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Thoughts on Davidic Kingship. In this final topic of this blog we’ll look at two pivotal Endtime events. Part I will cover Isaiah’s Endtime Temple set out in the second chapter of the Book of Isaiah, and Part II will cover the Endtime sealing and empowerment of the 144,000 Davidic Kings/High Priests, which are preparatory events for the Endtime worldwide gathering of Israel. Temple worship has always been integral to the Lord’s plan to save and exalt mankind whether God’s Holy place was established in the tops of a mountain, a traveling Tabernacle or a stone-built Temple. In this review, we’ll consider that God’s Holy Place includes a representation or model of heaven and also a pathway to God, and what God’s Holy Place looks like under the Gospel of Yeshua. Heaven On Earth When we look at God’s Holy Place set out in the Bible, we see three presentations that represent a model of Heaven and a pathway to God - Jacob’s Mount Beitel, Israel’s Tabernacle/Temples, and an Endtime Temple spoken of by Isaiah - Isaiah 2:3. All three of these Holy Places set out a pathway to God and also a model of Heaven and shows us how Heaven is organized based on a person’s decisions and obedience to God and His Law. Jacob’s Mount Beit El We first see this pathway to God and model of Heaven alluded to in the dream that Jacob had of a ladder to Heaven with angels ascending and descending and God being at the top of the ladder - Gen.28. And that the ladder represents a pathway to God and each rung of the ladder represents a spiritual category and a progressional ascent to God. Moreover, Jacob calls this place Beitel or The House of God. So by linking these two concepts together, we see that a relationship exists between this pathway to God and God’s Holy Place - His House, which we will see that the Bible develops into a representation of Heaven. Israel’s Tabernacle/Temple As a developing temple theology, we see more definition in Israel’s Tabernacle/Temple with each division within the Tabernacle defining a spiritual category of Humanity and a realm of Heaven and the conditions required for those who qualify to enter at each division or realm. We first see the Outer Court representing all Humanity, then the Inner Court those who accept redemption with the Altar of Sacrifice. Next, those who purify themselves with the Laver, receive priesthood and sanctification enter into the Holy Place and finally those who are High Priests are exalted and enter into the Holy of Holies into God's Presence. So our summary looks like this.
Dr. Gileadi comments, “There exists architectural models of a ladder to heaven, such as Moses’ Tabernacle in the wilderness and the temple in Jerusalem. Three enclosures, one inside the other, created boundaries within which people eligible could go.” - Isaiah Decoded, pg 333 Isaiah’s Endtime Temple When we get to the Book of Isaiah, temple theology expands exponentially and requirements for each realm becomes more defined. Moreover, God’s Holy Place/House/Temple under the Gospel of Yeshua assumes a new form - no longer is God’s House a house of sacrifice but a house of instruction. Isaiah states that we will receive instruction so that we can follow in God’s path, "Many peoples shall go, saying, Come, let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may instruct us in his ways, that we may follow in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and from Jerusalem the word of Jehovah.” Isaiah 2:3 So from an Isaiah and Gospel point of view our Endtime Temple looks like this,
Dr. Gileadi,
“But let’s begin at the beginning. Do you remember Jacob’s “ladder” reaching from the earth to heaven, on which angels ministered up and down? Jacob called it the “gate of heaven,” with God visible at the top. (Genesis 28:12,17) Around that idea, Isaiah builds a theology - a way we define humanity’s relationship to God. In other words, What is God’s role towards us, and ours towards him? Isaiah’s theology embraces all people born on the earth, no matter how good or evil they turn out to be. In the process, Isaiah describes different ways of living that people choose for themselves, some drawing them nearer to God, others distancing them from him. Each has a place on the ladder to heaven. Where we find ourselves in this divine scheme depends on us, on what law we live.” Isaiah Decoded, pg. 17 Jehovah’s Endowment of Power One critical action that we will see in Isaiah’s Endtime Temple is an Endowment of Power to execute the Endtime gathering of God’s Covenanted People, which we have not thus far seen occur. No longer will there be a people who “have a form of godliness” and who “denies God power” - 2 Timothy 3:5 - but who will employ all scripture that establishes righteousness v. 16 unto becoming a perfect man of God, v.17 through temple instruction thereby obtaining God's endowment of power. Will expand on this concept in the next and final post.
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Jon Groneman
12/6/2020 03:58:24 pm
As an Ordinance Worker in the Temple for the past 25 years I have become even more familiar with the Instruction process that occurs there. So many patrons fail to recognize that the creation story begins as THEIR story (Adam and Eve) It is an individual journey of ascension that is based on choices and leads to and culminates in the ultimate union of their journey with God into the Eternities.
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