Battle for the minds of men

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Before we enter into the Holy Place, please be extremely respectful, humble, and willing for the Lord to teach you His World which is not of this world.

The Lord will be coming into His house, your mind, like a rushing wind. Let us prepare ourselves for the experience. Let us enter into His temple and see what He has prepared for us that we may know what kind of Temple we are to be for Him to dwell in. Let us be prepared for that day when He comes, we are awake and not asleep.

Just like Pentecost was for the disciples, so it will be for those who are to receive the latter rain at its appointed time. The early rain was Pentecost and the latter rain will come to prepare a people which will bring everything to a head, where the mystery of God is finished, and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit at the appointed time will be in its fullness never to leave. As James said “Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.”

 

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We are the Temple of God

There will be a whole lot of shaking going on, when the Lord comes to everyone’s mind on that special appointed time in a very real tangible way, all doors will be opened in your mind, there will be nothing secret, everything will be exposed, and all the lies that have held your mind locked in lies will be loosed, so that you can believe the truth in all its majesty and beauty of Holiness.

Revelations of truth, coming with stark clarity before your understanding, so that you may truly repent forever of believing all the lies you have been told. It will be easier to handle if you go to the Lord and learn now, than it will be, to be overwhelmed in that day with the realities of the truth will come tearing down like the curtain in the Temple of God, the moment Yeshua died. For to deny what is happening that day, to deny the truth that has comes clearly to your mind, for your salvation, will be to turn away from the last chance of salvation.

 

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With that in mind, let us move forward into the Temple of God. Here is a quick review of what to look forward to when you enter the first room in the Temple of God It is called the Holy Place. There you will find the Menorah, also known as the candlestick, the table of showbread, and the altar of incense. Everything is made of gold here.

As we enter into the Holy Place where God dwells with His Only Begotten Son, and the Holy Spirit we will notice in the first compartment or the Holy place three pieces of furniture, representative of what is available to help you learn and partake in the workings of your salvation. As priests, your task is to be a living example, a witness before the world, and offering to the world the opportunity to partake also of the salvation offered. This is where you, as a priest for our Lord and Savior are to pray, go before God for answers, direction, and guidance in spiritual matters. Each article in the Holy Place is for this daily ministering.

 

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The Candlestick

The lampstand (called the menorah or candlestick) was beaten and fashioned out of a single block of gold and had three branches coming out of each side of the central shaft. The seven lamps on top of the branches were likely round saucers with pinched rims which held the wick and olive oil.

All the furniture in the Holy place is made of wood overlaid with gold symbolizing that Yeshua came as flesh and is overlaid with the presence of God. The ornaments on the Golden Candlestick add up to 66 ornaments, and coincidentally there is one for each book of the Bible. Revelation gives us a view of this room in the heavenly temple where our Lord in ministering on our behalf.

 

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The light from the lampstand is the seven spirits of the Holy Spirit and the angels which have brought the messages from heaven to earth. The enlightenment that comes to our minds as we read the Scripture is by the power of the Holy Spirit. Just as it was in the beginning, so it is in the beginning for everyone who has started on the spiritual journey, we are drawn to the light and we also see the light is good.

It is the oil of anointing by the Holy Spirit upon our minds that keeps the lights of truth burning within our hearts and it will lead us into the Temple of God where our Ark of Salvation is found.

That is why it is so important to fill your mind with the Word of God daily, prayerfully asking for God’s Anointing Spirit upon it so that it may lighten up your life with the glory of Him who is able to save us from sin. We are the temple of God, and we are to be all that we find in the example and sample of the Holy and Most Holy Place that God has provided in His Word. Draw near the great light of His Glory.

Notice that the candle stick is over against the side of the table of showbread. Light shining down upon the unleaven bread of the Word of God bringing light to all the bounty that the Lord has set before us. This is the work of the Holy Spirit.

