The number three is throughout the scriptures: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the three feasts of Tabernacles;the three levels of Noah's ark; the third heaven, spirit, soul and body. Destroy this temple and in three days I will rebuild it; third day of resurrection; Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days; He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; Moses, Aaron and Merriam. "I am he that is, was and is to come "(I am come I am here). He is the Prophet, Priest and King; the three compartments of Moses' Tabernacle; the three journeys of Paul in the book of Acts; ask, seek and knock; The three restorations of the Temple; the sea, earth and heaven All of these are examples of the number three in the scriptures. The number three is generally associated with deliverance as in the time of Gideon's army of three hundred, Abrams's 315 trained soldiers in his own household who destroyed the destroyers of the nephilim kingdoms and Christ's resurrection on the third day, which destroyed death and hell. Enoch walked with God, 300 years, and was taken. His days were 365 and he was not. His deliverance came in the gentile calendar. As often is the case with the word of God we find deep hidden message in the scriptures waiting for our discovery. It is the present knowledge of the Lord that helps us understand the ways of God so that we may further enter into his divine consciousness while we are walking on this earth. God wants us to understand what is the breath, the length and depth (the number 3 again) of his knowledge that we might be partakers of his inheritance with all the saints.

It is God's plan that we all be partakers of all his promises and that we receive our inheritance before we die. He died for us. He opened the third heaven for us. He made a new and living way for us. He rent the Veil in twain from the top to the bottom that the very essence and substance of God could be made available for us now. Please realize when you read this truth all you have to do is let it enter your heart and mind and his word deposits its substance, God substance into your spirit. It becomes yours and changes you just as if God said, "Let there be light.” Moses' Tabernacle was divided into three areas: the outer court, the holy place and the holy of holies. The outer court stands as the only memorial for salvation. It is the only place the unsaved can receive salvation. It is here that all mankind must come to receive the Salvation of the Lord. The outer court has a gate at the east where we may enter the tabernacle. We start in the east and we work our way to the west.

The Outer Court, the Natural Light The home of the light or the place of its origin is from the east. The Hebrew word for light is "sown" which means illuminations or luminary, lightening or happiness. Its roots are to be, to make luminous, set on fire, to shine. This light is the flame from the east, the region of light. As we come into the understanding of God's light, we are set on fire and the dross within our human nature is set a blaze and begins to burn up. We are set on a course where we begin to see the light, we become luminous and eventually we will shine with the true happiness of God's nature. This mortal begins to put on immortality. We move from darkness into his light until we shine and become luminous with his light even as he is The Light. We start of this journey when we come through the gate of the Tabernacle and embrace the judgment at the brazen altar.

As we enter the east gate we only have to look up to see the brazen altar. A few more paces and we encounter the laver. These two pieces of furniture are the very beginnings of our journey in the outer court. Here the priest offered sacrifices as sin offerings for the people. This altar is made of wood, 5x5, foursquare and 3 cubits high, (3 levels of experience) with 4 horns overlaid with brass. This altar was made so it could be carried throughout the journey of the children of Israel. We will always carry this altar with us throughout our journey. As we look upon this altar, we recognize our Savior as that sacrifice for our sins and who brought deliverance to us. As we lay our lives down we become the wood, humanity covered with the judgment of the Lord. The wood is humanity, the brass is the judgment, and the number 3 stands for our deliverance from sin. The foursquare stands for the four gospels and reveals to us the four faces of Yashua. The four winds is the breath of God, his Holy Spirit-"and suddenly there came a mighty rushing wind." Acts 2 The number five reminds us of the five wounds Jesus received at the cross, the five virgins who had their lamps full of oil, the five-fold ministries we must all look to for perfection and the five kings that Joshua killed in the cave. Those kings were the kings over five cities one of which was Jerusalem, the place God chose to dwell. The five Philistine Lords, the five mice and the five tumors all represent the conquering of sin and death and the return to the place of victory that our Lord obtained for us at Calvary. This is the required sacrifice we must all go through in order to become heirs to the Kingdom of God. God gives us the light of day to see the truth, not at a distance, but the reality of his work in our lives now. We see Christ offered as our sacrifice and we become partakers of His suffering as if we had been tied to the four horns of judgment.John 12: 36, 46 He walked as the outer court among them.

There is a certain enlightenment brought to one who embraces the altar and receives washing at the laver but the outer court is only lighted by the natural light of the day. More can be seen during the day than at night. Many cannot see when it is night. John bore witness to the light but was not that light. Jesus said, "John was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." John was a brazen altar. John was beheaded. Eventually that light or understanding that we have must be beheaded. This is the picture of those who don't go on to the laver and enter into the holy place. They remain headless until they wash at the laver and go on to enter into the holy place. The laver represents the word of God. The present truth leads us daily into all truth. Our head must be replaced with his head. "He has given him to be the head over all things."

He is the head and we are his body. The laver was made of brass and stood between the tabernacle of the congregation and the brazen altar. The brass laver made it possible for the priest to wash their hands and feet before they entered the holy place, to perform the work of the Lord inside the tent. The light of the day allowed them to see themselves and wash their hands and feet. This laver is a type of Christ. We come to him for he provides the two cleansing elements in the earth today. The blood was shed at the altar and the water, which is his word, cleanses us from dead works. We are cleansed by the washing of the water of his word. He is the word and as we partake during the light of day, we are made holy and righteous before him and are permitted to go onto in the holy place. His word makes us partakers of his divine nature.

