does not make everybody who came before wrong. If I had walked into a building while it was being framed, there would have been studs and no sheetrock. There's nothing wrong with those studs. They're part of the building, but it's not finished. A week later the sheetrock is up. Nothing wrong with the sheetrock; it just isn't finished yet. Then the ceiling goes in. Then I walk in and see the chandeliers, the finished work. Can I disregard what came before? No. You take it with you. The Baptists of the world helped put up the studs in the house of YAHWEH. They drove the nails of salvation by grace. We love the Baptist people. The Pentecostals came and hung some pretty sheetrock. We love the Pentecostals; without them we'd have nothing but bare studs. But now the building, the Seventh Temple, is almost finished. Don't you think YAHWEH is going to perfect what He started (Philippians 1:6), show you where you missed it and bring it all together at the end of time? This is a finishing ministry. YAHWEH is finishing the church. So how foolish to say, What about all the others? As with Franklin, there was always electricity; thirty, sixty and a hundred is the key. So be very careful not to lose sight of the whole message by letting earthly things bother you. Come up. You're an eagle. Quit acting like who you used to be. You're not that person anymore. Three Stages: Judges, Saul and David The Word of YAHWEH always repeats itself. YAHWEH is refining the church through the pattern of the judges of Israel, King Saul and King David. Each represents a stage of the church. •The first stage, the studs: those who came out of the Roman church centuries ago and began building. They are the judges. •Saul is the Pentecostal era, as Scripture bears out below. (This is not a denomination; it is an era.) •And this church is going to end with David: the restored Tabernacle of David (Acts 15:16). The judges and Saul were temporary solutions on the way to YAHWEH's finished product. The Judges When Israel left Egypt, they left sin. They believed on the Passover Lamb. That's why I say Passover is the thirtyfold. The feasts show the same progression: Passover, Pentecost, Tabernacles. If you 328 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE want to know how YAHWEH will refine His people in the last days, look at how He did it in former days. When they came out, YAHWEH gave them the promised land. At first they were a loose federation of tribes, for about three hundred years (Judges 11:26). There was no king. Like so many churches today: a bunch of people trying to figure out what they believe, tribes arguing among themselves. "In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). And they were influenced by the Canaanites and brought paganism into the house. So YAHWEH sold them into the hands of foreign nations. When they repented, He restored them, but every repentance was temporary. YAHWEH would raise up one man as judge, something like a president in a republic, to see that the law was carried out among the tribes: Deborah, Samson, Samuel. But the judges were never the government YAHWEH intended. He was always going to give them a king: David. David was in His mind before the world was created (Psalm 89:20; 1 Samuel 13:14). But to get to David, there had to be a refining process. The people had to see that their form of government wasn't working. Saul And the first king they demanded was Saul. Saul started out well. There was nothing wrong with Saul at first. He was an Israelite who loved YAHWEH, until he rejected the word, the revelation of truth. Until then he reigned well. But because he rejected the truth, he was disqualified from having a dynasty. He could not establish his kingship forever (1 Samuel 13:13–14; 15:23). How long did he rule? Forty years (Acts 13:21), the number of trial. Then David was anointed king, from the tribe of Judah. And here is a problem. The scepter was promised to Judah (Genesis 49:10). Saul was from Benjamin. So how did a man from the wrong tribe sit on the throne, when YAHWEH Himself anointed him? Why did YAHWEH give Saul the throne before David? Timing is everything. The answer is in Genesis 38. Judah went in to his daughter-in-law Tamar, who had disguised herself as a harlot, and she bore twins from that union. "A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the LORD." — Deuteronomy 23:2 Now count the generations from Judah: "Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, and Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David." — Ruth 4:18–22 Judah, Perez, Hezron, Ram, Amminadab, Nahshon, Salmon, Boaz, Obed, Jesse: ten. And then David. For ten generations, no one from that line could sit on the throne. So when the people demanded a king, no one from Judah was yet qualified. YAHWEH had to use an in-between: a stepping stone. 329 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The people asked for a king a generation too soon, so YAHWEH gave them one from the wrong tribe, so that he could not establish a dynasty. Saul and Pentecost Why do I call Saul the Pentecostal king? Because he was the transitional king between the early church and the final church. And David is the final church, the Tabernacles church: a church that keeps the feasts, keeps the Sabbath and keeps the commandments. Follow your words: Tabernacles, David, wisdom. Scripture proves it. "Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king. So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day." — 1 Samuel 12:17–18 Wheat harvest. What is the wheat harvest? Pentecost, the Feast of Weeks, "the firstfruits of wheat harvest" (Exodus 34:22). And thunder from heaven, as there was "a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind" when the Spirit came (Acts 2:2). Saul's kingdom was confirmed at wheat harvest: Pentecost. And he would reign until the Davidic church was ready for the throne. When Samuel told Saul he would be king, he gave him three signs to confirm the word, and all three point to Pentecost. Here is the plainest: "And the Spirit of the LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man." — 1 Samuel 10:6 The Spirit came upon him mightily, and he prophesied, just as at Pentecost they were filled with the Spirit, spoke with tongues and prophesied (Acts 2:4, 17). And David? David belongs to Tabernacles. If you want to know why things are uncomfortable right now, there's a change taking place. We are moving from the Pentecostal era into the Tabernacles era, from the old order into a deeper understanding of what YAHWEH will do in the earth. You and I have lived in the Saul era of the church all our lives. That's where the word Bapti-costal came from: people from the first era mingling with the second. And now people from the second era are becoming a little Penta-Tabernacles. We don't leave the earlier work behind. We don't touch it, any more than David would touch Saul, because it was YAHWEH's anointed (1 Samuel 24:6). But they were moving into a new age, and so are we. The seventh day, the Tabernacles day, the Davidic day is upon us. For some reason that eludes me, YAHWEH chose to reach down to where you live and say, I'm going to use you to help bring in that new day. We are the pioneers of a new day. And it never starts large. The day is coming when the whole world will be like you. 330 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Saul Kept the Throne but Lost the Mandate To be blunt: Saul loved YAHWEH. He loved the prophesying; that was one of the signs of his kingship. But when the prophet of YAHWEH brought him the word of truth, he rejected it. And on that day, when he rejected the truth, he did not lose his throne. He lost his mandate. His kingdom was still large. He was still king, still pastor of the first church in town, and it was full of people. But it was only a matter of time, because YAHWEH would no longer trust him with the Word. YAHWEH trusted the early Pentecostals with the Word, with one Elohim, baptism in His name and holiness, but when more truth came, they were the first to reject it. And here is what surprises us. When they reject the truth, we wait for YAHWEH to shut their churches down. But YAHWEH didn't shut Saul's kingdom down. Why? David wasn't ready yet. That's mercy and grace. David was being prepared. So YAHWEH left Saul with the big church in town, but something was happening underground that the world didn't see. We're building something hidden from the world, and it's what is going to rule the world. So YAHWEH left Saul on the throne, but not with a dynasty, not with an inheritance. He leaves the old-order churches in place. Why? Because at least they're preaching the Messiah crucified. That part is good. It's studs and sheetrock. Yes, it's mingled with lies, but the Messiah is preached (Philippians 1:18). So the Davidic church has been incubating, waiting for its moment. Saul was a stopgap. And so the old order has sat on the throne for centuries: Rome, and every branch that came out of her. When the church of that first era adopted the Trinity at Nicaea, when it changed the baptism, when it began preaching heaven instead of the kingdom and turned the gospel of the kingdom into another gospel, it lost its mandate (Galatians 1:6–8). But YAHWEH has let it keep the throne, as He let Saul keep his, until David is ready. And where was David during Saul's last years? Out in the field with a handful of sheep. YAHWEH gave him a little flock to see whether he'd be faithful over it. And what was he doing out there? Playing his harp. Meditating on the law: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Psalm 119:11). YAHWEH was preparing the final stage of the church. The whole world wonders, Why is Babylon still standing? Why is the old order still on the throne? We are standing at the threshold of the change YAHWEH always had in mind. He is going to have a perfected people. Like young David playing his harp, we're out in the field learning the law of YAHWEH, learning to walk in holiness and in submission to the things of YAHWEH. All we're waiting on now is time. The First Man and the Second Man "The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 331 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly." — 1 Corinthians 15:47–49 Put the ladder back up and follow it. The first man is of the earth, made of dust, right here at the bottom. The second man is from heaven. This is a picture of you. Your first man was born a son of man. In your Spirit-mind, you are a son of YAHWEH. There are two worlds you're battling between, and YAHWEH has given you a way out: the ladder is His Word. It is the only thing that will bring you out. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy. Anything in your life that looks like everybody else is your first man. Down here is the language of people. Up here is the language of the Word. As we have borne the image of the earthy: most of us have to confess we've looked like this, a muddy mess. But here is YAHWEH's promise: we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. You are not bound to your mess. There is an escape, and it is the Word of YAHWEH. Aim your mind. Feed on the Word every day, or you will live at the bottom of the ladder; you cannot get into that arena any other way. Thirty, sixty and a hundred is the ladder out of the earthly man. "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." — 1 Corinthians 15:50–53 That is the resurrection, and it is coming for the overcomers of the first resurrection: the dead shall be raised incorruptible. But there is a mystery inside the mystery. As Chapter 21 showed under "Tabernacle Glory Before Its Time," there is a people experiencing Tabernacles glory before Tabernacles. Paul said there are two men in your life, the earthly and the heavenly. As you have borne this, you shall bear that. And in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the trumpet, you can be changed. What is the trumpet? The message. "Lift up thy voice like a trumpet" (Isaiah 58:1). When you hear the last message, the finishing message, you are changed, not yet in body, but in mind. The first resurrection will give every overcomer a heavenly body, as Chapter 24 showed. But there is a people who receive a heavenly mind now, the ones climbing this ladder. The ladder is the message, the last trumpet of YAHWEH, and it will change you from being ruled by emotion to strength, from corrupt communication to holy communication. That's the message behind the message. For the world, it will be the resurrection. But for those already "risen with Christ" (Colossians 3:1), the change begins now. When this corruption puts on incorruption, when this gossip puts on whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are pure (Philippians 4:8). You don't have to wait for the resurrection for your corruption to put on incorruption. It happens when you hear the Word of YAHWEH. 