Peace and grace in the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Revelation 19 and 20 in Tabernacle refers to the mercy seat with the seven sprinklings of blood.
Exodus 25:17-19
25:17 "You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width.
25:18 "And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
25:19 "Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat.
The mercy seat consists of the following parts:
- The first cherub = Father God = the Lord.
- The mercy seat with the seven sprinklings of blood = the Son of God = Jesus.
- The second cherub = Holy Spirit God = Christ.
Thus, the mercy seat refers to the Trinity of God or the Lord Jesus Christ.
Genesis 3:23-24
3:23 therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken.
3:24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Cherub has relationship with the fall of man in sin.
The consequences of falling in sins are as follows:
- Being separated from God.
Isaiah 59:1-3
59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, That it cannot save; Nor His ear heavy, That it cannot hear.
59:2 But your iniquities have separatedyou from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.
59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, And your fingers with iniquity; Your lips have spoken lies, Your tongue has muttered perversity.
Men become weary, heavy laden, sorrowful, and unable to go out of problems.
- Being driven out of Garden Eden and unable to return because there are cherubim with the flaming sword of judgment that guard the way to the tree of life in Garden Eden, so men will perish for sure.
Romans 3:23
3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Luke 9:28-31
9:28 Now it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings, that He took Peter, John, and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
9:29 As He prayed, the appearance of His face was altered, and His robe became white and glistening.
9:30 And behold, two men talked with Him, who were Moses and Elijah,
9:31 who appeared in glory and spoke of His decease which He was about to accomplish at Jerusalem.
Matthew 16:21
16:21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.
Jesus, Moses, and Elijah spoke about Jesus' departure to Jerusalem for suffering and being dead on the cross or receiving the sword of judgment from the cherubim for opening the door of Paradise.
For example, a criminal who was crucified with Jesus could be with Him in Paradise.
The blood of Jesus on the cross is the same as the seven sprinklings of blood on the mercy seat that He must receive.
Leviticus 16:12-1416:12 "Then he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from the altar before the LORD, with his hands full of sweet incense beaten fine, and bring it inside the veil.
16:13 "And he shall put the incense on the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of incense may cover the mercy seat that is on the Testimony, lest he die.
16:14 "He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkleit with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
In the Old Testament, the blood of the animal offerings must be sprinkled on the mercy seat and in front of the Ark of the Covenant.
In the New Testament, it refers to the blood of Jesus that is sprinkled on the mercy seat (for Jesus) and in front of the Ark of the Covenant (for us).
Facing the sprinkling of blood, there must be the incense or the worship prayer so that we can endure and there is shekinah glory or God's glory.
Exodus 25:20 25:20 "And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
The cherubim shall face one another and their faces shall be toward the mercy seat with the seven sprinklings of blood. It means that Father God and Holy Spirit God pay attention and become the witness that Jesus has received the sprinkling of blood or sacrificed until being dead on the cross.
Matthew 17:5
17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!"
If a servant of God willingly receives the sprinkling of blood or suffers in the flesh without any sin, he will be loved by God and well-pleasing before Him.
Leviticus 16:14-16
16:14 "He shall take some of the blood of the bull and sprinkleit with his finger on the mercy seat on the east side; and before the mercy seat he shall sprinkle some of the blood with his finger seven times.
16:15 " Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering, which is for the people, bring its blood inside the veil, do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
16:16 "So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
The congregation must also experience the sprinklings of blood like Jesus.
Receiving or experiencing the seven sprinklings of blood means as follows:
- We receive the blood of reconciliation or the first love.
The facts found in it are as follows:
- Entering the Gate of Tabernacle, having faith, or believing Jesus as the only Savior through hearing the Word that is revealed by or in the anointing of Holy Spirit.
Romans 10:17
10:17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Thus, the time we hear the Word determines whether we can receive the first love or not.
The process of hearing the Word is that Holy Spirit helps us to hear the Word seriously with a need until we understand and believe it and it becomes faith in heart. It is the same as receiving the first love.
Luke 8:18
8:18 "Therefore take heed how you hear. For whoever has, to him more will be given; and whoever does not have, even what he seems to have will be taken from him."
If we pay attention to the way we hear the Word (in serious manner) and what we hear (the true teaching Word), the faith and first love will increase.
- The Altar of Burnt Offeringsrefers to repenting or stopping sinning and returning to God.
