THE TABERNACLE

Tabernacle Diagram

Shortly after Yah brought Israel out of the bondage of Egypt with a mighty hand, we find them in the wilderness of Sinai. They had camped in the plains below the mountain where they awaited their leader, Moses, who had gone up to hear the Word of Yah for the people.

The people had seen the plagues poured out upon Pharaoh and his gods. They had witnessed the divine guidance and protection of the Elohim. You would think this would be enough to bind them to Him forever, but alas, as is common with man, they soon forgot the miracles and how dead the carved idols of Egypt were before Him.

While Moses communed with Yah upon the mountain, the people made a golden calf for themselves, an idol to prostrate themselves before. It was a representation of the god that they believed had brought them out of slavery. Well, as you know, Yah was angry with them and saw their hearts were not turned toward Him even yet. They needed something tangible, for their carnal minds only could relate to things seen. But, Yah is a Spirit and can not be perceived by natural understanding.

So, what symbol could He give them to nurture them until their hearts were persuaded to follow Him and Him only? Nothing fashioned like unto living things such as idols would do. He did not want them to think of Him as pagans did their deities. He is a living Yah, invisible, holy and loving.

Was this a dilemma for Yah? Of course not! He knew very well what was in man and what would happen. He had already dealt with any problem even before He uttered the first words of creation. By His foreknowledge, He knows the beginning as well as the end and everything that would happen in between. Nothing takes Him by surprise. He embarked upon a great and wonderful plan and He will see it finished.

Make no mistake, Yah is firmly in control and He is going forward with His plan right on schedule. As far individual lives, that is another story. Man is a free moral agent, which means he can either fall into line with Yah's plan and partake of the blessings, or go his own way and be left behind.

Man may not always do what Yah expects, but He will always have a remnant, a select few, in each generation who dare to do His will no matter the cost. These He calls overcomers in Revelation. They are the ones responsible for preserving the truths of Yah throughout history. YahShua calls them the salt of the earth.

Yah knew just what He was going to do to get the attention of these calf worshippers. If they wanted something tangible He would give it to them. Instead of something on earth to represent His likeness, He gave them the Ark of the Covenant to represent the covenant He was about to make with them. Not only that but He gave them the Tabernacle and a form of worship. This was to keep them from following after pagan idols as the heathen did.

The Tabernacle, its furnishings and the Ark were a visible representation of Yah's plan for mankind. In it He unveils His outline and pattern of things to come. Each item and its function are an important message to those who have spiritual insight. The understanding of these things comes by divine revelation knowledge.

Now, I would like to draw aside the curtain of mystery and give you a peek at what these items depict and how they relate to us today. I am allowed to do this because the seventh trumpet is blowing and now is the time of the fulfillment of all things. The secrets and mysteries of Yah written in the Word have been kept stored up. They are for us upon whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

Yah instructed Moses to see that all things were made according to the pattern He was to show him. It was so important in fact that it was told to him twice not to deviate from the precise plan. Why? Because it was a pattern of His plan for us and He could not have Moses making changes in what He had already worked out in every detail. Yah is the Deity of detail. Just look at creation, into a microscope, or at the night sky and you can see that attribute displayed.

I believe Moses was faithful to do exactly as ordered by Yah. Unlike some today, he was not about to take Yah lightly and incur His wrath.

If you were to stand on a hill and look down upon the Israelite's encampment you would see everything is very organized. Each tribe, of which there were twelve, had its own place in order of birth rank and the tents sat in neat rows behind their tribal standards or banners. On the east, a short distance from the camp, was a long curtain fence and inside it a large oblong tent covered with skins. This was the Tabernacle of Israel, the Tent Of Meeting. Later, when they camped, the tribal tents circled the Tabernacle that sat alone in their midst. Enough room separated the camps from the Tent of Meeting so that the people could come to the door of the Tent for special instructions.