332 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Many who read this can say they have been changed by this message. It will make you lay down everything of this earthly dominion and begin to climb the ladder. Many are waiting for the age of David and Tabernacles to come. But I know a people for whom Tabernacles has already come, and David is already on the throne in their hearts. I Am from Above "And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world." — John 8:23 Ye are from beneath. Everyone He was talking to was beneath. This is where Trinitarians get confused. I am from above. The Trinitarian hears, He came out of heaven! He did not say that. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above" (James 1:17). Why did He say I am from above? Because the words coming out of His mouth were not words from beneath. They were words from above. He said, The words I speak are not My own; they come from My Father (John 14:10). He wasn't telling you where His body came from. He was telling you where His mind came from. He aimed Himself above. And there are some reading this who are from above. They overcome this world by the Word of YAHWEH. If you're going to be like Him, you cannot be of this world either. You don't have that option anymore. You've heard the last trumpet. You've been changed. How can I tell I've been changed? When I can't stomach corruption anymore. When somebody opens his mouth and I hear corruption, I just can't do it. Running down a brother or sister is corruption; put it off and put on incorruption, from the Word, from above. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." — James 1:17 Does that mean everything we have literally fell out of the sky? No. Every good thing is from above. When somebody prays with you, that's good. When somebody stands in faith with you, that's good. That's why YAHSHUA said, I am from above: He was a good gift. So the question is this: when will you decide to be a good gift from above to this world? "He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all." — John 3:31 He that is of the earth is earthly. You can tell, because they'll always be earthly. They'll always love this earth. And speaketh of the earth. How do we know someone is earthly? Because he speaks earthly. That's why so many didn't understand who the Messiah was: though He was human, He didn't speak like a mere human. He spoke from above. "Never man spake like this man" (John 7:46). You can speak from above. When people want to fight and go at each other, I want to be far away from it. Why? I'm not of this earth. And when somebody says, I don't talk about religion, what is there left to talk about? 333 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Anything else, and you've wasted thirty minutes of breathing. Does anything else have eternal value? Move up a little higher, out of the dimension of the earth, where people run down those who aren't there. Quit reading this message for knowledge's sake. That is so yesterday. You know which day is the Sabbath. What is the Sabbath doing in your life to make you more like Him? If you are not of this world, no one can bring you into its fear. "If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" — John 3:12 The Mystery Was About Change "If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above... Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth." — Colossians 3:1–2 If ye then be risen. Resurrected. That's the mystery Paul was showing you: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. It is not only about death. It's about change before you die: Tabernacles glory. From a dead man to a heavenly man, from corruptible to incorruptible. Look in the Book of Revelation at the seven trumpets. The seven angels are messengers, and the trumpets are their messages. When you hear that last finishing message, you will be changed from a rebellious human: from the corruptible one who can't wait to find out the latest dirt on somebody. Feast on heavenly manna instead, and do not let that dirt affect your mind. My corruption must put on incorruption, and my mortality must put on what is not mortal: the mind of the Messiah, the things from above. How to Aim Your Mind Set your mind on things above. How? First, your prayer life. Wake up in the morning praying; you have to aim your mind. Husbands and wives, put the phone down and be with each other; that closeness re-aims your minds toward your relationship. That's the whole point. If you want that relationship with Him, you have to remove the distractions and find the things that re-aim your mind: •Prayer in the morning. •Reading His Word. •Prayer all day long, "without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17). •Listening to preaching at least once a day, even riding down the road or walking. •Praying with one another. Every one of these takes you up the ladder toward the hundredfold. 334 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Above and Beneath Almost every word in the Bible lines up as above or beneath. The words that go with above: heaven, life, goodness, righteousness, wisdom, glory, majesty and honor. As Chapter 20 showed, honor is a heavenly word: when you give honor to someone else, you're doing something that isn't merely human, moving into heavenly realms, "in honour preferring one another" (Romans 12:10). That's why we call one another brother and sister. It is a term of honor: I'm not my own; I'm one with you. Even an apostle was called brother (2 Peter 3:15). Animals have no respect. A deer in the field won't stop and say, Good morning, Mister Deer. They eat one another. And that's what we do as long as we live down here (Galatians 5:15). But when we move up, we give honor. And the words that go with beneath: earth, death, abomination, evil, harlot. Vertical Words and Horizontal Words How do you know you're going up the ladder? Here is a great mystery: you know you're climbing when the only communication you desire is vertical. If you like horizontal communication, you're still down at the bottom. What is horizontal communication? Earthly talk. I don't know how I'm going to make it. And you can get everyone around you to join in: I don't know how I'm going to make it either. You've got it bad. I'll pray for you, but I don't think it's going to work. Everybody loves that language. But when you're going up the ladder, all you want is vertical words: hallelujah, I'm blessed, words from above, words that come from the Spirit of YAHWEH. "And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels' food: he sent them meat to the full." — Psalm 78:24–25 He rained down. That's vertical. Why? Because you were coming up, so He rained down manna to meet you: the bread of heaven. Now you know why YAHSHUA spoke of Himself as the bread from heaven (John 6:32–33). The words He spoke were the bread from heaven. Man did eat angels' food. Why would men eat angels' food? Because they would no longer eat merely human words. The King's table. Gossip is not angels' food. That's human food, passed horizontally from one to another. But He fed them angels' food, and they weren't satisfied unless they were talking about the goodness of YAHWEH, about the work of YAHWEH in the last days. He sent them meat to the full. If you'll get hungry for the words of YAHWEH, He'll send you food to the full. Be careful: you'll go looking for people who will get down on your level and speak to your emotions. Maybe you're discouraged, and the truth is you want another discouraged person, so the two of you can talk about how discouraged you both are. But when YAHWEH sends angels' food, here's what you'll hear: "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). What do you 335 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE mean you're discouraged? Here's what He said in His Word. And suddenly you'll start climbing the ladder. The manna Israel received in the wilderness was angels' food, and YAHWEH is raising up another Israel that must learn to eat only angels' food. Take the word angel out and demystify it: the angels are part of the family of the Elohim. They were eating the only food that will feed and satisfy the Elohim. The family of the Elohim doesn't want any warmed-over gossip. We want heavenly food that will feed us to the full. He is trying to feed us with the food of the new man. And as you eat that heavenly manna, you'll climb to the above level and walk with the Almighty YAHWEH. Jacob's ladder still stands. YAHWEH is at the top of it, and every rung is a choice: the Sabbath over the ballgame, the Word over the gossip, honor over pride. The church as a whole has climbed from the judges to Saul, and the age of David is at the door. But no age will carry you up a rung you refuse to climb. Aim your mind. Pray in the morning, feed on the Word all day, and speak only vertical words. That is how a son of man becomes a son of YAHWEH. A Prayer at the Foot of the Ladder Almighty YAHWEH, You know every one who reads these words by name. Before they were ever born, You chose them, predestined them and called them to be part of this end-time work. Let the words of my mouth sink deep into their spirit. Help us raise up an army of men and women of YAHWEH, the minds of the Elohim, still dwelling in human bodies. Make them hungry only for the Word of this hour. Make them desire nothing less than angels' food. Stand at the top of the ladder, Almighty YAHWEH, and beckon us up to join the angels, that we may eat our food together in the fellowship of the mysteries of YAHWEH. Amen, and amen. 336 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX People of the Breastplate: The Priesthood and Its Work What is a temple for? I asked YAHWEH that question, and His answer reordered everything I had taught: The temple is no good without the priesthood. That is its only purpose. His will is done perfectly in heaven, but He gave the earth to the children of men, and on earth His will is done only through a priesthood that opens the door from this side. This chapter is about that priesthood: who is called to it, who is chosen, what it does, and the breastplate of authority it wears over its heart. Three Questions I Asked YAHWEH Many people think I have all the answers. I don't. I have as many questions as anyone. But I know where to go, and when I ask Him a specific question, He reveals the truth to me. What Is the Purpose of a Temple? I asked YAHWEH, What's the purpose of a temple, after all? And YAHWEH said, The temple is no good without the priesthood. That is its only purpose. You are teaching the people about the temple, and that's good, but they're not realizing the priesthood. Brothers and sisters, what good is the Seventh Temple without a priesthood? We can all go to church and hear that YAHSHUA is our High Priest. But what is a High Priest without a priesthood? What is an elder brother without many brethren (Romans 8:29)? I don't believe we have grasped the meaning of the priesthood. We are being trained for the priesthood. That's why YAHWEH is building the Seventh Temple: for the ministry of the priesthood. Why Isn't His Will Done on Earth as in Heaven? Then I asked, Why isn't Your will done on earth as it is in heaven? If You are omnipotent, in full control of everything, why do You need a priesthood at all? It is done on earth, He told me, but only through the priesthood. The earth was given over, and until it returns to Him, His will is not done on earth as in heaven apart from the temple and its priesthood. All the work the priests