We must hear the true teaching Word that shows our sins, so we can realize, regret, and confess sin to God and others. Being forgiven, do not repeat the sin! We return to God. The faith becomes a brake for not repeating sin.
Leviticus 16:16-17
16:16 "So he shall make atonement for the Holy Place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions, for all their sins; and so he shall do for the tabernacle of meeting which remains among them in the midst of their uncleanness.
16:17 "There shall be no man in the tabernacle of meeting when he goes in to make atonement in the Holy Place, until he comes out, that he may make atonement for himself, for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.
The blood of Jesus is able to forgive and reconcile all sins of evil, uncleanness, and bitterness until there is no remnant anymore. The proof is that we are not accused, but peaceful and we do not accuse others.
The sins in our private life, family, and congregation must be washed away. If we repent and do not keep the sin, the first love will increase.
- The Brazen Laveror the true water baptism.
Romans 6:4
6:4 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
The true water baptism means that one who has believed Jesus and repented or died to sin must be buried in water and raised with Him. As a result, the heavens are opened. We get the new life or the heavenly one, namely in righteousness. The first love increases.
- The Door of the Tabernacleor the fullness of Holy Spirit.
Romans 8:15
8:15 For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, "Abba, Father."
Holy Spirit makes us obedient to God.
The first love increases up to the Holy Place. There is the Golden Altar of Incense, the worship prayer, or the process of tearing the flesh with all of its lusts, desires, emotion, and ambition until we can love God.
If the flesh is torn fully until it does not speak anymore, the Veil is torn, so we can enter the Most Holy Place. There is the Ark of the Covenant as the peak of love, the love of the Bridegroom, or the perfect one. The mercy seat and the Ark of the Covenant as the relationship of the Head and the body cannot be separated. It shall not move. It begins from the marriage supper of the lamb on the glorious clouds up to the New Jerusalem.
- We must experience the cross or suffering in the flesh without any sin.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18
4:16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.
4:17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory,
4:18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Why does God let it happen? It is so that we experience the life renewal from the fleshly men to the spiritual ones like Jesus is.
The signs of the new man are as follows:
- [verse 16] Not losing heart, but being strong and of good courage or loving God more than anything. We are not disappointed or hopeless and we do not leave God regardless of anything we must face. We are not separated from God.
Being string and of good courage becomes a strong foundation for receiving the presence of God as the High Priest, Great Shepherd, or Head who is responsible for our life until He dies on the Hill of a Skull.
- [verse 18] Paying attention to the spiritual or heavenly matters until not paying attention or not being disturbed by the worldly or physical matters. Our eyes only see Jesus, the High Priest. As a result, God is paying attention to us. He knows our condition deeply and willingly bears all things on the cross, so we are peaceful and all things become easy and light.
- Holy Spirit is poured out to us.
1 Peter 4:12-14
4:12 Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you;
4:13 but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.
4:14 If you are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are you, for the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On their part He is blasphemed, but on your part He is glorified.
Holy Spirit is the same as the miraculous hands of God that cannot be limited by anything. Thus, the form of the attention of God to us who experience the sprinkling of blood is the stretching out of the hands of Holy Spirit that cannot be limited by anything.
As a result, the hands of Holy Spirit are able to set us free from Egypt or the world and Pharaoh or Satan.
Exodus 3:7-8
3:7 And the LORD said: "I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
3:8 "So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
Holy Spirit sets us free from sins up to the peak, so we can live in righteousness and holiness.
Holy Spirit sets us free from the influences of the world, namely the amenities, sorrow, business, and so on that cause us unfaithful in the service and ministry to God.
Being holy, faithful, and fervent in spirit is the same as being the apple of God's eye. We are protected and preserved in the midst of the difficulties in the world.
We are equipped with the ministry and used in the ministry for the edification of the perfect Christ's body.
Holy Spirit also sets us free from the impossible problems. All impossible problems can be solved.
Holy Spirit leads us to spiritual Canaan or the New Jerusalem. It means as follows:
- a good land-->Holy Spirit makes all things good.
- a land flowing with milk and honey -->the abundance in the Word, so we can testify and give thanks.
- Beautiful and successful future life.
- Holy Spirit is able to change us from the fleshly men to the spiritual ones like Jesus is, namely not lying, but being honest. We become the house of prayer until we are perfect and lifted up to the glorious clouds when Jesus comes a second time. We become the great house of prayer until we enter the New Jerusalem or the eternal house of prayer. The Ark of the Covenant and the mercy are not separated forever.
God blesses you.