 

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By the positioning of the candlestick by the table of showbread, it is symbolic of importance of needing the light of the Holy Spirit to understand the Words of the Lord. As it was in Revelation, where we are to see Yeshua in the midst of the candlesticks, so are we to see the light upon the Word of God because it is Yeshua. By the light of the Holy Spirit we come to know and understand the truth. The Spirit of God moves upon the word, and we see God's Holy, educating Spirit upon His Word which will lead you into all truth. A light, a new and precious light, shines forth from every page. For those that never had this experience though you may have been a student of the Word for many years, pray like never before that Yeshua will grant you this precious light that you may be born again of the spirit and see the light.

Truth is there revealed, and words and sentences are made bright and appropriate for the occasion, as the voice of God speaking to the soul. Pray for this experience, where God reveals to your heart the truth that you need to grow spiritually closer to Him who is able to save you in these last hours of earth’s history. Wake up; it is time to walk in the newness of the light that is given this world in these last hours of earthly history.

 

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We should not for one moment think that we have all the truth, that we understand the main pillars of our faith, and that we may rest on this knowledge to save us. The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light. Especially is needed the knowledge of what God wants us to know to be prepared for the last hour’s of earth’s history. Pray that your conscience is laid like an open book before God that He may do with it as He wills. If it is not open for God manifestation the truth will be lost on the closed mind.

God shines His light upon those Words that we need for our time. May God open up our minds to the original truth from the beginning. It has been known as the old truth from the Old Testament, but it will always be the eternal truth found in Yeshua in the light of the Holy Spirit that we are walk in. Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

 

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Everything has a time and place in prophecy and in its fulfillment, and we are to know not only where we are but what we are to be doing in this time so that we show not only God that we listened to His voice but also tell the world that it takes faith to walk the walk with God. It has been since the beginning and is the expectation of all for the great day when we manifest the character in Christ in us. When that is achieved this old world is over. So how can this be achieved? Did God lay out a plan for achieving the manifestation of the sons and daughter of God?

 

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The Table of Unleaven Showbread

The table of showbread was built of acacia wood and overlaid with solid gold. Twelve fresh unleaven loaves of bread were placed on the table on before the Sabbath and were replaced by fresh unleaven bread before the following Sabbath. The high priestly line would eat the replaced bread. May all those who hunger and thirst after righteousness come in and partake of the Lord’s Table. There is also a description of the setting of the Table of Showbread. It reminds me of the day when we will be invited to sit at the table all set up for the our Lord’s Wedding Feast. And now we know that this unleaven bread represents Yeshua who is the Word of God, our manna, the living Word in the flesh. There is no leaven found in His Word. We also now see that the table preparation is to be made for the great wedding feast.

Leaven in Scripture is a type of sin and what God is saying, "I not only want you out of Egypt, but I want Egypt out of you. It is not good enough to get you out of the world. I want the world out of you. I do not want to see any more hypocrisy." Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

 

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The Altar of Incense
The Altar of Incense is also known as the "golden altar" or the "inner altar." This three foot high altar was the location of regular incense offerings. Every morning and evening when tending the light of the candlestick with seven candles, the priests would offer a mixture of frankincense and other aromatic gums.

The flour and oil are the ingredients of the unleaven bread before it was formed. The frankincense was the gift to the new born king by the wise men who knew He would die for them. Frankincense belongs to the service of God. On this altar of incense, nothing else but only the holy anointing oil, flour and the sweet incense were to be used, all symbolisms of Yeshua. Gold, incense and myrrh; old as a token of God’s kingdom; incense as a token of God’s divinity; and myrrh as a token of God’s suffering and of God’s death in the flesh.

Here is something to think about. Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

 

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The altar of incense was where the incense of prayer was offered to God. But before we can pray at the altar of incense, we must first wash away his/her sins by faith. To do so, one must be cleansed of all his/her sins by the faith of the burnt offering and of the laver in the outer court before coming in to minister before God. This is where the prayers of the saints, flavored with the incense of Christ’s sacrifice, are brought before the throne of God.

God does not hear the prayers of sinners, only the repentant. God is pleased to hear the prayers of the righteous and repentent.

