Sickle of Truth

The Golden Pillars In our previous posts we discussed some of the various requirements necessary for one to pass the second entrance or barrier (the “First Vail”) into the “Holy” of the Tabernacle, the spirit begotten condition, chief amongst which was the sacrifice of our human life rights or restitutional life rights. These same earthly or human life rights secured through the ransom sacrifice of our Lord will eventually be restored to all mankind in the next age during the…

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The following comments found under the title, “Who could enter the Tabernacle?” were made by our friend Alek on his blog; “The Desert Tabernacle” comments which at this juncture in our study we feel need a little further clarification. His comments were as follows: “Aaron and his descendants were designated as priests to do the ritual service in the Tabernacle (Exod 28:1). The more menial labor of the Tabernacle was assigned to the rest of the tribe of Levi (Num…

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ISRAEL’S TYPICAL TABERNACLE, part 2 In our previous post we noted the remarks of a typical nominal Minister in regards to the Tabernacle and likewise supplied an illustration typifying what we best believed he perceived. Not wishing to interrupt the flow of the previous article, we would here now like to take another look at both and examine more thoroughly some of the various errors we noted. Once again the Ministers words: “Suppose yourself approaching the Tabernacle at some desert…

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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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