Today if you stand on a spiritual hill and look down upon the encampment of religion you would see much the same thing. In the religious camps each order sets proudly in its respective group. The Baptist here, the Methodists there, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Church of Christ, the Catholic over that way and the tribe and half tribe of Pentecostals on this side. A very orderly camp, however, the Tabernacle of Yah is outside their camps.

YahShua was not crucified in the city, He had to bear His cross and be hung on the tree outside the camp. It was there, outside the camp, that He became the "door" to the Father. Like the sacrifices of the Old Covenant that were taken outside the camp and destroyed, our sin sacrifice suffered and died outside the camp.

We are told to come out of the perverse religious system, and go to Him outside the camp bearing the same disgrace. Anyone who is inquiring revelation knowledge of the Lord is to go outside the camp. We put on Yah's righteousness in a place that is ceremonially clean outside the camp or church walls where we are to be purged from our own self-righteousness, all religious theology and manmade doctrines. There is no religious ceremony out here.

No insight on the Tabernacle would be complete without looking at the Feast of Booths or Tabernacles. This feast lasts for seven days with a smaller feast before it called "The Feast of Trumpets" and another at the end called the "Feast of Ingathering". These ran consecutively and together were usually referred to as "The Feast of Tabernacles. These feasts are spiritually significant to believers just as they were to the Israelites.

Three times in a year the Lord Yah commanded that the people appear before Him in a sacred solemn assembly at the door of the Tabernacle. He requires the same of the church, His believers. The "Feast of Unleavened Bread" was also called Passover, the "Feast of Weeks", which is Pentecost, and the "Feast of Tabernacles" with its three interrelated feasts. The church, or believers, as a whole body, have celebrated the first two feasts and we are now entering the last feast. The church partakes of Passover by accepting the death and resurrection of YahShua and that is when people are born again. He was the Passover Lamb. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost is the second feast. When we are plunged into the Holy Spirit by baptism and allow Him to work in our lives we are celebrating this feast.

Today is the day Yah is calling people to celebrate the "Feast of Booths", or Tabernacles. The primary event in this celebration is that the people moved out of their secure, well built homes, and built booths or shelters under the open sky. The booths were to be made of all natural material, nothing cut by man or manmade could be used. The boughs and leaves used in the wave offering worship ceremony on the first day were to be used in the building of the booths.

There are people who have heard the call, they have heard the sound of the trumpet of the Spirit. These are the ones who have come out of their churches and organizations to a place in the wilderness. These are celebrating the "Feast of Trumpets".

The "Feast of Trumpets" takes place at the beginning of the Feast of Tabernacles and signals the beginning of the feast days. It is a day of rest and a sacred assembly. An offering by fire is to be made unto the Lord along with the wave offering.

The trumpet has been blowing for some time now and those who have ears to hear are gathering to a place sacred in Yah and are being purged by fire of the Holy Spirit for an offering unto Yah. There is to be no work, man's effort, but it is a day of rest, a Holy Sabbath. It is the Spirit's work.

Because the "Feast of Tabernacles" was celebrated in the fall at harvest time, it is also called the "Feast of Ingathering."

The Feast of Ingathering we celebrate now is the separating of the wheat from the tares. YahShua said this would take place at the end of the world, the end of the age. The wheat is now being gathered into bundles and will enter the storehouse, Yah's abundance, while the rest will be left for the end time purging of the Holy Spirit's fire and suffer loss. The harvest is upon us and some are already being gathered. You will find them outside the camp alone with their Father Yah.

There are no denominations, or religious spirits out here, just a wonderful open sky fellowship with Yah. It is the end of man's year and the end of the Church Age. If you want to see what happens next read the fourth chapter of Revelation. Heaven is open to Yah's people and they see their Father Yah and have access into the Holies of Holy.