Interesting to note is the fact that only ashes of the sin are brought to the altar of incense. God will bring the incubator of sin to ashes. Symbolically this shows that all that remains of sin are the fragrances of Yeshua’s ministry and the ashes of Lucifer’s.

 

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The Veil or Curtain
A curtain reflecting the angelic activity in heaven, embroidered with cherubim, divided the holy from the most holy place. It is called the veil. It separated the Holy from the Most Holy where God dwelt on his mercy-seat, between the cherubim above the ark. These truths contained in the Most Holy are sacred and immutable and as unchanging as God is.

At the death of Yeshua upon the cross, inside the temple during the time of the Passover Lamb sacrifice, a heavenly symbolism was sent showing the world the earthly temple sacrificial services were over forever. The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom. It was at that moment that the new heavenly priestly services were instituted.

 

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It is time for us to put on the fine linen that Yeshua has provided and come in and be united with Yeshua for eternity at the wedding ceremony. We are to spiritually come here to receive the final hidden manna, our new name, and to know the name of God at the appointed time. Are you dressed and ready to enter? Because of what Yeshua has done for us, we are to boldly enter into the Most Holy Place.

 

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Most Holy Place or Holy of Holies

There is only one piece of furniture that you will find in the Holy of Holies. In holy of holies, where is centered the symbolic service of atonement and intercession, the foreshadow of our future, Yeshua ministering as our High Priest before the mercy seat.

“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, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.” The ministry of Yeshua before He returns is conducted in the Most Holy Place before the mercy seat.

This final ministry forms the connecting link that helps you understand Revelation. The final ministry reveals the relationship between heaven and earthly events in the last days. It can be better understood in the light of the fall feasts. Through the spiritual feasts that He has prepared for His children, God tells us how He will work out the final details of our salvation. Our God is a merciful, loving, longsuffering God who wishes all His Children to come home. God is the King of Kings and God of all the kingdoms, who has created us for His purpose. Our creator is calling us home.

Ezekiel saw the throne of God and described it this way. “Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.”

 

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This was where the Ark of the Covenant housed the tables of stone, upon which God Himself had inscribed the Ten Commandments amd is found in the heavenly sanctuary. You may have heard it called the ark of God's testament, or the Ark of the Covenant. It has been said that the stone that was around at the time of the writing by the finger of God was the sapphire at His feet and then you think about the shekinah. the Holy Spirit appearing in shining glory. I can imagine it was a beauty to behold. I believe that God has beautiful hand writing too. I look forward to the day when the shekinah glory that shone on the face of Moses shall shine forth in me also. May His sacred Laws be written on my and your heart and shine forth in all their glory.

God’s people, whom He calls His peculiar treasure, are privileged with a twofold system of law; the moral that were written on stone and are to be placed in the heart and the details of how Moses had written on parchment. And Yeshua mentioned that conversation when He was talking about adultery and what Moses wrote “For the hardness of your heart he [Moses] wrote you this precept.”

Please notice the distance Yeshua places himself from what Moses wrote by saying “..from the beginning it was not so.” Notice where Yeshua places his ultimate intentions; back at the beginning. Can you imagine the conversation that Moses is having with Yeshua on Mount Sinai? How Moses is trying to make atonement for the children of Israel? How he is trying to mediate between where the people are in their thinking, and where God wants them to be. Remember it was not until Moses broke the tablets because of what he saw before him, when he came down from Mount Sinai the first time that he wrote on parchment the details. The contrast, was eye opening as to how much in the darkness Israel was, must have been running through Moses' mind as he worked on the parchment of instruction for the children of Israel. The counsel of God and the atonement negotiation written by Moses could easily have been lot more different than we comprehend.

With heart felt need to mediate, between the wrath of God and teaching the people of God on how to live in a godly manner, Moses went back up the Mount. God offered to destroy the works of them all, but Moses pleaded for their redemption, pointing out to Yeshua, that he called them out of Egypt. It was Moses who knowing what they came out of in Egypt and wanting to spiritually lead them to God's kingdom and figured out how to work with them.

