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Doug Batchelor: Jesus said in
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the Word of God.
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People need to experience a new
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Life's difficult.
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Doug: The Bible
tells us about a sanctuary.
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There's actually three of them.
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Now, when I say sanctuary,
you've got different words.
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One is the word tabernacle,
that's typically assigned to the
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sanctuary they
had in the wilderness.
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Then you've got
the word sanctuary.
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And then you've
got the word temple.
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In the Middle East right now,
there is a major conflict, at
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the time of this recording, and,
if you boil it down, a lot of it
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has to do with some sacred
real estate on top of a mountain
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called Mount Moriah.
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It's sacred real estate for
three major-- you could argue
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four major--
religions of the world.
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There are about 2.2 billion
Christians in the world; that's
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including Protestants and
Catholics, orthodox Christians.
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There's about 1.7
Muslims in the world.
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And there is
about 16 million Jews.
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And that
mountaintop is a holy spot.
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Now, to give you a little quick
overview of why this is such an
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interesting piece of real estate
goes all the way back to the
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time of Abraham.
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It's first mentioned when
Abraham wins a battle against
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these kings of the North.
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His name was
Chedorlaomer, up by Damascus.
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Still in the news today, right?
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Battle between Abraham and
the people of Syria, the North.
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And he rescued Lot, that had
been captured from Sodom, and
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Abraham got all
this bounty from the war.
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And, on his way back, he stopped
in a small town called Salem
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where there was a king
priest named Melchizedek.
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It's the first
time Salem is mentioned.
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The word Jeru Salem, Jeru
Shalom, it means city of peace.
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But this is the place.
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Later, God says to Abraham, "I
want you to take your son, your
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only son who you love, and
I want you to bring him to the
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mountains of Moriah and
offer him there for Me."
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Abraham went from Hebron, or
wherever he was at the time, and
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he went to the mountains of
Moriah, Mount Zion, same place,
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the vicinity of Salem.
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And he went up the
mountain to offer Isaac.
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And it's a story, really,
of the plan of salvation.
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The father and son
go up the mountain.
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Abraham places the wood on
Isaac's back; the cross was
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placed on Jesus's back.
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And, on the way up the hill--
Isaac's gone to sacrifice before
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with his father.
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He says, "Father, I see that
we've got the wood, and we've
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got the fire."
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What it would take, the tinder
and flint to make the fire.
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He said, "But
where is the sacrifice?
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Where's the lamb?"
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And Abraham said, "My son, God
will provide Himself a lamb."
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They got to the top.
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Abraham told his son
what God had asked him to do.
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Isaac willingly
offered himself as a sacrifice.
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Just before the knife came
down, God stopped him and said,
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"Abraham, Abraham
do not harm the lad.
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Now I know that you trust Me."
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This was an an allegory of what
the Father and Son would do for
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you and me.
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"God so loved the
world He gave His Son."
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Abraham is the
father of the faithful.
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He was willing to
sacrifice his son and obey God.
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Years later, David, who is
a descendant from Abraham, an
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angel of judgment's going
through the land of Israel, and
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thousands were dying from a
plague because of their pride.
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And David had
instigated their pride.
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And David looked up, and he saw
an angel with a drawn sword over
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Mount Moriah, the very place
where Abraham offered Isaac.
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It was owned by a Jebusite
named Oran back then, or Ornan.
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And David prayed and said,
"Let this punishment be on me.
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But what have these sheep done?"
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Again, you see there's a
judgment, and they're sheep, and
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God stops, and David
goes and he offers sacrifice.
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He buys the threshing floor
and offers sacrifice, and the
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judgment is stopped.
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The angel of judgment is stayed.
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That, again, is on Mount Zion.
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Later, David tells Solomon,
"This is the place that God has
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chosen to build His house."
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And so, why is this coming
from our Revelation study?
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"Then another angel came out of
the temple that was in heaven,
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also having a sharp sickle."
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This is part of the harvest
of the earth that's going
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to happen.
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So, with that background,
what did God ask Moses to build,
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and why?
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You read, in Exodus 25,
verse 8, "And let them make Me a
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sanctuary, that I
might dwell among them."
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Now, Jesus is with
us everywhere we go.
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But God wanted them to
have a place that was a physical
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presence that they could see
because we kind of live in time
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and space.
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This was so important to the
Lord that, when the plagues fell
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on Egypt and they crossed
the Red Sea, instead of going
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north up to the promised land,
God said, "No, I want you to
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go south down to Mount Sinai."