did in the temple was to bring the will of YAHWEH into the earth from the heavenly realm. That's why there was such a connection between the heavenly temple and the earthly one in the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (Chapters 23–24). So I asked, Father, why did You choose to do it this way, through a priesthood and a temple, rather than just speak it and it would be done? And He said to me: Because I gave the earth to men. 337 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD's: but the earth hath he given to the children of men." — Psalm 115:16 I gave it to Adam. I told Adam, Take dominion; it's yours (Genesis 1:28). From that day to this, He has let man govern his own affairs, and that is why the world is such a mess. YAHWEH owns the earth, but He's like a landlord who has leased out a house. You can't just walk into a house you've leased out anytime you want. The one you've leased it to has to open the door. For His will to be done on earth as in heaven, something on earth has to open the door. And that open door is the priesthood, praying daily and opening the way. Heaven isn't flowing into you. Heaven is flowing out of you. "Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water" (John 7:38). The Holy Spirit within you is YAHWEH's own Spirit, but the only way the decree is established in the earth is through the work of the priesthood. And YAHWEH said, It is the priesthood mindset that the ministry is missing: the importance of who we are, the importance of the spoken word from the mouth of a priest of YAHWEH. YAHWEH has chosen to work on this earth through men as His designated agents. That is the purpose of the priesthood: to bring His will to earth as it is in heaven. What Is His Will? So I said, Father, then tell me Your will. Why is the priesthood so important to it? And He said, Now you'll understand. My will is that all men might be saved. "Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth." — 1 Timothy 2:4 We're always begging YAHWEH, Tell me Your will. YAHWEH has one will for all of creation: that it be redeemed. As Chapter 9 showed, intercession is the priesthood's work: there must be not only an altar of sacrifice but an altar of incense, where the priesthood prays daily that the will of YAHWEH, that all men be saved, comes to pass on the earth. That is why it is so important to learn to forgive your enemies. The only priesthood allowed behind the veil is the one that speaks the same words our High Priest spoke as He went to the cross: "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." — Luke 23:34 Until you can go to the altar of incense and bring every creature on planet earth into the presence of YAHWEH, and declare that they will be saved and set free, you're not in the priesthood. YAHWEH is calling a priesthood to move beyond the church mentality into the mentality that says: Every day I have work to do, to bring the will of YAHWEH into the earth: that all men might be saved. Why the World Is Out of Order Why is His will done so perfectly in heaven? Because Satan was cast out of heaven. And where was he cast? To the earth. This is his domain for now, "the god of this world" (2 Corinthians 4:4). 338 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH made the first Adam to be, in effect, the high priest over his house, the protector of the realm, the man of YAHWEH who would establish YAHWEH's will in the earth and take Satan off the throne. Adam failed, and that is why Satan is still on the throne of this world. So when people ask me, Why does God allow all this bad stuff?, I want to ask, Which god are you talking about? The god of this world is the cause of so much of it, and until he is removed from the throne, you will see a world out of order. Look up at the planets and stars: nothing out of order. But when Satan fell, his tail "drew the third part of the stars of heaven" (Revelation 12:4). YAHWEH cast him down and would not let him return, and now he has been assigned to this world. And you wonder why the world has gone crazy, why everybody is so angry right now? Because Satan is angry. "Having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time" (Revelation 12:12). The rage of the world is Satan expressing himself through the human family. And there is one people who are no longer ruled by that rage: the priesthood. We are wearing linen. We are in the world but not of it (John 17:15–16). We've been delivered. Until you get that priestly mindset, you will never make it into the first resurrection. And the ultimate mindset of the priesthood is agape: a love that loves everyone, even your worst enemy, a love beyond human understanding. The priesthood sacrifices itself so that the will of YAHWEH may come into the earth. YAHSHUA, our High Priest, shows you what the priesthood looks like. No matter what they did to Him, He understood why He came: "I come to do thy will, O God" (Hebrews 10:9). Why YAHWEH Dressed His Priests And then YAHWEH said, If you want to understand the priesthood, look at their garments. The high priest wore eight garments: the mitre and the holy crown, the ephod, the breastplate, the girdle, the robe, the coat and the breeches. The ordinary priests wore four: coat, girdle, bonnet and breeches (Exodus 28:40–42). Why eight for the high priest? Because eight is the number of resurrection, and most of us will not receive these garments until the resurrection (see Chapter 24). When you begin to understand YAHWEH's concern with the clothing of the priest, you will begin to understand more fully who you are. YAHWEH spent an entire chapter, forty-three verses, on how the priests were to dress (Exodus 28). Think about that: the Elohim who runs the galaxies, all the dark places of the universe, and He's going to give forty-three verses to clothing? Why? Because when you elevate your clothing, you elevate your mindset. A uniform carries authority. It separates the one who wears it from everyone else in town. YAHWEH has always clothed His priesthood in distinct attire, because the attire aims your mind toward heavenly things. Those who say, God sees my heart, forget that your actions display your heart. YAHWEH took His priesthood and said, You will dress exactly as I teach you, because you are not who you think you are. You have been called to a greater purpose. When you read that chapter, you will see how meticulous they had to be. They were set apart: the priesthood of YAHWEH. 339 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Holiness unto YAHWEH Every part of the priestly garments has a meaning. The white linen coat. The ephod, which only the high priest wore. And on the hem of the high priest's robe, bells of gold and pomegranates: "And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not." — Exodus 28:35 Every item of that outfit required holiness. Every priest had to wear holiness unto YAHWEH. And what does holy mean? Set apart. If you are set apart unto YAHWEH, you are holy. And when you come to the crown on the high priest's head: "And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS TO THE LORD." — Exodus 28:36 Holiness is required, not of the crowd, but of the priesthood. From the Family to the Body Before YAHWEH installed the priesthood, the fathers were the priests of their homes (Job 1:5). But not anymore. There was a change from the family to the collective body. And that's a problem in so many churches today: we think it's all about our family. YAHWEH brought all the families into a collective work. He instituted a temple where all the fathers of the families had to present themselves three times a year (Deuteronomy 16:16). Why? You're part of a collective body, a work bigger than you. Those who stay home and never gather with the body forget that they are part of a temple. Now YAHWEH has raised up a ministry that serves as a priesthood over all the families of Israel, and the priest is the one who draws near to YAHWEH for everyone else in the nation and the world. A Kingdom of Priests "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation." — Exodus 19:5–6 These are the prerequisites for the priesthood, right there in the Torah. 1.If ye will obey My voice indeed. 2.And keep My covenant. It didn't say if you go to church. It didn't even say if you accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. It said, If you will obey Me and keep the covenant, then you shall be a peculiar treasure. A kingdom of priests. And right in the middle of it, He tells you why He needs a kingdom of priests, and most people miss it: for all the earth is Mine. It sounds out of place. We're talking about priesthood, and You throw in "all the earth is Mine"? Yes: because that is the will of YAHWEH. All the earth is Mine, and I want it back. But I need priests to make that happen, through the priesthood and its obedience. If I can just get the priesthood holy, I'm not worried about the rest. Why? Because 340 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH works by the tithe. "If the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy" (Romans 11:16). Get the first part holy, and He'll get it all holy. All the earth is Mine, and everything in it. But I lost it. And here is what's beautiful about the word lost: if you call it lost, you're still claiming it as yours. If YAHWEH calls you lost, it's because He still claims you as His. If it weren't His, it wouldn't be lost. All the earth is Mine. It's lost, but it's Mine. And to get it back I need a people who understand why they're praying. "Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss" (James 4:3). You don't know the purpose of your prayers. Your prayers are for all the earth. I need somebody to claim it, somebody who won't give up on it, somebody who can see that I am going to fix it all. A kingdom of priests. Not of believers, not of the saved: a kingdom of priests. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. Don't speak them to the world. I'm not going after them yet. They're Mine already; they're just not holy. But if you will be holy, I'm going to use your holiness to deal with their worldliness. It all depends on one people who will come out and walk in their calling. Children of Obedience "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance... Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever." — 1 Peter 1:14, 23 How did we get right back to that word? In the Torah it was If ye will obey My voice. And here is Peter: as obedient children. That's what identifies the priesthood: children of obedience. Men after the flesh are begotten of corruptible seed, but there is another generation, begotten of incorruptible seed, by the Word, who desire the sincere milk of the Word and then its strong meat, and grow up "unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13). "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." — 1 Peter 2:9 A peculiar people. One translation I love renders it a people for a purpose. And that's what's wrong with so much of Christianity: they have no purpose. And what is that purpose? That ye should shew forth the praises, the excellencies, of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Into, the Greek eis, is forward motion. YAHWEH is continually carrying His priesthood into their purpose, purifying them daily until they are one with it. So instead of calling yourself a peculiar people, call yourself a people with a purpose. Without a purpose, you can never be a priest of YAHWEH. We must become a people of purpose: a government of priests, a holy nation. 