There Yeshua and Moses must have discussed all the various issues that would come up and with Moses' training in the Egyptian school of leading a people, Moses knew the value of repetitiveness for emphasis. So everything Yeshua had explained to Moses was now revamped in Moses's mind to take into consideration the hardness of the people's heart.

Just how many changes were made from what Yeshua said that fateful day on Mount Sinai, and how much negotiated changes was Moses able to make before writing it down on parchment, we probably will not know, until we sit at Yeshua's feet and hear Him tell the story.
From the creation the sacred moral Ten Word Law of God was an essential part of God’s divine plan, and is as unchangeable as Himself. The details written on parchment addressed the issue of some of the how, whys of how God is going to address the sin issue. It was to answer a particular purpose in Yeshua’s plan for the salvation of the race. The typical system of sacrifices and offerings was established that through these services the sinner might discern the great offering, Yeshua Himself as the Lamb of God. That is the good news found in parchment, and for those who accept this promise in faith it was glorious and for us is glorious. It was the provision made by Yeshua in counsel with His Father, to aid in the salvation of the race, before even the foundation of earth was made.

The whole arrangement documented on parchment was founded on the promises to Adam, Abraham, handed down through the generations, written out by Moses and fulfilled by Yeshua with His First coming, and what Yeshua did not fulfill, He is performing in Heaven as our High Priest, and will finish all the mystery by the time of His second coming.

 

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These precious truths given to us are to be read, spoken and lived out in our lives with a sacred awe. They are to be meditated on, to get to know God better, to understand His Kingdom better, and for us to know how to live His Way.

Meditating on these ten builds a solid foundation, secures your life and in your relationship with God. Besides it gives you more to talk to Him about. Do you know the spiritual depth of the ten in thought, word or deed? People who God has made the repository of His law are of the new covenant. The men to whom God has committed these sacred trusts need to be spiritualized, elevated, and vitalized by the Holy Spirit so that they may live it out in their lives.

 

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Ark of the Covenant

The only object in the Holy of Holies is the sacred ark contained the two tablets with the Ten Commandments, the rod of Aaron that blossomed and the pot of manna. The ark was covered by the "mercy seat" and represented the footstool of God's throne.

The tables of stone on which were inscribed with the Ten Commandments (which are to be in our hearts as the eternal covenant, the testimony, from which the ark derived its name).

The Ten Commandments were known as the tables of stone or the tables of God’s testimony. So how are we to view this, in the light of Yeshua’s ministering work, through the holy spirit today? As Corinthians says “Forasmuch as you are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.”

The jar of manna was also in the Ark Now this bread is different that the bread on the showbread table. This is heavenly bread and there will be a special time when this hidden manna is given to the believers.

 

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There is also Aaron's rod which had budded found in the Ark of Testimony. This rod was used in the Pharaoh’s court to do battle.

To get a clearer understanding of what had occurred, that would cause Aaron’s rod to bud, you will need to read Numbers 16 and 17. There arose men two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown who gathered against Moses and Aaron after Mount Sinai saying “Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except you make yourself altogether a prince over us?” For the people of the assembly it was decided to let God show who is chosen by this miracle.

 

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We must have are three elements wrought within us to be a part of the body of Yeshua Christ: (1) the moral law of God's righteousness and holiness; THE TEN COMMANDMENTS kept in spirit and in truth (2) the substance of Christ in His body and blood, which is our life; which can only happen through the power of the Holy Spirit; THE MANNA and (3) the resurrection power of the Holy Spirit to live the spiritual life; budded, bloomed, blossoms, and yielding fruit just like AARON’S ROD.



Yeshua is the great “I AM” and that is how David can call him Lord, and He would be David’s great great (did I get enough greats in there?) grandchild.

 

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Give your minds and bodies to God. Let yourselves be a living and holy sacrifice, the kind he will accept. When you think of what he has done for you, is this too much to ask?