Cleansing of the temple-
A cleansing too of us -AS TEMPLES?
There was an earthly temple of stone in which God chose as a place to put HIS presence.
No earthly edifice could contain God in reality, but He could put His presence there in that temple and He did. (1 Kings 8:27;Ex. 25:22)
If we are to be the living temples, God will place His presence in us. (2 Cor. 6:16)
In the temples made of cloth and stone God revealed a way for mankind to be reconciled to Him. God could put His presence in that temple…. And the people had to follow the rituals for that temple which God chose to put His presence.
The rituals ALL prefigured the time when WE would become the temples of God and His presence would be in us.
Holy Spirit to our spirit.
The prefiguring was through CHRIST.
The examples were all pointing to CHRIST as SAVIOR. Christ as the One able to RECONCILE us to GOD! (Jn 1:36; 1 Pet 1:19; 2 Cor. 5:19)
All the things the people and the priests did in the earthly temple of stone were pointing to God making them acceptable to Him, to reconcile them with Him. They could NEVER do anything on their own to bring about this reconciliation. Without the SACRIFICES, the RITUALS of those sacrifices which HAD to be made for them to be God's People, they were unacceptable. They HAD to recognize that no matter what, on their own they were nothing, they could NOT reconcile themselves to God.
ONLY once Christ came as the SACRIFICE, ONLY once Christ became the PRIEST to minister in the HEAVENLY SANCTUARY, could we become LIVING TEMPLES for GOD'S PRESENCE IN US.
Living temples. God no longer puts His presence in a temple of stone needing rituals to teach the people their dependence upon Him, their need of Him, their sinful selves needing confession, forgiveness, and cleansing.
The Cleansing we need as living temples is the same as the cleansing the stone temple needed --a day of Atonement. Only the Sacrifice for our cleansing is the Lamb of God. On the day of atonement for the earthly temple the people's sins were forgiven and cleansed for the year passed. We look for a day when ultimately ONCE AND FOR ALL sin will be obliterated to exist no more at all, ever! That Day is coming.
The ritual is underway-
Per Bible prophecy, after 2300 years the sanctuary cleansing would begin (Dan. 8:14)
This occurred in 1844 AD - the final atonement on such a GRAND ETERNAL SCALE BEGAN!
It's been 179 years and counting since 1844… We don't know the year, day, hour, minute that Christ will return. We do know that the SINS of all the forgiven throughout all existence will be placed upon Satan when those redeemed are called from their graves and from the life they know, if they are still living, to meet the Lord in the air.
(1Th 4:16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(1Th 4:17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
As the scapegoat in the stone temple service was given all the sins of the contrite and forgiven people during that year, and then led off into the wilderness to die (Lev. 16:21) so too will Satan be filled with all the sins forgiven and cleansed by our Savior from every human being ever to exist seeking forgiveness. Then as the Redeemed live in heaven for 1000 years, Satan is left upon the earth with no one to torment- (Rev. 20:1-3) he is chained in a wilderness of existence and when the 1000 years is over only then will he finally be consumed in fire eternally blotted from existence, never to rise up again.
The Final Atonement finished, the Scapegoat dead just as in the old temple services pointing to the heavenly. All those old testament temple rituals were given as EXAMPLES (Heb. 8:5) People like to believe all the old testament stuff was done away with and has NO meaning for us. Our Savior became the sacrificial LAMB of the services! We blind our own eyes when we refuse to see the example given and the reality it became and is becoming. Jesus is our HIGH PRIEST (Heb. 4:14) , if that doesn't point us right back to the old testament rituals of a High Priest than what will?
It's been 179 years… since the beginning of the cleansing.
Another sign that the cleansing is nearing its culmination was given a 136 years into the cleansing…
In 1980 Jerusalem was legally declared by Israel to be their capital, once more fully under their control, no longer TRODDEN DOWN by those who were other than Israelites (Luke 21:24) -the people God gave control of Jerusalem to, where He had His stone TEMPLE erected and where the Savior was crucified and risen to go to the HEAVENLY TEMPLE (Heb. 9:24). The Jewish people once more took control of Jerusalem (1967) and made it their capital (1980) and to this day have control over Jerusalem (they have CHOSEN to allow the Muslims to use the mosque they built in the city. The prophecy concerns the government of Jerusalem, not anything to do with the former temple site, they also allow other religions to have their buildings in Jerusalem as well).
After 1910 years Gentiles (non- Jews) were no longer in possession (governmental control) of Jerusalem.
For the last 43 years, since 1980, that prophecy has been fulfilled. That prophecy was one of the SIGNS Jesus gave to the disciples of things that had to come to pass before His return.
JESUS is returning for those who He lives in through the Holy Spirit- those who are His living temples, those He will dwell within and cleanse fully to be restored wholly to a relationship with God once more, to be His people eternally!