Man has so organized and dominated the system of worship today that they have closed heaven to men. There is no man's covering or authority out here, just Yah the Father and your getting to know Him. Here you present yourself unto the Lord a living spiritual sacrifice and allow the baptism of fire from the Holy Spirit to purge you from all religious self-righteousness, ministering spirits, and carnal mindedness. Here you mature and learn what it means to be a son of Yah.

As you view the Tabernacle from afar there is nothing unusual in any way about it. It looks like an ugly skin covered pavilion and there is nothing about it to indicate the glory it holds inside.

There was nothing attractive about YahShua either, He looked just like most of the Israelites in His day, but hidden in His flesh was the glory of the only begotten Son of Yah. The same is true of Yah's other sons. They look just like everyone else outwardly, but within is the hidden man of the heart born of the Spirit, that incorruptable seed, bearing the glory of their Father and immortal life. Only those with revelation knowledge saw what was behind the veil of His flesh. YahShua was a new creation man and the Bible calls Him the second Adam because it was the second time Yah injected part of Himself into His creation.

Now in our time, there is another work of Yah taking place. From outward appearance you can not know them, but the glory that is soon to be revealed in them will cause even nature to rejoice. Only those with discernment see the glory that lies behind the flesh of the sons of Yah. These will reign with their brother, YahShua, throughout the Kingdom Age.

The different Church Ages of the book of Revelation are another view of the plan of Yah. Each Church Age represents different steps in our growth and will also parallel the Tabernacle and its furnishings. Another view is the one which John, the revelator, saw in the throne room of book of Revelation.

Now, I would like to take you on a tour of Yah's plan, the Tent Of Meeting, as one would approach it from the outside moving toward Yah. In our experiences in the realm of the spirit we are moving ever closer to Father. What you will see are steps, levels, and plateaus of our experience in Him and the pattern of growth for the whole body of believers, as well as our personal walk.

THE CURTAIN WALL Diagram

You find yourself standing before the curtained wall or fence. The courtyard lies beyond and the sound of celebration drifts over the fence along with the pungent odor of burned flesh. All the curtains that make up this wall are the same size and there are twelve of them held together with silver hooks. Each curtain is made of finely woven linen and is set upon posts with bronze bases. Outside of this curtain wall is the world, inside is the sanctuary of Yah.

In the beginning Yah's governing power fell to Israel through the twelve tribes of Israel. In YahShua's time it rested within the twelve disciples. The government fell to the twelve Apostles in the church age. In Revelation we see the government of Yah represented by the city of Yah with twelve foundations and gates. The number twelve represents the government of Yah. Very soon now it will fall to the sons of Yah. However, Yah has a time for everything under the sun. YahShua said, "No man knows the time..." but He goes on to tell us that we can know the season. This is the season!

Outside the curtain is the world, inside the Kingdom of Yah. The curtains that make up the Tabernacle are set upon bronze bases. Bronze represents man, precious but inferior to silver or gold. The government of Yah through salvation now rests upon man. So, only if you accept the gift of Yah, YahShua's death and resurrection, and become born of the Spirit will you be allowed into the Tabernacle of Yah.

Here is another view. Inside the curtain is the spiritual realm and true anointing of Yah. Outside is the religion realm with its self-righteous church, animal worshipping, denominational organization and its anti, other than Messiyah teachings, emotionalism and religious spirit. The worship of the "golden" calf represents the worship of the animal or beast. Gold is representative of Yahliness, and Yahliness is not just attributed to Yah the Father. It can be said of any deity, even pagan, thus the golden calf. It simply means, "god-likeness", or "in the likeness of a god". The word "god" is plural and means, the principal object of faith and worship, someone or something deified", but used in the greater sense(big "G") of Yah Almighty in monotheistic religions.

Not all who say, "Lord, Lord" are of Yah. This is not my idea, YahShua looked through His Father's eyes down through time and saw the religious system of today and testified about it. Do we not see many running here and there to find the anointing, Messiyah, today? By the way, Messiyah is not YahShua's second name. It was His position with the Father during His time in the flesh and means "the anointed one". YahShua then goes on to tell us to flee from these false Christs without even looking back. This parallels Revelation chapters 17-18 and is the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel.