341 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Many Called, One Tribe Chosen As Chapter 22 showed, YAHWEH's calling narrows from Israel to Levi to the priests, and many are called but few are chosen. What this chapter adds is why the many fell away. All twelve tribes had come through the Passover blood and trusted the lamb. Now become priests. And they said, You know what? The lamb is good enough for me. They were so satisfied with being set free from Egypt that they had no desire to press into their purpose. They got so happy being saved that they refused to be sanctified. So only Levi was chosen (Numbers 3:12), to be the intercessors for all Israel, until even that tribe lost its purpose, and YAHWEH had to choose the sons of Zadok out of Levi (Ezekiel 44:15): the Zadok priesthood, the earthly shadow of the order of Melchizedek (see Chapter 24). As it was, so it shall be: the whole nation, then one tribe, then one house within the tribe. No one should assume that being called makes him chosen. You can be called into the tribe of Levi and still backslide. Levi as a whole backslid, except one house. The story never changes. There is always a remnant that holds out for YAHWEH. I want to be one of them. Do you know your purpose? If you don't know it, you'll never press into it. Press into it, and be willing to sacrifice everything to be chosen by the Almighty YAHWEH. The House of Levi The high priest could come only from the tribe of Levi, along a specific line: Israel, Levi, Kohath, Amram, Aaron. "And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years. The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families. And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years." — Exodus 6:16–18 There was order within the house of Levi, and Korah, below, shows the problem that order exposes. As Chapter 22 showed, every priest was a Levite, but not every Levite was a priest: if you have been called into the service of the work, you are a Levite, but the priesthood came through Aaron. Every Levite Has a Work The tribe of Levi was called out of all Israel to do the work. But many don't understand that from what they think is the highest place to what they think is the lowest, it is all the work. Whatever your talent, you are putting your hand to the work YAHWEH has raised up in this hour. If you were a son of Levi, you were invited to the temple to do the work. But when you got there, you might not like what you found: there was order and structure. Everyone descended from Aaron was a priest, unless he had a blemish, and could offer sacrifices and enter the Holy Place. The rest of the Levites served as workers in the temple (Numbers 3:5–10): 342 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE •The Kohathites carried the most holy things: the ark, the table, the menorah, the altars (Numbers 4:4–15). When the service is over, somebody has to trim the wicks and see to the lamps. Who does that? Levites, all called by YAHWEH into their purpose. •The Gershonites carried the curtains, the coverings and the hangings (Numbers 4:24–26). They were Levites. They were special. They'd been called out of everybody else, and they'd been called to carry curtains. But they were doing the work. It wasn't just Aaron doing the work. Aaron had his place in the work. •The Merarites carried the framework: the boards, the bars, the pillars, the sockets (Numbers 4:31–32). Heavy construction. Do you not understand? You are all My ministers. You are all working in the work. What good is the priesthood without the menorah lit? What if nobody changes the showbread? This teaching will separate the wheat from the tares. The ones who tend the oil are not in the same office as the Aaronic priest, but they are doing the same work. The pulpit is only a small part of the whole work of YAHWEH; find your place, and find joy in it, doing it as unto YAHWEH with all your heart (Colossians 3:23). The Korah Disease Numbers 16 shows what happens to a Levite who doesn't understand how important his place is. "Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took men: and they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown." — Numbers 16:1–2 Korah wasn't wicked. He was a Levite, a Kohathite, chosen and called to work for the temple. But there was one thing Korah wanted that he did not have: authority. He wanted the pulpit. He wanted to be in charge. Korah wanted priestly authority, and he wasn't a son of Aaron. Korah didn't come alone. He built a little army, and got the princes of the assembly to stand up against Moses. Korah always finds a crowd. "And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation of the LORD?" — Numbers 16:3 Ye take too much upon you. Who put you in charge? Why are you running everything? And this isn't sinners talking. This is Levites in YAHWEH's house. It never changes, and it will destroy the work unless YAHWEH shows up and removes it. All the congregation are holy, every one of them. This disease never leaves the body. What should Korah have been doing right then? He should have been out there taking down the Tabernacle, as YAHWEH called him to do, serving Moses and Aaron and the work. But something got into his heart: We're all holy. We're all Levites. We're all equal. I've got the Holy Spirit just like you, Moses. 343 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Israel never learned. We are the end-time house of Israel, and we don't have time to mess this up. "And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face: and he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him." — Numbers 16:4–5 "And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up... they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them: and they perished from among the congregation." — Numbers 16:31–33 I thought God was love! Why not just leave them in the congregation? Your problem with love is that you've cut it off from the Old Testament. Go back and see how YAHWEH loved: He loved His people so much that He would not let Korah poison them any longer. He took Korah out from among the congregation, so that Moses and Aaron could quit being distracted and do the work. The Rod That Budded Then came the dispute: Who told Aaron he could lead the work? And YAHWEH said, I'll show you. Each tribe's prince laid down a rod, Aaron's among them, before the testimony. And overnight, Aaron's rod budded, blossomed and yielded almonds (Numbers 17:8). Hear it with the ears of the Spirit. YAHWEH said, I will always let you know where My blessing is. And what was kept in the Ark of the Covenant? The tables of the covenant, the golden pot of manna, and Aaron's rod that budded (Hebrews 9:4). Order and leadership are part of YAHWEH's covenant with His people. I'll show the whole camp whom I've chosen. The Functions of the Priesthood What was the priesthood's job? "And to the office of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest pertaineth the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the daily meat offering, and the anointing oil, and the oversight of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, in the sanctuary, and in the vessels thereof." — Numbers 4:16 Wholly Given to the Temple The priesthood was to be wholly focused on the temple and its work. That's why "thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn" (Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9–14). YAHWEH gave the priests no inheritance in the land (Numbers 18:20). Why? He didn't want them attached to this world. He wanted them attached to the temple, with no land to tend, because their love was the temple. YAHWEH's people brought the tithe of all their increase to provide for them, so that they could do the work (Numbers 18:21). The ministry has always lived of the altar (1 Corinthians 9:13); YAHWEH commanded provision for the work. 344 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Keep the Fire Burning They tended the fire and the incense. "The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out." — Leviticus 6:13 A priest tends the fire; he cannot let the people grow comfortable. His job is to stir that fire and keep the people constantly on fire for YAHWEH. The ministry sets the standard of praise, of the joy of YAHWEH and of holiness, for people need a leader who believes what he preaches: that YAHWEH is in control and all will be well. You can't minister out of emotion. You must minister from the fire of the altar of YAHWEH. Keep first things first: put this temple, this truth, first, and YAHWEH will take care of it (Matthew 6:33). YAHWEH is calling every one of His people to become people of the fire. Keep the flame alive. That zeal for YAHWEH: don't let it go out. And when you see someone whose fire is going out, your job as a priest is to stir it up. When you're on fire, it shows. And when you feel your fire starting to go out, that's when you'll start hearing strange voices in your mind. Bless and Judge They oversaw the duties of the sanctuary, and they blessed the people. "The LORD bless thee, and keep thee: the LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee: the LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace. And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them." — Numbers 6:24–27 The priest carries that blessing to the people. They also resolved disputes. "And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried." — Deuteronomy 21:5 A priest should be able to calm a situation. There will always be controversies in the house of Israel, but priests are able to settle them, speaking on behalf of the Word of YAHWEH. Cover and Carry They covered the holy furnishings of the Tabernacle before it moved (Numbers 4:5–15). So with people: covering is not overlooking sin; it is dealing with it, and then covering that person, so that he can be restored into the service of YAHWEH. The priest's job is not to destroy people. His job is to judge sin, and when it has been repented of, to cover that candlestick and protect it from the elements. "And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins." — 1 Peter 4:8 345 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Our job in the ministry is to cover, never to expose. Exposing is the accuser's work (Revelation 12:10). We handle matters inside the church, privately, with the elders, with two or three witnesses (Matthew 18:15–17). Paul was heartbroken over the Corinthian church: "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world?... Know ye not that we shall judge angels?" — 1 Corinthians 6:1–3 Don't you know the assembly is going to judge the world, and you're letting the world judge the assembly? When two brothers have a dispute, the priesthood is who judges it, by the written Word. There is healing in this house for anyone who desires it. The only thing the priesthood does not cover is the Korah disease: rebellion and confusion. And they carried the Ark of the Covenant. For those in the priesthood, everywhere you go, people should see the Ark. They should see the glory of YAHWEH in your life. The Breastplate of Judgment The high priest was the spiritual leader of Israel, and who is our High Priest today? YAHSHUA the Messiah. He wore garments different from the other priests, and he carried the Urim and the Thummim: lights and perfections. "And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart before the LORD continually." — Exodus 28:30 What is it called? The breastplate of judgment. Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel upon his heart. Scripture tells us little about how the Urim and Thummim were used, but it tells us where they were: over the heart of the high priest. As Chapter 22 showed, the priesthood is the little flock, one body under the High Priest, who suffer with Him now and reign with Him if they press through the veil. Those who do will be the 144,000, the full government of twelve times twelve, making their calling and election sure (2 Peter 1:10), "faithful unto death" (Revelation 2:10). Think of the numbers. Of all the children of Israel, only 8,580 Levites served (Numbers 4:46–48). And when the Tabernacle was first raised, there were only five priests: Aaron and his four sons. Not long after, two of those sons, Nadab and Abihu, were struck down for offering strange fire before YAHWEH (Leviticus 10:1–2). Right after, YAHWEH commanded the priests to drink no wine or strong drink when they came into the Tabernacle (Leviticus 10:9). Only the chosen of this age, the priests who go through the veil, will rule and reign with the Messiah. 