And now, Jesus Christ is the One who builds a House for God; because the house that Moses built is not there anymore, nor the one Solomon built—it’s not there either; and there is no house for God in Jerusalem. But now, Christ has been building a House for God out of living stones, out of human beings, for a long time. He built the Outer Court out of human beings: from Adam to Christ; then the Holy Place out of human beings too: from Christ to the seventh angel-messenger; and now, at the Last Day, He is building the Holy of Holies of His House out of human beings too; because it is a House for God. “For you,” (as individuals), “are the temple of God,” (the house of God).1 And out of people who are the house of God, Christ builds His spiritual House, His Church. And now, when that House is completed (and It will be completed at this end time, when very last elect comes into the House of God, into the Holy of Holies), that is when the construction of the House of Christ, which is His Church, will be completed, and It will be dedicated to God for God to dwell in all His fullness in that spiritual House, in that spiritual Temple.
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And now, the human race as a Temple of God has all the Gentiles as the Outer Court, it has Jerusalem as the Holy Place, and all the territory of—or rather, the territory of Israel as the Holy Place, and then Jerusalem as the Most Holy Place, that is to say, the Holy of Holies;
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Now, in the temple that the Hebrew people had in those days, they did not have the mercy seat, they did not have the Pillar of Fire there either (in the holy of holies of that temple Herod built), but in the temple Moses built and the temple Solomon built, the ark of the covenant was there, the mercy seat with the cherubims was also there, and the Pillar of Fire was also there between those two cherubims; but not in the temple Herod built.
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And now, the Temple of God has an Outer Court, which is this earthly dimension; It has a Holy Place, which is the sixth dimension, in other words, Paradise; It has a Holy of Holies, which is the dimension of God, the seventh dimension, here God dwells and where His Throne is and where His Name is.
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Now notice here how we also have all three parts shown to John the Apostle here: we have the place where the Throne is, then we have the Holy Place, and then we have the Outer Court (where there is the sea of glass like crystal). And there, notice, everything is represented so that later on all of that may be materialized, manifested, among the human race.
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And now, just like Moses, by taking the blood which he brought, of the red heifer and then also the blood of the goat, on the day of atonement, which he sprinkled on the mercy seat, eastward, seven times… we find that what Moses did there… and then he also went out to the holy place with the blood, and he also applied some on the golden altar, and then he also brought the blood, later on, to the outer court, and he also applied some on the brazen altar, and so on; all of this speaks of the Program of Redemption through the Blood of Jesus Christ our Savior.
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And now, the human race as a Temple has an Outer Court, and that is from Adam to Jesus—or to John the Baptist, but we can say it was up to Jesus, until Jesus appeared, for Jesus was in the Outer Court, and that is why the Sacrifice of Christ was made among the human race.
Then we have the Holy Place of the human race as a Temple; and that Holy Place is from Christ to this end time, where the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church conclude. In other words, the seven stages of the Gentile Church is the Holy Place of the human race as a Temple, and It is also the Holy Place of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ as the spiritual Temple.
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And the Outer Court of the Church, well, that is every person who belongs to the time of Christ and earlier but who was a believer in Christ, Christ represented in the Old Testament in the types and figures: they believed in the sacrifice of the goat (which represents Christ), they also believed in the sacrifice of the paschal lamb (which represents Christ), and they believed in all those sacrifices that the people offered from [the time of] Adam to Christ, which were a type and figure of the Sacrifice of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. They all lived in the Outer Court of the House of God.
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That is also why Israel, the Hebrew people have an Outer Court, a Holy Place, and a Holy of Holies. The Hebrew people have as an Outer Court the whole territory of Israel, as a Holy Place they have Jerusalem, and as the Holy of Holies they have the temple.
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And now, the saints of the Old Testament, notice, belong to the Outer Court; the saints of the seven stages or ages of the Gentile Church belong to the Holy Place; and the saints of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Age of the cornerstone belong to the Holy of Holies. And now, we find that the priests, including the high priest, went into the holy place; other people could not enter, only the high priest, the priests, and the Levites.
And the high priest would bring the atoning blood from the outer court, and go through the holy place, all the way into the holy of holies, on the day of atonement. And that is the same thing Jesus Christ, the High Priest, has been doing in Heaven (in the Temple which is in Heaven) and has been doing in the spiritual Temple (which is His Church).
And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.” He has washed us in His Blood, He washed us from our sins, and He has made us unto our God (what?) kings and priests of a new Priestly Order: of the Order of Melchizedek.
And that is why those washed in the Blood of Christ, we find that because they belong to that Order of the Temple which is in Heaven, they offer God offerings and sacrifices of worship for our God; and they pray and they ask Christ, the High Priest, on behalf of their family members and other people, that God’s mercy be extended from the Temple which is in Heaven upon all other human beings.