There is a remnant that will overcome because they hear His words. "He who has a ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches or believers." The true church is not a building, organization or denomination. That is an antichurch, we are the Temple of Yah.

THE ENTRANCE Diagram

The entrance into the courtyard is special. It has a separate and unconnected curtain that sets several feet inside the opening to the courtyard. It is so situated as to block any passer-by from seeing inside the courtyard without actually entering. It looked like this:

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This entrance is made of fine woven linen, but it is embroidered with blue, purple and scarlet. The base of the posts are bronze as the others, but upon them hangs golden hooks to fasten the curtain together.

YahShua was the true curtain and entrance to salvation and the way to Yah the Father. He is the curtain door into the courtyard of salvation. He became man, bronze, that is to say flesh, but His bloodline was gold, of Yah. He stood alone in the world as this curtain stands alone just inside the curtained wall opening. YahShua was separate from the rest of the world by virtue of Who He was. There was not another like Him. He was the new creation man.

In Revelation John received the messages to the seven churches through the trumpet voice of the Lord. And later a "door" was opened in heaven and he saw the throne room.

THE COURTYARD Diagram

Once you are inside the courtyard the first thing that catches your eye is the Tabernacle, a separate structure that sits near the back wall, and is a curious sight. It is covered in dreary skins and is small in comparison to the courtyard. In front of the Tabernacle, and to your left, is an awesome altar with large billows of smoke crawling into the sky. There is a basin near the entrance of the Tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting.

Here we can see the inner works of what YahShua did for us. The sacrifice for sin, represented by the altar, and the Word of Yah preached to the world represented by the basin just outside the door to the Tabernacle. This is our first step toward Yah. The courtyard experience is called the thirty-fold realm. The good will of Yah!

In this courtyard we find the foundational truths and teachings still held by church theologians. These are the elementary teachings about Messiyah. We are admonished to leave such teachings and go on to maturity, not laying again, and again, and again the foundation of repentance, thus making the blood of Yahshua a common thing like the blood of lambs and bulls. We are to build upon the foundation of faith in Yah, instruction in baptisms, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. These doctrines pretty well sum up the entire realm of religious teachings that we are told to leave behind. This has not been done, but theologians have added their own carnal ideology to it all, thus becoming the false prophet of Revelation. They use the drawing power or horns of the Lamb of Yah, but the denominations actually speak as the Dragon. If Yah destroyed the first tower of Babylon, He will also destroy the last tower, the Babylon Religious System.

John saw the first church age and was told that they had left their first love, they had fallen away. A remnant was preserved to bring in the second church age and these were called overcomers.

In heaven John saw the throne room in worship and praise but something was wrong. There was no one to open the Book of Covenant.

THE ALTAR OF BURNT OFFERINGS Diagram

This altar was made of acacia wood and it was a little over seven feet wide and seven feet long. It was only about four feet high. In Exodus its measurements are given as five cubits by five cubits by three cubits. At each corner of the altar was a horn. This whole altar was overlaid with bronze and a grate was inserted about halfway down on the inside. The fire was kindled there and the lower portion was used to catch the ashes when in use. This layer of ash helped to prevent the tremendous heat from destroying the wooden bottom. Here the blood was used to anoint the four horns and the sacrificed parts of the animal were burned upon the altar. There were several different kinds of animals sacrificed for the many kinds of sins or trespasses.

YahShua's life was a daily sacrifice to Yah, for He did only what He saw His Father do. His works were not His own, but Yah's. There was not another man like Him. He was man, bronze and upon Him were laid the sins of the world. We too are to submit our body a living sacrifice holy and pleasing to Yah--this is our spiritual act of worship.