Jesus hasn't been inactive in Heaven. Jesus went to prepare a place for us. Jesus as our High Priest, Jesus as the Sacrifice the High Priest offers to God, Jesus as our advocate has been active on our behalf.
Prior to 1844, for 1811 years Jesus was pleading on the behalf of all mankind and finally at the appointed time, He had no choice but to begin the final atonement. Jesus knew once it was begun, that every single human being would have to have their eternal life decided- the dead and the living. Forgiven or unforgiven by their own choosing.
During the stone temple services on the Day of Atonement ALL were to AFFLICT their souls. (Lev. 16:29) The High Priest was performing the rituals that would cleanse himself and his fellow priests, then he would perform the necessary rituals for the cleansing of the entire people, and after that he would continue in cleansing the very place the sacrifices were made. His rituals took him from the Most Holy Place, to the Holy Place, and to the Courtyard before the temple.
Jesus in Heaven as our High Priest has been doing the same.
During the stone temple services- all those who hadn't asked for forgiveness for their sins, who weren't afflicting their souls recognizing their need of cleansing were NOT cleansed. The unrepentant, those whose hearts were not surrendered to God to follow His ways in love, they were NOT cleansed. They couldn't have their death deserving sins cleansed if they never brought them to be cleansed and didn't recognize their need of being cleansed at all. NONE were forced cleansed against their wills. There wasn't a cleansing for all no matter what. There was a very special heart deep contrition in that soul affliction. Any pretense of afflicting their souls was known by God. The death these pretenders of afflictions would eventually receive would be the eternal death- it could be no other way, they didn't even recognize their life sustaining need of God.
As our Savior began the cleansing- from the first human being to the very last, whoever that may be, He began sealing the fates of all. Cleansed or not cleansed. All the cleansed would be among the redeemed, all the uncleansed would be among those slated to be eternally destroyed.
(Rev 22:11) He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
(Rev 22:12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(Rev 22:13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
(Rev 22:14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
When the last of the cleansed have been deemed clean, it's all over, there is no more opportunity for salvation. All that could be done was done. Our merciful God saved all who chose to be saved by Him.
Just as on the day of atonement during stone temple times, the scapegoat is given the sins and led off to die. What ISN'T the same as the stone temple times is the fact the ritual will NOT begin again with the first sacrifice for sin being made right after the scapegoat is led away. There is NO MORE need of sacrifice, NO MORE need because SIN IS OVER! All those dead and cleansed are brought up from their graves- given life in their new forms free of all sin. Those who are alive are raised into the air along with the dead brought up from their graves and they are changed- they too receive new forms free of all sin. They are CLEANSED, they are REDEEMED for eternity.
All the unredeemed, those who could not receive the cleansing because of their CHOICE to remain sinful- unrepentant of heart- without soul affliction, self-dependent, not God-dependent, will be dead- no thoughts, nothing but unawareness just as in our deepest of sleeps and they will remain that way. The dead not in Christ will be dead, the living not in Christ will die. They stay dead for 1000 years- the same time those who are Christ's are in heaven with Him- 1000 years.
At the end of the 1000 years ALL the dead are raised once more and Satan is able to work his will upon them ALL they are his. He will do all he can with them but ultimately HE along with them all will be blotted from existence. They won't be sleeping death's sleep any longer, they will be as if they never were- NO chance to ever be God's.
The day is coming… the Day of Atonement for all mankind is almost complete. We are TOLD this, given all this information and we decide either to believe it or not, it's our choice.
If you've read this far and are shaking your head believing me crazy for my beliefs, there is Biblical/Historical proof for it all if you truly want to study it out for yourselves. I included some scripture verses above but not all that I could have by any means. If you want to know more, just let me know and I can arrange Bible Studies for you. I can't give you quick answers, I offer you truth that needs to be searched for as a hidden treasure. You need to put the time and effort into digging deeply for this treasure, and ultimately the treasure we find in our digging will be ETERNITY with our CREATOR, our REDEEMER, in LOVE!
(Jer 29:13) And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
(Mat 13:44) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
(Joh 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Jesus WANTS us to search the scriptures (OLD and NEW Testaments). Remember all Jesus had when He was reciting scriptures which testify of Him- was the Old Testament. Jesus wants us to study prophecy-
(Mar 13:14) But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) …
Daniel the prophet… Jesus studied Daniel's prophecies, He knew them perfectly and pointed us to them. Don't think Jesus just wants us to ignore prophecies and scriptures. SEARCH.
May God help us ALL search constantly, finding once, finding again, finding over and over our Savior revealed as He wants to be revealed to us!
(2Ti 2:15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
All in Jesus' name, in His love always! By His grace and mercy! His will!
Amen.