And now, notice how this Priestly Order is a new order, which has nothing to do with the priestly order of Aaron and his descendants, It has nothing to do with the Levitical priestly order; because the Levitical order, the order of Aaron, is earthly: it’s for the temple that the Hebrew people had here on Earth, and to minister the Divine Blessings to the Hebrew people.
But with the temple taken away and with the sacrifice taken away (and it was taken away before God in the middle of the seventieth week,6 with the Sacrifice of Christ), God has a new Sacrifice, which had been represented in the sacrifice of the goat and also of the paschal lamb, and the other sacrifices that the Hebrew people offered to God; now God no longer accepts animal sacrifices for sin because the Lamb of God already took away the sin of the world, and His Blood has been applied on the Mercy Seat of the heavenly Temple, of the Temple which is in Heaven.
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And now, the Outer Court of Jesus as the Temple of God is the Body; and the Holy Place is the Spirit or theophanic Body that is in Him; and the soul is God, who is there inside Him.
And where in the temple was the brazen sea? It was in
the Outer Court.
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And now, the Psalmist David said: “Oh, that I may be in Your courts.”9 He desired to be in the Courts of the House
of God. He also said that God would hide him in His tabernacle in the time of trouble.10 And notice, the Psalmist
also asked about who would dwell in the House of God: He that has clean hands, and a pure heart;11 and this is obtained through the Blood of Jesus Christ, the cleansing of our sins.
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And now, that Seed of King Melchizedek, and Priest, High Priest Melchizedek, they form the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, therefore, they form—as a mystical Body of believers, they form the spiritual Temple of Christ, where God will dwell in all His fullness once that Temple is finished and dedicated to God. Currently, He has been dwelling in the firstfruits of the Spirit, but when that Temple is complete and It is dedicated to God, Christ will receive It. Christ receives His Church (which is His spiritual Temple), He comes to His spiritual Temple at the Last Day—in the dedication of that Temple—in all His fullness; and thus, He will bring the redemption of the body, which is the transformation of our bodies, the resurrection of the dead in Christ and our transformation. And then the House of God, which is the Church of Jesus Christ, will be dedicated to and inhabited by God in all His fullness, to serve God during the Millennial Kingdom
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Aaron would come in there once a year and apply the
atoning blood; and he would put—he would come in with the
burning censer, because he had the coals which he had taken
from off the altar of incense, which were burning there; and
he would put the incense, the incense beaten small, he would
put it into the censer; and the smoke would go up when the
incense burned, and the smoke would go up and cover the
whole mercy seat. And the Light of the Shekinah was shining
there and would speak to Aaron and also speak to Moses, for
God said He would commune with Moses from the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubims.
That is in chapter 25 of Exodus, verse 21 to 22.
Notice, so that you have a clear picture, Exodus chapter 25,
21 to 22, says:
THE ANGEL WITH THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST
Now, Christ is not the burning wick of the seventh lamp of the Hebrew Church under the Law in the candlestick,
rather, Christ is the Light of the Shekinah, which is in the holy of holies.
GOD’S THOUGHTS EXPRESSED AT THE LAST DAY
In Leviticus, it tells us. God, in chapter 16, says to Moses:
“And the Lord spake unto Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they offered before the Lord, and died,” (they were not high priests, and they also were not entering with the blood of the relevant sacrifice, nor with the relevant fire and incense).
“And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.”
Where would God appear? He would appear upon the
mercy seat, in the cloud, in that Pillar of Fire, between the two cherubims of gold.
Here I read to you from Leviticus chapter 16, verse 1 to 2; and now, in Exodus chapter 25, verse 21 and on, it says: “And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the
ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
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.”
From where would God commune with the Prophet
Moses of all the things which He would give him in commandment to the Hebrew people? From the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims of gold.
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King David said that his desire was to be in the Courts of the House of God,2 because that time was the time of the Outer Court (from Adam to Christ); and he said that it would flourish in the Courts of the House of God, the righteous would flourish there: in the Courts of the House of God.3 That is how it was before Christ, in the Old Testament. But afterwards, during the seven ages, where have the righteous flourished? In the Holy Place of the House of God. And at this end time, where does it flourish? In the Holy of Holies of the House of God, the House of Jesus Christ.
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Notice, we also have the three parts of the Temple.
The Outer Court: our body; the Holy Place: our spirit; and the
Holy of Holies: our soul. And the Throne for God to dwell
there is our soul; that is the place for God to dwell in Holy
Spirit in each one of us as individuals.
And in the Church of Jesus Christ, for God to dwell
there at the Last Day, that is the Holy of Holies of His
spiritual Temple, which is the Age of the Cornerstone, where
God is working, Christ is working in the construction of that
Temple, in the firstfruits of the Spirit; but when the Holy of
Holies is completed (with human beings), then that Temple
will be dedicated to God, and God in Holy Spirit will dwell in
all His fullness.