The size of the altar is very important. The four corners of the altar represent an all encompassing of the whole. Each of us is to encompass the whole spectrum of the ministry gifts Yah has given to prepare and to build up His people for service. There are four corners of the earth, four winds, and the four horns of the altar. Horns speak of strength. We find strength for our whole man; spirit, soul, and body, all to be preserved blameless.

Five is the number of ministry: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers and we are to have the fullness of them all. The altar was three cubits high. Three is the number of fullness. YahShua preached three years, He was in the tomb three days, and Yah manifests Himself in the three distinct ways, and that is called The Trinity.

The religious leaders like to wear the titles of the ministries like some kind of authority badge, Reverend or Pastor so and so, for instance. This is not what YahShua taught as our example. These are not titles for men to wear, but abilities of the Spirit for ministering to believers. YahShua was "The Apostle" of a new move of Yah. The beatitudes showed YahShua as a Pastor leading the people into spiritual things. When He told of the signs of the end time, He was a Prophet. Many times He took the disciples aside and taught them like a Teacher. He traveled and preached all over Israel like an Evangelist.

YahShua never set up anything! Man was the one who set up the Church System, and then asked Yah to bless it. However, Yah honored it when it was undefiled, but now it has become the Harlot Religious System. She follows after men, instead of Yah, just like a whore.

Though we are at present bronze, that is man, and perishable, as is wood, we are to offer ourselves a living sacrifice daily to the refining fire that is our spiritual service. This altar is where sins are burned for us, where shortcomings are dealt with. Justification, sanctification, and righteousness are here embraced.

Like YahShua, we also become vessels for the ministry gifts to operate through. Used properly these gifts will not puff up a person, but will humble. What I am saying in this article is a revelation from Father and I am operating in the capacity of a teacher. I now predict the destruction of the Church System form of worship we have today. By speaking this word of knowledge I become a prophet, but it is by the revelation of the Spirit and I can take no credit for any of it. We are each to have the complete five-fold ministry operating through our lives as the Spirit directs.

The natural carnal minds of those who call themselves by the name of Christ or Christian can not comprehend the fullness of the cross and what it means to us today. Most churches, used in the sense of the visible church, do not see anything but a Man doing miracles, telling stories, and dying on a cross. Beyond that, they choose to remain ignorant. They think by not looking at it that they will not have to be responsible for the life-style they live. Wrong! Paul says to them, "Awake, as from your drunken stupor, and return to sober sense and your right, spiritual, minds and sin no more, for some of you have not the knowledge of Yah. You are utterly and willfully and disgracefully ignorant, and continue to be so, lacking the sense of Yah's purpose and all true knowledge of Him. I say this to your shame".(TAB)

John, in Revelation, tells us there are souls under this altar who were slain for the testimony of the Lord and will abide there until the coming of the Lord.

The "Tree Of Life" is promised to the overcomers of the church age of Ephesus.

THE BRONZE BASIN Diagram

By the entrance of the Tabernacle sits a basin made of bronze upon a bronze stand. It is filled with holy water for the washing of the hands, representing the ministry, and feet, representing the walk, of the priests. They must wash before they enter the Tent Of Meeting, or when they approach the altar to make an offering unto the Lord, lest they die.

YahShua was the man, bronze basin, the Word of Yah, who gave living water to a thirsty world which was ignorant of Yah. YahShua said, "You are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you". The words He speaks are spirit and life, sanctifying and cleansing us with "the washing of water by the Word". His words wash away our humanity making us spirit beings, and renewing of our minds.

At the Last Supper YahShua washed the disciple's feet. One said, "...wash all of me", but YahShua said the feet, our walk needed washed, the rest was already clean by the sacrifice. Only the part of us that gets contaminated by the world, man's religious order, and the antichrist spirit needs to be washed.