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And they went to Mount Sinai,
and there, not only did they
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get The Ten Commandments,
but Moses stayed on the mountain
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40 days and 40 nights.
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It doesn't take 40
days and 40 nights to write
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the 300 words of
The Ten Commandments.
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While he was there on
the mountain, God gave him
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instructions about
building an edifice.
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He says, "Let them
make Me a sanctuary."
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From where did these
sanctuary blueprints originate?
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Where did Moses get the plans?
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Did he just dream it up?
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The Bible tells us, Exodus
25:40, "And see to it that you
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make them according to--"
the what-- "the pattern--" the
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design-- "which was
shown you in the mountain."
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Now, this sanctuary, this
earthly sanctuary, is like a
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miniature of a very real
sanctuary that God has in heaven
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where He dwells.
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Like on the sanctuary on earth,
they had a room with golden
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angels carved in the walls.
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In heaven, God's got
a living wall of angels.
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Sanctuary on earth, they had
angels on the right and left of
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the Ark of the Covenant.
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In heaven, they're real angels.
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In fact, friends, the subject of
the sanctuary is all through the
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book of Revelation.
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We need to understand it.
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A lot of the Bible,
you will not understand.
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The subject of the sanctuary
in the temple goes from Exodus
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to Revelation.
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That's a lot of Bible, yet a lot
of Christians never study the
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subject, and it is filled with
meaning that helps us understand
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the plan of salvation.
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Revelation, chapter 1,
where does Jesus first appear?
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Standing among seven
candlesticks, that was in
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the sanctuary.
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You read later, it talks about
the angel took coals from the
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altar of incense,
that was in the sanctuary.
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He said, "I saw the Temple
of God open in heaven; I saw
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the Ark."
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That was in the sanctuary.
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So the context of this
vision is in the sanctuary.
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And, if you look in, like,
Isaiah chapter 6, and you read
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the first few verses there, "In
the year that King Uzziah died,
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I saw the Lord high and lifted
up, and the train of His robe
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filled the temple.
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And on the right and the left
were Seraphim, and they cried
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one to another.
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And they each had six wings:
with two wings, they covered
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their face; with two wings, they
covered their feet; with two,
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they did fly.
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And they cried one to the other
and they said, 'Holy, holy, holy
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is the Lord of hosts; The whole
earth is full of His glory!'"
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Here you have a picture of
God on His throne, between two
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living Seraphim, and the little
Ark that Moses made on earth
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with those angels on top, that
was a symbol of the dwelling
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place of God.
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And, when God would meet with
Moses, he would meet with him in
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the Holy of Holies between the
Shekinah glory, they called it,
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the glory of God,
between those two angels.
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And so this teaching, if you
read the last eight chapters in
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the book of Ezekiel, you
know what it's talking about?
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The temple.
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So it's all through the Bible.
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And we need to understand this.
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"There are priests who serve--"
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the what-- "the copy and shadow
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of the heavenly things,
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as Moses was divinely instructed
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when he was about to make
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the tabernacle--For he said,
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'See that you make all things
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according to the pattern
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shown you in the mountain.'"
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They were to make it according
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to a specific
pattern that had been given.
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Pattern given by who?
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By God.
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And you can also read here where
it says, in Revelation 14:17,
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the verse we covered, "And then
another angel came out of--" the
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what-- "the
temple--" which is in?
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Does God have a
temple in heaven?
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Why did Jesus say, "Think
not that I've come to destroy
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the law and the prophets.
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I've not come to destroy
but fulfill, for I say unto you,
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until heaven and earth pass
away, not one jot or one tittle
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will in any wise pass from
the law til all is fulfilled."
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By the way, when He said
fulfilled there, doesn't mean
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done away with,
it means filled full.
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Why does heaven
have to pass away?
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Because the original Ark
is in heaven with God's law.
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The Bible tells us there is a
temple in heaven, and the law is
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a reflection of God's character
we studied the other night.
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All right,
question number three.
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What did God teach
through the sanctuary?
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What was the object of this?
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Notice this, Psalm 77, verse 13,
short verse but very important,
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"Your way--" King
James says it, "Thy way."
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I like that better, "Thy way,
O God, is in the sanctuary."
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The way of God, that
means the way that He saves us,
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He expresses himself.
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Now, the earthly
sanctuary was built around a
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sacrificial system.
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And I know, when I first started
reading the Bible, learning
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these things, I thought, "I
don't understand all the blood
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and the purpose
for the sacrifices."