We have seen the types and figures of the heavenly
Temple, which is materialized here on Earth in the Church of
Jesus Christ; therefore, we have seen the types and figures of
the Church of Jesus Christ, we have seen them in the Old
Testament in these temples, the one Moses built and the one
King Solomon built.
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Jesus Christ, as High Priest of the Temple which is in
Heaven, entered the Holy of Holies, not with animal blood
nor with the blood of a man who came through intimate
relations between a man and a woman, but through the Blood
of a perfect Man; that Body and that Blood were created by
God; and therefore, it was Blood without sin, from a Body
without sin.
And now, when He presents Himself before the
Throne of God in Heaven, the Blood of Atonement is
received and applied on the Mercy Seat, which is the Seat of
Mercy or Mercy Seat in Heaven; which, in the temple that
Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, is the
mercy seat where the two cherubims of gold were.
That mercy seat is made of solid gold, pure gold,
along with the two cherubims of gold, and it is the cover of
the ark of the covenant. And between those two cherubims of
gold was the Presence of God, in the Light of the Shekinah,
the Light of the Pillar of Fire. And it was on the mercy seat
that the high priest sprinkled the blood with his finger seven
times, on the east side of the mercy seat; and that was also
where God accepted the blood of that sin offering.
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Jesus Christ, as High Priest of the Temple which is in
Heaven, entered the Holy of Holies, not with animal blood nor with the blood of a man who came through intimate
relations between a man and a woman, but through the Blood of a perfect Man; that Body and that Blood were created by God; and therefore, it was Blood without sin, from a Body without sin.
And now, when He presents Himself before the
Throne of God in Heaven, the Blood of Atonement is
received and applied on the Mercy Seat, which is the Seat of Mercy or Mercy Seat in Heaven; which, in the temple that Moses built and the temple that King Solomon built, is the mercy seat where the two cherubims of gold were.
That mercy seat is made of solid gold, pure gold,
along with the two cherubims of gold, and it is the cover ofTHE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT ... 13 the ark of the covenant. And between those two cherubims of gold was the Presence of God, in the Light of the Shekinah, the Light of the Pillar of Fire. And it was on the mercy seat that the high priest sprinkled the blood with his finger seven times, on the east side of the mercy seat; and that was also where God accepted the blood of that sin offering.
And therefore, the high priest, one of the times he
would go into the holy of holies… because he would go in a few times during that day to carry out the things he had to do in the holy of holies; he would enter one day out of the year, but he would go in a few times on that day. First, he would make atonement for himself and for the priests with the atonement of the bullock, by bringing its blood and doing the same thing: sprinkling it on the mercy seat (on and to the East) seven times.
And then, we also find that he would go in with the
right garments. And when it tells us about the right garments to enter there, they are linen; and linen represents
righteousness, the righteousness of the saints. [Revelation 19:8] So he goes in there dressed the right way, to carry out the work pertaining to the day of atonement.
We find that the high priest is also the person, the
man, who has the Eternal Name of God written; and where does he have It written? On his forehead, on a golden plate, where it says: “HOLINESS TO THE LORD.”
And when the high priest came out of the holy of
holies, he would take off that garment and he would put on another garment: the garment with gold on it. And when he put on those other garments, he was as the bridegroom there in the temple of God. But when he had to go into the holy of holies, he had to put on other garments: the ones for the work of the holy of holies, which are made of linen.
And Christ, we find that after He made His Sacrifice
on Calvary’s Cross…14 DR. WILLIAM SOTO SANTIAGO
Notice, in the temple, the sacrifice of the goat was
made (where?) in the outer court, the place to carry out a sacrifice and the place where the altar of sacrifice was, where the sacrifices were burned; and that sacrifice of the goat, after its blood was taken and brought into the holy of holies, that goat had to be burned in the altar of sacrifice, which is the brazen altar that was in the outer court.
And now, notice why Christ had to come to Earth in
order to carry out His Sacrifice. Why? Because the Temple of God in Heaven has an Outer Court, It has a Holy Place, and It has a Holy of Holies; and that is why He showed the Prophet Moses how to make the temple, in a way that would reflect, that would represent God’s Temple in Heaven.
And do you know which is the Outer Court of the
Temple of God? It is this earthly dimension. Here, on this Earth, we have the Outer Court, and the place for the sacrifice of the goat for the sin offering, which represents Christ; and that is why He had to carry out His Sacrifice on this Earth, the Sacrifice of Atonement, to atone our sins.
But just like the high priest would take the atoning
blood and go through the holy place, and then go into the holy of holies with that blood, and present it before God, notice, Christ went from the Outer Court, He went through the Holy Place (in other words, He passed through the place where the saints of the Old Testament were, there in
Abraham’s bosom), and when He passed through there, the saints of the Old Testament were delivered from sin; once Christ shed His Blood on Calvary’s Cross, then they were free from their sin.