YahShua told the disciples that as He had washed their feet, their walk, that we should wash the brethren’s feet. In this present time we are bronze basins, that is men, filled with revelation knowledge, the Word of Yah. We are to wash the feet, walk, of those polluted by their human nature, religious ideologies, and churchianity. How do we do this? By pointing out their sins as religion does? No, by simply giving them the true Word of Yah in its season. Only the Spirit knows when the heart is ready to receive the Word. So, we must remain sensitive to Him at all times. It is the washing, baptism, of the water of the Word that makes us clean. Like YahShua, our words are to be a baptism, a spring of living water, welling up to eternal life.

If we are washed with the water of the Word of Yah daily, we have confidence with Yah. So, when we come before Him to worship, or ask a petition, we do not bring our polluted nature along. Ever wonder why prayers do not get answers? This is one of the reasons. You are to wash, put off, your old human ways by hearing what the Word of Yah is saying and allow it to conform you into the likeness of His dear Son, and to teach you the plan of our Father Yah. We need no man to teach us, for the Spirit will teach us all things by revelation knowledge, and will give us His Word to speak in due season.

This is where we find the fundamentalist. They have not gone beyond the basin of the Word of Yah in order to enter the Tabernacle through the next curtain, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. They do not see the door to the Tabernacle for they are lost in the maze of church doctrine. The voice of the Spirit has been shouted down by man's interpretation. They seem content with the saving of their souls, which is the reward of this realm of experience.

They are the "overcomers" of the church of Smyrna, which means bitter. These believers get the reward of not being touched by the second death, which is eternal.

These believers were also the great multitude that stand before the throne that no man can number. "After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.."

THE TABERNACLE Diagram

The Tabernacle is covered with several layers of skins, each with its symbolic meaning. The first was that of goat's hair skins. As a second covering there was a layer of ram skins, stripped of wool, and dyed red. And, to top it all for weather proofing were the hides of sea cows. Some say these were large otters, others believe they were hippo skins native to the area. The frame for the tent is of acacia wood, strong but lightweight, and it set upon silver bases.

The Tabernacle depicts the life and body of YahShua and "born again" man. Goat’s hair is the raiment or clothing worn by John the Baptist, and speaks of humility and meekness. YahShua was the slain goat and we are the scapegoat. Of course, the ram skin died red is the sacrifice YahShua paid as the Lamb of Yah, and He is our covering. The framework speaks of His spiritual strength to go to the cross as a sacrifice more precious than silver. The outer skins represented His character that easily repelled the storms of entrapment set by the religious leaders and also weathered with patient endurance the elders of Israel, Pilate, and the Romans. He did all this to bring us to the Father.

The whole structure of our life is based upon salvation, silver. We, like YahShua, are to wear humility and be clothed with the robe of righteousness stained red with His blood. We are to overcome life's storms in this flesh by enduring hardness, like a good soldier, and set our face as flint against the religious spirits and principalities and powers in high places. YahShua has overcome and made it possible for us to stand against life's crises, accusing fingers, and the wickedness of fallen man. The Spirit Himself helps our infirmities.

THE ENTRANCE Diagram

The entrance into the Tabernacle is a curtain made of finely woven linen, embroidered in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn. The posts, five in all, were to be overlaid with gold, and the hooks for the curtain were gold, and they sat upon bronze bases.

The colors of the yarn are royal colors, blue speaks of eternal, purple is kingly, and scarlet is a priestly color. Linen is used because of its porous nature, which allows the body to breath, yet is smooth in texture, and keeps the dust from clinging. The entrance here speaks of the Holy Spirit of Yah, gold, who comes to Man, bronze bases, and sits upon him to make an entrance into further realms in Yah.

You enter through the door of baptism by the Holy Spirit, a deeper experience than salvation. This brings you closer to Yah as the Holy Spirit becomes your teacher and helper. Here you embark upon the second phase of your journey toward Father. Everything behind in the courtyard has prepared you to enter the Holy Place of the Tabernacle. Beyond this door you partake of fellowship with YahShua and began to see with spiritual eyes. You come to a place where your prayers to Yah become consecrated, they are no longer the rituals of church games which you were involved in from your youth.

