Sickle of Truth

ISRAEL’S TYPICAL TABERNACLE The following article was taken from the reprints (R3054), I included it here at this juncture in our study because it brings to mind several very important points to be considered. “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise.” Psa 100:4 “We cannot do justice to this lesson here; nor is it necessary. We refer our readers to the booklet, “Tabernacle Shadows of Better Sacrifices,” which a majority of them already possess, and…

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The Three “Barriers” In the Tabernacle picture there are four distinctive “conditions of being”, 1) the “Camp or un-justified condition”, 2) the “Courtyard or tentatively justified condition”, 3) the “Holy or spirit begotten condition”, and lastly 4) the “Most Holy or spirit born condition”, each of these conditions separated from each other by a “barrier”, in this case the three “entrance” curtains, the “Gate”, the “Door”, and the “Vail”. You will also note that each of these conditions is represented…

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Beneath the First Vail In our last post we examined a few of the requirements which are necessary before passing beneath the First Vail, now we wish to examine those which transpire while we are passing beneath the First Vail, all of which prove necessary if we are to enter the first chamber of the Tabernacle, the “Holy“. (1) It is at the first vail we become a true Christian, a follower or “disciple” of Christ. (Refer back to Part…

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The Three “Entrances” Apparently, the difficulty many have in understanding the spiritual meaning of the Tabernacle is the inability to differentiate between the various “places”, viz., the, “camp”, the “courtyard”, the “holy”, and the “most holy” as illustrated in the Tabernacle, and the “conditions” in which these “places” typify. Failing to grasps this has led to many erroneous conclusions as well as to the true significance of the Tabernacle and what it typifies as a whole. With a proper understanding…

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The “First Vail”, Consecration and the Real Baptism “Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?” (Rom 6:3) “The Apostle is addressing those who are already members of Christ. He says, “Know ye not that so many of you as were baptized into Jesus Christ” he does not say, so many of us as were sprinkled with water, nor so many of us as were immersed in water, but,…

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The “Door” to the Tabernacle, the “First Vail” “You shall make a screen (Hebrew masak a “hanging”, singular) for the door of the tabernacle, woven of blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, made by a weaver.” (Exod 26: 36) This door (the first vail) represents our Lord even as the “Entrance Curtain” to the courtyard represented our Lord, our Lord once again being shown as the only means of access to the Father. “I am the door;…

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The Spiritual Divide “The Tabernacle `building,’ with its two parts, represented the two conditions of all who undergo a change of nature from human to spiritual. The first apartment, the ‘Holy,’ represented the condition of all those who (as Levites— justified believers) have consecrated their human nature to death, that they might become partakers of the divine nature (2 Pet 1:4), having been begotten of the Spirit. Its second apartment, the `Holy of Holies,’ (or “Most Holy”), beyond the `Vail’—death—represented…

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The Five “W’s”, and the How Once again from the start, we entered the courtyard through faith in Christ as represented in the entrance curtain, the first step. “We see, then that justification by faith, faith in Christ, our first step toward holiness, brings us into a condition of peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Rom 5:1). When our sins are forgiven, or reckoned covered with Christ’s righteousness we are a step nearer to God, yet we are…

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Believers, Christians, Disciples, who? There are many who profess to be believers, but, What actually constitutes a believer? “We must take the Scriptural proposition and say that a believer, from God’s standpoint, is not one who merely believes with the mind, but as the Scriptures say, “With the heart man believeth unto Salvation.” It is a heart matter, not merely a mental matter. When referring to the heart we are not speaking of feelings, these are unreliable and change with…

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The Tabernacle Complete “All the Levites are consecrated to God. But the `more than conquerors,’ are the selected ones, the ones who stand the tests and prove faithful. Such as fail to stand these tests, then, will be rejected from the condition represented in the Holy (and “Most Holy”), which is the `gold’ condition and represents the divine nature. “Being denied the liberty accorded to the priests, these will go out from this condition and will have merely the standing…

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