346 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Twelve Stones over the Heart Consider the breastplate itself (Exodus 28:15–21; 39:8–21). The breastplate was the badge of authority, like a police officer's badge. Only one man on earth was YAHWEH's appointed representative in the sanctuary: the high priest. Originally it was Adam, and he failed. That's why YAHSHUA is the High Priest: He was born on this earth, the last Adam, as YAHWEH's great representative. It held four rows of three stones, one for each tribe, "according to the names of the children of Israel... every one with his name" (Exodus 28:21). I see them set in the order of the camp around the Tabernacle: RowStones (KJV)Tribes (by the order of the camp) First (east)Sardius, topaz, carbuncleJudah, Issachar, Zebulun Second (south)Emerald, sapphire, diamondReuben, Simeon, Gad Third (west)Ligure, agate, amethystEphraim, Manasseh, Benjamin Fourth (north)Beryl, onyx, jasperDan, Asher, Naphtali Each stone stood for a tribe of Israel. Whoever wore the breastplate carried the authority of YAHWEH, and everyone serving under him shared that authority. The Stones Satan Lost But here is what many don't recognize. Those stones were first worn by another. Before the man was formed, there was an anointed cherub who governed in Eden: "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold... Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." — Ezekiel 28:13–14 The lament is addressed to the king of Tyrus, but verses 13–15 look past him to the covering cherub behind his throne. Thou hast been in Eden. That was his seat of rule. That's why he was in the garden with Eve. That old serpent was "the Devil, and Satan" (Revelation 12:9). And why do you think YAHWEH planted the man in Eden? He put Adam right at headquarters, where Satan had been ruling. And before Adam could get his ministry started, Satan went after the woman. He knew his place was about to be taken by Adam. Every precious stone was thy covering. Those stones were his covering, his authority. He wore the badge. Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. The stones of authority. So where are those stones today? The authority has to be somewhere, and it has to be in the temple of YAHWEH. 347 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "And there came unto me one of the seven angels... saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem." — Revelation 21:9–10 John didn't see a city first. He saw a bride, and she was shown to him as a city. And consider what she is wearing: "And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst." — Revelation 21:19–20 Don't be confused by some of the different names; they are Greek names for the same kinds of stones. Why twelve stones, and who is wearing them? In Ezekiel, Satan wore them. But when the story ends, the bride, the Seventh Temple, the priesthood, wears them. And she is wearing them today. That's why Satan hates us. We've been given the authority he lost. The dominion mandate is ours. That's why he's angry with us, and why he fights us night and day. But "Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4). Those aren't just words. You are wearing the stones. You carry the badge. You have the authority in this world to speak the Word of YAHWEH into every situation. And if Satan ever makes you doubt it, put your hand on your chest and feel the stones. They've been given to the bride. The temple was never the point. The priesthood was. And the priesthood wears over its heart the authority Satan lost and the bride has been given. We are the priesthood. We are the people of the breastplate. 348 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE PART FOUR Behind the Veil “Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil.” — Hebrews 6:19 349 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Outside the Camp: The Ark, the Priesthood and the Plan Through twenty-six chapters we have walked from the gate of the Tabernacle to the edge of the veil. We have stood in the outer court. We have walked through the Holy Place. But we have never yet gone behind the veil. Now we go in, and what we find there turns the whole book around. The ark of the covenant was the first thing YAHWEH told Moses to build, and it was built with rings and staves, because it was made to be carried. YAHWEH never meant what is behind the veil to stay there. He trained a priesthood to carry it out: past the court, past the camp, to the lepers and the lost, until the day the Tabernacle of YAHWEH dwells with men. The Tabernacle has three parts: the court, the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place. Between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place hung a veil, and unlike the other hangings of the Tabernacle, this one was worked with cherubim, the guardians of the holy presence (Exodus 26:31–33). We call it the third veil. And behind that third veil is the third dimension every believer should aspire to: the hundredfold. If you are new to this teaching, here is what you need to know. Every believer in the Messiah journeys toward maturity at one of three levels: thirtyfold, sixtyfold or hundredfold (Mark 4:20; see the table in Chapter 25). The court is the thirtyfold. The Holy Place is the sixtyfold. The Most Holy Place is the hundredfold. And now, we go into the hundredfold. You were never told merely to read the Bible. You were commanded to study it (2 Timothy 2:15). So open your Bible and study it with me. The full instructions for the ark are in Exodus 25:10–22. Here is the short version: "And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it: And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about. And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it. And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold. And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark." — Exodus 37:1–5 That's about three and three-quarter feet long, and two and a quarter feet wide and high. A small chest, overlaid with gold inside and out, made to be carried. Remember that: made to be carried. Everything in this chapter hangs on it. 350 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE From the Gate to the Veil Consider how the Tabernacle is laid out from where we stand. You enter the court through the gate, the first entrance, which we call the way. As Chapter 3 showed, YAHSHUA said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life" (John 14:6), and the way is where every journey begins. Inside the gate, the first piece of furniture is the brazen altar. That is Calvary. Every one of us comes to the Messiah at the brazen altar. But Paul tells us not to stay at the cross. He tells us to leave the first principles and "go on unto perfection" (Hebrews 6:1). And that brings us to the next piece of furniture: the brazen laver, the mikvah. That is baptism. That's why the Bible says you must do more than believe. Unfortunately the Christian church has sold a big lie: that all you have to do is believe in your heart. But the Scripture says: "He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved." — Mark 16:16 After you come to the cross, you demonstrate saving faith by being baptized, "for the remission of sins" (Acts 2:38). Once you leave the laver, you run into a curtain: the door of the Tabernacle itself, the second entrance. The gate was the way. This door, which you reach only after baptism, is the truth. Many people come onto the way who never go into the truth. They come to the cross, they get baptized, they are saved, and they stop. To go into the next room and the next experience with YAHWEH, you must be willing to come into the truth. The minute you say, There is something more important to me than just salvation. There is something more important to me than the heaven I was promised, and it's called the truth. I want to walk in the truth, that is the minute you go through that second door. Two Rooms, Three Thousand Years As Chapter 8 showed, the Holy Place is twenty cubits by ten by ten, two thousand cubic cubits, for the two thousand years of the church age, and the Most Holy Place is ten by ten by ten, one thousand cubic cubits, for the thousand years of the Millennial reign (Revelation 20:4–6). When you walk into the Holy Place, you'll be blinded by something glaring at you: a lampstand with seven lights. It represents the seven Spirits of YAHWEH (Revelation 4:5; Isaiah 11:2). And those seven lights will reveal truth to you. It's in this room that many people don't make it. They turn back like Lot's wife and become a pillar of salt (Genesis 19:26). Their growth is stunted. That's as far as they'll go. But others, once they see the light of truth, say, I want more. I need more. I want to know more about the Elohim I serve, and my duty to Him. And the light leads them to the right, to the table of showbread, the priestly food. They come every Sabbath to eat that fresh manna that priests feed on. Once they've eaten the food of the priesthood, they march over to fulfill their priestly duty at the altar of incense. And what do the priests do there? They pray the Father's will for all men (1 Timothy 2:1–4). They intercede for every human being on planet earth. 351 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE And it is in that room that they are being changed, being transformed. All the while, they are looking at the veil. Their hearts long to go into the next room, the thousand years. They long for that hundredfold experience. The Holy Place is their training ground, not their destination: only those who press through that veil reign in the first resurrection. Three Things Inside When you get into that room, there is one piece of furniture. And inside it there are three things: "...the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant." — Hebrews 9:4 Every hundredfold believer must identify with all three: 1.The tables of the covenant: the Commandments, the Torah. You can't go behind the veil without the law written on your heart (Jeremiah 31:33). 2.The hidden manna: the word behind the word (Revelation 2:17). Hundredfold believers must go beyond the letter of the written Word and find the intent of the Father's heart. 3.Aaron's rod that budded overnight: authority. That rod was YAHWEH's answer to rebellion against His chosen order (Numbers 17:8–10). You will never go into the hundredfold until you understand authority. Those three things must fill your heart for you to identify with the next level. The Ark Is First It looks like the ark of the covenant is the last piece of furniture. You walk past the altar, past the laver, past the lampstand, the table and the altar of incense, and finally you reach the ark. But you'd be wrong if you thought it was last. From YAHWEH's perspective, the ark is first. The ark is the head of all the furniture. When YAHWEH gave Moses the instructions for the Tabernacle, the first piece of furniture He told him to build was the ark (Exodus 25:10). And when Bezaleel built the furniture, he made the ark first (Exodus 37:1). You just read it. Why? Because the ark represents the man YAHSHUA, the Messiah. He is the perfect man, the hundredfold man. He is the first of the firstfruits, "the firstborn among many brethren" (Romans 8:29). Every other piece of furniture is part of the harvest. But in the plan of YAHWEH, the Most Holy Place came first, because the Son came first in the Father's purpose. Why build the Tabernacle at all? "And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them." — Exodus 25:8 YAHWEH built this Tabernacle for one purpose: that He might dwell with men. And for that to happen, YAHSHUA has to be the head of this Tabernacle: "And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence." — Colossians 1:18 352 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The only people who will go into that room are those who have come into headship union. Who is the head of the body? YAHSHUA. And when the body becomes one with the Head, that is headship union. Look at the top step of the Steps of Sonship (see Chapter 3) and you will see those words: headship union. There is a people coming into unity with the mind of the Messiah (1 Corinthians 2:16; Ephesians 4:13), and those people will find out what headship union is all about. Made to Be Carried We start with the ark, and then something interesting happens: the ark desires to go out to mankind. How do we get what's in the ark to the world? How do we take the Head of this body and introduce Him to the world? Through the priesthood. What's in the