The laver was made from the looking glasses of the women in the congregation. The woman represents our soul. This laver lets us see our souls as we are but as we wash at the laver we begin to see "Christ within us the hope of glory." Too many wash at the laver but leave before they look deep inside themselves to discover his light that is shining within them. We must not leave the laver until we see Christ in us the hope of glory. We must look in the mirror of His Word until we see Him. When we are able to see his atoning work in our lives then our faith is able to embrace his cleansing work in our daily lives. When we feel his essence within us, we appropriate the water of the word. "Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life." Romans 6:4 This is the light of understanding we need to enter into the holy place. To become effective in our ministry to the Lord this word from the laver must be established in our hearts and minds that it may create a union with the Spirit to give us the understanding to move on as God permits. To wash at the Laver is to enter into the transformation of our soul. Here the priests were commanded to wash that they might live. We may now begin to embrace the redemption of our body and soul. When we enter the holy place, we must first come through the curtain.

This curtain separates the light from outside the tent of meetings from the light that is inside the holy place. It is a departure from the natural realm. This curtain represents a departure from what we can see from the natural light. As we go in, we will have to adjust our eyes in order to see what is inside. It is only through the power of the Holy Spirit that we begin to explore the Light within us. We began to see at the laver the face of the Lord in us. "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit." It is only through the thought Life of the Holy Spirit that our thought life can become one with Him. It is only through the Light of the Holy Spirit that we can begin to see the Christ in us revealed daily. We enter into a new realm, the realm of the Holy Spirit. Hitherto, we have experienced the Spirit's presence in our lives; now we must begin to see with only his light provided by the oil placed inside the menorah, the seven candlesticks. In here, the light opens to us many truths found by the representation of the 3 pieces of furniture placed in view of our eyes.

The Holy Place, The Light of the Holy Spirit Now we begin to see by the power of the Holy Spirit. The table, the incense, and the candlestick now are before our eyes. This is the first time we become spiritually aware of the body of Christ. The light of the Holy Spirit illuminates to us the reality of God. The light of God is placed within us. Now, we sense his presences within us and not merely around us. We draw upon the light as shining out from us because it is within our spirit. Now the light enters into the mind. The light shines in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. In the book of Acts, the Holy Spirit in the form of "fiery tongues" sat upon their heads. This is so significant! Let the Holy Spirit sit upon our heads, our minds to change our thinking.

The most important processes for this generation is the Holy Spirit hitting us in the head. It is like the stone that flew through the air from the slingshot of David that embedded itself between the eyes of Goliath. Goliath defied God. Our minds defy God. Just like Goliath, we stand with our natural mind and defy the word of God. Nevertheless, the stone that was rejected (Christ) embeds itself wielded by the power of the Holy Spirit to shine into our minds the light of his glorious gospel. May the Holy Spirit embed the stone that was rejected into our mind that the thoughts of our human mind may be put to death so that the Holy Spirit may replace our thoughts with the thoughts of God. Remember, David had five stones, this signifies to us the importance of the five-fold ministries given to us by our King David even Yeshua for the perfecting of the saints. The saints need their minds perfected, that they may comprehend with all the saints the breadth, length and depth of the knowledge of God. Jesus told the disciples to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit. "For you shall receive power (dunamas) after the Holy Spirit is come upon you." This word dunamas is the power of the Spirit resident in us. I wonder at times if we grasp the significance of this power. Like many things in the spirit, they are sometimes lost in the religious camps of men. The holy power has no limits. This is not the power to strike men down but it is the power of the spirit residing in our physical body. It is the substance of God shining in our hearts.

Pentecost is not a lesser feast but is a feast of light in our heart, mind, and spirit. This power is designed to eliminate the influence of the self-life and remove all barriers of resistance to the light of God. It was not a partial feast but the reaping of the harvest of wheat. Wheat can refer to the word of God. Therefore, this feast is the reaping of the word of God into our baskets of understanding and equipping us for service as the body of Christ. While the feast still is referred to as the feast of weeks or first fruits this was and is a great harvest. We have only to read the book of Acts to see how great was the harvest of ingathering. We must not diminish this feast in our thinking for when we enter this holy place, we see for the first time the twelve loaves of bread. The light of the Holy Spirit shines on this bread so we see the body of Christ. These loaves of bread sat on the table for six days and then the priest on the Sabbath day were allowed to eat the bread of his continued presence.

Thus the light from the Holy Spirit thrusts us into the priesthood and opens a new and living way to experience the presence of Jesus in our lives by giving us the light to see his glorified body in the earth in the face of Jesus Christ. The two loaves of bread (Israel and the Church) waved before the Lord is baked with leaven. Although leaven is often a type of sin in the scriptures in this portion of bread it represents the Kingdom of God. Matthew 13:33 tells of a woman (the church) who took the leaven of the kingdom of God and hid it in three measures of meal (body, soul and spirit) until the whole was leavened. This gives us the ability to rise to thirty, sixty, one hundred fold. Yes, the Kingdom of God is rising up to these levels because of the empowering light of the Holy Ghost.

For when we are endued with power, we see for the first time the Kingdom of God and his will being done on earth as it is in heaven. Oh, Sons of God do not minimize the experience of Pentecost but pray without ceasing both with understanding and in your unknown language that you may build yourselves up in the "dunamis" of the Holy Spirit and have your hearts prepared for the feast of Tabernacles to be revealed in the earth. So you will lack nothing and in your hands you will have an offering made by fire to offer the Lord during the feast of Tabernacles.

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