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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…