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And then, as I continued
studying, Revelation talks about
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the lamb that was slain from
the foundation of the world.
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And then I read where Adam
and Eve, when they sinned and
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their garments of glory
went out and they saw their
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nakedness, they tried to
cover it with fig leaves,
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symbol of self-righteousness.
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Remember, Jesus cursed
a fig tree, and God said,
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"That won't do it."
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And God gave them skins.
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Now, where did
the skins come from?
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God established a
sacrificial system.
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The penalty for sin was death,
not for Adam, but the whole
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creation suffered.
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Adam was like the ruler of the
world, and, when death went to
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Adam and it went to Eve and
their children, it went to the
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whole planet, became
corrupted because of sin.
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All the creatures suffered.
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So God said to
cover your nakedness.
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"Someday My Son is going to come
to take away your sins, and His
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robe of righteousness
will cover your sin."
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But He began the sacrificial
system; He showed them how.
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Now we're going to put a little
sanctuary up on the screen here.
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This is an overview; this
is sort of an aerial view of
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the temple.
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There were three principal
places in the sanctuary.
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You had what they
called the courtyard.
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You had the holy place.
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Then you had the inner sanctum
called the Holy of Holies or
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the most holy place.
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There are three
phases in salvation.
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The three phases are, it's
big theological terms; it's
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justification,
sanctification, glorification.
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Justification took place
in the courtyard where you had
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the altar and the laver.
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Sanctification took
place in the holy place.
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Glorification was when you
came into the presence of God in
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the Holy of Holies.
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I might also mention at this
point that the priests would go
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and they would offer the
sacrifices in the courtyard, and
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the high priest and sometimes
others might go into the
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holy place.
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But only the high priest was to
go into the Holy of Holies, and
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it only happened two
times in the Hebrew economy.
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Once when the temple
was built and inaugurated.
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Don't forget that.
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When they finished building the
temple, obviously, builders had
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to be in there
when they built it.
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Moses went in; when they
finished it, he sprinkled
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everything with blood to
sanctify it, and then they
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activated it.
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But, from then on, the only time
a high priest went in was the
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end of the year on
the day of atonement.
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And so, only the high priest
could go in there because it
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represented the presence of God.
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So it's just good for
you to have that overview.
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Now, there are three phases.
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The children of Israel, their
history follows this as well, as
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you'll see when we proceed.
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You come out of Egypt; Egypt
was, you know, on the outside,
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and they went
through the Red Sea.
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First, they were baptized
in a pillar of fire, that was
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the altar.
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Then they went through the
Red Sea, that was the laver,
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was filled with water.
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Then they entered the
wilderness, that's where they
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were sanctified.
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Then they entered the promised
land, that was when they
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were glorified.
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Three phases in
the Hebrew experience.
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Number four, notice.
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What were the
objects in the courtyard?
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I already touched on them, and
there'll be some repetition here
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because I want to
have this sink in.
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First thing you saw when
you went in is, who knows?
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Is the altar of offering.
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It says, "And you will
burn the whole ram on the altar.
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It is a burnt
offering to the Lord."
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First thing that came
through the door, and there was
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a sacrifice.
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What begins our journey?
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It's a
sacrifice, the first step.
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When the children of Israel
came out of Egypt, what began
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their journey?
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They were to eat the Passover
sacrifice with their shoes on
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their feet, their staff in their
hand, their unleavened bread on
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their backs.
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That's why they
eat unleavened bread.
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And, so, first thing was the
sacrifice, that was the altar.
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Then you had, also in the
courtyard, you had the laver.
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So this represents, the
sacrifice was the fire, and then
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you add the water.
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Now, what does Jesus say?
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"Unless you are born of the
water and the Spirit, you cannot
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enter the kingdom of Heaven,"
John chapter 3. Does he say you
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might not be
able to or you cannot?
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You cannot; you
need both baptisms.
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And I know a lot of churches,
they brag about how many people
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were baptized in water, but they
don't care much about baptized
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in the fire.
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You remember what John the
baptist said, "I baptize you
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with water.
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But there's come one coming
after I who will baptize you
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with the Holy
Spirit and with fire."
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You need both.
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The children of Israel were
baptized in a pillar of fire,
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and then they went through
the Red Sea; it's another kind
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of baptism.
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So you have the fire and the
water there in the courtyard.
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Number five.
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What sanctuary
symbol did Jesus fulfill
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in the altar of sacrifice?
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The Bible tells us, 1
Corinthians 5, verse 7, "For
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indeed Christ is our Passover,
which was sacrificed for us."