YahShua was the first gate and entrance to salvation, but He said, "I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear". It was for our sake the Holy Spirit come to us and it is through Him that we enter the Tabernacle, the second gate. It is the Holy Spirit who takes the things of Yah and shows them to us, even as YahShua showed us the Father. This is a continuation of the plan, and the second realm in our experience in Yah. Yah came to us in the flesh through YahShua Messiyah, an outward revelation of Yah. Now, He comes to us through the Holy Spirit, an inward revelation of Yah. And we will come to the world as the outward, visible manifestation of the sons of Yah, the completed product of His wondrous plan from the beginning. Father Yah desires to bring 'many sons' to glory, as He has His only begotten Son, YahShua.

THE HOLY PLACE Diagram

As you pass through the curtain of the Holy Spirit you must stop and allow your eyes to become adjusted to this realm, for it is far different than the one outside. As you began to see clearly, you find yourself in a room of uncommon beauty. Though outside all that could be seen was animal skins, in here the walls are lined in fine linen. Cherubs embroidered on the linen in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn watch the progress of those who enter.

The curtains are in sets of five, and they are held together with loops of blue material. They are then fastened together with gold clasps to make the inner walls of this Holy Place. It is a room within a room.

Five represents the ministry. Each hand has five fingers, without which the hands could accomplish nothing. YahShua, in His earthly ministry, used His hands in many ways. He touched people and healed them, raised them to life, and gently caressed little children. He reached out forgiving hands to the sinners and finally His hands were nailed to the cross. The Bible says, "Yah gave His angels watch over Him" and are ministering spirits to those who are heirs to the promise.

The Holy Place is the place of ministry. Here the Holy Spirit ministers to our spirit to bring us further to maturity. The Holy Spirit becomes the five fingers of Yah’s right hand, and He helps our spiritual infirmities. Then, our hands can minister with all five of the ministering gifts, apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, at the will of the Spirit. We are to offer the right hand of fellowship to all, and give a helping hand where we can.

Entering the Holy Place by the Holy Spirit experience is "the acceptable will of Yah" which is the sixty-fold realm of growth. As we go through this realm we should come out fully maturity.

THE LAMPSTAND Diagram

To the left of where you stand is the candlestick of pure hammered gold. It has seven candle holders, three on each side of the center one, which is the uppermost part of a central carved stand. The side candles sit in upturned cups at the end of stems branching out of the center column arranged so that each candle is the same height. On the stand are carved designs of almond blossoms with buds and leaves. Each cup that holds the candles is like opened flowers. This is called the "Menorah" in the Hebrew tongue and means brightness reservoir. Yah's light is all the light you will find in here.

There are seven candles on the lamp stand. Seven is the number equivalent to completeness. In Revelation it represented the seven stars, and John was told it was the seven Spirits of Yah. Each candle in the lamp stand is a revelation step to the Father. These foreshadow the coming of YahShua, our realms of growth, and later the manifestation of the sons of Yah. All of man's religious doctrine or theology becomes darkness in the presence of the true light.

YahShua was the light of the world and gives light to every man. He came into the world of darkness to bring it light, understanding. In YahShua is life and that life is the light of men. YahShua cries, "...I am the light of the world", and He goes on to say, "I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should walk in darkness".

You too are the light of the world. Revelation knowledge reveals the deep things of Yah, and can also bring light to the world through you. Maybe not by what is revealed to you, but simply because it changes you, and that can be seen. The eye represents your insight and the Holy Spirit comes so you can be filled with light, understanding. If you do not have spiritual understanding you walk in darkness. If you have only religious understanding, how great is your darkness. The man who walks in darkness does not know where he is going. But the man who walks in the light as He is in the light has fellowship with other believers, and can know the plan of Yah and see the way to the Father is through YahShua.