ark comes out through the lampstand, through the table of showbread, through the altar of incense, through the priesthood. And then the priests bring it out into the court, and then beyond it. That's why the ark had rings and staves. It was made to be carried. YAHWEH never meant the ark to stay behind the veil forever. The People Outside the Fold We've talked about the thirtyfold, the sixtyfold and the hundredfold. But there is another group of people, outside the fold altogether. Scripture shows whether what's in the ark was meant even for them: "And thou shalt cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock. And thou shalt kill the bullock before the LORD, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger, and pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar. And thou shalt take all the fat that covereth the inwards, and the caul that is above the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and burn them upon the altar. But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering." — Exodus 29:10–14 Without the camp. It is a sin offering, and it goes outside the camp. Here is what YAHWEH is saying to His priesthood: I've called some of you. I have not called those outside the camp; I have not called them inside. So I want My priesthood to take what I've given you, a bloody sacrifice, and march outside: past the thirtyfold, past the sixtyfold, out beyond the camp. And bring to the world what you found inside the Tabernacle. You are not being trained to walk around inside the Tabernacle. You are being trained to carry that bloody sin offering, which came to you first, outside the chosen, and outside even the called. The Many for the All "Many are called, but few are chosen" (Matthew 22:14), as Chapter 22 showed. Here is what that means for those outside: if many are called, then not all are called. But the many are called for the all. The many have been called to take it to the all. 353 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is the purpose of the Tabernacle: to take what is behind the veil out to the world. YAHWEH is not trying to hide from the world. That's what we think when we look at the Tabernacle: YAHWEH is hiding. No. YAHWEH desires to dwell with men. But He does it first through His Son. And the Son isn't here anymore. The Son is at the right hand of the Father (Hebrews 10:12). So now we do the work of the Son while the Son is at the right hand of the Father. We have been called to stand at that altar and believe for those outside the camp. The duty of the priesthood is outside the camp. Living Sacrifices for Those Who Will Never Sacrifice I'm so glad I serve an Elohim who didn't forget those outside the camp. This is not just for those inside. It's not just for those living holy, or for those giving their all. We are giving our all for all. "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." — Romans 12:1 We are called to be living sacrifices for those who will never sacrifice. It will be a glorious sight when they come dressed in white (Revelation 7:9, 14), understanding that they too have been called, just like the first Lamb, just like the first piece of furniture, just like the original Son. They've been called to lay down their lives, to give up the pleasures of this world, so that they can carry that bloody sacrifice, stand at that altar, and declare that not one will be lost in our Father's kingdom (John 6:39). What a glorious calling you have, beloved. If it were not for this priesthood, judgment would already have come. "Ye are the salt of the earth" (Matthew 5:13). Abraham asked YAHWEH whether He would spare a city for the sake of ten righteous, and YAHWEH said, "I will not destroy it for ten's sake" (Genesis 18:32). As long as there is a priesthood, YAHWEH will hold back His judgment on the nation. Outside the Camp: Numbers 5 Who is outside the camp? As Chapter 8 showed, Numbers 5 puts the unclean out: "Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell." — Numbers 5:2–3 Here is what the church doesn't understand: not everyone belongs inside yet. The Babylonian church says, Bring them all in. But it's not yet time for them all to come in. Why? Because some of them are lepers. Leprosy, in the Torah, is a type of sin. And some carry a disease called rebellion. You may never have heard teaching like this, but it's in the Book: Israel put the lepers outside the camp. 354 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Why the World Is in the Church The problem with the church today is that somebody convinced it the church is open to the world. Then why are you surprised the world has come into the church? Don't gripe that the church is too worldly when you invited the world in. The church is a holy convocation (Leviticus 23:2–3). Here's the order: you are supposed to leave the church and carry that sin offering out to them. But you don't bring them in among the priests until they've accepted that sin offering. You can't put leprosy in among the priesthood. Why? Because those priests have been washed. They've been cleansed. They've separated themselves from the leprosy. YAHWEH said to put the leper outside even the thirtyfold. Every one that hath an issue. That is a person who has something ugly inside him that keeps coming out of him and spreading. YAHWEH said, Put them outside: not because He doesn't love them. Put them outside because He loves His camp and He loves them. He has to have a clean house, a holy people that know one another, trust one another, and can work with one another. The church that refuses to put anyone out is Babylon's church. The house of YAHWEH must be kept holy, and rebellion cannot be brought in among the camp. Feeling the Wind Isn't Being Clean Here's what happens. You walk into a church where people are living in open sin, whatever that sin may be, sitting in YAHWEH's house. During the service they feel the Spirit of YAHWEH. They can't help it. The Spirit is like the wind: "The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." — John 3:8 Everybody feels the Spirit when it's moving. So they sit there and feel it, and when you tell them they're living in sin, the first thing they say is, Don't tell me. I felt the Spirit. Of course you did. And I felt the wind when it blew by. That doesn't mean I'm living right. So when the preacher overlooks sin, the person doesn't know he has leprosy. He thinks he's clean, so he never gets healed of it. And judgment comes upon the leadership of that church for causing lepers to think they're clean (Ezekiel 3:18; 33:6). The Bible said, "lifting up holy hands" (1 Timothy 2:8). So when you go to someone and say, Brother, I don't care what you're feeling. I don't care what kind of tongues you're speaking in. You're violating Torah, and you need to repent, if that brother hears you, his leprosy is cleansed (Matthew 18:15). If he won't, the Bible says to put him outside. It all goes back to Torah. If you're in a church that's not teaching Torah, you're not in a church; you're in a social club. Every doctrine in the New Testament must line up with the Torah. So if someone tells you, We don't believe in putting anybody out of the church, ask him: what did the Torah teach us to do? Paul knew: 355 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE "For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person." — 1 Corinthians 5:12–13 Protecting the Work Why does YAHWEH put them outside the camp? That they defile not their camps. Otherwise the rest of the camp gets so focused on the leprosy that they can't get the temple work done. And notice what He tells you about those outside: Don't worry about them. Don't spend one minute wondering whether they're going to be saved. I have a bloody sacrifice that is going to cover them. You focus on the work, because the work you're doing in here is what's going to save them and heal them in the end. Satan wants us so distracted from temple work that we can't do the work of YAHWEH. YAHWEH's full intention for the priesthood and the Tabernacle has always been the people outside the camp. He loves those who don't get it right, and He told you, Don't get distracted by them. Keep praying for them. Stay at the altar of incense. Don't get so bogged down in their drama and their dilemma that you forget your duty. Your duty is not to be swept into their emotional hurricane with them. Your duty is to stay in the work and believe for them. The Blood Went In; the Body Went Out Hebrews 13 opens the whole Tabernacle: "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate. Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." — Hebrews 13:10–14 Consider what the Torah commanded. When the blood of a sin offering was carried into the holy place, no priest ate that offering. Its flesh was burned outside the camp (Leviticus 6:30; 16:27). The blood went in. The body went out. And that's exactly where YAHSHUA went. He took His blood into the presence of the Father, and He suffered outside the gate. He shed that blood outside the camp, for those outside the camp. They are outside. They have no part in the temple work yet. But they are still part of the plan. That blood is carried to them through a priesthood that pleads it daily before the Father. That's why we pray, Our Father which art in heaven, thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:10): Thy will, which reaches all the way outside the camp, be done there as it's being done in me. 356 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Let Us Go Forth Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp. Who is us? Those of us wearing these pretty linen breeches. We're holy. We're sanctified. But you were only made holy so that you could help make them holy. Let us go out with the Messiah. Let's go into that third room, take hold of what we have already received, and bring it outside the camp to the people. YAHSHUA's whole purpose was to get outside the gate, outside the ekklesia, if you will. That's where He wanted to go. For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Hold that verse; we will find that city before this chapter ends. Once for All Hebrews 9 explains why: "For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself." — Hebrews 9:24–26 Our High Priest is no longer here. He's not walking among earthly people. He entered heaven itself to appear before the Father for us, and He doesn't need to do it again and again the way the high priest went in every Day of Atonement. He was offered once for all. Don't fly over that. Not once for whoever is lucky enough to hear the gospel. Once for all. Even those outside the camp. Those lepers who could never get it right. Those blinded by the god of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4). He was offered once for all. I'm so glad I've got a bloody backup. And I'm glad His all is just as powerful as Adam's all: "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." — 1 Corinthians 15:22 He's going to the outer court. He's going to every leper. One day every leper will be healed, because of that sacrifice. Those who preach that the lost will boil for eternity don't want to hear about the goodness of YAHWEH: "For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations." — Psalm 100:5 We serve a good Elohim. He loves every leper. He didn't build the Tabernacle for the people in the Tabernacle. He built it for those who couldn't get into the Tabernacle. In the End of the Age Look at the text again: now once in the end of the world hath he appeared. The word is age: the end of the ages. YAHSHUA offered Himself once, and that one offering is sufficient for all. But who has it 357 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE been applied to for the last two thousand years? The called and the chosen. Only at the end of this age does that one offering reach out to the all. He appeared "to put away sin." And when the age ends, sin will be put away, because Satan will be bound (Revelation 20:1–3). That's when the all begins. No more leprosy. No more lost children. No more broken world. "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation." — Hebrews 9:27–28 To bear the sins of many. Right now He is washing the priesthood. He will