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John 1:29, "The next day John
saw Jesus coming toward him, and
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said, 'Behold!
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The Lamb of God that takes away
the sin--'" of three people,
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that takes away
the sin of how much?
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How many of you
live in the world?
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Everybody in the
world can take advantage.
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There is enough sacrifice in
Jesus's sufferings to cover all
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of your sins and the sins
of everyone who's ever lived.
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How can He do that?
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He's God.
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We can't figure it
out, but He could do it.
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Number six.
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What does the laver represent?
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It says, "Arise and be baptized,
and wash away your sins, calling
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on the name of the Lord."
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We need to be baptized in the
Spirit, the altar; we need to be
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baptized in the
laver, the water.
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You can even
read in 1 Corinthians.
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Here, this one's from Romans
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chapter 6, verse 3; it says,
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"Or do you not know that as many
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of you as were baptized
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into Christ Jesus
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were baptized into His death?
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Therefore we are buried with Him
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through baptism into death,
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that just as Christ was raised
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from the dead by the glory
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of the Father, even so
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we should walk in--" what--
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"a newness of life."
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After baptism, you're born
again; you walk in a newness of
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life; all the old sins are gone.
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1 Corinthians chapter
10 is where Paul says,
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in verse 1 and 2,
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"Moreover, brethren, I don't
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want you to be unaware of our
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fathers who were under the
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cloud--" pillar of fire-- "and
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all passed through the sea, and
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all were baptized into Moses in
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the cloud and in the sea."
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Jesus said, "We must be born
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of the water and the Spirit."
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Little amazing fact I
think you'll find interesting.
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The world was all washed
with water in the days of Noah.
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The Bible says, "When Christ
comes, the world's going to be
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washed in fire," 2 Peter
chapter 3, "And then God's
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going to make a new
heaven and new earth."
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Before the world is born
again, it goes through a water
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and a fire baptism also.
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So everybody and everything
must go through those baptisms.
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And that's what baptism
is a symbol of, the washing.
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You hold your
breath momentarily.
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It's a new birth, new beginning.
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Number seven.
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What were the other items
that were in the holy place?
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We're making our way
through the sanctuary.
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You can read here, and, "On
the--" say it-- "the table of
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showbread, they shall spread
a blue cloth, and put it on the
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dishes, in the pans, and the
bowls, and the pitchers pouring;
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and the
showbread shall be on it."
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They had a table with bread.
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And so that was always, when you
went in the sanctuary, that'd be
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on the left side.
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You go straight towards the
altar, would be the, Ark of the
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Covenant, rather, would be in
front of you, and the altar of
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incense on the right.
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Then you would-- I'm sorry, on
the right, you'd have the bread;
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on the left you
would have the candlestick.
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That leads us to the next thing.
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In Numbers 8, verse 2,
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it says, "When
you arrange the lamp,
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the seven lamps shall give light
in front of the lampstand."
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So, so far we've got
two articles of furniture.
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You've got the bread,
and you've got the light.
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What's next?
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"And you shall make in
altar to burn incense on."
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They had an altar of incense.
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Now we're gonna talk about,
what do these things represent?
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They're very important.
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We've got the the bread.
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How many loaves
of bread were there?
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Twelve, one for each
one of the tribes of Israel.
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Who is the bread?
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Who is the bread that
came down from heaven?
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Jesus is the bread.
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And this is saying that the
people of God were to be fed
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with the bread of life.
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Then you come over here,
and then you've got the light.
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Who is the light?
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Jesus said, "I am
the light of the world."
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But, not only did Jesus say,
"I am the light of the world,"
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He said, what?
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"You are the
light of the world."
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Now, we don't have light of our
own, but we reflect his light.
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And how many lights were there?
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Seven.
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And what kept the light burning?
00:20:06.10\00:20:08.50
It was pure virgin oil.
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And that was because it was
a symbol for the Holy Spirit.
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It was a special oil they
use in the sanctuary, but it was
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olive oil.
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And it's a symbol for the Spirit
that keeps the light burning.
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We need that Spirit to
keep the light burning.
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You are like the
light of the world.
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You are not to put your light
under a bush but to be set upon
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a hill.
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But we are
reflecting the light of Jesus.
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We have no light in ourselves.
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He is the bread.
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But you know what else
Jesus did with the bread?
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Jesus not only said,
"I'm the bread of life."
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He said to the disciples, "You
give them something to eat."
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Jesus broke the bread, gave it
to the disciples, they gave it
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to the people, it
multiplied in their hands.