"See to it that the light within you is not darkness." Therefore, be filled with revelation knowledge, and not with the light of religious theology, and your whole being will be completely filled with spiritual understanding. As a lamp shines, shine with the understanding of Yah and His plan for man. You can then be called the sons of light.

When revelation knowledge shines on religious ideology and doctrines it will dispel all darkness if you do not love darkness more than light. Religion is carnal and the carnal mind cannot understand spiritual things. Mankind loves religion and pious ways because their deeds are self-righteous and even evil. They hate revelation knowledge because it slays their little sacred cows or brings their ministry and little kingdoms to nothing. Therefore, they refuse to come to the light for fear of loss, and they fear that the motives of their heart and their deeds will be exposed.

Everyone who really loves truth and lives by it comes to the light of revelation, embraces it, and so it becomes plain that he is of Yah. If you will follow on to know the Lord you will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life.

In John's vision of heaven in Revelation he sees a sea of glass, clear as crystal, and around the throne living creatures with eyes front and back. These are the ones who see spiritual things clear as glass by revelation knowledge and they can understand things to come, as well as see their foreshadow in the past. Light from this lamp will give them the wisdom to "rule over nations" as is promised to the overcomers in the Thyatira church age.

"No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what Yah has prepared for those who love Him, but Yah has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of Yah. I consider that our present suffering, which is dying to self, is not worthy to be compared to the glory to be revealed in us.

TABLE OF HOLY BREAD Diagram

Across the room on the extreme right is the table of shewbread or presence. This table is made of acacia wood overlaid with pure gold. There are twelve loaves of bread, anointed with oil, and placed upon this table each Sabbath day. Twelve is the number of Yah's government. There were twelve loaves of bread representing the anionted bread of life, the "presence" of Yah's government in this realm, and the twelve manner of fruit in the New Jerusalem.

When the Israelites wandered in the wilderness, Yah gave them manna, bread from heaven, but YahShua said, "...It is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven". The Word of Yah is the bread of life, anointed with the joy of gladness, and fresh every day, the living bread that comes down from Heaven.

Like the pattern of the Holy Place, we have bread from Yah presented fresh regularly. Not just on a special day such as the Sabbath, but every day in our lives, for every day is a Sabbath unto Yah. It is not a day on the calendar, but the eternal day in the heart. We should hear a fresh Word from the Lord in his appointed time.

There were twelve loaves of bread set before the Lord continually. Twelve is the numerical equivalent of Yah's Kingdom. The bread is life giving, spiritual sustenance from the Kingdom of Yah. It is food indeed for our growing spirit. We are to eat this bread every day until we become what He is. How does that saying go? "You are what you eat from your head to your feet." Our bread is the Living Word of Yah ministered to us by the Holy Spirit. Bread represents fellowship and communion with Yah, our Father.

John saw in his vision of the throne room those who were victorious over the beastial denominations and his image, the Churches, and over the number of his name.

The first Beast of Revelation is the denominational organizations, an organism for the second beast, the false prophet or religious spirit. The second beast rides upon the authority of the first beast and the second beast causes people to worship the first beast.

Man's numerical value is six, he was formed the sixth day of creation and Yah's number is seven, the number of completeness. The beast's number is 666. It is revealed that these beasts are man instituted and man orientated. They are beastly in nature because they follow the dictates of the flesh, animalistic instincts. You can line sixes up from here to eternity and it will never become a seven, Yahly. That requires a new birth, old things passed away and all things made new.

The victorious ones have eyes that have been opened to the abomination of modern religion and have gained the victory over its religious spirit. Babylon the Great has fallen, has fallen. At least for those who have an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying, later she will fall in the eyes of an unbelieving world.

The Pergamum overcomers eat the hidden manna of Yah, also, a type of eating from the Table of Shewbread.

ALTAR OF INCENSE Diagram