A cleansing too of us -AS TEMPLES?
There was an earthly temple of stone in which God chose as a place to put HIS presence.
No earthly edifice could contain God in reality, but He could put His presence there in that temple and He did. (1 Kings 8:27;Ex. 25:22)
If we are to be the living temples, God will place His presence in us. (2 Cor. 6:16)
In the temples made of cloth and stone God revealed a way for mankind to be reconciled to Him. God could put His presence in that temple…. And the people had to follow the rituals for that temple which God chose to put His presence.
The rituals ALL prefigured the time when WE would become the temples of God and His presence would be in us.
Holy Spirit to our spirit.
The prefiguring was through CHRIST.
The examples were all pointing to CHRIST as SAVIOR. Christ as the One able to RECONCILE us to GOD! (Jn 1:36; 1 Pet 1:19; 2 Cor. 5:19)
All the things the people and the priests did in the earthly temple of stone were pointing to God making them acceptable to Him, to reconcile them with Him. They could NEVER do anything on their own to bring about this reconciliation. Without the SACRIFICES, the RITUALS of those sacrifices which HAD to be made for them to be God's People, they were unacceptable. They HAD to recognize that no matter what, on their own they were nothing, they could NOT reconcile themselves to God.
ONLY once Christ came as the SACRIFICE, ONLY once Christ became the PRIEST to minister in the HEAVENLY SANCTUARY, could we become LIVING TEMPLES for GOD'S PRESENCE IN US.
Living temples. God no longer puts His presence in a temple of stone needing rituals to teach the people their dependence upon Him, their need of Him, their sinful selves needing confession, forgiveness, and cleansing.
The Cleansing we need as living temples is the same as the cleansing the stone temple needed --a day of Atonement. Only the Sacrifice for our cleansing is the Lamb of God. On the day of atonement for the earthly temple the people's sins were forgiven and cleansed for the year passed. We look for a day when ultimately ONCE AND FOR ALL sin will be obliterated to exist no more at all, ever! That Day is coming.
The ritual is underway-
Per Bible prophecy, after 2300 years the sanctuary cleansing would begin (Dan. 8:14)
This occurred in 1844 AD - the final atonement on such a GRAND ETERNAL SCALE BEGAN!
It's been 179 years and counting since 1844… We don't know the year, day, hour, minute that Christ will return. We do know that the SINS of all the forgiven throughout all existence will be placed upon Satan when those redeemed are called from their graves and from the life they know, if they are still living, to meet the Lord in the air.
(1Th 4:16) For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
(1Th 4:17) Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
As the scapegoat in the stone temple service was given all the sins of the contrite and forgiven people during that year, and then led off into the wilderness to die (Lev. 16:21) so too will Satan be filled with all the sins forgiven and cleansed by our Savior from every human being ever to exist seeking forgiveness. Then as the Redeemed live in heaven for 1000 years, Satan is left upon the earth with no one to torment- (Rev. 20:1-3) he is chained in a wilderness of existence and when the 1000 years is over only then will he finally be consumed in fire eternally blotted from existence, never to rise up again.
The Final Atonement finished, the Scapegoat dead just as in the old temple services pointing to the heavenly. All those old testament temple rituals were given as EXAMPLES (Heb. 8:5) People like to believe all the old testament stuff was done away with and has NO meaning for us. Our Savior became the sacrificial LAMB of the services! We blind our own eyes when we refuse to see the example given and the reality it became and is becoming. Jesus is our HIGH PRIEST (Heb. 4:14) , if that doesn't point us right back to the old testament rituals of a High Priest than what will?
It's been 179 years… since the beginning of the cleansing.
Another sign that the cleansing is nearing its culmination was given a 136 years into the cleansing…
In 1980 Jerusalem was legally declared by Israel to be their capital, once more fully under their control, no longer TRODDEN DOWN by those who were other than Israelites (Luke 21:24) -the people God gave control of Jerusalem to, where He had His stone TEMPLE erected and where the Savior was crucified and risen to go to the HEAVENLY TEMPLE (Heb. 9:24). The Jewish people once more took control of Jerusalem (1967) and made it their capital (1980) and to this day have control over Jerusalem (they have CHOSEN to allow the Muslims to use the mosque they built in the city. The prophecy concerns the government of Jerusalem, not anything to do with the former temple site, they also allow other religions to have their buildings in Jerusalem as well).
After 1910 years Gentiles (non- Jews) were no longer in possession (governmental control) of Jerusalem.
For the last 43 years, since 1980, that prophecy has been fulfilled. That prophecy was one of the SIGNS Jesus gave to the disciples of things that had to come to pass before His return.
JESUS is returning for those who He lives in through the Holy Spirit- those who are His living temples, those He will dwell within and cleanse fully to be restored wholly to a relationship with God once more, to be His people eternally!