appear the second time unto salvation, for the all. I'm glad I'm a minister of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18–19). That is what I hope you take out of this Tabernacle study: the role of the priesthood. We don't judge the world. That time has not yet come (1 Corinthians 4:5; 6:2). Yet we do judge in one place: judgment begins at the house of YAHWEH (1 Peter 4:17). We judge the house of Israel, because we've got temple work to do. The Tabernacle Comes Out "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." — Revelation 21:3 That's the end goal. That's outside the camp. This is after the Millennial reign and the Last Great Day. John says that the Tabernacle of YAHWEH will come out and dwell with men. The ark comes out from behind the veil. He will come to dwell with all mankind. But He can only do it because there was a priesthood that made straight the way of YAHWEH (Isaiah 40:3). There was a voice of Elijah that prepared a people (Malachi 4:5–6; Luke 1:17): a priesthood that would be the tithe of all creation, "a kind of firstfruits of his creatures" (James 1:18). And because He made us holy first, He can now come and dwell with a holy world. He has no plans to destroy them all. His will is to come and dwell with them all. And why will there be no temple in that city? "And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it." — Revelation 21:22 Because He Himself will be dwelling with them. The house will have done its work. The priesthood will have done its work. One Day of Reigning Paul shows how we get there: "For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put 358 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." — 1 Corinthians 15:25–28 How long does YAHSHUA reign? A thousand years. YAHSHUA reigns over the earth for one day, because "one day is with the Lord as a thousand years" (2 Peter 3:8). And which day will that be? The Sabbath day. Now you know why He is "Lord also of the sabbath" (Mark 2:28). The Father promised Him one day, and He will reign that one day. And what will He be doing during that day? Putting every enemy under His feet. And the last enemy He conquers is death. And when the thousand years are finished, the dead, small and great, stand before Him (Revelation 20:12), and the bride joins the Spirit in calling all: "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come" (Revelation 22:17). Then death itself is destroyed. It is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. Who put everything under YAHSHUA? YAHWEH. What's understood doesn't need explaining: everything is under YAHSHUA except YAHWEH. And when He has reigned over the earth for His one day, the Son Himself will be subject to the Father, so that YAHWEH may be all in all. Then comes the change we read about in Revelation 21. YAHWEH comes back to where He started, dwelling with man, as He dwelt with Adam in the garden. That's what YAHSHUA called "the regeneration" (Matthew 19:28), Peter's "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21). We're going back to the garden. We're starting over the way it began. That's when He goes outside the camp. Every article of furniture in this whole study was never about you; it was about getting the ark of the covenant outside the camp. One day the ark will come out, and He will dwell with them. The whole earth will be His Tabernacle. The whole earth will be His temple: "The earth is the LORD's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein." — Psalm 24:1 There will be a restoration of all things. A Well-Organized Plan There is a well-organized plan for that restoration, and the Christian church does not know it. The proof is simple. If they had a clue about this well-organized plan, they would all keep the Sabbath day, because the Sabbath day is the plan. How can you know a plan you don't keep every week? Knowing the plan makes the Sabbath a joy: we understand what's going to happen in the seventh thousand years, the seventh day of creation. And when you know that plan, everything else gets better. We must develop a millennium mentality. "We sorrow not, even as others which have no hope" (1 Thessalonians 4:13). The plan is why. 359 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE So consider the plan again. The reason there is a Tabernacle, the reason there is a Seventh Temple, is to institute the plan. Dominion "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." — Genesis 1:26 That's the plan: dominion. That's the mandate. Write it in the margin of your Bible: This is YAHWEH's plan for my life: to rule and reign and govern this earth. YAHWEH has never changed that plan to this day. But the Christian church changed it into the total opposite, turning your heart toward heaven and away from the plan, under the guise of salvation. Yet no verse of Scripture promises heaven as the home of the believer: "Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." — Matthew 5:5 The earth is the plan. YAHWEH never created heaven for you. He never created hell for you either. He prepared that fire "for the devil and his angels" (Matthew 25:41): the fire that removes the devil and refines his angels. But He created the earth for His Son and all the brethren (Psalm 115:16; Hebrews 2:5–10). It's a hard sell to Christians, but the lost sheep are out there. And some who read this are new; they found this message. You may not understand everything you're reading, but something in your spirit is saying, This is truth. What Is Man? Here is that beautiful plan the Christian church never taught you. If you tell it to most Christians, they'll say, Get thee behind me, Satan. "O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet." — Psalm 8:1–6 What is man? David looks at the moon and the stars, at the oceans and the majestic mountains, and he says, YAHWEH, why are You so interested in man? In this present body, man is not as powerful as the angels, at least not yet. And yet You've given everything, not to the angels, but to us pitiful men (Hebrews 2:5–8). And hast crowned him with glory and honour. You're going to crown broken men with more glory and honor than even the angels. What is man? To crown man: that is the plan. 360 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Thou hast put all things under his feet. Now, why were you going to heaven again? Why were you headed out past Mars when you've already been given the earth? "Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool." — Isaiah 66:1 The heavens are His throne. The earth is His footstool, and this is where we are. He wrote the plan across the heavens, but He gave the earth to the children of men. In the Beginning Was the Plan John records the plan for man: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." — John 1:1–5 Your Bible says "the Word." That's fine; stay with your King James. But the Greek word is logos: the thought, the reason, the expressed purpose of the mind of YAHWEH (see Chapter 24). Read it with that meaning and see what opens up: In the beginning was the plan, and the plan was with YAHWEH, and the plan was YAHWEH's own. All things were done according to it, and without it nothing was done that was done. In this plan was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot take hold of it. Why? Because the plan is for the destruction of the darkness. Without him was not any thing made that was made. Take this away from that verse: there is nothing that is not in that plan. Nothing happening in your life, nothing happening in this world, is outside that plan. Doesn't that give you assurance in your heavenly Father? Every hair on your head is in that plan. Every sparrow that falls is written in it (Matthew 10:29–30). You can trust that plan. A Kingdom of Priests "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." — John 1:12–13 Begotten of YAHWEH. Do you want to know YAHWEH's plan? To turn you into a son, instead of someone always on the run. He wants to stop you, bring you into the Tabernacle, and transform you into a priest. YAHWEH's plan is to set up a kingdom of priests (Exodus 19:6; Revelation 5:10) who will guard and keep YAHWEH's righteousness, and then teach it to the lepers outside the camp. That's why the Bible says the voice of Elijah would prepare the way of YAHWEH. This priesthood will guard the law, and because it does, the whole creation will be kept from the plans of Satan. In the Kingdom, from the least to the greatest (Jeremiah 31:34; Hebrews 8:11), everyone will have abundant life (John 10:10). 361 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is what YAHWEH's plan is prophesied to bring. Outside of this plan there is no reason for living. Seek First the Kingdom If YAHWEH has called you, all your life He will guide you toward the priesthood. And if you're in this study, He has a different plan for you. The priesthood had a different plan from the lepers. That doesn't mean He loved the priests more than the lepers. He had a different plan for the priesthood. So when you wonder why nobody else is seeing it, it's because they don't understand the plan. Here is the plan for your life: "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." — Matthew 6:33 You've heard that verse quoted a thousand times. But everybody says seek ye first the kingdom and forgets the next part: and His righteousness. What is His righteousness? "My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness." — Psalm 119:172 His righteousness is His Torah. Seek ye first the way to live for YAHWEH. It doesn't say Seek salvation. It doesn't say Seek Calvary. It says Seek first the kingdom: the kingdom the church never told you about. What's the problem with that verse? Nobody knows anything about the kingdom. How can you seek what no one has taught you? And if you're seeking the kingdom, you're going to learn righteousness, the right way to live your life. That is the true gospel. That is the purpose of your calling. That's what you were born for. Sin Is the Transgression of the Law The purpose of your calling is to separate you from this world. Why do you think He brings you into the Seventh Temple? It is separation from the world. "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." — 1 John 3:4 Here's the problem: the same church that says Jesus nailed the law to the cross holds revivals every few months to save sinners. Something isn't adding up. According to John, sin is what makes you a sinner, and unless there's a law to break, there is no sin (Romans 4:15). If there's no sin, there are no sinners. And if there are no sinners, you don't need a revival to save them, because there aren't any. That's how confused Christianity is. If you nailed the law to the cross, and sin is the transgression of the law, then there's no more transgression. And you wouldn't need a Savior either, because there'd be no more sin. John wrote this some sixty years after YAHSHUA's death and resurrection. And he says sin is the transgression of the law. A law that supposedly no longer exists? 362 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE Priests Guard the Law Priests do not transgress the law. They guard it (Malachi 2:7). That does not make them sinless: repentance is accepting that you have broken the law and agreeing to pay the debt, and the priest who repents does not defy the law but guards it, even though he may have failed in it. The priests of YAHWEH are not perfect. They are being perfected by a lifestyle of repentance and by acknowledging their sin (1 John 1:9). I've taught this for years: the difference between a sinner and a saint is not the absence of sin. It's the presence of repentance. Practicing Righteousness "Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil." — 1 John 3:7–8 He that doeth righteousness: the one who practices righteousness. It doesn't say he that gets it right every time. It says he that keeps doing it. The one who gets back up and tries again. The one who keeps the Sabbath poorly one week, and comes back and keeps it better the next. He that keeps practicing, in the eyes of YAHWEH, is righteous. That gives me hope, because I'm still practicing. He that committeth sin, the one who practices sin, is of the devil. What do you practice? Do you practice rebellion, or do you practice obedience? Even when you get it wrong, you're still practicing obedience. YAHSHUA was not manifested to save you and take you to heaven. He was manifested to destroy the works of the devil: to destroy the practice of sin in your life, not your occasional slip. We are human. But we are also priests, and we guard the law. When we miss it, we practice again, and in that practice is your righteousness. "In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother." — 1 John 3:10 "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" — Romans 6:16 Keep practicing obedience. You're not going to get it right every time. According to His Works "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." — Revelation 22:12–14 Here the Christian church has a problem. It preaches that your works won't matter when the Messiah comes back. I didn't write the Book, but what I'm reading doesn't line up with what's being 363 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE preached. He's coming back to reward every man, not according to his faith, but according to his works. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. There's the city we were seeking in Hebrews 13. In other words, if you're not keeping the law, you're not entering through the gates. You'll be outside the camp. If you won't keep the law and guard the law, you'll be out there with the lepers, in the outer darkness, the outer court. You will be saved. But you won't be trusted to enter through the gates of that city. I plead with you: keep practicing. Don't let anyone beguile you into quitting the good fight of faith (1 Timothy 6:12). When you know what to do and don't do it, it is sin to you (James 4:17). And there will be more stripes for everyone in this study than for any leper: "And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required." — Luke 12:47–48 Back to the Garden: Two Trees How do you get the right to the tree of life? We are going back to the garden. And what do you always find in that garden? The tree of life. Genesis opens with the tree of life, and Revelation closes with it (Revelation 22:2), because YAHWEH wants you to eat from it. "And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil." — Genesis 2:9 Notice something. There are two sets of trees here. One set grows out of the ground: pleasant to the sight, good for food. Those are your natural trees. But then there's a separation: the tree of life also in the midst of the garden. In the midst of those trees that grow out of the ground. If you believe for one moment that the tree that gives eternal life grows out of the dirt, I don't know how to help you. The tree of life is the Torah. The tree of life is the law of YAHWEH. Solomon said it of wisdom: "She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her." — Proverbs 3:18 And we just read it in Revelation: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life. Because you keep the law, you have access to the life that is in the law of YAHWEH. "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." — Genesis 2:17 364 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE YAHWEH warned mankind against following the ways of the fallen gods. Two Choices There was a problem in Eden. The earth had been overrun by the fallen gods, and they were evil. And in the midst of the garden stood that tree of evil. But there was another voice there. "The voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day" (Genesis 3:8), coming every day to stand in the midst of them and teach them His way. These are not trees to eat. These are choices. This is a beautiful picture Moses paints for those with ears to hear. You can't eat a tree and get knowledge. You can't eat a tree and get eternal life. In the midst of the trees that grew out of the ground stood two choices: rebellion and obedience. And the day you were born, you were born into that same garden, with those same two trees. Rebellion or life. Two religions: Christianity's lawlessness, which is rebellion, or Israel's covenant, which is obedience. Known by Their Fruit Those two trees are still growing in the last days: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." — Matthew 7:15–20 They come in sheep's clothing, looking just like the other tree. Here's how you'll know them: by one of two fruits. Are they teaching you rebellion, or obedience? The fruit never changes. If they bring you a Jesus who is your excuse to avoid obedience, it's not by works, lest any man should boast; if they bring you a gospel that says the Torah doesn't matter and the law doesn't matter, you're listening to the tree of the knowledge of evil. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Replace tree with person: every person who does not bring forth obedience to the law of YAHWEH will be cast into the fiery judgment of YAHWEH, until they bring forth that fruit of obedience (Malachi 3:2–3; 1 Corinthians 3:13–15). "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity." — Matthew 7:21–23 What does iniquity mean? Lawlessness. The Greek is anomia: without law. Any tree that brings forth lawlessness, any ministry that teaches you there is no law, is a false prophet. 365 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE I never knew you. You knew Me, but I didn't know you, because you didn't keep the law of My Father, which is the will of My Father. Yes, you did it in My name, and you were a false prophet. Why? Lawlessness. Repent and Be Converted Here is the only way to go from the tree of death to the tree of life, and it may shock you. There's nothing in it about a sinner's prayer. Nothing about asking Him into your heart as your personal Savior. That's the problem: He's your Savior, but He's not your King. You won't listen to a word He says. "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord." — Acts 3:19 Repent. What does repent mean? Stop breaking the law. Be converted: turn completely around. Signing a card is not repentance. Repent and be converted, and then your sins will be blotted out. "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD: and not that he should return from his ways, and live?" — Ezekiel 18:20–23 The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The soul is not never-dying; the soul that sins will die. If the wicked will turn... and keep all my statutes. That's the will of the Father. It tells me I have to do a lot more than believe. It tells me I have to turn, and be converted. Ye Shall Be as Gods "For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." — Genesis 3:5 The day you eat rebellion, you become like the gods, and you cannot rule over what you have become: just like those fallen angels who came in rebellion (Jude 6). If you think the blood of the Messiah is going to give you authority over rebellious angels while you're walking in rebellion, you've been deceived. The minute you eat rebellion, you are like the gods, and you can't judge them or rule over them, because you act just like them (1 Corinthians 6:3). So what does it look like to act like the fallen gods? Jude tells us. 366 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE No Honor for Authority "Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." — Jude 9 The first sign that you're acting like the fallen gods: you have no honor for authority. Michael was not a fallen god. Michael was an elohim who understood his place. Satan was the god of this world, in a position YAHWEH had allowed him to hold, and even the archangel would not bring a railing accusation against him. He left the rebuke to YAHWEH. Peter says the same: "...they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord." — 2 Peter 2:10–11 Rising up to rebuke those YAHWEH has placed over you is acting like a fallen god. They have no honor. They recognize no authority. But notice what Michael did: he recognized the order and the structure. He wasn't like them. I hope you're not like them, because the moment you eat one bite of rebellion, you become like the gods. "But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves." — Jude 10 If you're like the gods, here's how you act: you're always running off at the mouth about things you know nothing about. You have two choices in this life: the fruit of rebellion or the fruit of obedience. And if you're like these gods, everybody will know it. You'll have no honor. Don't eat one fruit of rebellion. If you're a wife, don't eat that fruit. If you're a husband, don't eat that fruit. And if you recognize the fallen gods in your own personality, spit it out. The Way of Cain "Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core." — Jude 11 You can always tell when you're acting like those gods. What is the way of Cain? He did it his way. He thought he was doing a good thing. He was performing a service; he brought the most beautiful fruit of his garden. But it wasn't what YAHWEH asked for. He asked for a lamb (Genesis 4:3–5; Hebrews 11:4). Don't go the way of Cain. To keep deciding whether to keep the feasts, when they are commanded, is the way of Cain: "Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty." — Deuteronomy 16:16 This is not addressed to the elderly, or to those who physically cannot make it. It is addressed to those who can. To go in the way of Cain is to offer YAHWEH what's convenient for you instead of what He asked for. 367 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE If there is any possible way to gather on Shabbat, gather. It is commanded: a holy convocation (Leviticus 23:3; Hebrews 10:25). Do not let distance become an excuse when a convocation is within reach. Father YAHWEH, if I'm chewing on that fruit, take it out of my mouth. I beg You. I really want to be what You want me to be. Spots in Your Feasts "These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots." — Jude 12 Those who come to the feast their way, the way that's convenient, are spots in your feasts, and they'll be plucked up by the roots. The minute you go down the path of Cain, the minute you bring YAHWEH an offering you've decided is good enough, it won't be long before you're plucked up by the roots. The moment you quit honoring authority, you're on your way out by the roots. When you love the truth, you're not like those fallen gods. You are of a different nature. You love the truth (2 Thessalonians 2:10). The way, the truth, and then the third door: the life. And you don't go into the life without the truth. Wandering Stars "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever." — Jude 13 These fallen gods are like wandering stars. They never stay in one place long. They couldn't keep their appointed place (Jude 6). But the Mazzaroth, the constellations YAHWEH set in the heavens, stays in its appointed place (Job 38:31–33). The stars YAHWEH set keep their courses. These wandering stars refuse to be obedient. So I pray you eat the good fruit. I pray you eat from the tree of life. * * * Through twenty-seven chapters we have walked from the gate to the veil and beyond it. We stood at the altar. We washed at the laver. We stood in the light of the seven lamps, ate at the table, prayed at the altar of incense, and looked at the veil until our hearts ached to go in. And now you know why the ark had staves. It was made to be carried. It was never about you. It was about getting what's behind the veil outside the camp, to the lepers, to the lost, to the broken, to every soul that ever lived and died in Adam, until the day the great voice cries out of heaven: Behold, the tabernacle of YAHWEH is with men. 368 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE That is the plan. You are the priesthood that carries it. Now take it outside the camp. 369 REVEALED TREASURES OF THE TABERNACLE The Apostolic Assemblies of The House of Israel First Harvest Ministries International (FHMI) Founding Apostolic Overseer: John Shane Vaughn Mailing Address P.O. Box 2757 Bay St. Louis, MS 39521 Headquarters Assembly 235 Old Spanish Trail Waveland, MS 39576 Website: www.HisComingKingdom.com Video Archive: www.TRUTHTV.tv Search over 2,000 of Pastor Vaughn’s sermons at www.SearchTheMessage.com YouTube: @FirstHarvestMinistries Email: brothervaughn@gmail.com 370