And the question is: “And did they have sin?” Of
course they did, but they were covered by the blood of the animals that they sacrificed before God to cover their sins.
And those sacrifices and that blood they offered to God for their sins was the type and figure of the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary’s Cross and His Blood shed on Calvary’s Cross. ThatTHE FULFILLMENT OF THE DAY OF ATONEMENT ... 15 is why they had the type, in other words, the shadow of Christ and His sacrifice that He would carry out on Calvary’s Cross.
And with the shadow, notice…
Notice, if you have something written
somewhere—for example, if you write something here; and then you put your hand here, which that light is shining on, when you put it here, it covers what is written there. And likewise, [sin] was covered by the blood of the animals (which was the shadow) that the Hebrew people sacrificed to God... such as the paschal lamb, and the goat, and other sacrifices; that blood covered their sins, but they were still there.
Now, in Isaiah chapter 60, verse 7, it says:
“...And I will glorify the house of my glory.”
Christ will glorify the House of His glory, His Church,
by raising the dead in Christ in glorified bodies, and changing all His elect who live at this end time and who will remain physically alive when the dead in Christ rise. Those who are alive when the dead in Christ rise will be changed physically, and then we will have the eternal and glorified body.
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God told the Prophet Moses that from between the two
cherubims of gold, from above the mercy seat, He would tell
him everything for the Hebrew people. In other words, God
would speak to Moses. Moses, a dispensational prophet, was
the one who had the dispensational ministry. To a
dispensational prophet, God would speak from the mercy
seat, from between the two cherubims of gold.
It says in chapter 25, verse 21 to 22, of Exodus:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the
ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall
give thee.
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.”
In other words, for the earthly Israel, God spoke to the
Prophet Moses from the mercy seat, from between the two
cherubims of gold, all that Moses had to speak to the Hebrew
people.
And now, all that God has to speak to the earthly
Israel and to the heavenly Israel, He will be saying it to them
from the Mercy Seat, from among the Two Cherubims of
Gold, from among His spiritual Temple, in the Age of the
Cornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
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Now, those who stayed in the Dispensation of Law are
in the Outer Court; those who stay in the Dispensation of
Grace are in the Holy Place; and those who go on to the Age
of the Cornerstone are in the Holy of Holies of the spiritual
Temple of Jesus Christ, where everything that is in the Holy
of Holies of the heavenly Temple of God will be manifested,
which we will see in more detail in the next service, titled:
“THE CHERUBIMS WHERE GOD SPEAKS FROM.” And
we are going to see how God would be speaking from among
the Two Cherubims of Gold from His spiritual Temple.
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God told the Prophet Moses that from between the two
cherubims of gold, from above the mercy seat, He would tellhim everything for the Hebrew people. In other words, Godwould speak to Moses. Moses, a dispensational prophet, wasthe one who had the dispensational ministry. To a
dispensational prophet, God would speak from the mercyseat, from between the two cherubims of gold.
It says in chapter 25, verse 21 to 22, of Exodus:
“And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the
ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shallgive thee.
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune
with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the twocherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of allthings which I will give thee in commandment unto thechildren of Israel.”
In other words, for the earthly Israel, God spoke to theProphet Moses from the mercy seat, from between the twocherubims of gold, all that Moses had to speak to the Hebrewpeople.
And now, all that God has to speak to the earthly
Israel and to the heavenly Israel, He will be saying it to themfrom the Mercy Seat, from among the Two Cherubims of
Gold, from among His spiritual Temple, in the Age of theCornerstone and Dispensation of the Kingdom.
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In order to understand this mystery of the true
Tabernacle of God or Temple of God, we need to understand
something very important. We can mention eight tabernacles:
• We have the Tabernacle or Temple which is in
Heaven.
• We have the tabernacle or temple that Moses
built, and also the one Solomon built (and we are
going to put those two temples or tabernacles as
second one or as number two).
• And we have the human race as a Temple or
Tabernacle of God.
• And we have the Hebrew people, Israel, as a
Temple or Tabernacle of God.
• And we have the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ
as the Temple or Tabernacle of God.
• And we have Jesus as the Temple or Tabernacle
of God. That is why on one occasion Jesus said:
“Destroy this temple, and in three days I will
raise it up,” (in other words, I will restore it).1
• And we have every son and daughter of God,
who is a temple or tabernacle of God as an
individual. Saint Paul said: “Don’t you know that
you are the temple of God, the temple of the
Spirit of God?”2
• And we have the tabernacle of David.
So we have eight tabernacles here that we have
mentioned; and temple or tabernacle means “dwelling
house,” “house,” or “God’s dwelling house.”
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