Jesus hasn't been inactive in Heaven. Jesus went to prepare a place for us. Jesus as our High Priest, Jesus as the Sacrifice the High Priest offers to God, Jesus as our advocate has been active on our behalf.
Prior to 1844, for 1811 years Jesus was pleading on the behalf of all mankind and finally at the appointed time, He had no choice but to begin the final atonement. Jesus knew once it was begun, that every single human being would have to have their eternal life decided- the dead and the living. Forgiven or unforgiven by their own choosing.
During the stone temple services on the Day of Atonement ALL were to AFFLICT their souls. (Lev. 16:29) The High Priest was performing the rituals that would cleanse himself and his fellow priests, then he would perform the necessary rituals for the cleansing of the entire people, and after that he would continue in cleansing the very place the sacrifices were made. His rituals took him from the Most Holy Place, to the Holy Place, and to the Courtyard before the temple.
Jesus in Heaven as our High Priest has been doing the same.
During the stone temple services- all those who hadn't asked for forgiveness for their sins, who weren't afflicting their souls recognizing their need of cleansing were NOT cleansed. The unrepentant, those whose hearts were not surrendered to God to follow His ways in love, they were NOT cleansed. They couldn't have their death deserving sins cleansed if they never brought them to be cleansed and didn't recognize their need of being cleansed at all. NONE were forced cleansed against their wills. There wasn't a cleansing for all no matter what. There was a very special heart deep contrition in that soul affliction. Any pretense of afflicting their souls was known by God. The death these pretenders of afflictions would eventually receive would be the eternal death- it could be no other way, they didn't even recognize their life sustaining need of God.
As our Savior began the cleansing- from the first human being to the very last, whoever that may be, He began sealing the fates of all. Cleansed or not cleansed. All the cleansed would be among the redeemed, all the uncleansed would be among those slated to be eternally destroyed.
(Rev 22:11) He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
(Rev 22:12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
(Rev 22:13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
(Rev 22:14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
When the last of the cleansed have been deemed clean, it's all over, there is no more opportunity for salvation. All that could be done was done. Our merciful God saved all who chose to be saved by Him.
Just as on the day of atonement during stone temple times, the scapegoat is given the sins and led off to die. What ISN'T the same as the stone temple times is the fact the ritual will NOT begin again with the first sacrifice for sin being made right after the scapegoat is led away. There is NO MORE need of sacrifice, NO MORE need because SIN IS OVER! All those dead and cleansed are brought up from their graves- given life in their new forms free of all sin. Those who are alive are raised into the air along with the dead brought up from their graves and they are changed- they too receive new forms free of all sin. They are CLEANSED, they are REDEEMED for eternity.
All the unredeemed, those who could not receive the cleansing because of their CHOICE to remain sinful- unrepentant of heart- without soul affliction, self-dependent, not God-dependent, will be dead- no thoughts, nothing but unawareness just as in our deepest of sleeps and they will remain that way. The dead not in Christ will be dead, the living not in Christ will die. They stay dead for 1000 years- the same time those who are Christ's are in heaven with Him- 1000 years.
At the end of the 1000 years ALL the dead are raised once more and Satan is able to work his will upon them ALL they are his. He will do all he can with them but ultimately HE along with them all will be blotted from existence. They won't be sleeping death's sleep any longer, they will be as if they never were- NO chance to ever be God's.
The day is coming… the Day of Atonement for all mankind is almost complete. We are TOLD this, given all this information and we decide either to believe it or not, it's our choice.
If you've read this far and are shaking your head believing me crazy for my beliefs, there is Biblical/Historical proof for it all if you truly want to study it out for yourselves. I included some scripture verses above but not all that I could have by any means. If you want to know more, just let me know and I can arrange Bible Studies for you. I can't give you quick answers, I offer you truth that needs to be searched for as a hidden treasure. You need to put the time and effort into digging deeply for this treasure, and ultimately the treasure we find in our digging will be ETERNITY with our CREATOR, our REDEEMER, in LOVE!
(Jer 29:13) And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
(Mat 13:44) Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.
(Joh 5:39) Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
Jesus WANTS us to search the scriptures (OLD and NEW Testaments). Remember all Jesus had when He was reciting scriptures which testify of Him- was the Old Testament. Jesus wants us to study prophecy-
(Mar 13:14) But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) …
Daniel the prophet… Jesus studied Daniel's prophecies, He knew them perfectly and pointed us to them. Don't think Jesus just wants us to ignore prophecies and scriptures. SEARCH.
May God help us ALL search constantly, finding once, finding again, finding over and over our Savior revealed as He wants to be revealed to us!
(2Ti 2:15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
All in Jesus' name, in His love always! By His grace and mercy! His will!
Amen.