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So, all of these things that God
does for us, He also wants us to
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do for Him, as
his representatives.
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Jesus said, "As the
Father sent me, so send I you."
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So you've got the bread,
and you've got the light.
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And then the
third thing is what?
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It's the altar of incense.
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Now, it was on the horns of the
altar that the priest would come
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in, and he would spread
blood for the daily sacrifices.
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It wasn't until the day of
atonement that they went into
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the Holy of Holies.
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What does this altar represent?
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It's a symbol for the
prayers of God's people.
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They would put incense on
it, and the incense, often
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frankincense, and they might
have myrrh, some other essence,
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it would waft over the curtain
into the presence of God in
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the Holy of Holies.
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And it represented
the prayers of the people.
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In these three articles of the
altar of incense-- You've got
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prayer, you've got the
light, and you've got the bread.
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This represents the
three disciplines in the
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Christian life.
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All right, we're
going to keep going.
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Where did Jesus go
after his resurrection?
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Answer, "Christ has not entered
into the holy place made with
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hands, which are copies of the
true, but into heaven itself,
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now to appear in the
presence of God for us."
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Where is Jesus now?
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Now, you know, Christ
may appear to you in a dream.
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He might speak to you
through the Holy Spirit.
00:22:08.86\00:22:11.06
Jesus did speak to Paul
even after his ascension.
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Jesus is not handcuffed
to one spot in heaven.
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He is God; He's free
to go where He wants.
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But His principal place of
work and ministry is as our High
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Priest in heaven at the right
hand of power, the Ruler of
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the universe.
00:22:29.04\00:22:30.35
He is enthroned, and you
just read some of the beautiful
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statements Paul makes regarding
Christ in the beginning and end
00:22:33.58\00:22:36.35
of his letters, makes it clear
about his position and his deity
00:22:36.38\00:22:39.65
with God.
00:22:39.69\00:22:41.16
Again, Hebrews 9, verse 11,
"Christ came as high priest of
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the good things to come, with
the greater and more perfect
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tabernacle not made with hands,
that is, not of this creation."
00:22:49.10\00:22:52.83
All right, is it clear to
you that there is a tabernacle
00:22:52.87\00:22:57.61
in heaven?
00:22:57.64\00:23:00.08
Is it clear to you, from
what we're reading in the New
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Testament, Jesus
is our High Priest?
00:23:02.38\00:23:06.01
He is our Mediator.
00:23:06.05\00:23:07.72
In the same way Moses would go
from the people to God and from
00:23:07.75\00:23:10.89
God to the people, Christ is the
ladder between heaven and earth.
00:23:10.92\00:23:15.52
Even on the Mount of
Transfiguration, Jesus was
00:23:15.56\00:23:17.69
glorified, and God said, "This
is my Son," and Moses and Elijah
00:23:17.73\00:23:23.20
said, "He is the one."
00:23:23.23\00:23:24.90
And then you had
Peter, James, and John.
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So you had three
humans, Peter, James, and John.
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And you had three
divine, God, Elijah, Moses.
00:23:30.37\00:23:34.28
Then you had Jesus who is the
bridge between the earthly and
00:23:34.31\00:23:37.55
the divine.
00:23:37.58\00:23:38.91
Christ said to Nathaniel,
"You're impressed because I said
00:23:38.95\00:23:43.39
I saw you under the fig tree.
00:23:43.42\00:23:45.09
You'll see
greater things than these.
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Hereafter, you will see
the angels of God ascending and
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descending on the Son of Man."
00:23:49.82\00:23:51.73
Jesus is the escalator through
which the angels come to and
00:23:51.76\00:23:55.96
from heaven and earth.
00:23:56.00\00:23:57.77
He is the bridge.
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He is our High Priest.
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Have you ever noticed, in life
sometimes, it's not what you
00:24:00.67\00:24:03.07
know, it's who you know?
00:24:03.10\00:24:04.97
Have you ever found it
beneficial to have a friend in
00:24:05.01\00:24:07.21
high places that got you
out of a fix or had connections?
00:24:07.24\00:24:11.18
You're not going to find
any friend in higher places.
00:24:11.21\00:24:14.18
You're not going to find any
friend that is better connected
00:24:14.22\00:24:16.92
with Jesus, your High Priest,
that is at the right hand of God
00:24:16.95\00:24:21.42
Almighty of the infinite cosmos.
00:24:21.46\00:24:25.19
And He is there
pleading your name.
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When you pray,
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